In the present article authors stated results of the analysis of interrelations in system of economic security of Russia which open interconditionality of structural, institutional and social processes and the phenomena in the Russian economy from the point of view of influence of the revealed deformations on national economic security, proved that economy through structural and institutional disproportions doesn't only influence social structure of the Russian society shown, first of all, in the growing property differentiation, but also comes under the return influence undermining bases of economic security of the state. The main manifestations of such strengthening feedback are: low level of the income is the enemy of technical progress as excess employment at the low level of compensation stimulates labor-consuming technologies; the low wage is one of the main prerequisites of a degeneration of the whole social groups and their reproduction in expanded scales; low level of compensation squeezes purchasing power of the population, and, therefore, and a consumer component of cumulative domestic demand; low compensation in unity with an assessment of uncivilized and unfair privatization and crime as primary source of property, demotivates work, generates mass labor opportunism which also reduces labor productivity; social contradictions which get antagonism signs become aggravated. Authors come to a conclusion that it is possible to overcome poverty only in case if there are high-quality changes in the distributive relations which will eradicate rent-seeking behavior as the system phenomenon and a subject basis of structural and institutional deformation of system of national economic security.


During election campaigns, parties attack each other's nonideological traits such as competence and integrity. However, it is unclear to what extent valence attacks reduce voter support for the target party. Drawing from theories on left-right personality and associated cognitive flexibility, we argue that valence attacks harm the electoral performance of leftist but not rightist parties. The relative openness of leftist voters makes them more willing to accept negative information about their party and act on it. In contrast, the relative closedness of rightist voters makes them less likely to reconsider their political preferences in the face of negative information. We find robust evidence for our argument at the aggregate and individual levels, using original data on media coverage of party campaigns in 10 European countries. We also provide experimental evidence in support of our argument. The findings have important implications for research on nonideological rhetoric in party competition.


Sediments are the main enrichment of heavy metals in water.Risk assessment of heavy metals in sediments is an effective means to understand the pollution status of heavy metals in water.Moreover,it provides a decision making basis for water management departments.This paper analyzes the study object and the assessment criterion of risk assessment of heavy metals in water body sediments.It also summarizes several assessment methods commonly adopted at home and abroad.The risk assessment is conducted mainly in lakes,rivers,reservoirs,and seas.The risk of heavy metal pollution is found more in lakes and rivers than in reservoirs and seas.Heavy metals for risk assessment are Hg,Cd,Cr,Pb,Mn,Cu,Zn,Ni,Co,and As.More than 90% of the water body sediments in the risk assessment of heavy metals comprised Cu,Zn,and Pb.These heavy metal pollutants are the most extensive,followed by Cd,As,and Cr.The risk of heavy metal W is not taken seriously.The assessment indexes of risk assessment include content,fraction distribution,and spatial distribution.The content of heavy metals is the main assessment index,followed by the spatial distribution characteristics of heavy metals.Analysis on speciation distribution of heavy metals is minimal.The assessment criteria in China are not perfect,and choices of criteria are diverse.The appropriate assessment criteria should be selected according to the assessment purpose and water body condition.Several assessment methods commonly adopted at home and abroad are geoaccumulation index method,enrichment factor method,sediment quality standard method,potential ecological risk index method,pollution load index method,Nemerow index method,and the ratio of secondary and primary phases.The advantages and disadvantages each of these methodsare analyzed.Biological effectiveness is not considered in geoaccumulation index method,enrichment factor method,pollution load index method,and Nemerow index method.The potential ecological risk index method takes into account biological toxicology and ecology; however,shortcomings are also found.This paper emphasizes that research on the health risk assessment of toxicity of heavy metals in sediments is minimal.The normalization method and principle of different toxicity data need to be further researched.


A study to estimate the kill rate of wolves on moose was initiated in eastern interior Alaska. This study is the first to examine kill rates in a system with such a low prey density (0.08 moose/km) and the presence of only a single prey species. Wolves were radio tracked daily during early February and March to locate kills. The estimated kill rate was 0.019 moose/wolf/day (95% CI: 0.011-0.028). This estimate was intermediary relative to previous work. The management implications of this result are discussed.


The question of whether U.S. employment discrimination laws apply to international employers is complex and involves multiple sources of legal authority including U.S. statutes, international treaties, and the laws of non-American host countries. This article provides detailed and simplifying guidance to assist employers in working through that complexity. Based on an examination of 98 federal courts cases, this article identifies and explains 8 general guidelines for determining when U.S. laws apply to international employers (e.g., U.S. employees working abroad or "foreign" employees working in the United States). These guidelines are incorporated into an organizing framework or "decision tree" that leads employers through the various decisions that must be made to determine whether U.S. discrimination laws apply in a wide range of international employment situations. Guidance for industrial and organizational (I-O) psychologists who advise international employers is provided and summarized in terms of general recommendations and conclusions.


Human face is a part of cranium that commonly called viscerocranium. Post partum period, facial growth takes in to three directions namely transverse, vertical and sagital (anteroposterior). At the time of cranial base grew into the anterior, facial bones grew into the anterior and inferior. This growth was closely related to ,the maxillary and mandibulary growth. Sagittal growth, the most intensive occurred before and during the eruption of permanent molars. There was no significant correlation between growth pattern widths at the maxillary sutura mediana with maxillary sutura height supporters. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between anteroposterior and vertical facial growth in Javanese school-age children in good nutritional status.
Analytical observational research based on cross sectional research design was done on 112 children from four elementary schools at Tamantirto Kasihan Bantul. The subjects were divided into 14 groups according to their age and sex and each group consisted of 8 children. All of subjects performed an Xray photographs sefalometri.Measurements included SNA, SNB, SN-Mxpl, FHP-Mnpl,Mxpl-Mnpl. Data were analyzed by Spearman correlation.
The results showed a strong negative relationship between SNA and SN-Mxpl in boys ages 6 years old (r=- 0,857), 9 years (r=-0,857), 10 years (r=-0,743), and in girls 12 years (r=-0,81). There is a strong negative relationship between SNA and FHP-Mnpl in boys 7 years old (r=0,831) as well as 11 years old girls (r=-0,738) and 12 years old girls (r=-0,755). There is a verry strong negative relationship between SNB and SN-Mxpl in boys age 6 years (r=-0,934) and a strong negative relationship in boys 9 years (r=-0,857), and in girls age 12 years (r=-0,762). There is a strong negative relationship between SNB and FHP-Mnpl in girls age 6 years (r=-0,849) and 10years (r=-0,79). It was concluded that there was a negative relationship between anteroposterior and vertical facial growth in Javanese children of school age in good nutritional status.


Adverse drug reactions are common in children, but true drug allergy is rare. It can be difficult to determine whether signs such as skin rashes are caused by the underlying illness or medications prescribed. Accurate diagnosis is important for patient safety and optimal treatment. We review the presentation of drug allergy and discuss current management options for children.


Wnt /β-catenin signaling pathway plays an important role in maintaining the balance of bone tissues,which is primarily realized through the regulation of 3 types of inhibitors: sclerostin,dickkopfs( DKKs),and secreted frizzled-related proteins( SFRPs). Moreover,the pathway-targeted drugs that promoting the bone formation,such as sclerostin monoclonal antibody( AMG785) and DKK1 monoclonal antibody( RH2-18),are in animal and Phase Ⅲ clinical trials. This article review s the structure and distribution of Wnt / β-catenin signaling pathw ay,its function and mechanism in bone metabolism,and the researches of pathw aytargeted drugs.


Success in new product development (NPD) depends, among other things, on how the NPD process is organized. Key issues are strategy and planning, internal information flow and communication, and external communication with suppliers. Recent work proposes that companies can take advantage of cultural characteristics by locating different stages of NPD in countries where culture is conducive to the sorts of tasks needed for each stage. However, NPD in a mixed cultural context (such as partnerships or joint ventures) may work differently compared to a homogenous cultural setting. We look NPD in the food processing industry in Thailand. In purely Thai companies, internal information flow and communication is the key element distinguishing success in the NPD process. Strategy and planning and supplier linkages do not help discriminate low from high success rates. Where foreign influence brings a mixed cultural context, internal communication no longer influences success rates, but strategy and planning become the key element.


The Probabilistic Data Association (PDA) problem involves identifying correspondences between items over data sequences on the basis of similarity functions. PDA has long been a topic of interest in many application areas such as real-time tracking and surveillance. Despite its significance, however, it has largely been ignored by the event-processing community. Our work rectifies this situation by studying PDA in the context of continuous event processing. Specifically, we formulate PDA as a continuous probabilistic ranking problem with constraints and efficiently solve it using fast constraint resolution. Our solutions are built on a top-k approximation to the problem guided by resource-aware optimization techniques that adaptively utilize the available resources to produce real-time results. User-defined data association constraints are used to restrict the solution space and quickly eliminate inconsistent solution candidates. We also derive the runtime complexity of our solutions and experimentally evaluate these solutions using a prime PDA application: real-time tracking of moving objects within a camera network. Our evaluation results demonstrate the superiority of our solutions over traditional constraint programming formulations.


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There is an increasing interest in peer and self-assessment (P&SA) in science education due its importance in students' performance in collaborative work and in the development of their metacognitive skills. We developed and tested an algorithm to help teachers organize the P&SA process. Collected data relative to the 8th and 11th grades were analyzed to examine the viability of this algorithm and to determine the degree of agreement between a student's self-assessment and that of his/her peers. We found no significant differences between peer and self-assessment, which means that students have a fair perception of their contribution to the team. The data also suggest that the maturity of the students can be an important variable in the self-regulation learning and in metacognitive skills acquisition, since the correlation between self and peer assessment was more robust in the 11th grade.


The urbanization process which is endorsed with globalization factor has directed to the increase of clashes between a planned space development and an unplanned organic space development. The problem may lead the emerged socio-spatial effects as a result of the succession and segregation of urban space. A kampong Kuningan, an evidence of city's development in Mega Kuningan business-area Jakarta showed no fully condemnation of the kampong. Even there are still several elements of the kampong space accommodated in the modern area. The objective of study is to comprehend the survival of kampong Kuningan amidst the effect of the urban development process.This study is conducted in three stages namely; to identify the urban development process, to analyze the kampong Kuningan spaces contribution in building survival, to extend the meaning of kampong survival in the context of urban space development knowledge. This study uses a qualitative approach based on naturalistic paradigm relying on field phenomenon analyzed inductively. The result shows that, the kampong is able to adjust to the urban development process. The survival grows from togetherness values, ability, tradition, and religiosity of its kampong residents, as a result of the people interaction with its space, activity necessity, and socio-cultural experience.


This paper is devoted to problem of face localization in color images, more particularly, to the task of grouping pixels with high skin probability to form possible face candidate regions. Using connected components analysis for pixels grouping has a significant drawback, for the noise of skin color detection and non-face skin-colored objects can form connected regions of skin pixels with vividly not face-like shape. Two methods for extracting ellipse-shaped skin regions are described, both capable of successfully finding faces on images with considerable noise and in presence of other skin-colored objects.


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The Atacama Large Millimetre Array will be a single research instrument composed of up to 50 high precision antennas, located at the Chajnantor plain in the district of San Pedro de Atacama, 5000m above sea level. Each ALMA telescope will contain 10 frequency channels/bands, ranging from 30 to 950GHz. Radiation from the secondary reflector is collected to the receivers of each wavelength channel through their accompanying front end optics. We present a full electromagnetic treatment of the front end optics for band 5 (163 - 211 GHz) and band 9 (602 - 720 GHz). A full quasi optical and physical optics analysis of the band 5 front end optics, using the antenna analysis tool, GRASP9 [1] is presented. Potential optimisation for the system is presented, namely a reflector edge taper and a comparison of two surface geometries. A similar analysis of the band 9 system is presented. Full electromagnetic simulations are compared with cold beam pattern measurements made at the Space Research Organisation of the Netherlands [2, 3]. Analysis of the effect of the polarizing grid is presented, with suggested modifications to improve cross polar levels.


The Sibayak geothermal field is located in the Singkut caldera. Exploration surveys conducted at the field since 1989 indicated at least 4.5 km of prospective reservoir area. Geologically, the field consists of altered volcanic rocks in the shallow zone from the surface down to about 1150 m depth and meta-sedimentary rocks in the deeper zone. Main water loss zones of high temperature are present at the boundary of these zones and extend along fault systems. A conceptual reservoir model of Sibayak is proposed using data from ten exploration wells; high temperature fluid flows up in a zone beneath Mt. Sibayak and flows laterally southeast toward the caldera rim. A numerical simulation of the natural state of Sibayak was carried out. The simulated results successfully explained both the fluid flow pattern of the conceptual model and measured temperatures in wells.


During the early postnatal period in the hamster, the retinal ganglion cell layer grows, establishes its central connections, and undergoes substantial cell loss. In this study, we describe the development of the retinal ganglion cell layer with particular attention to the creation of local specializations in cell density. Changes in the number and spatial distribution of cells identified by a single 3H thymidine injection were examined through the period of maximal cell loss (postnatal days 4–10) and at adulthood.


Systems containing the ideal kagome lattice can exhibit several distinct and novel exotic states of matter. One example of such systems is a recently discovered $A$V$_{3}$Sb$_{5}$ ($A$ = K, Rb, and Cs) family of compounds. Here, the coexistence of the charge density wave (CDW) and superconductivity is observed. In this paper, we study the dynamic properties of the $A$V$_{3}$Sb$_{5}$ systems in context of origin of the CDW phase. We show and discuss the structural phase transition from $P6/mmm$ to $C2/m$ symmetry that are induced by the presence of phonon soft modes. We conclude that the CDW observed in this family of compounds is a consequence of the atom displacement, from the high symmetry position of the kagome net, in low-temperature phase. Additionally, using the numerical {\it ab initio} methods, we discuss the charge distribution on the $A$V$_{3}$Sb$_{5}$ surface. We show that the observed experimental %$4\times 1$ stripe-like modulation of the surface, can be related to surface reconstruction and manifestation of the three dimensional $2 \times 2 \times 2$ bulk CDW. Finally, the consequence of realization of the $C2/m$ structure on the electronic properties are discussed. We show that the electronic band structure reconstruction and the accompanying modification of density of states correspond well to the experimental data.


With the proliferation of virtual product experience (VPE) applications on social network sites, investigations into the effects of VPE on consumer responses are becoming more important. The purpose of this research is therefore to expand the findings of previous studies by comparing the advertisement effects from mere virtual presence with product experience (MVPE) with those from social virtual product experience (SVPE). We employ two moderators (imagery instructions and imagery-processing models) to analyze various VPE types and advertisement effects and design a factorial online experimental design to validate the research model and hypotheses. Of the 504 total participants recruited for this experiment, study 1 first examines a sample of 310 participants to compare different VPE types on Facebook, while study 2 looks at a sample of 194 participants by assessing Facebook and Pinterest social media platforms. This study finds that different imagery instruction and imagery-processing models' moderators help determine the 1 Corresponding author: Yu-Hsin Chen, Department of International Business, Shih Chien University. Email: email@example.com. The authors thank the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China, Taiwan for financially supporting this research under Contract NO. 102-2410-H-027-013-MY2. DOI: 10.3966/102873102021064101001 2 The influence of different virtual product experience types on advertising effect: Imagery instructions and imagery-processing model as moderators influences that different combinations of VPE types and social media platforms have on advertisement effects. Therefore, businesses can target to improve their community management by periodically posting advertisements on social media platforms using multimedia or text that trigger mental imagery.


Since the dawn of organized human thought theologians and philosophers have monopolized formulation of the attitudes of man toward the universe of which he is a particle, and only in receiit times have social thinkers and scientists asserted their claim to be taken seriously as viewers of the world. Aside from the general shift in emphasis from speculative to empirical thought to which this change points, the eagerness of the sociologists, psychologists, historians and scientists to advance systems of philosophy has resulted in an extraordinary multiplication of world outlooks. Faced with this embarrassment of riches, the flabbergasted common man must have a difficult time of deciding between all the world-outlooks of which he has the choice from the Christian to the Existentialist and like Buridan's ass, he may die without having as much as tasted of one of them.


The article focuses on R. Steiner's perception of the Gospels and the impact of that view on Bely's works. The latter had always valued Steiner's lectures on Christ and the Fifth Gospel, the "Anthroposophic" (relating to the philosophy of human genesis, existence, and outcome) Gospel, the knowledge of which had been received in a visionary way. In addition, Bely was an esoteric follower of Steiner and often quoted from Apostle Paul's 2 Corinthians, "Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men". The citation occurs in Bely's philosophical works (The History of the Formation of the Self-Conscious Soul, "Crisis of Consciousness"), autobiographic prose (Reminiscences of Steiner), the essay "Why I Became a Symbolist…", and letters (to Ivanov-Razumnik and Fedor Gladkov). Bely's own anthroposophic and esoteric ideas relating to the gospel sayings are also examined. The aim of the research is to show through the example of one quotation the specifics of Bely the Anthroposophist's perception of Christian texts in general. This provides a methodological meaning for understanding other Biblical quotations and images in the works of Bely because anthroposophical Christology is also the key to their deciphering.


The objective of the present study was to investigate the polymorphism in 5′ non-coding region of growth hormone receptor (GHR) gene in Sahiwal (n = 53) and Hariana (n = 50) cattle using NsiI/PCR-RFLP assay. Amplification of DNA sample revealed 302bp product using specific primer pairs and digested by using NsiI restriction enzyme. All the screened animals were found monomorphic in nature for GHR/NsiI polymorphism. It revealed that only one type of uncut banding pattern (AA genotype); which was of 302bp. We could not identify any animal with GG and AG genotypes. Consequently, we could not perform association studies with milk production traits.


Future space exploration missions will include robotic assistants in humanhabitable vehicles that perform complex tasks in logistics, vehicle maintenance, science experiments, and to respond to safety-threatening events. Such robotic systems will require the integration of deliberative behaviors such as task planning with reactive behaviors like perception and motion control. Such capabilities require the combination of expressive languages for generating and executing plans, with robust strategies for executing plans in a changing world. This paper describes a technology demonstration project involving robotic arm manipulation tasks using a science scenario inspired by bio-medical research performed on the International Space Station (ISS). The work described here significantly expands previous work performed by the same team (Azimi, Zemler, and Morris 2019) by adding capabilities in goal management, execution monitoring, and re-


~~ULTIPLEI discriminant analysis is not primarily an experimental design. The answer to the basic question of the discriminating power of the test battery is obtained by an analysis, involving a maximum likelihood ratio criterion, which is not an integral part of discriminant analysis, and which should logically precede the computation of discriminant functions. The discriminant analysis may suggest to the researcher the underlying dimensionality of a predictor space and the relative contributions of different predictors. It has its primary utility, however, as a classification scheme. The test of the discriminating power of the battery, which is the test of H2 : p1 = p2 = . . . = pg assuming HI : A1 = A2 = . . . = Ag, where the p's are population centroids for the g groups and


Abstract 980 Poster Board I-2 Introduction: Materno-fetal transmission of malignant clone is one of the rare causes of leukemia in infants. It has been recorded some 20 times over the past 100 years but definitive, genetic evidence for a maternal origin has been lacking. Here we present a detailed genetic analysis of materno-fetal transmission in a case with p190 type BCR-ABL leukemia. Patients course: A mother was found to have p190 type BCR-ABL positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) one month after delivery of a baby, and died during induction therapy by uncontrolled bacillus cereus encephalitis. Her baby developed p190 type BCR-ABL positive B-precursor lymphoblastic lymphoma (B-LBL stage3 jaw tumor and pleural effusion) at 11-month old. Non-Hodgkin9s lymphoma type chemotherapy according to Japanese Pediatric Leukemia/Lymphoma Study Group (JPLSG) ALB-NHL03, followed by Hyper-CVAD imatinib therapy without stem cell transplantation were given to her, leading to complete remission for more than 31 months. Material and methods: We first cloned the BCR-ABL genomic breakpoint region from the infant9s pleural effusion (PE). The breakpoint was designated as a fusion between BCR intron 1 and ABL intron1. Then, We conducted Q-PCR by using BCR-ABL genomic breakpoint specific primer and sequencing. Fifteen polymorphic STR markers were amplified in the paternal blood DNA and Patient9s PE and PB DNA samples using the Powerplex-16 system. HLA serotyping was by microdroplet lymphocyte cytotoxity. Genotyping was carried out using a reversed SSO HLA DNA typing method. The infant jaw tumor was further analyzed by Affymetrix high resolusion (250K) SNP arrays. Results: Short tandem repeat profiles indicated that the infant jaw tumor was, unambiguously, of maternal origin. Amplification of BCR-ABL genomic breakpoints on maternal leukemic cells and infant lymphoma cells revealed that these leukemia clones shared the same unique BCR-ABL genomic sequence, indicating a shared, single cell origin. Positivity of BCR-ABL specific PCR on Guthrie card blood spot also indicated that the leukemic clone was present in the blood at birth. Additionally the infant, maternal-derived leukemic cells had uniparental disomy of chromosome 6p with a deletion of non-inherited maternal MHC allele (NIMA), suggesting a mechanism for immune evasion in the baby. Conclusions: This is the first case with definite evidence of in utero materno-fetal transmission of mother9s leukemic cells. This case also suggests that materno-feto transfer of leukemic cells is more common than as reflected in the frequency of clinically diagnosed cases, where the immuno-surveillance, predominantly directed against major HLA locus antigens, may be the principal constraint. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


In this article, the liquid-solid interface solidification stability of dilute binary alloy systems during unidirectional (z) solidification was investigated. A new quantitative approach is proposed with (z-δ) as a variable to solve the equation of solute diffusion in the liquid, where δ is the real diffusion layer thickness.


Abstract The article describes the main performances of the global coal industry, as well as key occupational safety and health indicators (OSH indicators) of the coal mining industry of the Russian Federation. The main goal of the article is to present the results of research of potential utilisation of the Elmeri observation method in order to evaluate safety levels at underground coal mines. The investigation performed taking into consideration two root causes of the occupational traumatism (methane and/or dust explosions, as well as rock falls) has demonstrated good correlation between the calculated values of the safety index and results of the risk assessments at the same underground coal mine under consideration. In addition, the article includes a brief discussion of advantages and restrictions in respect of utilisation of the safety index as the OSH monitoring tool at coal mines.


Vocational education with its own type of features which can not be replaced,different from general education.At present,institutions of higher vocational curriculum reform is imperative,and "advanced mathematics" without exception.However,this traditional foundation courses " advanced mathematics",if only change the teaching materials and teaching methods,can not achieve substantive and tremendous changes.Only by changing the concepts,researching the difference between vocational education and general education,with action-oriented thinking as the direction,carrying out subversive changes,and completely breaking through traditional teaching methods,can me achieve substantive reform.


In preparation for a surfactant/polymer project in Tract 97 of the North Burbank Unit, Osage County, Oklahoma, a comprehensive reservoir study was conducted. Phillips, as unit operator for a total of 17 working interest owners, is conducting the pilot under a grant of the US Department of Energy. During the period from May to December 1975, cores from 18 wells in and around Tract 97 were studied, logs from 21 wells were analyzed, pressure fall-off and interference tests were conducted, and log-based oil saturations were measured. These data were supplemented by observations of fresh-water preflush breakthrough and radioactive tracer studies for several months and by study of the early waterflood behavior of the area. A geological study of the depositional environmental also was conducted. 12 references.


We present the calibration of a mobility model for a 0.25μm CMOS technology using response surface methodology. For this process several measurements for different gate lengths (0.2μm 4.0μm) were made. Care was taken to eliminate the statistical variations typical to sub-micron devices by measuring several chips on the the same wafer and taking an average sample.


Author for correspondence: Centre for Biosystems & Genomic Network Medicine – CBS.GenNetMed Ioannina University, Ioannina, Greece and Department of Surgery, Ioannina University Hospital, Ioannina University School of Medicine, Ioannina, TK 451 10, Greece Tel.: +30 265 100 7423 Fax: +30 265 100 7094 firstname.lastname@example.com Deep sequencing and integrative genome ana lysis: approaching a new class of biomarkers and therapeutic targets for breast cancer


We apply the time-dependent local-spin-density approximation to describe ground states and spin-density oscillations in the linear response regime of two-dimensional nanostructures of arbitrary shape. For this purpose, a frequency analysis of the simulated real-time evolution is performed. It is shown that the recently proposed spin-density waves in the ground state of certain parabolic quantum dots lead to the prediction of a novel class of excitations, soft spin-twist modes with energies well below that of the spin dipole oscillation.


Since ancient times, due to the influence of traditional culture and religion, the status of women is always lower than that of men, and women lack some rights that they should have. Because the body is not fully developed, and the mind is not mature, adolescent women are more vulnerable than adult women. If their security is threatened, this will affect them throughout their lives. In addition to affecting individuals, some negative effects can even affect their offspring. In order to help more adolescent girls, this article wants to research how the safety of girls is being threatened in various ways. Having found the threats to adolescent girls, this article goes on to explore the causes of these threats. In the end, this article gives some improvement measures that can help adolescent girls. The significance of this study is to provide a reference for official or unofficial organizations to protect adolescent females.


Polypeptide sequences is described for inducing a recombinant protein granules. These sequences comprise a polyproline II (PPII) Structure and ER signal sequence between the two cysteine residues at either end. Recombinant protein granules are useful for protein production because it enables easy and efficient purification of large amounts of recombinant protein. Furthermore, for example, vaccination etc., are also described other methods using recombinant protein granules.


Objective This paper is to screen out the optimal enzymatic combination diluent which is used in the production of diagnostic reagents for antibody to hepatitis C virus (HCV).It is obtained through stability contrast experiments of HCV antibody enzyme of different enzymatic combination diluent for hepatitis C virus antibody enzyme linked immunosorbent diagnostic reagent.Methods The HCV control serum was detected by HCV antibody enzyme linked immunosorbent diagnostic reagents with different enzyme combination diluent.The specific value of S/CO of specimens was tested at 4℃ when they were in the reagent box,and the value was also tested at 37℃ 3 days later.All the experimenal results were contrasted with each other.Results The enzyme combination diluent that was composed of neutral PBST(phosphate buffered saline with Tween-20) as buffer liquid and BSA(bovine serum albumin) and Casein as stability is obviously better than other reagents.Conclusions The results indicates that enzyme combination diluent is suited for the production of HCV antibody enzyme linked immunosorbent diagnostic reagents,if the enzyme combination diluent regards PBST as buffer liquid and BSA and Casein irrelated albumen as stability.


According to the coexistence theory of melted slag structure, a calculation model of mass action concentrations for CaO-Al2O3-SiO2 slag system has been established, by which the mass action concentrations of all structure units in CaO-SiO2-Al2O3 systems are calculated. The effects of Al2O3 content and slag basicity on the mass action concentrations are investigated. The results indicate that both basicity and the content of Al2O3 have remarkable effects on mass action concentrations of CaO, 2CaO•SiO2, CaO•SiO2, CaO•Al2O3 and 2CaO•SiO2•Al2O3, etc. Furthermore, the effects of Al2O3 content on mass action concentrations are relevant with slag basicity. The basicity has more influences on mass action concentrations of CaO, CaO•SiO2, 2CaO•SiO2 and 3CaO•SiO2, whereas the basicity has little effect on mass action concentrations of other structure units in CaO-SiO2-Al2O3 system.


The invention discloses a clean room system with a dust-free area defined therein. The clean room system comprises an air return port and a cleaning unit, wherein the air in the dust-free area flows out through the air return port to define an air return path; the air flows in the dust-free area after being cleaned by the cleaning unit so as to define an air intake path; a fan coil unit is arranged in the air return path. According to the clean room system provided by the invention, the air return coil is arranged in the air return path, and stronger air return power can be provided to the air flowing out from the dust-free area, so that the air return effect is optimized, and the working reliability of the clean room system is ensured.


Since the introduction of the Crede procedure for preventing ophthalmia neonatorum with silver nitrate, antibiotics have become available which are more effective than silver nitrate against both gonorrheal and other ocular infections common in the newborn infant. The changing pattern of maternal infection since the advent of sulfonamides and penicillin has resulted in many localities in a reduction of gonorrheal infection with a relative increase in other pathogens. These changes are reflected in the kinds of ocular infections now seen in newborn infants. Staphylococcus species are now the commonest invaders, along with diphtheroid bacilli and coliform organisms, and at least two recent reports1,2fail to mention gonococci among the pathogens detected. Penicillin and other antibiotics1,3-5have been shown to be adequate substitutes for silver nitrate, but the ability of penicillin to evoke sensitization reactions limits its value as a topical agent.6In view of the diversity of


This study was designed to evaluate the effect of ractopamine on finishing pigs fed two levels of total lysine (0.81% vs. 1.11%) with and without ractopamine (0 vs. 10 ppm) in a two-way factorial arrangement. Three hundred and twenty crossbred barrows and gilts with body weight of 971.12 kg housed in an environmentally controlled facility were blocked and randomly allotted to the four dietary treatments. Pigs' weight and feed intake were recorded weekly until the average of the pen reached 115-kg body weight. Ractopamine significantly promoted growth rate (965 vs. 1110 g/day, S.E. =23.3, P<0.01) and improved Gain: Feed ratio (0.28 vs. 0.33, S.E. =0.0067, P<0.01). The improvement in growth rate by ractopamine was 133% higher at high lysine level than low lysine level. In addition, the improvement by ractopamine on growth rate decreased with time (1158 vs. 1441 g/day in week 1, 946 vs 1050 g/day in week 2 and 791 vs 839 g/day in week 3, S.E. =40.3, P=0.014). Average backfat depth was reduced by ractopamine supplementation only when high lysine diet was fed (0.76 vs 0.79 cm at 0.81% lysine and 0.80 vs 0.70 at 1.11% lysine, S.E. =0.025, P<0.01). Average loin depth was significantly increased by the addition of ractopamine (2.79 vs 2.90 cm, S.E. =0.021, P<0.01). Increased lean muscle percentage by ractopamine was only observed in high lysine group (55.2% vs 55.4% at 0.81% lysine and 55.1% vs 56.3% at 1.11% lysine, s.e. =0.22, P=0.026), whereas dressing percentage was significantly increased by ractopamine only in low lysine group (73.7% vs 75.6% at 0.81% lysine and 74.2% vs 74.6% at 1.11% lysine, s.e. =0.31, P=0.021). In conclusion, ractopamine improved growth performance and carcass characteristics in pigs fed the high lysine diet and increased dressing percentage in finishing pigs fed low lysine diet.


The fault diagnosis and protection of motor are the hot and difficult problems which are considered by academy and engineering.In this article,the technology of 80C196 MCU and symmetrical theory are applied to design and fulfill a new kind of micro-processor protective device for asynchronous motor.Compared with the traditional protective device,the fault diagnosis technology is applied in the motor terminal monitoring unit with the functions of measurement, diagnosis,protection,control and communication.


Plants' tolerance to stresses, particularly abiotic, is an important area of research, particularly in agriculture. Here, we studied the combined effect of excess boron (B) and salinity on three wheat varieties viz., KRL 35, KRL 210 and HD 2009. Root samples were collected 20 days after imposing different treatments, namely Control, 50 and 100 ppm B + 60 mM NaCl, respectively; and 50 and 100 ppm B + 100 mM NaCl, respectively in a hydroponic system. Results indicated that length, fresh and dry weight of root and shoot consistently decreased with increasing concentration of B and salt in the nutrient medium. These changes were accompanied by significant reductions in soluble sugars and proteins in roots, whereas proline content increased. The KRL 35 (salt tolerant variety) showed 5 specific polypeptides of 89.13, 53.4, 46.21, 32.35 and 31.10 kDa. Likewise, KRL 210 (moderately salt tolerant) showed de novo synthesis of 53.4 and 19.13 kDa, whereas three specific polypeptides (24.05, 19.13 and 17.52 kDa) appeared in HD 2009 (salt sensitive). Synthesis of the common polypeptide 25.12 kDa was observed with increase in stress treatments in all three varieties. Enhanced expression of 25.12 kDa proteins, particularly in the sensitive variety induced protein synthesis under excess boron and salt stress conditions. Thus, altered and enhanced expression of proteins might be responsible for the survival and growth of plants under excess B and NaCl affecting the functional capabilities of seeds in the stress environment. Appearance of new polypeptides or their disappearance might be related to the genotypic stress tolerance or sensitivity.


Soybean and other vegetable oils are conjugated by decomposing their iron tricarbonyl complexes with carbon monoxide at elevated pressures. This procedure converts the iron tricarbonyl moiety of the complex into iron pentacarbonyl, which is recovered for reuse. When iron earbonyl-complexed soybean oil is heated at 180-200C at CO pressures of 1090-3750 psi, 9097% of the complex is decomposed into Fe(CO)5 and conjugated soybean oil. At 180C and 3600 psi CO, 84% of the Fe(CO)5 is recovered, and 82% of the polyunsaturates in the oil is conjugated. At 200C and 1090 psi CO, 98% of the Fe(CO)5 is recovered, but the oil is less conjugated (75%). The studies point the way to a possibly economical process for conjugating vegetable oils by consecutive reactions with Fe (CO) and CO.


The cluster of galaxies A2256 was observed with BBXRT (Broad Band X-ray Telescope) during the Astro 1 mission with a total exposure of ∼4000 s. Moderate resolution spectra of parts of this cluster of galaxies give information complementary to the high spatial resolution observation of the same cluster by ROSAT. ROSAT spectral images (Briel et al.) have shown evidence of a merger with the northwest clump being cooler than the main cluster body. The BBXRT spectra also show an indication of a lower temperature [kT=4.6(+0.9, −0.7) keV, 90% confidence errors] in the same general area


Influenced by factors like facial features,accessories,facial outer contours are extracted by the traditional geometric active contour models and conatin depressions and result in fragmentation,etc.To address these problems,according to the characteristics of human face image,the study proposes a hybrid energy based geometric active contour model via combining the energies of contour outer tension force and skin color with the global energy.First an outwards tension force,computed by neighborhoods of contour points,is added to the contour.This force makes the curve insusceptible to the facial features and accessories,but move towards to the facial outer contour.As skin color is the major feature of a human face.Skin color energy is integrated to ensure a more robust algorithm.Finally,an improved skin tone detection model is proposed based on the single Gaussian function.It could generate initial position that are close to the real facial contour,laying a good foundation for contour evolution.The proposed method gives essentially accurate face segmentations on two public face databases.Take the manually segmentations as the ground truth,the proposed method compares favorably to both traditional global and local energy algorithms.Next a more challenging set containing 100 faces of life photos with variances in pose is introduced with illumination and backgrounds.Segmentation results have validated that the proposed method could extract outer facial contour steadily and accurately under such variances.


ABSTRACT Many aphids harbor a variety of endosymbiotic bacteria. The functions of these symbionts can range from an obligate nutritional role to a facultative role in protecting their hosts against environmental stresses. One such symbiont is "Candidatus Serratia symbiotica," which is involved in defense against heat and potentially also in aphid nutrition. Lachnid aphids have been the focus of several recent studies investigating the transition of this symbiont from a facultative symbiont to an obligate symbiont. In a phylogenetic analysis of Serratia symbionts from 51 lachnid hosts, we found that diversity in symbiont morphology, distribution, and function is due to multiple independent origins of symbiosis from ancestors belonging to Serratia and possibly also to evolution within distinct symbiont clades. Our results do not support cocladogenesis of "Ca. Serratia symbiotica" with Cinara subgenus Cinara species and weigh against an obligate nutritional role. Finally, we show that species belonging to the subfamily Lachninae have a high incidence of facultative symbiont infection.


Software product line engineering (SPLE) is an emerging approach that enables variability management in software development. SPLE offers tremendous benefits, but lack of tool support becomes a barrier in the adoption of SPLE. Variability modules for Java (VMJ) is an implementation approach that is defined based on the variability modules (VM) concept to support SPLE. VMJ combines Java modules system and design patterns that are commonly used by software developers. VMJ is accompanied by a UML profile, called UML-VM profile, which extends UML notation to model variability in the UML diagram. UML-VM diagram is used to model the problem domain, and VMJ is used in the domain implementation. In this research, we design a model transformation from Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagram into VMJ. The transformation rules are defined based on the UML-VM profile and implemented in the Eclipse Acceleo model to text transformation. As a result, a UML diagram can be transformed automatically into Java-based software product lines. The transformation tool is evaluated using a case study by comparing the generated code and the actual implementation.


The natural history and possible pathogenetic mechanisms underlying the chronic idiopathic neutropenia syndrome (CINS) were evaluated in 41 prospectively studied adult patients. The low neutrophil counts in 90% of the patients remained stable during the 6.1-yr median period of observation. Infectious complications occurred in 27% of the patients. with an enhanced susceptibility to infection being found in individuals with s500 neutrophils/cu mm. Agar-medium marrow culture techniques were utilized to assess growth potential of granulocytopoietic precursors (granulocytic colony-forming cells. CFU-GM) and intramedullary cellular production of granulocytic colony-stimulating activity (CSABM). In patients with <1000 neutrophils/cu mm adequate responsive marrow CFU-GM were present. as the incidence of these cells and their proportion in DNA synthesis were increased. In contrast. levels of CSABM were decreased. Values of CSABM reflect stimulatory influences of the marrow microenvironment. and the low levels may contribute to defective granulocytic maturation found in these neutropenic individuals. Antineutrophil opsonizing antibodies were present in serum of only 3 of 19 (16%) subjects tested. Our patients. who remain clinically stable. had a normal proportion of light density marrow CFU-GM. which helps to distinguish them from other groups of neutropenic patients with the potential for progression to leukemia or other myeloproliferative disorders.


  < < ABSTRACT The ancient Egyptians accustomed to use the travel and individualism as a metaphor for the journey of one's life, as an expression of his individual aspirations to his pursuit of goal, whether was this representation on land or sea. And the person, who exhibits unusual ways and deviates from the cultural path of Egyptian society, would face obstacles and serious difficulties; drowning, drifting, and fiasco, at the same time he will be tested by the gods, which unify and integrate him within the society and the Egyptian culture again, or leave him in the depths of darkness. Therefore, this paper aims to shed light the importance of individualism and how it used as an expression for the deviation. It also examines the relationship of the individualism with the culture, social identity, and the Egyptian self-representation. This paper also deals with the individualism which used as term for human ambitions, and its implications. Additionally, it sheds light on the issue of determinism, divine fates and impacts on the human orientations by one's traveling during his life, as opposed to the human will. Article info:  


The paper reviews the recent acquisition of a semiconductor company by United Technologies and some major changes that were made in United Aircraft's original operations. The supposition that microelectronics will eventually transform all United products is advanced and as a result, a microelectronics research center which will design and produce circuits for United's other companies is being developed. The financial status of United which includes a large expense on R D is obtained. Activities of companies such as Pratt and Whitney are studied, noting problems with the F-100 engine and the development of the JT-10D engine for the new Boeing 757.


Death-related thoughts produce different effects on thought and behavior when they are in current focal attention and when they are on the fringes of consciousness. When such thoughts are conscious, people attempt to either remove them from consciousness or push death into the distant future by distorting their beliefs to logically imply that they have many remaining years to live. When such thoughts are highly accessible but outside current focal attention, people increase efforts to view themselves as persons of value living in a meaningful universe. In this way, awareness of the inevitability of death produces diverse effects on human thought and behavior that bear little obvious resemblance to the problem of death.


Dr. Marmar in his commentary contextualizing the article by Agarwal et al . (1) has provided constructive suggestions regarding the clinical use of SDF testing (2).


Abstract Beryllium and BeCl2 were treated with trifluoromethanesulfonic acid and trimethylsilyltriflate, respectively to form beryllium triflates BeL2(OTf)2 (L=H2O, THF, nBu2O). The Be–O atomic distances (1.605–1.635 Å) between Be2+ and the triflate anions in solid state are the shortest known distances of this kind in a metal triflate yet. Attempts to remove the solvate molecules led to the decomposition of the obtained compounds.


After a brief discussion of the present state of development of pressurized water reactors, boiling water reactors, and pressurized tube reactors, the possibilities for the future development of each are then considered. The economic aspects of these reactors are indicated. (tr-auth)


In recent years, there has been an extraordinary surge of interest in achieving a greater understanding of the needs of children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome and high-functioning autism, and with this increase in attention, research has provided a range of directions with respect to treatment guidelines. However, there is also a need for empirically supported evidence that can guide parents and professionals in their choices for educational programming for this unique population. A summary of the principal conclusions that can be drawn from the current treatment efficacy research is provided along with practical issues related to navigating the intervention literature, and directions for future research in this field.


In this study,the ethanol-gasoline blend was considered to be a binary system of ethanol and hydrocarbon,and then a theoretical prediction of its saturated vapor pressure was conducted with the Wilson equation. From the analysis on the determination method of activity coefficients for each component in the binary mixture system,the saturated vapor pressure for gasoline with different ethanol blending ratios was calculated. The calculated results are in reasonable agreement with the experimental data with a maximum deviation of less than 9.5%. The relationship of fuel vapor pressure vs temperature was discussed on the basis of the results calculated,and then a fitting formula for the saturated vapor pressure was proposed. The reasonable consistency of the results obtained by experiments,calculations and predictions can be observed in the comparison.


This paper presents a model in which money and collateral are both essential and complement each other as media of exchange. The model has implications for asset prices, output, in‡ation and monetary policy, both in steady state and


In this paper, we address the problem of capacity assignment for latency-sensitive traffic in multi-service IP networks. The capacity assignment (CA) problem is formulated as an optimization problem with nonlinear constraints, where the total link capacity shares allocated to the given service are minimized subject to performance constraints in terms of endto-end delay requirements. We introduce a new extension to traditional CA problems by setting a statistical bound on the maximum end-to-end delay experienced by all packets associated with the given latency-sensitive service. For a sample IP network scenario with VoIP traffic, we show that only 3% of additional capacity as compared to the classical approach is required to keep the probability of exceeding the maximum end-to-end delay threshold below 0.1%.


This paper is focused on the development of a student academic result alert system using Short Service Message (SMS). The motivation behind the work was borne out of the numerous problems that students encounter before seeing their results. The issue of checking examination results through notice boards in anxiety has been a challenge from time immemorial. In some cases where results are posted on websites, students will have to pay for internet services to check their grades. Similarly, the privacy that should be upheld with respect to results publishing is not through public display. With these problems in mind, the authors developed a system to deliver students' results and grades through SMS using a dedicated Application Programming Interface (API). The factfinding methods employed in the work were both primary and secondary methods. Primary method involved the use of questionnaire and observation of documents, while we deployed Object Oriented Analysis and Design Methodology (OOADM) as the design methodology. The software tools used are HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), PHP (Hypertext PreProcessor) for the front-end and MYSQL for the database solution. The software developed is a highly interactive and has the capability of preventing unauthorized access or mutilation of students' results, thus maintaining data integrity. It also sends student's results directly to their phones and that of their sponsors.


Type of funding sources: Public Institution(s). Main funding source(s): This work was supported by Italian Ministry of Health, Rome, Italy (RC 2017 R659/17-CCM698).

 Tissue characterization obtained by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) has emerged as a promising tool for better identification of non ischemic cardiomyopathy patients at high arrhythmic risk and thus worthy of prophylactic ICD therapy.

 Current analysis has the scope to assess the prognostic value of fibrosis, as evaluated by late gadolinium enhancement sequences (LGE) specifically regarding its LV wall distribution, and a CMR-derived risk score. The primary endpoint was all-cause mortality. The secondary end-point consisted of major adverse arrhythmic cardiac events (MAACE), defined as combination of SCD, aborted SCD, and sustained ventricular tachycardia

 DERIVATE Study is an international, multicenter, prospective, observational registry including consecutive patients from 21 sites referred for heart failure (HF) work-up including transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) and CMR without a history of previous major ventricular arrhythmias. Inclusion criteria were: (i) aged 18 or older, (ii) chronic HF, and (iii) LV-EF<50% at initial TTE. All patients underwent TTE and CMR within 3 months. Patients with (i) decompensated within 3 months of enrollment, (ii) recent myocardial infarction (<40 days), (iii) unstable angina, (iv) severe valvular disease, (v) primary or secondary cardiomyopathies other than NICM, (vi) cardiac amyloidosis, and (vii) congenital heart disease were excluded.

 The entire cohort consisted of 1384 subjects [mean age: 56±14 years, male: 948 (68.4%)]. The median follow-up time was 959 days. Mortality and MAACE occurred in 92 (6.6%) and 125 (9%) patients, respectively. SCD, aborted SCD, and sustained VT occurred in 15 (1.1%), 80 (5.8%), and 104 (7.5%), respectively. The sum of events exceeds the overall number of MAACE because several events could occur in the same patients but just the first event was counted. In the multivariate analyses for all-cause mortality, only the number of segments with LGE at the level of the septum was an independent predictor (p = 0.002), while in the analyses for MAACE the only independent predictors were male gender, LVEDVi by CMR, and the number of segments with LGE at the level of septum inferior. Based on the multivariate analysis, the DERIVATE score (including all 1384 patients) ranging from 0 to 8 (Cox regression analysis HR=1.35, 95%CI 1.24–1.46, p< 0.001) was realized. The redistribution of patients according to the CMR composite DERIVATE risk/year MAACE was of 44%, 37% and 32% for the low, intermediate and high risk groups, respectively.

 The arrhythmic risk of patients with NICM is also dependent on the different distribution of fibrosis in the LV. The redistribution of the event rate according to the CMR composite risk score indicates the potential to alter the decision on ICD implantation in a relevant portion of NICM patients. These results warrant further confirmation in prospective randomized controlled trials.


Genital human papillomavirus (HPV) is a common, usually transient, dermatologic infection transmitted by genital contact which can cause a variety of anogenital diseases, including warts (condyloma), dysplasia (cervical, vaginal, vulvar, anal), and squamous cell carcinoma. A number of treatment modalities are available for treatment of anogenital warts, both patientand provider-applied. Genital warts are benign and resolve spontaneously in some patients, and removal of lesions does not guarantee elimination of all organisms or confer protection from recurrence. Treatment consists of diverse drug application locally and surgical therapy. Urethral warts are an uncommon presentation of HPV and could be treated by endoscopic surgery accompanied by intraurethral instillation of medications. Bivalent and quadrivalent vaccines are approved for prevention of HPV infection. Both are indicated for prevention of cervical cancer, while the quadrivalent vaccine is also approved for prevention of vaginal/vulvar cancers as well as genital warts in males and females.


This thesis identifies the benefits offered by combustion pressure measurement in petrol engines to real-time engine control. Benefits include reduced exhaust emissions and better engine performance. The various techniques used for combustion pressure measurement are reviewed, and thick-film piezoresistive technology is identified as a technology capable of producing a low cost sensor. Two possible locations for. the thick-film pressure sensor are experimentally investigated, both on the spark plug. The piezoresistive material chosen is Heraeus 8241, a widely used material based on jt ruthenium dioxide particles in a glass matrix. Properties relevant to the construction of a combustion pressure sensor are evaluated; the elastic modulus is measured for the first time between 173 and 573K, and piezoresistivity is measured for the first time between 77 and 533K. The response of thick-film piezoresistors to hydrostatic pressure is investigated.
A spark plug sensor is constructed, calibrated and engine tested. The detection of the angle of peak pressure, magnitude of peak pressure and knock is demonstrated.


Key Points Question What types of clinical care are involved in the kidney transplant evaluation process in real-world clinical settings? Findings In this qualitative study of the electronic health records of 211 US veterans with advanced kidney disease who were referred for kidney transplant evaluation, 4 dominant themes were identified describing clinical care during the evaluation process: far-reaching and inflexible medical evaluation, psychosocial valuation, surveillance over compliance, and disempowerment and lack of transparency. Meaning In this study, clinician documentation in the medical record indicated that, to be considered for a kidney transplant, patients were required to participate in a rigid, demanding, and opaque evaluation process over which they and their local clinicians had little control.


Catalytic wet peroxide oxidation (CWPO) is one of new emerging oxidation processes particularly attractive for the treatment of industrial wastewater which is unsuitable for incineration or biological treatment. The process is operated at mild conditions (0.1-0.5 MPa, T≤ 100 o C), and therefore with low energy requirements with the addition of different types of (classic) catalysts such as composite metal oxides. In the recent years, only a few studies dealing with the use of zeolites containing copper were reported, making this aspect of the process open for further investigation. It has been reported in the open literature that metal bearing zeolites prepared using classical procedures show severe metal leaching, leading to side reactions catalyzed in homogeneous phase. The aim of the present work is to study a heterogeneous catalytic wet peroxide oxidation of phenol as a model component using copper bearing FAU, BEA and MFI zeolites prepared by direct hydrothermal synthesis. The non-classical method of preparation resulted in low leaching of active metal components.


Dermoscopy is a non-invasive diagnostic technique linking clinical dermatology and dermatopathology by enabling the visualization of morphological features of the skin not seen by the naked eye. The most important role of dermoscopy is to differentiate malignant melanoma from other pigmented lesions, particularly early melanoma from benign melanocytic nevi. The dermoscopic diagnosis of pigmented skin lesions is based on various analytic approaches or algorithms that have been set forth in the last few years, such as pattern analysis, the ABCD rule, the 7-point checklist, the three-point checklist, and the Menzies scoring method. The anatomical structure of acral volar skin determines unique dermoscopic features of pigmented lesions located in this anatomical site. The knowledge of specific dermoscopic patterns of nevi and melanomas located on the palms and soles can increase diagnostic accuracy of pigmented acral melanocytic skin lesions. There is a significant correlation between dermoscopic structure and dermatopathological findings. In recent years, several studies have reported SŁOWA KLUCZOWE: dermoskopia, akralne znamię melanocytowe, czerniak, wzorce dermoskopowe.


Recent experimental efforts in investigating low-dimensional nanomaterials have spanned significantly beyond carbon nanotube (CNT) and graphene, which are often considered hallmarks of one- and two-dimensional (1&2D) nanostructures. Emerging layered nanomaterials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) and black phosphorus (P), have enabled new device functions and potential applications thanks to their intriguing material properties unavailable in CNT and graphene. In particular, nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) based on these new nanostructures exhibit new and interesting device properties. This paper describes the recent progresses in exploring and engineering atomically-thin semiconducting crystals into a new class of two-dimensional nanoelectromechanical systems, which hold promises for building novel nanoscale transducers. Exploration of resonant NEMS based on molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) reveals in these new nanoscale systems very broad dynamic range, rich nonlinear dynamics, and outstanding electrical tunability. Further, recent investigations show that black P NEMS offer the unique opportunity for harnessing the strong mechanical anisotropy in this nanocrystal composed of corrugated atomic sheets, demonstrating potential towards new device functions and applications that are unavailable to CNT and graphene based devices and systems.


We present quantal reaction rate coefficients obtained from well-converged cumulative reaction probabilities calculated by an algebraic variational method for total angular momentum J in the range 0−6 and obtained from the separable-rotation approximation for J ≠ 6. These results are used to test variational transition state theory calculations with optimized multidimensional tunneling contributions and are compared to experiment.


Abstract : To explain the effect of the nature of polysiloxanes on the improvement of the lubricating effect of hydrocarbons during their addition into same, the antiwear and antifriction properties of mixtures of 1, 1-di(o-xylyl)-ethane with polyethylsiloxane, polymethylsiloxane and two polymethylphenylsiloxane liquids were investigated. Mutual strengthening of the lubricating effect of polysiloxanes and hydrocarbons depends to a large degree upon the nature of polysiloxanes, which by degree of reducing their activity as admixtures, improving the lubricating qualities of hydrocarbons, are arranged in the following series: Polyethylsiloxane > polymethylsiloxane > polymer 1 > polymer 2. An assumption was made that this is connected with a rise in thermooxidizing stability during the change in polysiloxane chanins of ethyl side groups into methyl and phenyl. Mutual strengthening of the lubricating effect of hydrocarbons and polysiloxanes may appear not only then when they are soluble in each other but also when they are emulsified in hydrocarbon media. (Author)


An electroless-plated ferromagnetic Ni-P layer, which is suitable for mass production, was employed as a soft magnetic underlayer (SUL) for a double-layered perpendicular recording media. A Ni-P SUL with a thickness range from 1.5 to 3.0 /spl mu/m was plated on the Al substrate, then the surface of the Ni-P SUL was polished about 1 /spl mu/m to obtain a smooth surface with a roughness Ra of less than 0.3 nm. The saturation flux density B/sub s/ and the in-plane coercivity H/sub c/ for the Ni-P SUL were about 0.5 T and 15/spl sim/20 Oe, respectively. Media with a Ni-P SUL at a thickness of more than 0.5 /spl mu/m showed almost the same magnetic properties and recording performances as a medium with a 200-nm thick sputtered CoZrNb SUL. Furthermore, the spike noise commonly observed from an SUL was not found for the media with the Ni-P SUL in this study, indicating great potential for the electroless-plated ferromagnetic Ni-P layer as the SUL of the perpendicular recording media.


ABSTRACT A numerical code that can predict vacuum freeze drying processes in trays and vials was developed using a finite volume method to discretize the governing partial differential equations. Along with the finite volume method, a moving grid system was adopted to handle irregular and continuously changing physical domains encountered during the primary drying stage. To show the validity of the present calculation scheme, freeze drying in a tray was simulated and the results were compared with available experimental data. After successful validation, freeze drying processes in vials with different operation policies were simulated to show the capability of the present calculation tool in handling multi-dimensional freeze drying problems.


The invention belongs to the technical field of rubber, and relates to improvement aiming at the prior art, in particular to a ternary ethylenepropylene insulating sizing material for 35KV high-voltage cable accessory and a preparation method for the ternary ethylenepropylene insulating sizing material. The ternary ethylenepropylene insulating sizing material comprises the following components in part by mass: 100 parts of raw ethylene propylene terpolymer rubber, 15 to 25 parts of reinforcing agent, 40 to 70 parts of filler, 5 to 15 parts of zinc oxide, 0.5 to 1.5 parts of stearic acid, 1 to 2 parts of silane coupling agent, 10 to 30 parts of plasticizer, 2.5 to 3.5 parts of accelerator/co-crosslinking agent and 0.8 to 3 parts of vulcanizer. The sizing material is high in curing speed, and has high mechanical property and insulated electrical performance. The products prepared according to a formula cover set types of 35 KV and 800 A and below, fill the blank of domestic like products, and are first products which pass through type tests of the quality detection test center of power industrial electrical equipment in China.


This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). Ismail AMA. Virtual-reality rehabilitation for inpatient elderly leukemic patients: psychological and physical roles during the fourth COVID-19 wave. Fam Med Prim Care Rev 2022; 24(2): 185–186, doi: https://doi.org/10.5114/fmpcr.2022.115882. Family Medicine & Primary Care Review 2022; 24(2): 185–186, https://doi.org/10.5114/fmpcr.2022.115882

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In this paper, the focus is on the analysis of a scalp electroencephalography (EEG) database of human subjects using the electrophysiological source imaging or source localization and the classification of normal and sleep-deprived states. The EEG collection was carried out while the subjects were driving in simulated condition in a laboratory, where the fatigue level propagates through 11 different stages of fatigue, to achieve the sleep deprivation of a total period of 36 h. Standardized low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA) algorithm has been used here for estimating the source activations on the surface of the neo-cortex. sLORETA transforms the surface or scalp EEG data to the corresponding corticular dipole sources at each voxel on a simulated neo-cortex. For the characterization of the underlying neural patterns, approximate and sample entropies in voxels nearest to specific electrodes for different subjects and varying fatigue levels have been computed. Approximate entropy, sample entropy, and modified sample entropy are used here as the measures of complexity, similarity, and regularity in the sources. As a further investigation, these measures computed over all the stages are used to train a support vector machine, which classifies the measured values between alert and extremely fatigued states. As a result, several observations on the nature of change of the chaotic entropies are provided, and up to 86% classification accuracy is obtained.


A laser pumped zig-zag dye laser operating at 568 nm with a pulse length /spl sim/2 /spl mu/s has been sealed to high power using a MOPA configuration. Pulse energies in excess of 7 J with beam quality <2 XDL have been achieved under repetitively pulsed, 10 Hz operation. RMS jitter was measured as 0.12 of a 1 XDL spot. The device has operated with over 70 W output for runs up to 5 s. Substantially longer run times and output powers are possible. This device represents an advance in dye laser capabilities. Improvement in pointing accuracy of better than an order of magnitude have been demonstrated. In addition, an improvement in beam quality by about an order of magnitude has been achieved compared to other dye lasers operating in this power range.


Deep learning algorithms have recently provided new ideas for various change detection (CD) tasks, which have yielded promising results. However, accurately identifying urban land cover and land use (LCLU) changes remains challenging in the very high-resolution (HR) remote sensing images due to the difficulties in effectively modeling the features from ground objects with different times and different spatial locations. In this letter, a multiscale swin transformer (MST)-based deeply supervised network (MSTDSNet) is proposed for monitoring urban LCLU changes using bi-temporal very HR remote sensing images. The wider and deeper layer aggregation (WDLA) is first introduced to improve the distinguishability of multiscale features. Subsequently, MST is adopted to make the most of the available spatial information in the refined multiscale features. Moreover, channel-wise dependencies (CWDS) are integrated as a soft constraint to directly supervise WDLA. Experiments are conducted on the widely used SYSU-CD and LEVIR-CD datasets. Compared with other state-of-the-art CD methods, MSTDSNet provides favorable performance, with the highest F1 of 80.33% and 88.10%, respectively.


The authors recently reported on a hybrid rotary-translational vibration energy harvesting approach using a spherical permanent-magnet and employing cycloidal motion as a mechanical amplifier. The rotary-translational harvesting approach, which is resonant in nature, can yield approximately twice the e.m.f. compared with a similar translationalonly device. This paper explores the analytic and numerical modelling of the rotary-translational harvester with the goal of finding an efficient method for design optimisation.


In this study elastic dampers are implemented to a plate edges to find the damper influence on reflected waves. Most of the published papers in the sound localization on plates were not considered the effect of reflected waves on the final localization. As an experimental example, the sound caused by ping pong ball impact on a Plexiglas plate is used. The effect of the elastic dampers on reflected waves are experimentally analyzed. For this purpose, a database is gathered using recorded signals by low sampling rate electret and pickup microphones. These sound's signals were recorded for different dampers position on the plate edges. In the proposed method, first the data related to the propagated waves are detected and isolated from the whole signals which are sent by the microphone. Then the effect of elastic dampers on reflected waves are analyzed by a space feature extracted from the energy of recorded signals. Furthermore, in order to evaluate experiment results, statistical analysis are used. The results show reflected waves from edges are clearly influenced by all elastic dampers in different efficiency.


All of us are being affected by the huge differences in the world's two largest economies population sizes and growth rates. The population of China is four times larger than America's. From 1993 to 2012, America's annual gross domestic product grew from US$5.6 trillion to US$15.6 trillion as China's jumped from US$666 billion to US$8.3 trillion a year, according to the World Bank. Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Fogel, director of the University of Chicago's Center for Populat ion Economics, has forecasted that China's gross domestic product will reach US$123 trillion a year by 2040. That is almost three times larger than the world's gross domestic product thirteen years ago. Is that possible? China's economic growth compounds and in so doing in effect accelerates. In 1993 its 10% economic growth was US$66 billion. In 2013 the World Bank estimates it will grow 7.5% or by US$662 billion. In the last four years it jumped from US$4.6 trillion to US$8.3 trillion a year. To date China has 22% of the world's population, but only one third has migrated from low per capita income rural to higher per capita income urban work. Huge changes in the relative sizes of the two largest economies need to be planned for instead of ignored. The US Congressional Research Service released a report on September 5,2013 on "China's Economic R ise: Hi s tor y, Tre nd s , C h a l le n ge s , a nd Implications for the United States." It recognizes that the two largest economies are interdependent and some analysts predict China's economy could become larger than America's "within the next five years or so." It does not discuss the trends indicating America and China's economies' rapidly changing sizes are manifesting their huge population and growth rate differences. It focuses on competing here-and-now American economic policy goals and domestic perspectives toward China. The report does not explain how America can maintain its historic economic success if the speed and size of China's economic growth continues or if it seriously falters or collapses. The only way to successfully solve that dangerous dilemma may be for America and China to design and implement a new relationship that aligns their economic growth and national security. That may seem unnecessary, unwise and impossible. As China's economy gets larger than America's it may seem necessary, wise and possible. Neither America nor China's currently unbalanced economies can do well if the other falters or collapses. Aligning the economic stability and national security of the world's two largest economies is crucial for global economic security. Planning for China's Potential Economy Growth


The paper presents a method of on-line testing of the resistance and capacitor using MCU without disconnecting it from the circuit.The error of this method is also discussed.


The effect of electromagnetic stirring on the microstructure and properties of surfacing metal during the applied longitudinal intermittent alternative magnetic field on low carbon steel with plasma arc surfacing are investigated and discussed.The surfacing metal was analyzed using optical metallography,X-ray diffraction,microhardness testing and wet sand rubber wheel abrasion testing.It's found that the hard phases are increasing and distributing homogeneously in the surface of surfacing layer with changing magnetic parameters and the wear resistance of surfacing metal is increasing gradually.The optimal result is acquired when the magnetic parameters are 3 A,10 Hz.The experimental results indicate that the optimal effect of grain refining can be gained with the proper magnetic parameters and electromagnetic stirring can control the morphology of hard phase in surfacing metal.The morphology of hard phases with strip and hexagon distribution without magnetic field are shifted to only hexagon alignment distribution with proper magnetic field,which it can improve the hardness and wear resistance of surfacing metal greatly.


As the mixed education model gradually becomes widespread in various universities in Japan, the evaluation of the quality of IT English mixed education has become a very important issue, and it is worth considering the corresponding evaluation method. In this paper, we use a data mining algorithm to implement an evaluation method for the interconversion of quantitative data and qualitative concepts and use the IT English mixed teaching model to evaluate and analyze the teaching quality of the course. The evaluation method is feasible and provides a mixing method. Evaluation of the quality of education. Reference method.


This paper presents a computational method for optimal power dispatch considering transmission congestion where the objective is to minimize the summation of step bidding prices from participated generators in electricity markets. The constraints are power balanced equations and system operating limits. The proposed method decomposes the problem formulation into two parts: the market dispatch part; and the power flow constraints part. The market dispatch part allocates the real power generations at each bus based on bidding prices with the considerations of generator capacity limits. If the dispatched real power generation of any generator were less than its minimum capacity limit, the market dispatch part would use the mixed integer programming technique to decide if that generator should be off or dispatched at minimum limit. The real power generations resulting from the market dispatch part are then passed to the power flow constraints part to check if they cause any system congestion. The market dispatch would be recomputed if any congestion occurred. The whole algorithm finds the optimal solution when the results from the market dispatch part no longer cause any transmission or operational congestion. The proposed algorithm is tested on a modified IEEE 14 bus system in which it is able to optimally redispatch the participated generators to release the transmission congestion. The proposed algorithm can be considered a practical and non-approximated approach that successfully reaches the optimal solutions of market-related optimal power flow.


this paper describes a non-intrusive eyetracking tool for mobile devices by mistreatment pictures no inheritable by the front camera of the iPhone and iPod bit. By following and decoding the user's gaze to the Smartphone's screen coordinates the user will act with the device by employing a lot of natural and spontaneous approach. the appliance uses a Haar classifiers based mostly detection module for distinguishing the eyes within the no inheritable pictures and later the CAMSHIFT algorithmic program to find and track the eyes movement and find the user's gaze. The performance of the planned tool was evaluated by testing the system on sixteen users and also the results shown that in concerning seventy nine of the days it was ready to find properly the users' gaze.


Abstract:Twenty-six-year-old Margot steps out of her mother's funeral into the Okanagan winter air for a cigarette to get away from her fiancé and family. This gives her time to reflect on the disintegration of her family and on her relationship with her cousin Samantha, who may be coming to the funeral as well and for whom Margot holds unconventional feelings.


Substructures developed in tested specimens of a reference heat of type 304 stainless steel (heat 9T2796) are examined. Data include dislocation densities, cell and subgrain sizes, and carbide precipitate sizes. Testing conditions range for temperatures from 482 to 649/sup 0/C, for stresses from 28 to 241 MPa, and for times from 4 to 15,000 hr. As expected, it is observed that temperature, stress, and time have strong influences on substructure. The change in the dislocation density is too small to measure for conditions which produce less than 1 percent monotonic strain. No cells form, and the major alteration of substructure is the precipitation of M/sub 23/C/sub 6/ carbides on grain boundaries, on twin boundaries, and on some dislocations. At stresses ranging from 69 to 172 MPa and at temperatures ranging from 482 to 593/sup 0/C, the dislocation density increases with increasing stress and is generally higher than expected from studies made at higher temperatures. Dislocations are arranged in fine networks stabilized by carbides. At stresses above 172 MPa and temperatures to 649/sup 0/C, the dislocation density is too great to measure. Cells develop which are finer in size than cells developed at similar stresses but at higher temperatures. Dislocation densitiesmore » and cell sizes for cyclic specimens are comparable to data for creep-tested specimens. On the basis of the observed substructures, recommendations are made regarding further studies which would assist in the development of constitutive equations for high-temperature inelastic analysis of reactor components.« less


A series of organic and organometallic Schiff bases bearing phenylferrocene and their six transition metal complexes have been prepared and tested for their potential biological applications by usi ...


A detailed investigation and characterization is made of the magnetic phase transitions that occur in the cubic CeFe2 Laves phase compound using high resolution direct measurements of the temperature derivative of the electrical resistivity (dϱ/dT). The results confirm the existence of a spin reorientation transition (SRT) in the ferromagnetic phase of CeFe2 at Tsr ≈ (132 ± 1) K, of second order character. This transition can be understood in terms of a [100] [uuw] spin reorientation transition due to a non-negligible K3 term in the expression of the magnetic anisotropy energy. Near the Curie temperature, critical analysis of dϱ/dT data shows that CeFe2 behaves as an isotropic Heisenberg ferromagnet with a critical temperature Tc ≈ (227.5 ± 0.1) K and a critical exponent α = 0.10 ± 0.02. This value is consistent with the theoretical expectancy based on the magnetic specific heat.

Une caracterisation est presentee des transitions de phase magnetiques qui ont lieu dans le compose CeFe2 (phase de Laves cubique) en utilisant des mesures directes de la derivee contre la temperature de la resistivite electrique (dϱ/dT). Nos resultats confirment l'existence d'une transition de reorientation de spin (SRT) dans la phase ferromagnetique du CeFe2 (Tsr ≈ (132 ± 1) K), de deuxieme ordre. Cette transition ([100] [uuw]) peut s'expliquer en introduisant le terme K3 (non-negligeable) dans l'expression de l'energie d'anisotropie magnetique. l'analyse critique montre, que pres du point de Curie, CeFe2 se comporte comme un ferromagnetique isotropique d'Heisenberg avec une temperature critique Tc ≈ (227,5 ± 0,1) K et un exposant critique α ≈ ≈ 0,10 ± 0,02. Ce valeur est consistant avec celui prevu theoriquement pour la chaleur specifique magnetique.


We investigate the generation of electromagnetic radiation by gravitational waves interacting with a strong magnetic field in the vicinity of a vibrating Schwarzschild black hole. Such an effect may play an important role in gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, and in particular their afterglows. It may also provide an electromagnetic counterpart to gravity waves in many situations of interest, enabling easier extraction and verification of gravity wave waveforms from gravity wave detection. We set up the Einstein-Maxwell equations for the case of odd-parity gravity waves impinging on a static magnetic field as a covariant and gauge-invariant system of differential equations that can be integrated as an initial-value problem or analyzed in the frequency domain. We numerically investigate both of these cases. We find that the black hole ring-down process can produce substantial amounts of electromagnetic radiation from a dipolar magnetic field in the vicinity of the photon sphere.


We consider acyclic r-colorings in graphs and digraphs: they color the vertices in r colors, each of which induces an acyclic graph or digraph. (This includes the dichromatic number of a digraph, and the arboricity of a graph.) For any girth and sufficiently high degree, we prove the NP-completeness of acyclic r-colorings; our method also implies the known analogue for classical colorings. The proofs use high girth graphs with high arboricity and dichromatic numbers. High girth graphs and digraphs with high chromatic and dichromatic numbers have been well studied; we re-derive the results from a general result about relational systems, which also implies the similar fact about high girth and high arboricity used in the proofs. These facts concern graphs and digraphs of high girth and low degree; we contrast them by considering acyclic colorings of tournaments (which have low girth and high degree). We prove that even though acyclic two-colorability of tournaments is known to be NP-complete, random acyclically r-colorable tournaments allow recovering an acyclic r-coloring in deterministic linear time, with high probablity.


That with the presence of refomasi against the holding of the Government of the Republic of Indonesia, there was a significant change towards the function of legislation. If prior to the reformation by the UU No. 5 of the year 1974 the main legislation function is in the hands of the head Area, then after the Reformation was gradually shifted to the functions of DPRD, while the head of the Region carry out the Change was discussed along with Representatives The People Of The Region. Peregeseran the function of legislation to DPRD, then the seat of DPRD from both the political and juridical aspects become increasingly powerful as the element that organizes local governance. Disaran implementation of the function of legislation should run properly in the full sense of responsibility as well as follow all stages of the formation of local regulations that cover the stages of planning, drafting, discussion, enactment, assignment, and peyebarluasan


The Lycian language of the Xanthos Stele has received much attention in recent years. One passage that has been especially examined is the last twenty lines or so of the stele's side A.1 This passage's transparent structure and abundance of personal and geographical names known from Classical sources has made it an ideal entry point into deciphering the diffi cult language of the Stele. This paper will examine one of these names of uncertain origin and propose a new solution relating it to a secured name from the geography of the Classical world. This paper will consider the passage coming from lines 53–55 of TL 44a, presented below:


Although children in kinship care reportedly have better outcomes than their nonkinship foster care peers, some have unmet mental health needs or delayed service utilization. This study confirms the presence of unmet mental health needs among children in kinship care and indicates that concerns about caregivers moderate the relationship between identified service needs and service utilization. It is important that child welfare assessments consider caregiver capacity to meet each child's needs and, especially within kinship care where not all caregivers are licensed, respond to the resource, housing, education, and service needs of caregivers.


Knowledge of the alpine glacier mass fluctuations is a fundamental prerequisite for understanding glacier dynamics, projecting future glacier change, and assessing the availability of freshwater resources. The glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are sources of water for most of the major Asian rivers and their fate remains unclear due to accurate estimates of glacier mass fluctuations are lacking over long time scales. Here, we used d18O record at a proglacial open lake as proxy to estimate the Holocene glacier mass fluctuations in the Western Kunlun Mountain (WKM) quantitatively and continuously. Relative to past decades, maximum WKM glacier mass loss (-28.62±25.76 Gt) occurred at 9.5-8.5 ka BP, and maximum glacier mass gain (24.53±25.02 Gt) occurred at 1.3~0.5 ka BP, the difference in WKM glacier mass between the two periods account for ~20% of the total glaciers. Long-term changes in glacier mass suggests the TP glaciers likely face severe threats at the current rates of global warming.


It gives me great pleasure to dedicate this contribution to a teacher and scholar whose now classic study has done so much to enhance our understanding of the Old Babylonian law-code from Eshnunna. Codex Eshnunna (CE) 17–18 read as follows: I13. DUMU.LÚ a-na É e-mi-im tir-ha-tam li-bi-il-ma 14. šum-ma i-na ki-la-al-li-in iš-te-en a-na ši-im-tim 15. it-ta-la-ak KÚ.BABBAR a-na be-lí-šu-ma i-ta-a-ar 16. šum-ma i-hu-ús-si-ma a-na É-šu i-ru-ub 17. lu-ú a-hi-za-n[u-u]m [l]u kal-la-tum a-na ši-im-tim it-ta-la-ak 18. ma-la ub-lu ú-ul ú-še-ṣi wa-tar-šu-ma i-le-eq-qé 17. Should the son of a man bring the betrothal payment to the house of the father-in-law, if one of the two dies, the silver shall return to its owner. 18. If he marries her and she enters his house (and) either the marrier or the daughter-in-law dies, as much as he brought he shall not hand over; he shall take its surplus.


Koi herpesvirus (KHV) caused significant morbidity and mortality in koi and common carp. KHV which showed strong antigenic property implied that KHV virion or proteins may be used as antigen to raise antibody or vaccine to increase the resistance. The objectives of this research were to (i) clone KHV membrane protein ORF2, (ii) analysis on immunogenicity, and (iii) genetic tracing. Based on genbank data, one pair of primers was designed to amplify KHV ORF2. The KHV ORF2 can be amplified using infected fish DNA which originally from Toba Lake, Sumatera, Indonesia. The KHV ORF2 composed of 699 nucleotides encoded for 292 amino acids. BLAST analysis showed that KHV ORF2 had 100% homology with KHV-J and KHV0301 strains from Japan; 98 and 91% homology on nucleotides and amino acids respectively with both KHV-U strain from Unites State and KHV-I strain from Israel. KHV in Indonesia was most likely to have originated from Japan via spreading directly or not directly to China or Hongkong. Based on T- and B-cell epitopes prediction, membrane protein ORF2 was proposed has a potency to be used in development vaccine and immunodetection.


This paper analyzes family-owned banks in Thailand. Using the data before the (cid:133)nancial crisis, we (cid:133)nd that wealthy families extensively use pyramids to control a business empire which includes (cid:133)nancial and non-(cid:133)nancial (cid:133)rms. We analyze the entire family group structure and (cid:133)nd that one-third of the banks were placed at the second tier near the apex and two-third of the banks were located at deeper tiers in the pyramids. The empirical results show that bottom tier banks have lower performance due to risky loans. This evidence is consistent with the view that when the controlling family maximizes growth and stability of the entire group, lower tier (cid:133)rms are assigned to undertake risky investment. This ownership setting can insulate the entire group from the adverse e⁄ect when the investment does not pay o⁄ because the family owns relatively low cash (cid:135)ow stake in lower tier (cid:133)rms.


Hua Luo-geng is one of the three most famous mathematicians during the period of Southwest Associated University.From the aspect of teaching courses,Hua Luo-geng designed a series of important curriculum.He was respected by almost every student not only because he taught them rigorously,but also he adopted an original approach to use the world-known mathematics textbooks.From the aspect of science research work,Hua Luog-eng organized a number of mathematical classes for discussion from which the students were benefitted deeply.At that time,Hua Luo-geng made outstanding achievement in scientific researches and great contribution to the development of mathematics in China,and let Chinese mathematics go out to the world.


A m o n g the more exicting debates in m o d e r n theology is that carried on be tween Karl Barth and his nine teenth century Reformed predecessor, Friedrich Schleiermacher. In his g radua l break wi th liberal theology, Barth found it necessary to set forth his developing theology of the W o r d of God in conversat ion with , a n d in contrast to, the theology of Schleier macher a n d his school. Barth 's critique of Schleiermacher focused o n the latter 's supposed failure to d o justice to the un iqueness of Jesus Christ on account of his s t rong emphas i s on a universal God-con sciousness as the s tar t ing point for theological reflection on the one h a n d and his excessive preoccupat ion wi th Christ ian feeling as the n o r m of Christ ian t ruth on the other. T h o u g h Barth's repeated criticisms of Schleier macher th roughou t his life are qui te well known , his cr i t ique had not been subject to careful evaluat ion pr ior to about 1960.


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Even in midsummer, the historic Ellingham Hall, Norfolk, is a grey place. For Australians used to brighter sunshine year round, it would retain that slight English dinginess even if its most famous resident was not under house arrest. Yet, among the legal problems facing the Australian citizen Julian Assange, the most important challenges are not especially well known. Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006 as a website dedicated to the secure receipt and anonymous publication of inside information too sensitive or risky for information-holders to release any other way. The bulk if not the entirety of disclosures of public importance since that time were not authorised by the institutions concerned. In other words, as intended, they constitute 'leaks.' Questions of when unauthorised disclosure of information is warranted, and by whom and how such judgments are to be made, are not new in democracies that have long wrestled with the public interest value of whistleblowing.2 However, the entry of new media into this territory, spearheaded by WikiLeaks, has brought public whistleblowing to the forefront of international debate as never before. This article reviews key political responses to WikiLeaks, internationally but especially in Assange's home state of Australia, for their lessons for current and future directions in law reform with respect to public whistleblowing.