Abstract : The AAMRL Horizontal Deceleration Facility is used to conduct experimental research for the development of design criteria for aircrew personnel protection. The hydraulic deceleration device is a water-filled cylinder. A piston mounted on the front of a deceleration sled ruptures a frangible diaphragm positioned at the opening of the cylinder and displaces the water in the cylinder through the multiple orifices. As the piston travels along the cylinder it closes off the orifices thereby decreasing the available area for the water to escape. Bernoulli's conservation-of-energy equation was applied to the physical state of fluid flow in the cylinder, allowing the orifice area to be determined as a function of the piston cross-sectional area, acceleration, velocity and weight of the sled. A computer program was developed to determine the appropriate plug orifice and location to produce desired acceleration-time profiles. The program corrects for the energy loss due to the vena-contracta of each plug. Data from several tests were used to determine a correction coefficient for other losses, such as those attributable to conduit length and surface roughness, as a lumped quantity. (Author)


The study sets out to determine the stratigraphic architecture of the coastal aquifers of Emilia-Romagna Region, in particular in the area of the Ferrara Province's and defins the distribution and the physical buondaries of groundwater reservoirs (composed of sand bodies), the associated permeability barriers and the interface between fresh water and brackish water. The huge quantity of data available, together with teorical progress in the last few years in stratigraphical field that have permitted new possibilities of correlation and 3D reconstruction of sedimentary deposits. The genetic interpretation of the stratigraphic architecture of coastal aquifers should represent the basis of all specialist examinations, in particularly in monitoring and in the prevention of internal saline water intrusion.


AIM: To obtain a McAb that can inhibit the function of matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2), we expressed the fibronectin-like domain of MMP-2 (MFD) in vitro and prepared a McAb against MMP-2. METHODS: The purified MFD protein was used to immunize BALB/C mouse three times. Then the spleen of mouse was taken out and hybridized with hybridoma cells SP2/0. The positive cell clones were screened with ELISA method. The subtype and tissue specificity of the McAb were identified and its effect on endothelial cell migration and tube-formation was analyzed. RESULTS: After the spleen cells of the mouse and hybridoma cells SP2/0 were hybridized, a piece of cells that continuously secreted McAb against MMP-2 was obtained and named SZ-117. The titers of this McAb in culture supernatants and ascites were 2×10~-3 and 2×10~-5 , respectively. The heavy chain of the McAb belongs to IgG1 subclass. The McAb identified native MMP-2. MMP-2 existed in the stromal tissue of stomach, cholecystis, spleen, ovarian, prostate, salping and lymph node. It inhibited the invasion behavior of endothelial cells Eahy926 and pancreatic carcinoma cells 1990 and inhibited the tube-formation of Eahy926 cells. CONCLUSION: A useful tool for testing MMP-2 is obtained and it will be helpful to look for a kind of new anti-tumor material.


Background Juvenile scleroderma (JS) is a rarely seen chronic connective tissue disorder. There are two main disease forms: juvenile localized scleroderma (JLS) and juvenile systemic sclerosis (JSS). These conditions share common pathophysiologic features which are mainly characterized by inflammation and fibrosis of the skin. In JLS, fibrosis involves restricted areas of the skin, whereas in JSS it also affects the internal organs. Objectives There have been few studies of quality of life in pediatric scleroderma and these focused predominantly on self-perception and the influence of skin involvement. Our cross-sectional study aimed to describe the influence of juvenile scleroderma on functional ability and quality of life in relation to clinical and demographic measures. Methods 30 patients (26 girls, 4 boys) with JS between the ages of 6-18 years and 30 healthy controls (20 girls, 10 boys) with similar age and gender were included in our study. Patients with either localized scleroderma or systemic sclerosis (SSc) attending pediatric rheumatology clinics, together with their parents were asked to complete a set of 3 validated measures. Children completed their functional abilitiy status with Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ) and Jebson Taylor Hand Function Test (JTHFT). The quality of life were evaluated with Scleroderma Health Assessment Questionnaire (SHAQ). Clinical and demographic data were provided by consultant pediatric rheumatologists and physiotherapists. Results The mean age of the JS group was 14.06 3.24 years (86% female, 14% male; while the%53 localized scleroderma,%47 SSc) and of the control group was 12.43 3.24 years. There were significantly differences between the two groups in functional ability scores (JTHFT), (CHAQ) and quality of life scores (SHAQ) (p<0,05). In JS grup, the total-CHAQ score was 0.470,63 (range 03, 0 indicating no impairment), the JTHFT-Total left hand and right hand scores were 44,059,83 and 41,497,42 second respectively, and the median SHAQ-Total score was 0,34 (range 06, 0 indicating no impairment) Conclusion Functional ability disabilities in JS patients cause limitations in daily living activity. Scleroderma had only a moderate effect on quality of life and functional abilites as measured by the 3 validated instruments. Although a small number of children reported greater impairment, this is an encouraging finding, given its potential disfiguring and debilitating effects. References [1] Lam C, Young N, Marwaha J, McLimont M, Feldman BM. Revised versions of the Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ) are more sensitive and suffer less from a ceiling effect. Arthritis Care Res. 2004; 51(6):881-9. [2] Reedman SE, Beagley S, Sakzewski L, Boyd RN. The Jebsen Taylor Test of Hand Function: A Pilot Test-Retest Reliability Study in Typically Developing Children. Phys Occup Ther Pediatr. 2016; 36(3):292-304. [3] Rocha, L. F., Marangoni, R. G., Sampaio-Barros, P. D., Levy-Neto, M., Yoshinari, N. H., Bonfa, E.,. .. & Kowalski, S. C. Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Brazilian version of the Scleroderma Health Assessment Questionnaire (SHAQ). Clinical rheumatology. 2014; 33(5):699-706. *The co-author Ela Tarakcı was supported to participate to EULAR 2019 by Turkish Academy of Sciences as a winner of the Young Scientists Award Programme (GEBIP) 2018. Disclosure of Interests None declared


This article discusses the means to connect the application with the database in PowerBuilder.it also provides implementation technology to the problems in parametric connection of database in PowerBuilder. Using RegistrySet() function in PowerBuilder reads or writes windows register table realization ODBC interface parametric connection of database in PowerBuilder. Using ProfileString() function realizes special database interface parametric connection of database. It breaks the confine that uses handwork connection of database, raveal the problem in a lot of designing program work and infirmly extend anciently. Using the means in this article can make technology of connection of database in PowerBuilder more perfect. 


IEEE 802.16, popularly known as WiMAX, is at the forefront of the technology drive because of the growing demand for high-speed wireless broadband networks. Multihop WiMAX networks are particularly useful as they increase the coverage area without the need to deploy expensive base stations. There are two kinds of multihop WiMAX networks - WiMAX mesh and Mobile Multihop Relay Networks. Scheduling is very important in both of these multihop WiMAX networks. The links have to be scheduled in such a way so that they do not interfere with each other while maximizing the throughput of the networks. As WiMAX networks are geared towards broadband applications, any scheduling scheme should accomodate the rate, latency and jitter requirements of the applications. This article provides an insight to the scheduling framework presented in the IEEE 802.16 standard. It also presents a few representative research proposals for centralized scheduling in WiMAX networks. We discuss some of the research issues and challenges that need to be addressed for multihop WiMAX networks to realize their full potential.


We study a new programming framework based on logic programming where success and failure are replaced by predicates for adequacy and inadequacy. Adequacy allows to extract a result from a partial computation, and inadequacy allows to flexibly constrain the search space. In this parameterized setting, the classical result of independence of the selection rule does not hold. We show that, under certain conditions, whenever there exists an adequate derivation there is one in which only so-called needed atoms are selected. This result is applied in a practical setting where adequacy is expressed using a notion of request.


Effects of different exogenous hormones and culture solutions on rooting of the needle fascicles of Pinus tabulaeformis f.shekannesis were investigated.The results showed that the leading factor increasing the rate of rooting was the exogenous hormone,and the culture solution could improve the quality of root.The suitable rooting exogenous hormone was NAA with the concentration of 80 mg·L-1 to treat the needle fascicles for 24 h;the optimum culture solution was HBO3(70 mg·L-1)+ NH4NO3(50 mg·L-1)+ Vb1(30 mg·L-1) + KH2PO4(20 mg·L-1).


The paper presents procedures which have been developed for a quantitative analysis of the divertor power deposition at Wendelstein 7-X. The development of these tools is motivated by the need to compare and verify scientific and engineering predictions with experimental measurements. The measurements have been performed by means of the thermographic diagnostic system, capable of exploring the divertor heat loads, with the aim to study the heat load symmetry, compare footprint patterns with theoretical expectations, but also investigate leading edges and divertor misalignment. In order to compare measurements and numerical calculations, an accurate mapping between the camera data, the divertor geometry and the 3D CAD models has been constructed. This mapping allows to find a correspondence between the data in different representations, simplifying data interpolation and visualization. This also provides a high resolution model of the target surface to compare numerical heat deposition calculations with experimental results from different cameras.


In Brazil, a way of changing the aggressive exploitation of hydraulic potential resources, in order to produce electrical energy, was found by the new application of hydropower plants. A crucial characteristic is that a unique operator is responsible for several hydropower sites far away from each other. Faced with this geography problem, an intranet architecture has been developed and from this skilful application it is possible to use some intranet channels for transmission of a special data from a new technique of signal processing. Basically, this technique is a type of spectrum which uses fixed frequency bands and vibration severity levels. The special spectrum's data is issued to a neural network system which detects the fault in its early stages and a quickly and reliably automatically a diagnosis is obtained. The intranet system uses this diagnosis to transmit the real health condition of the machine in real-time, optimising both management maintenance and production.


Community consultation has become a standard policy response in the museum sector to social inclusion initiatives. It is also a strategy often used to avoid controversy, particularly in relation to the development of contentious or dissonant museum exhibitions (Watson 2007a: 2). This is because 'community consultation' is a phrase that implies a seemingly standard and straightforward process of meetings and discussions between museums and stakeholder communities, which are designed to arrive at consensus. The relationship between communities and the heritage sector, museums included, is, as Crooke notes, considered to have 'so natural an affi nity that it hardly needs justifi cation or explanation' (2010: 17). Moreover, the idea of 'community' often has a feel good component to it; it is a term that generates feelings of warmth and safety (Bauman 2001). Indeed, there is a real sense within the heritage and museums sector that community consultation is about doing 'good works', and it is something that professionals can feel warm and cuddly about (Smith and Waterton 2009). Nonetheless, the relationship between communities, however they may be defi ned, and museums is anything but straightforward. This chapter examines the community consultation process that occurred at seven museums in England during the lead up to the development of exhibitions marking the British bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. Museums, at this time, were faced with the opportunity of engaging with a range of community groups over how exhibitions should be framed, and the messages and meanings they should portray. Through interview material with curators and community activists and representatives, the chapter documents the issues that arose, highlighting in particular tensions between the expectations of museum professionals and community groups. This chapter also explores the reasons for these and, echoing similar arguments made by Lagerkvist (2006), suggests that controversy within the consultation process is not only inevitable; it is healthy and, moreover, has the potential to be productive. A fear of controversy on the part of museum professionals was perhaps one of the greatest underlying causes of tension; however, as we wish to demonstrate, 'controversy is opportunity' (Lagerkvist 2006: 65).


A field lysimeter experiment was conducted to determine the effect of macropore flow on the transport of surface-applied cow urine N through soil. The lysimeters (500 mm diameter by 700 mm depth) used for this experiment were collected from Templeton fine sandy loam soil (Udic Ustochrept), which had been under ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) and white clover (Trifolium repens L.) pasture for 9–10 years. The effect of macropore flow on urine-N leaching was determined by leaching experiments under 0.5 kPa and 0 kPa water tensions (suctions) imposed on top of the lysimeter using a disc tension infiltrometer. The 0.5 kPa suction prevented soil pores >600 µm diameter from conducting water and solutes, while the 0 kPa suction allowed conduction under 'field saturated' condition. Pores >600 µm diameter transmitted about 98% of the total nitrogen (N) leached below 700 mm depth. The main form of N transmitted under 0 kPa was ammonium (NH4 -N), accounting for 10.5% of the total N applied at 0 kPa suction. This was significantly higher than the amount of NH 4 -N leached at 0.5 kPa suction, which accounted for 0.17% of N applied. The urea-N in the leachate reached 16 mg/L at 0 kPa suction, and accounted for 1.6% of the total N applied. No urea was detected in the leachate at the 0.5 kPa suction. The concentrations and amounts of nitrate (NO3 -N) leached were very low and did not differ between the two suctions. The forms and amounts of N leached were affected by the interactions of macropore flow and N transformations in the soil, and the environmental conditions during the two leaching events. From this work, it is recommended that stock should be removed 1–2 days before irrigation water is applied as this will allow animal urine to diffuse into soil micropores and thus decrease N leaching by macropore flow.


What children say to themselves about themselves is a powerful predictorof self efficacy and self esteem. The development of this "internaldialogue" is impacted by how others evaluate them. Using an invitationaltheory perspective, this paper describes and explains the invitationaltechniques, beliefs, and practical applications that one daycareprovider has incorporated into her daily interaction with the childrenin her care.


As the current carrying requirements increase to power the loads within server equipment, the interconnect system throughout the complete power delivery path becomes a very critical element to the overall system reliability. In addition to the electrical attributes of the interconnect, the mechanical and electro-chemical nature of the interconnect system are also key. As the voltage delivered to server microprocessors continue to drop to sub 1 V levels, the high amperage demand increases the current densities on the interconnects including those within power module packages. These high current densities, which can be on the order of 104 A/cm2, may create long term reliability concerns due to electromigration phenomenon on the interconnect such as the internal fine-pitch ball grid array (BGA) interconnects used within power modules. This paper presents the results of a study which was performed to understand the possible electromigration impacts to the reliability of the BGA interconnects of high density power modules in real-world server applications.


To achieve food security for the ever increasing world population the immediate action to be taken is to restrict the pre and post-harvest crop losses. Estimates of global crop losses in rice due to weeds, animal pests, and diseases are 10.2%, 15.1%, and 12.2% of the attainable yield, respectively. A wide range of rice diseases affect rice (Ou,1985) among which blast, sheath blight, bacterial blight, brown spot, and several virus diseases, including rice tungro, are of primary concern. An estimation of losses due to sheath blight disease alone in India has been up to 54.3% (Rajan, 1987; Roy, 1993). The pathogen has a wide host range and can infect all plants belonging to more than 32 plant families and 188 genera (Gangopadyay and Chakrabarti 1982). The available existing literature indicates the disease to be of significant importance and under the changing climatic scenario its seriousness can prove fatal to rice production. It also signifies the need to study the factors both which influences and explains sheath blight resistance and causes of still dependence on chemicals and to find out the best management practices with the available International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 11 (2017) pp. 351-357 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com


In the recent years,the Fourth Middle School has carried out active exploration in the aspects of developing the school curriculum and strengthening the curriculum research,forming the long-term effective mechanism and building the research-oriented senior middle schools.It has set up and developed a series of courses and made good achievements.We have accumulated much experience in the leadership and management of the school curriculum,that is,balancing several relations,making the five-year plan and yearly plan of research carefully,strengthening training,making rules,advocating cooperation and encouraging innovation.


Nigerians almost venerate health care and would stop at nothing to ensure access. Access to health care in Nigeria is, however, problematic for the poor majority...


Lighthill's theory of aerodynamic sound furnishes an exact set of differential equations. In order to obtain reasonable estimates of sound generated by aerodynamic sources certain simplifications are introduced. One model that has been quite successful is Ribner's self and shear noise formalism. The equivalent source terms therein are proportional to the unsteady momentum flux directed at an observer. The theory has been extended to deal with forward flight affects, heated turbulent flows. In addition there are results for nearfield pressures as well as the farfield coherence. All this can be obtained without any alteration of the underlying formalism. The turbulent flow is described by a "locally homogeneous isotropic" correlation function with specified length and time scales. Despite its simplicity the model is capable of predicting many features of the sound field generated by subsonic jets. [Work supported by NSERC, Canada.]


2001 July/August, Volume 35 ■ 959 The popularity of alternative or complementary medicine has surged over the last decade. Nearly 42% of the US population used one of these therapies in 1997. Herbal medicines, megavitamins, folk remedies, or homeopathy alone were used by approximately 25% of the US population.1 The expenditures for just herbal products accounted for more than $4 billion–5 billion per year in this country.1,2


Background Controversy exists regarding the locations of the anterior cruciate ligament insertions on the femur and tibia and visualization of these insertions during surgical reconstruction. Hypothesis Anatomical insertions of the anterior cruciate ligament have relationships to bony landmarks of the tibia and femur. Study Design Descriptive laboratory study. Methods Eight cadaveric knees were scanned by computed tomography, reconstructed 3-dimensionally, and examined from simulated arthroscopic, sagittal, and axial perspectives. Volume-rendering software was used to document the relationship of the anterior cruciate ligament to the bony anatomy. Results A bony ridge (Resident's Ridge) at the anterior border of the anterior cruciate ligament was readily noted on the medial wall of the lateral femoral condyle. Superiorly, anterior cruciate ligament fibers inserted up to the roof of the notch and to 3 to 3.5 mm of the articular surface posteriorly and interiorly. The anterior cruciate ligament inserted into a fovea anterior to the tibial eminence. Posteriorly, anterior cruciate ligament fibers inserted up to a ridge between the medial and lateral intercondylar tubercles. Medially, anterior cruciate ligament fibers inserted onto the ridge at the lateral border of the medial tibial condyle. There was no distinct anterior or lateral bony border with anterior cruciate ligament fibers blending into the anterior horn of the lateral meniscus. Conclusion The anterior border of the femoral anterior cruciate ligament origin is Resident's Ridge. The ridge between the medial and lateral intercondylar tubercles at the base of the tibial eminence is the posterior margin of the anterior cruciate ligament on the tibia. Clinical Relevance Bony landmarks can be used to aid in anatomical anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.


The present invention relates to an antineoplastic for malignant tumour and the said emulsion is used for artery and intravenous injection or oral taking. Every 100 ml of the said emulsion contains neutral coix seed oil 5-20 g, emulsifier 0.75-2.5 g, infiltrating agent 2.5-5.0 g and injection water, and the emulsion is prepared by means of two-step dispersing emulsification. The said emulsion can improve immunity of organism, provide high-energy nutrient, cure cadiovascular diseases and retard malignant tumour. As an effective anti-cancer medicone, it has certain curative effect to colon cancer, liver cancer, lung cancer, etc.


Twenty-five patients with cervical or lumbar herniated intervertebral disks were examined with magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. MR images were classified to four types and two subtypes according to the appearance of disk material , and were compared with myelogram, CTM, and operative finding. In type IV, segmentation of disk material, disk herniation was confirmed in twenty-four disks (92.3 %) at operation. In type II, flattening disk, and in type III a, bulging only , disk herniation was confirmed merely one disk (25 %). For demonstrating the herniated disk , MRI was superior to CTM or myelogram in 42.1 % of cases, about equal to CTM or myelogram in 18.3 %, and inferior to CTM or myelogram in 39 .5 %.


In the last few decades, many research efforts have been conducted to automate the medical diagnosis process. The challenge is that both accuracy and efficiency should be maximized. Recently, some research has been directed towards web medical diagnosis. Besides previous challenges, they usually try to give the web patient some fast guides till (s)he meets the specialist. This paper proposes a web medical diagnosis solution named An Intelligent Web Service based Medical Diagnosis System (IWSMD). IWSMD is designed to be an easily-integrated open environment that adds dynamically the doctor diagnosis criterion. This criterion depends on his/her knowledge of disease factors namely patient history, symptoms, signs, and investigations. To achieve its aim, IWSMD is composed of autonomous cooperative agents that are behaved smartly and trained intelligently via neural network technology to diagnose many diseases in different specialties. The agents submit their diagnosis services to the users via the system web services. In comparison to similar systems, IWSMD submits new features to help patients/doctors. Moreover, the experimental tests show evidence of its accuracy and efficiency.


What is the fastest way for an agent living in a non-deterministic Markov environment (NME) to learn about its statistical properties? The answer is to create "optimal" experiment sequences by carrying out action sequences that maximize expected knowledge gain. This idea is put into practice by integrating information theory and reinforcement learning techniques. Experiments demonstrate that the resulting method, reinforcement-driven information acquisition (RDIA), is substantially faster than standard random exploration for exploring particular NMEs. Exploration was studied apart from exploitation and we evaluated the performance of different reinforcement-driven information acquisition variations to that of traditional random exploration.


The invention concerns a laminated material for sliding elements, the material comprising a metal carrier layer and a plastics sliding layer applied thereto. The laminated material is characterized in that it adheres well to the substrate without having the disadvantages of known PVDF-based bearing materials. The plastics sliding layer comprises between 60 and 95 vol % PVDF, the remainder consisting of PTFE or PTFE and at least one further component having a density of less than 7 g/cm . The amount of this further component can be a maximum of 5 vol %. Fully or partially aromatic polymers, such as PI, PAE, polyamides, PPS, PES, PEEK, PSU or polyester, carbon variants such as graphite, carbon black, carbon fibres or coke, MoS2, BN, CaF2 or CaCO3 can be used as further components. According to the production method, a powdered mixture of these components is sprinkled onto the metal substrate and is then heated to a temperature above the softening point of the PVDF portion in order to form the plastics sliding layer which is then burnished.


Examination of several single- and multi-op amp active-RC oscillator designs has revealed that the open loop transfer function is either a second-order bandpass or biquadratic function. In all cases encountered, the frequency selectivity of the oscillator open loop transfer function was low, leading to poor frequency stability. However, it has been found possible, using a parallel-path technique, to realise an active-RC network having a biquadratic transfer function with a degree of frequency selectivity. It is therefore possible to design active-RC oscillators with considerably enhanced frequency stability when compared with traditional designs. This presentation will deal with the techniques employed in the design of such oscillators. >


The Song dynasty was an era for reform and innovation in classics theory,and the scholars in the dynasty achieved quite a lot in the exploration and correct interpretation of Poem.It was a great breakthrough in the development history of classics theory and beneficial to forthcoming scholars in the research field of Poem.


This project is on the production of a Street Guide Map of Part of Auchi town in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State. The remote sensing method of map production was adopted for this project. Geo-referenced satellite imagery was downloaded in WGS84 datum and was saved in Geo-Tiff file format from Terra Incognita. The image was imported, and re-projected into Minna/UTM zone 32 and mosaicked in ArcGis 10.3 software environment, which was printed in A0 paper size and was used during ground-truthing. Garmin GPS60 was used to obtain the coordinates of well-located points which were identified on the printed satellite image and used to verify the accuracy of the georeferenced image. Layers were created and the features were digitized into their respective layers, some simple queries were carried out to test the database such as identification of hotels along the major road, the position of a particular school e.t.c. Map annotation and compilation were done, and at the end, a street guide map of part of Auchi Town was printed on A0 paper size at a scale of 1:10,000. In conclusion, the newly updated map can serve as a base map for other applications such as tourism navigation, urban planning, development traffic studies and control, crime monitoring, utility management, etc.


Suite offers high-level abstractions for developing both single-user and multi-user interfaces. An interactive application in Suite displays data structures to one or more users and asynchronously responds to user modifications to these data structures. Between each application and user is a dialogue manager, which offers the user an interface for manipulating displayed data. Dialogue managers and applications execute in separate address spaces, residing possibly on different computers, such as local workstations and remote hosts. Users and applications can customize several aspects of the user interface including how data are displayed, the kind of feedback given in response to user input, and how changes made by multiple users to a data structure are synchronized. An inheritance model offering both structural and type inheritance is provided for easing the task of customizing user interfaces. Typing is considered orthogonal to persistence, communication, and input/output, that is, a value of any type can be made persistent, communicated among applications, and input from and output to users. In this paper, we take the reader on a tour of the software, highlighting its distinguishing features.


The multilevel hierarchical engineering system is defined as a multilevel branching structural series, that consists of main engineering structures in a complex engineering project by functionally logical relations.It indicates the general distribution of the common complex projects. Under the engineering background of anti seismic design and the case where structural earthquake fortification intensities are used as variables, the concept that two levels of minimizing approaches will be introduced into processes of the global optimization of the complicated system is proposed in this paper. Meanwhile, according to Lagrange dual theory, two methods on the first level, the dual decomposition method and the decomposition coordination method, are put forward and employed, combined with those discrete methods on the second level, for the evaluation of unconstrained and constrained global minimization respectively. An example is presented to demonstrate the high efficiency and accuracy of the proposed methods in the practical use of the globally optimal decision for the global earthquake protection criterion, construction cost, and allocation of total investment of a complex engineering project. Concepts and methods proposed in this paper greatly reduce the spatial dimension to be solved, and would provide a basis of theoretical analysis for the systematizing design of complex engineering projects and scientific decisions in engineering as well.


In each communication system an identification of the transmission channel between the transmitter and the receiver, it is necessary to identify the parameters of channel. Several methods exist, the most commonly used methods are learning by sending occasionally a known sequence between the transmitter and the receiver. In order to solve the problem of channels identification and save the resource of bandwidth, we use blind techniques which are a great interest to have the best compromise between a suitable bit rate and quality of the information retrieved. In this paper we describe tree blind algorithms witch are based on high order cumulant (HOC). In order to identify the impulse of two selective frequency fading channels called Broad Radio Access Network (BRAN A and BRAN E). Our contribution in this work is to make a comparative study between different algorithms of blind identification, compared with a supervised such as RLS algorithm. The simulation results are in a noisy environment with different SNR, demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is better to estimate blindly the impulse response of these channels (without any information about the input).


Based on the Geometric Approach, Parametric Approach and the Direct Approach, the digital imaging approach is established to evaluate LAI and LAD with the fieldwork data and the digital imaging data. The approach is verified by the data for the structural parameter of summer corn obtained in the biota zone in Beijing Normal University (BNU) and Luangcheng Ecologic Experiment Station (LEES, CAS). Compared with the classic approaches, this approach can be used to implement continuous observation on corn and synchronous evaluation of LAI and LAD, which improves the efficiency of computation of LAI and LAD and decreases the amount of the fieldwork. At the same time, visual research on the canopy of summer corn is carried out by application of the structural parameters attained.


The Southern Ocean is a region of the world's ocean which is fundamental to the generation of cold deep ocean water which drives the global thermo-haline circulation. Previous investigations of deep-sea sediment cores south of the Polar Front have been significantly constrained by the lack of a suitable correlation and dating technique.
In this study, deep-sea sediment cores from the Bellingshausen, Scotia and Weddell seas have been investigated for the presence of tephra layers. The major oxide and trace element composition of glass shards have been used to correlate tephra isochrones over distances in excess of 600 km. The source volcanoes for individual tephra layers have been identified. Atmospheric transport distances greater than 1500 km for >32 μm shards are reported.
One megascopic tephra is identified and correlated across 7 sediment drifts on the continental rise in the Bellingshausen Sea. Its occurrence in a sedimentary unit that has been biostratigraphically dated to δ^18 0 substage 5e identifies it as a key regional marker horizon for that stage.
An unusual bimodal megascopic ash layer erupted from Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, has been correlated between 6 sediment cores which form a 600 km NW-SW transect from the central Scotia Sea to Jane Basin. The megascopic ash layer has been ^14C dated at 10,670 years BP. It represents the last significant input of tephra into the Scotia Sea or Jane Basin from that volcano and forms an important early Holocene marker horizon for the region.
Five disseminated tephras can be correlated to varying extents across the central Scotia Sea cores. Together with the megascopic tephra they form a tephrostratigraphic framework that will greatly aid palaeoclimatic, palaeoenvironmental and palaeoceanographic investigations in the region.


A small ball game is one of the materials contained within the scope of elementary school learning. The kind of small ball game such as Kasti, Rounders, Softball and Baseball. How the result applied of small ball game modification on Physical Education learning process 4th grade on elementary school. This research is a development research that aims to produce products in the form of Hitball game using procedural development model. The type of data used is qualitative and quantitative. The game of Hitball, has contributed to an increase in the student's pulse rate by 50.97%. In addition, the results of the pulse rate of learners after learning can increase by 73.80% of the maximum pulse rate. From the result of the research, it is concluded that the game of Hitball is in accordance with Core Competencies and basic competencies of Physical Education on Elementary Class IV and can increase the intensity of student movement which is indicated by the increase of the average pulse as much as 50,97%.


Thank you for reading chinese footbinding the history of a curious erotic custom. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have search hundreds times for their chosen books like this chinese footbinding the history of a curious erotic custom, but end up in malicious downloads. Rather than enjoying a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they juggled with some infectious bugs inside their desktop computer.


Methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an important pathogen in cystic fibrosis (CF), with increasing incidence in recent years. We examined the association between bacterial colonization in the sputum (MRSA with or without pseudomonas (PA)) and computed tomography (CT) scores in CF patients.


Dipterous of the genus Ornidia are pollinator bugs, but immature stages can be found in organic matter indecomposition. This article refers to a found of lar...


Abstract Genetic pathway of colonization of Lessepsian lizardfish Saurida undosquamis populations on the way from the Red Sea to Mediterranean Sea was examined. The lizardfish (Saurida undosquamis) samples were collected from the Red Sea (Jeddah) and Mediterranean Sea (Syrian Coast (Lattakia Port), Iskenderun Bay, Mersin Bay, Antalya Bay), and analyzed using mtDNA 16S gene region with mtDNA PCR-RFLP method with 6 restriction enzymes (BsurI AluI, Hin6I, RsaI, XhoI, EheI). A total of 16 haplotypes were detected from 150 individuals. AAAAAA haplotype was the most common occurred in all sampling sites present in 40% of individuals. The average haplotype diversity and genetic diversity within populations were 0.4579 and 0.009179, respectively. The average genetic diversity and genetic divergence between populations were calculated 0.025294 and 0.016115, respectively. In Monte Carlo (X2) pairwise comparisons highly significant differences (P l 0.001) between all populations were detected. S. undosquamis showed high genetic changes on the pathway of its colonization from south to northward, and there is lack of genetic migration between the Red Sea and Mediterranean


Objective:To illustrate the pharmaceutical care for a long-term peritoneal dialysis patient with peritoneal dialysis related peritonitis in our hospital and evaluate the influence of clinical pharmacist during the therapy.Methods: A medical decision was obtained by evidence-based clinical pharmacy and experience during medical therapy.Clinical pharmacists provided reasonable pharmaceutical care and health education to patient.Result: Clinical pharmacist played an important role in medical therapy.Conclusion: Clinical pharmacist has great advantages in setting up a medical care,providing the professional service to the patients and the medical staffs.


Abstract The weakened heart is supported by a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) to supply the heart muscle with oxygenated blood. In case the heart muscle recovers during LVAD therapy, the patient has to be weaned from the device. To date, there is no adequate method to detect heart muscle recovery in LVAD therapy. In order to establish a novel method based on the measurement of electric conductivity, this study presents a silicone model of a ventricle mock-up to simulate the electrical properties of cardiac muscle tissue. Previously, it has been shown that the electrical properties of myocardial tissue change during ischemia, so that these changes are a possible estimate for measuring the condition of myocardial tissue. To this purpose, this study presents a casting process for a ventricle model and describes the materials used to imitate the electrical properties of the heart muscle to obtain conductive material. Initial results showed that the higher the carbon concentration in the silicone, the higher the conductivity of the silicone samples. The measurements were performed at different frequencies and the samples were analyzed for homogenization.


Magnetic fields penetrate superconductors as quantized tubes of magnetic flux, or vortices. A transport current passed through such a superconductor exerts a transverse force on the vortices. The dissipation resulting from vortex motion is characterized by a vortex viscosity, and microwave techniques provide a powerful means of accessing this in the presence of pinning. A novel microwave spectroscopy apparatus has been set up that allows sensitive measurements of the dynamical properties of vortices to be made at temperatures down to 80 mK, in magnetic fields up to 9 T, and at frequencies from 2.25 to 25 GHz. A comprehensive study has been carried out at 2.5 GHz on the heavy fermion superconductor CeCoIn5. Surprising new behaviour is revealed in the vortex viscosity, which, at low fields, exhibits clear signatures of d-wave quasiparticle physics. This suggests that delocalized excitations outside the vortex cores are predominantly responsible for vortex dissipation in CeCoIn5.


QV is ex post (Kaldor-Hicks) efficient in the sense that, at the moment of decision, it maximizes the prospective wealth of society. The goal of a firm about to make an initial public offering, however, is not to maximize this ex post efficiency but to minimize the cost of raising capital. To compare these two we consider a simple model. There are two stages. At the first stage, a market for shares exists. At the second stage, a decision is made. There are individuals with a representative individual having utility if she owns shares, the price of shares is , and the decision in the second period is made in favor of the action and utility if the decision is made not to implement the action. Thus we assume, for simplicity and because any given corporate holding is likely a small fraction of any individual's lifetime wealth, that utility is quasi-linear in money. We also assume that , 0 , so that individuals value shares but will want to purchase a finite number. Suppose that, independent of share purchases, the decision is made for with probability . Then if individuals evaluate prospects as maximizers of expected utility, individual 's expected utility is 1 . If individuals can freely choose the number of shares they buy, then their firstorder conditions are 1 . This must hold for all individuals , and, because we denominate shares as a fraction of the total shares, they must sum to 1.


In this work, we offer a novel system, MicroStation (μStation) that allows ubiquitous data broadcasting applications using the FM radio on mobile devices such as smartphones. μStation includes two key modules to enable data broadcasting based on existing mobile FM radio hardware. Channel Selector assigns different FM channels to neighboring μStation broadcasters to avoid collision and guides μStation listeners to find their broadcasting of interest. Data Codec realizes bit-level communication between mobile devices through existing FM radio hardware. We describe an implementation of μStation on the Nokia N900 smartphone, and provide low-level APIs and services to support application development. We also demonstrate two representative applications: Facebook-FM and Sync-Flash. These applications demonstrate the capability of μStation to readily enable a new class of ubiquitous data broadcasting applications on mobile devices.


The polytheistic nature of pre-exilic Israelite religion and Israel's gradual evolution toward monotheism are taken as axiomatic in current biblical scholarship. This evolution, according to the consensus view, was achieved through the zealous commitment of Israelite scribes who edited and reworked the Hebrew Bible to reflect emerging monotheism and to compel the laity to embrace the idea. One specific feature of Israelite religion offered as proof of this development is the divine council. Before the exile, Israelite religion affirmed a council of gods which may or may not have been headed by Yahweh. During and after the exile, the gods of the council became angels, mere messengers of Yahweh, who by the end of the exilic period was conceived of as the lone council head over the gods of all nations. Deuteronomy 32:8-9 and Psalm 82 are put forth as rhetorical evidence of this redactional strategy and assumed religious evolution. The argument is put forth that these texts suggest Yahweh was at one time a junior member of the pantheon under El the Most High, but that he has now taken control as king of the gods. Mark S. Smith's comments are representative:


Objective To study the hypersusceptibility of aluminum hydroxide adjuvant.Methods Forty-two guinea pigs were divided into seven groups and sensitized then,12 d later,injected i.v.with Al(OH)3 1.5 mg / ml,Al(OH)3 4 mg / ml,Al(OH)3 7 mg / ml,Al(OH)3 10 mg / ml,Al(OH)3 13 mg / ml,physiological saline(negative control) and 1% BSA(positive control) respectively,and observed for reaction as well as the time of appearance and disappearance of the symptoms.Another 24 guinea pigs were divided into four groups and injected i.d.with antisera then,48 h later,injected i.v.with Al(OH)3 1.5 mg / ml,Al(OH)3 4 mg / ml,physiological saline and 1% BSA + 1% Evans blue(v / v = 1 ∶ 1) respectively for excitation.The sizes of blue spots on inner layers of guinea pigs were measured 30 min after excitation.Results Systemic active sensitization assay(ASA) showed that the Al(OH)3 at a concentration of less than 4 mg / ml caused no anaphylactic reaction in guinea pigs,while that at 7 ~ 10 mg / ml caused strong positive and that at 13 mg / ml caused extremely strong positive reactions.However,in passive cutaneous anaphylaxis(PCA) test,neither of Al(OH)3 at concentrations of 1.5 and 4 mg / ml caused anaphylactic reaction.Conclusion The Al(OH)3 at a concentration of less than 4 mg / ml caused no anaphylactic reaction,which was safe and reliable.


Objective To investigate the therapeutic mechanism of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells(MSCs) transp1antation on the model of pulmonary arterial hypertension(PAH) and observe the survived and transformed MSCs in PAH after 3weeks.Methods MSCs were isolated,cultured from bone marrow of SD rats,and stained with CM-DiI fluoresence dye in vitro.The rats were randomly divided into three groups(n=10): the MSCs group,the non-treatment group(PAH group) and the control group.The PAH model was induced by subcutaneous injection of MCT in MSCs and PAH groups,the rats of the control group were injected with normal saline instead of MCT.One week after MCT administration,MSCs were injected through the ranine vein into rats in the MSCs group.At the same time,rats in PAH and control groups were injected with low-glucose DMEM.Three weeks after the injection,the bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell survival and transformation were observed by immunofluorescence microscopy.Right ventricular(RV) hypertrophy and elevation of RV systolic pressure(RVSP) were evaluated.Result Immunofluorescence and histochemical results confirmed that transplanted MSCs were still alive after 3 weeks,and some of them appeared to differentiate into pulmonary vascular endothelial cells.Compared with the PAH group,RV hypertrophy andRVSP were significantly decreased.Conclusion Intravenous implantation of MSCs can significantly reduce or even reverse progression of MCT-induced pulmonary arterial hypertension to improve cardiac function and hemodynamics.The mechanism may be attributed to paracrine effects.


Ficus sur and Ficus sycomorus , two medicinal species used in Burkinabe traditional medicine for the treatment of sickle cell disease were investigated. The determination of total phenolic and tannins contents, using the method of Folin-Ciocalteu (FCR), indicate values significantly (p <0.05) higher in extracts of Ficus sycomorus compared to those of Ficus sur , with respective values of 336.80 ± 0.80 mg TAE/g of extract and 203.74 ± 0.9 mg TAE/g of extract against 247.00 ± 0.52 mg TAE/g of extract and 120.8 ± 0.83 mg TAE/g of extract. Similarly, using the method of 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH), the results of the analysis indicate that extracts of Ficus sycomorus produce the highest antiradical activity with IC 50 value of 9.60 ± 0.02 μg/mL against 31.83 ± 0.55 μg/ mL for Ficus sur. The IC 50 value of quercetin, used as reference antioxidant, was of 4.6 ± 0.08 μg/mL. The latex of Ficus sycomorus presented the lowest minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli , with respective values of 0.13 mg/mL and 0.25 mg/mL. The difference in phenolic content could explain the difference in biological activity between the two Ficus species. Keywords : drepanocitosis, radical scavenging, tannins, flavonoids, medicinal plants


Measurements of pressure at representative points in a converging–diverging channel were carried out for viscoelastic liquids of aqueous solutions of poly‐ethyleneoxide (PEO) and polyacrylamide (PAA) as well as for Newtonian liquids. The pressure drop at the section of converging channel and the pressure rise at the section of diverging channel were simultaneously measured for various flow rates. The experimental results indicate that (i) magnitudes of both pressure drop and rise for the PEO solution increase with increasing PEO concentration, and the pressure characteristics are similar to those of Newtonian liquids, (ii) the pressure characteristics of the PAA solution are significantly different from those of Newtonian liquids when the PAA concentration is increased. The differences seem to be due to elasticity of the PAA solution.


The engineering design of eddy current actuated sys- tems is expensive because of the rapid changes in field quantities and the resulting need to model very accurately. Many sugges- tions have been made to avoid computations in eddy current re- gions. The best known of these is the impedance boundary condi- tion at steel interfaces. However, the impedance boundary condi- tion does not work for nonlinear steel because the phasor analysis on which the impedance boundary condition is based is not ap- plicable. MacLean's model is best suited for analyzing in the non- linear region. Reported problems with time stepping are overcome by studying various time-stepping methods and identifying a suit- able numerical scheme. The identified method is shown to be con- vergent by using the von Neumann stability test.


Chapter 1. Systems of Linear Equations and Matrices. 1.1 Introduction to Systems of Linear Equations. 1.2 Gaussian Elimination. 1.3 Matrices and Matrix Operations. 1.4 Inverses Rules of Matrix Arithmetic. 1.5 Elementary Matrices and a Method for Finding A-1. 1.6 Further Results on Systems of Equations and Invertibility. 1.7 Diagonal, Triangular, and Symmetric Matrices. Chapter 2. Determinants. 2.1 Determinants by Cofactor Expansion. 2.2 Evaluating Determinants by Row Reduction. 2.3 Properties of the Determinant Function. 2.4 A Combinatorial Approach to Determinants. Chapter 3. Vectors in 2 Space and 3-Space. 3.1 Introduction to Vectors (Geometric). 3.2 Norm of a Vector Vector Arithmetic. 3.3 Dot Product Projections. 3.4 Cross Product. 3.5 Lines and Planes in 3-Space. Chapter 4. Euclidean Vector Spaces. 4.1 Euclidean n-Space. 4.2 Linear Transformations from Rn to Rm. 4.3 Properties of Linear Transformations from Rn to Rm. 4.4 Linear Transformations and Polynomials. Chapter 5. General Vector Spaces. 5.1 Real Vector Spaces. 5.2 Subspaces. 5.3 Linear Independence. 5.4 Basis and Dimension. 5.5 Row Space, Column Space, and Nullspace. 5.6 Rank and Nullity. Chapter 6. Inner Product Spaces. 6.1 Inner Products. 6.2 Angle and Orthogonality in Inner Product Spaces. 6.3 Orthonormal Bases: Gram-Schmidt Prodcess QR-Decomposition. 6.4 Best Approximation Least Squares. 6.5 Change of Basis. 6.6 Orthogonal Matrices. Chapter 7. Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors. 7.1 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors. 7.2 Diagonalization. 7.3 Orthogonal Diagonalization. Chapter 8. Linear Transformations. 8.1 General Linear Transformations. 8.2 Kernel and range. 8.3 Inverse Linear Transformations. 8.4 Matrices of General Linear Transformations. 8.5 Similarity. 8.6 Isomorphism. Chapter 9. Additional topics. 9.1 Application to Differential Equations. 9.2 Geometry and Linear Operators on R2. 9.3 Least Squares Fitting to Data. 9.4 Approximation Problems Fourier Series. 9.5 Quadratic Forms. 9.6 Diagonalizing Quadratic Forms Conic Sections. 9.7 Quadric Surfaces. 9.8 Comparison of Procedures for Solving Linear Systems. 9.9 LU-Decompositions. Chapter 10. Complex Vector Spaces. 10.1 Complex Numbers. 10.2 Division of Complex Numbers. 10.3 Polar Form of a Complex Number. 10.4 Complex Vector Spaces. 10.5 Complex Inner Product Spaces. 10.6 Unitary Normal, and Hermitian Matrices. Chapter 11. Applications of Linear Algebra. 11.1 Constructing Curves and Surfaces through Specified Points. 11.2 Electrical Networks. 11.3 Geometric Linear Programming. 11.4 The Earliest Applications of Linear Algebra. 11.5 Cubic Spline Interpolation. 11.6 Markov Chains. 11.7 Graph Theory. 11.8 Games of Strategy. 11.9 Leontief Economic Models. 11.10 Forest Management. 11.11 Computer Graphics. 11.12 Equilibrium Temperature Distributions. 11.13 Computed Tomography. 11.14 Fractals. 11.15 Chaos. 11.16 Cryptography. 11.17 Genetics. 11.18 Age-Specific Population Growth. 11.19 Harvesting of Animal Populations. 11.20 A Least Squares Model for Human Hearing. 11.21 Warps and Morphs. Answers to Exercises. Index.


Irregular terrains covered with forest vegetation represent a challenging scenario for radio planning. A case of particular interest is the one where a forest-covered high hill or mountain is interposed to the link, for which typical diffraction loss models usually apply as good approximations, even disregarding the vegetation influence. Pragmatic approaches to incorporate the forest contribution, such as adding a clutter height, usually improve accuracy a little further. In this scope, this paper assesses the performance of some models based on the Uniform Theory of Diffraction (UTD) for RF path loss prediction in such ridges. Special attention goes to a hybrid model in which the forest is a uniform layer over a wedge that represents the ridge, and its influence is incorporated into the diffraction coefficient. The path loss predictions are compared with measurements from a mountainous region of the USA, and the statistical adherence of the models to the measured data is discussed. Overall, the slightly better performance of the models which incorporate the vegetation influence was confirmed, the hybrid model performing the best for frequencies below 910 MHz.


Abstract This research was conducted to assess the concentration of six heavy metals ie, chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni), copper (Cu), arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) in different foods associated with health hazard inference in Bangladesh. The range of Cr, Ni, Cu, As, Cd and Pb in food samples were 0.45–47.7, 0.22–38.6, 0.43–47.4, 0.72–6.05, 0.001–6.70 and 0.21–35.9 mg/kg, respectively. The estimated daily intake values of all the metals except Cu were higher than the maximum tolerable daily intake. The target hazard quotients of all metals were higher than 1 through consumption of cereal and vegetables, indicating significant health risks to both adult and children. The total carcinogenic risk (CR) of As (9.84E–01) was higher the threshold level (1.0E–06) and 9.84E–01 for Pb clearly revealed that consumption of these food items definitely poses cancer risks to the Bangladeshi population.


The ductile fracture toughness of weld metal is determined by stretched zone, and the linear regression analysis is carried out. Analysis of character and key technology of stretched zone method is investigated.Finally, determination of ductile fracture toughness of high ductile metal using stretched zone and determination of critical fracture toughness by the point of intersection of the crack resistance curves and realistic blunting line are suggested.


Purpose

To summarize and analyze the CFTC's proposed enhanced cybersecurity testing rules for entities that run the core derivatives market infrastructure.

Design/methodology/approach

This article discusses the CFTC's proposed rulemaking related to cybersecurity testing, including enhanced cybersecurity testing requirements and guidance on risk analysis and oversight programs, as well as industry commentary on such rulemaking.

Findings

This article finds that the CFTC's recent proposed rulemaking has been met with approval generally by industry participants, and is part of a broader effort to protect against cybersecurity threats that may affect the functioning of financial markets.

Originality/value

Practical guidance from experienced futures and derivatives lawyers.


After an overview on the diffusion of the gas-light system through Italy, the paper focuses on Man- tua, a typical middle town with a great urban and construction history as it was the Renaissance Capital of the Gonzaga dukedom.The story of the gas system in Mantua has been reconstructed with the instruments of the archive research while particular attention is for the gas-light plant realized since 1864 to 1886 for the Alberti's S. Andrew Basilica, where many rests (e.g. lamps, pipes) are still visible. This gad-light plant is a great example to analyze the way an eighteenth century industrial device had been installed (often with many difficulties) over the fragile monumental structure of such a building, determining a sudden modification in the perception of the great architectonic interior of the Basilica and the decay of its marble floor and frescoes painted walls. Nowadays, the restoration purposes of the Basilica interior, meets the historical value of this gas-light plant which has to be considered as a more recent step in the five-century construction history of the Basilica and, thus, has be preserved itself.


The crystal absorption spectra of some halogenoammine complexes of Co(III) were measured at liquid helium temperature. The vibrational fine structures observed for the spin-allowed ligand field bands were interpreted in terms of a vibronic intensity mechanism in comparision with the vibrational frequencies of the skeletons. It was found that all the vibrational fine structures consist of the uniquantal progression of totally symmetric Co–N stretching vibration. This suggests that the equilibrium Co–N distances of these complexes are elongated in the ligand field electronic excited state as compared with those in the ground state.


Objective: To investigate the clinical effects of surgery through a minimal incision around areola mammae on benign tumor of mammary glands and the degree of satisfaction of the patients. Method: 80 eligible patients were selected and randomly divided into observation group and control group,40 patients in each group; the observation group was treated with surgery through a minimal incision around areola mammae,while the control group treated with surgery through traditional radiated incisions,and the operative conditions and the degrees of satisfaction of the patients of the two groups were compared.Result: The operative time and intra-operative blood loss in the patients of the observation group was slightly higher than those of the control group,but the differences were statistically insignificant( P 0. 05). The operative incision length,incision healing quality and healing time,scar width and postoperative complication in the patients of the observation group were all better than those of the control group,and the differences were statistically significant( P 0.05). The percentage of satisfaction in the patients of the observation group was 95.00%,significantly higher than that of the control group( 70.00%),and the difference was statistically significant( P 0.05).Conclusion: Surgery through a minimal incision around areola mammae in treatment of benign tumor of mammary glands is safe and reliable,and causes insignificant postoperative scars,which can better meet the esthetic requirement of the patients.


The author carries out the summary of the water damage of the asphalt pavement,discusses the formation mechanism of the water damage of the asphalt pavement,puts forward the concrete prevention measures of the water damage,points out that it should investigate these,take the effective measures,treat and repair those according to the different disease in the use of the pavement,to maintain the good status of the pavement.


Sa tu rn ' s smal l i c y moon Enceladus shows evidence f o r an extended t e c t o n i c h i s t o r y . One s t r i k i n g c h a r a c t e r i s t i c i s t h e s p a t i a l v a r i a t i o n i n c r a t e r dens i ty , rang ing f rom c r a t e r s s tand ing n e a r l y shoulder t o shoulder i n some areas t o a complete absence o f c r a t e r s i n o thers . Another i s t h e wide range i n the degree o f v iscous r e l a x a t i o n o f c r a t e r s o f a g i ven s i ze . Encel adus has undergone widespread geo log ic r e s u r f a c i n g over a s u b s t a n t i a l p a r t o f i t s h i s t o r y , and has exper ienced per iods when, a t l e a s t i n some areas, t h e geothermal g r a d i e n t was h igh. Much o f t h e resur faced t e r r a i n conta ins c u r v i l i n e a r , s u b p a r a l l e l grooves s t r i k i n g l y s i m i l a r i n t h e i r morphology and c r o s s c u t t i n g r e l a t i o n s h i p s t o those on Ganymede. I n some areas t h e boundary between o l d h e a v i l y c r a t e r e d reg ions and young resur faced reg ions i s l i n e a r and abrupt, suggest ing t h a t m a t e r i a l was ext ruded on the su r face and s t r u c t u r a l l y conf ined. I n areas where t h e boundary i s d i f f u s e , r e s u r f a c i n g c o u l d have occurred e i t h e r by e x t r u s i o n of unconf ined m a t e r i a l o r by a ve ry h i g h geothermal g r a d i e n t t h a t caused complete topographic r e l a x a t i o n . Where s t r u c t u r a l l y conf ined, t h e ext ruded m a t e r i a l probably 1 i e s i n broad, downdropped r i f t zones, as has been suggested f o r Ganymede (Parment ier e t a l . , 1982). Resur fac ing cou ld have occurred by a smal l d e n s i t y c o n t r a s t b e t w e e n the c r u s t and 1 i q u i d o r p a r t i a l me1 t below f o r c i n g f l u i d t o t h e sur face. Because Enceladus' c r u s t may be r e l a t i v e l y s i l i c a t e f r e e H 0 i c e , t h e d e n s i t y o f the e r u p t i v e f l u i d must have been ve ry low. ~ n c l u s f o n o f NH , which i s l i k e l y t o be p resen t i n Enceladus, cou ld s u b s t a n t i a l l y reduse the f l u i d ' s dens i t y . Because t h e H 0-NH system has a e u t e c t i c p o i n t a t 173" K, c o o l i n g o f a l a r g e l y mol ten i g t e r i g r would i n i t i a l l y cause c r y s t a l 1 i z a t i o n o f pure H 0 and enr ichment of the l i q u i d i n NH , decreasing i t s d e n s i t y s i g n i f i c a n t & . The d e n s i t y 3 0 f e u t e c t i c composi t i 0 3 me1 t a t 1 bar i s 0.86 gcm, compared t o 0.92 gcmf o r pure H 0 i c e . I f t h e me1 t d e n s i t y dropped below the c r u s t a l dens i t y , e x t r u s i o n 8f t h e me1 t cou ld occur, causing t h e observed resur fac ing . The grooves on Ganymede, which a r e ve ry s i m i l a r t o those on Enceladus, have been i n t e r p r e t e d as extens ion f e a t u r e s formed when Ganymede ' s geothermal g r a d i e n t was f a i r l y h i g h (Smith e t a l . , 1979a,b; Squyres, 1980). Extens iona l features a r e observed on Mimas, Tethys, Dione, and Rhea (Smith e t a1 . , 1982). On these bodies, however, t h e morphology o f the fea tu res -and the l a c k of c r a t e r r e l a x a t i o n i m p l y ex tens iona l f a i l u r e o f a ve ry co ld , t h i c k , b r i t t l e c r u s t . Extens ion seems t o have a l s o occurred on Enceladus, b u t probably when t h e geothermal g r a d i e n t was h igher , c r e a t i n g grooves l i k e those on Ganymede. Grooves on Ganymede have been i n t e r p r e t e d a s ' e i t h e r open ex tens ion f r a c t u r e s o r 1 ong, narrow grabens (Parment ier -e t a1 . , 1982). The very low g r a v i t y of Enceladus makes i t cons iderab ly more l i k e l y t h a t the grooves the re are extens ion f rac tu res . L i t h o s t a t i c s t resses a t the depth o f f a u l t i n g f o r graben-bounding normal f a u l t s would be o n l y a few bars, o r s u b s t a n t i a l l y l e s s than the t e n s i l e s t r e n g t h o f i c e a t such temperatures. Under these cond i t i ons , open ex tens ion f r a c t u r e s would form, r a t h e r than normal f a u l t s . I t has been suggested f o r Ganymede t h a t ex tens iona l s t resses generated by subsurface s o l i d s t a t e convect ion caused groove fo rmat ion ( L u c c h i t t a , 1980). Convective i n s t a b i 1 i ty c a l c u l a t i o n s f o r Enceladus i n d i c a t e t h a t convect ion i s n o t l i k e l y t o have been impor tan t i n t h a t body due t o i t s


e17550 Background: Docetaxel and paclitaxel have been widely used in treating breast cancer (BC). This study aimed to describe real-world treatment patterns of two taxanes in early-stage BC.

METHODS
Georgia Oncology Specialist Database (GOSD) was used and contained chemotherapy, medical and pharmacy claims, and lab results for nearly 170,000 patients with various types of cancer (2003-2008). Patients with stage I-III BC receiving doxirubicin-cyclophosphamide-taxane (ACT) were identified, and their pre-taxane and on-taxane periods (from first to last dose of docetaxel/paclitaxel) were examined. Number of cycles was compared using Student's t-test. Taxane dose schedule and the use of other chemotherapy in pre- and on-taxane periods were compared using Chi-Square test. A similar analysis was replicated using Pharmetrics database (2003-2008) in BC patients on ACT regimen with prior mastectomy.

RESULTS
In GOSD, 79 docetaxel (7.9%, 58.2%, 34.2% in stage I, II, III, respectively) and 139 paclitaxel (10.8%, 64.7%, 25.5% in stage I, II, III, respectively) patients were identified. Compared with paclitaxel, docetaxel patients completed more cycles (4.9 vs. 3.9, p < 0.001), were less frequently on weekly schedule, and more frequently on every-two-week (Q2w) or every-three-week (Q3W) schedules (2.5% vs. 15.2%, 27.9% vs. 62.6%, and 41.8% vs. 0%; p < 0.001). 22.8% of docetaxel patients received AC followed by docetaxel (AC>T) and 77.22% received ACT concurrently, while 100% of paclitaxel patients were on AC>T regimen. In Pharmetrics data, compared with paclitaxel (n = 211), docetaxel patients (n = 96) completed more cycles (11.3 vs. 4.6, p < 0.001), were less frequently on weekly, while more frequently on Q2W and Q3W schedules (3.1 vs. 9.5%, 9.4% vs. 62.6%, and 59.4% vs. 4.7%; p < 0.001). While 97.6% of paclitaxel patients were on AC>T regimen, AC>T and ACT regimens were evenly split among docetaxel patients (49% vs. 51%).

CONCLUSIONS
Docetaxel and paclitaxel have different treatment patterns in real-world clinical practice. The patterns in a community oncology center appear to be consistent with national data. A potential limitation of this study is that the potential selection bias may not be fully adjusted. [Table: see text].


To examine the potential use of synthesis gas as a carbon and energy source in fermentation processes, Rhodospirillum rubrum was cultured on synthesis gas generated from discarded seed corn. The growth rates, growth and poly‐β‐hydroxyalkanoates (PHA) yields, and CO oxidation/H2 evolution rates were evaluated in comparison to the rates observed with an artificial synthesis gas mixture. Depending on the gas conditioning system used, synthesis gas either stimulated or inhibited CO‐oxidation rates compared to the observations with the artificial synthesis gas mixture. Inhibitory and stimulatory compounds in synthesis gas could be removed by the addition of activated charcoal, char‐tar, or char‐ash filters (char, tar, and ash are gasification residues). In batch fermentations, approximately 1.4 mol CO was oxidized per day per g cell protein with the production of 0.75 mol H2 and 340 mg PHA per day per g cell protein. The PHA produced from R. rubrum grown on synthesis gas was composed of 86% β‐hydroxybutyrate and 14% β‐hydroxyvalerate. Mass transfer of CO into the liquid phase was determined as the rate‐limiting step in the fermentation. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2007;97: 279–286. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


InGaAs/InP multiple-quantum-well lasers were integrated with low-loss waveguides in the long-wavelength region using a cap-annealing disordering technique which does not require a regrowth process. The coupling efficiency between them does not increase the threshold current of the lasers. The optical loss in the waveguide was 7.8 cm/sup -1/ and was due to free-carrier absorption in the cladding layers.<<ETX>>


Using a new technique of treating nonlinear diffusion term and impulsive delay differential inequalities,the authors studied the oscillation problems for a class of delay parabolic systems with impulse effect and nonlinear diffusion term under first boundary condition and some new sufficient conditions are established for the oscillation of all solutions of such systems.The results obtained fully indicate that the system oscillation is caused by the effect of impulse and delay.


It is generally thought that sedimentation tanks are a fairly new technology in wastewater treatment dating from the middle of the 19 th century. However, archaeological excavations have revealed sedimentation tanks that were being used from ancient civilizations like the Minoan or more recent ones such as the Roman for the settling of solids and impurities in wastewaters, streamwaters, and stormwaters.


To suppress zero-sequence circulating current in parallel operating inverters with common DC power supply, this paper proposes a new strategy based on Dual-carrier SVPWM and proportional resonant (PR) control, which use two opposite active vectors instead of zero vectors to suppress the higher frequency circulating current and reduces the lower frequency circulating current by means of zero-sequence circulating current closed-loop control based on PR controller. It has the advantages of high-efficiency usage of DC voltage, needless carrier synchronization and eliminating the circulating current. Simulation experiments verify the strategy's effectiveness in the two parallel inverters.


By tracing coalition building among grassroots community organizations, chapter 4 identifies the high level of mistrust among the lead agencies, the intermediary, and grassroots groups unaffiliated with the New Communities Program. Still, this chapter explains, these organizations collaborated and shared ideas, resources, and information. Goal-focused collaborative relationships—what the author terms networks of opportunity—provided benefits to both local residents and community organizations, but rather than working toward building trust, grassroots groups in these networks used their collective skepticism of the New Communities Program, the lead agencies, local politicians, and other external organizations as a tool to ensure a more careful evaluation of what they could accomplish. They thus assessed the information they shared with a more critical eye toward project outcomes. As this chapter explains, such an approach to networking, while potentially difficult and time-consuming, allows organizations to connect their local causes to broader national issues and is particularly useful in networks that contain unequal power relations. Within Greater Englewood and Little Village, two unique approaches emerged—partnering with local agencies and partnering with a broad network.


It is know that photonic crystals with Dirac-like conical dispersions at k = 0 derived from monopole and dipole excitations can serve as a "classical system" with zero-refractiveindex [1]. We will show that such a system also behaves as if it is a "quantum-like system" with pseudo-spin 1 [2]. In some dielectric photonic crystals exhibiting conical dispersions at k = 0, the eigenmodes can be described by an effective spin-orbit Hamiltonian with a pseudospin of 1. Here, the pseudospin of 1 does not refer to the intrinsic spin of photons, but an additional quantum number describing the admixing of 3 degrees of freedom of the spatial wave function of the EM wave near the Dirac-like point. As the pseudospin of the conical dispersion in these photonic crystals is different from that of graphene which has pseudospin of 1/2, the transport properties are also different even though both systems have conical disperions. For example, we found that Klein tunneling is more robust and collimation can be realized more easily with pseudospin 1 than pseudospin 1/2. For photonic systems that can be described by pseudospin-1 Hamiltonian, disorder induced localization effect are found to be distinct from ordinary materials. In particular, as disorder increases, the localization length can decrease to a minimum and increase again. Such unusual phenomena is closed related to the notion "complementary material". The special wave scattering properties of pseudospin-1 photons, coupled with the discovery that the effective photonic "potential" can be varied by a simple change of length scale, may offer new ways to control photon transport. We will also show that conical dispersions will lead to single-mode interface states. In particular, an interface state is guaranteed to exist if an interface is formed such the photonic crystals on either side of the boundary are formed by slightly perturbing the condition to form a Dirac-like cone (zero-refractive index). Near the Brillouin zone center, the existence of the interface state can be explained using effective medium theory. In a deeper level, the origin of the existence of the interface states can be discussed in terms of scattering theory and a bulk-interface correspondence that relates the surface impedance to the geometric phases of the bulk band structure [3, 4].


that in such a rapidly expanding field, it is soon out of date. Perhaps it would lend itself to being in the form of a computerised database, with regular updates for subscribers. It is difficult to gauge from the book itself the reliability of a given test; this however, can be assessed from studying the references. Any conditions which have not been diagnosed prenatally before are simply not referred to, leaving the reader with a slight feeling of uncertainty. Nevertheless, the logical layout of the text and the index help in this regard. I would highly recommend the book as a useful addtion to the libraries of clinical geneticists, obstetricians, paediatricians, and others with an interest in the field of prenatal diagnosis.


Máximo E. Drets will be celebrating his 80th birthday on April 21, 2010. To honor him we have prepared a dedication volume entitled 'Chromosomes, Genomes and Beyond' in collaboration with Cytogenetic and Genome Research . This issue provides a collection of original and review articles contributed by Máximo's former coworkers and colleagues who have shared with him common research interests over the years. We wish to express our deep gratitude to Michael Schmid, Chief Editor of Cytogenetic and Genome Research . We are also indebted to Martina Guttenbach, Mechthild Büche, Judy Hartz and Claus Steinlein from the Editorial Office for their excellent support and many helpful suggestions, which have contributed considerably to make this volume possible. Finally, we especially wish to thank the Museo Torres García in Montevideo (Uruguay) for reproduction permission of the masterpiece 'América del Sur' (1936) by the Uruguayan painter Joaquín Torres García on the cover of the present volume. Ricardo Benavente (Würzburg) Gustavo A. Folle (Montevideo) February 2010 Published online: May 27, 2010


case performance bounds for simple one-dimensional packing algorithms. SIAM J. A better algorithm for an ancient scheduling problem. Analysis of several task-scheduling algorithms for a model of multiprogramming computer systems. A new algorithm for on-line bin-packing. 44 43] G. Galambos and J. B. G. Frenk. A simple proof of Liang's lower bound for on-line bin packing and the extension to the parametric case. The parametric behaviour of the rst t decreasing bin-packing algorithm. 37] D. C. Fisher. Next-t packs a list and its reverse into the same number of bins. Oper. 42 12] J. Blazewicz and K. Ecker. A linear time algorithm for restricted bin packing and scheduling problems. Oper. Res. Lett., 2:80{83, 1983. 13] D. J. Brown. A lower bound for on-line one-dimensional bin-packing algorithms. analysis of an eecient algorithm for processor and storage allocation. 41 component sets (items) in the magazine can be in production. The problem is to plan the overall production process so as to minimize the number of setups. S. Khanna 77] mentions, in connection with studies of multimedia communications, that graph packing is an interesting special case. Items are edges (pairs of vertices) in a given graph G. An edge is packed in a bin if both of the vertices to which it is incident are in the bin, and so the problem is to pack the edges of G into as few bins as possible subject to the constraint that there can be at most C vertices in any bin. The approximability of this problem has yet to be studied. a dual version of the one-dimensional bin packing problem. J. Algorithms, 5:502{525, 1984. 6] B. S. Baker. A new proof for the rst-t decreasing bin-packing algorithm. A 5/4 algorithm for two-dimensional packing. A tight asymptotic bound for next-t-decreasing bin-packing. A better lower bound for on-line scheduling. 40 item is called available if all its immediate predecessors have already been packed. At each stage, the set of currently available items is sorted according to nonincreasing size, and each item is packed into the lowest indexed bin where it ts and no precedence constraint is violated. Note that, if no partial order is given, this algorithm produces the same packing as FFD. In general, however, its worst-case behavior is considerably worse. The APR is R 1 OFFD = 2; except in the strict model, where R 1 OFFD = 27 10. In this generalization, a …


PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND HEALTH OF STUDENTS FROM NONSPORTS UNIVERSITIES Ju.D. Zheleznyak, Dr. Hab., professor The Moscow state regional university, Moscow A.V. Leyfa, Ph. D., associate professor The Amur state university, Blagoveshchensk Key words: physical activity, healthsaving, professional preparedness, physical preparedness, system. In 2002 at the support of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation the authors organized the Regional center of assistance to the strengthening health of students, teachers and employees of higher educational institutions. The center of students health is not only an additional structural university division, but also a functional association providing the achievement of the purposes and tasks of professionally forming system of physical activity and health.


Slow scale boiler plant-based tube boiler tube technical field of plant generation and off controlled way, the steps of: reading the data in real time mild stress from the metal walls of the scene database; calculating tube wall temperature of the working fluid boundary; calculating metal an inner wall oxide increased temperature and the metal inner wall oxide increased temperature margin; scale generated in real time thickness within the computing tube; vital statistics and display the current oxidation exacerbated each monitoring point furnace temperature margin, the inner tube scale thickness and this pipe materials and specifications, and oxidation of the monitoring frequency of the pipe, the oxidation temperature margin increased oxidation time, the inner pipe thickness distribution scale display. The invention can accurately given within the pipe scale formation conditions and the Causes of high temperature piping power station boiler of the monitoring pipe sections, and through operational restructuring and early-warning measures to achieve slow down the formation of scale and to fall prevention, to avoid burst pipes to companies and countries resulting in huge losses.


There is broad consensus among educators, communication scholars, sociologists, and economists that the development and diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) are having a profound effect on modern life. This is due to the affordances of new digital media, which bridge the interactive features of speech and the archival characteristics of writing; allow many-to-many communication among people without regard to time and space, including mass collaborative editing of texts; facilitate the creation of a global hyper-indexed multimodal information structure; and enable content production and distribution in both writing and multimedia on a scale previously unimaginable . For all these reasons, computer-mediated communication can be considered a new mode of information, or a "fourth revolution in the means of production of knowledge", following the three prior revolutions of language, writing, and print. The previous revolution, brought about through the development and diffusion of printing, took centuries to unfold, as its full impact depended on the industrial revolution that Gutenberg's printing press preceded by several centuries. Today, though, the development and diffusion of computers and the Internet occur simultaneously with a new economic revolution, based on transition from an industrial to an informational economy.


INTRODUCTION Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is a common infirmity affecting all age groups but more common in children worldwide. Even in developed countries, most of the children will average one episode of AGE viruses per year [1]. e rate of gastroenteritis infection is higher in children under five year age and which estimated 1.5 to 2.5 million deaths annually with AGE viruses [2, 3]. Globally, approximately 1.5 billion episodes and, the majority occurs in developing countries [4]. Human Bocavirus (HBoV) was identified in 2005 by nonspecific genome amplification methods. Comprehensive studies on sequence and phylogenetic analysis led to classification of the virus to the Parvoviridae family.


We consider a coronal loop kink oscillation observed by the atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) which demonstrates two strong spectral components. The period of the lower frequency component being approximately twice that of the shorter frequency component suggests the presence of harmonics.

Methods. We examine the presence of two longitudinal harmonics by investigating the spatial dependence of the loop oscillation. The time-dependent displacement of the loop is measured at 15 locations along the loop axis. For each position the detrended displacement is fitted as the sum of two damped sinusoids, having periods P1 and P2, and a damping time τ. The shorter period component exhibits anti-phase oscillations in the loop legs.

Results. We interpret the observation in terms of the first (global or fundamental) and second longitudinal harmonics of the standing kink mode. The strong excitation of the second harmonic appears connected to the preceding coronal mass ejection (CME) which displaced one of the loop legs. The oscillation parameters found are P1 " 5.00 ˘ 0.62 minutes, P2 " 2.20 ˘ 0.23 minutes, P1{2P2 " 1.15 ˘ 0.22, and τ{P " 3.35 ˘ 1.45.


There is no word for identity in any of the African languages with which I can claim any degree of familiarity. Perhaps there is good reason for this. In English the word identity implies a singular individual subject with clear ego boundaries. In Africa if I were to generalise ask a person who he or she is and his and a name will quickly be followed by a qualifier a communal term that will indicate ethnic or clan origins. To this day African bureaucracies use forms which require the applicant (for a passport a driving license to gain to access to public education housing or health services) to specify tribe. The idea of identity is an interesting one to most Africans largely because it has remained so vexed. We seem to be constantly seeking the integrity and unity that the notion implies without succeeding in securing it or coming to terms with it. We are being asked to think beyond identity when for many of us identity remains a quest something in-the-making. I think that the reason that African thinkers - or indeed other postcolonial subjects - may balk at the prospect of working beyond identity is clear. It relates to the contentious nature of the term in our upbringing as a site of oppression and resistance. We recall distasteful colonial impositions that told us who we were: a race of kaffirs natives negroes and negresses. (excerpt)


This article addresses one of the crucial tensions facing modern investment arbitration: that between confidentiality and privacy on the one hand and transparency and inclusiveness on the other. It begins by reviewing how investment arbitration frameworks have addressed this tension so far, noting the traditional focus on confidentiality and privacy and the more recent trend towards transparency and inclusiveness of proceedings before ICSID and/or NAFTA tribunals. In line with the central methodological premise of the book, the chapter then moves on to compare domestic public law approaches to questions of transparency and public interest representation. Having reviewed U.S., English, French, German and Greek law, it shows that domestic public law seems to accept the principle of transparency and provides for various forms of indirect public interest representation (e.g. through amicus curiae briefs) but also different forms of public interest claims. While this approach cannot be directly transposed to the international legal order, it can clearly – and arguably should – guide the approach of investment lawyers. In any event, the experience of many domestic legal systems suggests that there is no reason to be overly afraid of transparency and some degree of public interest representation.


Abstract A study of the tensile properties of the leaves of ten indigenous grasses as measured in terms of their breaking force and their breaking tension has shown that grasses differ from one another in these properties. In general the tensile properties of the grasses show little change during the early part of the season, but increase significantly during the autumn and early winter. In general it was noted that the tensile properties of the leaves of those grasses which retained their physical form on attaining maturity tended to be greater than those of the grasses which mature early in the season.


Protein S is a vitamin K dependent plasma glycoprotein that inhibits blood coagulation through inactivating factors Va and VIIIa in cooperation with protein C. Deficiency of protein S, congenital or acquired, predisposes to thrombotic disease.

In postmortem studies, the prevalence of cerebrovascular disease in HIV infected patients has ranged from 11% to 34%. The causes are diverse, and include embolic and thrombotic stroke, cerebral vasculitis, and cerebral haemorrhage.1Decreased free protein S has been commonly found in HIV infected adults and has been associated with systemic venous thrombosis.2

To our knowledge, we report the first case of an HIV infected adult with intracranial dural sinuses and cerebral venous thrombosis due to protein S deficiency.

A 37 year old HIV infected woman was admitted with severe and persistent headache of two weeks duration …


10 We present an extended structural study of globular complexes made by mixing a positively charge protein (lysozyme) and a negatively charged polyelectrolyte (PSS). We study the influence of all the parameters that may act on the structure of the complexes (charge densities and concentration of the species, partial hydrophobicity of the polyion chain, ionic strength). The structures on a scale range lying from 10Å to 1000Å are measured by SANS. Whatever the conditions, the same 15 structure is found, based on the formation of dense globules of ~ 100Å with a neutral core and a volume fraction of organic species (compacity) of ~ 0.3. At higher scale, the globules are arranged in fractal aggregates. Zetametry measurements show that globular complexes have a total positive charge when the charge ratio of species introduced in the mixture [-]/[+]intro > 1 and a total negative charge when [-]/[+]intro < 1. This comes from the presence of charged species in slight 20 excess in a layer at the surface of the globules. The globule finite size is determined by the Debye length k-1 whatever the way the physicochemical parameters are modified in the system, as long as chain-protein interactions are of simple electrostatics nature. The mean number of proteins per primary complex N lyso_comp grows exponentially on a master curve with k-1. This enables to picture the mechanisms of formation of the complexes. There is an initial stage of formation where the 25 growth of the complexes is only driven by attractions between opposite species associated with counterion release. During the growth of the complexes, the globules progressively repell themselves by electrostatic repulsion because their charge increases. When this repulsion becomes dominent in the system, globules stop growing and behave like charged colloids: they aggregate with a RLCA process, which leads to the formation of fractal aggregates of dimension Df 2.1.


Despite the widespread use of information technology and communication advances in the pharmaceutical industry, there are still some steps of the clinical process, such as clinical data collection, that do not take advantage of this technological revolution. In order to verify if a new technology such as the Internet could both speed data capture and improve the overall quality of data, the Italian Glaxo Wellcome company and IBM have cosponsored a pilot project called CLINical Trial & Research Management via InterNET (CLINT&RNET). Within this joint project, IBM has developed the data capture Internet application and Glaxo Wellcome has handled the clinical and organizational aspects, always in compliance with regulatory laws. This paper summarizes the technical aspects of the project.


A study was undertaken to assess the effect of different seasons, additives and grass types on silage quality at AICRP on Forage Crops and Utilization, College of Agriculture, Vellayani, Kerala during Rabi 2015-16. Pooled analysis of the data over two seasons was done and perusal of the data showed that seasons had no significant influence on quality parameters of silage. But grass type had significant influence on dry matter content, total ash and crude protein content of silage. Individual effect of additives was significant on total ash and acid insoluble ash. Highest crude protein content was recorded in the silage prepared from BN hybrid+ Jaggery 2% and it was on par with BN hybrid+ Urea 1% and BN hybrid+ Tapioca flour 1%.


Vol. 68, No. 11, November 2016, pp 2575–2583 DOI 10.1002/art.39759 VC 2016 The Authors. Arthritis & Rheumatology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.


Saturated hydraulic conductivity (K s ) is an important soil parameter that is difficult to measure, especially in an anisotropic medium. Many methods for determining K s have been developed over time, but taking different water flow directions into consideration is possible in only a few of them; furthermore, these few methods cannot be universally applied. The method proposed here allows K s to be determined in both anisotropic and heterogeneous soils. It involves testing cubic soil cores using the Wit apparatus. To use this permeameter for samples that are not cylindrical in shape, it is necessary to prepare special measurement equipment. One such set of equipment developed consists of the soil cube (four sides of which are sealed with gypsum), which is placed in a protective box and connected to a measurement cuboid. In the soil sample, water always flows from the bottom up during the test, but it is possible to turn the sample over and thus analyze different water flow directions. The soil cubes needed are small (0.05 by 0.05 by 0.05 m), but for a particular set of conditions only 15 cores extracted from each sampling location was found to be enough to determine K s with a precision of ±15%. Results yielded by the presented method appeared to be comparable with K s values obtained using a constant-head permeameter with cylindrical soil cores. The advantages of the proposed technique are the possibility of measuring K s in both horizontal and vertical directions using the same sample, a lack of leakage along the edges of a sample, the ease of soil sample extraction, and the technique use of inexpensive materials.


Jeremy Hunt has been criticised by two of the NHS's highest ranking officials for meddling in England's health service to the detriment of the public.

David Prior, head of the health and social care regulator the Care Quality Commission, said that Hunt had started phoning the heads of hospital trusts that had missed targets on emergency department waiting times when figures were released on 20 December. These showed that for the week ending 15 December 94.8% of patients in England were treated within four hours of arriving at the emergency department, just short of the 95% target.1

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph Prior revealed his frustration with the level of political micromanagement …


This study reveals the strong dependence of electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) plasma generation on the microwave conditions in the ECR plasma. When the introduced microwave frequency oscillates and has a large ripple, the ECR plasma around the ECR position vibrates. As a result, the half-value width of ion energy distributions around the ECR position is extended. Therefore, the microwave conditions cause plasma instability and disturb the ion flight paths to the substrate. The etching characteristics thus are degraded because of the low anisotropy and the deposition. In order to establish a stable discharge around the ECR position, the oscillation and ripple of this introduced microwave frequency must be accurately controlled.


This article presents a design of automation loading system by using PLC.This design can accomplish convey raw material,loading and count function.It can be used in the automatic management of factories and mining area.


Natural human activities involve applying cognitive skills to use and manipulate objects around us, often several at a time, simultaneously and continuously. Consider the simple act of doodling, which requires several cognitive skills: (1) choosing how to grasp a pencil, (2) sequencing actions like drawing and erasing, and (3) reasoning about various social norms like if the paper were not scrap, then it might be inappropriate to scribble on it. Additionally, the doodler must make creative decisions about the content and form of the drawing itself. Learning how to use objects is a highly desirable skill for artificial agents, as well. Helper agents are becoming a part of the vision of our future: helping our elderly and disabled in assisted living facilities, conducting search-andrescue missions in unforgiving terrain to save human lives, assisting our astronauts on the space station, or even monitoring our surroundings to keep us safe from national security threats. Unfortunately, although artificial agents are proficient at recognizing object features, they are less-skilled at recognizing what can be done with these objects (i.e., they cannot perceive complex object affordances). My research seeks to build an integrated computational framework for representing and reasoning about not only an object's physical features, but also higher-order functional, social, aesthetic, ethical and moral aspects (i.e., cognitive affordances). Towards this goal, I am developing a novel approach based on first-order "uncertain logic" and DempsterShafer (DS) probabilistic theory for inferring cognitive affordances.


In order to overcome the drawbacks of conventional drive systems of Electrical Vehicles,that the structure is complicated and the control performance is significantly influenced by various uncertainties load torque,a generalized predictive control method was proposed.The CARIMA model of the permanent magnet synchronous motor drive system was established based on the analysis of dynamic equation.In order to obtain excellent varied speed performance,the generalized predictive control was applied to configure the reference torque of direct torque control system.At last,the varied speed process of system was simulated.Comparable simulation results show that this control method is effective and has the profound application potential.