The largest percentage of the country's population is concentrated in Athens. In this city of 4 million people, public green spaces are few and inadequate. They play an important role citizens' everyday life: for aesthetic reasons and for environmental and psychological reasons as well. The benefits that public green spaces offer city dwellers are manifold, for they have a positive influence on air quality, temperature, mental health and they also provide opportunities for socializing.
For these reasons, it becomes necessary to make the most of all public green spaces through redevelopment projects, encouraging people in this way to visit their city's open spaces and to take advantage of all that they have to offer. One way for them to become more attractive and accessible to everyone is to connect them through a unified network, creating pleasant greenways throughout the city. By including parks of all sizes in this network, these spaces are given new opportunities and functions.
Firstly, they become more attractive and interesting because they have a greater scope and are more complex. Moreover, they can lead you to attractions or shopping points, making pedestrian travel more pleasant.
This dissertation's primary goal is to improve the quality of life of urban dwellers, especially those living in densely populated areas. The tools which would enable its achievement are quite few considering that the built environment is something which cannot be altered and the green spaces which exist are inadequate. The only way to balance this disproportion is to make the best use of the remaining open spaces through redevelopment projects with bioclimatic criteria and by connecting them to a large network.
The present dissertation deals with such an area, specifically the municipality of Zografou. It is situated north-east of the center of Athens (Map 1). Some notable green spaces (as for their area and vegetation) are situated within the municipality's limits. These spaces function separately and are not fully taken advantage of. By connecting them through a unified green network they are more easily accessible and to the citizen and pedestrians can move about more pleasantly and safely throughout these spaces.
The purpose of the present dissertation is to spark awareness among municipal authorities and citizens to implement significant redevelopment projects in densely built cities. The bibliographical material, some ideas and examples will be listed below which could be used as a model for similar studies in similar conditions, greatly improving the quality of life of citizens.


Introduction: The Mistastin Lake (Kamestastin) impact structure is a ~28-km diameter, 37.83 Ma complex impact crater located in Labrador, Canada (55°53′N; 63°18′W) [1, 2]. This impact structure has captured the attention of many researchers because it contains some of the best exposures of impact melt rocks in our planet [3], contains the hottest documented crustal rocks of Earth [4], and is an analogue for the Moon as it formed in an anorthosite-rich target [1]. Despite being studied in the past [3, 5], little focus has been given to the hydrothermal alteration of its impactites. This is particularly important because claybearing regions on Mars are prime exploration targets [6, 7]. Previous workers have described alteration of impact glass in impact melt-bearing breccias comprising fractures and vesicles filled mainly with Na-, Cazeolites, clays, and to a lesser extent, carbonates, as well as partial to complete replacement of glass clasts by clays and zeolites [3, 5]. In addition, levyne-Ca zeolites have been observed to replace diaplectic feldspar glass [8]. Based on alteration indexes, Hill et al. (2020) [5] showed that the glass clasts follow three main trends of alteration: sodic and potassic alteration, and chloritization. The alteration in the impact meltfree rocks consists of sericite, calcite, clays and Cazeolites, replacing minerals from the target rocks [3]. These authors have shown the nature of the alteration at Mistastin, however, further studies are needed to fully understand the alteration and its geological context (how and where clays formed). Therefore, this study investigates and summarizes the extent of alteration within the impact structure, the setting in which these minerals occur, and the variations between lithologies and localities (Discovery Hill, Coté, South and Steep Creeks, central uplift, and the eastern rim). Methodology: Polished thin sections from samples collected in 2009, 2010 and 2021 were characterized using a Nikon Eclipse LV100POL microscope. Backscattered electron (BSE) images were obtained to further investigate microtextures using a JEOL JXA8530F microprobe. Discovery Hill: This is a > 80 m thick ejecta unit that shows a two-layer stratigraphy (impact melt rocks and melt-bearing breccias overlying a ballistic ejecta layer of melt-free to -poor impact breccias) [3]. The alteration is mainly focused at the contact between these lithologies, in which heavily altered glass clasts (Mg/Fe clays [5]) within the breccias occur. They contain spherulites and abundant amygdules generally < 200 μm, but up to 1 mm, with the smallest being circular and the biggest being elongated and irregular (Fig. 1A and 1C). BSE imaging qualitatively shows different distributions of elements in the amygdules (Fig. 1A and 1B), with some containing more than one phase and others being zoned (inferred to be Na-, Ca-zeolites [5]). Plagioclase mineral clasts in the breccias are irregularly altered to sericite. Samples from a vertical transect along the southern face of the hill are mainly clast-poor, fine-grained to aphanitic impact melt rocks with unaltered plagioclase. However, zoned minerals infilling openings that optically look different from those at the contact were observed towards the top and middle of the hill.


47 F&H greatest American superheroes are portrayed by non-Americans: Superman and Batman by Britons in Man of Steel and the "Dark Knight" trilogy, and Thor by an Australian. How, in this context, might a Hollywood film with an explicitly international set of heroes, made by a subtle and thoughtful director, allow for the further interrogation of American exceptionalism, and signal the emergence of a more global consciousness amid Hollywood's cultural imperialism? Pacific Rim suggests an answer.


Background: T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) accounts for approximately 15% and 25% in childhood and adult cases, respectively; but several studies reported that the incidence of T-ALL differs by countries and ethnic groups. Objective: To analyze the frequency of T-ALL diagnosis of children and adults in Bolivia.


W HEN Lionel Trilling wrote of Howells that "we are not easy with the quiet men, the civil personalities,"'1 he was suggesting not only that there has been a change in sensibility since the time of Howells' greatest popularity, but also that this change keeps us from hearing a voice which speaks directly to our time. Those who rightly understand Howells now-Mr. Trilling seems to imply-will be those not deafened by Faulkner's cultural Armageddon on the one hand, or rendered too exquisite, on the other, by Henry James's shadowy dramas of the dislocated conscience in aesthetic quest of itself. Howells has long been respected as the "father" of American realism. And in recent years his humor, his humanity, and his flair for charming comedies of manners have been rediscovered. Even "realism," as Howells is thought to have practiced it, has been reappraised as a respectable mode of the art of fiction.2 But Mr. Trilling's essay suggests much more: it amounts to a tentative and subtle deployment of persuasionsand in a time of apocalyptic sensibility like ours, the champion of the quiet man must himself employ the most delicate tact of rhetoric if he is to succeed in making any case at all-that Howells is an important writer, possibly a nearly great one, whose works have an as yet unrecognized depth and quality of


In 1978 a review of the Management Training Programme being run by the Civil Aviation Authority revealed a need to change our method of approach in order to get the best out of the programme. Having clarified the course objectives, it involved writing new case study exercises and, above all, changing the style of teaching. At the end of the day an evaluation exercise indicated that not only had the participants gained new skills and effectiveness as line managers but many had also increased their self‐confidence to manage. In short we had achieved "a semi‐permanent change in behaviour".


We propose a bottom-up approach to the study of possession and its outcomes for association football, based on probabilistic finite state automata with transition probabilities described by a Markov process. We show how even a very simple model yields faithful approximations to the distribution of passing sequences and chances of taking shots for English Premier League teams, which we fit using a whole season of granular game data (380 games). We compare the resulting model with classical top-down distributions traditionally used to describe possessions, showing that the Markov models yield a more accurate asymptotic behaviour.


Purpose Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a significant burden for patients and healthcare systems due to multiple factors, including high readmission rates. This study aimed to determine the general characteristics, etiology of admissions, annual admission rate, length of stay, and readmission rate of patients with SCD. Patients and Methods This retrospective observational study included all adult patients with SCD admitted to the General Internal Medicine (GIM) unit between 2016 and 2021. Results There were 160 patients (mean age, 31.08 ± 9.06 years; 51.25% female) with SCD included in this study. Most originated from southern Saudi Arabia (45.62%). The average annual number of emergency department (ED) visits was 4, and approximately 19% of patients had ≥3 annual admissions. The mean length of stay was 6 days. The readmission rates at 7, 30, 60, and 90 days were 8%, 24.5%, 13.6%, and 10.8%, respectively. Conclusion SCD generates a significant economic burden on the Saudi society and the effects on the healthcare system and patients' quality of life are evident in the high ED visits, readmission rates and prolonged hospitalization. Thereupon we advocate the implementation of sickle cell disease-specialized multidisciplinary clinics.


PURPOSE
To the investigate changes in local immune functions of the cornea and the adjacent conjunctiva, and their roles in the mechanism of the disease.

METHOD
The cornea and adjacent bulbar conjunctiva taken from 14 patients with Mooren's ulcer were stained immunohistochemically for CD3, CD4, CD8, HLA-DR, CD1 and CD25.

RESULT
An aberrant expression of HLA-DR antigen by a large number of kerato-conjunctival epithelial cells and keratocytes in the corneal stroma was found. The CD4+/CD8+ ratio is significantly higher than normal control.

CONCLUSION
The aberrant expression of MHC-II antigen in the resident cells at the peripheral cornea and the adjacent conjunctiva, along with a raised local TH/Ts ratio leading to an excessive autoimmune reactivity is possibly the direct cause of Mooren's ulcer.


this work reports a case, involving a 47-year-old Portuguese male found dead in a river. near the victim clothes the authorities found two bottles containing a toxic product identified as cyfluthrin. cyfluthrin is a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide that exerts its poison action through contact or ingestion. toxicological analyses were performed in blood, gastric content and in the bottles. samples preparation was achieved using solid phase extraction and the extracts obtained were analysed by Gc/ms. cyfluthrin was found in the gastric content and in the extract obtained after washing the bottles with a solvent. keywords: cyfluthrin; suicide; blood; gastric content; Gc/ms.


In order to document the effect of the recent drought and the resulting marine intrusion event on plantcommunity shifts in a Louisiana estuary, we analyzed two vegetation data sets collected in Barataria estuary in 1997 and 2000 and compared community shifts to surface salinity changes at four points along the estuarine gradient within the study area. We used the major vegetation types identified in our previous research of larger data sets and tested the use of a simple vegetation classification technique. This vegetation classification technique is based primarily on the dominant and co-dominant species, and secondarily on the number of taxa observed. To distinguish vegetation types with similar dominant species but different associated species, the vegetation classification technique used a salinity score derived from the species composition. Surface water salinity increases were reflected by a change in species composition in the mesohaline to fresh marshes. The largest species composition shift observed was the shift from oligohaline wiregrass (species rich vegetation type dominated by Spartina patens) to mesohaline wiregrass (vegetation type dominated by S. patens with few other species). Shifts in vegetation composition may have been enhanced by the presence of the major dominant species at a low abundance in other vegetation types. The vegetation classification technique used could classify over 95% of the stations. This vegetation classification technique provides a simple method to classify Louisiana's coastal vegetation based on plant species composition.


The Geul River, located in the south‐eastern part of The Netherlands, is a meandering river with a planform shape characterized by large loops consisting of multiple bends. We evaluate the effect(s) of groundwater flow on the shapes of meanders as a possible explanation for the multi‐bend loops, using a combined meandering–groundwater computer model. In the model seeping groundwater enhances bank erodibility.


Objective To observe the inhibitory effects of stress reaction during cardiopulmonary bypass by using different doses of propofol.Methods 20 patients with rheumatic heart valvular disease were randomly assigned to group P(n=10),the mean blood pressure was controlled to 70-80mmHg by adjusting propofol infusion rate(6-10 mg/kg/h) and group N(n=10),the mean blood pressure was controlled to 70-80mmHg by propofol infusion rate of 4mg/kg/h and adjusting nicardipine infusion rate.Blood sample(4ml) was taken before induction(T1),before cardiopulmonary bypass(T2),30 min after cardiopulmonary bypass(T3) and 10 min after cardiopulmonary bypass stopping(T4) for determining norepinephrine(NE),endothelin(ET),and atrial natriuretic polypeptide(ANP).Results There were significant difference in NE,ET and plasma concentration of NE and ET at T3 and T4 plasma concentration were similar as those in group P.Conclusion There is inhibitory effects of stress reaction by using propofol infusion during cardiac valve replacement under cardiopulmonary bypass.


Excerpt Three years ago at the Robert Dawson Evans Memorial, one of us (B. S. W.) adapted for determination of iron in whole blood the Wong1method using the photoelectric colorimeter of Evelyn.2Sin...


Electronic systems and components often exposed to high temperature environment in space-based applications, nuclear power facilities, and geothermal energy extraction fields. A key requirement for these systems is, therefore, to withstand the high temperature exposure while maintaining efficient and reliable operation. Efforts were taken to design and develop a high temperature power inverter capable of 200/spl deg/C operation. In this work, a 1 kW, 20 kHz Mapham inverter was designed and built utilizing components developed for high temperature operation. These components, which included capacitors, inductors, transformers, were developed and demonstrated at 200/spl deg/C. The inverter system was evaluated as a function of temperature at different load levels. The inverter system, excluding its input, control and logic circuitries, was characterized at temperatures from ambient to 200/spl deg/C at 0%, 50%, and 100% resistive loading. With an applied input voltage of 75 VDC, the inverter produced an output of 250 VAC. The results obtained, which have indicated good operational characteristics of the inverter up to 200/spl deg/C, are presented and discussed.


We give a simple construction of the axes and foci of an inscribed ellipse with prescribed center, and as an application, a simple solution of the problem of construction of a triangle with prescribed circumcevian triangle of the centroid. 1. Construction of the axes and foci of an inscribed ellipse Given a triangle ABC , we give a simple construction of the axes and foci of an inscribed ellipse with given center or perspector. If a conic touches the sides BC , CA, AB at X, Y , Z respectively, then the lines AX, BY , CZ are concurrent at a point P called the perspector of the conic. The center M of the conic is the complement of the isotomic conjugate of P . In homogeneous barycentric coordinates, if P = (p : q : r), then M = ( 1 q + 1 r : 1 r + 1 p : 1 p + 1 q ) = (p(q + r) : q(r + p) : r(p + q)).


Inoculating hepatitis B vaccine is the best means to control and prevent the Hepatitis B .There is no same immune efficacy in different population receiving inoculation of recombinant yeast-derived hepatitis B Vaccine.of which the immune efficay varies according to the inoculation dosage and the age of receptor.The higher dosage,the more well efficacy,the older of age,the worse of protective effect. Increased dosage of hepatitis B vaccine combined with hepatitis B immunoglobulin will achieve better efficacy in newborns from hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positive mothers.


Research conducted in order to find out the related cases of distillation and illegal sales of crude oil mining products in the Bojonegoro area remain in Wonocolo village, Kedewan District, Bojonegoro Regency, East Java. Whereas according to the mandate of the 1945 Constitution that all natural resources should be controlled by the state and used for the prosperity and welfare of the Indonesian people. But in reality, the wealth of the archipelago is not fully able to touch and be felt by all the people, so that some of them are still classified as poor. The natural resources of our archipelago include oil and gas mining, which is managed by a state company, Pertamina. However, not all oil mining can be managed by the state, because there are still many old oil mining wells which abandoned from the era Dutch colonialism. Because of that, the oil mining was finally managed by the people. This study discusses how effective the application of Law Number 22 of 2001 concerning oil and gas mining in community oil mining in Wonocolo village, Kedewan District, Bojonegoro Regency, East Java Province. Based on the bias results, it is known that there had been a conflict involving the community of crude oil miners in Wonocolo Village with KUD Bogosasono as a partner of PT. Pertamina EP Cepu. In the case of crude oil mining (lantung) Wonocolo Village was motivated by public dissatisfaction with the transportation fee services provided by the Bogosasono Village Cooperative. Not being granted the demands of the community led to conflicts which led to illegal oil refining and selling outside official permits. Historically, the conflict began from the period of oil mining management by the Netherlands until the end of the mastery of oil management by the Cooperative Village Unit (KUD) Bogosasono and this conflict ended around 2011. Conflict resolution is carried out by way of negotiation from several parties and it results in price agreements that benefit the conflict parties. This research uses qualitative methods. Data collection techniques with interviews and observations in the field. Interviews were conducted on 10 subjects that had relevance to the life of the people's mines in Wonocolo village. The results showed the ineffectiveness of the application of Law number 22 of 2001 regarding Oil and Gas Mining in the Wonocolo deity community, Kedewan District, Bojonegoro Regency, East Java. In detail, the results of this study can be seen in the discussion section of this article.


Rotational atherectomy (RA) utilizes a high-speed, metal-bonded diamond-abrasive grinding wheel to remove the calcified atherosclerotic plaque inside arteries, restore blood flow, and treat cardiovascular diseases. RA operational guidelines have been clinically investigated to improve clinical outcomes and reduce complication rates, but are still in lack of consensus. Particularly, the effect of the grinding wheel rotational speed on plaque material removal rate (MRR) is unclear. This study experimentally investigates the RA MRR over a range of wheel rotational speeds based on a vascular simulator with a calcified plaque surrogate. The MRR, presented as the luminal area gain, with the increase of the number of grinding passes, was measured at the rotational speed of 120,000, 150,000, and 180,000 rpm. The luminal area was characterized via microscopy and image processing. The ground surface morphology and surface roughness at different rotational speeds were investigated. The results showed that a higher rotational speed led to a higher MRR and a smoother ground surface. This observation is significant for RA clinical guideline improvement.


This chapter continues to reveal Misty's hidden history. It explains the weekly process of putting the comic together, giving detailed information on its editorial team, its script fees and practices, and identifying a number of the Misty writers and creators, including Pat Mills, Wilf Prigmore, and editor Malcolm Shaw. Identifying and interviewing these creators is significant as the stories were uncredited and many have never spoken publically about their work. The chapter also reflects on Misty's framing and marketing as a 'mystery paper' rather than 'horror comic', and responds to gendered claims about its creators and contributors.It also includes the previously unseen script for "The Banana King," a Pat Mills story that would become "Red Knee–White Terror!" (Misty #1, with art by John Richardson), and analyzes this alongside the published version to demonstrate how the Misty tales were shaped around mystery and terror rather than outright horror.


The first ever all-digital CES took place last month and below we consider some of the key trends, and take a look at some of the technology that was on show.


Conway and Smith's book is a wonderful introduction to the normed division algebras: the real numbers (R), the complex numbers (C), the quaternions (H) and the octonions (O). The first two are well-known to every mathematician. In constrast, the quaternions and especially the octonions are sadly neglected, so the authors rightly concentrate on these. They develop these number systems from scratch, explore their connections to geometry, and even study number theory in quaternionic and octonionic versions of the integers. Conway and Smith warm up by studying two famous subrings of C: the Gaussian integers and Eisenstein integers. The Gaussian integers are the complex numbers x + iy for which x and y are integers. They form a square lattice:


Aiming at the necessarily of marketing introducing commercial building design,how to provide theoretical support for commercial building design of marketing was discussed,the whole process of marketing perfecting commercial building design was analyzed from designer,consumer and developer.At last,it pointed out that the mutual combination between marketing and commercial building design is built at the foundation of practice and theoretical requirement.


The Platt electrostatic model of a diatomic hydride is modified by the introduction of a scale factor which depends on the internuclear distance. This has the theoretical advantage of enabling the molecular virial theorem to be satisfied and the practical advantage, as shown by some examples, of improving the agreement with experiment particularly for the lighter molecules. The calculation of the scale factor requires two more integrals but the equilibrium internuclear distance and the force constant can still be interpreted electrostatically.


ABSTRACT Through an exploration of the reconstruction process of the town of Santa Olga, which acquired nationwide relevance in Chile when it was destroyed by massive wildfires that occurred in 2017, in this paper we attempt to explain a paradox: that which totally destroys Santa Olga is precisely what ends up saving it. To do this, we first unravel the birth of the town to try to understand why, for its inhabitants, Santa Olga can be sacrificed. Then we describe the visibility that Santa Olga reached, thanks to its tragedy. Finally, we reflect on the way the velocity of disasters enables or limits the visibility of the sacrifices they convey, an interplay that ends with an unfinished extinction.


Growth of WiMAX as a mobile wireless broadband access solution will depend on limiting the number of design solutions and the amount of different components needed.


This essay explores the role of rewriting in postmodern fiction, whether it goes under such names as appropriation, adaptation or the interaction between a hypotext and a hypertext. The core of the article is concerned with a minute comparison between H. P. Hartley's novel  The Go-Between  (1953) and Jose Emilio Pacheco's  Las batallas en el desierto  (1981). Similarities such as the role of a child/adult narrator, his infatuation with a mature woman, the traumatic experience it entails, how a distant past is recreated, the clash of opposite social classes, the narrative thematics of music, as well as other minor details are brought to the fore.


Airbnb is a new phenomenon and many people claim to be triggering an unstoppable growth of real estate prices. This project analyzes which part of it is true and which is the effects on prices of the owner5occupied housing market in the city of Amsterdam due to the implementation of the platform Airbnb. The analysis has consisted in geo5localizing both the houses sold since 1986 until 2018 and the Airbnb units. Taking the number of Airbnb, in two different radius, hedonic price models have been used to find the impact of it, considering the location, physical, environment and time effects of each observation. Two techniques have been used, a cross5sectional for the whole dataset and a panel data for those houses repeatedly sold during the period. Both approaches give a positive and significant effect on the housing market, which amounts from 3% to 33%, on average, depending on the method and
the case chosen.


Abstract Rationale: Postmortem imaging (PMI), including computed tomography (PMCT), postmortem computed tomography angiography (PMCTA), and postmortem magnetic resonance imaging (PMMRI), is rapidly becoming effective and a practical method in forensic medicine. This study aimed to present a specific forensic case in which the PMI approach and its applications were used. Patient concerns: A 40-year-old male patient had moderate unilateral nose bleeding constantly 10 times after suffering from a head injury induced by a car accident. After a bilateral massive nose bleeding for the last time, he died from hemorrhagic shock. Traumatic internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm (TICAP) was suspected in this patient. Diagnosis, interventions, and outcomes: A whole-body scanning was performed using PMCT and PMMRI. Then, PMCTA using left ventricular cardiac puncture was also implemented. A water-soluble contrast agent was injected into the left ventricle and pumped toward the intracranial, followed by a repeated whole-body PMCT scan. The PMCT/PMMRI detected a high-density/signal mass inside the left sphenoid sinus. The PMCTA detected a distinct leakage of the contrast agent into the left sphenoid sinus from an adjacent aneurysm of the C3 section of the left internal carotid artery. Autopsy and histology confirmed a TICAP inside the sphenoid sinus. Lessons: This case showed that the PMI was of great value for identifying the cause of death in special cases. When vascular lesions are suspected in the body, PMI and especially the PMCTA approach may be an effective detection method.


White society in India and Ceylon, as you can see in Kipling's stories, was always suburban. In Calcutta and Simla, in Colombo and Nuwara Eliya ... relations between Europeans rested on the same kind of snobbery, pretentiousness, andfalse pretensions as they did in Putney or Peckham.... [T]he flavour or climate of one's life was enormously affected, even though one might not always be aware of it, both by this circumambient air of a tropical suburbia and by the complete social exclusion from our social suburbia of all Sinhalese and Tamils. (17-18)


The invention discloses a device for treating waste fusel liquor. The device comprises a packed tower and a wastewater tower, wherein the packed tower is communicated with the wastewater tower through a conveying pipe; a conveying pump is connected to a pipeline of the conveying pipe; the wastewater tower comprises a tower body, a condenser, a reboiler and liquid distributors; the exterior of the tower body is sequentially connected with the condenser and the reboiler; two or more than two liquid distributors are fixed inside the tower body. The device has the advantages that various alcohols in the waste fusel liquor are separated out, the discharged water accords with the national standard, and the environment is not polluted.


Youth tourism is a growing phenomenon in the international tourism economy. One key dimension of youth tourism is backpacking. As a result of apartheid imposed sanctions, South Africa is a latecomer to the global industry of backpacking. This article analyses the emergence, organization, and developmental potential of backpacker tourism in South Africa. With growing national government support for backpacking in South Africa, a key finding is that backpacker tourism can be a lever for promoting local economic development in undeveloped and peripheral tourism regions.


This research aim to know the consumer assessment to dimension of service
quality. Sample taken away from a shop consumer self service in Yogyakarta
a number of 120 people, with the technique of accidental sampling.
Research hyphothesis tested by using method of Mean Aritmatica, Different
Test Two Mean, and Anova. The result analyse obtained by that : first,
dimension of service quality getting highest assessment is dimension of
physical aspect, second, there is different of consumer assessment to
dimension of service quality of pursuant to age, gender, and work.
Keywords : Physical aspect, reliability, personal interaction,
problem solving, and policy.


In this paper, we first review some of the innovations in modeling mentalizing.Broadly, this involves building models of computing World Model and Theory of Mind(ToM). A simple framework, FaithNet, is then presented with concepts like persistence, continuity, cooperation and preference represented as faith rules.FaithNet defines a generative model that can sample faith rules. Our FaithNet utilize a general-purpose conditioning mechanism based on cross-attention, offering computations that best explain observed real-world events under a Bayesian criterion. Our code will be released at https://github.com/ggsonic/GIN faith can generalize to the behavior of different entities, living entities, abstract concepts, social groups, etc. under different conditions. And it can be continuously compressed and optimized with the increase of individual experience, making the calculation faster and the generalization ability more advanced and abstract. It is even solidified into a neuron-level composition and passed on to future generations to achieve knowledge or ability-level transmission.


In a balancing test, ten normal-hearing listeners adjusted filtered speech-shaped babble-noise to equally loud levels. On average, they selected about 10 dB less gain for bands below 1 kHz than for bands above and including 1 kHz. The findings applied to two bandwidths (octave and equivalent rectangular bandwidth) and two levels (65 and 85 dB SPL). The outcome suggests that hearing aid fitting procedures aiming to equalize loudness of speech bands should prescribe less low-frequency gain than procedures aiming to normalize loudness of speech bands. A significant interaction was found between bandwidth and input level for the high-frequency bands.


Energy conservation and emission reduction can be achieved by a optimal allocation of generator load with energy-saving generation dispatch strategy.The start-up and shut-down of generator,regulation ability of generator,period coupling,grid loss and generation substitution are analyzed in detail for the improvement of Jiangsu generation dispatch.The solutions for the problems are also investigated.The practical data from Jiangsu power grid indicate that energy-saving generation dispatch is effective in decreasing coal consumption comparing with impartiality and openness generation dispatching mode.Furthermore,the stability and power flow issues resulting from energy-saving generation dispatch are analyzed in detail.Finally,the feature of Jiangsu energy-saving generation dispatch is presented comparing with the dispatching mode of Zhejiang power grid.


avoiding contact with fern plants (by using gloves or tweezers when handling the young plants). 6 other employees doing exactly the same work were completely free of symptoms. Both patients were patch tested for 24 h with the European standard series and on several occasions with all constituents of the culture medium, crushed young leaves of 5 different Nephrolepsis species (as is, without spores), spores, water, ethyl alcohol, diethyl ether and acetone extracts of young leaves (10% wjv), and pesticides, readings being made at 24, 48 and 72 h according to ICDRG grading.


A head and shoulders studio portrait of a young woman wearing a white blouse and heart pendant, taken against a plain dark background with vignetting. William John Howship (1874-1932) opened a photography studio business in Nunn Street Benalla in April 1904. He expanded the business by selling small format Kodak cameras and providing a 24 hour film processing service as well as the actual photography work, both studio and outdoor. The collection consists of 1250 dry plate glass negative images created by Howship between 1904 and 1931. Images include views of Benalla and surrounding districts, local events such as floods, concerts and military ceremonies and a large body of portrait work.
Comments: See also UMA/I/5083.
Inscription: Miss I. [or J.] Malone[y] is written on the edge of the negative.
Previous Control Number: UMA/I/5082
Previous Control Number: GPNB/375


Score of the role of the contractile reserve of the left ventricular free wall in patients with ischemic and dilated cardiomyopathy was investigated for the selection of candidates for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). Local reserve contractility was studied by assessing the dynamics of myocardial systolic velocity by tissue Doppler pulsed-wave at rest and at peak postural tests. Preservation of contractile reserve is the most important factor for response to СRT compared with dyssynchrony.


Objectives—Combining clinical, radiographic, functional, and serum protein biomarker assessment, this study defines the prevalence and clinical characteristics of ILD in a large cohort of patients possessing anti-Jo-1 antibodies. Methods—Clinical records, pulmonary function testing, and imaging studies determined the existence of ILD in anti-Jo-1 antibody positive (anti-Jo-1 Ab+) individuals accumulated in the University of Pittsburgh Myositis Database from 1982–2007. Multiplex ELISA of serum inflammatory markers, cytokines, chemokines, and matrix metalloproteinases in different patient subgroups then permitted assessment of serum proteins associated with anti-Jo-1 Ab+ ILD. Results—Among 90 anti-Jo-1 Ab+ individuals with sufficient clinical, radiographic, and/or pulmonary function data, 77 (86%) met criteria for ILD. While computerized tomography scans revealed a variety of patterns suggestive of underlying UIP or NSIP, review of histopathologic abnormalities in a subset (n=22) of individuals undergoing open lung biopsy demonstrated a preponderance of UIP and DAD. Multiplex ELISA yielded statistically significant associations between Jo-1 Ab+ ILD and elevated serum levels of CRP, CXCL9, and CXCL10 that distinguished this subgroup from IPF and anti-SRP Ab+ myositis. Recursive partitioning further Corresponding Authors: Dana P. Ascherman, M.D. Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, BST S707, 3500 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, Phone: (412) 383-8734, FAX: (412) 383-8864, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Ivan O. Rosas, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, Phone: (617) 278-0434, FAX: (617) 264-5133, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. *contributed equally to this work NIH Public Access Author Manuscript Arthritis Rheum. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2010 July 1. Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Rheum. 2009 July ; 60(7): 2183–2192. doi:10.1002/art.24631. N IH PA Athor M anscript N IH PA Athor M anscript N IH PA Athor M anscript demonstrated that combinations of these and other serum protein biomarkers can distinguish these subgroups with high sensitivity and specificity. Conclusion—In this large cohort of anti-Jo-1 Ab+ individuals, the incidence of ILD approaches 90%. Multiplex ELISA demonstrates disease-specific associations between Jo-1 Ab+ ILD and serum levels of CRP as well as the IFN-γ-inducible chemokines CXCL9 and CXCL10, highlighting the potential of this approach to define biologically active molecules contributing to the pathogenesis of myositis-associated ILD.


The invention provides a knowledge assisted space-time adaptive processing method integrating generalized symmetrical structure information. The knowledge assisted space-time adaptive processing method integrating the generalized symmetrical structure information comprises steps of (1) performing linear transformation through an unitary transformation matrix and transforming an original space-time adaptive processing problem to be in a form which is equivalent to the original space-time adaptive processing problem to enable a covariance matrix of the original space-time adaptive processing problem to be transferred into a real symmetric matrix in the same dimension from a generalized symmetric matrix; (2) obtaining an estimation of the transformed covariance matrix according to sample data; (3) solving an optimal real symmetric estimation of a prior covariance matrix under the minimum Euclidean distance; (4) solving a minimum mean square error estimation through a generalized linear combination and convex combination method in combination with training samples and the prior covariance matrix; (5) obtaining detector forms under part of uniform model and random non-uniform model assumption according to a two-step design and achieving target detection. The knowledge assisted space-time adaptive processing method integrating the generalized symmetrical structure information has the advantages of effectively reducing demanded quantity of the training samples during covariance matrix estimation in the space-time adaptive processing, remarkably improving the detector performances and being simple in achievement.


Commentary: When this essay first appeared more than 10 years ago, it built on a small but substantial body of scholarship that declared scientific writing an appropriate field for rhetorical analysis. In the last 10 years, studies of scientific writing for both expert and lay audiences have increased exponentially, drawing on the long-established disciplines of the history and philosophy of science. These newer studies, however, differ widely in approach. Many take the perspective of cultural critique (e.g., the work of Bruno Latour and Stephen Woolgar), whereas others use the tools of discourse analysis (e.g., Greg Myers, M.A.K. Halliday, and J. R. Martin). But, application of rhetorical theory also thrives in the work of John Angus Campbell, Alan Gross, Charles Bazerman, Jean Dietz Moss, Lawrence J. Prelli, Carolyn Miller, and many others. Randy Allen Harris offers a useful introduction to this field in Landmark Essays on Rhetoric in Science (1997). "Accommodating Science" applies ideas from classical rhetoric and techniques of close reading typical of discourse analysis to the question of what happens when scientific reports travel from expert to lay publications. This change in forum causes a shift in genre from forensic to celebratory and a shift in stasis from fact and cause to evaluation and action. These changes in genre, audience, and purpose inevitably affect the material and manner of re-presentation in predictable ways. Two concerns informed this study 10 years ago: the impact of science reporting on public deliberation and the nature of technical and professional writing courses. These concerns have, if anything, increased (e.g., the campaign on global warming), warranting continued scholarly investigation of the gap between the public's right to know and the public's ability to understand.


The European Union directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (RED) needs to be implemented into national legislation of the member states not later than 5 December 2010. The RED sets sustainability criteria for transportation biofuels and other bioliquids. The criteria concerning the origin of raw materials are qualitative where as quantitative criteria are set for greenhouse gas emissions of production/supply chains. For the determination of greenhouse gas emissions the RED provides default values, which can be used under certain conditions. In addition, a specific guidance on how to calculate GHG emission reductions is also given. This report explores and examines concepts and definitions associated with the qualitative and quantitative sustainability criteria given in the RED. In addition, features of the system capable to handle specific and problematic issues related to monitoring, reporting and verification of the sustainability data regarding supply chains of biofuels and other bioliquids are illustrated and discussed. ISBN 978-951-38-7491-9 (URL: http://www.vtt.fi/publications/index.jsp) Series title and ISSN Project number VTT Working Papers 1459-7683 (URL: http://www.vtt.fi/publications/index.jsp) 39728 Date Language Pages October 2010 Finnish, Engl. abstr. 130 p. + app. 7 p. Name of project Commissioned by Sustainability of biomass utilisation in changing operational environment (SUBICHOE) – WP1 IMPRESSIVE Tekes, TEM, MMM


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Ion traps have achieved a leading position in life science applications. This is mainly due to their flexibility, robustness, the extraordinary multiple MS/MS capabilities and to the unmatched MS/MS sensitivity at high duty cycle. The commercial availability of ETD strongly increased their use in detailed structure elucidation of proteins and peptides. Especially for these applications there is a strong demand to resolve the isotopic structure of highly charged ions over a large seamless m/z-range at analytical feasible scan-speed and sensitivity. Preparing Ion-Traps for the expanding ultra-fast chromatography, for the requirements of top-down ETD/PTR workflows and to sharpen their position with respect to alternative techniques it is crucial to push the limits of their key performance factors. Presented here is technology and performance of the Bruker amazon ion trap. Its two-stage funnel ion guide results in a substantially increased ion flux and MS/MS sensitivity. The improved control of the non-linear ejection process and the trap environment supports faster scan modes as well as a higher mass resolution. The increased spectral rate can even be maintained during positive/negative ion mode switching due to a novel zero-dead time ion inlet system. The performance factors (sensitivity, resolution, scan rate and polarity switching) have been investigated systematically in several applications: peptide identification in complex matrices, clinical screening applications, and top down ETD/PTR workflows.


Abstract The rivers of the north Bihar plains, eastern India, pose three major fluvial hazards: rapid lateral migration, frequent flooding and extensive bank erosion. Lateral shifting of the Kosi, Gandak and several other rivers in the area has been attributed mainly to neotectonic tilting and subsidence of the area, and to some extent, local topography and sedimentological readjustments in the basin. Overbank flooding is a perennial problem, with most of the rivers of the north Bihar plains causing enormous damage to life and property. The construction of embankments along major portions of the rivers is only a short-term solution to mitigate floods not only because of frequent breaches in the embankment due to extremely high discharges during high flows but also because of the fact that these rivers carry a high sediment load causing rapid siltation and thereby raising the water level in a few years' time. Severe bank erosion takes place during the lateral shifting of rivers as well as during high flows. Efforts to prevent these fluvial hazards in the area have largely failed as the geological and geomorphological considerations have not been taken into account.


Photograph of two men wrangling captures turkeys. In the foreground, a man in a coat holds a turkey by its legs, while another man is behind him pulling the expansive net off of some other birds. A truck and stone wall appear behind them.


What is the natural beauty and what can be called beauty in the nature? Although there are many argumentations in Chinese and foreign history of aesthetics from different angles with various methods and resulting in widely distant conclusions,there is one common point: emphasizing the consciousness of natural beauty or the objects' natural form in accordance with human consciousness.Marx studied the origin of natural beauty from the social practice of human beings.He believes that the natural beauty derives from the "personification" of the nature and the "objectification" of human intrinsic strength,and it is the result of "materialization" of human intrinsic strength on the objects in the social practice of human beings.Therefore,practicality is the logical beginning point of Marx's natural aesthetics.


Seasonal changes in physical, chemical and biological aspects of 16 ephemeral saline lakes in the Lake Corangamite district of western Victoria were studied. High temperatures, high salinities and low dissolved oxygen levels were recorded in the summer months. The less saline lakes contained a halophilic fauna which included Branchinella compacta, Daphniopsis pusilla, Boeckella triarticulata and Mesochra sp. In the more saline lakes, where salinity did not fall below 40%, at any time during the year, a truly halobiont fauna was present consisting of Parartemia zietziana, Calamoecia salina, C. clitellata, Microcyclops arnaudi, Australocypris robusta, Diacypris sp, and Platycypris sp. The occurrence of these halobiont species appeared to be controlled by salinity, new upper salinity records showing that all these species tolerate salinities well in excess of 100‰. Autecological studies on P. zietziana showed that development proceeded through 15 juvenile stages. Both subitaneous and resting eggs were produced with salinity being the controlling factor. Resting eggs hatched in response to a salinity drop over an approximate range of salinities of 50-200‰. In many populations development of the juveniles was retarded in stages 12-14. The length of adults was found to vary inversely with salinity. The occurrence of P. zietziana is discussed and it is concluded that the species occurs only in highly saline, astatic localities.


Introduction The extensive availability of the internet has led to the recognition of problematic usage of the internet (PUI) or so called internet addiction (IA), probably mostly involving adolescents. Aim Here we present a study focusing on the incidence and consequences (including burnout, which is relatively rarely studied) of internet addiction among high school students using a questionnaire-based non-random sampling cross-sectional survey. Included questionnaires were the Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire, the Maslach Burnout Inventory General Survey for Students MBI-GS (S), the 9-item short version of Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-SF), the Athens Insomnia Questionnaire and the EQ-5D (quality of life) questionnaire. Data were evaluated the exertion of Student's t-test, chi square test and Pearson's rank-order correlation. Logistic regression analysis was used to determine the significance of the different parameters as independently associated with PUI. Results Overall 3,000 paper-based questionnaires were successfully delivered and 2,540 responses received (response rate of 84.6%). 1,309 males (mean age 17.6 ± 1.43 years) (51.5%) and 1,231 females (mean age 17.5 ± 1.4 years) (48.5%) took part in our study. Problematic usage of the internet was detected in 486 (19.1%) students (232 males, mean age 17.6 ± 1.35 years and 254 females, mean age 17.34 ± 1.37 years). In a logistic regression analysis sleep disturbance (OR: 1.84, 95% CI: 1.83–2.03), depression (OR: 1.97, 95% CI: 1.77–2.02) and burnout (OR: 1.8, 95% CI: 1.16–1.94) were significantly associated with PUI. Conclusion Nearly one fifth of our study population suffered from PUI, which was strongly associated with school burnout, insomnia and depression, which underlines the importance of this phenomenon.


Authoritarian states in Asia often borrow legal institutions from their democratic counterparts for the purposes of nation-building and economic development, with some of them subsequently going through a democratic transition. Japan and Taiwan have followed this trajectory and dealt with very similar international and domestic dynamics surrounding their constitutional revisions. During this process, the politically dominant parties of both countries engineered their legitimacy against constitutionality, which were not closely intertwined. This essay compares their recent constitutional revisions (Japan's in 2015 and Taiwan's throughout the 1990s) and suggests that democratic Japan appears to have acted in a more authoritarian fashion than authoritarian Taiwan. This essay analyses this phenomenon through the lens of authoritarian legality and its legacy. It argues that the constitutional dualism theory is ill-suited for understanding Japan's informal constitutional revision, and that the dynamics of geopolitics in Asia and the two countries' socio-political structures, alongside the influence of authoritarian legality, better explain their different attitudes towards constitutionalism.


The Republican National Convention (RNC) is coming to town. For weeks now, radical and independent media websites have acted as clearing houses for the astonishing range of planned street theatre events, demonstrations, spokes-councils, and meetings of grassroots democratic groups. Meanwhile, the New York Times reports that the FBI is calling at the homes of activists; rumours circulate that the police have organised forty-foot holding vans for the anticipated arrestees, and that the court schedules have been cleared for the last weekend in August. The 'free speech zone' at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Boston last month was a chicken-wire cage under a fly-over. Protesters were quick to subvert this one, kneeling, hooded and bound, in mock-Guantanamo poses, alongside the fences. The big anti-Bush, anti-war march organised by the group United for Peace and Justice in NYC on 29 August has been routed, not into Central Park, but down the unshaded West Side highway, where the temperature is likely to be 90 degrees. There is speculation that the authorities want trouble. Whose city is this, anyway? On the Staten Island Ferry, which hauls commuters back and forth between Staten Island and the financial district of lower Manhattan, tourists and weary travellers watch the Statue ofLiberty slidepast the window. It is 27 August, and there is a larger than usual police and law enforcement presence on board – passengers look anxiously around to see what might be happening – the whole area is on a heightened terror alert because of the Convention. A group of people dressed in knee breeches, eighteenthcentury dresses and red and blue spangled hats are handing out leaflets; the passengers shuffle nearer, and jostle to see better, as the group, accompanied bymusic, lead the way to the front of the ferry. Once there, they unroll a large parchment and arrange themselves in the image of the famous painting of 1. See for example: http://www.nyc. indymedia.org; http://www.counter convention.org; http://www.united forpeace.org; http:// www.notinourname. net/rnc (all accessed August 2004); http://www. rncnotwelcome.org (accessed June 2005). For image archive, see independent photographer Fred Askew's work documenting political action and performance protest in NYC and beyond at http://www. fredaskew.com (accessed December 2004). See also L. Bogad, 'Billionaires for Bush: a Postmortemist Accounting', Contemporary Theatre Review, 15:1 (2005). Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 16(1), 2006, 51 – 61


We extend well-known results for convex games (Maschler et al., 1972) to a more general class of games named almost-convex games, that is, games where all proper subgames are convex. We prove that for any balanced almost-convex game the bargaining set coincides with the core. We also prove that the kernel of any zero-monotonic almost-convex game reduces to the nucleolus. In contrast to the above results, the core of a balanced almostconvex game is stable in the sense of von Neumann-Morgenstern if and only if the game is convex.


Dramatic changes in the labor world have aroused unsuspected conflicts. The number of workers whose income is insufficient to support their basic needs has been increasing over the years. Therefore, the number of employees who are likely to commit theft against their employers's possessions tend to ascend as well, rising the amount of just cause dismissals. The faulty acts that can be committed by employees are listed in article 482 of CLT. In this work, only improbity acts will be examined, and, among those, ones that configure thefts. However, due to the exculpatory causes of illegality, not every behavior that fits in the above-mentioned legal type configures crime. Who steals under flagrant necessity does not commit crime, such as one who practices the so-called "hunger theft" (furto famélico), whose notion demands restudying, on account of the current precarization of labor and deregulation of labor laws. This work suggests the balance between the extreme narrowing of the idea of "hunger theft", because the just cause dismissal is extremely harmful to the worker, and the exaggerated magnifying of the concept, which would lead to the legalization of criminal behavior in companies. The theft committed in flagrant necessity is always an extreme situation; the limits of that balance are only trustworthy in view of the concrete situation. Based on both bibliographical research and statistical data obtained from IBGE and DIEESE, this work concludes that there is the possibility that employees attempt against the patrimony of their employers without perpetrating an act of improbity and suffering just cause dismissal.


Google can attribute its success to its simple, yet effective, usefulness. It serves its purpose well. Why? Because it is tailored to satisfy its customer's needs. No more, no less. A focus, so strategic, so well maintained, that it will ensure Google's sustainability as a cash-generating machine, which is its intent, so long as it is managed as well as it has been, up to now. The principles embodied in this lesson apply equally to everyone, and everything.


Observation of soil salt content plays an important foundation role in enhancing the research of monitoring and prediction for soil salinity. In order to study the problem of soil salinity in the oases of arid regions,we use traditional statistics and geostatistics combined with the geographical information system(GIS) technology to investigate the spatial variability and spatial distribution of soil salt content in the delta of the Weigan and Kuqa rivers. The results show that the soil salt content in three successive layers in this oasis exhibit moderate spatial variation,and the degree of this variation decreases as soil depth increases. Both the structure and the stochastic factors are of important influence for the spatial variation,and have a strong spatial autocorrelation. The rational sampling quantity of three layers should be at 0.05 level with a 20% relative error. Gaussian models were fitted for semi-variance of 10-30cm and 30-50cm layers. Considering the compound scale effect of spatial variation,the nested spherical models were fitted for semi-variance of topsoil. The kriging model and the isogram maps accurately demonstrate the spatial distribution and the variation tendency. These research results have provided a reference for the survey and quality evaluation of soil salt content and can be used as a guide for meliorating and utilizing the soil salinity.


This thesis examines the experiences of parents (both mothers and fathers) with mental illness. Following a tradition of sociology, this thesis is guided by the concepts of 'generosity' from Frank and 'stigma' from Goffman and 'risk' from Lupton. The thesis has gathered data from three sources. In-depth interviews with parents with mental illness are explored to gain an insight into their lived experiences of parenthood and mental illness. The national and state mental health policies on mental illness are analysed in order to assess their applicability to support services for parents with mental illness. The submissions to the Senate Select Committee Inquiry on Mental Health (2006) are also analysed to gain further information about the experiences of parents with mental illness based on a small number of submissions relating to their perspectives. Analysis of the data collected and assimilated in this thesis provides a clear picture of the troubled terrain faced by parents with mental illness. The narratives from the interviews reveal stories of long-term mental health issues for parents with mental illness whose parenting role is largely unsupported. Analysis of this data provides a greater understanding of how parents negotiate their parenting role within the context of socially prescribed notions, limited agency, and limited capacity due to a lack of support services for parents with mental illness. Analysis of mental health policies highlights the disparity between policy and practice. Whilst national mental health policies are now in place, parenthood continues to be overlooked through the continued medicalisation of people with mental illness, and policies that operate under an individualist and economic rationalist discourse. The motivation for this research was to elicit increased understanding and insight into how parental mental illness affects experiences of parenthood. This thesis focuses upon lived experience, social processes, and social policies relating to parents with mental illness. The specific contribution of this research to the sociology of mental health is that it documents for the first time parenthood as lived by parents with mental illness. Finally, it offers theories as to how the gaps in policies and services can be filled to support the 'silent' parents whose parenthood is so often unacknowledged the lack of attention paid to their mental illness.


Presents corrections to affiliation information in the paper, "Image classification using rapideye data: Integration of spectral and textual features in a random forest classifier," (Zhang, H., et al),IEEE J. Sel. Topics Appl. Earth Observ. Remote Ses., vol. 10, no. 12, pp. 5334–5349, Dec. 2017.


This study seeks to identify pedagogical best practices and instructional techniques that will facilitate end-user learning and improve adoption of enterprise systems . The study summarizes fifteen sources that explore how training and knowledge management represent challenges for Enterprise Systems implementations, why successful end-user training is important for system adoption, and what best practices and instructional techniques can be applied to more effectively train end-users during an Enterprise System implementation to support a successful project.


Treatment of (2, [Ru] = (η5-C5H5)(dppe)Ru, dppe = Ph2PCH2CH2PPh2) with ICH2CN at room temperature affords the S-alkylation product [Ru]CC(Ph)C(NPh)SCH2R+ (3a, R = CN). Deprotonation of 3a by n-Bu4NOH in acetone induces a novel cyclization reaction and yields the neutral five-membered-ring heterocyclic complex (5a), which isomerizes to the 2-aminothiophene complex (6a). Treatment of 2 with organic bromides BrCH2R affords both S-alkylation products (3b, R = CO2CH3; 3c, R = p-C6H4CN; 3d, R = Ph) and N-alkylation products [Ru]CC(Ph)C(S)NPhCH2R+ (4b, R = CO2CH3; 4c, R = p-C6H4CN; 4d, R = Ph) in varying ratios. Base-induced cyclization of a mixture of 3b and 4b occurs only for the 3b component to afford (5b), whereas cyclization of a mixture of 3c and 4c occurs for both complexes, yielding 5c and the pyrrole-2-thione complex (7c), respectively. Cyclization of a 3d−4d mixture occurs only for 4d to afford (7d). The structures of 6a and 7c were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis.


Purpose – Proposes providing an insight about enterprise resource planning (ERP) adoption, highlighting contact points and significant differences between the way small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) and large companies approach such a task.Design/methodology/approach – The research is based on a wide literature review, focused on the identification of a taxonomy of business and organizational factors influencing ERP adoption. The deriving research model was incorporated in a questionnaire that was preliminarily tested and finally provided to a sample of 366 companies of any size. Responses were collected through personal interviews made by a dedicated team to a top manager.Findings – The analysis of the empirical data shows that business complexity, as a composed factor, is a weak predictor of ERP adoption, whereas just company size turns out to be a very good one. In other words, companies seem to be disregarding ERP systems as an answer to their business complexity. Unexpectedly, SMEs disregard fin...


Ovarian carcinoma antigen, clone OV632 (OV632) is a murine monoclonal antibody derived from an ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma. ' Several reports have stated that this antibody selectively stains nonmucinous ovarian adenocarcinomas and malignant mesotheliomas with rare positivity found in other nonmammary adenocarcinomas and malignant melanoma.'-3 No staining was found in reactive mesothelial cells. 2,3 Owing to this antibody's specificity, claims were made for its potential use in the diagnosis of mesotheliomas in male patients. (These studies were performed on frozen surgical or air-dried cytology specimens.)


We provide explicit upper bounds for the multiplicities of the irreducible factors for some classes of polynomials in two variables X, Y over a field K, regarded as polynomials in Y with coefficients in K[X] whose degrees satisfy certain inequalities. We then obtain similar results for polynomials in an arbitrary number of variables over K.


To meet the needs of the information community, Architecture colleges also participate in basic computer educational activities. This article describes the problems of basic computer education in architectural colleges, the further several reform measures to improve the quality of basic computer education. From teaching research, curriculum development, the experiment carried out, many aspects such as teacher training were introduced to improve the quality of basic computer education.


The relationship between Pieter Brueghel the Younger's Massacre of the Innocents in Sibiu and Pieter Bruegel the Elder's original version in Hampton Court is examined as part of a technical study of the copy's techniques and materials. The authenticity of its atypical signature is affirmed. The oak panel with its maker's mark, black chalk underdrawing, preparatory layers, use of the blue pigment smalt and aspects of painterly handling are discussed in relation to other works examined by the same artist. The likely copying process is also considered.


The paper presents some results of the research into matrimonial relations evolution. Matrimonial relations are the foundation of the family. The quality of the interaction between the spouses affects psychological climate in the family, which is the primary medium for the socialization of future generations. The quality of relations between the spouses changes over time. Love evolves and so do confidence and mutuality, the spouses' views converge along with marital satisfaction. The purpose of this article is to identify how the age of marriage affects the changes in these indicators.


A method for determining traces of cadmium ia nonuranic materials is described. A dithiorone extact of cadmium is passed through activated alumina which is then spectrographed. The cadmium content is found by measurement of the appropriate spectral line. (J.R.D.)


In this article, the scientific researches of various economists are studied in the analysis of the current state of attracting capital through bonds. Moreover, the indicators of bonds issued on the local and international securities market are reflectedon the example of Uzbekneftgaz JSC and Kapitalbank JSB. The state and indicators of the bond market in Uzbekistan in 2020-2023 have been analyzed. On the basis of the performed analysis, appropriate conclusions and proposalsare formed.


We demonstrate enhanced terahertz detection using photoconductive antennas fabricated on superlattices of self-assembled ErAs nanoislands and GaAs. Low-temperature GaAs and radiation-damaged silicon-on-sapphire based detectors are compared in terms of bandwidth, signal-to-noise ratio, and optical efficiency.


The invention relates to novel, active and selective Α 4 integrin antagonists that inhibit the adhesion of cells to cell adhesion molecules. The novel integrin antagonists can be used as therapeutic active substances for preventing and treating diseases associated with a disturbance of the cell adhesion induced by Α 4 integrins.


Topics include: Structural Optimization Sensitivity Analysis Topology and Shape Optimization Optimization for Structural Engineering Practice and Genetic Algorithms and Evolution Strategies.


Interest in the positive effects of humor in the education field is increasing. However, Korean physical education culture is customarily rigid and focused on authority; this unique view has not yet been discarded. To meet social perception changes and to enhance the educational power and competitiveness of general physical education, are required. Hence, this research empirically examined educational effects of humor on general physical education in It identified the relationship between a sense of humor in college general physical education instructors, rapport, class satisfaction, and intent for continuous exercise. K university students in Gyeonggi material for this purpose after setting a population of 420 people, depending on the convenience sampling sample extraction, a survey was conducted. The 389 valid samples of these were used in the final analysis utilizing SPSS 21.0 program, frequency analysis, exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, simple or multiple regression analysis was conducted in accordance with the correlation and the independent variable. The research results indicated that a sense of humor in college general physical education instructors has significant effects on rapport, class satisfaction, and students' intent for continuous exercise; class satisfaction is also a positive predictor of intent for continuous exercise. Based on these findings, related theories and previous research were discussed. Research limitations and future research directions were presented.


In this demonstration we introduce VRSpinning, a seated locomotion approach based around stimulating the user's vestibular system using a rotational impulse to induce the perception of linear self-motion. Currently, most approaches for locomotion in VR use either concepts like teleportation for traveling longer distances or present a virtual motion that creates a visual-vestibular conflict, which is assumed to cause simulator sickness. With our platform we evaluated two designs for using the rotation of a motorized swivel chair to alleviate this, wiggle and impulse. Our evaluation showed that impulse, using short rotation bursts matched with the visual acceleration, can significantly reduce simulator sickness and increase the perception of self-motion compared to no physical motion.


In the vision measurement system of line-structed light,the extracting precision of light stripes center affects the precision of measurement system directly.It is quite difficult to extract light stripes center precisely because of different light-stripes widths,uneven illumination and differences in the nature of the objects surface.According to the characteristics of line-structured light,two extracting algorithms of light stripes center were proposed including two-value morphological thinning algorithm and Gaussian distribution curve fitting algorithm.The experiment results show that two algorithms are feasible in measure,and the latter with higher precision,is more fit for the extracting of light stripes center-line.


Academic developers enact their role in a range of different ways whilst occupying a unique structural position between academic staff and senior managers within higher education institutions (Land, 2004; Manathunga, 2007). Much of the work we do is challenging – such as supporting academic staff to spend time enhancing their teaching when line managers and colleagues often emphasize the importance of research. Academic developers need a range of skills and attributes to undertake their work successfully, including a good measure of diplomacy, resilience, and adaptability. Academic development practice is often varied; it is sometimes piecemeal, sometimes reactive rather than proactive. Also, different academic, institutional, and national contexts and cultures set different demands on our work. In this complex contextual setting, how do academic developers ensure their work is sustained? Unfortunately, there is no handbook or set formula for ensuring that academic developers can achieve successful outcomes and sustain changes in their own and others' academic practice. Yet there are perhaps some underpinning values and principles that can guide us towards this goal. We can plan our work so that it is focused on recurring themes that are unlikely to disappear in academic work, such as assessment, student learning, research–teaching links, scholarship of teaching and learning, and ongoing professional development for academic staff. We can try to ensure we focus our attention on activity at various strategic levels within our institutions, such as interventions at college or faculty level or work affecting curricula across an institution. We also need continually to take a scholarly, critical, and questioning stance to the work we do. This can help to ensure we remain open to changes that might be required in our accepted ways of practicing, and provide new angles on, and approaches to, academic development that may offer alternative ways of sustaining effective work. The articles in this volume cover a range of academic practice and academic development work and they refer to some of the values and principles that can enhance the sustainability of our practice. In the first article, O'Neill, Donnelly, and Fitzmaurice argue that curriculum in higher education is often modularized and fragmented, and that therefore the sequencing of curriculum is crucial for 'promoting a coherent student experience'. They present the outcomes from a phenomenological study across two institutions and across seven different disciplinary programme teams examining the sequencing of curriculum. They found three key themes from their research on curriculum sequencing: the importance of 'developing a collective philosophy; communicating the sequencing clearly; and developing strong building blocks'. The building blocks seem to be critical, but we know from experience as academic developers that academic staff typically conceptualize their subject in different ways and do not necessarily agree about the following: whether knowledge should be built incrementally; if there is a core basic knowledge that


Abstract Purpose: Children with speech and language delay/disorder (SLD) in the developing language stage (DLS) are one of the largest populations served by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) working in paediatric settings. The aim of this study was to investigate the practise patterns adopted by Malaysian SLPs when managing these children. Method: A web-based questionnaire was developed to obtain information about SLPs' practises during assessment, planning and treatment. Result: A total of 53 SLPs completed the questionnaire. When assessing the children, participants either always or usually involved parents, suggesting that they understood the importance of family involvement in services provided. When planning goals, the SLPs relied mostly on their clinical experience and less on research evidence. Participants reported that, most often, they employed a one-to-one approach when providing treatment. There was, however, great variation in the frequency of treatment provided, reflecting the different workplaces of participants. Conclusion: Generally, findings from this study indicated that some practises employed by Malaysian SLPs when managing children with SLD in the DLS are on par with the best practise guidelines, but there is still room for improvement in certain areas such as team collaboration and evidence-based practise. Clinical and research implications are discussed.


The students of rural areas are more interactive with nature and they use to cooperate with each other in everyday activities. This mental approach of country side scholars leads to better academic achievement. The central objective of current paper was to explore the impact of social interaction and cooperative learning (CL) techniques on the academic achievement score of students of rural areas studying at University level. For this intention, experimental research technique was utilized. The study conducted on the B. Ed(Hons) students from 6th and 8th semesters. Forty students of rural area contributed in the study. Among them 20 were female rural students and 20 were male rural students. A self-developed instrument, Social Interaction and Cooperative Learning Scale (SICLS) was used for the quantitative data collection. The achievement score was taken as semester result at the end and before semester from the subjects of teaching of science. To find the difference between male rural students and female rural students' achievement score, t-test was utilized for the quantitative information. Social interaction and cooperative learning was analyzed using Pearson r. The results showed that CL strategy favorably affected learning and achievement score of rural students. The results also revealed that female rural students had achieved better score as compared with male rural students. There is a strong and significant correlation between social interaction and cooperative learning. The cooperation-based learning and teaching environment support collaboration, lifelong learning, positive opportunities, the use and application of scientific concepts, the advancement of social and individual abilities, obliges scholars for effectiveness.


I would like to give my greatest thanks to my supervisors Professor Suzanne Farid and Professor Nigel Titchener-Hooker. Their thoughtful guidance, endless patience, support and inspiration have been instrumental in the completion of this work as well as my personal development over the last few years. I would also like to express my gratitude to my industrial supervisors, Ashley Westlake, for his support in the early stages of the project, Dave Pain for his continuing input and most importantly, Adam Stonier for his contribution from the beginning to the end of the project. I would like to thank the MSAT team in Lonza for making me feel a part of the group and sharing their industrial experience with me. A great thank you to Bixente Martirene and Asahi Kasei for supplying their modules for the studies, and for Bixente's willing to share his professional expertise and enthusiastic support for this work. Great thanks to the Mammalian Cell Lab at UCL for all the fun, advice and cake. Special thanks to Andrew Tait, Lourdes Velez Suberbie and Richard Tarrant for sharing their experience and equipment training in the early stages of the project. Douglas Marsh for ever-constructive discussions and outlook. Thank you to the Vineyard office for all those hilarious, sad and truly fantastic moments we shared. A special thanks to Ana Catarina Da Silva Pinto for all the uplifting chats, lunches and daily support. Lastly, but most importantly, I'd like to thank my family (Mum, Ian, Eugene, Leon, Laz, Imogen, Doug) and close friends for their encouragement and understanding in the countless times when this work seemed to come first.


Objective To discuss the expression and significance of Ki-67 in Barrett esophagus. Methods The expression of Ki-67 was determined by immunohistochemistry technique( SP method) in 45 cases of Barrett esophagus diagnosed by gastroscopy and biopsy( experimental group) and 30 cases of normal esophageal mucosa tissue( control group). Results The positive rates of Ki-67 in Barrett esophagus group and control group were 88. 9% and 33. 5%.The expression of Ki-67 was significantly different between the two groups( P 0. 05). Conclusion Expression of Ki-67 increases in mucous membrane tissue of Barrett esophagus,which reflects the unusually high proliferation activity of epithelial cells. The results also point out that Ki-67 may play an important role in the course of esophageal cancer process.


Introduction: The origin of iron bearing phases in the Martian regolith is classically interpreted as the heritage of titanomagnetite present in the primary magmatic rocks as well as neoformed Fe phases (maghemite and hematite). However, on one hand, recent mass balance studies estimate that up to 10-30% in mass of the regolith matter could be of meteoritic origin [1,2], as meteorite and IDP usually contains 1020% of iron rich phases (sulfides and metal) compared to 1-2% in Martian rocks. Sulfides may also be more common in primary Martian rocks than on Earth [3]. On the other hand, weathering may play a key role in the neoformed oxide production. Nevertheless, the fundamentally different nature of Earth and Mars atmospheres (replacement of O2 by CO2 and presence of peroxides [4,5]) may induce strong variations in terms of oxidation processes. Therefore several possible primary iron minerals have been experimentally weathered, including pure metallic iron, magnetite, as well as hexagonal and monoclinic pyrrhotites, in various atmospheres [6]. Protocol: 10 g of finely powdered phases were put in a dessiccator previously filled with 1L either of pure water or of water containing 33% of hydrogen peroxide H2O2. The desiccators were then equilibrated with gaseous CO2 at the initial pressure of 0.8 bar and the temperature was controlled to remain in the range 1520°C. Such conditions were used to increase kinetics of weathering processes, but also to model a possible primary Martian atmosphere enriched in H2O and CO2. Two types of desiccators have been used for each atmosphere: the first was opened at various weathering steps, and the second type remained closed during the whole experiment (about 500 days) in order to control the influence of the contact of the powders with the Terrestrial atmosphere. The three experimentally weathered phases mentioned above have been characterized at different weathering steps, based on chemical analysis, X-ray diffraction, SEM, TEM and magnetic measurements. Results: Magnetite has been observed to remain extremely stable in both atmospheres, and does not evidence any change during the whole experiment. Thus this phase is likely to be inherited from primary rocks in the Martian regolith through weathering processes. Iron remains stable in the peroxide atmosphere but shows strong changes in water atmosphere, with formation of siderite further destabilized into goethite. A stabilization of iron particles has been observed and results from protective goethite varnishes on the surface of the particles. A similar process on Mars may allow the presence of iron particles in the regolith, contributing to the magnetic properties of the soil. Furthermore, such iron + goethite particles are in good accordance with the composite aspect often invoked by authors to describe the nature of the magnetic fraction attracted by the magnets onboard the landers [7]. Finally the contribution of meteoritic iron may explain the higher Ni content in the regolith than in the fresh part of rocks, as observed by MER Spirit [8]. Pyrrhotites present similar neoformed mineralogies in both atmospheres, i.e. elemental sulfur (ribbon shaped on the TEM figure (A) below), sulfates, and iron (oxy)hydroxides.


SIR, — Shortly after the Netherlands, Belgium notified its first cases of bluetongue on August 18. Suspicions of the disease were confirmed by the detection of specific antibodies by elisa and by real-time reverse transcriptase-pcr performed on whole blood.

Bluetongue has never been diagnosed in


linking the competitive struggles of American business to the failings of our schools. Building on Risk, George Bush convened a governors' conference summit on education in 1989 (chairing the conference was Bill Clinton of Arkansas), out of which came Goals 2000 and the promise of further summits. Hosted by IBM CEO Lewis Gerstner, the educational summits of 1993 and 1996 pushed state after state to standards reform, the "teeth" of which would be high-stakes tests. A primary interest of classroom teachers in such tests builds from the


The use of authentic materials in foreign language teaching has been a growing practice over the last few decades. With the emergence of technology, these materials are more accessible, particularly in digital formats. Despite being primarily designed for non-pedagogical uses, these materials have become valuable resources for English language learning. However, using them effectively for teaching and learning purposes requires a systematic structure. This article examines the use of authentic materials in relation to various language skills, with a particular focus on listening comprehension framed within a pre-, while-, and post-stage cycle at both local and international levels, with the latter referring to the Colombian context. A review of scholarship shows that the use of authentic materials is a seemingly frequent practice among teacher-researchers, but not among a larger audience of practitioners. Additionally, studies do not provide guidance on how to prepare practitioners to design appropriate activities that complement authentic materials. Therefore, after examining studies and based on our teaching-research experience, we aim to contribute to the implementation of a pedagogical strategy that combines the systematic use of authentic materials with listening comprehension and a task design that provides a balance of challenge and support.


The stock-bond correlation has been related to market uncertainty and macroeconomic variables. In this paper, we focus on the common pricing process of Greek stocks and bonds, through the correlation of their returns. We derive dynamic conditional correlations of Greek stock and government bond returns, covering the period 1999-2009. We find that the dynamics of the Greek stock-bond correlation are explained by several risk factors, related to liquidity and market's uncertainty while being subject to spill over effects. Focusing on the recent credit crisis and decoupling effects between stock and bond returns, we find a relation between decoupling effects and market uncertainty and contagion from the Italian market.


Rice husk has become global concern due to the environmental problem since it has been dumped and open burned that contributed to the emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Therefore, utilization of rice husk to other useable product such as silica aerogel for adsorption has been study recently due to the silica content in rice husk is about 60% and this material is sustainable and cost effective. Silica aerogel was prepared from rice husk ash and dried by using ambient pressure drying method with addition of tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) due to its capability to prevent the gel from crack and increase the porosity of gel to increase the capacity of adsorption process. The silica aerogel was further characterized by using Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Elemental Anaylzer (EA) and Scanning Electron Microscopic (SEM). The results show that the silica aerogel was successfully synthesized using rice husk ash. The FTIR studies reveal that silica aerogel produced consist of amorphous silica with Si-O-Si bonding and stretching's. From EA analysis, the carbon in the rice husk decreasing when turn into silica aerogel due to the burning of carbon content in the preparation of silica. The SEM studies confirm that the silica aerogel has a porous structure and has ability to for the application adsorption process such as carbon dioxide adsorption, methylene blue adsorption and others application.


Efforts that must be made by the regional government in tackling or breaking the chain of the Covid-19 pandemic are issuing regulations governing community activities and actions that need to be taken by the regional government. This effort has been made by the City Government of South Tangerang by issuing Mayor Regulation no. 13 of 2020 concerning Implementation of Large-Scale Social Restrictions in the Context of Handling Corona Virus Disease 2019. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the Regulation of Mayor using a qualitative descriptive method with a normative legal study approach using Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA). The results of the study concluded that it was necessary to revise the Regulation of Mayor, especially on the points: social organization activities, the obligation of workplace leaders to ensure that employees do not have co-morbidities, the obligation to provide temperature test kits, regulation of worship activities, explanations about public facilities, the obligation to use masks, community rights, provision of incentives and vaccines, and criteria for administrative sanctions.


In medicine and engineering, the implementation of a diagnostic test using an ultrasonic sensor requires suitable contact conditions, and a correct pose to attain the best signal transmission settings. A soft sensor probe provides a good surface adaptation and forces transfer, but it introduces nonlinearities and noisy measurements, making it difficult to control the probe during a real time test by conventional algorithms. In this work, a data driven controller is developed to control force and pose of a soft contact ultrasound sensor. The adaptive controller is based on a fuzzy-rules emulated network structure with the learning algorithm using a stochastic gradient approximation. The proposed control algorithm overcomes the noise environment conditions and nonlinearities of the unknown nonlinear discrete-time system. This was numerically validated and then, experimentally tested with an industrial robotic system using an ultrasonic probe designed in our lab. The results show that the proposed controller performs well under the contact-force regulation and can find the correct contact orientation with a fast convergence.


The article shows the results of studying the composition and activities of hereditary servicemen in the Samara fortress at the end of the Time of Troubles. The analysis was based on methods of modern "new social history" and "new biographic history". These methods were applied within the selected chronological and local frameworks of the southeastern borders of Russia at the beginning of the 17th century without ego-sources, and the necessary biographical information has been extracted from office documents and acts. Hereditary servicemen were transferred to Samara mainly from the towns and uezds of the Upper Volga. They had to participate in the struggle against internal enemies — supporters of impostors, in repelling attacks by nomads and Cossacks, in ensuring diplomatic contacts and customs service, in establishing ties with the capital, other towns and regions. They made a contribution into construction new fortresses on the Volga, because Samara remained the only Russian fortress between Kazan and Astrakhan during the Time of Troubles. The privileged status of hereditary servicemen in the Samara was due to the performance of responsible military and administrative duties, relatively high salaries, since the majority of them owned only small estates if at all, did not have serfs or owned a tiny number of them. Experienced soldiers and managers sent to serve in Samara contributed to the strengthening of the authorities in the border town and the further colonization of the outlying lands in the southeast of European Russia.


Objective: To evaluate the effect of rhGH administration on thyroid function in children with growth hormone deficiency(GHD) during the six months of the therapy,and the relation between the thyroid function changes and therapeutic effects.Methods: FT3,FT4and TSH were separately assessed before and after 3,6 months of treatment.Height was measured by the same man every morning of the same day,then the height standard deviation score and height velocity were calculated.Results: FT3 significantly was reduced(P0.05) in group GHD comparing the normal control group.The levels of FT3was higher after treatment 3,6 months(P 0.05).After 3-month treatment of rhGH,the level of FT4was lower than the previous(P 0.05),TSH had no significant change before and during rhGH treatment.During the initial phase of rhGH replacemen therapy,growth velocity was quicker than before,it was the same to height standard deviation score.After 3,6-month treatment of rhGH,the level of FT3had a positive correlation with growth rate.Conclusion: It is worth to monitor the changes of thyroid function in the rhGH treatment.


The paper discusses whether the domestic savings will be crowded out by the inflows of foreign capital in China.It is concluded that there is "crowded in effects" in the short run,but "crowded out effects" in the long run.Based on the dynamic relationships between foreign capital and domestic savings,we propose that it is important to improve the efficiency of using foreign capital in order to achieve the optimum adjustment of the over-lapping capital inflows.


Catalyst system for olefin polymerization comprising: a) a support component catalyst comprising aluminoxane which is deposited on an oxide sulfated metal, wherein said oxide sulfated metal characterized by being obtained by treating an oxide directly metal particles with a material having an SO4 group and wherein said particulate metal oxide is characterized by: a. i) have a particle size of between 1 and 200 microns; already. ii) selected from the group consisting of alumina, silica and silica-alumina; b) an organometallic complex of a group 4 metal.


The Victorian Gothic Revival and its focus on liturgical neo-medievalism inspired the 1860s restoration of the medieval Hereford Cathedral. In this restoration, the new screen played a central part. Designed by George Gilbert Scott and manufactured by the firm of Francis Skidmore in Coventry, the screen was commissioned in order to re-unite the choir with the nave. The symbolism and colours decorating the screen harmonized with the medieval and later features of the cathedral, including the high altar reredos, organ pipes, and floor tiles. Hereford Cathedral Library preserves historical accounts of the interior and original music manuscripts by Edward Elgar and Frederick Ouseley that illustrate, with the musical inserts provided, the rich tradition of choral music and liturgy which continues to this day with key liturgies and the annual Three Choirs Festival linking Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester. Memorials and stained-glass windows dedicated to successive precentors embellish the musical vocabulary of the interior. In focusing on the musical culture connected with Hereford Cathedral, this essay seeks to enrich the interpretation of the restored Hereford Screen in its secular setting at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.


This book provides an overview of the progress that has been made in setting up systems to support the evidence based public health movement since the 1990's. It discusses the methodological difficulties of establishing this evidence base and the practical problems of implementation. The book aims to outline the need for evidence based public health practice and to illustrate the work that has been done in the UK and around the world. To this end, I believe it is successful. The book is organized into six main sections. Section one describes the health inequalities problem and addresses the desire of the British Government to move from debate about the nature and causes of health inequalities to a focus on action and what works. The evidence based movement is seen as the vehicle to generate this shift in views. Section two outlines the infrastructure designed by the government to support the development of an evidence based approach, including Cochrane, NICE and the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination. However, these chapters describing what the centers do and how they do it are an unusual inclusion in a textbook and a chapter on each seems somewhat excessive. The content of this section could have been enriched by presenting more of the 'evidence' that is so frequently referred to. For example, chapter five (Centre for Reviews and Dissemination) provides a list of systematic reviews with relevance to public health that have been undertaken. Two abridged examples are provided as appendices but it would have been much more interesting to see these discussed in depth in the main body of the chapter. Section three is very much a 'how to' and offers advice to anyone tasked with activities ranging from reviewing the literature to evaluating a program. There is some degree of repetition both between the chapters within this section and also between sections two and three which adds to the generally disjointed feel of the book. Section four succeeds where section two failed and could be considered the 'core' section of the book. It links together the evidence, policy and practice in areas such as teenage pregnancy, smoking cessation and ethnicity to demonstrate what has been done to tackle health inequalities in the UK since 1997, and successfully gives the reader a clear picture of how the evidence based approach works in practice. Although this book is a collection of government commissioned papers, it is not biased and the chapters in this section on the governments' area based initiatives recognize and reflect on the tensions between central and local goals, and the difficulties in implementation that have been faced.


The environmental information of the indoor scene has great influence on the prediction of the indoor visible light communication channel and the optimal layout of the light source. This article mainly introduces a modeling method for predicting the optical power distribution of indoor visible light communication when a simple furniture is arranged in the room. The method is based on the Lambertian model, which meshes the surface of a wall surface or an indoor object to obtain a small surface element. The microelement is used as a receiver or a secondary light source, and the optical power distribution of indoor visible light communication is simulated and analyzed. It provides a feasible modeling method for indoor visible light communication channel prediction and optimal layout of light sources.


The present invention relates to a vehicle (1) having an inner cross member (3) and one from the inner cross member (3) in a vehicle longitudinal direction (6) spaced outer cross-member (4), wherein between the transverse beams (3, 4) in the vehicle longitudinal direction (6 ) is arranged an energy absorption unit (10) for relieving the collision energy. A simplified and / or inexpensive manufacture of the vehicle and / or an improved collision behavior results from the fact that the energy absorption unit (10) comprises a receiving structure (15) extending in the vehicle longitudinal direction (6) and has at least one receptacle (19) by at least a made of a fiber-reinforced plastic hollow body (21) is arranged which extends in the vehicle longitudinal direction (6). The invention further relates to such an energy absorption unit (10).


We here report a case of primary breast lymphoma (PBL). A 44-year-old woman presented with a painless mass in the right breast. Fine needle aspiration cytology and excisional biopsy were performed. Excisional biopsy revealed low grade lymphoma, which was subsequently confirmed with histopathology and diagnosed as diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). A chest computed tomography scan revealed a 3.5 cm sized breast mass with skin thickening and a small sized lymphadenopathy in the ipsilateral axilla. Radiation therapy including the right whole breast and ipsilateral axilla and supraclavicular lymph node was performed after the patient received four courses of R-CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisolone plus rituximab) chemotherapy. At the follow-up period of 42 months, the patient is surviving with no evidence of disease. No morbidities occurred in this patient during the follow-up period. We also briefly review the current practice pattern in PBL patients with DLBCL.