The publication of Jane Eyre in 1848 caused a sensation in the literary world.It portrayed the image of the first woman who takes independent and positive attitude towards love,life,society and religion and dares to fight and struggle for freedom and equality.The work reflect the repression and torture of male power on the heroines,as well as their resistance.The social status of women is usually under discussion;whereas their status in the family is neglected.Howere,this exactly expresses the idea of women's pursuit of equality and freedom focused on the liberation of mind.The arthor will analyzes the heronies from the aspect and comes the conclusion that they are rebels of female consciousness.


Advances in understanding the structure of giant planets are happening quickly on multiple fronts. New first‐principles equations of state calculations and cutting edge experiments for hydrogen, helium, water, and other planetary materials, are dramatically changing our view of the interior structure and thermal evolution of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The field of transiting exoplanets has led to the addition of over 200 giant planets that can be studied is some detail, as their masses, radii, and bulk densities can be measured. This opens up the possibility of comparing and contrasting our own giant planets to these exoplanets, to better understand giant plants as a class of astrophysical object. (© 2013 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


The opportunity for low-cost controlled thermonuclear fusion may be enabled by operation at megagauss magnetic field levels. Such high fields are usually obtained by magnetic flux compression with imploding liners 1 . It is also possible, however, to achieve megagauss fields in a z-pinch. Historically, a z-pinch becomes unstable before adequate nuclear gains can occur. Use of axial flow with shear can prevent such instability allowing new directions for fusion research 2 . The present paper examines some aspects of a flow- through z-pinch in a coaxial plasma gun. A quasi-steady flow model is used to obtain scaling relations for connection of plasma gun and pinch properties, and to indicate the prospects for fusion energy gain.


There are different types of poultry genetic resources including mutants, inbred lines, specialized/ selected stocks, standard breeds, and elite commercial pure lines. These resources differ in their degree of value to the poultry industry. There is considerable concern within poultry breeding companies about the continuing losses of these genetic resources, particularly as this loss seems to have escalated over the past decade. Varied genetic stocks can provide fundamental information regarding gene function, genetic interactions, and genetic pathways. This information is important for efficient improvement of commercial poultry performance. Equally important is the role of these genetic resources in teaching and the education of students and future researchers. Currently, the only practical preservation method for birds in the poultry industry involves live bird conservation. Flocks of elite commercial stocks are maintained at multiple locations, providing insurance against disease outbreak and the possibility of quarantine restrictions. The current cryopreservation methods apply only to


It has been well known that inflammation leads to the decreased ability of drug metabolism in human and animals.Since many inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines produced under the inflammatory conditions,their possible roles in the regulation of drug metabolizing enzymes,specifically cytochrome P450s(CYPs),have been examined to date.Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) produces many cryokines and decreases drug medabolism.LPS is also a potent inducer of heme oxygenase(HO-1).We found that LPS produced the induction of HO-1 via TNFα rather than IL-1,be employing each cytokine knockout mice.Additionally,arthritis model mice exhibited the increase in HO-1 without any changes in total CYP content.Effects of chemicals on HO-1 and CYPs in cytokine knockout mice will also be discussed.


Sealed expansion joint systems are becoming more widely used to minimize drainage and corrosion damage at bridge deck joints. Unfortunately, at this time there are no general design or fatigue design provisions for modular bridge expansion joints (MBEJs) in the U.S. As a result of this lack of design guidance, premature fatigue failures have been documented at the welded and bolted connections of these MBEJ due to truck wheel loads. Research sponsored by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) is currently underway to develop performance-based specifications for the fatigue-resistant design of these MBEJ systems.


Inlet conditions strongly affect the dynamical parameters of a two-phase slug flow. A series of experiments were carried out, in a 6m long Plexiglas pipe having internal diameter 74 mm, to investigate the influence of gas bubble on the flow dynamics inside the slugy body of a unit slug. The pipe was kept inclined at an elevation of 1.160 to consider the terrain slugging mechanism. An optical diagnostic technique, Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) was employed at a point 3.5m from the inlet to measure the instantaneous velocity fields of the flow for each case. Single-phase liquid pipe flow and the slugy body of the two-phase slug flow are the targeted sections for study and comparison. Velocity components, turbulence intensity and average volume flux are measured and compared. The effect of gas bubble on the liquid Reynolds number is also considered. It is noticed that by increasing the gas flow rate velocity, average flux and average kinetic energy increases dramatically in a slugy body of a slug flow reg...


Compared to a dual-mass flywheel clutch,a clutch with torsional vibration damper(TVD) is more in favour by the hybrid powertrain system due to its advantages on compactiveness.By vibration modeling of a hybrid transmission,the selection of the stiffness and the damping coefficient of a TVD were analyzed.


Recently, the problem of climate is becoming more and more serious and the low carbon idea is accepted by people gradually. Meanwhile, the China's logistic develop rapidly. Whereas, distribution as the key part, its importance is obvious to see. So, it is significant to research the distribution of logistic activity based on low-carbon with the low-carbon economy put forward. In this dissertation, the paper analyzes and summarizes the research at home and abroad. And then it distinguishes the different distribution model from economy, service and carbon. Besides, it also combines the joint distribution, the green logistic, circular logistic and reverse logistic to contrast. Based on this, the paper propose the way of calculating carbon emission and then build the math model of calculating carbon emission during distribution activity. At last, it uses the genetic algorithm as a tool to set up a experience platform. By using the platform, it researches the distribution math model based on the carbon emission. It also analyzes the result of the experience, and improve the data of the genetic algorithm.


A simple defined medium (named SW-C medium) was proposed previously for a minimal defined medium of Lipomyces starkeyi IAM 4753. The medium consists of glu cose, biotin, and the minimum amounts of inorganic salts which were expected to be consumed completely during the entire growth of the cells. But the medium failed to support normal growth of the yeast in the retardation and the stationary phases of growth. This paper deals with the improvement of the medium to two kinds of defined media by slight modification of the medium composition. The one (named MC medium) was defined to be a simple medium supporting normal growth progress throughout growth period, and the other (named ML medium) was defined to be a medium having a composition suitable for the production of lipids in the yeast cells. In the first step of the study, modification of the SW-C medium to MC medium was achieved by increasing in NH4+ concentration in the SW-C medium. However, the lipid content of the cells grown in MC medium was very low even at the stationary phase of growth. In the second step of the study, decrease in the concentration of Zn2+ in MC medium was observed to be favorable to increase the lipid content of the yeast in the stationary phase of growth although the level of cell density (total cell number/ml) in the medium decreased. Decrease in concentration of other minor elements, such as Mn2+, Cu2+, Fe3+ also caused decrease in cell density in the stationary phase of growth, but failed in the appreciable increase in lipid content of the cells. A little increase in lipid content of the cells was observed with the increase in Mg2+ concentration in the medium. From these results, the composition of ML medium was determined. (Received January 24, 1977)


The prediction of rock mass stability in sublevel open stope (SLOS) mining is performed in the design of open stopes to estimate the stope size required to reduce operational hazards and achieve continuous production. For almost four decades, the Stability Graph method has been used for this purpose. Several improvements of the Stability Graph method have taken place through the years. However, there is still work to be done. Accordingly, new case studies need to be continuously collected in order to update the Stability Graph, improving its reliability in predicting the stability state of open stopes to a specific site condition.
Two main stages are considered for the collection of new case studies. First, the required geotechnical data of a specific site condition is collected. Then, in the back-analysis of open stopes, performance parameters related with the geometry are calculated, and a stability state is assigned to each case study. When these stages are systematically performed, the Stability Graph can be calibrated, delineating more reliable new stability boundaries.
However, some problems in the collection of new case studies in SLOS operations such as disorder in geotechnical data or miscalculation of performance parameters impede the correct improvement of the stability boundaries. To deal with these problems, several computational tools have been developed and integrated into the software MineRoc®.
This paper shows a geotechnical analysis of a proposed open stope design through an updated version of MineRoc®, using Stability Graph boundaries previously defined. New features of the software and an application to a specific sublevel open stoping mine are presented, illustrating how MineRoc® positively impacts on the mine design and planning processes.


Xiang Jingyu is the pioneer of Chinese women liberation. She disclosed that Chinese women were pressured by a synthetical oppression from the view of Marxism, and the root reason was the private ownership and the male supremacy; she protested that the women' s liberation campaign shoulde be combined with the national revolutionary. She appealed to the Chinese women to be held together, to be organized and united. As well,she emphasized that the socialization of housework was the essential condition of the women' s liberation. Xiang Jingyu' s ideology of women' s liberation contributed to Chinese women's liberation greatly.


A methodology is presented whereby a neural network is used to learn the inverse kinematic relationship for the position and orientation of a manipulator.For the first time the arm solution for the orientation of a manipulator using a self organizing neural net is studied in this paper.By thoroughly studing on Martinetz、Ritter and Schulten′s self organizing neural network based on Kohonen′s self organizing mapping algorithm and Widrow Hoff type error correction rule and closely combining the characters of the inverse kinematic relationship for a robot arm,a new training model of the self organizing neural network is proposed.The computer simulation results for a PUMA 560 robot show that this method gives great imporovement in self organizing capability and precision in training process.


Global Forest Watch (GFW) provides a global map of forest loss derived from LANDSAT satellite imagery, providing a tool for monitoring global forest change. In managed forests, GFW mainly provides information on commercial logging. This study is part of the INVENT project which aims to improve the National Forest Inventory based estimates of Carbon stock changes in forests reported to the UNFCCC. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of using the GFW database to detect carbon stock changes in forest stands, using LiDAR (Light Detecting and Range) data and the stand wise forest database maintained by the State Forest Service (SFS) as additional data sources.


A deta iled descrip ti on is presented of a film-recordin g system in which a randomly occurrin g event a nd its absolu te t im e a re record ed simulta neously . The system co nsists of a 16-millim cter fra min g camera capa bl e of in t ermi tten t operation at a maximum rate of ] 40 fra mes per seco nd (fp s) a nd a clock capa ble of r eading o ut t im e wi t h a n a bsolu te accuracy or plus o r m inu s 1 m illi second (mscc).


In this article we recall a remarkable result stated as "For a fixed ?, 0 < ?
 ? 1, the set of all bounded statistically convergent sequences of order ? is
 a closed linear subspace of m (m is the set of all bounded real sequences
 endowed with the sup norm)" by Bhunia et al. (Acta Math. Hungar. 130 (1-2)
 (2012), 153-161) and to develop the objective of this perception we
 demonstrate that the set of all bounded statistically convergent sequences
 of order ? may not form a closed subspace in other sequence spaces. Also we
 determine two different sequence spaces in which the set of all statistically
 convergent sequences of order ? (irrespective of boundedness) forms a closed
 set.


(A) Video Endoscopy of the Larynx (Videolaryngoscopy) Videolaryngoscopy has become a widely accepted method of laryngeal documentation. In 1954, Yutaka Tsuiki of Japan demonstrated the first successful television recording of the larynx, using a tele-endoscope attached to a large television camera. He then predicted that televised video recording would become a most useful method of laryngeal documentation. 1} Videolaryngoscopy can be accomplished by using a flexible fiberscope, a rigid telescope or an operating microscope attached to a video camera and a video recorder. 2} My first video camera was a Magnavox CV 440 home video camera purchased in 1975. With this color camera, I was able to document my first successful videography of the larynx of a patient with verrucous carcinoma in April of 1977. I have personally used many single tube home video and professional cameras and the three tube Hitachi camera. I have also used many single chip CCD cameras and three chip CCD cameras such as the Karl Storz Tricam and the Stryker 782. 2) Videolaryngoscopy in the office can be accomplished by using a flexible fiberscope or a rigid telescope. Fiberscopic videolaryngoscopy has great value in evaluating and documenting the physiological functions and pathology of the larynx. It permits simultaneous voice and video recording. In 1968, Sawashima and Hirose of Japan introduced flexible fiberscopffc laryngoscopy to laryngology. 3 Since then fiberscopic laryngoscopy was popularized by Brewer, Davidson, Silverman, Selkin, Yamashita, Hirano, Inouye and others. I presented a videotape "Videolaryngoscopy-A comparison of fiber-


Maize and Millet Research Institute (MMRI) situated in Yousuf wala, District Sahiwal, Punjab, Pakistan was selected to grow nine different hybrids/cultivars of millet for study to comprehend the variable concentration of macro, micro and trace and toxic elements in their grains. Wet digestion method was used for the preparation of samples and flame atomic absorption spectrophotometer for analysis of eleven major and minor elements. High values of macro- elements i.e. sodium and potassium was found in ICMP-451 and magnesium in ICMP-53506. The high value of essential micro-elements i.e.zinc (50mg/kg), manganese (8mg/kg), and copper (8mg/kg) was calculated in ICMP-53506, Bullo-94-1, and ICMP-83720 respectively. In case of trace and toxic micro-elements, high concentration of nickel, cobalt, chromium and cadmium was found in O.B.V, Bullo-7704, ICMP-83401, and ICMP-83720 in the edible part of millet plants (grains) cultivars respectively.


Although the basic process of intestinal lipid absorption and transport is understood, many critical aspects remain unclear. One question in particular is whether intestinal lipid absorption and transport differ between the sexes. Using a well‐established lymph fistula model, we found that intact female mice exhibited lower lymphatic output of triacylglycerol (TAG) than male mice. Further analysis revealed that the female mice segregated into two groups: the high group having similar lymphatic TAG transport to the males, and the low group having significantly less lymphatic output, implying the impact of cyclical variation of ovarian hormonal levels. These led us to examine whether oestradiol (E2) and progesterone (P) affect intestinal absorption and lymphatic transport of dietary lipids. In ovariectomized (OVX) rats, E2 treatment significantly reduced [3H]‐TAG lymphatic output through reducing TAG transport; and P treatment decreased [14C]cholesterol (Chol) lymphatic output by inhibiting Chol absorption, compared to vehicle treatment. Gene expression data suggested that E2 enhances vascular endothelial growth factor‐A (VEGF‐A) signalling to reduce the permeability of lacteals, leading to reduced CM transport through the lymphatic system. Interestingly, E2 treatment also increased lymphatic output of apolipoprotein A‐I (apoA‐I), but not apoB‐48 and apoA‐IV, in the OVX rats. Collectively, these data suggested that ovarian hormone‐induced reductions of intestinal lipid absorption and lymphatic transport, as well as increased lymphatic output of apoA‐I, may contribute to a beneficial protection from atherosclerosis in females.


The experiment was connected in the lath house of the Al-Mussaib Technical College during 2016 on pomegranate seedlings and included two factors is the first effect of adding four levels of Special marine organic fertilizer (20, 15, 10, 0) ml. L-1 in three batches. The second factor is spraying the seedlings with a nutrition solution Micro Nate14 in concentrations (20, 15, 10, 0) g.L-1 and in three batches and the interaction between them in some traits of vegetative growth, dry weight of the vegetative group, the leaf content of chlorophyll, N, P, Fe and Mn for seedlings. A factorial experiment was conducted according to the Completely randomized design (C.R.D) with three replicates and three seedlings for the experimental unit. The averages were compared according to the least significant difference test under the probability level 0.05 and the results showed the following: The organic fertilizer spraying at a concentration 15 ml.L-1 treatment excelled in length seedlings average (90.8 cm), leaf area reached (6.5 cm2), dry weight average of (44,53 g), phosphorus and manganese rate (0.36%, 27.66). While treatment of 20 ml.L-1 gave the seedling diameter average was (8.5) mm, the chlorophyll average was (24.1 mg.cm2), nitrogen (1.50%) and the iron average was (139.4 mg.Kg-1) compared to the control seedlings which gave the lowest average. The spraying treatment with a nutrient solution (MICRO NATE 14) at a concentration of 20 g.L-1 significantly excelled on the vegetative traits (plant length, diameter, leaf area and the dry weight average of the vegetative growth) and gave the highest results (89.6 cm, 8.0 mm, 6.4 cm2, 46.36 g) compared to the control treatment, which gave the lowest average, It also significantly affected the chemical traits (the amount of chlorophyll, the percentage of nitrogen and phosphorous and the amount of iron and manganese) and gave averages amounted to (23.7 mg.cm2, 1.54%, 0.38%, 136.0 mg.Kg-1, 28.03 mg.Kg-1), respectively, compared to the control treatment that gave (20.0 mg.Cm2, 1.45%, 0.33%, 126.8 mg.Kg-1, 24.13 mg.Kg-1. The bi-interactions gave significant differences in the traits mentioned above, where the interactions treatments (20 ml (Special marine) and 20 g.L-1 (MICRO NATE 14) gave seedlings length of 94.5 cm, seedling diameter 8.9 mm and leaf area 6.5 cm2, compared to untreated trees and interactions between 15 ml of (Special marine) and 20 g.L-1 (MICRO NATE 14) gave the highest average of dry weight (47,30 g). While the interaction between (15, 20) ml of (Special marine) and 20 g.L-1 (MICRO NATE 14 liters) significantly affected in the chemical traits, compared to untreated trees.


: Nonlinearity and implicitness are common degradation features of the stochastic degradation equipment for prognostics. These features have an uncertain effect on the remaining useful life (RUL) prediction of the equipment. The current data-driven RUL prediction method has not systematically studied the nonlinear hidden degradation modeling and the RUL distribution function. This paper uses the nonlinear Wiener process to build a dual nonlinear implicit degradation model. Based on the historical measured data of similar equipment, the maximum likelihood estimation algorithm is used to estimate the fi xed coef fi cients and the prior distribution of a random coef fi cient. Using the on-site measured data of the target equipment, the posterior distribution of a random coef fi cient and actual degradation state are step-by-step updated based on Bayesian inference and the extended Kalman fi ltering algorithm. The analytical form of the RUL distribution function is derived based on the fi rst hitting time distribution. Combined with the two case studies, the proposed method is veri fi ed to have certain advantages over the existing methods in the accuracy of prediction.


Abstract: It is unclear that organs from other species could grow successfully in the environment of another species. We evaluated the growth capacity of a cardiac xenograft in a rhesus monkey‐to‐juvenile baboon orthotopic heart transplantation model where there exists a discrepancy of the organ size and its growth rate between donor and recipient species. Eight recipient baboons who survived over 60 days were followed for body weight (BW) and the size of xenografts (left ventricular end‐diastolic volume, LVEDV; left ventricular mass, LVM; and left ventricular posterior wall thickness, LVPWT) by echocardiography at 1 week and monthly after xenotransplantation. One baboon is growing along the normal growth curve. The other three baboons gained BW in parallel with normal growth curve except for a few months after surgery. LVEDV, LVM, and LVPWT increased constantly in these four baboons. In one baboon, BW increased over 1 year to 5.5 kg (which was almost the same as BW of adult rhesus monkey) and then plateaued. LVEDV, LVM, and LVPWT increased until 1 year posttransplantation, but then stopped when BW plateaued. In the other four baboons who did not gain BW because of infectious complications or side effects by immunosuppressive therapy, LVEDV, LVM, and LVPWT did not change significantly. We conclude that a cardiac xenograft from a rhesus monkey can successfully grow and support normal growth of a juvenile baboon, but whether a recipient can grow beyond the donor size is yet unknown.


The similarity between the Polya's conjecture and the Bonomol'nyi bound remind us to consider a physical approach to Polya's conjecture. We conjecture a duality between the waves and the soliton solutions on the surface. We consider the special case in the disc.


Pulse propagation is measured in a highly scattering medium and the photon mean free path is measured for different densities of scatterers. We analyze the effect of detector orientation relative to the light source, which is a probe of the anisotropy of the photon current. We compare pulse transmission in an effectively infinite geometry to pulse transmission in a backscattering experiment. We determine the boundary condition at the interface between the scattering medium and the free medium. This consists of linear combinations of absorbing and reflecting conditions.


This paper presents the 5 year results of different cutting intensities (removal of 0%, 40%, 50%, 60%, and 100% of the basal area) applied in two mixed yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis Britt.) – conifer stands of eastern Quebec, Canada. Two sites 90 km apart were used: Armagh and Duchesnay. Each site had four replicates of the treatments in a randomized block design. The effect on light availability was similar in the two sites: the 0%, 40%, 50%, 60%, and 100% cuts transmitting a mean of 5%, 21%, 26%, 30%, and 94% of full light, respectively, during the first summer. Soil temperature increased only in the 100% cut (4−5 °C, maximum daily temperature). Soil disturbance during harvest was higher at Duchesnay than at Armagh, which clearly improved seedbed receptivity, particularly to yellow birch. After 5 years, treated areas contained 21 000 to 48 300 seedlings/ha at Duchesnay compared with 5500 – 10 500 seedlings/ha at Armagh. Significant losses of coniferous advance growth were observed at both sites, b...


IN SPITE OF THE ZOOMING INcrease in picture usage by newspapers, magazines and television there are few, if any, work-a-day rules of thumb which take into account what has been learned experimentally about picture preferences. A perusal of sociological and psychological journals shows that simple indices of picture interests are practically non-existent. Behavioral or experimental research in this area is often conditioned by complex and interlocking assumptions about percep tion and symbolization. In the world of art, rules of thumb are based on even more tenuous and uncritical intuitions. Except for a few methodologically unsound reader-recall polls, few attempts have been made to directly measure reader responses to pictures. Perhaps the most directly relevant attempt to provide answers about news picture interests was by MacLean and Hazard (1 ) , who found that six major subject matter groupings were associated with picture readership.


Many efforts have been made to determine and explain differential gender performance on large-scale mathematics assessments. A well-agreed-on conclusion is that gender differences are contextualized and vary across math domains. This study investigated the pattern of gender differences by item domain (e.g., Space and Shape, Quantity) and item type (e.g., multiple-choice i items, open constructed-response items). The U.S. portion of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2000 and 2003 mathematics assessment was analyzed. A multidimensional Rasch model was used to provide student ability estimates for each comparison. Results revealed a slight but consistent male advantage. Students showed the largest gender difference (d = 0.19) in favor of males on complex multiple-choice items, an unconventional item type. Males and females also showed sizable differences on Space and Shape items, a domain well documented for showing robust male superiority. Contrary to many previous findings reporting male superiority on multiple-choice items, no measurable difference has been identified on multiple-choice items for both the PISA 2000 and the 2003 math assessments. Reasons for the differential gender performance across math domains and item types were speculated, and directions of future research were discussed. iIn this paper, two kinds of multiple-choice items are discussed: traditional multiple-choice items and complex multiple-choice items. A sample complex multiple choice item is shown in Table 6. The terms "multiple-choice" and "traditional multiple-choice" are used interchangeably to refer to the traditional multiple choice items throughout the paper, while the term "complex multiple-choice" is used to refer to the complex multiple-choice items.


Compact and light-weight antennas are required for future ground communication systems to provide wide angle 4π steradians coverage for man-pack radio communications units carried by soldiers on the ground. Two innovative "Bunker" antennas at K-band are described in this paper. The novelty includes antenna deployment from folded to unfolded configurations, compact size, low mass, 4π steradians coverage, low-cost, wide bandwidth performance and built-in radome for protection from severe environmental conditions. Design of these antennas, trades, RF simulations, mechanical design, antenna deployment, and material selection leading to product development are described for the first time in this paper. A prototype antenna has been fabricated and measured results are presented. An excellent correlation between measured and simulated patterns has been achieved. The Bunker antenna has very wide frequency bandwidth of 86% covering Ku and Ka secondary frequency bands in addition to its primary K band and thus could in the future replace three antennas on a dedicated manpack with a single tri-band antenna solution.


Exact solution for nonlinear behavior of clamped-clamped functionally graded (FG) buckled beams is presented. The effective material properties are considered to vary along the thickness direction according to exponential-law form. The in-plane inertia and damping are neglected, and hence the governing equations are reduced to a single nonlinear fourth-order partial-integraldifferential equation. The von Karman geometric nonlinearity has been considered in the formulation. Galerkin procedure is used to obtain a second order nonlinear ordinary equation with quadratic and cubic nonlinear terms. Based on the mode of the corresponding linear problem, which readily satisfy the boundary conditions, the frequencies for the nonlinear problem are obtained using the Jacobi elliptic functions. The effects of various parameters such as the Young's modulus ratio, the beam slenderness ratio, the vibration amplitude and the magnitude of axial load on the nonlinear behavior are examined.


Gravitationally driven motion arising from a sustained constant source of dense fluid in a horizontal channel is investigated theoretically using shallow-layer models and direct numerical simulations of the Navier–Stokes equations, coupled to an advection–diffusion model of the density field. The influxed dense fluid forms a flowing layer underneath the less dense fluid, which initially filled the channel, and in this study its speed of propagation is calculated; the outflux is at the end of the channel. The motion, under the assumption of hydrostatic balance, is modelled using a two-layer shallow-water model to account for the flow of both the dense and the overlying less dense fluids. When the relative density difference between the fluids is small (the Boussinesq regime), the governing shallow-layer equations are solved using analytical techniques. It is demonstrated that a variety of flow-field patterns are feasible, including those with constant height along the length of the current and those where the height varies continuously and discontinuously. The type of solution realised in any scenario is determined by the magnitude of the dimensionless flux issuing from the source and the source Froude number. Two important phenomena may occur: the flow may be choked, whereby the excess velocity due to the density difference is bounded and the height of the current may not exceed a determined maximum value, and it is also possible for the dense fluid to completely displace all of the less dense fluid originally in the channel in an expanding region close to the source. The onset and subsequent evolution of these types of motions are also calculated using analytical techniques. The same range of phenomena occurs for non-Boussinesq flows; in this scenario, the solutions of the model are calculated numerically. The results of direct numerical simulations of the Navier–Stokes equations are also reported for unsteady two-dimensional flows in which there is an inflow of dense fluid at one end of the channel and an outflow at the other end. These simulations reveal the detailed mechanics of the motion and the bulk properties are compared with the predictions of the shallow-layer model to demonstrate good agreement between the two modelling strategies.


The present study aimed to determine whether autophagy contributes to radiofrequency-induced adaptive response. To this purpose, SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells were exposed for 20 hours to 1950 MHz, UMTS signal, and then treated with menadione, a DNA damage inducer. The results obtained indicated a reduction of menadione-induced DNA damage in samples that were pre-exposed to radiofrequency field, as assessed by the comet assay. Such a reduction was negated when autophagy was inhibited by Bafilomycin A1 and E64d. Moreover, CRISPR SHSY-5Y cell lines defective for ATG7 or ATG5 genes also did not show adaptive response. These findings suggest the involvement of autophagy in the radiofrequency-induced adaptive response, although further investigation is required to extend such observation at molecular level.


"The responsiveness of consumers to a change in the price of a product is measured by the price elasticity of demand. If demand is elastic, a decrease in price will increase total revenue. Even though a lower price is received per unit, enough additional units are sold to more than make up for the lessor price. Also, the reverse is true; an increase in price will decrease total revenue." "If demand is inelastic, a price decrease will reduce total revenue. The relatively small increase in sales will not offset the decline in revenue per unit. The analysis is reversible; if demand is inelastic, a price increase will increase total revenue." The percentage change in the price is measured as (ending price – beginning price) / beginning price. Mississippi State University (MSU) raised tuition (price) by 126% over 15 years from $3,117 in the year 2000 to $7,040 in 2014, or by $3,923 -(7,040 – 3,117) / 3,117 = 3,923 / 3,117 = 126%. Increase/decrease in the quantity demanded (student enrollment) is measured as (ending enrollment – beginning enrollment) / beginning enrollment. Total student enrollment was 15,764 in the year 2000 and 20,219 by the year 2014. This was a 28% increase – (20,219 – 15,764) / 15,764 = 4,455 / 15,764 = 0.28 = 28%. In spite of a 126% price increase, there was a 28% rise in students (quantity demanded) for MSU. The price elasticity of demand for MSU was calculated as 0.32, inelastic. The results imply that MSU should raise tuition again to increase revenue.


The pyrrolidine ring of the title compound, C29H26N2O6, adopts a twist conformation. The structure is stabilized by weak intramolecular C—H⋯O interactions as well as by intermolecular C—H⋯O, N—H⋯O and N—H⋯N interactions.


Discrimination among students in educational institutes is one of the key reasons for their behavioural changes. Research has increasingly recognized the discriminating behaviour of teachers, but the impact of perceived discrimination by teachers on students' behavioural changes has not been investigated enough. Applying a theoretical model based on Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory (PVEST), the present study aimed to investigate the manner in which students' behavioural changes were determined by their teachers' perceived discrimination, after knowing family background and how this relationship was moderated by societal influence and cultural background. A sample survey of 215 class 8 to class 10 students studying in rural and urban schools located in Krishnagiri district in Tamil Nadu, India was administered through questionnaires and partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to evaluate the gathered data. Overall, perceived teacher discrimination of students based on their caste, creed, and financial background significantly influenced students behaviour. The association between students' behavioural changes and perceived discrimination was significantly influenced by cultural background. However, societal influence did not significantly change the effect of perceived students' discrimination on their behavioural changes.


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In this paper we study a system of N coupled quantum oscillators interacting with each other directly with varying coupling strengths and indirectly through linear couplings to a scalar massless quantum eld as its environment. The inuence of the quantum eld on the system is calculated with the use of the inuence functional formalism. We take the direct route of seeking solutions to the evolutionary operator of the reduced density matrix for the derivation of the correlation functions. They are then used to construct the covariance matrix which we use to perform an analysis of the structure of quantum entanglement in the open system at a stationary state. To see the physical features more explicitly we specialize to a system of three quantum coupled oscillators placed at the vertices of a equilateral triangle and allowed to have disparate pairwise couplings. We analyze the entanglement between one oscillator and the other two with equal (symmetric) and unequal (asymmetric) coupling strengths. As


Temperature‐dependent absorption experiments have been performed to investigate the effect of thermal strain in GaAs/AlxGa1−xAs multiple quantum wells clad by thick AlGaAs layers. A temperature‐dependent splitting of the heavy‐hole and light‐hole excitons is observed between 10 and 300 K. This is ascribed to the different thermal expansion coefficient of GaAs and AlxGa1−xAs, causing the constituent GaAs layers to be under weak tensile strain during the optical measurements at different temperatures.


The dynamic response of a jointed beam was measured in laboratory experiments. The data were analyzed and the system was mathematically modeled to establish plausible representations of joint damping behavior. Damping is examined in an approximate, local linear framework using log decrement and half power bandwidth approaches. in addition, damping is modeled in a nonlinear framework using a hybrid surface irregularities model that employs a bristles-construct. Experimental and analytical results are presented.


(ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.)IntroductionI readily agreed to join in the Vesak1) day procession that was to be held on a weekend evening of May 2008. No prior registration was required nor forms to be filled. I just needed to show up at the Maha Vihara Buddhist temple in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, joining my friends from the Kuan-yin Contemplative Order (KYCO)-a lay Buddhist organization. They stood out in their crisp all-white attire, looking fresh and clean. There were 11 of them from KYCO that evening. Kiat,2) one of the most active members of KYCO and the coordinator for this outing, was happy to see me there and delighted that I had worn the white KYCO polo shirt as well. Someone from the group pointed at my dark blue cap and said with good humor, "You look like you are from UMNO." It was a stark reminder of the recent watershed general election of March 2008, which had seen the biggest loss for the ruling Malay party-UMNO-in its history (although the party still maintained a precarious majority).3) I was perturbed by that insinuation, because UMNO is not only the ruling party of the country but also an exclusively and dominantly ethnic Malay political party, and the comment reminded me uncomfortably of my place as an outsider.The atmosphere was festive as we marched along the 10 km route that weaved through the city of Kuala Lumpur. However, the mood in my group was subdued and somber, in contrast to the joyous singing and easy camaraderie amongst other marchers. Kiat proposed that we "contemplate on the sufferings of the world" and "dedicate merit generated from the march to those who are suffering." Although the march was not physically arduous and I secretly found it to be enjoyable, Kiat invoked the effort as a spiritual struggle of sorts, dedicating it to all beings-humans and non-humans in this world as well as others.Going home that night, my mind was occupied by the image of these Chinese middleclass English-speaking devotees from KYCO dressed in white marching solemnly, in contrast to the celebratory atmosphere of the Vesak day procession. They stood out in their all-white outfit as a marker of purity and virtue, and demonstrated visually the relationship between the body's corporeality and morality.4) Kiat's reference to suffering seemed to set things in a certain perspective-suffering is central to Buddhism, where the world is depicted as suffering and a solution is sought to the end of suffering5)-but his call to contemplate on the world's sufferings invoked moral empathy, prompting "something that depends on intellectual and practical disciplines" (Asad 1993, 62).I am moved by my friends' actions in which they seek to dedicate themselves to help all beings. By doing so they manifest not only Buddhist compassion but, more important, a spirit of inclusiveness and universalism. Their actions are grounded in aspirations not necessarily realized in the (protective) powers acquired through meditation and disciplinary practices that normally accrue to magical monks and/or meditation masters in Thai, Laotian, or Burmese Buddhism (Houtman 1997; Cook 2010; McDaniel 2011). Instead, KYCO followers aspire toward moral transformation through selfcultivation practices where spiritual accomplishment and morality are demonstrated by the exemplary life and conduct of charismatic lay masters and gifted adepts.This paper seeks to describe some of these moral aspirations and spiritual experiences, examining the self-cultivation practices and inclusive spiritualism that give rise to them by situating KYCO and the religious universalism from which it emerges in the cultural and historical context of "redemptive societies"-a religious tradition that was established in the late imperial era of China and exploded during the early twentieth century into the cities and spread to Southeast Asia.Kuan-yin Contemplative Order: Inclusive SpiritualismThe arguments in this paper emerge from fieldwork conducted from 2008 to 2009 at KYCO during which I observed firsthand the activities that KYCO followers carry out in order to fulfill or realize the Bodhisattva Vow6) they have undertaken. …


Abstract This paper criticises Miranda Fricker's account of the primary harm of testimonial injustice as a kind of epistemic objectification, where the latter is understood on the model provided by Martha Nussbaum's influential analysis of sexual objectification and where it is taken to involve the denial of someone's epistemic agency. I examine the existing objections to Fricker's account of the primary harm, criticising some while accepting the force of others, and I argue that one of Fricker's own central examples of testimonial injustice in fact offers the basis of a particularly telling objection. While Fricker's other critics have mostly concluded that we need to look at alternative theoretical resources to offer an account of the primary harm of testimonial injustice, I aim to show that this is premature; both Fricker and her critics have underestimated the resources provided by Nussbaum's analysis of objectification when offering an account of the primary harm, and something very much in the spirit of Fricker's account survives the objections.


There is considerable experimental evidence linking lysosomal enzymes with tissue damage in joint disease (e.g. Weissmann, 1966; Page Thomas, 1969). In particular the release of lysosomal hydrolases during cell injury or excessive phagocytosis may play a role in damage to articular cartilage (Ziff, Gribetz, and Lospalluto, 1960; Dingle, 1962; Weissmann and Spilberg, 1968; Hamerman, Janis, and Smith 1967). Biochemical studies have shown increased enzyme activity in synovial fluid in rheumatoid arthritis and related inflammatory disorders. Acid phosphatase (Smith and Hamerman, 1962; Beckman, Beckman, and Lemperg, 1971), ,3-glucuronidase (Jacox and Feldmahn, 1955), and /3-acetyl glucosaminidase (Caygill and Pitkeathly, 1966) have been identified. The source of these enzymes is presumed to be either synovial fluid leucocytes or lining cells of the synovial membrane. The activity of acid phosphatase and cathepsin has been studied in the synovial tissue by Luscombe (1963). Higher activity was found in rheumatoid synovial membrane when compared with tissue from patients undergoing menisectomy. These results were confirmed by Wegelius, Klockars, and Vainio (1968), and are in keeping with electron microscope and histochemical studies showing enlargedlysosomes in the type A surface cell in rheumatoid arthritis (Barland, Novikoff, and Hamerman, 1964; Norton and Ziff, 1966; Ghadially and Roy, 1967). Despite the possible importance of lysosomes in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis, few studies have been reported comparing enzyme levels in the joint with clinical features. Hendry and Carr (1963) showed that high enzyme activity in the synovial fluid tended to be associated with clinical acuteness as judged by heat and swelling of the joint. Ziff, Scull, Ford, McEwen, and Bunim (1952) showed that a decrease in concentration of aminotripeptidase (an enzyme of the cathepsin group) after the intraarticular injection of hydrocortisone was associated with improvement in the clinical status of joints and with a rise in the viscosity of the synovial fluid. Our present study was designed to correlate lysosomal enzyme concentrations in homogenates of synovial membrane removed at synovectomy with the surgeon's estimate of cartilage and joint damage. The histology of tissues adjacent to the homogenized segments was assessed and also synovial fluid characteristics when fluid was available at the time of surgery.


Within the context of new product development processes and the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) process, the authors have come to the view that clustering is to be seen as a separate step in the process of diverging and converging. Clustering is generally presented as part of the converging stages, and as such categorized as a selection technique, which in the authors' view does not do justice to this activity. It is about expanding knowledge, about connecting ideas, and connecting ideas to problem statements, functionalities, and values and consequences. It is about building a shared understanding, in other words about 'making sense', an essential creative activity in the development of concepts and, although different from a more freewheeling divergent phase, can be as creative and maybe even more so. Four kinds of clusterings are distinguished: object clustering, morphological clustering, functional clustering and gestalt clustering. Object clustering is mainly aimed at categorizing ideas into an overviewable set of groups of ideas. No special connections are being made, other then looking for similarities. Morphological clustering is used to split up a problem into subproblems after which the ideas generated are considered as subsolutions which can then be combined into concepts. Functional clustering is interesting when different approaches can be chosen to answer some question. It permits a more strategic choice to be made. Gestalt clustering is a more synthesis like approach, often with a more metaphoric and artistic stance. Collage is a good example of such clustering. General guidelines for clustering are: use a bottom-up process of emergence; postpone early rationalisations and verbalisations; start grouping ideas on the basis of feeling and intuition; and use metaphoric names to identify clusters.


We read with interest the letter by Erayman and Sen regarding our article entitled ''Mean Platelet Volume in Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis and Behcet Disease.'' Behcet disease (BD) is a chronic, multisystemic, inflammatory process with the clinical features of mucocutaneous lesions as well as ocular, vascular, articular, gastrointestinal, neurologic, urogenital, pulmonary, and cardiac involvement. Vascular involvement is an important part of BD complications. We speculated that mean platelet volume (MPV) in BD is related to vascular involvement. Furthermore, we agree that MPV is a widely used marker associated with platelet function based on inflammatory conditions. The MPV also represents platelet function, which is central to processes that are involved in coronary heart disease pathophysiology and endothelial dysfunction. The MPV might be influenced by coronary risk factors including age, obesity, smoking, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and metabolic syndrome. Some other recent studies have reported that an elevated MPV is linked with peripheral artery disease and stroke, all of which are related to atherosclerosis on the basis of inflammation. Additionally, some inflammatory indicators such as carotid intima–media thickness is widely accepted as a surrogate marker for atherosclerotic disease. Also, arterial stiffness indicates the viscoelastic properties of the vessel wall. It represents vascular damage and is a measure of the degree of atherosclerosis. The inflammatory markers have been shown to reflect atherosclerosis severity and cardiovascular events. In conclusion, we believe that these markers should be evaluated in patients with BD in future studies. References


Abstract Long-range 1 H—14N spin coupling constants have been observed in the proton nmr spectra of several isocyanides,2 and a coordinated compound, (CH3)3 B · CNC(CH3)3.3 On the other hand, such spin coupling constants, hitherto, have not been observed in the various transition metal complexes of isocyanides.4 A possible explanation for this is that formation of a complex generally introduces an electric field gradient about the 14 N nucleus and consequently the spin-spin coupling disappears.


Ab initio results for the electronic spectra of 1-phenylpyrrole are presented. Vertical, emission, and nonvertical excitation energies have been computed using multiconfigurational second-order perturbation theory by means of the CASPT2 method. In the S0 and S1 states the most stable conformation was determined to be a twisted structure with a dihedral angle between the planes of the rings of 41.4° and 25.5°, respectively. The most intense feature of the absorption spectrum is predicted to be the S0 (11A) → S1 (21A) transition placed in vacuo at 5.07 eV. The lowest-excited state, S1 (11B), identified as the "locally excited" (LE) state, is calculated in vacuo to lie vertically 4.39 eV above the ground state, with the position of the 0-0 transition at 4.16 eV and a fluorescence maximum of 4.07 eV. An additional fluorescence feature is found at 3.72 eV in acetonitrile from a "twisted intramolecular charge transfer" (TICT) state in a perpendicular conformation. The absence of the low-energy emission in vacuo...


Background: Targeted lung denervation (TLD) is a novel bronchoscopic therapy that ablates parasympathetic pulmonary nerves along the main bronchi. Bilateral (single procedure) TLD treatment has previously been reported as feasible ( Eur Resp J 2014 44: Suppl 58, P1775). Aim: Evaluate long-term safety of treating both lungs in a single TLD procedure. Methods: A prospective, multicenter, study of patients with COPD (FEV 1 /FVC 1 30-60% predicted) was performed (NCT01716598). Patients underwent bilateral TLD using a lung denervation system (Holaira, Inc., USA) in a single procedure in an outpatient setting. Long-term safety was determined by bronchoscopic inspection of the treatment sites at 1-year and registration of all AEs through 18 months. Results: Fifteen patients (47% male, age 63.2±4.0 yrs) underwent TLD at 15 watts. Bronchoscopic inspection at 1-year was completed in 14 patients with complete healing reported in all. 12 patients completed 18-month follow-up with no deaths or unexpected AEs. 8 serious AEs were observed; 3 COPD exacerbations, 1 arrhythmia, 1 BPH, 1 hemoptysis, 1 motorcycle accident and 1 urinary retention. Overall respiratory AE rates have remained low over longer-term follow up. Conclusion: TLD delivered to both lungs in a single procedure is safe with no bronchoscopic findings at 1-year and consistent low number of respiratory related adverse events reported through 18 months.


Deep learning based process monitoring methods are attracting increasing research attention in recent years, which generally assume that the process variables are uniformly sampled. In practice, however, the process data are generally collected at multiple different rates, resulting in structurally-incomplete training data. Under such circumstances, how to build effective deep models to fully mine the multirate sampled data has become a constraint in achieving better process monitoring performance. In this paper, a sequentially-adaptive deep variational model is designed in which the knowledge that existed in variables with different rates is comprehensively extracted through deep generative neural networks. The multirate samples are first divided into multiple data blocks in which each block is collected at a uniform rate. A deep generative model is then constructed to model the uncertain data distribution and extract probabilistic feature representations considering the slowness principle. To restrain the small data problem in the blocks with slow rates, a sequentially-adaptation strategy is designed to adapt the knowledge from the fast blocks with sufficient training data and enhance the overall modeling performance. The effectiveness is demonstrated through a real-world industrial thermal power plant case.


There is a global interest in biofuels utilizing reliable alternative, renewable, and sustainable resources for a long-term solution to the use of fossil fuels. The world's future sources of readily available fuels and energy are being depleted and cannot be renewed. Biomass is a fully renewable resource that can be used for biofuels, food and feed, power, chemicals, materials, and other green applications that can mitigate greenhouse gas emissions through conservation and recovery while introducing new methods to provide food, clean water, and sustainable use of semi-arid lands. While food and feed are also major issues in our biomass objective, the goal of this chapter is to introduce and develop reliable and efficient methods of generating biofuels that can supplement fossil fuel dependence while increasing our conservation of the world's natural resources. Biofuels can potentially be a viable option for sustaining long-term energy needs if they are managed effectively and realistic life cycle costs are factored into the process. We provide an introduction, a background on the various types of biofuels, how biomass is processed, potential applications for biofuels in the green aviation industry, and introduce a fairly new concept called eXtreme Green and how this concept can be applied to the green aviation industry in the future.

Keywords:

alternative;
arable land;
aviation;
biofuel;
biomass;
conservation;
crops;
economics;
emissions;
eXtreme Green;
food/feed;
halophytes;
jet engines;
market pressures;
renewable;
semi-arid land;
sustainable;
water


Neural progenitor cells (NPCs) in the subventricular zone (SVZ) hold promise for future therapy for neurodegenerativedisorders, because thestimulationof adult neurogenesis couldpotentially restore the function of degenerating neurons and glia. To obtain more knowledge on these NPCs, we developedamethod to specifically isolateNPCs frompostmortemadult humanbrainsbasedon theexpression of the specific human adult neural stem/progenitor cell marker glial fibrillary acidic protein d (GFAPd). An extensive immunophenotyping analysis for cell surfacemarkers resulted in the observation that CD271was limited to the SVZ-derivedGFAPd-positive cells. CD271 cells developed into neurospheres andcouldbedifferentiated intoastrocytes, neurons, andoligodendrocytes.Weare the first to show that a pure population of NPCs can be isolated from the adult human SVZ, which is highly instrumental for developing future therapies based on stimulating endogenous SVZ neurogenesis. STEM CELLS TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE 2014;3:470–480


Maternal pneumomediastinum associated with subcutaneous emphysema is a rare complication of pregnancy which was described by Hamman in 1945. It has an estimated incidence between 1:2000 and 1:10,000. It was first mentioned in 1618 by Louise Bourgeois, midwife to the Queen of France, but they syndrome was not formally described until Hamman defined it. Only 200 cases have been reported so far in the literature. This case report illustrates the simplicity of diagnosis and reminds obstetric personnel that the outcome is almost favourable, although the potential for complicated outcomes is always present.


A human listening test is designed to elucidate human perceptions of impulsive sonar sounds. Eleven subjects listen to sound pairs and rate their dissimilarity on a numerical scale. Each subject also verbally describes each sound. The resulting dissimilarity matrices are analyzed to determine measurement repeatability. Data from a subset of subjects is analyzed using Multidimensional Scaling (MDS). The geometric display of the data shows distinct clusters of sounds. Aural inspection of this representation shows that the axes do not appear to represent consistent sound qualities across all clusters. Modeling perception with contrast features as opposed to MDS is presented. Future analysis using this method is outlined and discussed.


Abstract This study aimed to evaluate yield parameters, antioxidant activity (AOA), total polyphenol content (TPC) and total soluble solids (TSS) in beetroot cultivars with different flesh colours. Field experiments were established at the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra in 2016 and 2017. Within the study, 16 beetroot cultivars were tested, including 11 red-fleshed ('Boltardy', 'Boro' F1, 'Crosby Egyptian', 'Cylindra', 'Detroit Globe', 'Detroit 2', 'Egyptian Turnip Rooted', 'Opolski', 'Pablo' F1, 'Renova' and 'Taunus' F1), 2 yellow-fleshed ('Boldor' F1 and 'Golden'), 2 white-flesh cultivars ('Albino' and 'White Detroit') and 1 red-white fleshed cultivar ('Chioggia'). All beetroot cultivars with red flesh colour showed higher AOA and TPC than different-coloured beetroot cultivars. The highest root yield was found in the white-fleshed beetroot cultivar 'Albino' (37.80–41.91 t · ha−1). The highest root weight was found in the white-fleshed beetroot cultivar 'White Detroit' (362.4–412.1 g). The highest AOA (819.19–972.50 mg TEAC · kg−1 d.w.) and TPC (2,387.70–2,731.00 mg · kg−1 d.w.) were found in the red-fleshed beetroot cultivar 'Pablo' F1. Different-coloured cultivars of beetroot were characterised by a lower content of TSS (6.4–8.8 ºBRIX) than cultivars with typical, red flesh colour (7.8–10.8 ºBRIX). Results clearly indicate that cultivar, or flesh colour, is showed as a significant factor influencing the quality of beetroot. Knowing of yield potential and quality of beetroot cultivars is important for growers as well as consumers. Results of this study indicate that white-fleshed cultivars of beetroot are characterised by high yield potential but lower quality, including lower AOA, TPC and TSS.


Based on the RS and GIS technologies,the quantity pattern changes and spatial pattern changes of land use in western Jilin were analyzed using transfer matrix and landscape indexs respectively.The results showed that from 2000 to 2007,the agricultural land in western Jilin increased,while the forest and grass land decreased,the land use pattern showed a single development.The wetland degenerating,lake waters atrophying,and water resource decreasing aggravated the salinization development.Although the quantity of saline-alkali soil was controlled,the degree of salinization became serious,thus the improving was difficult.The changes of land use in western Jilin province were stressed by natural factors and the disturbances of human factors made a quick environmental degeneration.So the adjustment of land use structure and being adapt to land resources was the only way to improve the regional entironment.


This document is a summary of a project recently undertaken by the Southern Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (SSROC) in partnership with three member councils. The project is presented as a case study, and accompanied by a series of resources and references that may be of interest to other councils considering interventions in this area. The three Sydney councils involved, namely Waverley, Marrickville and Sutherland Shire, agreed to work with their council childcare centres on the issue of active transport, as a means of promoting both environmentally sustainable transport and better health in their communities.


This article includes the results of ethnic identity empiric research of Yukhagir ethnos' representatives who live in Nizhnekolimsky district, Republic of Sakha (Yakutiya) (2012). The research has shown that ambivalent type of ethnic identity prevails among tundra yukhagir representatives (combination of positive, indifferent and fanatic identity). All in all a low level of ethnic factors significance in Yukagir's life is marked. The most important identity for Yukhagirs, in comparison with ethnic and regional identity, is civil (All-Russian) identity.


Purpose - There is a distinct separation of price discovery from pricing power in China's sugar spot and futures markets. The purpose of this paper is to identify the reasons and provide plausible explanations for this stylized phenomenon. Therefore, the research may deepen the understandings of the operational mechanisms and internal efficiency of China's sugar spot and futures markets. Design/methodology/approach - The authors analyze the historical spot and futures price time series from China's sugar spot market and China's Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (CZCE) within a co-integration framework. Findings - It is found that China's sugar spot market has the pricing power, even though the futures market leads the spot market in price discovery. The phenomenon of observed separation of price discovery in spot market from pricing power in futures market may be caused by: irrational speculation in CZCE sugar futures market; oligopoly and local government politics; or the operational efficiency of the wholesale spot market, especially for its comparative advantages of information accessibility in the sugar producing areas. The results are compared with other empirical findings in many other commodities markets to obtain deeper understandings. Originality/value - The paper uncovers and provides the earliest econometric evidence of the observed stylized phenomenon and also provides plausible explanations for this phenomenon.


Based on a survey on students' view on marriage and love in universities of Yunnan province, this paper intends to recognize the influence trend of contemporary intellectual women on China's future marriage and love, especially after the implementation of the new interpretation of marriage law. How to positively face and understand the arguments and a series of issues about view on marriage and love is the main purpose of this investigation.


A study of three methods for applying color to pottery with linoleum designs is presented. The procedure is practical for studio potters and small factories rather than for quantity production.


This paper bring forward a new high speed and lower power wasting re-configurable pipeline multiplier, for the alterable velocity signal process in sound and video . The circuit change the frequency with different pipeline stage, it improve the efficiency and reduce the power waste . The circuit was simulation under 0.25μm CMOS process. The circuit reduce the power waste by 36 percent effectively for the alterable velocity of signal process and remain the high speed of 1.04GHz by control the pipeline number.


We have carried out a joint experimental and theoretical study on determination of total and elastic cross-sections for electron and positron impact on OCS molecules. For total cross-section measurements, impact energies are from 0.7 to 600 eV for electron collisions and 0.8 to 600 eV for positron collisions. For elastic scattering, only electron impact has been studied from 1.5 to 100 eV. Our present measurements for total cross-sections for electron impact are found to agree extremely well with the measurements of Dababneh et al. (1982) in the entire energy region studied. The results by Szmytkowski et al. (1994) are consistently larger by 20% above 2 eV, and, in particular, are larger by a factor of two in the 1.2 eV resonance region. The present theory for elastic scattering is in good agreement with the present measurement, and has been employed for understanding the dynamics. The total cross-section recommended here is probably the best in accuracy as of today although further studies would be helpful.


The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the need for a more effective and efficient disinfection approach to combat infectious diseases. Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) is a proven mean for disinfection and sterilization and has been integrated into handheld devices and autonomous mobile robots. Existing UVGI robots which are commonly equipped with uncovered lamps that emit intense ultraviolet radiation suffer from: inability to be used in human presence, shadowing of objects, and long disinfection time. These robots also have a high operational cost. This paper introduces a cost effective germicidal system that utilizes UVGI to disinfect pathogens, such as viruses, bacteria, and fungi, on high contact surfaces (e.g. doors and tables). This system is composed of a team of 5-DOF mobile manipulators with end-effectors that are equipped with far-UVC excimer lamps. The design of the system is discussed with emphasis on path planning, coverage planning, and scene understanding. Evaluations of the UVGI system using simulations and irradiance models are also included. Please see the project's website for videos and simulations of the robot.1


Flexible electronics is the expected technology in the future, and the bonding material may also require flexibility. Silyl terminated poly-ether (STPE) is a promising material that has both flexibility and low-temperature curability. In combination with tri-block polymer-based stretchable conductive paste and artificially formed fillet formed by elastic resin, it can build simple stretchable bonding system. It will be a prominent technol- ogy to satisfy the characteristics required by the near future devices.


A detailed theoretical model of micellar kinetics is developed and applied to the case of surfactant adsorption at fluid interfaces. The adsorption gives rise to diffusion of surfactant monomers and micelles, and to release of monomers by the micelles. The numerical solution of the problem reveals the existence of four distinct kinetic regimes. At the greatest expansion rates (lowest surface age), the surfactant adsorption is affected by the fast micellar process (regime AB). At smaller expansion rates, the fast process equilibrates and the adsorption occurs under diffusion control (regime BC). With the further decrease of the expansion rate, the surfactant adsorption is affected by the slow micellar process (regime CD). Finally, at the lowest expansion rates, both the fast and slow micellar processes are equilibrated, and the adsorption again occurs under diffusion control (regime DE). For each separate kinetic regime, convenient analytical expressions for the dynamic interfacial tension and adsorption are derived. At low micelle concentrations, "rudimentary" kinetic diagrams are observed, which are characterized by merging or disappearance of the regimes BC and CD. Usually, only one of the kinetic regimes is experimentally detected. The developed theoretical model enables one to identify which of the four regimes is observed in a given experiment, and to interpret properly the obtained data. We applied the model to process available and new data obtained by means of various experimental methods for dynamic interfacial tension. Very good agreement between theory and experiment is achieved. A quantitative criterion is developed, which shows whether a given emulsifier is "fast" or "slow".


AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
The aim of the study is to examine nurses´ job involvement and intentions to continue in their current position.

BACKGROUND
Globally, the supply of nurses fails to meet the labor markets´ high demand. Compared to specialist health service, the community health service has the greatest challenge when it comes to nursing shortage. There is a lack of studies comparing nurses working in different parts of the healthcare system in research focusing on nurses´ intentions to continue in their current position. Similarly, there has been relatively little research on nurses´ job involvement, even less how it is associated with retaining the nurses, despite indications that job involvement may be the key to job-related motivated behavior.

DESIGN
A descriptive comparative study with a cross-sectional design.

METHODS
The study comprises 297 nurses from the community- and specialist health service respectively. The relationships between nurses´ intention to continue and participant characteristics were examined using binary logistic regression. Reporting followed the STROBE guidelines.

RESULTS
Nurses in the community health service are older, have more children under the age of 18 and hold more permanent positions than nurses in the specialist health service. Job involvement is the only variable associated with nurses´ intention to continue in their current position regardless of whether the nurse works in the community- or specialist health service.

CONCLUSION
The results indicate that the community health service has the same possibilities as the specialist health service to retain nurses in their current jobs.

RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE
The results indicate that nursing leaders/employers with a goal to retaining nurses are recommended to focus on improving the nurses´ job involvement.


First, we recall some classical results from invariant theory, and the direct summand property of ring extensions. We review the local cohomology functors and the F -signature of a ring. We consider the question of how many independent splittings the ring of invariants of a finite group action has; equivalently, what the F -signature of the invariant ring is. In particular, we consider the question of when the ring of invariants of a finite group G-action on a vector space over a field of positive characteristic p > 0, where p divides G, is a direct summand of the polynomial ring. We prove that if the a-invariant of the ring of invariants is equal to that of the polynomial ring, then it is not a direct summand. We provide further evidence for a conjecture of A. Broer related to this question. Following the work of Watanabe–Yoshida, A. Singh, and M. Von Korff, we study the F -signature of affine toric varieties. We determine which affine toric varieties of a particular dimension have the largest F -signature, and analyze the structure of the set of values. Next, we study the separating rank of a finite group action — the least number of invariants required to separate the orbits of the group action. We find a lower bound on the separating rank in terms of the ranks of generators of stabilizer subgroups of the action. This result is a generalization of a theorem of Serre on when rings of invariants are polynomial rings. We show that the lower bound is sharp for large classes of examples. This part is based on joint work with Emilie Dufresne. We end by posing a question on the vanishing of local cohomology that implies a generalization of the Shephard–Todd theorem. To David Flaspohler, from whom I learned the love of mathematics.


Introduction/Hypothesis: Acute respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation is one of the most common admitting diagnoses in the pediatric intensive care unit. Approximately 50-60% of unplanned pediatric extubations end in success, suggesting that earlier opportunities to extubate children are being missed. No consensus recommendations exist regarding timing and methodology of extubation readiness assessment for children. The approach is dictated by personal experience and preference of the prescriber. Hospital systems, and ICUs, are under increasing pressure to provide more efficient and cost effective care. This often occurs in the setting of increasing patient load and complexity. In the largest pediatric study to date, McCrory et al. reviewed over 234,000 PICU admissions across 99 centers and showed increased PICU-mortality for patients admitted between 6am and 1059am, often the busiest time of the day. We hypothesized that there would be a positive correlation between patient census and the time difference between when a patient becomes eligible for an extubation readiness test (ERT) and the start of that test (Delta Time). Methods: This was a retrospective chart review. Eligibility criteria for a patient to undergo an ERT were developed via literature review and division consensus. The Delta Time and PICU medical length of stay were collected. PICU census and Pediatric Index of Mortality-2 Score data were obtained from the Virtual PICU Systems, LLC database. Results: A total of 109 mechanical ventilation courses representing 99 individual patients were included. The median Delta Time was 19 hours (IQR 6.1-41.8 hours). Linear regression modeling demonstrated that Delta Time was correlated with daily patient census on mechanical ventilation (r=0.845, p=0.0005), total patient census (r=0.790, p=0.0022), medical PICU length of stay (r=0.322, p=0.0023), and duration of mechanical ventilation (r=0.594, p<0.0001). There was no correlation between mean daily Pediatric Index of Mortality-2 score and Delta Time (p = 0.1405). Conclusions: Patient census, and thus physician workload, correlates with care measures for patients on mechanical ventilation. There are potential opportunities to improve by developing a collaborative approach with respiratory therapists within the confines of a standardized pathway. Introduction/Hypothesis: Although primarily used for neonatal respiratory failure, high-frequencyjet ventilation (HFJV) can be used for pediatric patients with significant ventilatory failure. The objective of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of HFJV in pediatrics. Methods: Following IRB approval, the medical records of all pediatric patients who received HFJV at Duke Children's Hospital in the pediatric ICU between 2014 and 2018 were retrospectively reviewed. Patients in whom HFJV was started while on ECMO were excluded, as were premature infants who had never been discharged home. Data on demographics, pulmonary mechanics, gas exchange, need for ECMO, inhaled nitric oxide, and outcomes were extracted. Data analysis was descriptive with paired t-test for change in blood gas values. Statistical significance was set at 0.05. Results: 34 subjects [median weight 5.2 kg (IQR 3.8-6.7); median age 4.5 months (IQR 1.7-8.5)] were included, with 73.5% surviving to discharge, 35.3% requiring ECMO, 23.5% receiving inhaled nitric oxide, and 79.4% ultimately extubated. Viral infection was documented in 61.8% of subjects, 97.1% were ventilated for respiratory failure, and 2.9% were post-op. Five subjects were placed directly on HFJV. Median (IQR) preHFJV settings (n=29) were set respiratory rate 30 (28-34) bpm, inspiratory pressure 22 (20-24) cm H2O, PEEP 8 (7-9) cm H2O, mPaw 14 (12-16) cm H2O, FiO2 0.70 (0.50-1.0), oxygenation index 10.8 (7.1-14.4), PaO2:FiO2 ratio 133 (91.3-190.0), and Vt 5.6 (4.5-6.8) ml/kg. Pre-HFJV blood gases (n=30) included pH 7.18 (7.11-7.27), PaCO2 65 (52.8-87.5) mmHg, and PaO2 74 (65-125.5) mmHg. Initial HFJV settings were: PIP 46 (39.5-50) cm H2O, rate 360 (315-390) bpm, Ti 0.02 (0.02-0.03) seconds, and FiO2 1.0 (0.60-1.0). After 4-6 hours of HFJV, 22 subjects had repeat blood gases, and there was a significant increase in mean pH (7.34 ± 0.11 vs. 7.21 ± 0.11, p<0.001) and decrease in mean PaCO2 (51.7 ± 14.5 vs. 67.1 ± 17.2 mmHg, p=0.001). There were no significant differences for PaO2, oxygenation index, or PaO2:FiO2 ratio. Conclusions: HFJV resulted in improved carbon dioxide elimination in pediatric patients with ventilatory failure. The use of HFJV in pediatrics is feasible and may be considered in pediatric patients beyond the neonatal period. 1202


Let T = (T, ≤) and T1= (T1 , ≤1) be linearly ordered sets and X be a topological space.  The main result of the paper is the following: If function ƒ(t,x) : T × X → T1 is continuous in each  variable ("t" and  "x")  separately  and  function ƒx(t)  = ƒ(t,x) is  monotonous  on T for  every x ∈ X,  then ƒ is  continuous  mapping  from T × X to T1,  where T and T1 are  considered  as  topological  spaces  under  the order topology and T × X is considered as topological space under the Tychonoff topology on the Cartesian  product of topological spaces T and X.


The objective of this article is to present four civil society initiatives that attempt to scrutinize government spending using open data from the Greek government OpenGov initiative Diavgeia project ("diavgeia", in Greek, standing for lucidity). In a period of strong economic recession, Greece is facing one of the most intense social and political crisis of its history, with citizens characterized by substantial disenchantment with politics and a cynical stance about their government and representatives. The Diavgeia project was launched in 2010 by the Greek government with the objective to bring back transparency and trust in the political process, enabling online insights into government spending. By reviewing current bottom-up initiatives in Greece that are using data from Diavgeia in an effort to serve the principles of transparency, openness, and offering public data in a manner easy to understand, evaluate and re-use, we discuss the role of open government mechanisms in introducing a new relation between citizens and policy-makers, tackling contemporary political challenges of democratic societies and reconnecting ordinary people with politics and policy-making. Government Spending Transparency on the Internet: An Assessment of Greek Bottom-Up Initiatives over the Diavgeia Project


Rickshaw is a major vehicle for transportation in order to travel short distances in Bangladesh. It exhibits different artistic views and paintings that bear the messages of the famous history and culture of Bengal. Rickshaw arts can be seen in the streets, like fabulous tropical fish or gaudy birds of paradise. As a means of social communication this popular art works is very effective and thus constitutes as a forceful agent to bridge between the different sectors of the community. Poor men who are mechanically and artistically inclined, involve in jobs such as building, repairing and decorating rickshaws. Consequently, this article attempts to discuss the exhaustive substance of this art as well as to analyze the contemporary life status of the artisans. The study is exploratory and descriptive in nature. It has been observed that, in Bangladesh this genre of folk-art has given sufficient evidence that the human beings everywhere are the same, in spite of their religious and cultural differences. This non-communal approach is the fundamental basis of social communication. Thus it is the main reason for rickshaw arts to become a strong means of social communication. Key Word: Rickshaw Art, Social Communication, Artisan 1 Assistant Professor, Department of Folklore, University of Bangladesh email@example.com 2 Associate Professor, Department of Folklore, University of Bangladesh


Metallic materials are chosen for orthopedic implants because of their high load-bearing capacity, low cost and low wear rates. However, repeated contact loading at taper-locked or clamped of metallic implant interfaces results in formation of soluble and particulate debris due to the simultaneous action of mechanical loading and electrochemical reactions in the corrosive physiological environment [1–3]. Previous work on understanding metallic implant surface damage due to mechanical load assisted dissolution has run the gamut from examination of retrieved implants [4, 5, 6 ] to in-vitro implant scale experiments (see for instance [7] and references in review articles [2, 5]). Results of these studies indicate that there is a synergistic interaction of mechanical loading and electrochemical oxidation i.e. material degradation is accelerated by the combined effects of contact loading and corrosion.Copyright © 2009 by ASME


1562Background: Low-dose chest CT for lung cancer screening has shown to have a significant impact on the early diagnosis of lung cancer. In the initial trials, approximately a 20% decrease in lung cancer mortality was found. Patients enrolled in a community-based lung cancer screening program initiated in March 2013 at Lutheran General Hospital and Illinois Masonic Hospital were evaluated for initial outcomes. Methods: All patients who completed an initial consultation in oncology clinic from March 2013-June 2017 were included in the analysis. Eligibility criteria for the program included patients within the age range of 55-77, with a > 30 pack year history, and that were current smokers or quit tobacco less than 15 years ago. Individuals between 50-55 years old were also included if they had > 20 pack year smoking history and at least one additional risk factor. All patients with significant abnormalities were discussed at a multidisciplinary conference prior to embarking on any invasive procedures. Als...


Criticism,as an important link of the student cadre work system,plays an unreplaceable role.In this paper,based on the characteristics of CYL and student union at colleges and universities,the function of criticism in college student cadres training is elaborated in the regards of its style and principle.


The approximately continuous integral which includes the Lebesgue integral has been considered by Burkill [1] and Ridder [3; 4]. I [2] also defined the AD-integral of this kind which is more general than the AP-integral of Burkill [1] and the Denjoy integral in the wide sense. But this integral is equivalent to the β-integral of Ridder. Our aim in this paper is to characterize the AD-integral in the following way: The AD-integral is the least general approximately continuous integral (Definition 1) which includes the Lebesgue integral and fulfils the Cauchy and Harnack conditions (Definition 2).


Studying the characteristics of cell membrane in terahertz band using finite-difference-time-domain (FDTD) method have revealed a significant differences between different hydration degree. These differences are manifested in the reflected pulse due to the changes in refractive index and absorption. And the effect of cell membrane on terahertz wave is mainly reflected in the frequency higher than 30 THz. Subcell FDTD modeling is adopted in this paper to deal with cell membrane as a kind of thin layer in terahertz wave band. Simulating the interaction of terahertz radiation with different hydrated membrane is a key step toward understanding terahertz interactions with cells.


We have set up a signal-driven scheme of a chaotic neural network, with the coupling constants corresponding to certain information, and we investigate the stochastic resonance-like effects under deterministic dynamics, comparing it with the conventional case of a Hopfield network with stochastic noise. It is shown that the chaotic neural network can enhance weak sub-threshold signals and can have higher coherence abilities between the stimulus and the response than those attained by the conventional stochastic model.


Sanyan is a special name of a space in Kangqu.Kangqu has happened two significant event which were "Change local into national official"and " Build Xikang province" by the first half of twenty century,it hold up the politics,military affairs,economy,culture and national relation in Sanyan.


harvest. A few names, as at Paris and Rheims, survived in inscriptions, and had not been forgotten. At the beginning of this century Lethaby, a great pioneer, investigated the designers of Westminster Abbey, in the thirties the researches of Messrs. Knoop and Jones went far to establish the economic and social position of the master masons throughout England, and a few writers, such as Professor Hamilton Thompson, drew inferences very different from those of Professor Prior. Yet Mr. Francis Bond's great books on English Medieval Architecture, which are still our standard authority, are wholly analytical; in the first of them, which appeared in 1906, a note on the second page shows that he was aware of the problem of the master masons, but his subsequent pages show that he shirked the problem completely. Not a single mason is mentioned in either of his books. Dehio, writing his standard history of German Art thirty years ago, mentions some ten medieval architects. The American writer, C. R. Morey, whose Medieval Art appeared as recently as 1942, mentions some 150 artists, but of these only about ten are architects; there is no room for Pierre de Montreuil, Peter Parler, or Henry Yevele. Those two long separated but noble works on French Medieval Art by M. Male and Miss Joan Evans are, respectively, predominantly studies of religion and patronage, but avowedly such. Mr. Harvey has established that along with the need and the means there was necessarily also the mind. It is strange that until now this platitude has been so much overlooked. He has brought the master masons of the past into the light of history and given them, without further quibbles, the status of architects. His index of these Gothic architects holds over 450 names. These make, it must be admitted, a text of 130 pages very heavy reading, but they are of encyclopaedic value and a great contribution to knowledge. If some of the ascriptions, when based on similarity of style, are found somewhat tenuous, they are at least no more so than those to which we are well accustomed from innumerable critics of painting or of sculpture. All must admit that the collection and correlation of so much evidence, admirably supported by full notes on the sources, throws a new light on a study which has so far proceeded on quite different lines.


Corporate Performance Management (CPM) system is an information system used to collect, analyze, and visualize key performance indicators (KPIs) to support both business operations and especially strategic decisions. CPM systems display KPIs in forms of scorecard and dashboard so the executives can keep track and evaluate corporate performance. The quality of the information as shown in the KPIs is very crucial for the executives to make the right decisions. Therefore, it is important that the executives must be able to retrieve not only the KPIs but also the quality of those KPIs before using such KPIs in their strategic decisions. The objectives of this study were to determine the role of the CPM system in the organizations, current data and information quality state, problems and perspectives regarding data quality, as well as data quality maturity stage of the organizations. Survey research was used in this study; a questionnaire was sent to collect data from 477 corporations listed in the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) on January, 2011. Forty-nine questionnaires were returned. The results show that about half of the organizations have implemented CPM systems. Most organizations are confident in the information in CPM system, but information quality issues are commonly found. Frequent problems regarding information quality are information not up to date, information not ready by time of use, inaccuracy and incomplete. The most concerned and frequently assessed quality dimensions were security, accuracy, completeness, and validity. When asked to prioritize, the most important quality dimensions are accuracy, timeliness, completeness, security, and validity respectively. In addition, most organizations concern about data governance management and have deployed such measures. This study showed that most organizations are on level 4 on Gartner's data governance maturity stage in which data governance is concerned and managed, but still not effective.


Source Citation Attia J, Margetts P, Guyatt G. Diagnosis of thyroid disease in hospitalized patients: a systematic review. Arch Intern Med. 1999;159:658-65. 10218744


The FEM is applied to modal analysis and harmonic response analysis of the exhaust system of an automobile.The natural frequency is calculated and the vibration-mode nodes are located by modal analysis.The influence of vertical stiffness of hangers on the natural frequency of the exhaust system is analyzed.The hangers' locations are optimized according to the locations of the mode nodes.As a result,the forces transmitted to vehicle's body though the hangers are effectively reduced,and the vehicle's NVH performance is improved.


Background : Relating and applying trigonometric contents to solve problem situations involving trigonometric integration is not easy for university students. Objective : To recognise trigonometry as a mathematical tool with multiple applications in their professional context. Design : Exploratory, descriptive, analytical-interpretative. Setting and participants: University engineering students. Data collection and analysis : Two stages were programmed: preparation and formalisation. The classes were videotaped and transcribed into units of analysis in order to triangulate the information collected. Results : The importance of trigonometry as a mathematical tool that allows modelling different problem situations was highlighted. Conclusions : The development of mathematical competencies in young people was evidenced, manifested in the progress of advanced mathematical thinking skills, such as: abstracting, generalising, synthesising, defining, and demonstrating; manifested when facing different proposed situations where students understood that when using trigonometric integration, different trigonometric elements are also used, allowing for obtaining simpler expressions and facilitate integration.


To improve the recuperative heat exchange, a Reverse Flow Catalytic Membrane Reactor (RFCMR) with porous membranes is proposed in this thesis, in which very efficient heat exchange between the feed and product streams is achieved by using the reverse flow concept (i.e. periodic alternation of the flow direction of the gas through a fixed catalyst bed).


Summary Background hemolytic plaque-forming cells (PFC) directed against three erythrocyte targets were measured in rats with three different, specific vitamin deficiencies: riboflavin, pyridoxine, and pantothenic acid, as well as in control rats. The numbers of background PFC were found to be elevated in all three vitamin-deficiency states compared with controls, whereas earlier studies showed that postimmunization PFC were markedly depressed in those deficiencies tested. The significance of these findings is discussed in terms of a possible loss of suppressor cells. This work was supported by grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (1 RO1 HD 08549-01) to A. E. Axelrod, and the Health Research and Services Foundation (R-62) to A. Koros. We thank Dr. T. T. Hayashi, Dr. T. J. Gill, III, and Dr. G. Werner for their special help in this project. We also thank Helen Baginski for technical assistance, and Lorraine Repasky for preparation of the manuscript.


Pre-eclampsia, a hypertensive pregnancy disorder, is the third leading cause of maternal mortality in Uganda. This is partly due to the improper monitoring, shortages of healthcare professionals, and a lack of resources, placing stress on Uganda's healthcare system. We aim to disseminate the already established miniPIERS model and utilize the concept of task-shifting, to reduce maternal mortality through proper monitoring of pre-eclampsia affected women. Due to the shortages in diagnostic tools necessary for identifying pre-eclampsia, we chose to implement our innovative strategy in the Lira sub-county, situated in Northern Uganda. The aim is to increase the number of severe cases referred to tertiary hospitals by working alongside Village Health Teams (VHTs) and Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs). Data will be collected using the miniPIERS toolkit to ensure that at-risk mothers receive appropriate care and monitoring. We hope to decrease the burden on the Ugandan healthcare system, by adopting an effective referral system that reduces unnecessary healthcare visits. Our strategic recommendation is conducted in four phases: engagement of stakeholders, education, and implementation, monitoring of workers, and lastly, follow-up and coaching. Our goal is to decrease the rate of maternal mortality in Uganda attributed to hypertensive disorders. Therefore, increasing GDP, the empowerment of women, communities, and positive maternal health outcomes. We aim to make our innovation sustainable by ensuring the projected costs of maintenance and implementation are minimal. There are many potential partnerships that can be utilized in the process of subsidizing costs and resources. Nevertheless, ongoing evaluations and community engagement will help improve the model and tailor it to suit the needs of the Lira Subcounty. Furthermore, using the miniPIERS toolkit and training of VHTs can be an effective precursor to the Pre-eclampsia On the Move app, which can facilitate data transmission. Although simple, the utilization of VHTs and the miniPIERS toolkit could result in a significant impact that saves mothers and their unborn children.


The article concluded probability distribution functions sum of the squares of the random variables in the non-zero expectations. The resulting distribution function is possible to create an efficient single-step phase ambiguity resolution algorithm in determining the spatial orientation of the signals of satellite radio navigation systems. Obtained thresholds at rejecting false solutions, as well as statistical data of the algorithm.


MLAS Capstone Course 340-01. Professor: Mark Schoenfield, Chair, Department of English. http://www.tennesseefossilscentral.com/index.html. Amazing Tennessee fossil discoveries including ETSU's Gray, TN dig site unearthed in 2000 that produced new species. Information on Tennessee museums and fossil exhibits is provided, along with educational data regarding the process of aging fossils and financial expenditures related to fossil protection and processing. The research project includes a paper and website.


s are available from the same host in the directory /pub/TR/UBLCS/ABSTRACTS in plain text format. All local authors can be reached via e-mail at the address firstname.lastname@example.com. UBLCS Technical Report Series 93-1 Consistent Global States of Distributed Systems: Fundamental Concepts and Mechanism , by Ö. Babao ğlu and K. Marzullo, January 1993. 93-2 Understanding Non-Blocking Atomic Commitment , by Ö. Babaoğlu and S. Toueg, January 1993. 93-3 Anchors and Paths in a Hypertext Publishing System , by C. Maioli and F. Vitali, February 1993. 93-4 A Formalization of Priority Inversion , by Ö. Babaoğlu, K. Marzullo and F. Schneider, March 1993. 93-5 Some Modifications to the Dexter Model for the Formal Description of Hypertexts , by S. Lamberti, C. Maioli and F. Vitali, April 1993. 93-6 Versioning Issues in a Collaborative Distributed Hypertext System, by C. Maioli, S. Sola and F. Vitali, April 1993. 93-7 Distributed Programming with Logic Tuple Spaces , by P. Ciancarini, April 1993. 93-8 Coordinating Rule-Based Software Processes with ESP , by . Ciancarini, April 1993. 93-9 What is Logic Programming good for in Software Engineering , by P. Ciancarini and G. Levi, April 1993. 93-10 Scheduling Real Time Tasks: A Performance Study , by F. Panzieri, L. Donatiello and L. Poretti, May 1993. 93-11 Specification and Detection of Behavioral Patterns in Distributed Computations , by Ö. Babaog ̆lu and M. Raynal, May 1993. 93-12 Interaction Systems II: The Practice of Optimal Reductions , by A. Asperti and C. Laneve, May 1993. 93-13 Reliability Analysis of Tree-Based Structures and its Application to Fault-Tolerant VLSI Systems , by Marco Roccetti, June 1993. 93-14 Guard Compilation in Logic Shared Dataspace Languages , by M. Garpari, June 1993. 93-15 Data Algorithm: A Numerical Method to Extract Shape Information from Gray Scale Images , by R. Davoli and F. Tamburini, June 1993. 93-16 Towards Performance Evaluation in Process Algebra , y R. Gorrieri and M. Roccetti, July 1993. 93-17 Split and ST Bisimulation Semantics , by R. Gorrieri and C. Laneve, July 1993. 93-18 Multilanguage Interoperability , by G. Attardi and M. Gaspari, July 1993. 93-19 HERMES: an Expert System for the Prognosis of Hepatic Diseases , by I. Bonfà, C. Maioli, F. Sarti, G.L. Milandri and P.R. Dal Monte, September 1993 93-20 An Information Flow Security Property for CCS , by R. Focardi and R. Gorrieri, October 1993. 93-21 A Classification of Security Properties , by R. Focardi and R. Gorrieri, October 1993. 93-22 Real Time Systems: A Tutorial , by F. Panzieri and R. Davoli, October 1993. 93-23 A Scalable Architecture for Reliable Distributed Multimedia Applications , by F. Panzieri and M. Roccetti, October 1993. 93-24 Wide-Area Distribution Issues in Hypertext Systems , by C. Maioli, S. Sola and F. Vitali, October 1993. 93-25 On Relating Some Models for Concurrency , b P. Degano, R. Gorrieri and S. Vigna, October 1993. 93-26 Axiomatising ST Bisimulation Equivalence , by N. Busi, R. van Glabbeek and R. Gorrieri, December 1993. 93-27 A Theory of Processes with Durational Actions , by R. Gorrieri, M. Roccetti and E. Stancampiano, December 1993. 94-1 Further Modifications to the Dexter Hypertext Reference Model: a Proposal , by W. Penzo, S. Sola, F. Vitali, January 1994. 94-2 Symbol-Level Requirements for Agent-Level Programming, M. Gaspari, E. Motta, February 1994.