This paper proposes a new algorithm for super-resolution (SR) restoration that uses the affine block-based registration algorithm in the maximum likelihood estimator. The proposed SR algorithm is restricted to linear space- invariant (LSI) blur and global uniform translational displacement between the measured images. It is tested using synthetic Grayscale and Mono_Color images, where the reconstructed image can be compared with its original (17). All the simulations correspond to synthetic data, in order to bypass problems such as translation estimation between measurements, and the blurring function estimation. The proposed algorithm improves the accuracy of translational registration (which is common to use).


Editor Karen Hindson presents this double cluster issue highlighting scorpionate ligands on the 50th anniversary of the synthesis of the poly(pyrazolyl)borate ligand by Swiatoslav Trofimenko. The wealth and quality of the contents come from the popularity of the field, the enthusiasm of the authors and the commitment of Guest Editor Claudio Pettinari.


Buginese Ethnic communities' perspective in coastal area assum that a boy has more "economic value" than girl. Assumption that boy will become head of family and have responsibilities to family, and also become a central figure in family community in Makassar. This research aims to increase the motivation of girls in order to access educations as well as boy. This research use mixed-method method which combine qualitative and quantitative research data. Research subject which become data source is 7-13 years old girl in Paotere village city of Makassar. Data are collected through observation, indepth interview, and questionnaire. This research show that girl motivation is on the moderate position. It's happen because most of parents assume that their son should become a priority compared to their daughter. There 57,1% parents consider that their son has an obligation to earn a living for their family. Hereafter, assumption that their daughter not preffered because they will go along with her husband and work at home at least. Another assumption, parents state that boys are smarter than girls in school. Negative stereotyping always affects injustice between boys and girls in accessing education. Dominant role of parents and quality of communication are important to hold by parents to motivate their daughter to stay school so they can improve their knowledge and their access to education. Indication that parents awareness to give formal education to their daughter can positively contribute to the positive stereotyping of girls in coastal area to access education as well as boys. Keywords—girls; education access; coastal area


All patients with metal-on-metal hip implants are advised to have blood tests and either plain radiographs or scans, under new guidance by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).1

Concerns have been repeatedly raised about these devices, and the regulator previously recommended in 2012 that symptomatic patients or those with particular types of implants should undergo tests.

Over 50 000 UK patients have had metal-on-metal hip replacements fitted. The MHRA said that the majority currently have well functioning hips but that some patients will develop progressive soft tissue reactions to the wear debris …


The utility model discloses a refrigerator air duct structure, which comprises a refrigerator freezing chamber, a freezing chamber door body, and an air duct cover plate, an evaporator cavity and a drawer, which are arranged in the refrigerator freezing chamber, wherein an evaporator is arranged in the evaporator cavity, the evaporator is connected to a refrigerating system circuit including a compressor, a condenser and a capillary pipe, the air duct cover plate is provided with an air supply outlet, an air return port is arranged below the air duct cover plate, and the bottom of the freezing chamber is provided with an air return groove. The refrigerator freezing chamber is designed to an air cooling form, and the air duct structure is arranged in the refrigerator freezing chamber, so that the loss of the cooling capacity can be maximally reduced, and the freezing speed of food can be accelerated. Through the air return groove on the bottom of the freezing chamber, sufficient air return volume is guaranteed, the air duct space is also saved, and the entire air duct structure is reasonable in arrangement, so that the temperature inside the freezing chamber is basically maintained consistent, the storage quality of the food is improved, and the energy consumption of a refrigerator is reduced.


Aim: The aim of this study is to compare and determine the position of Turkey and other European countries in a graphical plane, divide countries into subgroups and see similarities and differences relative to each other according to the mental health sector workforce indicators. Also, we aimed to discuss the role of social work profession in mental health sector. Material and Methods: We used four different mental health workforce indicators for 29 European Countries for the year 2016 or the nearest from WHO Mental Health Database. We performed Multi-dimensional Scaling (MDS) technique to compare countries and determine positions by obtaining table of coordinates, differences matrix and euclidean distance model. We utilized SPSS 20.0 package program. Results: Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland and France have both positive and over 1value in table of coordinates and these are different from other countries. Also, Turkey is the similar to Russia, Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia mostly and is the most different, respectively, from Norway, the Netherlands, Germany and Spain in terms of mental health sector workforce. In addition, Turkey (VAR24) was located somewhere away from the general trend in the euclidean distance model. Conclusion: In Turkey, the need for mental health sector workforce especially in; social work, psychiatry and psychology professionals, is still high when compared with other developed countries such as Norway, Sweden. Keywords: Mental health; health workforce; psychiatric social work; clinic social work


Objective To investigate the curative effect of mifepristone combined with methotrexate treat ectopic pregnancy. Methods A total of 60 patients with unbroken ectopic pregnancy in our hospital were selected as the study objects,and divied them into two groups according to different treatment,the control group was only treated by methotrexate,experimental group was treated by conbined mifepristone and methotrexate.Efficacy,βhuman chorionic gonadotropin(β-HCG)variety of two groups after treatment were compared and observed. Results The experimental group's curative effect was better than control group,the experimental group's effective rate is 86.67%,the control group's effective rate was 53.33%,and the difference had statistically significance(P0.05).The experimental group's turn time of β-HCG was(14.5±2.5)d, and the control group's turn time of β-HCG was(25.5±3.2)d,so the experimental group was shorter than control group,the difference had statistically significance(P 0.05). Conclusion Mifepristone combined with methotrexate has obvious advantages in treating ectopic pregnancy,and level of β-HCG has decreased significantly after treatment,with less adverse reactions,which deserves to be widely promoted in clinic.


As part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility (ARM) Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Investigation Experiment (AMIE), in January 2012 a disdrometer observation took place with the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2), the Scanning ARM Cloud Radar (SACR), the Texas A&M SMART-R C-band radar, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) dual wavelength S- and Ka-bands polarimetric (SPolKa) radar on Gan Island, Maldives. In order to measure raindrop size distributions, a disdrometer of Nagoya University, Japan, was set up close to the ARM Two-Dimensional (2D) Video Disdrometer (2DVD). The SMART-R and SPolKa radars performed range-height-indicator scanning in the direction of the disdrometer site. Comparing the disdrometer data with 2DVD data, the raindrop size distribution data will be calibrated. Furthermore, the analysis of the raindrop size distribution and radar data will be expected to clarify the microphysics in tropical convective clouds.


The Arctic is regarded as a herald to global climate mainly because of strong interactions between the Arctic sea ice and the climate system. Understanding the roles of sea ice in the climate system is therefore critical in improving our knowledge of past and future climate changes on our planet. The primary objective of my dissertation is to investigate the utility of microwave radiometry in understanding how sea ice in the marine cryosphere evolves seasonally and how it responds to climate forcing. I conducted intensive field measurements of sea ice microwave and thermophysical/radiative properties during fall 2003 and spring 2004 in the southern Beaufort Sea and the Amundsen Gulf. The field data were carefully analyzed to address 1) surface-scale interactions between passive microwave signatures and thermophysical/radiative properties of snow/sea ice during fall and spring periods, and 2) spatial scaling issues associated with large footprint sizes of satellite microwave radiometers. The surfacescale fall studies revealed three significant correlations between microwave brightness temperature ratios and thermophysical/radiative properties of newly formed sea ice: microwave-ice thickness, microwave-brine volume and microwave-albedo. The first correlation confirmed the robustness of a previously reported thin ice thickness algorithm. The second correlation was found between microwave emissivity and brine volume on bare thin ice (R~0.8, p-value<0.05). The physical causes for these two correlations were attributed to changes in ice salinity and temperature (i.e., changes in brine volume) and their significant controls on microwave brightness temperatures. A strong correlation between microwave PR(19) and sea.ice albedo (R~0.96) was found, which has never been reported in the literature. The surface-scale spring study showed the five events ('brine-rich', 'blowing snow', 'melt onset', 'funicular' and 'freezing') that significantly affected microwave-thermophysical interactions. I found that melt onset signals can easily get confused with the signals from 'brine-rich' and 'blowing-snow' events when using melt detection indices (i.e., ATB(H) and XPGR). The results indicated an additional index (i.e., TB(19H) ) would be useful to detect melt onset without ambiguity. From spatial scaling studies, I found significant errors in estimating sea ice concentrations occurred over homogeneous thin ice types, even before considering the


We investigated the electrical-transport properties of hydroiodic acid doped polyaniline in the temperature range 77–300 K, applying magnetic field strength to a maximum of 1 T in the frequency range 20 Hz–1 MHz. The direct-current conductivity was explained by variable range hopping theory, and the direct-current magnetoconductivity, which was positive, was interpreted by orbital magnetoconductivity theory. The alternating-current (ac) conductivity was found to follow the universal dielectric response σ′(f) ∝ fs, where σ′(f) is the frequency-dependent real part of the complex ac conductivity, f is the frequency, and s is the frequency exponent. The trend in the variation of s, the temperature dependence of the frequency exponent, corroborated the fact that the correlated barrier hopping was the dominating charge-transport mechanism. The ac conductivity also showed a positive variation with magnetic field, which could be interpreted by this theory. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2008


Hip hop culture in Greece – and especially rap music – seems to be going through a period of bloom. Since 2010, a new generation of Greek-based non-commercial rap artists has surged in popularity, making rhymes and tunes about their everyday experiences (drugs, sex, nightlife, violence, poverty), while self-producing their records and maintaining a critical stance towards mainstream culture and media. In the lyrics of most artists of the genre, misogynist and homophobic assumptions are frequently reproduced, despite the rappers' expressed militancy against all forms of authority. The article examines this dissonance – created when sexist language is employed in critiques against power – and traces the intersections of gender, sexuality and political resistance within contemporary non-commercial rap in Greece. The authors focus on the produced masculinities and femininities, on the political subjects interpellated by the lyrics and on points of destabilizing regulatory gender norms. More specifically, they highlight the ways in which heteronormative masculinity is reinforced (even) in 'politically conscious' Greek-speaking rap and, within the same music genre, we look for its undoing.


The nondominated sorting genetic algorithm II and the electron optics simulator were combined to form a multiobjective optimization design tool for electron optics systems of traveling-wave tubes. After determining the objective functions that vary with the macroscopic electrical parameters that need to optimize the electron optics system, the optimization tool is capable of obtaining the optimal solution set automatically. Then, the microscopic electron trajectories of the individuals in the optimal solution set are analyzed to get the final scheme. In the collector optimization, the maximum collector efficiency and the minimum back-streaming current are used as optimization goals. While for the demonstrated electron gun, the maximum waist position is set to be the optimization goal, together with constraints of emitting current and beam waist radius. After analyzing the energy density distribution on the collector inner surface or the laminar flow of the electron gun, the final scheme is determined from the optimal solution set.


Treacher Collins syndrome (TCS) or Franceschetti syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder of craniofacial development
with variable expressivity. It is named after E Treacher Collins who described the essential components
of the condition in 1900. Incidence of this syndrome is approximately 1 in 50,000 live births and it affects both genders
equally. It affects structures which are derivatives of the first and second brachial arches. The most common
manifestations of TCS are the antimongloid slanting of the palpebral fissures, colobomas of the lower eyelid, hypoplasia
of zygoma and mandible; and a variety of ear abnormalities. This article describes clinical and radiographic
features of TCS in an 18 yr old female who had reported to the department of Oral Medicine and Radiology with the
complaint of forwardly placed upper anterior teeth. Also pathogenesis, prenatal diagnosis, differential diagnosis,
management and preventive aspects are discussed


Abstract Experiments conducted in a straight-line suction wind tunnel confirm numerous field observations of sand particles from an upwind source saltating over wet surfaces. Comparison of the mass transport rate on a wet surface ( q w ) with its dry surface equivalent ( q d ) yields a strong linear relationship ( r 2 > 0·99) over a broad range in freestream velocity. Slope coefficients vary between 0·75 and 1·1. These results indicate that over short distances in the order of 5 m, the mass transport rate is minimally affected by the presence of pore water. However, the boundary-layer structure is substantially modified by grain saltation on a wet surface as compared to the dry condition. Inner region friction velocities associated with dry sand transport ( u * d ) generally exceed those for clean air ( u * o ), while u * w for mobile wet surfaces drops below u * o . A model is proposed which relates the ratio q w / q d to several other dimensionless composite variables which address the aerodynamic drag on a wet surface relative to (1) that for an untreated surface and (2) capillary force magnitude. The product of these emulates the variation observed in the slope coefficients from the empirical regressions, thereby quantifying several of the underlying physical processes which govern transport in wet conditions.


A three-dimensional strap-down seeker based field of view and impact angle constrained guidance law for the interceptor is proposed in this paper. When the interceptor is guided based on strap-down seeker measurements, the field of view limit throughout the flight trajectory is one of the major concerns to guarantee tracking of the target. Also, while approaching a target, to enhance the capability of warhead, the interceptor needs to satisfy the desired impact angles. To meet these requirements, the proposed guidance is designed using the computationally efficient, suboptimal state constrained generalised model predictive static programming technique in a specified final time framework. This law also ensures near zero miss-distance with minimal control (lateral acceleration) effort and fixed interception time. The robustness of the proposed guidance design is studied in presence of uncertainty in aerodynamic parameter.


Barito System has been interconnected with Mahakam System, and main control center is located in Barito. So Barito Control Center can control power plants on Barito system and Mahakam system through AGC or manually. the challenge was formed when these two systems uses different platform master control. While Barito system uses SIEMENS master, Mahakam system uses ABB master that can be hard to be controlled for the interconnection system. so a method to communicate through the different platform is needed. The common method is using multi master, but the application of this method are quiet complicated and low security. ICCP method are chosen for inter-area communication data that use Fiber optic so the connectivity speed is less than 1 ms for Ping and 1 GB bandwidth to minimalize delay, also there are backup communication using secured intranet. So, AGC Testing used 2 methods, Local and Inter-Area. Local is used to test Power Plant Respond in each System (Barito or Mahakam generation system only) and Inter-Area (using ICCP) is used to test Power Plant response in the other system & other platforms (Barito control Mahakam's Power plant). Each method will be tested on 2 conditions, flexible and inflexible condition. Flexible condition is when the Power plant automatically respond (ramp up/down power) based on frequency excursion to get the balancing. Inflexible condition is when the output power form the power plant manually inputs from Dispatcher RCC. The communication data of ICCP The reliability and connection speed respond of ICCP to control AGC will be monitored, so AGC can optimize the Reliability, economical, and the quality of Kalimantan Operation System.


STUDY DESIGN
A retrospective radiographic study.

OBJECTIVE
To examine the association between global coronal alignment (GCA) and L4/L5 coronal tilt, and to verify the validity of our new index for evaluating GCA.

SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA
The mechanism of coronal imbalance is still unknown. The ability to level coronal tilts of L4 and L5 has been reported to impact the ability to achieve coronal balance, but the relationship between GCA and coronal tilt of L4 or L5 is unclear. On the other hand, although C7 migration is widely used for evaluating GCA, it has inherent defects as distance parameter. We focused on a novel global coronal angular parameter for evaluating the association of GCA with coronal tilt of L4 or L5.

METHODS
A total of 146 patients with adult spinal deformity were involved. The coronal measurements included C7 migration, fractional curve, L4 coronal tilt, L5 coronal tilt, major Cobb angle, and our novel global coronal parameter- coronal T1 pelvic tilt angle (CTPT, defined as the angle between a vertical line and the line connecting the middle point of S1 endplate to T1 centroid). We then determined the relationship between CTPT, C7 migration and other coronal parameters.

RESULTS
C7 migration had significant correlation with L4 coronal tilt, L5 coronal tilt or fractional curve, but not with major Cobb angle. CTPT resembled C7 migration regarding its relationships with L4 coronal tilt, fractional curve, L5 coronal tilt and major Cobb angle. Regression analysis showed CTPT strongly associated with C7 migration (R = 0.985), CTPT = -0.02+0.14* C7 migration and neither L4 coronal tilt nor L5 coronal tilt was an independent predictor of GCA.

CONCLUSION
CTPT could be a practical index for evaluating GCA. neither L4 coronal tilt nor L5 coronal tilt was an independent predictor of GCA.

LEVEL OF EVIDENCE
3.


Treatment of food waste has attracted widespread social attention. Home composting has been proved repeatedly to be a feasible practice to divert food waste from landfills and produce useful finished compost. The objective of this experiment is to find ways to improve the efficiency of such beneficial practice based on a school cafeteria setting and practical small-scale composting. Three additives, including activated carbon, biochar and wood ash are studied, and the efficiency and effectiveness of these three high carbon materials on small-scale synthetic food waste are compared by analyzation of 30-days sample reports and comparison of pile temperature during the whole process. Experimental results showed that all three additives improved composting efficiency, though their effects varied. The addition of wood ash resulted in the most organic matter, total carbon and total nitrogen among all four trials (including one control group without additive). Small scale synthetic food waste composting is indicated to be a practical and feasible approach. And with the help of wood ash addition, a more efficient mesophilic period is achieved.


By 1972, The Maharishi had revised Transcendental Meditation to fit his new strategy called the "World Plan." Its goal was to "take the movement's comprehensive understanding of knowledge and life to the entire world."5 In this near missionary endeavor, the World Plan applied Maharishi's ideas to the "personal, political, educational, ecological, social, economic, and spiritual aspects of life."6 Through this adaptation, Maharishi "shrewdly shifted the emphasis in the presentation of TM from the spiritual to the practical and scientific to evade both materialistic and religious resistance to his spiritual teaching." This strategy also "permitted TM to obtain government support and a place in the curriculum of public schools that would probably be denied to it if it were presented in its former, spiritual terms."7 "Maharishi now promoted TM as a science, not a religion, more in psychological language than in spiritual terms. He desired to avoid conflict over church-versus-state issues..."8


A method of cell cultivation is presented in which photosynthetic cyanobacteria cells are grown by excitation of their photocenters by a plasmon enhanced evanescent field on the surface of thin gold films.


A well developed, functional transport infrastructure that offers unrestricted use is of great importance for Germany as a transport nation in the centre of Europe. To address recent challenges like climate change and extreme weather events and to act towards a resilient transport system, knowledge and abilities available in German agencies are combined in a 'Network of Experts' under the umbrella of the German Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. Thereby, the transfer of knowledge and technology across disciplines is promoted and the dialogue between experts in the areas of science, politics, administration and economy is fostered. This contribution introduces the structure of the network and presents first results connected to precipitation extremes. Using the case study of the December 2014 flood in Schleswig Holstein the performance of precipitation indices for the evaluation of flooding events is presented. Future increases in the frequency of heavy precipitation in winter are posing potential risks to land based infrastructures and may limit shipping. These results are confirmed by hydrological modelling, where an increasing number of days above a flood threshold and a decreasing number of days below a low-flow threshold are simulated for an ensemble of climate projections at the gauge of Kaub/Rhine. The analyses provide a first basis for the development of approaches to impact assessment for road, rail and waterway transport. products are created and distributed. Based on these data specific impact analyses are done within four sub-projects focusing on floods, storms, landslides and waterway specific hazards affecting navigability and water quality. The results of these impact studies obtained for different modes of transport and different climate hazards are integrated into a GIS-based assessment method to evaluate the exposure, sensitivity and criticality of transport infrastructure. This method aims at providing information relevant to climate change adaptation at the network level and for specific sections of the transport network. Based on classification and evaluation systems current climate impacts on infrastructure are represented and projected into the future. Those assessments of potential risks under current and future climate conditions are a valuable support for decisions on the (re)construction and management of transport infrastructures. Finally, guidelines for the handling of the addressed hazards and specific adaptation options are developed. They target at tailoring technical guidelines and rules, adjusting management practices and developing new materials and technical constructions. The impact assessment is complemented by regional case studies integrating different risks and encompassing different modes of transport in higher detail. These studies are conducted in several inland and coastal focus areas that allow addressing specific, intermodal risks like those posed by sea level rise in coastal areas or those connected to widespread flooding or low flow situations in the inland. These focused analyses allow the application of specific impact models and to identify cause-effect relationships that may be transferred to a larger scale.


It will be show that the typical Fontainebleau Sandstone facies are in fact secondary facies, developed post‐deposition, and related to surface exposure of the formation. Quartzite pans, white sands, and even the mineralogical composition are related to subsurface (groundwater) alterations
connected to geomorphology and result from exposure during the last glacial periods.
The Fontainebleau Sandstone example is extremely spectacular. Yet, such alteration features also exist in many other formations and may extent to 50‐100 m depth. One has to be attentive to recognize them. The goal of the field trip is to bring insight into what is related to primary and to secondary processes in the outcropping formation. This is of prime/particular importance for better understanding of the geology of the Fontainebleau Sandstone … and the geochemical processes that led to make up theses exceptionally pure sandstones mined to be used in all high quality and luxury glass manufactories throughout Europe. and supply guides for prospecting such sand ores.
But in a general way, when such alteration happen, it is essential to recognize them before any geochemical study because interpretations, in particular isotopic interpretations may completely diverge as a primary or a secondary hypothesis is envisaged for some facies … like marine deposits vs groundwater precipitation, dry and warm vs glacial climates, sedimentary deposition vs acidic leaching, etc.


My original comment (Allard, 1989) concerning Goodman's maximum parsimony procedure was an attempt to reveal what I perceived to be a real problem with the procedure and therefore possibly with any resultant phylogenetic conclusions based on that procedure. As a result of Goodman's ( 1 990) comments in the Forum, I have tried to investigate what maximum parsimony actually does with amino acid sequence data and what problems may be associated with maximum parsimony. The major finding of my investigation is that the underlying assumptions and actual step by step procedure used by Goodman are rather difficult to retrieve from what has been published. In fact, the procedure may have evolved over the past 17 years (see Moore et al., 1973; Moore, 1976; and Goodman, 1 98 1 a ) . Goodman's (1990) Forum piece simply restates a defense made earlier (Goodman, 1981 b), which does not resolve all the issues concerning the coding of characters, designation of ancestral and derived codons encoding particular amino acids, the actual construction of networks, and selection of most parsimonious networks. In fact, Goodman's ( 198 1 b) original comment in response to Kimura's ( 198 1 a ) criticism did not resolve the issue then. Kimura (1981b: 121) states "criticisms of maximum parsimony codons lose some force, although this does not mean that Goodman's maximum parsimony is a valid one". As Kimura (1981a) notes there are still problems with Goodman's phylogenetic analyses and augmentation procedures (for details see Tateno and Nei, 1978; Holmquist, 1979; Fitch, 1980).


Considering the instability of the direction dynamics of tank vehicle system under braking maneuver, the longitudinal equivalent model of liquid was formulated with consideration of both the steady-state and the transient state dynamics of the liquid. The Matlab/simulink program of the liquid was built and was combined with the vehicle model in Trucksim software to simulate and analyze the motion of the liquid cargo centroid and its dynamical effects on the vehicle under braking maneuver. It is observed that the liquid cargo slosh motion in tank vehicles has significant influences on braking performance, pitch motion and perpendicular motion of the vehicle. The results of this paper have significant help for studies on dynamics of vehicle tankers under braking maneuver and ensurement of braking stability and security.


This paper presents and discusses the movement in the field of Speech Therapy in relation to the national curriculum guidelines, in particular regarding alignment of training to the Unified Health System It also introduces the work process with the National Forum on Education of Health Professions - FNEPAS.


NaCrO2 nanowires exhibited better Na+-storage properties in both half and pouch-type cells compared to the bulk NaCrO2 within the wide operating temperature.


The purpose of this research are (1) define language politeness in directive speech acts in youth dialogue in Blang Naleung Mameh Village and (2) define types of language politeness in directive speech acts in Blang Naleung Mameh village youth dialogue. This research used a qualitative approach. The type of research is descriptive. The research location is in Blang Naleung Mameh Village. The data of this research is in the form of directive speech acts for adolescents in Blang Naleung Mameh Village. The data sources for this study were 22 youths in the Blang Naleung Mameh Village. Based on the results of the data research, it is concluded that there are three types of maxims, namely wisdom, consensus, and sympathy. There are three politeness scales, including the gain and loss scale, the preference scale, and the indirectness scale. Furthermore, there are six types of directive speech acts and their functions, namely (1) request speech acts with the functions of asking, pleading, and inviting; (2) questioning directive speech acts with the functions of asking and interrogating; (3) command directive speech acts with the functions of instructing, ordering, and requiring; (4) prohibitive directive speech acts with the functions of prohibiting and limiting; (5) the directive speech act of granting permission with the function of approving and allowing; and (6) speech acts of advice with the functions of warning, advising, suggesting, and recommending. The dominant directive speech act is the question directive speech act.


This paper addresses the design of a partitioned vision-guided scheme for repetitive optical biopsies. More precisely, our approach uses two image modalities to perform 6 degrees of freedom (DOF) positioning task. The development aims to partition the control into 3 DOF controlled by the B-scan images acquired with an optical coherence tomography (OCT) system and the remaining 3 DOF controlled by the white light images provided by a CCD camera. Moreover, for the control and instead of conventional visual features (e.g., points, lines, moments, etc.) extracted using algorithms combined with visual tracking approaches, our visual servoing method uses the multiresolution wavelet coefficients. The developed method was experimentally validated using a parallel kinematic structure equipped with a Telesto-II OCT benchtop. The validation task consisted of an automatic spatial repositioning of the robotic structure to precisely retrieve the position of an initial optical biopsy. Several tests are achieved, which clearly demonstrate the reliability of the proposed controller.


Based on basic solid and gas coupling theory,from the basic definition of the porosity and permeability,considering Klinkenberg effect and gas adsorption swelling effect on gas transportation in coal,the porosity model,the dynamic permeability model,and gas-solid coupling model were established finally.The numerical simulation results in natural discharging conditions indicate that porosity gas pressure reduces with the decreases of duration of pressure natural discharging;permeability and porosity of coal enhances as pressure natural discharging duration increases,which is similar to permeability test rule in the spot.From the depths of the coal mining to working face,porosity and permeability increases slowly at beginning,then droops dramatically,at last increases sharply.


The challenges of the 5G mobile wireless communication systems transmission channels have been changed continuously because of the signal transfer path characteristics such as real-time applications, path loss, multiple users, reflected rays, channel Rayleigh-fading, shadowing, noise, and inter symbol interference (ISI). These challenges have been treated to reach the minimum bit error rate (BER) value of the received data and maximum data rate of high-speed wireless mobile communication systems. In this paper, the linear zero-forcing (LZF) equalizer with uplink multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system has been proposed to enhancement the BER, which is caused by the ISI, Rayleigh fading, shadowing, path losses, and additive white gaussian noise (AWGN). Furthermore, the proposed approach is applied to a different number of antennas constellation to show the effect of increasing the number of antennas on the BER. The results show that the proposed LZF equalizer-MIMO system model has reached lower BER values, and high performance with an increase in the receiver to 8×14, 8×16 and 8×18 antennas constellation at 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, and 18 dB signal to noise ratio (SNR).


Brushless DC motor is permanent magnet synchronous motor with trapezoidal back EMF. Brushless DC motor replaces conventional brushed motors due to its advantages like higher efficiency. In this paper, BLDC drive circuit and control is simulated. A highly efficient second order Butterworth passive filter is designed and implemented. Digital control of BLDC motor using pulse width modulation of 50 KHz PWM switching frequency is implemented in Field Programmable Gate Array. Maxon EC 60W motor is used for hardware implementation and testing. This paper discusses various implementation aspects related to BLDC motor drive and control circuit.


The important practical and realistic design issues of an electrostatic actuator/positioner with full-gap travel are discussed. Analytic expressions and numerical simulations show that parasitic capacitances, and non-uniform deformation in two and three dimensions influence the range of travel of an electrostatic positioner stabilized by the addition of a series capacitor. The effects of residual charge on electrostatically-actuated devices are described. The dynamic stepping characteristics of the positioner under compressible squeeze-film damping and resistive damping are compared. The physical descriptions of devices being fabricated in the MUMPs process are presented along with 3D simulation results that demonstrate viability.


A dual-polarized magneto-electric dipole loaded with dielectric substrate is presented. This antenna is composed of shorted-circuited patches and planar dipoles and is fed by four -shaped probes. The height of a prototype antenna operated at 1.9 GHz is only 24 mm . A wide impedance bandwidth of 24.9% is achieved. The average gain is about 8.2 dBi and the isolation between the two ports is higher than 29 dB over the operating bandwidth. It is demonstrated that the antenna performance can be improved by adding metallic side walls. Index Terms—Dipole, dual-polarized antenna, short-circuited patch and wideband antenna.


In the construction of industrial sheds, in contrast to the use of a rib isostatically braced on supports, there has been a constantly more frequent use of the doubles toping metal portal frame of small and medium spans.
For the study of the lack of stability on the plane of the portal frame, recourse is had to the «bending lengths» method which makes possible a piece by piece check —a debatable procedure, but generally accepted on account of its operational nature.
Although there are techniques of numerical analysis which made it possible to approach the problem of instability with precision, this note does not intend to introduce innovations in the treatment of the problem, but rather, accepting the approximate validity of the present method of calculation, proposes to provide rules of immediate application compatible with what is set out in Spanish standards.


A Wireless Sensor Network is used for monitoring patient's physiological conditions continuously using Bluetooth. The physiological parameters of the person who are doing free weight exercises are obtained by sensors and the output of these sensors is transmitted via GSM and the measured parameters has been sent to the wireless monitor for monitoring the gym person's physiological signal. The wireless monitoring module is constructed of GSM and mobile application. The parameters has been sent to the GSM module, which provides monitoring. GSM is having a better data transmission rate with less power consumption. The process of the system is that the wireless sensors are used to measure heart rate, temperature, thumbels count and pressure from human body using sensors. Next process of the system is to process the signals using a PIC microcontroller. The final process is to transmit the processed signals using GSM and monitoring the signal in a mobile application. Keywords-Health tracking, Exercises, GSM


This study developed a novel measurement system for the friction force characteristics of pneumatic cylinders. The dynamic characteristics of pneumatic cylinder are affected by guide seal, piston seal, grease and surface of cylinder bore. In seeking to improve the friction force characteristics of pneumatic cylinders and to clarify the friction phenomenon of the pneumatic cylinders, this study describes friction force measurement tests to measure the friction force of pneumatic cylinder, under both dry and lubricated conditions. Experimental equipments are designed to assess the effect of seals and lubrications in pneumatic cylinder, where the velocity and pressure of the driving cylinder are controlled. Measurements of friction force are shown for velocities of up to 200 mm/s. This paper provides an easy and accurate measurement system to analyze the friction characteristic of pneumatic cylinder. The data obtained will be useful for developing a suitable friction model, and the experimental apparatus will facilitate the study of the effects of different types of seals and lubricants on friction force. Streszczenie. W artykule zaproponowano nowy system pomiarowy do analizy sily tarcia w cylindrach pneumatycznych. Celem jest poprawa charakterystyk tarcia i dlatego badania przeprowadzono w warunkach suchych i mokrych przy kontrolowanych szybkości i ciśnieniu. (Pomiary sily tarcia w cylindrach pneumatycznych w warunkach suchych i mokrych)


This study explored the critical thinking dispositions of polytechnic students. The study was conducted in the northern zone of Malaysia on 194 polytechnic students from the Departments of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Data were collected using the Engagement, Maturity, and Innovativeness (EMI) critical thinking disposition assessment. Then, the data was analysed using the SPSS version 21 software. Analysis of data comprised of descriptive statistics (percentage, mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (one-way analysis of variance, independent sample t-test, and Pearson's correlation). The study points to no significant relation between gender and department. Further analysis showed that there is a strong relationship between CGPA and critical thinking disposition. Therefore, there is a need among students for special assistance in cultivating their critical thinking dispositions from the aspects of engagement and maturity.


Abstract. In this study, we
investigate the feasibility of a multi-pixel scheme in the inversion of
aerosol optical properties for multispectral satellite instruments over the
ocean. Different from the traditional satellite aerosol retrievals conducted
pixel by pixel, we derive the aerosol optical
thickness (AOT) of multiple pixels simultaneously by adding a smoothness
constraint on the spatial variation of aerosols and oceanic substances, which
helps the satellite retrieval, with higher consistency from pixel to pixel.
Simulations are performed for two representative oceanic circumstances, open
and coastal waters, as well as the land–ocean interface region. We retrieve
the AOT for fine, sea spray, and dust aerosols simultaneously using synthetic
spectral measurements, which are from the Greenhouse Gases Observing
Satellite and Thermal and Near Infrared Sensor for Carbon Observation –
Cloud and Aerosol Imager (GOSAT∕TANSO-CAI), with four wavelengths ranging
from the ultraviolet to shortwave infrared bands. The forward radiation
calculation is performed by a coupled atmosphere–ocean radiative transfer
model combined with a three-component bio-optical oceanic module, where the
chlorophyll a concentration, sediment, and colored dissolved organic matter
are considered. Results show that accuracies of the derived AOT and spectral
remote-sensing reflectance are both improved by applying smoothness
constraints on the spatial variation of aerosol and oceanic substances in
homogeneous or inhomogeneous surface conditions. The multi-pixel scheme can
be effective in compensating for the retrieval biases induced by measurement
errors and improving the retrieval sensitivity, particularly for the fine
aerosols over the coastal water. We then apply the algorithm to derive AOTs
using real satellite measurements. Results indicate that the multi-pixel
method helps to polish the irregular retrieved results of the satellite
imagery and is potentially promising for the aerosol retrieval over highly
turbid waters by benefiting from the coincident retrieval of neighboring
pixels. A comparison of retrieved AOTs from satellite measurements with those
from the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) also indicates that retrievals
conducted by the multi-pixel scheme are more consistent with the AERONET
observations.


Mango fruit fly (B. dorsalis) is a major pest in mango, which causes a substantial economic loss to the tune of 27 – 80 percent at the pre-harvest and post-harvest stage of mango production. Mango varieties such as 'Banganpalli', 'Alphonso' and 'Totapuri' are most susceptible to fruit fly infestation. Therefore, mango fruit fly is considered as a pest of quarantine importance in the mango trade. The engineering properties of foods invariably influence the quality of food products in terms of visual characteristics and basic functionality. The internal and external characteristics such as size, shape, colour, weight, specific gravity, % T A, pH, TSS, volatile compounds, carotenoids, vitamins and volatile compounds determine the quality of mango fruits. Emissivity is one of the thermal property which attribute the quality of food materials. Emissivity is defined as the ratio of energy emitted from an object to that of a black body at the same temperature. The thermal emissivity of healthy and fruit fly infested mango fruits of the varieties 'Alphonso' and 'Totapuri' was determined using thermal imaging technique. It was found that there was significant difference in the thermal emissivity of healthy and fruit fly infested fruits at the same heating conditions due to the changes in internal structure and composition of fruit fly infested mango fruits. It was also observed that, there was variation in thermal emissivity between the varieties which may attributed to the difference in the varietal characteristics such as peel thickness and pulp content of 'Alphonso' and 'Totapuri' mango fruits.


A multilevel PWM (pulse-width-modulated) voltage source inverter, especially a five-level one, is introduced to obtain a static VAr compensator (SVC) as a large-scale power source. The three phase SVC is modeled using circuit DQ transformation and completely analyzed including DC and AC characteristics. Through experimental results for a 5 kVA SVC, the validity of the analyses and the feasibility of the VAr compensation system are shown for high-power applications.<<ETX>>


This study purpose to determine the types of teaching materials in SMA Negeri 1 Mojokerto City and the reasons teachers choose the teaching materials, determine the feasibility of teaching materials, and study the response of students to the instructional materials used. This study is a descriptive research with quantitative approach. The results showed that the materials used in SMA Negeri 1 Mojokerto City is LKS "Focus" and the textbook "PR Ekonomi Intan Pariwara". From the review of teaching materials expert obtained the result that the teaching materials used in SMA Negeri 1 Kota Mojokerto LKS "Focus" and has categorized textbook "PR Ekonomi Intan Pariwara" very decent. The results of the students' responses to the materials they use are very good.. Keyword: teaching materials


This study is aimed to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practices of rural children towards oral health and dental care as well as to assess the oral hygiene status among them. Children studying in Andhra Pradesh Tribal welfare Residential Schools were included in the study. The children completed an interview to evaluate knowledge and attitude. Oral hygiene Status was measured using the oral hygiene index Results: Children were aware about caries as one of the common problem associated with mouth and teeth and only few students were aware of gum diseases. Though 61% children were aware that sweets and chocolates cause dental problems 34% were unaware of how these problems could be prevented. Oral hygiene habits of the children were found to be irregular and children consulted the Dentist only when there was pain. Teachers played an important role than parents. The Oral hygiene status was good and the proportion of children who had caries was 254 (53%) Conclusion: The results of this study indicate the children's knowledge on dental health is poor. Children's parents and teachers attitude towards oral health and dental care need to be improved. Oral health educational programmes for rural school children, their parents and school teachers are recommended.


Introduction THE BIOSYNTHESIS of estrogens is catalyzed by an enzyme complex termed aromatase which is localized in the endoplasmic reticulum of cells in which it is expressed. The aromatase enzyme complex consists of two components (1): The first is a form of cytochrome P-450 known as aromatase cytochrome P-450 (P-450AROM). This heme protein is responsible for binding the C19 steroid substrate and catalyzing the concerted series of reactions leading to the formation of the phenolic A ring. The second is a flavoprotein, NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase, which is an essentially ubiquitous protein in the endoplasmic reticulum of most cell types and is responsible for transferring reducing equivalents from NADPH to cytochrome P-450. Since there is only one gene encoding the reductase, this enzyme must be capable of transferring reducing equivalents to any form of microsomal cytochrome P-450 that it encounters (2). The aromatase reaction apparently utilizes 3 moles oxygen and 3 moles NADPH for every mole of C...


A discrete linear time-varying stochastic system with scalar measurement data is considered for which neither measurement noise variance nor power of process noise is known. A novel adaptive Kalman filter that gradually approaches the optimum steady-state gain is proposed in this letter. Different from previous adaptation schemes, our algorithm adjusts the Kalman gain depending on the normalized autocorrelation of the prediction error sequence of the suboptimal filter. We also present how to choose appropriate latency time and sample window length in the adaptation process. In our experiments, the filter shows advantages over several other methods under the same conditions.


Tilapia cultivation has the potential to be developed in Indonesia, especially in South Sulawesi. However, the obstacle faced in tilapia cultivation is feed; the price is relatively high because the raw materials are still imported. One of the efforts to overcome dependence on imported feed raw materials is using local raw materials, namely rice bran. This study aims to determine the best type of probiotic in hydrolyzing rice bran flour into artificial feed on survival and conversion ratio of tilapia fish feed. This research was conducted in Sidenreng Rappang Regency. The test animals used were tilapia larvae with an average size of 1.03 g. The maintenance container is a tarpaulin pond with a size of 1 m x 1 m x 1 m filled with 85 L of freshwater. The study was designed using a completely randomized design consisting of four treatments and three replications. The fermenting materials used as treatment were Bacillus sp., Lactobacillus sp., Aspergillus nigers, Yeast (Acetobacter). The test feed was given to 20 tilapia larvae stocked in each container for 60 days of rearing. The survival data and feed conversion ratio for tilapia were analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA). The results showed that tilapia fed fermented rice bran feed using the fermenter Lactobacillus sp. had a significant effect on survival (SR) with a value of 85% and the feed conversion ratio (FCR) of tilapia with a value of 2.23.


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GMD (generalized minimum distance of distributions) is an R package to assess the similarity between spatial distributions of read-based sequencing data such as ChIP-seq and RNA-seq. GMD calculates the optimal distance between pairs of normalized signal distributions, optionally sliding one distribution over the other to 'align' the distributions. GMD also provides graphical and downstream clustering tools.

AVAILABILITY
The R package GMD source code is available at http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/GMD/ under GPL license.


Cendrawasih Bay and the Pacific Ocean are known as potential fishing areas and as fish spawning locations in Fisheries Management Area 717. Larval dispersal in the waters is strongly influenced by oceanographic parameters. This study was conducted to examine the relationship between oceanographic parameters and fish larval dispersal in FMA 717. This research was conducted using KR Bawal Putih III in November 2019. A number of 42 stations were determined for observation. Environmental parameters included temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll-a, turbidity, and photosynthetic active radiation (PAR), were measured using SBE 19 plus V2 CTD while pelagic fish larvae were collected using a bonggo net. Analysis of the correlation of oceanographic parameters with pelagic fish larvae abundance and spatial distribution was calculated using PCA (Principal Component Analysis) statistical analysis. The results showed that the pelagic fish larvae was influenced by temperature, salinity, PAR, chlorophyll-a, turbidity, and DO. Temperature and salinity have a direct interaction to the abundance of pelagic fish larvae.


In 2003, the Library of Statistics ― University of Bologna, starting from the fact that the main part of its budget was taken by the serials cost, organized a focus group on the "serials collection's management". The growing availability of electronic journals forced the library to focus the attention in finding strategies to evaluate collection, keeping a high user satisfaction. The article presents the methodology, developments and applications of The guidelines for the serials selection management worked out by the Library, including benchmarking with five similar Italian libraries. The Guidelines & the Benchmark programme are part of the library Quality management system UNI EN ISO 9001:2008.


The characterizitivi the algebraic stractures for the ultrafilter of a sAlgebra containing BLAgebra.are discussed the following results:are obtained If θ is a congraence on S,for maximal element 1∈S,the equivalence class of a modulo θ is a ultrafilter on S.


Tuning the structure of organic–inorganic perovskites by pressure holds great promise for discovering materials with favorable properties. However, most of their high-pressure structures cannot be preserved at ambient conditions and little is known about how to control the properties of these materials recovered from high pressure. Here, we have manipulated the bandgap in a high-pressure-treated 2D organic-inorganic halide perovskite. We find that the bandgap of this compound can be largely altered by pressure-induced lattice disorder. Below 25 GPa, the phase transition is reversible and the thus-produced lattice distortion cannot be preserved after pressure release. In contrast, for the sample treated above 25 GPa, the structural disorder can be preserved at ambient pressure. Consequently, the bandgap of the sample can be profoundly tuned from 2.98 to 3.46 eV. These findings offer an extraordinary example for manipulating the structure and electronic properties of organic–inorganic perovskites by high pressure treatment.


Syncretism,where a single form corresponds to multiple morphosyntactic functions, is pervasive in languages with inflectionalmorphology. Its interpretation highlights the contrast between different views of the status of morphology. For some, morphology lacks independent structure, and syncretism reflects the internal structure of morphosyntactic features. For others, morphological structure is autonomous, and syncretism provides direct evidence of this. In this article, I discuss two phenomena that argue for the second view. DIRECTIONAL EFFECTS and UNNATURAL CLASSES of values resist attempts to reduce them to epiphenomena of more general rule types and require purely morphological devices for their expression.


of a doctoral essay at the University of Miami. Doctoral essay supervised by Margaret Donaghue Flavin. No. of pages in text. (114) This study provides clarinet performers and pedagogues with a performance guide to the solo clarinet works of mid-20 Century French composer Henri Tomasi in hope of encouraging performance and study of these pieces. The first chapter explains the dearth of English-language literature on the clarinet compositions of Tomasi and presents the research questions. The second chapter reviews the extant literature on Tomasi, which contains primarily surface level discussions of the composer or biographical information unrelated to his clarinet compositions. The third chapter explains the methodology of the research questions, which address the form, origination, and technical, pedagogical, and fundamental issues related to performing these works on the clarinet. Chapters four through ten present the performance guide research for each piece: Concerto, Sonatine Attique, Introduction et Danse, Danse Nuptiale, Complainte du Jeune Indien, Chant Corse, and Nocturne. The author concludes that these pieces are valuable contributions to the performance and pedagogical repertoire and delineates areas for future study related to the performance and pedagogy of Tomasi's clarinet compositions.


The development of organic field‐effect transistors (OFETs) in the past few decades has emphasized the carrier mobility of the active layer. It is true that carrier mobility is an important parameter to quantify transistor performance; however, it should not be considered as the only parameter necessary to evaluate the devices. To date, for extraction of the basic electrical properties of the active layers, OFETs fabricated in laboratories are mainly relatively large, with channel lengths ranging from tens to hundreds of micrometers. However, for practical applications, which demand more complicated circuits, scaling down of the OFETs, in particular the channel, is required. In these short‐channel OFETs, the roles of contact resistance, requirements on uniformity, and patterning techniques are all remarkably different from long‐channel devices. The challenges to scaling down OFETs are discussed and some potential approaches to address them.


In this paper,test method of sodium ion residues in fresh milk mixed with dietary alkali(Na2CO3) and saleratus(NaHCO3)was studied with inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy(ICP-AES).Sample preparation methods of both microwave digestion and wet digestion were used,Instrumentation Conditions were optimized,matrix interference was inspected,spectrum line of sodium 589.592 nm was determined,quantitative analysis was studied.The linear range is 0.0 μg /mL ~ 20 μg /mL,regression equation is ρ(钠)= 76.428 6 D(λ)+0.854 9,r = 0.999 9,limit of quantification is 16 mg /kg,recovery rate is more than 85%,RSD is less than 5.0%.The method is high accuracy and good precision.Trough large number of experiments,we came to the conclusion that the behavior of artificially added alkali in milk will be suspected When sodium contents determined were more than 750 mg /kg.


Intimal, longitudinal, band-like lesions and spiral sclerotic changes (Fig. 1) were reported as gross findings of a recent study of human coronary atherogenesis (Nakashima et al.); and a relationship of these band-like lesions to hemodynamic action of the blood stream against the coronary arterial walls was postulated. The present study concerns the macroscopic and microscopic observations of the early stages of the longitudinal lesions.


In the context of judicial reform, the procuratorial organs' review for arrest and prosecution should be unified or separated, which not only becomes the reform focus of the procuratorial organs' internal institutional adjustment, but also relates to the realization of a fairer procuratorial system reform. "Integration of arrest and prosecution" is the best choice under the trial-centered judicial reform that is in line with China's national conditions at this stage. This paper analyzes the feasibility of "integration of arrest and prosecution" and puts forward suggestions for its perfection, so that it can better conform to the supervision system reform and improve judicial efficiency. Keywords—integration of arrest and prosecution; procuratorial work; judicial reform


Most spreading processes require spatial proximity between agents. The stationary state of spreading dynamics in a population of mobile agents thus depends on the interplay between the time and length scales involved in the epidemic process and their motion in space. We analyze the steady properties resulting from such interplay in a simple model describing epidemic spreading (modelled as a Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible process) on self-propelled particles (performing Run-and-Tumble motion). Focusing our attention on the diffusive long-time regime, we find that the agents' motion changes qualitatively the nature of the epidemic transition characterized by the emergence of a macroscopic fraction of infected agents. Indeed, the transition becomes of the mean-field type for agents diffusing in one, two and three dimensions, while, in the absence of motion, the epidemic outbreak depends on the dimension of the underlying static network determined by the agents' fixed locations. The insights obtained from a continuum description of the system are validated by numerical simulations of an agent-based model. Our work aims at bridging soft active matter physics and theoretical epidemiology, and may be of interest for researchers in both communities.


Chronic cutaneous ulcer on the ear helix of 80‐year‐old male was diagnosed with squamoid eccrine ductal carcinoma (SEDC). SEDC is characterized by both atypical squamous and ductal differentiation. SEDC frequently appears on sun‐exposed areas. It could show local recurrence despite complete resection. These characteristics demand cautious attention to SEDC.


Using Monte Carlo methods the neutron spectrum in a pacemaker's CMOS has been estimated. A 18 MV LINAC model was used to expose a cell used to define the prostate located in a tissue equivalent phantom model. Neutron fluence at the CMOS is 2.6E(7) n/cm2-Gyx, the spectrum has thermal, epithermal and fast neutrons that will induce secondary, low and high LET, particles whose ionization could induce malfunction and failure of pacemaker in the oncological patient.


The location of new facilities of the chain-company is vital for market expansion. To study two important facts: the allocation of market share and service radius of facilities. The utility function is the most important function for allocation the market share by a retail facility in a competitive environment. Conjunction with the spatial customer choice, we define a step utility function which is used to constitute a new model of a chain-company's new facilities location in competitive environment. Both the decay cover and the service radius of facilities are considered in the model. The genetic algorithm to solve this model is developed and computational experiment is described. It is showed that this model and algorithm can apply to the location decision of the chain-company's new facilities, and can efficiently obtain an approximate solution.


Recent developments and trends in manufacturing have resulted in tremendous efficiency increases. However, the full potential of advanced manufacturing systems has not yet been seen and efficiency problems remain. Traditional strategies for optimizing are directed mainly towards technical enhancements, but as humans play an important role in the manufacturing system their contribution to sustainable system efficiency should not be neglected. Manufacturing system optimizing requires careful considerations of both human and technical factors in a crossdisciplinary approach. This thesis aims to approach the efficiency problem from a user perspective. The system is seen as the means to fulfill tasks which the human operators are responsible for. Methods for optimizing system performance from this perspective are presently lacking in the manufacturing area. A methodology which enables optimization of advanced manufacturing systems is presented. The methodology is called Task Evaluation and Analysis Methodology (TEAM) and provides a set of methods that combined will pinpoint problem areas in the system. The methodology evaluates the system holistically from four viewpoints; system work environment, system work tasks, system information flow, and statistical system performance. System users are involved in the evaluation to provide domain expert knowledge and to increase the possibilities of user acceptance of suggested improvements. Based on the deep understanding gained while performing TEAM, suggestions for optimization can be made. The methodology has been applied in five case studies in different types of industrial manufacturing systems, including a large CIM cell, an FMS, and two parts of a flexible and automated welding line. Results from all studies show that TEAM identifies relevant problem areas and provides possibilities for high user acceptance of improvements. Efficiency increases have been reported, but since these cells are subject to constant changes, a separation of causes and effects has not always been possible.


ABSTRACT A least-squares collocation meshless method is employed for solving the coupled radiative and conductive heat transfer in absorbing, emitting, and scattering media. The least-squares collocation meshless method for radiative transfer is based on the discrete ordinates equation. A moving least-squares approximation is applied to construct the trial functions. In addition to the collocation points which are used to construct the trial functions, a number of auxiliary points are also adopted to form the total residuals of the problem. The least-squares technique is used to obtain the solution of the problem by minimizing the summation of residuals of all collocation and auxiliary points. Three numerical examples are studied to illustrate the performance of this new solution method. The numerical results are compared with other benchmark approximate solutions. By comparison, the results show that the least-squares collocation meshless method is efficient, accurate, and stable, and can be used for solving coupled radiative and conductive heat transfer in absorbing, emitting, and scattering media.


The features of water vapor transport and enthalpy with the influence of the long-distance typhoon were studied based on the observation station data and NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data in Sichuan and Chongqing from 2 to 5 August 2009.The mesoscale characteristics of rainstorm system-southwest vortex affected by typhoon 'Swan' were investigated with 25 points smoothing operator.The results show that the heavy rainstorm is due to favorable atmospheric circulation background.The upper trough moving eastward couples the maintaining southeast vortex system with the influence of typhoon 'Swan'.The long distance in typhoon 'Swan' makes southwest vortex maintaining in Sichuan and Chongqing.The inverted trough of typhoon 'Swan' is significant for warm and humid structures of vortex system.The moisture and energy driven by the typhoon trough easterly flow converge with the warm water vapor transported moisture and energy by southeast warm airflow,which built the moisture and energy channel that transported moisture and energy to low system neighborhood and enhanced accumulation effect in heavy rainstorm area.The accumulated effect contribute to the maintenance of low vortex system physical structure.The easterly airflow at the top of the inverted trough plays a positive role in promoting maintaining of the low vortex system dynamic structure,which enhanced positive vorticity at the middle and low level of vortex system and further promoted the vertical vorticity increasing.The maintained low vortex system leads to the occurrence of prolonged heavy precipitation ultimately.


This study aims to address the assessment of learning strategies, as they are considered to be particularly important in the educational process. The principle of the theory that supports the substance of our work is that the educator and the educated are agents who become effective only in conditions of individual and bilateral co-balancing, in a common pedagogical field, determined by a number of variables specific to school space and time. The quality of the didactic act is measured by the efficiency of the training of students' personality competencies, context in which the combination of classical, traditional and modern strategies, according to the principle of complementarity, is a requirement and at the same time an essential condition of teaching and learning. Educational disciplines acquire educational strength through the action of teachers who use methodological and psychopedagogical knowledge operationalized in specific ways and techniques of action as a defining element of professional competence, methodical training makes it possible to transform general principles into teaching strategies, design realization and evaluation techniques.


The ability to monitor longitudinally the development, arrest or resolution of early demineralised lesions is one strength of quantitative light-induced fluorescence (QLF). When taking sequential images of an individual's teeth for monitoring it has been suggested that the subsequent images should be taken from the same position the baseline image. To assist in this process, video repositioning software is available that enables automatic capture of images once the system identifies that they are similar enough to the baseline comparator. The purpose of this study was to determine if the use of such software-assisted capture improves the reliability of subsequent QLF analysis. 20 subjects had 34 surfaces (buccal and occlusal) imaged by 2 examiners at baseline, and again 1 week later using both manual and software-assisted (VidRep) systems. Analysis of the three key reportable values for QLF (ΔF, lesion area, ΔQ) suggested that there is no significant improvement in reliability using VidRep although VidRep demonstrates additional advantages above and beyond image geometry, relating to the speed of subsequent image analysis.


Introduction: There are some studies in the literature reporting cases of pulmonary thrombosis after treatment of acute phase of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to show that patients that have pulmonary thrombosis has in the back ground prior to COVID-19, energy deficiency in the five internal massive organs, responsible for the production of energy necessary to keep the Blood flowing normally inside the Blood vessels. The treatment used nowadays to treat patient with SARS-CoV-2 infection can reduce even more this energy and can cause Blood stagnation inside the blood vessels in any part of the body, in this case, in the pulmonary vessels. Methods: Through one case report of 36 years-old female patient with history of SARS-CoV-2 infection on February 2nd 2021. In the beginning of her symptoms, she presented only runny nose and flu-like symptoms. She evolves to body pain and headache and in the third day, she tested positive to SARSCoV-2. It was prescribed Ivermectin and Azithromycin and she stayed 14 days isolated at home. On 16th day since the first manifestation, she returned to work and began to feel left chest pain. She did many exams to see if the Heart was compromised but nothing was found. There was only alteration in the pulmonary artery pressure and after it was diagnosed pulmonary thrombosis after performing Angio tomography. She started to use Rivaroxaban (Xarelto) and after this treatment, she improved and the symptoms disappeared but she is still using the medication until today. She went to my clinic in January 2022 to treat anxiety and she told me about all history of SARS-CoV-2 infection and complications. I performed to measurement of her internal massive organs through a crystal-pendulum using radiesthesia procedure. Results: what I found was a complete lack of energy inside the five internal massive organs (Liver, Heart, Spleen, Lungs, Kidney) responsible for the production of Yin, Yang, Qi and Blood to keep the blood flowing inside the blood vessels. Conclusion: The conclusion of this study is that patients with pulmonary artery thrombosis post COVID-19 symptoms can have energy deficiency inside the five internal massive organs and the use of highly concentrated medications to treat this condition and many other clinical conditions can worse more this reduction in energy and cause stagnation of Blood inside the blood vessels and cause in this case, pulmonary thrombosis.


The Feldstein chain which argues that an increase in the government deficit pushes the interest rate sup, which in turn attracts foreign capital and strengthens the domestic currency driving the current account balance into deficits, has been the most important explanation fort he controversial twin deficits phenomenon. In thes paper, where the validity of the Feldstein chain is investigated for Turkey, we could not find any evidence on the Feldstein chain. The real current account deficit is found to cause both the real Exchange rate and the real interest rate in the short run which is not meaningful fort he government deficit to the real current account deficit.


Clinical cases of canine dermatitis were screened to ascertain the involvement of ectoparasites. The overall prevalence of parasitic dermatitis (mange infestation) was found to be 33.33% (34/102). Demodex canis and Sarcoptes scabiei var canis were detected in 79.41 (27/34) and 11.76% (4/34) cases, respectively. Flea dermatitis was also observed in 8.82% (3/34) cases. Other ectoparasite, found in 41.17% (42/102) cases, included Rhipicephalus sanguineus, Heterodoxus longitarsus, Ctenocephalides felis and Hippobosca capensis. Clinical signs in ectoparasites infested dogs included pruritus, alopecia, erythema, indurated papule, thickening and wrinkling of skin with loss of texture. Intense pruritus was observed in sarcoptic mange while flea dirt was present in flea dermatitis.


The invention discloses a test method for simulating pore-fissure double-medium seepage hydraulic characteristics. The test method comprises a medium experiment module, a water circulation control module and a data acquisition module, wherein the medium experiment module comprises a box body and a pore medium which is arranged in the middle of the box body; an interval-adjustable fissure medium is formed between the pore medium and the inner wall of the box body; two ends of the pore medium in the box body are provided with a pore medium water inlet tank and a pore medium water outlet tank respectively; two ends of the fissure medium in the box body are provided with a fissure medium water inlet tank and a fissure medium water outlet tank respectively; the water circulation control module comprises a water supply system and a water return system; and the data acquisition module comprises a temperature sensor, a flow meter and a pressure sensor. By the experiment system, the defects that in the conventional fissure seepage test system, the permeability of the pore medium is ignored, double-medium water exchange information can not be obtained, and the like are overcome, and the test system is better matched with the practical situation.


We develop an efficient targeting techique and demonstrate that when used with an unstable periodic orbit stabilization method, fast and efficient switching between controlled periodic orbits is possible. This technique is particularly relevant to cases of higher attractor dimension. We present a numerical example and report an improvement of up to four orders of magnitude in the switching time over the case with no targeting.


This research work explores the political career of Jose Rizal, with special emphasis on the question of reform which is generally considered to be the principal contribution of the Philippines' national hero, who was executed by a Spanish firing squad in 1896. Could Rizal's execution, at a crucial point in the Philippines' history, not be interpreted in the light of an ideological evolution which led the country to separatism? In order to support this analysis, we will study his better-known work, such as his novels, but will also use his poems, articles and correspondence. Our initial approach has been borne out by the critical analysis of Rizal's body of work and his striking intellectual continuity. Certain themes, such as those of the Tagal culture, religion or questioning colonialism, are the main subjects which have enabled us to argue our theory. Rizal tried unsuccessfully to bring what was really happening in the Philippines to the attention of the actors on the political scene in Spain. This failure changed his point of view, convincing him that separation was inevitable, and subsequently Rizal put all his efforts into forging a Filipino identity which could ensure that his vision of constructing a nation was a viable project.


The high activity of a microspherical zeolite-containing aluminosilicate catalyst (TsSK) in the pyrolysis of n-heptane has been established. With the use of IR and ESR spectroscopy, thermally programmed desorption of ammonia and n-heptane and chromatographic analysis of desorption products, acid-basic and single-electron donor-acceptor centres of the surface of TsSK have been identified. Their role in catalytic pyrolysis is discussed. It is suggested that the pyrolysis of n-heptane on TsSK is catalysed by single-electron centres of the surface and proceeds by a heterogeneous-homogeneous radical chain mechanism.


Biosynthetic investigations with C14-labelled compounds indicate that the aromatic isothiocyanate moieties of mustard oil glucosides obtained from garden nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus L.) and watercress (Nasturtium officinale R.Br.) are derived from phenylalanine. Similar investigations on sinigrin, the mustard oil glucoside isolated from horseradish (Armoracia lapathifolia Gilib.) demonstrate that glycine is incorporated into allyl isothiocyanate. The methyl carbon of acetate was readily incorporated into sinigrin and gluconasturtium and was found almost exclusively in the 'isothiocyanate carbon'; on the other hand the carboxyl carbon is a poor precursor of sinigrin.


Abstract This paper presents a detailed description of the determination of experimental activation constants for 22 elements for miniature neutron source reactor (MNSR). The activation constants have been measured for the most intense γ-rays of the radionuclides commonly observed in neutron activation analysis. The experimental values have been compared with those based on mathematical expression and calculated by using f and α of the irradiation channel and k0 and Q0 factors from published literature. A comparison of the expression-based and experimentally determined activation constants shows a good agreement, except for some cases where difference is about 10% of the expression-based values. The activation constants were validated by analyzing synthetic multielement standards (SMELS-I and -II); the results revealed all elements within ±3 Z-score.


KGaCl4 tritt in drei enantiotropen Formen auf: KGaCl4-I ist unterhalb −25°C, KGaCl4-II zwischen −25 und etwa 130°C, KGaCl4-III daruber bis zum Schmelzpunkt (259°C) stabil. KGaCl4-III gehort dem Baryttyp, KGaCl4-II einer Verzerrungsvarianten (KGaCl4-Typ) an; die thermische Ausdehnung dieser beiden Formen und der Phasenubergang II ⇌ III werden eingehender untersucht.

On the Thermal Trimorphism of KGaCl4

KGaCl4 exists in three enantiotropic forms: KGaCl4-I is stable below −25°C, KGaCl4-II between −25 and about 130°C, KGaCl4-III above 130°C up to the melting point (259°C). KGaCl4-III belongs to the baryte type of structure, KGaCl4-II crystallizes with the KAlCl4-type (distorted baryte). Thermal expansion of both forms (II, III) and the phase transition II ⇌ III are investigated thoroughly.


The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is an effect of soil moisture level on the amount of movement in the terrestrial isopod Porcellio scaber. A measured response experiment was conducted at three different treatment levels of soil moisture, and the movement of P. scaber was traced and measured in centimetres during one minute. In both trials, the trend in the data was that mean distance traveled decreased at higher soil moisture levels. In Trial 1, the mean distance traveled by P. scaber was 49.4 ± 11.3, 54.4 ± 13.7 and 12.7 ± 9.8 cm at 0, 0.20 and 0.40 mL H2O/g soil respectively. In Trial 2, the mean distance traveled by P. scaber was 62.6 ± 5.1, 62.3 ± 15.7, and 19.9 ± 4.8 cm at 0.25, 0.30 and 0.35 mL H2O/g soil respectively. Since in both trials the 95% confidence intervals of mean distances traveled do not overlap, Ho is rejected and Ha is supported which means soil moisture level affects amount of movement in P. scaber as measured by distance traveled in one minute. More movement on drier soil allows P. scaber to find an environment of suitable soil moisture, which is typically damp.


In the context of the mid-term evaluation of rural development programmes (EU regulation 1257/99) the Bavarian agri-environmental programme, the so-called Kulturlandschaftsprogramm Part A" (KULAP-A), was evaluated. By means of this programme, only agricultural land related measures are supported. The measures may refer to the whole agricultural enterprise, parts of it or the individual plot. The guideline of the EU-commission demand analysis about the effects of the programme on biotic and abiotic environmental resources such as soil, water, species and their habitat and landscape. This paper focuses on the results concerning the protection of soil erosion and water contamination. For this, statistical data corresponding the supported measures were analysed. Additionally a survey of farmers participating and non-participating at the programme was conducted. In this study the dead-weight-effect is discussed as an effect which can be excluded in cases when: due to the programme an intensification of management is prevented, a low intensive management is reached or the abandonment of farming could at least be delayed.


The article analyzes the experience of treatment of 252 patients with pleural effusion syndrome. In144 cases medical care was rendered without thoracoscopy (control group), In 108 cases medical carewas provided using innovative diagnostic and treatment algorithm the basis of which is the use ofthoracoscopy under local anesthesia (research group). This algorithm is possible in any hospital thatreceives patients with pleural effusion. Refs 8. Tables 9. Figs 1.


The Space Lab is in the Low Earth Orbit(LEO),in which space environment is complex and varied.The plasma effect of the High Voltage Solar Array(HVSA) is outstanding in the environment.In order to adopt the HVSA,the plasma effect and protection are the key technical challenges.The LEO plasma environment is analyzed,and the mechanism and effect of the arcing discharge for the HVSA are studied.The test for simulating the LEO plasma environment is carried out,which validates the adaptability of semi -rigidity solar array and flexible solar array in the space environment.


BACKGROUND
 Following COVID-19 up to 40% of people have ongoing health problems, referred to as "post-acute COVID-19" or long covid (LC). LC varies from a single persisting symptom to a complex multi-system disease. Research has flagged that this condition is under recorded in primary care record; and seeks to better define its clinical characteristics and management.

Phenotypes provide a standard method for case definition and identification from routine data and are usually machine processable. A LC phenotype can underpin research into this condition.

 OBJECTIVE
 To develop a phenotype for long COVID-19 to inform the epidemiology and future research into this condition. We will compare clinical symptoms in people with long COVID-19 before and after their index infection. We will also compare people recoded as having acute infection with those with LC who have been hospitalised with those who are not.

 METHODS
 We used data from the Primary Care Sentinel Cohort (PCSC) of the Oxford-Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Research and Surveillance Centre (RSC) database. The PCSC is recruited to be nationally representative of the English population.

We developed a long LC phenotype using our established three-step ontological method: (1) Ontological step: Defining the reasoning process underpinning the phenotype; (2) Coding step: Exploring what clinical terms are available; (3) Logical extract model: testing performance.

We created version of this phenotype using Protégé in the ontology web language (OWL) for Bioportal and using Phenoflow.

We used the phenotype to compare people with long COVID-19 with: (1) Their symptoms in the year prior to acquiring COVID-19; and (2) People with acute COVID-19. We also compared hospitalised people with long COVID-19 with those not hospitalised.

We compared socio-demographic details (age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic-status, obesity and smoking), comorbidities (cardiometabolic, respiratory and mental health) and Office of National Statistics (ONS) defined long covid symptoms between groups. We used descriptive statistics and logistic regression.

 RESULTS
 The long covid phenotype, available in Bioportal and Phenoflow, formats that differentiates people hospitalised with LC from people who are not, and where there no index infection is identified.

The PCSC (N=7.4 million) includes 428,479 patients with an acute COVID-19 diagnosis confirmed by a laboratory test and 10,772 patients with clinically diagnosed COVID-19. We have before and after symptoms related to LC for hospitalized and community strata. 7,471 (1.74%;95CI=1.70-1.78) people were coded as having LC, 1,009 (13.5%;95CI=12.7-14.3) had a hospital admission related to acute COVID-19, 6,462 (86.5%;95CI=85.7-87.3) were not admitted to hospital of whom 2,728 had no COVID-19 index date recorded. 15.6% (95CI=14.7-16.5) of people with LC were hospitalised compared to 4.9% (95CI=4.8-5.0, p<0.0001) with uncomplicated COVID-19.

 CONCLUSIONS
 Our long covid phenotype identifies LC cases and enables us to conduct a comparison between LC and defined comparator groups.

 CLINICALTRIAL
 Not applicable


Fluid flow through porous media is of great importance for many natural systems, such as transport of groundwater flow, pollution transport and mineral processing. In this paper, we propose and val...


(57) Abstract: OBJECTIVE Basket wait state, a state where a passenger is trapped within the cage, providing a notification device in the elevator car can be prevented easily confined accident. [Configuration] When not operating the cage destination buttons provided on the passenger boarded control panel on the car, a state confinement for doors of the car are closed automatically. In this case, after waiting circuit S and the timer T circuit is formed of P-Ka-Sa-T-N for occupant detection device K to work counts up the predetermined time, the circuit of the P-Ta-F-N since the formed notification device F operates, instructions from the speaker in the car will be broadcast, the passenger can operate along with the content.


To prevent the distribution network from being effected by the output power fluctuation of photovoltaic, wind and other renewable energy generation, this paper presents a coordinated optimization control strategy for hybrid energy storage system based on real-time online analysis of power spectrum. Compared with the smoothing method used nowadays, it solves the existing problem that the smoothing objective could not be satisfied in an extreme power fluctuate scenario; The developed device has been applied in a number of engineering projects and both the simulation and practical applications prove the effectiveness of the strategy to improve the power quality and realize a smooth access for renewable energy.


We present a novel scheme to generate trains of angularly separated single attosecond pulses by driving high-order harmonic generation with two identical, but temporally delayed, laser pulses, which are noncollinearly overlapped in the generation medium.


Based on the actual statistical WIM data, this paper studies the transportation profit, transportation cost and road maintenance cost under different vehicle axle limits and analyses the comprehensive economic benefits. The formula of transport profit TP, transport cost y and road maintenance cost 𝑅𝑀𝐶 is put forward to calculate the three parts of cost, and the relationship and trend of the three parts of cost and comprehensive economic benefit are analyzed. The results show that the transportation profit increases logarithmically under different axial limits, the transportation cost increases like a linear function, and the road maintenance cost increases exponentially. Reasonable load limit value can not only prolong road life, reduce maintenance cost, but also maximize comprehensive economic benefit. Finally, the axial limit value under optimal economic benefit is proposed to provide reference for related departments.


This open textbook covers common statistics used in agriculture research, including experimental design in plant breeding and genetics, as well as the analysis of variance, regression, and correlation.


Mold flow analysis on the molding process of the plastic parts was made by Pro/ E Software and the optimal melt filling pressure,injection time,holding time were deter mined,which can reduce the reject rate in production.And then the mould structure de sign was presented in detail.It was validated that the mould structure is reasonable and the mould motion is stable and reliable by production practice.


Dear Sir, It has been shown that heparins prepared from different tissues have significant differences in anticoagulant activity when examined using an antif actor Xa assay (1). Mucosal heparin was found to possess higher specific activity. Heparins derived from different sources do not seem to show any difference on platelet function, although beef lung preparations have been associated with thrombocytopenia (2). We evaluated the release of platelet factor 4 (PF4) and ß-thromboglobulin (BTG) and the platelet aggregation induced by ADP, collagen and epinephrine after intravenous injection of three different types of heparins: Na mucous heparin (Liquemin, Roche), Ca mucous heparin (Calciparine, Choay) and Na beef lung (Upjohn). Although the heparins used were estimated in different ways by the drug companies (I.U. and U.S.P.) only a small difference is really present since U.S.P. heparin contains at least 120 u/mg and International Standard contains exactly 130 u/mg. Three volunteer medical students were injected at weekly intervals, with 3500 units of the three heparins. It was shown in fact that only 24 hours are needed to allow a complete replacement of PF4 (3). The samples, to carry out the tests, were collected as previously described (4), before, 5 and 60 minutes after heparin administration. PF4 and BTG levels were determined using the commercial ria kits supplied by Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, North Chicago Illinois 60024, U. S. A. and by the Radiochemical Centre Amersham Bukinghamshire, England respectively. Platelet aggregation was performed as previously described (5). Five minutes after the two mucosal heparins a similar release was present in agreement with Dawes et al. (6), although in two subjects this release was only 1 Of old. When we evaluated the levels after beef lung heparin injection the release, although present, was less evident and in one case was reduced about 50% as compared with the two intestinal mucosa heparins (Table 1). BTG remained unchanged. The reason of this discrepancy is not clear. The possibility that heparin administered might interfere with the assay system may be ruled out since it has been shown to be without effect even if added in vitro in a large dose (3). When we evaluated the ADP and collagen induced aggregation a similar potentiating effect as compared with the basal value was present after the injection of all three heparins and this in accordance with our previous studies (5, 7). Only the aggregation induced by epinephrine seems constantly reduced under heparin. Platelet counts remained unchanged throughout the study in all subjects investigated.


spectroscopy. The antifungal activities of formulations were assessed against Candida albicans by microdilution susceptibility testing in 96-well microtitre plates. Haemolysis method was used to establish the safety of these carriers for AmB delivery. Micelles (5 ml) were placed in a Pari LC Star (Pari GmbH, Starnberg, Germany) nebuliser attached to a TurboBoy N compressor (Pari GmbH) and nebulisation undertaken to 'dryness' into a twin impinger (TI). The AmB output and deposition in the fine particle fraction (FPF) (i.e. lower stage of the TI) were determined by UV analysis.


Fan deltaic depositional systems were well developed in the third member of Shahejie formation in the Gubei oil field. Three subfacies and five microfacies can be distinguished in the fan deltaic depositional systems. The fan deltaic depositional system was controlled by sediment flux rate, available accommodation expansion rate and basin bounded fault. The style of the fan deltaic depositional system can be divided into four types of degrading, progressing, steep slope and slow slope fan deltas. The sub aqueous distributed channel sand bodies developed in the fan delta front zones are high quality reservoirs. The dark mudstone of deeper lake subfacies contains hydrocarbon source rocks and good cover rock. The sandy conglomerate bodies of fan delta front are the good reservoirs. Those bodies constitute a set of source reservoir cap rock assemblages. It was proved that the fan deltaic deposits in third member of Shahejie formation have the good potentials for oil and gas exploration.


The roof of the shoulder (the acromion) has different growth centers made of cartilage. During development, these growth centers grow, transform into bone, and fuse together to form one bone. Occasionally, one or more of these growth centers does not completely fuse with others. The end of the acromion which does not fuse, separated by a layer of cartilage and fibrous tissue from the remainder of the bony acromion and scapula, is a called an os acromiale. In most cases, an os acromiale does not move and does not cause symptoms. However, this os acromiale, the unfused portion of the bony acromion, may be unstable and move, especially after traumatic injury, which may pinch the rotator cuff tendon or bursa, cause symptoms of rotator cuff inflammation. Alternatively, this entity may not cause any pain or problems.


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The paper presents research results concerning the content of micro- and macroelements in soils of roadsides along forest areas, salinity indicators and spatial distribution of roadside flora on the basis of trophic index. Study area with the total shoulder width of 8 m, along hardened surface in Szczecin Lowlands. The research has indicated that the content of macro- and microelements: P, K, Mg, Ca and Na was decreasing as the distance from the roadway was growing. Indeed, most of macroelements were found in the edge zone (edge of shoulder), with a width of 20-30 cm, adjacent directly to the edge of roadway. In all researched areas soil richness for phosphorus was low, for magnesium low (A and B zone) and very low (C and D zone), high in potassium in the edge area and medium in the proper shoulder. Content of soluble microelements in 0.5 mol dm -3 HCl was the greatest in the edge area and was decreasing if further from the edge of the roadway. Rating abundance of species observed on the edge of the shoulder (A), on the proper shoulder (B), in roadside ditches (C), on slopes of mid-forest (D) showed a similar number of species found in roadside ditches and on slopes (on average 23 and 22 taxons). On the basis of soil salinity indicators (Z and SAR) they were not specified in any of the analyzed shoulder zones.


Safe and timely discharge of individuals from hospital into the community continues to face a number of barriers. This is despite concerted research efforts to gain better understanding of processes of, and outcomes from, various discharge initiatives. During the doctoral research by the principal author, as with any research, more questions than answers were identified. One of the findings from this research, which incorporated both primary and secondary research methods, raised the question of the direction of future research into the discharge process of individuals from hospital. This question goes to the heart of discharge research, that is, is it time to consider researching discharge interventions which are multi-pronged and take a systems-wide approach? Such interventions need to actively engage policymakers, hospitals, community services and individuals, in order to develop possible solutions to the ongoing barriers which appear to have hindered improvements in the discharge process for over 30 years.


Objectives: To evaluate the analgesic effect of nano Berberin gel in the treatment of superficial burns.Subjective and Method: Study on 32 pediatric burn patients, treated at the Pediatric Burn Department in Le Huu Trac National Burn Hospital from 1 January 2022 to 30 April 2022. The method of study is a Prospective study, a randomized controlled trial. with comparison before-after. In the same patient, the burn was divided into 2 areas of equal area and depth. Study area: burns treated with a gel containing nano Berberine and comparison area: burns treated with 1% SSD cream. Results: 1. Having an anti-inflammatory effect: Reduction of the degree and duration of inflammation and reduced significantly the exudation on the study burn wound compared to the control area. 2. Nano Berberin gel dries wet necrosis (obvious after 2 - 3 days of using the drug). 3. Gel has the effect of preventing infection. A significant reduction in the number of positive cultures and the number of bacteria after 1 - 2 weeks of treatment, (78.33 ± 46.69 vs 105.16 ± 91.28 p < 0.05). The number of infected wounds after 1 week also decreased significantly in the control area, (25% vs 61.5% in zone A; 33.3% vs 58.3% in zone B) p<0.05. 4. The time for 50% epithelialization, the treatment time in the study area is also shorter than in the control area, (6.9 ± 3.6 vs 8.1 ± 4.2; p < 0.05). Conclusion: Initial remarkable recognition of the treatment effect of Nano Berberin Gel on the pediatric superficial burn.