Eighty-three cases of lung cancer were treated with bronchial artery perfusion of anti- carcinogens(mainly with carboplatinum)with DSA.The results are satisfied.The effective rate was 84% in twenty-five cases(CR+PR,21 cases)of parvicellular lung cancer and 51.7% in fifty-eight cases (CR+PR,30 cases)of nonparvicellular lung cancer.The results show that the selective bronchial artery perfusion of combination anticarcinogen chemotherapy(mainly with carboplatinum) can infuse the drugs into the supply artery of the lung cancer.the drug density in the region of tumor is high,so the anticancer effect is improved.And also large dose of combination drugs can be used at a time and hydration,diuresis are not necessary.The method is convenient,safety and has fast and high effect,low toxic reaction of whole body,wide-ranging indications,the treatment can be repeated.The therapy is especially effective and safety for the middle and late stages of lung cancer.


Overview The BMA welcomes the debate, put forward by members of the Health Select Committee, as an opportunity to discuss and address some of the key drivers and solutions related to health inequalities in the UK. Doctors are often witness to the results and impact of health inequalities ranging from childhood obesity to availability of health provision for prisoners and this briefing seeks to provide an overview of their views and experiences. It also encapsulates the findings of our reports on growing up in the UK, growing older in the UK and austerity, all of which found that socio-economic circumstances were a key factor in health inequalities across the population.


This work reports a control platform development for a low-cost and portable medical imaging breast cancer detection system. Firmware was developed from scratch contemplating the hardware control, automated internal sweeping routines, and attending personal computer queries via USB communication. Custom commands were implemented for the external communication employing a simple and effective ASCII protocol. The platform allows both hardware technician and exam operator to interact with the hardware from register level to elaborated routines, enabling advanced intervention as well as automatic and fast measurement tasks. Results reported calibration and sweeping times reduced from minutes to less than 2.5 seconds per examination step. A complete 64 positions exam time is estimated in 28 minutes and currently depends primarily on the mechanical equipment setup.


Abstract At least 230 m of basalt flows underlie trachytes of the Initial Eruptive Phase of Benson at Port Chalmers in the eroded core of the Dunedin volcano. The basalts may be equivalent to the lowest basaltic tuffs in the nearby Blanket Bay and Waipuna Bay sedimentary inliers, and thus are probably the oldest of the Dunedin volcanics. The flows abut the Port Chalmers Breccia which consists largely of fragments of pre existing volcanics filling a former vent. Explosive gas eruptions in the vent produced a thorough intermingling of schist and subvolcanic material derived from shallow crustal depths, with fragments of disintegrated vent intrusions and material eroded from the vent walls. Subvolcanic fragments found in the upper levels of the breccia range from gabbroic to syenitic rocks of varying undersaturation. Nepheline syenites with sodalite, katophorite, and eucolite indicate an agpaitic differentiation trend with enrichment in Na, Cl, F, and H2O. These, and the adjacent quartz-bearing trachyte flow...


The invention discloses a complex enzyme additive for tobacco, a preparation method and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of tobacco additives. The complex enzyme additive (FHM) is prepared by utilizing the conventional commercialized enzyme preparation product and combining main chemical components of the tobacco through experimental results of tobacco treatment by single enzymes in an appropriate proportion. Biological enzymes are subjected to orthogonal experimental design according to five factors, and different classes of every variety are screened for an optimal combination by a method for screening the single enzymes. A formula of the screened optimal combination can be used for an artificial alcoholization fermentation experiment of the tobacco. By the complex enzyme additive, the qualities such as an aroma amount, pleasure and the like of middle and lower levels of upper tobacco leaves and middle tobacco leaves are remarkably improved, miscellaneous gas, irritation and the like are reduced, the concentration and the strength of smoke are reduced, and the aftertaste becomes comfortable. The complex enzyme additive accelerates the alcoholization process of the tobacco, effectively promotes the degradation and transformation of substances contained in the tobacco, increases aroma components of tobacco leaves, and promotes the internal quality of the tobacco leaves.


In the context of search, it may be advantageous in some use-cases to have documents saved in a graph database rather than a document-orientated database. Graph databases are able to model relation ...


The invention discloses an LCOS-based glasses type perspective fusion display system. The system is composed of a display controller, an LCOS display chip, a liquid crystal cell and an optical system. A video signal is inputted into the display controller, the display controller outputs a digital video signal, a digital driving signal and a clock signal to the LCOS display chip, the LCOS display chip drives pixels to control the liquid crystal cell to output an optical image, the optical image is projected to a human eye retina, and an image is virtualized in front of human eyes. The LCOS-based glasses type perspective fusion display system has the following advantages: the structure is compact, an amplified virtual image is presented in front of the human eyes, the virtual image has high brightness, the colors are abundant, the definition is high, common television programs can be received, the high-definition images and the demonstration PPT documents in a U disc can be automatically played, a network can be accessed, a website can be browsed, resources can be shared through a virtualization mode, cloud computing is perfectly integrated, the resources can be easily obtained and shared, and at the same time, various application services can be provided such as network searching, IP television, video requesting, digital music, network news, network video telephone calling and the like.


The growth performance of countries proved to be very different during the recent crisis. We apply principal component analysis to derive a single ordinal indicator on growth performance and to analyse whether initial conditions of economies or structural characteristics can explain the differences in growth performance. As initial conditions at the start of the crisis we use fiscal situation, trade competitiveness, output and credit growth, as structural characteristics we test size, openness, share of sectors and per-capita income. The task has proved to be as difficult as expected as causality often works in two ways and policy variables have intervened, which themselves are dependent on the initial conditions and structural characteristics. The three indicators that end up as the best predictors for the depth of the crisis are correlated with one another and thus difficult to disentangle.


At the Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI) of the GMD (Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung) database research is focused towards distributed database management systems to support the integration of heterogeneous multi-media information bases needed in an integrated publishing environment. The objective is to investigate advanced object-oriented and active data modelling concepts together with the principles of distributed data stores and data management. The unifying basis for the database research is the object-oriented data model VML developed in the project VODAK over the last four years. The data model is based on recursively defined meta classes, classes and instance hierarchies paired with a strict separation of structural and operational definitions in a polymorphic type system.
This report describes the highlights of the work on the VODAK database system, the research efforts in heterogeneous database integration and the research plans of the multimedia database project as well as applications of our system in different environments such as hypertext and office automation.


In metabolic balance studies the intake and excretion of sodium, potassium, and water were measured in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) of the Okamoto-Aoki strain and age-matched Wistar Kyoto rats (WKYs) that were 3 through 13 weeks of age. While fed their usual chow, young SHRs exhibited differences in excretion as compared to WKYs consuming essentially equivalent amounts of food and water. Fractional sodium and water excretion (percent of amount ingested) by SHRs were significantly less during Weeks 4–6 and 6–7, respectively, due to lower rates of urinary excretion. Potassium excretion was less in SHRs at 4–5 weeks. These observations indicate that SHRs retain more urinary sodium, potassium, and water during an early phase of hypertension than normotensive, age-matched WKYs. After 8 weeks of age, fractional excretion of electrolytes and water did not differ appreciably between strains.In another group of rats, sodium intake was restricted and observations were made from 3 through 13 weeks of age. Although SHRs excreted slightly less sodium, cumulative sodium balance was similar in SHR and WKY. Sodium restriction slowed the increase in arterial pressure in SHRs younger than 9 weeks of age and reduced the magnitude of the hypertension in 10- through 13-week-old SHRs. At the latter age, arterial pressure was not as high in sodium-restricted SHR as in SHR on the standard sodium diet, but it was elevated above that in either WKY groups. Thus dietary sodium restriction retards the development, but does not prevent the hypertension in SHR. (Hypertension 4: 908–915, 1982)


This study was to investigate the role of antioxidants on the characteristics of arsenite-damaged boar semen. Collected sperm was diluted with semen extender, and 100 μM arsenite was used for sperm damage. Then melatonin, silymarin, curcumin, and vitamin E were applied for 3, 6, and 9 hr in arsenite-treated boar sperm. Sperm characteristics were then analyzed for motility, plasma membrane integrity, mitochondrial activity, and lipid peroxidation. In the results, sperm motility (control, 77.3± 1.8%) was decreased by arsenite (33.3±1.5%), while the antioxidant treatment groups (100 nM melatonin, 55.8±3.4%; 2 μM silymarin, 48.8±3.4%; 10 μM curcumin, 53.9±2.8%; and 500 μM vitamin E, 54.5±3.1%) showed increases compared to the arsenite group (p<0.05). 100 μM arsenite decreased the sperm plasma membrane integrity (24.5±1.6%) and mitochondrial activity (58.2±2.6%), and increased lipid peroxidation (5.3±0.2%) at 3 hr (p<0.05). However, arsenite-treated samples with 100 nM melatonin, 2 μM silymarin, 10 μM curcumin, and 500 μM vitamin E increased the plasma membrane integrity and mitochondria activity, and decreased lipid peroxidation compared to the arsenite-treated samples. In summary, arsenite may induce sperm damage and oxidation stress, while antioxidants such as melatonin, silymarin, curcumin, and vitamin E are useful for maintaining sperm characteristics. Therefore, antioxidants can protect sperm against damage by arsenite in fresh boar semen.


The performance of a statistical signal processing sys-t e m depends in large part o n t h e accuracy of t h e probabilistic model used. This paper presents a robust probabilistic mixture model based t h e Multinomial and t h e Dirichlet distributions. A n unsupervised algorithm for learning this mixture is given, too. T h e proposed approach for estimating t h e parameters of the Multino-mial Dirichlet mixture is based o n t h e Maximum Likelihood (ML) and Newton-Raphson methods, Experimental results involve improving content based image retrieval systems by integrating semantic features a n d by image database categorization. Many signal proccssing techniques employ misturc modcls. The performance of such approach depends in large part on the accuracy of the model-that is, which density is used to model the data. Finite mixtures are a powerful probabilist,ic modeling tool for univariate and mult,ivariate data [Z]. The nse-fulness of niixt,ure niodels in any areas which involves statistical inodelirig of data, such as machine learning, is currenlly widely acknowledged. In machine learning, finite mixture allow a probahilist,ic model-based approach to unsu-pervised learning and was used in many applications. Finite mixture models adequatel?-model sit,iiat,ioiis where each dat,a can be viewed as arising from several populations mixed in varying proportions. The adoption of this approach to learning brings important advanaages. On the one hand, mixtures are flcxiblc enough for finding an appropriate tradcoff bctween modcl complexity and the amount, of training data available. Usually, model complexity is controlled by varying the number of mixture components while keeping the same parametric form of all components. On the other hand, the possibility to valid a given model in a forrmal way. Although most research on mixture models has concentrated on mixture for continuous data, emerging machiue


Never bafore in history, the mankind has been in such a dilemma as it is today, for with the help of Science and its offshoot, technology, man has reached a point from where he finds it difficult to decide whether he should continue to pursue the present course of development or he should abandon it. On one hand, there are Ehrliches and Meadowses who have vividly pictured the scenario of catastrophe if the present model of development is adhered to on the other there are Kahns who champion the cause of present trend of development.


A large class of classical combinatorial problems, including most of the difficult problems in the literature of network flows and computational graph theory, are shown to be equivalent, in the sense that either all or none of them can be solved in polynomial time. Moreover, they are solvable in polynomial time if and only if every problem solvable by a polynomial-depth backtrack search is also solvable by a polynomial-time algorithm. The technique of deriving these results through problem transformations is explained, and some comments are made as to the probable effect of these results on research in the field of combinatorial algorithms.


Elastic scattering angular distributions have been measured for the systems /sup 10/B+/sup 16/O at E/sub L/=33.7, 41.6, and 49.5 MeV and /sup 11/B +/sup 16/O at E/sub L/=41.6 and 49.5 MeV. The /sup 10/B and /sup 11/B data are oscillatory and similar for angles less than 50/sup 0/ c.m. For angles greater than 50/sup 0/ c.m., the oscillations in the /sup 10/B data are damped and the data stop decreasing with increasing angle. Elastic scattering angular distributions have been calculated for /sup 11,10/B+/sup 16/O with the coupling to the ground-state quadrupole moment included explicitly. Potentials which describe the scattering are extracted with the double folding model. It is found that the quadrupole coupling is necessary to explain the difference in /sup 10/B and /sup 11/B scattering from/sup 16/O.


The analysis and strategic formulation is a strategic assessment and preparation process of designing the future of industry, business or enterprise. The


The manuscript "Macrophages become resistant to cholesterol-induced death after phagocytosis of apoptotic cells" was selected as a Pivotal Advance because it addresses novel mechanisms of macrophage function, specifically related to their role in atherogenesis. Of particular interest, this work elucidates several mechanisms via which macrophages survive despite having ingested massive amounts of cholesterol.


In this work, a useful interfacial damage extraction method for SiC power MOSFETs based on the C-V characteristics is proposed. According to the five different interface situations of the channel region and the JFET region, the Cg-Vg curve can be divided into five relatively independent parts. It demonstrates that the charges injected into the oxide of channel region will lead to an opposite shift in part 11 while the charges injected into the JFET region will result in the shifts in part 111 and IV. Through this way, the location of the charges injected in to the SiO2/SiC interface can be distinguished. The correctness of the method is proved by a UIS-stressed SiC power MOSFET. Moreover, the density of the charges injected into the interface oxide can be calculated by the amplitude of the shift in the Cg-Vg characteristic.


The title isomerizations of the substrates having disubstitution at benzylic position give different products depending on the nature of the substitution.


Declining search frictions generate productivity growth by allowing workers to find jobs for which they are better suited. For "jacks of all trades"—workers whose productivity is similar across different jobs in their labor market—declining search frictions lead to minimal growth. For "masters of one trade"—workers whose productivity varies a great deal across different jobs in their labor market—declining search frictions lead to fast growth. A rudimentary calibration suggests that differential returns to declining search frictions may account for a non-negligible fraction of the wage growth differential between routine and nonroutine workers.


In this paper we proposed a novel method called network coding combined with cooperative relaying technique in cellular communication system, it aims to improve the network throughput and to enhance the spectral efficiency for the next generation wireless networks. We had analyzed the performance of decode and forward relaying. Here introduced a combined scheme of network coding and cooperative relaying. Furthermore, we study the end-to-end performance of network using decode and forward relaying over Rayleigh faded channel. The simulation result helps in supporting the theoretical concept that the combined scheme of network coding and cooperative relaying outperforms conventional relaying technique. Additionally a perfect relay selection method is also implemented here on the basis of its distance from the BS. Performance evaluation made on the basis of outage probability and the system spectral efficiency for downlink cellular transmission and concentrating more on the performance enhancement of the cell-edge users.


In order to make the students' apartments in Anhui universities have a unified assessment standard for restriction and normality during the process of its construction and management,the work of studying and making "The assessment index of standardized students' apartments in the universities of Anhui Province" was conducted with the special committee organizers of students' apartment logistic management in the universities of Anhui Province by the entrust of logistic management service center of Anhui provincial education office.The current study emphasized on many aspects such as the target,principle and content of "The assessment index of standardized students' apartments in the universities of Anhui Province",during the process of its making.


Culturally and educationally, the United States specializes in the production of kinds of persons described first by ethnic, racial, and linguistic lines and second by supposed mental abilities. Overlaps between the two systems of classification are frequent, systematically haphazard, and often deleterious. An examination of classrooms around the country shows shifting currents of concern and tension that invite the attribution of labels for mental and/or minority-group status. This article introduces a language for a cultural analysis—a language of people interpreting the interpretations of others—and pursues an example from a classroom where both the good sense and the dangers of categories for learning-disabled and minority-group status are on display.


"Berry & Kohn's Operating Room Technique" is a time-honored classic that focuses on understanding the basic surgical principles and techniques. This edition has been completely reorganized into 11 distinct sections to present a more logical flow of information. The first nine sections present the foundation for basic principles and techniques, and the remaining two sections are dedicated to surgical procedures.


A dual mode flush valve includes a handle assembly having a handle, a bushing and a plunger. The bushing has a sleeve with a passage therethrough for mounting the plunger for sliding and tilting. The passage is defined by first and second partially overlapping bores that coincide at the inner end of the sleeve and are spaced one above the other at the outer end of the sleeve. The bores define a horizontal plunger travel axis and an angled plunger travel axis. Depending on which direction the user actuates the handle the plunger will travel along one of these axes. Travel along the angled axis will lower the plunger tip, allowing earlier clearance of a relief valve and a reduced flow through the flush valve compared to actuation with the plunger travel along the horizontal axis.


Kidney transplantation had significantly increased over years. Two factors were considered as a corner stone for better outcome for kidney transplantation, the first factor was the better prevention of the infectious agent and the second one was better treatment of the infectious agents. Infectious complications are common in renal transplant recipients. Additionally, polyoma virus nephritis is considered an increasing problem and is posing a threat to improving renal transplant graft survival. The pathogenesis of polyoma virus inducing nephritis remains a mystery and need further investigation. Higher prevalence of polyoma virus infection in recent years has been correlated with declining acute rejection rates and the use of potent immunosuppressive agents. treatment strategies


Details of design and construction of a variable-temperature cryostat for magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectroscopy are described. The main feature is the possibility of measuring variable-temperature spectra using an electromagnet as the field of source, without diminishing the magnetic field strength or inducing any strain in the optical windows of the cryostat.


For statements, search and development of decisions of problems of technical diagnosing of complex systems with non-uniform processes in laws of functioning are required new approaches, models and methods, and the main thing — essentially new representations about technical diagnosing.


An issue of theoretical and practical importance to R&D managers is the proper allocation of an organization's resources between the periodic selection and budgeting of R&D projects and the implementation of these projects. One possibility is to consider previous allocations as an established base and to restrict the attention of R&D managers to an examination of any subsequent deviations from the base. The advantage of this strategy, often called incremental budgeting, is that it focuses managerial and analytical efforts on a few current decisions. A second possibility, called zero-base budgeting, is to ignore previous allocations and to reexamine all feasible alternatives at the start of each budget cycle. This paper presents three models, a static model and two dynamic models, in which incremental and zero-base allocation procedures are viewed as extremes between which there may be a point of diminishing returns.

The models are risk/return models in which a total budget is allocated between the budgeting effort, which reduces risk, and the budgeted activities, which increase expected return. The budget for each activity during each time stage is partitioned into two components-a base and an increment. The expected return for each activity is a concave increasing function of its budget, and the risk depends quadratically on the base and in a geometrically decreasing fashion, on the bases in previous stages. The cost of evaluation is proportional to the increment, and the total cost of all activities, when added to the budgets for the activities, cannot exceed a fixed total budget. Zero-base budgeting means setting the base to zero so that the budget equals the increment plus the cost of evaluation. It is shown that a policy of zero-base budgeting during all time stages is nonoptimal, but an instance of zero-base budgeting during a single stage may be optimal.


The design of the school-based Parasite Control Programme (referred to below as a helminth control programme) run in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, from 1997-2000 is described. Emphasis is given to the role of the Parasite Control Task Group which provided a forum for a wide variety of issues relating to the programme to be debated before they were agreed upon. The programme targeted the three common geohelminths (Trichuris trichiura, Ascaris lumbricoide and hookworm) and the urinary schistosomiasis (bilharzia) fluke, Schistosoma haematobium. It is expected that a national control programme will be setup in South Africa in the future. With this in mind, new opinions and experiences in several aspects of helminth control that have become available since 2000 are included so that they can be considered for any future programme.


Modern computing systems are increasingly more complex, with their multicore CPUs and GPUs accelerators changing yearly, if not more often. It thus has become very challenging to write programs that efficiently use the associated complex memory systems and take advantage of the available parallelism. Autotuning addresses this by optimizing parameterized code to the targeted hardware by searching for the optimal set of parameters. Empirical autotuning has therefore gained interest during the past decades. While new autotuning algorithms are regularly presented and published, we will show why comparing these autotuning algorithms is a deceptively difficult task. In this paper, we describe our empirical study of state-of-the-art search techniques for autotuning by comparing them on a range of sample sizes, benchmarks and architectures. We optimize 6 tunable parameters with a search-space size of over 2 million. The algorithms studied include Random Search (RS), Random Forest Regression (RF), Genetic Algorithms (GA), Bayesian Optimization with Gaussian Processes (BO GP) and Bayesian Optimization with Tree-Parzen Estimators (BO TPE). Our results on the ImageCL benchmark suite suggest that the ideal autotuning algorithm heavily depends on the sample size. In our study, BO GP and BO TPE outperform the other algorithms in most scenarios with sample sizes from 25 to 100. However, GA usually outperforms the others for sample sizes 200 and beyond. We generally see the most speedup to be gained over RS in the lower range of sample sizes (25–100). However, the algorithms more consistently outperform RS for higher sample sizes (200–400). Hence, no single state-of-the-art algorithm outperforms the rest for all sample sizes. Some suggestions for future work are also included.


Bounds for the evolution of state trajectories of systems with uncertainty are important for various applications such as safety assessment, experimental design, and robust control design. While computing the bounds for nonlinear systems with uncertainties of arbitrary distributions is still a challenging task due to the NP-hard issue. This paper proposes a scenario approach-based method to compute probabilistic ellipsoidal bounds for discrete-time nonlinear systems with uncertain initial state, disturbances, and uncertain parameters. First, a probabilistic constrained problem is formulated for the probabilistic ellipsoidal bound computation of discrete-time nonlinear systems. Then, the solution of the original probabilistic constrained problem is approximated by solving a robust convex program with $N$ samples of uncertain variables extracted from the sample space. The feasibility and optimality of the approximate solution are discussed with proofs. For validation, a numerical example is implemented. The results show that the proposed method will have improved performance on feasibility if a slight loss on optimality is permitted.


Selective laser melting (SLM) of titanium–aluminium (TiAl) alloy components has gained significant attention in the modern industrial world. The flexibility of the SLM process in producing complex shapes with minimum utilization of material and energy makes it dominant over other manufacturing techniques. As aerospace and biomedical industries demand complex-shaped TiAl alloy components, part fabrication using SLM becomes the ultimate solution. However, the unacceptable level of surface integrity and anisotropic behavior of SLM components demand post processing operations such as laser polishing, chemical polishing, and conventional polishing methods. In this study, a recently developed polishing method called wire electrical discharge polishing (WEDP) is performed on TiAl alloys for obtaining a smooth and defect-free surface. This study aims to investigate the micro-layer modification occurring to the WEDP-processed surface in detail. The experimental results establish the effectiveness of WEDP method in terms of improved surface integrity. The surface finish (Sa) got enhanced by ~88% after WEDP processing. In addition, the thickness of recast layer formed by WEDP was found to be minimum. Moreover, post-processing of TiAl alloy resulted in better surface morphology specifically at lower settings of peak current. It is noteworthy that the migration of wire material was minimum with zinc-coated brass electrode compared to the normal brass electrode. Hence, coated wire electrodes are recommended for WEDP process. In short, an excellent surface integrity can be achieved using WEDP process through favorable surface modification aided by lower peak current and coated wire electrodes. Furthermore, less electrode wear observed in WEDP process enables the deployment of lower feed rates leading to minimal electrode consumption.


The aim of the work was to determine the elemental composition, hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties and polydispersity of humic acids of soils under different management regimes. The research involved forest and agricultural soil samples. Humic acids were exposed to the following analyses: elemental composition, division into hydrophilic and hydrophobic as well as lowand high-molecular fractions with chromatographic methods. The present results, confirmed by the cluster analysis, showed that the basic factor conditioning the properties of humic acids is the soil type, but also one can disregard neither the soil management method nor the agricultural practices applied. The content and quality of humus are directly and indirectly determined by physical, chemical, biological and environmental soil properties. The content and properties of organic matter of soil are conditioned not only by soil-and-climatic factors but also by the soil management (use) methods. In forest soils one of the basic factors determining the properties of the organic horizon is the tree stand species composition [6, 7, 10]. The tree stand species composition is also affected by the properties of deeper horizons as a result of mobility of nutrients from surface layers. In the soils under agricultural use the soil humus properties are mostly determined by post-harvest residue left after the harvest of crops [1, 8, 9]. The parameters which are changing in the humification process, besides elemental composition, are the degree of polydispersity of the molecules of humus substances [1, 4] and the share of hydrophobic and hydrophilic fractions [2, 3]. The above parameters are important from the ecological perspective since the proportions of these fractions determine the solubility of humic acids and, as a result, their migration down the soil profile. P O L I S H J O U R N A L O F S O I L S C I E N C E VOL. XLII/2 2009 PL ISSN 0079-2985


Porphyry deposits are the main source for global Cu and Mo production. The generation of hydrous silicate magmas and subsequent separation of volatile-rich magmatic fluids with hydrothermal alteration are significant processes leading to the formation of porphyry deposits. However, a specific understanding of these processes has been limited by a lack of direct mineralogical records in the evolving magmatic-hydrothermal system. In this paper, we present an integrated textural and geochemical investigation on apatite from the giant Daheishan porphyry Mo deposit in NE China, illustrating that apatite can be a potential recorder of the magmatic-hydrothermal evolution of porphyry systems. Apatite from the ore-forming porphyry displays distinctive core-rim textures, with melt inclusions in the resorption cores (Type-A1) and co-existing of melt and fluid inclusions in the euhedral rims (Type-A2), indicating a magmatic-hydrothermal origin of apatite. This is also supported by both chemical and isotopic compositions obtained by in situ analyses using laser ablation−inductively coupled plasma−mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) and LA-multi collector-ICP-MS. The late Type-A2 apatite is relatively enriched in incompatible elements, such as rare earth elements (REE) and Th, but slightly depleted in fluid-mobile elements such as Na and S, compared to the early Type-A1 apatite. Relatively homogeneous (87Sr/86Sr)i ratios (0.70436−0.70504) of the Type-A1 and Type-A2 apatites indicate that they were formed in a relatively closed system without detectable contamination. Meanwhile, some apatite in the wall rock (biotite granodiorite) shows characteristics of secondary altered textures, resulting from the intensive alteration by hydrothermal fluids exsolved from the porphyry system. Apatite trapped in mineral phenocrysts of the wall rock is usually unaltered (Type-B1 apatite), with clear oscillatory growth zones in cathodoluminescence (CL) images. In contrast, the intergranular apatite is commonly altered (Type-B2 apatite), with chaotic zoning in CL images, abundant micro-fractures and secondary fluid inclusions. Compositionally, the Type-B2 apatite shows notable tetrad REE patterns, relatively lower light-REE and S contents, and elevated 147Sm/144Nd ratios compared to the Type-B1 apatite. LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating yields a lower intercept age of 171.4 ± 2.3 Ma for Type-B2, which is consistent with the age of 171.5 ± 2.4 Ma for Type-A2, but is notably younger than the Type-B1 apatite (175.5 ± 1.3 Ma). It is suggested that the Type-B2 apatite has been significantly reset by hydrothermal fluids exsolved from the porphyry system. Therefore, we conclude that the textures and geochemistry of apatite in porphyry systems can be used as a potential proxy for recording fluid exsolution and hydrothermal alteration processes.


The study aims at looking into clinical, radiological and histopathological agreement in diagnosing bone tumors and elaborates the spectrum of bone tumors referred to Black-Lion Hospital, BLH. All bone tumor patients, who presented to all the three departments at BLH between the study periods of December 2003 – March 2008 were recruited. the radiological and histopathological diagnoses made were categorized separately using WHO classification of bone tumors. Strength of agreement was measured using Cohen's Kappa test. From the total of 216 bone tumor patients presented and biopsied in the five year period, complete information could not be gathered only for 11 (5%) of the patients. Hence there were 111(51.3%) males and 94(48.7%) females with histopathological tissue diagnosis of the bone tumor. Male to female ratio was nearly 1. Commonest age range generally affected was 15-29 (7-55 years). Of the tumors histopathologically diagnosed, 36%( 74/205) of the tumors were malignant. The commonest primary malignant tumor from bone biopsy was osteosarcoma (52/182, 28.5%). It was also the single most common clinical, radiological and histological diagnosis made. Exostosis was second. Considering all bone tumors together, radiological diagnosis was confirmed by similar histological diagnosis in 172 out 205 cases (84%) and the corresponding Cohen's kappa value (0.82) showed excellent agreement between radiological and histological diagnoses of all bone tumors. In set-ups where there is limited or no histopathological service, joint clinical and radiological decision could lead to a higher degree of accuracy in diagnosis of bone tumors.

 Key words: Bone tumors, diagnostic agreement, radiological, orthopedic, histopathology.


Tremendous ancient trees have always impressed humans very much. They have been a topic of many stories and legends and also objects of the cult. The fascination with huge trees can be expressed by the willingness to explore their dimensions and to state which tree is the biggest one. That gives the opportunity to make various comparisons. The most often determined parameters include stem girth or diameter (usually measured at the height of 1,30 m), crown diameter and stem volume. Usually, it is not too difficult to measure the previous features, for the measurements can be executed using some simple instruments. However, correct determination of the stem volume is a bigger challenge. In this paper we deal with that problem. Traditional methods of volume determination can not be accurate for monumental ancient trees of untypical shape. Therefore, we need to search for non-standard, indirect mensuration methods, for example the use of the theodolite. Application of some trigonometric formulae to the results of the traditional measurements of the diameter not that high above the ground (for example at the breast height) and the distance between the stem and the theodolite, enable very precise to determine diameters at any height as well as the height of the tree. The way of doing it is described in the paper: placing the instrument, leveling, centering and measurement of both vertical and horizontal angles. The trigonometric formulae for determination stem characteristics are given. The use of the method is presented on the example of monumental Oak tree for determination of a log volume by Smalian sectional formula. The described method of indirect tree measurements seems to have a wide spectrum of applications in mensuration of various species as well as various stem shapes and dimensions. The results obtained from theodolite measurements can be used for stem volume determination, not only by application in simple formulae, but also in more precise sectional formulae. The method is rather time-consuming but its use for measurements of monuments of nature gives reason to do it.


Abstract Clinical appraisal of model infant intervention projects can inform public policy toward improvement of intervention efforts. Examples of model programs are given; problems that arose are described. Tutorial models focussed on the infant may not impel parents to model the tutorial role. Direct work with parents may not be successful unless tutors are highly skilled. Intensive and extensive therapeutic work with families may be required when an infant is at risk for mental health disturbance. Toddlers in group care behave more aggressively unless prosocial teaching is a prominent curriculum component. Responsive caregiving with infants and strong pride in work enhance staff effectiveness.


The yarn let-off device in weaving seersucker was modified with the principle and requirement of foaming seersucker explained.In the article are described the advantages of the modified let-off device and the design and style of seersucker as well as discussed the production technology and the measures for further improvement.


This paper presents a novel approach for miRNA target prediction using deep learning. Deep learning is branch of machine learning and it can apply in various areas not just related to computer science. The mix of machine learning and Bioinformatics is a striking one. This paper talks about another miRNA target prediction through deep learning. miRNAs diminish protein translation by binding to 3′ UTR regions of target genes with imperfect complementary pairing. Here examined a deep learning approach for miRNA target prediction.


We studied the effect of types of selection, duration of lactation and season on milk production of saanen. For experiment 3 groups of saanen were selected, 8 heads in each. The first group goats of "Tatar" selection, imported from the Republic of Tatarstan, the 2nd group "Bashkir" selection (from Bashkiria), group 3 (control) — goats of total herd (local selection). The results revealed that the highest yields were in the springsummer period (2,45-3,14 kg). The yield of milk fat of the goats of "Tatar" selection was 31,36 kg per lactation, under the coefficient of milk yield 1363,8%. The dry matter content of milk goats meets the requirements in autumn (13,64-13,76%). In summer there was the lowest dry matter content (12,15%), which to the winter increased to 14,8%. This trend is observed with a mass fraction SNF, fat, protein and casein. Mass fraction of protein does not conform to the regulations for the whole year and ranges from 3,0% to 3,5%. The casein content meets standards in autumn and winter periods (2,62-2,83%). Mass fraction of lactose does not meet the regulations and on average is 4.3%. The density of milk is low all year (28,4 to 30,1 0A). The acidity in the first and the second group was 17,4 and 17,5 0T respectively, and the third 16,8 оТ, that is below standard. Milk of goats of "Tatar" selection according to the content of somatic cells corresponds to the highest grade 319,2 thousand/cm3, that is by 24-25% lower of the same parameter of the goats of the 2d and 3d groups. By the end of lactation, this figure increased to 583 (autumn) and 969 thousand/ cm3 (winter). The number of bacteria in milk did not exceed 500 thousand/cm3 and corresponded to the 1st grade the whole year. Economic results allowed us to obtain more profit from goats of the 1st experimental group 14685 rubles (profitability 69,5%), which is by 7,9% and 27% more than in the 2nd and 3rd experimental groups, respectively.


Corporate R&D, one of the most shielded and centralised activities in the value chain, has recently experienced rapid internationalisation. However, academic writing has primarily concentrated on investments within 'core', i.e. triad, countries. The question to what extent firms invest in R&D in non-triad economies remains fairly uncharted territory. This paper provides insights regarding the type as well as the management of non-triad R&D laboratories by building on survey data from 49 leading German MNCs. We shed light on the motivations and pace of R&D investments and reveal that the mechanisms used in 'peripheral' countries considerably differ from 'core' country laboratories.


PVDF-g-[PBIEM-co-PPMA] graft copolymers were first synthesized in a "grafting from" process, involving thermally induced graft copolymerization of two inimers, 2-(2-bromoisobutyryloxy)ethyl methacrylate (BIEM) and propargyl methacrylate (PMA), from ozone-preactivated poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) chains. Microporous membranes were fabricated from the PVDF-g-[PBIEM-co-PPMA] copolymers by phase inversion in an aqueous medium. The tertiary C–Br groups of BIEM repeat units and the propargyl groups of PMA repeat units on the PVDF-g-[PBIEM-co-PPMA] membrane and pore surfaces provided the respective functionalities for the "grafting from" process involving surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) of the viologen-containing monomer, N-benzyl-N′-(4-vinylbenzyl)-4,4′-bipyridium dichloride (BVbpy), and the "grafting to" process involving alkyne–azide click reaction with azido-terminated poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM-N3), prepared a priori via reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. The resulting PVDF-g-[P(BIEM-g-PBVbpy)-co-P(PMA-click-PNIPAM)] membrane exhibited both redox- and temperature-dependent permeability to aqueous solutions. Alternatively, metal ions, such as Ag, Au or Pt ions, can be immobilized and reduced within the viologen-containing PBVbpy brushes on the PVDF-g-[P(BIEM-g-PBVbpy)-co-PPMA] membrane. The functionalized PVDF-g-[P(BIEM-g-PBVbpy)-co-PPMA]-Ag membrane surfaces were shown to be effective in reducing bacterial adhesion and fouling under continuous-flow conditions.


Aim: This study aims to investigate the association of the Cardio-Ankle Vascular Index (CAVI) with self-reported sleep duration and sleep quality in community-dwelling older adults aged ≥ 65 years. Methods: The Tarumizu Study was a cohort of community-based health checkups conducted in the Tarumizu City, Japan, in 2018 and 2019. In total, 997 participants aged ≥ 65 years (median age, 74 years) were examined. We obtained the average sleep duration and sleep quality using self-reported questionnaires and classified them into three separate groups according to sleep duration (<6 h, 6–8 h, and ≥ 8 h) and sleep quality (good, medium, and poor). The arterial stiffness was measured using the CAVI. Results: As per our findings, the CAVI was significantly higher in the ≥ 8 h sleep group (CAVI=9.6±1.3) than in the <6 h (CAVI=9.1±1.1) or 6–8 h (CAVI=9.1±1.2) groups (p<0.001). After adjustment for age, sex, systolic blood pressure, current smoking status, body mass index, frequency of exercise, educational background, frailty, sleep medication, sleep quality, and nap duration, multivariable regression analysis demonstrated that the CAVI was significantly higher in the ≥ 8 h group than in the 6–8 h group (p=0.016). In contrast, multivariable regression analysis showed that there was no significant association between sleep quality and CAVI. Conclusions: A significant association was noted between long sleep duration (≥ 8 h) and elevated CAVI in community-dwelling older adults aged ≥ 65 years. We, therefore, suggest that long sleep duration, not sleep quality, is correlated with arterial stiffness in older adults.


Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been listed as the single most important medical innovation, on par with CT scanning (Fuchs & Sox 2001). In current clinical MRI ECG is being using for three major purposes. Firstly, heart motion, blood flow and blood pulsation are commonly dealt with using electrocardiogram (ECG) for synchronization of MR data acquisition with the cardiac cycle (Lanzer et.al. 1984) to address or compensate for cardiac activity related motion artifacts which is of paramount importance for an ever growing portfolio of cardiovascular MR (CMR) and neurovascular MR (NVMR) applications (Assomull et.al. 2007, Kelle et.al. 2008, Kramer et.al. 2008, Kwong & Korlakunta 2008, Niendorf et.al. 2006, Niendorf & Sodickson 2008, Niendorf & Sodickson 2006, Niendorf et.al. 2010, Pennell et.al. 2004, Schwitter 2008). Secondly, ECG is widely used to simultaneously register cardiac activity with MRI; for example to eliminate physiological fluctuations from brain activation maps derived from functional MRI studies (Purdon & Weisskoff 1998). Thirdly, there are an increasing number of clinical applications that require ECG monitoring prior to/after the MR examination while the patient is still in the MR environment but outside of the MR scanners bore using ECG devices as a patient emergency indicator. ECG waveform acquisitions, ECG co-registration and ECG monitoring during MRI pose technical challenges and requires safety measures that will not be familiar to users of other conventional ECG technologies. For all those reasons, the basic principles of using ECG in an MRI environment and their implications for clinical MRI and MRI research are provided in this chapter. Key concepts, technical solutions, practical considerations and safety implications for cardiac gated MRI using electrocardiograms are outlined. Unsolved technical problems and unmet clinical needs are also considered carefully, in an attempt to stimulate the community to throw further weight behind the solutions of remaining issues. Driven by the limitations and motivated by the challenges of ECG, the need for novel cardiac gating/triggering technology is discussed. Current trends, such as the trend towards wireless techniques and the move to acoustic cardiac gating techniques, and their


This paper focuses on using the Robotics Toolbox in MATLAB for simulating the motion and environmental physics of a two-legged humanoid robot. The said software is built primarily for single serial-link manipulators in a free environment without holonomic constraints. Methods for additional functionality required for a biped interacting with an environment and control schemes for simulation are presented here.


Stainless steel is extensive used in the iron and steel industry because of its high performance and good benefit.But recently,the quality of stainless steel products is irregularity,and some manufacturers used 0Cr18Ni9/304 instead of 0Cr17Ni12Mo3/316 and 00Cr17Ni12Mo3/316L.It takes incipient fault to the safety of pressure vessels.A method which used KCNS and SnCl 22H 2O solution to identify the molybdenum stainless steel was presented.Taking this inspection method,the identification will be fast,simplification and accurate,and the workload of the materials recheck will be reduced.


circumstance is not easy to prove. All of this section is developed in a narrative form with discussions on some specific items, such as the value of ostraca as documents (p. 230) and the mechanism implied by the receipt not apparently in use in Ramesside egypt (p. 232). The use of the signature to certify the authenticity of a document is not attested in the context under discussion. In the rest of this part, David gives a subdivision of the documents according to their genre, and puts the references to the texts in the footnotes, which sometimes look very heavy to read and follow. In the conclusions to the book, the author summarises the material and compares it with her findings about the legal register in Ramesside royal decrees. One of the most remarkable differences between the two kinds of sources, legal instruments and royal decrees, is their provenance: most of the records come from Deir el Medina, whereas the royal decrees were probably composed in Piramesse, the Ramesside administrative capital. A gap in the bibliographical references occurs on p. 124, where Morschauser 1991 is mentioned, but does not appear in the final list. To sum up, the strength of this work lies in the linguistic analysis of each legal act. This analysis can show whether the legal act depends on context (according to the pronouns and the verbal forms used) or on the register of the expression used in the sentence. This can be Late egyptian or Classical egyptian, each giving a different impression of the text. Furthermore, the frequent recourse to bibliography concerning forms in modern testaments and legal language represents an interesting approach, even though it cannot always be applied. The book effectively carries further the discussion of some egyptian terms having relevance in the legal register, such as nmHy (pp. 91–2), and the expression hp n Pr-aA (p. 103), which will be very useful as a starting point for any futther lexicographic study on this subject.


We present a model of optimal contracting between a purchaser and a provider of health services when quality has two dimensions. We assume that one dimension of quality is veri…able (dimension 1) and one dimension is not veri…able (dimension 2). We show that the power of the incentive scheme for the veri…able dimension depends critically on the extent to which quality 1 increases or decreases the provider's marginal disutility and the patients'marginal bene…t from quality 2 (i.e. substitutability or complementarity). Our main result is that under some circumstances a high-powered incentive scheme can be optimal even when the two quality dimensions are substitutes.


The aim of the paper is to present courses in specialized translation and interpreting taught in "elf" (an acronym derived from e-learning and the Czech name of the faculty) at the Department of English and American studies . Information from the Consortium for Training Translation Teachers' seminar and the project description prepared as part of the CTTT Certificate programme is reflected in the paper – it summarizes the main features of the Open Source Course Management System "Moodle". The paper deals with various methodological issues involved in the teaching. In conclusion, the future of distance learning and online testing is considered. _____________________________________________________________________


Currently, the development of leading‐edge technology for recording and loading human motion on the basis of haptic information is required in the fields of manufacturing and human support. Human movement is an assembly of motion components. Since human movements should be supported by a robot in real time, it is necessary to integrate the motion components that were saved earlier. Once such motion integration is realized, future technology for use in daily human life can be developed. This paper proposes the integrated reproduction of the decomposed components of human motion by using a motion copying system. This system is the key technology for the realization of the acquisition, saving, and reproduction of real‐world haptic information. By using the proposed method, it is possible not only to achieve expert skill acquisition, skill transfer to robots, and power assist for each motion component, but also to open up new areas of applications. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 181(1): 28–35, 2012; Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI 10.1002/eej.21263


(4) Introduction: (4) History of the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation: (10) History of Work Issues Facing the Blind, Including the Purpose for this Research : (10) Goals and Outcomes of this Research, Including the Broad Research Question: (11) Literature Review: (12) Research Methods: (35) Hypothesis Behind this Research: (35) Explored Themes in this Research: (35) Study Limitations: (36) Themes of Data Collection: (38) Findings/Discussion: (40)


Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder of the brain and typically presents with a disorder of movement. The core pathological event underlying the condition is the loss of the dopaminergic nigrostriatal pathway with the formation of alpha-synuclein positive Lewy bodies. As a result, drugs that target the degenerating dopaminergic network within the brain work well at least in the early stages of the disease. Unfortunately, with time these therapies fail and produce their own unique side-effect profile, and this, coupled with the more diffuse pathological and clinical findings in advancing disease, has led to a search for more effective therapies. In this review, the authors will briefly discuss the emerging new drug therapies in PD before concentrating on a more detailed discussion on the state of cell therapies to cure PD.


The forecasting demand is the basis of strategic planning for production, sales and finances of any company. They are used for planning and control of production for planning productive system (long term) and the using (short term) of this system. With the increasing of the competition in the automobile market, there are, consequently, the increasing of concerning about establishing a balance between offering and demand of vehicles. Then come the need to calculate statistical predictions of future demands, which are translated into a real approximation of future events of the company in question. Thus, this work is divided in two stages: first - find out the best forecasting model (lower mean percentage of error between the actual and predicted) for the vehicle demand, second - analyze the residuals control charts of the best forecasting model so that to observe and draw the points that may be outside the control limits. The main goal is to plan the production of vehicle sales within a stipulated period and create scenarios for future periods.


We construct a counter-example of polynomial Sarnak conjecture for minimal systems, which assets that the Mobius function is linearly disjoint from subsequences along polynomials of deterministic sequences realized in minimal systems. Our example is in the class of Toeplitz systems, which are minimal.


The higher strength of a hard roof leads to higher coal pressure during coal mining, especially under extra-thick coal seam conditions. This study addresses the hard roof control problem for extra-thick coal seams using the air return roadway 4106 (AR 4106) of the Wenjiapo Coal Mine as a case study. A new surrounding rock control strategy is proposed, which mainly includes 44 m deep-hole pre-splitting blasting for stress releasing and flexible 4-m-long bolt for roof supporting. Based on the new support scheme, field tests were performed. The results show that roadway support failure in traditional scenarios is caused by insufficient bolt length and extensive rotary subsidence of the long cantilever beam of the hard roof. In the new proposed scheme, flexible 4-m-long bolts are shown to effectively restrain the initial expansion deformation of the top coal. The deflection of the rock beam anchored by the roof foundation are improved. Deep-hole pre-splitting blasting effectively reduces the cantilever distance of the "block B" of the voussoir beam structure. The stress environment of the roadway surrounding rock is optimized and anchorage structure damage is inhibited. The results provide insights regarding the safe control of roadway roofs under extra-thick coal seam conditions.


The dorsal periqueductal gray (dPAG) and inferior colliculus (IC) are two structures of the midbrain tectum that, together with amygdala, dorsomedial hypothalamus and superior colliculus, are involved in the modulation of the expression of fear-related behaviors. The chemical or electrical stimulation of these structures produces a series of behavioral defensive responses. Moreover, behavioral data from animal models of anxiety have provided evidences of tonic inhibitory GABAergic regulation in dPAG and IC. This study investigated the involvement of GABAergic neurotransmission in the expression of unconditioned and conditioned fear. To this aim, the effects of intra-dPAG and IC administration of muscimol (GABA-A agonist) and semicarbazide (glutamic acid decarboxylase inhibitor) were examined in the fear potentiated startle test, in conditioned freezing, in the thresholds for freezing and escape determined by electrical stimulation of these structures, and in the post-stimulation freezing. In the unconditioned model, intra-dPAG injections of muscimol reduced the aversiveness of the electrical stimulation but had no effects on the post-stimulation freezing, while semicarbazide produced aversive-like effects in both conditions. Muscimol also caused significant reduction in fear potentiated startle and conditioned freezing, while semicarbazide had no effect in these responses. In contrast, intra-IC injections of both drugs were ineffective in the conditioned model. In the unconditioned model, however, muscimol reduced the aversiveness of the electrical stimulation. These data show a differential participation of GABAergic mechanisms on conditioned and unconditioned fear. These mechanisms in the dPAG seem to be involved in both conditioned and unconditioned fear, while in IC they seem to participate in unconditioned fear only.


Objective
To investigate the correlation between the syndrome types of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and clinical symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) with chronic prostatitis (BPH-CP).

METHODS
We selected 150 cases of BPH-CP in this study and divided them into 7 TCM syndrome types. Using univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses, we studied the correlation of each TCM syndrome type with the age, disease course, prostate volume, postvoid residual urine volume (PVR), prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level, maximum urinary flow rate (Qmax), and International Prostate Symptoms Score (IPSS).

RESULTS
Kidney-yin deficiency was correlated positively with the prostate volume but negatively with Qmax and IPSS; kidney-yang deficiency positively with the age and prostate volume but negatively with IPSS; the damp heat syndrome positively with the PSA level but negatively with the disease course, prostate volume and Qmax; the spleen-qi deficiency syndrome positively with the prostate volume but negatively with the disease course; liver-qi stagnation positively with the disease course but negatively with the age, prostate volume and PVR; the syndrome of qi stagnation and blood stasis positively with the disease course and IPSS but negatively with PVR; the syndrome of lung-heat and qi blockage positively with the age, Qmax and IPSS but negatively with the disease course.

CONCLUSIONS
The TCM syndrome types of BPH-CP are closely correlated to their clinical symptoms. The analysis of the clinical objective indexes of BPH-CP can provide some reliable evidence for accurate identification of the TCM syndrome type of the disease.


This article is a report on the 17th world road congress which was held in Sydney, from 8-15 October 1983.


Two commercial multi-hole nozzles A and B were selected for testing manufacturing consistency and symmetry by comparing spray characteristics and spray mass of each hole.The experiments were carried out under 60 MPa injection pressure and 1800 μs spray duration.The research results show that spray spacial symmetry and spray uniformity of nozzle B are better than those of nozzle A.The nozzle manufacturing consistency test results by spray characteristics and by spray mass uniformity can be confirmed each other.These two kinds of methods can well evaluate nozzle manufacturing consistency.


Rural centres are among the most important of those which have affected world tourism trends. The increase in short-term trips has made these territories one of the main tourism destinations. In today's competitive world, a targeted effort is necessary to brand all products and services to compete for tourist attraction. It is noteworthy that, until this time (2016) 120 villages have been considered as rural destinations for the target of tourism markets in Iran, and therefore, it can be said that the existence of a particular brand is an encouraging and effective factor to attract tourists to rural areas. The Delphi technique is used to determine the benefits of making and managing a tourism brand for desert villages which are geotourism destinations in Isfahan, Iran. Analysis of the data summarized thirteen benefits of geo-branding for rural areas.


Abstract There is no consensus and common ground among scholars toward defining the concept of gangsterism. The type and nature of the so-called gang groups are also stated differently in the existing literature. The aim of this study is to explore the incidence and management of street gangs in two selected Ethiopian cities. A cross-sectional, descriptive mixed research design was implemented to investigate the issue at hand. Purposive sampling is used to recruit the participants. For primary data, focus group discussion (FGD) and in-depth interviews are implemented, and for secondary data, police records are accessed and reviewed. A total of five FGDs and 35 in-depth interviews (15 from Jimma and 20 from Addis Ababa) have been carried out. The findings of the study indicated that street gangsterism, though not organized in a sophisticated manner, is a widespread urban problem in Ethiopia. Secondary data obtained from the Addis Ababa police commission portray that crime typologies typical for street gangsters are highly prevalent. The immediate causes of street gangsterism are highly linked with a lack of resources to sustain one's living at the individual level. Family disintegration and faulty socialization at the meso level and meager political-economy policies of the country at structural level are also risk factors for street gangsterism. Street criminals used newly emerging modus operandi including ginter (deceiving), haya sost (the 23), shuashua (swindling), gichit (collusion), and entif (spitting) to commit crimes against property and related offenses. Addressing existing problems requires unreserved commitment and effort of everyone at the individual, community, and system level.


The critics of Polybius to what he considers historical and methodological errors of his antecessor Timaeus of Tauromenium constitutes index of an historiographical procedure converted in his own methodology founding right. Inserted in Greek agonistic mentality, such right symbolizes a still more important prerogative, that of reflecting and reviewing.


This paper presents a maritime moving target detection technique for passive radar with BeiDou satellite as transmitter of opportunity. Due to the restricted power budget provided by BeiDou satellite, to detect the target, the echo over a long time needs to be collected and integrated. In this paper, first, a range cell migration (RCM) correction technique called range-symmetry transform (RST) is applied, gathering the echo energy into a same range. Then, the dechirp processing is performed to the extracted azimuth signal, after which the dechirped signal is segmented into multiple frames. Finally, a coherent integration inside each frame is accomplished by means of the Fourier transform, followed by a non-coherent integration of multiple frames. The target echo is well concentrated in the final integration result, providing the capability of target detection. The effectiveness of the proposed maritime moving target detection technique is verified by simulations.


Agribusiness is the essential occupation in India, that assumes a vital job in the economy of the nation. Yearly 15.7 percentage of the crops are being lost due to attack by insect pests and diseases [1]. The diseases caused will lead to a reduction of quality and quantity of crops. To maintain the health of the plant, it is required to identify the infection and give reasonable consideration. It is difficult to do physically because the human eye cannot observe the minute variations of the infected part of the leaf. In this way, we have built up a framework programming utilizing Matlab [2] to distinguish plant leaf illnesses by utilizing picture handling procedures. The software is produced so that a man even who don't have earlier learning about the plants, and their ailments can effectively recognize infected leaves. We have utilized k-means clustering to distinguish the tainted region of the plant leaf. The diseased recognition part incorporates picture obtaining, image pre-processing, segmentation and feature extraction and SVM classification.


This work sought to identify, rescue and value the traditional knowledge about soil and environment, establishing a relationship of this knowledge with scientific knowledge of academic slant. To this end, it was the stratification of the environment of the marron territory of Brejo dos Crioulos, based on local criteria and pedological conventional method, considering the soil and its interface with other environmental components. Associated with the characterization of agroecosystems, with interpretation and recognition of the logic of traditional knowledge use and management of natural resources, by contacting the maroons recognize the best time (time), the environment (soil, moisture, microclimate), the species and variety, combining activities, and casting a set of practices that allow the survival of their families. The community of Brejo dos Crioulos dominates its own system of stratification of environments, whose identity enables comprehensive reference to scientific knowledge and articulation academic. The construction of identification keys of environments based on the criteria of the maroons, combined with information obtained based on local knowledge, to deepen the characterization of environments and mapping of soils contributed to a better understanding of the strategies of agrifood maroon, achieving results that can support planning processes and definitions of public policies for sustainable land use territory of maroon.


Existing economic theories of the family suggest that public transfer programs in which funds are targeted to women, by improving women's bargaining position in the household, may decrease the incidence of spousal abuse. We study this prediction empirically using data from a unique survey in Mexico to examine the impact of the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer program on spousal abuse rates and threats of violence. We find that although women in beneficiary households are 33 percent less likely to be victims of physical abuse than women in comparable non-beneficiary households, they are more likely to receive violent threats with no associated physical abuse. We re-interpret a model of decision-makers' interactions with asymmetric information in the male partners' gains to marriage to document how increases in female partners' socioeconomic opportunities can lead to an increase in husbands' use of violent threats with no associated physical abuse – predictions consistent with the empirical evidence.


PURPOSE: An arc flash sensing and blocking system is provided to guarantee the safety of an administrator by Increasing the detecting accuracy through detecting with multiple optical detecting devices, controlling through using current detecting for arc flash and sensing the distance from the administrator before reacting. CONSTITUTION: An arc flash sensing and blocking system comprises a sensor part (10) including an optical sensor sensing the light of the arc flash, an inputting part (20), an outputting part (60) outputting a relay control signal for the trip of a circuit breaker, a power part supplying power, a communications part (80) for delivering the input and output of a signal and a calculating part (70) generating a control signal for the inputting and outputting of the circuit breaker. [Reference numerals] (10) Sensor part; (11) Light sensor; (12) Current sensor; (13) Door sensor; (14) Distance sensor; (20) Inputting part; (21) Direct input; (22) External input; (30) Output unit; (33) Trip coil output; (40) Relay; (50) Circuit breaker; (60) Outputting part; (61) Battery; (70) Calculating part; (80) Communications part


Abstract. Compound-specific hydrogen isotopes have increasingly been used as a powerful
proxy for investigating biogeochemical cycles and climate change over the
past 2 decades. Understanding the hydrogen isotope in extant organisms is
fundamental for us to interpret such isotope signals preserved in natural
environmental samples. Here, we studied the controls on hydrogen isotope
fractionation between fatty acids and growth water by an Fe-reducing
heterotrophic marine bacterium Shewanella piezotolerans WP3 growing on different organic substrates,
including N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (GlcNac), glucose, acetate, pyruvate,
L-alanine, and L-glutamate. Meanwhile, we also evaluated the impact of growth
temperature on the hydrogen isotope composition of fatty acids using GlcNac
as the sole organic substrate. Our results show that the abundance-weighted mean
fatty-acid / water fractionations (εFA/water) display
considerable variations for cultures grown on different substrates.
Specifically, WP3 yielded the most 2H-enriched fatty acids growing on
L-glutamate and pyruvate with an εFA/water of 52 ± 14 ‰ and 44 ± 4 ‰, respectively,
and exhibited 2H depletion using GlcNac (−76 ± 1 ‰) and glucose (−67 ± 35 ‰)
as sole carbon sources and relatively small fractionations on acetate (23 ± 3 ‰) and L-alanine (−4 ± 9 ‰). Combined with metabolic model analysis, our
results indicate that the central metabolic pathways exert a fundamental
effect on the hydrogen isotope composition of fatty acids in heterotrophs.
Temperature also has an obvious influence on the δ2H values of
fatty acids, with strong 2H depletion at an optimal growth temperature
(−23 ± 2 ‰ and −23 ‰ growing at
15 and 20 ∘C, respectively) and relatively small
fractionations at non-optimal temperatures (4 ± 5 ‰, −4 ± 12 ‰, and 15 ± 41 ‰ at 4, 10, and 25 ∘C,
respectively). We hypothesized that this may be associated with
temperature-induced enzyme activity for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) production. This study helps understand the controlling factors of hydrogen isotope fractionation by
marine bacteria, laying the foundation for further interpreting the hydrogen
isotope signatures of lipids as an important proxy to decode the
biogeochemical cycles and ecological changes in marine sediments.


Davis, Mike. 1998 Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York: Metropolitan Books. Reviewed by Roy E. Roper, Ph.D. Catherine J. Goodzey, M.S.


AS ONE who has been a lover of both Greek and Latin literature, and especially of Homer, Theocritus, and Virgil primis ab annis, I can still recall the shock which I experienced when in connection with certain lines in the Eclogues and Georgics I first read in Conington's great edition such comments as "this 'would be' or this 'appears to be a misunderstanding' of Theocritus" (see notes on E. viii. 42 and 59). Such language, however, is mild and restrained when compared with that of J. Wight Duff, who in his A Literary History of Rome (p. 441) assures us that Virgil is not always careful to translate, and remarks upon the famous ut vidi, ut perii! of the Eighth Eclogue that the second ut misrenders W's in xc's 'l8ov, ws a vtqv, while omnia vel medium fiant mare is a blunder for 7avra by' EvaaXXa 'yhotro. The charge that Virgil was guilty of errors and blunders in rendering Greek is at least puzzling, if not exasperating, to one who reflects that the poet was obviously a great lover of Greek literature of various periods, and had had unusual opportunities to make himself familiar with Greek speech. Greek was, of course, a contemporary living language; Greek was studied intensively by all Romans who aspired to any intellectual standing; and Greeks of distinction, as we learn from the ancient and interesting Vitae Vergilianae, were among the poet's teachers, including Siron, an Epicurean philosopher; Epidius, a rhetorician; and Parthenius, a poet from Bithynia. Moreover, Virgil's knowledge of Greek is vouched for in the large by all his works. For the Eclogues he must have known the bucolic idyls of Theocritus practically by heart. In the Georgics, especially Book i, there is obvious familiarity with the Ascraeum carmen, the Works and Days of Hesiod. The Aeneid throughout its long course reveals a wonderful intimacy with both the Iliad and the Odyssey. Besides the Works and Days, Virgil knew also the Shield and the Theogony of Hesiod. He knew Aratus, poet of the Phaenomena; he knew portions of Aristotle, Theophrastus, and Nicander. He had


SEPTICAEMIA due to Pseudom'onas pyocyanea is not a common condition, and reports of septicaemia due to this organism occurring in the puerperium, and in particular fallowing a birth-canal infection, are rarely to be found in the literature. Charrin (1889) described a case of puerperal infection and was the first to suggest the possibility of a uterine infection. Perkins (1901) reported 2 cases, which are open to doubt as the cultures were not taken until shortly after death. Walthard (1904) published a case in which the Ps. $yocyanea was recovered from the lochia in company with other organisms. Rolly (1906) published a case in which the organism was recovered during life from the blood, and cerebrospinal fluid. He believed that the uterus was the portal of entry as it was found to contain a necrotic placental polyp at autopsy. In 1910 Delmotte reported a doubtful case in which there was no positive blood culture. From that time, until 1928, there does not appear to be any further report of the condition in the literature. Soifer (1928), reviewed the literature and added a case of his own in which Ps. pyocyanea was cultured from the blood of a patient in the process of aborting and also from placental tissue removed from the uterus at operation. His patient recovered quickly and the bacteraemia was only transient. Keefer (1946) , reporting the treatment of various conditions with streptomycin, 86 f tabulates a case of puerperal sepsis due to Ps. pyocyanea which proved fatal, but gave no clinical details. In 1948 Sobhi and Khairat described a case in which the organism was culture from the blood, urine, cervix and faeces during life, the infection occurring after what was thought to be an abortion at the third month of pregnancy. So far as reference to the literature shows, inaddition to that reported in this paper, only g case reports of this condition have found their way into print during the last 60 years and, if the criterion of. a true infection is the culture of Ps. qyocyanea from the blood during life, the authenticity of 4 of these cases is open to doubt.


The green growth prediction plays an important role to assess and monitor the growth rate of a local region. Managers and researchers can make timely adaptation policy to improve and innovate economic, cultural and environmental performance to impulse the green growth. The study used the methods such as the multiple criteria analysis, analytic hierarchy process, principal component analysis, and the grey theory model to build and integrate green growth indicators into the green growth index. The green growth index was developed by 9 subjects and 18 indicators. The data of study were collected a period of seven years from 2009 to 2015. The results of study indicated that almost districts increased the green growth index. District 1 and District 5 reached at high green growth level about 60 score, while others were classified into average green growth level. The results of green growth prediction of districts in Ho Chi Minh City also showed that the green growth index will lightly increase from 2016 – 2020.


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The AC power system is leading due to its established standards. The depleting thread of fossil fuels, the significant increase in cost and the alarming environmental situation raises concerns. An Islanded DC microgrid, due to its novel characteristics of being able to withstand faulty conditions, has increased the reliability, accuracy, ease of integration, and efficiency of the power system. Renewable energy sources, characteristically DC, have wide usability in a distributive network and, accordingly, less circuitry and conversion stages are required, eliminating the need of reactive power compensation and frequency sync. Constant power loads (CPLs) are the reason for instability in the DC microgrid. Various centralized stability techniques have been proposed in the literature; however, the grid system collapses if there is a fault. To compensate, an efficient distributive control architecture, i.e., droop control method is proposed in this research. The significant advantage of using the droop control technique includes easy implementation, high reliability and flexibility, a reduced circulating current, a decentralized control with local measurements, the absence of a communication link and, thus, it is economic. Moreover, it offers local control for each individual power source in the microgrid. To investigate the stability of the islanded DC microgrid with constant power loads using the droop control technique, a small signal model of the islanded DC microgrid was developed in MATLAB/Simulink. Simulations were carried out to show the efficiency of the proposed controller and analyze the stability of the power system with constant power loads.


1. This essay deals with the role played by aggregate demand in the theories of growth that have historically emerged. It wants to attract the attention of the readers to those parts of the economic literature, which have underlined that the autonomous components of aggregate demand can have an influence on growth. There is a tendency in modern literature to disregard this influence and to accept Say's Law, which has constantly enjoyed a large consensus in the history of economic thought. Yet, as will be argued in the following pages, the validity of Say's Law has always been disputed and, for some decades after the great depression, it was denied by the largest part of the profession. Since the 1970's, the Law has been regaining consensus and nowadays represents by far the prevailing view. Thus, in the New Growth Theories, which are the most established theories of growth in modern literature, Say's Law holds and autonomous demand has no influence on the rate of growth, owing to the assumption that investment decisions are directly generated by saving decisions.


The existence of HIV among people in sexual relationships has become one of the major factors leading to dissolution of relationships thereby creating single-parents in large numbers. Despite the growing prevalence of HIV infected single women, relatively few psychosocial support systems are available for them. There is not much information addressing this subject specifically focusing on women single parents in the view of HIV and AIDS. This study analysed HIV infected single women experiences with the infection, single parenting and their coping strategies in Zimbabwe. We found that their experiences with both HIV and single parenting were mainly negative and characterised by prolonged episodes of threatened psychological and social wellbeing. Their experiences also determined their coping strategies some of which, to some extent serve to exacerbate the spread of HIV and also negatively affect their psychosocial wellbeing. Efforts to provide psychosocial support and practical guidelines targeting HIV infected single women need to be strengthened.

 Key words: HIV, single parenting, coping strategies, HIV infected women.


Spartina alterniflora as an invader,has been suffered many censures from public.But as resource,it has not been attended.This paper reported a trial,which employed Spartina alterniflora as material for biogas production by batch model at 35℃,and the characteristics of biogas production and substrate conversion were studied.The biogas produced by Spartina alterniflora was increased with the increasing volatile solid(VS) loading rate and then decreased.When the VS loading rate was 6.0%,the biogas production was the highest and it was up to 294.84 mL/g VSadded.The organic acid increased in the early stage and then decreased,its deviation mean value was negatively correlated with the pH value and the correlation coefficient was-0.97508.The fermentation type of Spartina alterniflora at mesophilic temperature was butyric acid type.Vascular bundle,parenchyma cells and pit in the Spartina alterniflora were benefit for the anaerobic digestion.The vascular bundle structure of digested Spartina alterniflora was destroyed seriously while the cortex and parenchyma cells were not affected by anaerobic microorganisms.FTIR and XRD indicated that the anaerobic microorganisms not only utilized easily biodegradable substrates but also destroyed the crystalline of cellulous,and the relative lignin content increased.


Digital filtering techniques have been combined with a scanning electron microscope to provide noise free, TV rate stereo images over the full magnification range of the SEM, giving a qualitative pseudo 3-D representation of the sample surface. In this paper, a development of this technique will be described which permits quantitative measurement of a surface in 3 dimensions. Image correlation techniques have been derived which, when coupled with the lens controls of the SEM in the form of a feedback loop, permit automatic profiling of small structures. The technique has potential applications to a range of integrated circuit inspection techniques including resist profiling and critical dimension measurements.


In this work, the neutral Higgs boson pair production is analyzed at Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) to be operating at center of mass energies $\sqrt{s}$=1400 GeV (stage 2) and $\sqrt{s}$=3000 GeV (stage 3). The Higgs bosons to be searched for are neutral CP-even (H) and CP-odd (A) within the framework of two Higgs doublet model (2HDM) in the mass range 300<mH/A<1000 GeV. All types of the CP-conserving model are studied and the signal observability is evaluated taking into account the main SM background processes like ZZ, tt and the SM-like Higgs boson associated production (hZ). Results are presented for a set of model parameters and Higgs boson masses in terms of signal distributions over the background as well as the integrated luminosity needed for 5{\sigma} discovery. It is shown that the heavy mass region is well observable at CLIC in types 3 (flipped) and 4 (lepton-specific) in the regions not excluded by LHC so far, while in type 1 the signal observation is challenging due to the large jet multiplicity in the tt final state.


The relationship between transport and economic development has been studied for years. In Brazil, especially in the Amazon Region, such matter began being studied in the 70's, when several plans and projects for economic development were created. However, due to factors like the incompatibility between the proposed models of transportation planning and territorial planning, the expected results were never achieved. Since the decision makers focused on territorial occupation of Amazon Region not concerning with transportation planning models that explore the natural resources available, such as the great rivers. In that view, this paper sets out to devise a multimodal cargo transportation network that enables goods to be efficiently conveyed within a region. This network was developed using the natural resources available in the area. The proposed network aims at stimulating regional economic growth and development based on the Growth and Development Poles Theory and Graph Theory, which are both commonly used in network transportation studies. As a result, three networks were devised. Each network describes a different scenario – status quo, government investment in transportation infrastructure and a strategic one. Furthermore, these networks were devised and analyzed regarding their operational transport costs and spatial configuration.


Summary Serum from female rats plateaued while on treatment with a GH-containing extract (after reaching 2.4 times normal adult female size) was ineffective in attenuating GH response of previously uninjected assay rats.


Molasses can be a source of quick energy and an excellent source of minerals for farm animals and even chickens. Molasses can also be a key ingredient for cost effective management of feeds. The purpose of this research was to study the impact of adding different levels of sugar beet molasses to feed on performance of broilers chickens. Used 112 of commercial broiler (Ross 308) l-day-old chicks were weighed in gram live weight ranged between 50-57g and subsequently placed in the treatment groups in such a way that the mean weights differed as little as possible, chicks divided into four groups replicates of 7 chicks each and reared on deep litter in open housing system. Four replicates were designed to each dietary treatment. at 15-days-old chicks, the unsexed broiler chickens were randomly allotted to four groups of 7 birds each. The four diets consisted of Group (A) as a control diet containing no Molasses, Group (B) was 5 %, Group (C) 7.5 % and Group (D)10%. Feed and water were provided ad libitum. There were no significant differences at all level (P>0.05) of adding beet molasses as source of energy among four experimental groups for the parameter studied: body weight, body weight gain, feed intake and feed conversion, also there is no mortality however, Use of beet molasses in broiler diets reduced feed cost and feeding of 7.5 % beet molasses decreased cost of feed per kg versus control and increase profitability.


Multicultural coexistence (tabunka kyōse) in Japan is as complicated as its definition. On the one hand, it is regarded as a challenge to the coherence of national identity that sustains the popular image of ethnic homogeneity in Japan; on the other hand, it has been considered a retrogressive force that destabilizes civic solidarity needed for the development of responsible citizens. After describing the multicultural policies proposed by local governments in Japan that have facilitated multicultural coexistence, this article critically reviews the policies' relevance as a viable democratic practice for foreign residents and warns against the dangers of exclusion and assimilation when multicultural policies are driven by local citizens without a regulative principle. Then, this article presents "reciprocal nondomination" as a regulative principle that prevents the practice of multicultural coexistence from leading to regressive consequences and provides a ground for democratic deliberation on various ethnic differences.


Given a 5-critical graph G, for every edge e = uv in G there is a 4-chromatic 5-subcritical graph H = G – e with a color identical pair {u, v}. If H is non-planar so is G, but otherwise the only structure that can induce a color identity and keep things on the plane, is a color fixation chain of vertices and cycles, where u and v are separated by a cycle. So even if H is planar, the edge e, which joins u and v in G, must cross the cycle that separates them, making G non-planar. Francis Guthrie put forth the Four Color Problem sometime around 1850: "Can the areas on any map be colored with at most four colors such that no pair of neighboring areas get the same color?" Guthrie had drawn a map of four areas all bordering on each other, where four colors are required, but where also one area is enclosed by the three others and thus secluded from any added area, which could then be given the same color as the secluded one. We can call this The Principle of the Seclusion of the Fourth Color (allthough Francis probably did not use those words himself). From this he tried to prove that four colors actually do suffice, but as Francis' older brother Frederick notes 30 years later: "The proof which my brother gave did not seem altogether satisfactory to himself." Nevertheless, in spite of Francis' misgivings, we think he was on to something. Figure 1 The dual of Francis' map is the k-complete graph, which is the smallest 4-critical graph.


Aim: To assess the canal transportation and centering ability of different retreatment rotary files with the help of cone beam computed tomography (CBCT). Materials and Methods: Forty single-rooted human mandibular premolars with mean curvature of less than 20° apically were selected. Root canal preparation was done until size F2 (ProTaper Universal, Dentsply Sirona, Swiss), obturated using AH Plus resin-based sealer, and randomly divided into two groups. Hyflex Remover files and Solite RS3 retreatment files (Solite Dental, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) were used to remove root canal fillings, and CBCT scan was done to analyze the canal centering and transportation ratio. The data obtained were tabulated and evaluated using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software program, version 23.0 (IBM, Chicago, Illinois). Results: Between the two groups, a statistically significant difference was seen in the mesiodistal and buccolingual direction in relation to canal centering ability (P < 0.05, significant). Moreover, no significant difference was evident for canal transportation. Conclusion: It was noticed that both retreatment systems produced some deviation from the root canal curvature in mandibular premolars with regard to canal transportation capabilities. However, SoliteRS3 heat-treated retreatment group had clinically acceptable canal centering ratio values after the root canal filling material has been removed.


Infants with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) are at increased risk for bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and BPD‐associated pulmonary hypertension (PH), but this remains poorly understood. NADPH‐oxidase (Nox) have been implicated as a source of oxidative stress in both BPD and PH by others. More recently, oxidative stress has been proposed to be increased in IUGR pregnancies.


The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services throughout the world. Without Internet finding a particular thing, or get details of those things is not possible. In this project the system focused on accessing the data efficiently through offline or online. In addition of this project the proposed system developed an algorithm to differentiate static and dynamic data. It is called prediction of dynamic data algorithm. This project aims to quick access of data and other information. The System Proposals implement this project in android application. With the help of Sqlite Database we store and retrieve the data in the Mobile Application. Sqlite Database is a relational database management system; it is self-contained and most widely deployed Sql database engine in the world. In this project there is no need of internet connectivity if the data is stored in local database. Charge in the device consumes less when compared to the usage of existing system. There is no need for user has to login in the mobile application, it is optional only. It provides Security from the malware content. Thus the data will be secure and protect from viruses.


Abstract Works on architecture design industry has increased gradually over the past years. However, while some papers are available on qualitative approach, little information is available on quantitative strategy. Thus, this work used the multidimensional causality modeling to consider the differences among different architecture design industry segments. Overall, the results showed that the industry strength closely related to the industry structure, and that the vertical disintegration closely related to the geography concentration. Thus, this work suggests that different architecture design industry segments should move towards the high industry structure. In detail, enhance the geography industry cluster, and improve the vertical disintegration and market concentration may help promote the overall competitive advantage of architecture design industry.


"The Asia-Ford Foundation Event" was one of the most important debate on China studies in Japan. Triggered by US Ford Foundation's large amount of research grant, the event created heated discussion over academic ethics and "subjectivity of research" in Japan's academic community, and made academic community divided over China's Cultural Revolution. The main issues included researcher's social responsibility. Asian/African/Latin American development approach, and critiques on area studies in the US. This paper attempts to explain how Japanese academic community accepts "western (especially American) research methods" and three aspects will he addressed, which include "scientific principle" in Epistemology, "area study" in methodology, and "Western model" in modernizing process.


We give a geometrical criterion to determine when a quaternion algebra over the function field of a stable elliptic surface X is an Azumaya algebra over X.


Individual well-being and self-esteem related to appearance of patients with multiple seborrheic keratoses (MSK), as well asan original strategy for complete removal of all lesions with CO2 laser are discussed. Presented are examples from our dermatological practice illustrating negative psycho-social impact of multiple SK on individual well-being. Seborrheic keratosis is considered a widespread dermatosis, as well as a cosmetic issue for its presence creates an overall impression of prematurely aged, and a "shabby" looking skin. Individuals with multiple SK often suffer low self-esteem in terms of their appearance which may improve after the aesthetic CO2 laser complete elimination of MSK lesions.


In this paper a novel approach for evolving fuzzy identification of nonlinear Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) dynamic systems, is proposed. The adopted methodology is based on state space multivariable Hammerstein models, in which, the static nonlinearity block is approximated by an evolving Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy inference system and the linear dynamic block is represented by a state space linear model obtained through a Recursive Eigensystem Realization Algorithm (RERA). Computational and experimental results from the online identification of a multivariable dynamic system with a complex combined nonlinearity and an Evaporator Process with threeinput and three-output, which are benchmarks widely cited in the literature, illustrate the efficiency and applicability of the proposed approach.


The invention relates to a new method for power level control of a display device and an apparatus for carrying out the method. Classically, the contrast/brightness control and the power management (based on an average power level control) are made independently. These two controls can be contradictory. According to the invention, the power level mode and more particularly the number of Sustain pulses within the video frame is selected as a function of the average power level (APL) of the picture to be displayed and the picture control signal representing the desired contrast and/or brightness value.