All published records of mites parasitizing mosquitoes are reviewed in an attempt to place in perspective what is known to date concerning the identity of these mites, their hosts, and geographic distribution. In addition, 14 new records of parasitized mosquitoes from Brazil and 28 new host records from New York, Illinois and Canada are included. A total of 51 previously published records are considered invalid either because of questionable host associations or misidentification of the mites. In 87 of the remaining 177 published records (49%), no mite determinations were made. Twelve genera and 98 species of mosquito hosts are represented. The host genera for which the most cases of mite parasitism have been reported tend to be those of recognized medical importance. Similarly the distribution of host records is biased toward those parts of the world in which mosquitoes have been most intensively studied. The majority of mites parasitizing mosquitoes are aquatic (Hydrachnellae) and belong to 2 families, Thyasidae and Arrenuridae. Thyas barbigera, Thyasides sphagnorum and Euthyas truncata are reported here for the first time as mosquito parasites. The following 4 terrestrial mite families also include species known to parasitize mosquitoes—Erythraeidae, Johnstonianidae, Trombellidae and Trombidiidae. Two erythraeid genera, Callidosoma and Charletonia , and the trombidiid genus Ettmuelleria are recorded from mosquitoes for the first time.


The leather coloring technique using the eco-printing method is carried out by transferring the colors and motifs of plants on the leather material by direct contact. This process requires mordant to maximize the color. The use of mordant is done in three ways, namely mordant is done at the beginning (pre-mordanting), mordant is done simultaneously (meta-mordanting), and mordant is done at the end (post-mordanting). This study aims to determine the quality of eco-printing leather with the implementation of different mordant methods. The research materials were 16 pieces of sheep's crust leather. The research treatment was using various mordant methods, namely pre-mordanting, meta-mordanting, and post-mordanting. Colorfastness, tensile strength, elongation, tear strength, flexibility, and fracture resistance were among the eco-printing leather qualities evaluated. The research was carried out in an experimental setting using a completely randomized design. To conclude, the best mordant method was carried out at the beginning of the eco-printing process on leather media (pre-mordanting), where the quality of eco-printing leather obtained of 5.44 ± 0.968 mm, crack resistance (distance) of 8.78 ± 0.97 mm, the tensile strength of 1743.64 ± 45.26 N/cm2, leather elongation of 55.15 ± 10.26 %, tear strength of 268.24±132.49 N/cm, sewing strength of 1247.12 ± 649.91 N/cm, colorfastness of wet rubbing rated 4 (good), and dry rub of 4 (good).


The main use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is to collect information for many different applications such as environment and habitat monitoring, military purposes, structures protection and many other applications. The sensor nodes used in the network can sense and transmit the data wirelessly. The primary benefit of WSNs is that it enables information gathering without direct human efforts. In addition, these sensors are usually battery-powered and, in most cases, it is not practical to recharge or to replace the batteries of these sensors after deployment (unattended scenario). Therefore, it is important to prolong the lifetime of the WSN and to ensure that the application can last as long as possible. IEEE 802.15.4 standard is one of the prominent protocols for WSNs. However, it assumes that the sensor nodes operate in an attended scenario. In this research, we seek to implement IEEE 802.15.4 in an unattended scenario. Therefore, to achieve that, cluster head rotation is needed to avoid the problem single point of failure (i.e. when the battery of the cluster head is depleted, all the nodes in the cluster will not be able to forward their data any more). To maintain the features of this protocol while implementing it in an unattended scenario, we propose to use a long fixed hyperframe for periodic setup phase. This hyperframe contains smaller variable superframes. In this way, some applications used in an unattended scenario may exploit the characteristics of IEEE 802.15.4 standard.


Intensive Care unit is a special room in the hospital it has function for critically patient. Many death incidence happen here. So anxiety is one of worry time that if the bad thing will gone be happen and commonly connecting anticipation of a treat. The problem is usually about anxiety of the patient here. To solve and prevent the problem need the nurse and family support.
This research design is qualitative approaching by study case method. This sampling method is purposive sampling. The participants are a patient and a family are having treat in ICU room Wava Husada Hospital on July 19th 2014. This research data was taken by interview, observation, and documentation and analyzing by research domain. This research result contain of describe of patient anxiety in ICU unit are low level of anxiety, patient respond who can not be quite, cognitive patient able to get stimulation. Describe of family anxiety are individual coping, behavior respond, often to asking patient condition. Patient anxiety causes of condition or prognosis. Family anxiety causes of financial burden, and recurrence of disease. The resolve anxiety effort to the patient and family is tawakkal. Based on the research, is very important for family and nurses to understanding patient in ICU room. With the research result expected the nurses will going easy and to know patient anxiety in ICU room to giving the better service.


The regiospecific and stereoselective photocatalysed addition of N-substituted pyrrolidines to 5(S)-substituted furan-2-(5H)-ones (butenolides), and subsequent conversion of the adduct from N-(trimethylsilyl)pyrrolidine into the 1-azabicyclo[3.3.0]octane ring system of the pyrrolizidine alkaloids are described.


A method of producing a survey report of underwater subterranean strata comprises simultaneously towing an EM field transmitter 30 and a seismic source 20 behind a vessel 10, towing at least one streamer 40 behind the same vessel, said streamer or streamers having EM field receivers 50 for measuring the electric field and seismic receivers 50 for measuring the seismic response; applying an EM field to the strata using the EM field transmitter and detecting the EM field response using the EM field receivers; applying a seismic event to the strata using the seismic source and detecting the seismic response using the seismic receivers; analysing the EM field responses; analysing the seismic responses; and reconciling the two responses in order to produce a report on the presence and nature of the strata.


This review gives an account of chromosomal aberrations in cancer cells. Such abnormalities have typically been associated with hematologic cancers, but recent work has shown a variety of chromosomal changes in solid tumors, including prostate cancer and non–small-cell lung cancer. The authors point out that some of the chromosomal abnormalities have revealed targets for cancer treatment, and others have clinical application in the diagnosis of certain types of neoplasms and in the formulation of a prognosis.


More and more studies worldwide show that seismic and aseismic slip can occur jointly, impacting the seismic hazard in a region. It is thus important to be able to reconstruct the deformation partitioning and fault interactions. In this study, we focus on the eastern Sea of Marmara region south of the megalopolis of Istanbul (Turkey). In this region, the plate-bounding North Anatolian Fault (NAF) is splitting into several branches. The northern branch is locked and is considered to host the nucleation zone of a M~7 earthquake expected for the region. In 2016, a 3-days long foreshock sequence preceded a MW 4.2 event located at the junction of the two or more sub-branches. It has been argued that this sequence may have been driven by aseismic slip involved in the earthquake nucleation (Malin et al., 2018). Starting around the time of this earthquake, a large strain signal, lasting 50 days, was identified on a single strainmeter station located ~30km from the M4.2 epicenter (Martinez-Garzon et al., 2019). To better characterize this sequence, we revisit it adding new types of data: we analyze GPS and InSAR data together with reprocessed strainmeter recordings of all the availaible stations in the region during 18 months framing the observed strain signal. To enhance the tectonic features in the strainmeter data, we apply a variational Bayesian Independent Component Analysis (vbICA, Gualandi et al. 2015). Following the M4.2 earthquake, we highlight a 50 km westward migration of the seismicity starting from its epicentral area and lasting 6 months. Increases in the seismic activity correspond to variations in the tectonic components of the recordings at two nearby strainmeters. The first changes in seismicity and strainmeter data occur 2.5 months before the MW4.2 event, and are also concomitant with a variation in the trend of the GPS data. The GPS data, along with the strainmeter ones, exhibit a second clear change at the time of the mainshock, that is also lasting two months. Similarly, the InSAR data highlight a variation in the time series around the time of the earthquake, lasting several weeks. The combination of these different types of measurements covering various signal-frequency bands of deformation in the eastern Sea of Marmara highlights the presence of a measurable large-scale and long-lasting deformation transient that begins and ends several weeks before and after the occurrence of a Mw4.2 earthquake. These observations show that further reducing the observational gap both in terms of detection threshold and frequency band allows to decipher signals that usually remain undetected. This is non-trivial but relevant for seismic hazard and risk assessment especially in case of submarine faults collocated with population centers, as is the case of the study region.


Common sea bass, Lateolabrax japonicas (CUVIER), is one of the commercially important fish taken from Tokyo Bay. The present paper deals with such ecological aspects of this species as seasonal and geographical distributions of eggs. (1) The materials were taken through the cooperative investigation of neritic-pelagic resources carried out by the Kanagawa Prefectural Experimental Fisheries Station and Tokai Regional Fisheries Research Laboratory during the years 1955-1962. They were collected by vertical haul of the plankton net with 45cm- or 60cm-mouth-diameter from a depth of 150m (or ocean bottom when shallower) to the sea surface. (2) The eggs occur in the season from the late October till the late February with its peak at the late November through the late January. The eggs were collected chiefly from the entrance of Tokyo Bay and partly from inside of the Bay (close to the entrance) and from Sagami Bay. None of eggs were taken from the innermost region of Tokyo Bay, The density of the distribution represents some variation year by year, but no remarkable differences are observed in pattern. (3) The eggs most frequently occur within 14-20-C in temperature and 18.0-19.2%1, in chlorinity, i.e. in the coastal waters under a considerable influence of open sea water. The frequency is very low within the bay where temperature is lower than 13°C in winter and chlorinity is usually lower than 18‰ (4) Larvae penetrates into Tokyo Bay after hatched out. The grown fish become to the spawners in November migrating from the inner region of the bay to the entrance of the same.


A field experiment conducted at the main farm of Agricultural College Parbhani during Kharif 1976 season revealed that quinalphos 350 g a.i./ha spray was highly superior in reducing the pod borer infestation and increased the yield of grains. However, higher net profit was obtained by the treatment of the crop with monocrotophos 200 g a. i./ha spray.


Code review is a key tool for quality assurance in software development. It is intended to find coding mistakes overlooked during development phase and lower risk of bugs in final product. In large and complex projects accurate code review is a challenging task. As code review depends on individual reviewer predisposition there is certain margin of source code changes that is not checked as it should. In this paper we propose machine learning approach for pointing project artifacts that are significantly at risk of failure. Planning and adjusting quality assurance (QA) activities could strongly benefit from accurate estimation of software areas endangered by defects. Extended code review could be directed there. The proposed approach has been evaluated for feasibility on large medical software project. Significant work was done to extract features from heterogeneous production data, leading to good predictive model. Our preliminary research results were considered worthy of implementation in the company where the research has been conducted, thus opening the opportunities for the continuation of the studies.


1 R ussia's reaction to the Maidan revolution in Ukraine and the subsequent critical deterioration of relations between Moscow and the West have reignited the otherwise diminished interest to the whole Eastern Europe all across the world. Most of politicians and experts in Europe and North America have admitted that the Russian military pressure against Ukraine was an "eye-opening surprise" for their governments, who underestimated the strength of neo-imperial momentum in Kremlin's strategy. Henceforth, professional community faces a challenge of properly understanding Russian intentions and policies, and translating the possible explanations into a policy relevant language.


Tarbela dam plays a vital role in Pakistan's economy as it is a major resource of irrigation water and electricity generation. Its reservoir has been rapidly filling since its start due to sediment transported and deposited by Indus River. In this study, a numerical model is realized taking in account different morphologic parameters and hydrodynamic processes to predict the evolution of sediment deposits due to river bed erosion and settling velocity in the reservoir.


Unlike traditional text corpora collected from trustworthy sources, the content of web based corpora has to be filtered. This study briefly discusses the impact of web spam on corpus usability and emphasizes the importance of removing computer generated text from web corpora.
The paper also presents a keyword comparison of an unfiltered corpus with the same collection of texts cleaned by a supervised classifier trained using FastText. The classifier was able to recognize 71% of web spam documents similar to the training set but lacked both precision and recall when applied to short texts from another data set.


Using the vanadium titano-magnetite for iron-making, the steel enterprises have discharged water-quenched Ti-bearing slag. Due to the high titanium content, low activity and difficult-to-use characteristic, there are vast amount of high titanium slags, which not only occupies the land, but also causes resources wasting and environment polluted. This paper analyzed the chemical component, microstructure, grindability, activity index and other factors of high titanium slag and studied the mining filling material prepared by high titanium slag. The results show that the main chemical components of high titanium slag are similar with the ordinary slag. Both of them consist of CaO, SiO2 and Al2O3, all of which account for about 80% of the total weight. However, the content of TiO2 accounts for 8.4%, which is much higher than that of ordinary slag. Therefore, the grindability of TiO2 is poor. The solid waste cementitious material was prepared by slag, flue gas desulfurization gypsum and high titanium slag, whose specific surface area was 530 m2/kg. After the maintenance for 28 hours, the compressive strength of this material reaches 3MPa.


KATHRYN KISH SKLAR is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of numerous articles and the book Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity (1973), which was nominated for the National Book Award in Biography. In 1975-1976 she was a Fellow at the National Humanities Institute, New Haven, where she developed a sequence of courses in the social history of American women, 1600-1975. This essay has benefited from the generous criticism and comments of many colleagues and friends. Particularly important were the participants in two workshops at UCLA on "Strategies and Problems in Teaching the Social History of American Women from 1600 to 1975." Fourteen specialists in U.S. women's history, who teach at colleges and universities in four southwestern states, contributed a great deal to my understanding of conceptual problems in U.S. women's history. They are: Professors Emily Abel, Marilyn G. Boxer, Patricia C. Cohen, Thomas Dublin, Barbara Epstein, Mary L. Felstiner, Estelle Freedman, Sherna Gluck, Helen Horowitz, Norma Fain Pratt, Ruth Rosen, Mary Rothschild, Mary P. Ryan, and Jane Slaughter. These workshops were funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities through a grant to the National American Studies Faculty. I am grateful to the NEH and ASA for their past support of this group. I am also grateful to the NEH-sponsored year I devoted to curriculum development in U.S. women's history at the National Humanities Institute, New Haven, 1975-76, where I began to develop some of the ideas on which this essay is based. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the American Historical Association meeting last December and at Cornell in April. On both occasions it was improved by helpful comments from those in the audience-particularly from Irene Brown and Joan Jacobs Brumberg. This essay was also substantially assisted by extensive comments from Robert Byer, Dolores Hayden, Temma Kaplan, Alice Kessler-Harris, Gerda Lerner, and Mary Yeager. I am grateful to these colleagues, individually and collectively, for their help.


The paper investigates three types of transfer function methods for detecting displacements of winding in a model transformer. To acquire these transfer functions, the measuring method of input voltage, current and its response is used in impulse method. The applied impulse voltages had three rising times, which were short rising time (less than 0.6 ㎲), medium rising time (about 0.8 ㎲) and long rising time (about 1 ㎲) in front waves. Every 10 measurements of voltage and current waves were averaged from 50 measurements of voltage and current waves. These transfer functions were tested in normal, 24mm elevated and 48mm elevated windings conditions and were analyzed with correlation coefficients and spectrum deviations. In the analysis, the results depend on the types of transfer functions and the rising times of input voltages.


As the information technologies evolute and the system integeration is implemented widely,we need to share the geospatial information in order to diffuse the usability of GIS.The purpose of studying open GIS is to provide a set of general models with specification of open interface. Based on the specification developer can develop interactive models to access various kinds of geospatial data with different methods. In this paper ,we discuss the technique of constructing open object system based on CORBA to share the geospatial datum. This model consists of the distributed GIS server and client ,access manager based on CORBA to distribute the geospatial datum.


OBJECTIVES

To assess the influence of intravesical potassium on pelvic floor activity (PFA) during voiding in women with symptoms of overactive bladder (OAB), by using comparative urodynamics (CUD).

PATIENTS AND METHODS

The study included 175 women who met the criteria of OAB (mean age 52.7 years, range 18–87). CUD included two sessions of pressure-flow studies (0.9% saline vs 0.2 m KCl) with simultaneous measurement of PFA using perineal electromyography (EMG) with surface electrodes. Dysfunctional voiding (DV) was diagnosed if significant PFA was measured by EMG during voiding.

RESULTS

In 44 patients (25%) there was increased EMG activity only in the presence of KCL; in 58 (33%) there was DV with increased PFA during filling with saline. In all these patients PFA was significantly greater in

the presence of KCl (P < 0.001). In patients with DV, filling with KCl prompted a statistically significant difference in maximum bladder capacity, maximum flow rate, mean flow rate and postvoid residual urine volume (P < 0.05). In summary, 102 patients (58%) had DV.

CONCLUSION

These findings suggest that DV is associated with epithelial dysfunction of the bladder mucosa, which clinically leads to OAB syndrome and can be revealed by CUD. The detection of DV might elude conventional urodynamics, but can be significantly enhanced by CUD (0.9% saline vs 0.2 m KCl).


Objective
To investigate the features of patients with cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) antibodies in primary Sjogren's syndrome (pSS) with the retrospective method.

Methods
Seventy eight pSS patients were studied. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) indirect immunofluorescence was used to measure anti-CCP antibodies. The patients with and without anti-CCP antibodies were correspondingly classified as autoantibody-positive and negative pSS groups. Clinical and laboratory features were compared between autoantibody-negative and positive group.

Results
⑴ Seven (9.0%) of pSS patients had positive anti-CCP antibody. No significant difference was found in sex, ages, and disease course between autoantibody-nagative and positive pSS patients. ⑵ The anti-CCP-positive pSS was associated with the rates of decayed tooth, fatigue, dry mouth, dry eyes, and tender of joint (P 0.05). ⑶From serologic characteristics aspects, the anti-CCP-positive patients showed higher level of tender of joint than the anti-CCP-negative patients. No significant difference was found in white blood cell (WBC), hemoglobin (HGB), platelet (PLT), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), C-reactive protein (CRP), immunoglobulin A (IgA), IgG, IgM, and rheumatoid factor (RF) between two groups (P>0.05).

Conclusions
The anti-CCP-positive patients were 9% of pSS patients, and were more likely to occur tender of joint with higher level of tender of joint.

Key words:
Sjogren's syndrome/ME/DI; Peptides, cyclic/ME; Autoantibodies/ME


Stress exposure is associated with an increased tendency to appraise ambiguous social stimuli as negative. However, it remains unknown whether tendencies to use emotion regulation strategies—such as cognitive reappraisal, which involves altering the meaning of affective stimuli—can buffer these stress effects on social evaluations. Here, we examined whether increased reappraisal use confers resilience against stress-induced negativity bias. In Study 1, healthy participants (n=43) rated the valence of emotionally ambiguous (surprised) faces before and after an acute stress or control manipulation and reported reappraisal habits. Increased negativity ratings were milder for stressed individuals that reported more habitual reappraisal use. In Study 2 (n=97), we extended this investigation to real-world perceived stress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. We found that reappraisal tendency moderates the relationship between perceived stress and increased negativity bias. Collectively, these findings suggest that the propensity to reappraise attenuates stress-induced negativity bias when evaluating others under uncertainty.


A relatively new addition to the Traffic Engineers toolbox called hardware-in-the-loop traffic simulation enhances traditional microscopic traffic simulation by replacing the emulated traffic signal control logic in the traffic simulation model with real traffic signal control hardware (hardware in the loop) that interacts with the simulation model. This increases the realism of the simulation and provides access to controller features currently not available in software-only simulation models. This paper first gives a discussion of hardware-in-the-loop traffic simulation and then describes some recent applications of this exciting technology by the Texas Transportation Institute


We consider the method to study physical properties of soils. The new seismic exploration approach, based on new modification of refracted wave plus-minus method and multichannel analysis of surface waves (MASW), is proposed. We present the field data processing example. The ground water level and zones of erosion are detected.


The purpose of this study is to analyze the trust of the millennial generation in Islamic financial institutions. The trust of the millennial generation refers to the principles of Good Corporate Governance (GCG) which consists of transparancy, accountability, responsibility, independence, fairness and sharia compliance. The data collection method used was the sample survey. The number of samples in this study was 150 samples. The sampling technique used in this study was accidental sampling. The analytical tool used is descriptive statistics.
            The results of this study indicate that the millennial generation's trust in Islamic financial institutions is high. This proves that the millennial generation in West Nusa Tenggara Province basically already has good trust in the operation of Islamic financial institutions.


The invention discloses washing soap specially used for infants and children and belongs to the field of washing products. The washing soap specially used for the infants and children can overcome the defects that the existing washing soap can cause clothes to be easily dried and comfort level is reduced. The washing soap specially used for the infants and children comprises the following raw materials in parts by weight: 80-90 parts of natural soap powder, 10-20 parts of coconut diethanol amide, 15-20 parts of glycerol, 8-12 parts of aloe extract, 5-10 parts of tea tree oil and 5-15 parts of citric acid. The washing soap disclosed by the invention is applicable to cleaning of clothes for the infants and children, diapers, bedding articles and closed-fit clothes for adults.


Elderly patients will constitute 2/3 of ICU patients and will likely consume ¾ of ICU resources in the coming years. It is therefore important to determine their outcome of those patients, especially with respect to what appears to be the most important factor, their Health Related Quality Of Life (HRQOL). This systematic review identified 26 studies that examined HRQOL of elderlies after ICU. Studies on this matter are difficult to compare, and their results are difficult to summarize due to heterogeneity in the instruments and measures used. Elderly ICU patients have a reduced HRQOL compared to the normal age- and gender-matched population even prior the event that requires their ICU admission. Compared to younger patients who will be hospitalized in ICUs, elderly patients appear to have a reduced HRQOL, especially with respect to physical domains. Once discharged from ICU, elderly patients appear to frequently regain their pre-ICU HRQOL. The speed of recovery appears to be similar to that of younger ICU patients. In the end, the HRQOL of elderlies will be only slightly reduced compared to younger ICU patients, primarily in physical domains, but HRQOLs appear to be even better in mental domains. The HRQOL of patients discharged from the ICU, however, remains statistically lower than age- and gender-matched populations. Altogether, the quality of the analyzed studies was quite disappointing. The exact impact of a possible selection bias in the studies is difficult to assess, and care should be taken in the interpretation of the results. Larger, quality studies are warranted to confirm important results.


—The effectiveness of fingerprint-based authentication systems on good quality fingerprints is established long back. However, the performance of standard fingerprint matching systems on noisy and poor quality fingerprints is far from satisfactory. Towards this, we propose a learning-based frame- work which enables the state-of-the-art fingerprint preprocessing models to quantify the noise present in the input image and identify fingerprints regions with background noise and poor ridge clarity. Quantification of noise helps the model two folds: firstly, it makes the objective function adaptive to the noise in a particular input fingerprint and thus helps to achieve robust performance on noisy and distorted fingerprint regions. Secondly, it provides a noise variance map which indicates the noisy pixels in the input fingerprint image. The predicted noise variance map enables the end-users to understand the erroneous predictions due to the noise present in the input image. Extensive experimental evaluation on 13 publicly available fingerprint databases, across different architectural choices and two fingerprint processing tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.


In this paper we take a new approach to the problem of peak-to-peak gain minimization (the L1 or induced L∞ problem). This is done in an effort to circumvent the complexity problems of other approaches. Instead of minimizing the induced L∞ norm, we minimize the * -norm, the best upper bound on the induced L∞ norm obtainable by bounding the reachable set with inescapable ellipsoids. Controller and filter synthesis for * -norm minimization reduces to minimizing a continuous function of a single real variable. This function can be evaluated, in the most complicated case, by solving a Riccati equation followed by an LMI eigenvalue problem. We contend that synthesis is practical now, but a key computational question-is the function to be minimized convex?—remains open. The filters and controllers that result from this approach are at most the same order as the plant, as in the case of LQG and H∞ design.


Background: BK virus is the most common infectious causes of nephropathy and graft loss after
kidney transplantation. In our study, we investigated the factors that may affect positive BK virus in the
blood in patients with kidney transplantation.


In this paper, we studied a local and a non-local scheme for vertical diffusion in the atmospheric boundary layer and their impact on the concentration of pollutants calculated with an environmental model. In the local diffusion scheme, the eddy-diffusivity is determined independently at each point in the vertical based on local vertical gradients of wind and potential temperature. The non-local scheme determines an eddy-diffusivity profile based on a diagnosed boundary layer height and a turbulent vertical scale. To compare these two approaches, we used a local (O'Brien [1970]) and a modified non-local (Alapaty [2003]) diffusivity scheme. Compared to the original, the modification introduced in the non-local scheme included different values of the parameter in the equation for eddy-diffusivity depending on the stability regime. For the unstable conditions, the parameter was set to 2, a value commonly used in parameterizations in regional climate modeling, while for stable conditions we used a value of 1.5 based on numerical experiments. To examine the performance of the schemes, simulated and measured concentrations of the pollutant believed to be one of the most affected ones by the processes in the atmospheric boundary layer ( ) were compared for the years 1999, 2001 and 2002. The comparison was made for the whole domain used in simulations performed by the chemical EMEP Unified model (version UNI-ACID, rv2.0). p p


Abstract Some new Gronwall–Ou-Iang type integral inequalities in two independent variables are established. We also present some of its application to the study of certain classes of integral and differential equations.


Abstract The known pempherid fauna of New Zealand comprises two species: Pempheris adspersa Griffin, endemic to the north‐eastern shores of North Island; and P. analis Waite, found in the Kermadec Islands as well as Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, and the east and west coasts of Australia. Pempheris adspersa differs from P. analis in having: some interorbital scales cycloid (versus all interorbital scales ctenoid), usually 3 or more predorsal scales cycloid which often form a mesial line of cycloid scales (versus rarely 4 or fewer predorsal scales cycloid), lateral‐line scales 56–68 but rarely more than 66 (versus 63–77, rarely fewer than 65), and scales below lateral line 18–24 but rarely more than 22 (versus 22–27). A principal components analysis differentiates the two species with only slight overlap. Reports of P. compressa from New Zealand are erroneous; descriptions of P. compressa and P. adspersa have been confused in the literature. Pempheris compressa differs from P. adspersa in having: anal fin dusky along entire length (versus tips of first 4–5 anal‐fin rays black), gular region scaled (versus unsealed), segmented anal‐fin rays 35–40 (versus 29–35), head depth 36–41 % of standard length (SL) (versus 31–38%), and body depth 44–52% of SL (versus 38–46%). A principal components analysis clearly differentiates the two species.


The relativistic Breit–Pauli approximation is used within the R-matrix method to calculate photoionisation cross-sections from the ground state of Mg III. The resulting cross-sections are affected by Rydberg series of resonances converging to the 2s12p6 2Se excited threshold.


A complete training and retraining programme in ship handling for deck officers on offshore loading tankers has been developed over the past five years. Input from experienced masters, simulator and hydrodynamic specialists enabled new simulation hardware and software to be developed.


In this article the structure and the features of the clinical statistical data processing to solve the diagnostic problems have been reviewed. The system software solution example is drawn on the basis of the neural network. The system serves for monitoring the user's state in real time with the help of Android device and web-service.


Most conventional wastewater treatment plants remove very small amounts of micropollutants, such as pharmaceuticals. Here, the ability of two different types of submerged nanofiltration flat sheet modules to remove pharmaceuticals from wastewater is analyzed. The two nanofiltration membranes were used at relatively low pressures of only 0.3 and 0.7 bar. At such low pressures, the membranes did not retain salts to a great extent. This is advantageous in wastewater treatment because no salt concentrate is produced. Carbamazepine was retained only slightly by the nanofiltration membranes, whereas approximately 60% of diclofenac and naproxen were retained by both membranes. This level of effectiveness might not be enough to justify the use of such a system as an additional treatment step in wastewater treatment plants.


Objective To understand the occupational hazards existing in a rubber industrial company and their potential adverse health effects on exposed workers.Methods The working environment was surveyed in this rubber tire plant.The physical examination was carried out among 602 exposed workers and 598 non-exposed workers.Results The main occupational hazards in this rubber tire plant were noise and heat stress(high temperature environment).The intensity of noise at 26 working sites was measured and the noise level at 22 sites(84.6%) exceeded the national exposure limit.The high temperature environment was noted at the Machines of Fix Sulfur site and graded as Ⅲ to Ⅳ.The workers working in this position had a heat stress.The exposed workers had a higher prevalence of high-frequency hearing loss,the abnormal changes showed by the chest X-ray,pulmonary function and ECG and liver function examination,compared with the controls.Conclusion The traditional occupational hazards,such dusts and chemical harms were controlled in this rubber tire plant after the mechanization was introduced.However,the mechanical noise and heat stress do exist at moment,which could affect the health status of exposed workers.The control measures against such hazards should be taken to protect workerv's health.


The 3 D noise technolgy is a new method which is used to analyze the noise of starring thermal imaging system.Compared with the noise model,this method can embody the noise characters of the systme more perfectly. The analysis method and theoritical framework of the 3 D noise technology are introduced. The relationship between the traditional noise and 3 D noise are pointed out,the applications of 3 D method in the starring thermal imaging systems are described.


Under Scotland's child oral health improvement programme
(Childsmile) programme dental practices delivering National
Health Service (NHS) care are expected to apply sodium fluoride
varnish to the teeth of all children at six-monthly intervals from
the age of two years. Despite some recognised programme success
this key preventive intervention is still variable. Aim: This organisational-level
project aimed to study the work system around fluoride
varnish application in the practice setting, to identify mechanisms
and contextual factors likely to come into play in complex
interventions to increase application rates. The methodology involved
applying the Functional Resonance Analysis Method to
synthesise multiple data sources, including: a longitudinal survey
of GDPs (n = 1,090; 65% follow up rate); in-depth interviews with
practitioners and public health experts (n = 43); 'World Cafe' (4)
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tine varnish claims data for 2015/16 (n = 86,726 claims at 807 Practices).
Results Various crosslinked areas affecting varnish application
were identified: priorities of care and preventive culture; practice
management including time, space and use of the dental team;
parental wishes and child compliance; risk and efficacy evidence;
and issues with regards to the NHS remuneration system. Conclusion
This study identified a number of interlinked organisationlevel
issues around fluoride varnish application in general dental
practice. These have been developed into a randomised pilot and
feasibility study which is now underway, involving an enhanced
audit and feedback intervention.


The system of medical diagnostics and remote monitoring based on the example of skin diseases was developed. The diagnostics is carried out by a group of multilayer perceptrons on the basis of processing the images of the explored object and medical registration data. The application of high-performance computing made it possible to carry out remote control of the state of the observed object by the change of its image in  real time. For the implementation of the indicated system, a generalized model of the process of neural network diagnostics and monitoring was developed. The distinctive features of this model are the combination of machine training and agent technologies, which allows, firstly, using results of the remote monitoring for making a diagnosis; secondly, using simultaneously the totality of methods and means of collection, storage, processing, analysis and transmission of a video stream or a single image for solving the problems of decision making based on image processing. The multi-agent organizational structure of the components of the proposed model was designed. The organizational structure is characterized by the formed aggregation levels, as well as by the possibility to dynamically distribute the roles among the agents. Such organization makes it possible to adapt for managing the following incidents: monitoring the state of health, making diagnosis and medical aid.


\.......-A 37-year-old man was admitted for examination of a firm mass in his left buttock. The mass had been present for three years but had become tender after the patient fell while skiing about a year earlier. Biopsy results revealed spindle-shaped cells. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a well-circumscribed mass within the left gluteal muscles that was hyperintense on T2-weighted images and demonstrated marked enhancement after gadolinium injection (left). A tumor (well-defined capsule, 13 em x 10 em, 980 gm) was excised (right); it had minimal adherence to other tissue.


This paper studies the strategy consensus of cascading finite network games with the myopic best response adjustment rule. The main tool is semi-tensor product (STP) of matrices. Firstly, the cascading finite network game is converted into an algebraic form by using STP. Secondly, based on the algebraic form, two necessary and sufficient conditions are presented for the strategy consensus of the considered game. Finally, an illustrative example is worked out to illustrate the effectiveness of the obtained results.


This research examined differences in health and vaccination status as well as a mother's beliefs and practices during illnesses between the less modernized Pwo animist and the more modernized Sgaw Christian highland Karen of northwest Thailand . There are numerous and significant differences between Pwo and Sgaw mothers in their specific beliefs and behaviors related to children's health, including smoking rates , bathing children, clinic visitation, vaccination rates and specific illnesses. In particular, Sgaw mothers more frequently exhibit behaviors which should enhance the health of their children. These differences between the two groups concerning health beliefs and the behaviors are at least partially responsible for the lower morbidity and mortality rates found among Sgaw preschool children . A mother's acceptance of Christianity historically could be associated with an increased degree of modernization, and promotion of behavioral changes in individuals among the Sgaw Christian group, which appears to have positive influence on children's health status.


This study is an age-7 follow-up of 40 children who at age 4 were identified as 'hard to manage' and were compared to 40 age and sex matched typically developing peers on a set of simple, manually administered executive function tasks. At age 4, the 'hard to manage' group showed marked deficits in inhibitory control and planning, but showed intact set-shifting and working memory (Hughes et al., 1998). The present study assessed the continuity of executive function deficits among these 'hard to manage' children, using computerized tests of planning, working memory and set-shifting (from the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB)) and a computerized Go-No-Go test of inhibitory control (from the Maudsley Attention and Response Suppression task battery (MARS)). In addition, real-time observational ratings were made via a questionnaire checklist. Compared with controls, children in the 'hard to manage' group showed impaired inhibitory control but intact planning, working memory and set-shifting. Observational ratings confirmed the group difference in inhibitory control, as the 'hard to manage' group showed significantly more perseverative errors and rule violations. These findings raise important methodological issues concerning effects of task format and highlight the importance of combining experimental and observational approaches to assessing problems in executive control. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Water is the most significant sources for human life, but, it is in serious threat of contamination by life itself. The protection and availability of drinking-water are major worries throughout the globe. In this work,anIOT based solution isintroduced to check and predict the water quality and alert the user before the water gets polluted. The proposed system uses IoT and optimized neural network for prediction. It consists of various embedded sensors like conductivity, pH, turbidity and color.  The measured sensor values are stored in the database and further directed for prediction analysis. The Cat swarm optimization (CSO) based neural network algorithm is used for forecasting thequality result.  The proposed system alerts the user when any of themeasured parameters are lesser than the fixed thresholds. This technique can also be implemented in water plants, rivers and industries.


The concept of the time value of money remains a matter of debate among Muslim scholars as it is perceived to provide justification for riba. The perceived opening for riba is that the exchange of time for money will end with money begetting money. This would corrupt the traditional function of money as a means of purchasing goods because money is not something intended for itself. However, this research proves that the classical jurists in their scholarly writings discussed whether time can be given a counter value and ruled that it can. It is also found that contemporary scholars have explained this concept in the context of its application to modern financial activities conducted in a dual banking system. Even though they have been able to prove substantially the time value of money in financial transactions,


This paper seeks to promote turmeric ( Curcuma longa Linn ) through increased awareness of the potentials of the crop in the food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries in Nigeria. Nigeria can take the lead in turmeric production but this potential has not been fully tapped as the techniques needed for its produ ction have not been properly understood by the farmers which have led to low production. Increased production and processing of turmeric as highlighted in this paper, has the potential of making a significant impact on the economy. This is because it has diverse uses and it is highly valued at the international market. Turmeric is used as a spice and is the major component of curry powder. Besides its use as a spice, turmeric finds a place in the cosmetics industry for its brilliant yellow colour and chara cteristic perfume. It is also being used as a dye for colouring fabrics. It is medically used for the prevention and treatment of diverse kinds of diseases as also highlighted in the paper. It is thus recommended that there should be adequate awareness on the potentials of turmeric especially in the southern part of Nigeria where the Research Institute that has the mandate to research into the crop is located. There is also need to develop improved


Abstract The identification of the 'granicones', small, conical and shield-like phosphatic structures with a pustulate surface ornamentation, from the Purbeck Limestone Formation of Dorset, has been problematic for over 130 years. They have been interpreted as the osteoderms of theropod or ornithischian dinosaurs, lizards or crocodiles, though only circumstantial evidence was presented in support of these hypotheses. Here, we provide anatomical, histological and geological evidence that demonstrates the true affinities of the granicones: they are the limb osteoderms of turtles and may be referable to either Helochelydra (= Tretosternon ) anglica or ' Tretosternon ' bakewelli .


It is still an open problem in the context of complex scenarios like dynamic background and illumination variations, although numerous moving object detection schemes have been demonstrated. Great efforts have been made to develop some probability distribution pixels obey, for which samples are collected from spatial domain and/or temporal domain. However, significant attention has not been paid to the confidence relationship between pixels and its spatio-temporal neighbours in previous works. In this Letter, a confidence relationship model is proposed to complete the moving object detection task in complex environments. Experiments on typical surveillance scenes verify that the proposed algorithm has attractive robustness and high accuracy for illumination variations and dynamic background against state-of-the-art methods.


The present invention relates to a method of treating heart deficiency of traditional Chinese medicine composition, wherein the drug raw materials and parts by weight ratio of: 10 to 20 parts of Radix, 10 to 20 parts by asparagine, Bozi 10 to 20 parts, 10 to 20 Zaoren parts, habitat 10 to 30 parts, angelica 10 to 20 parts, 10 to 20 parts Scrophulariaceae, Polygala 9 to 15 parts, Poria 10 to 20 parts, 10 to 20 parts by Gastrodia, 20 to 30 parts of Salvia miltiorrhiza, white peony root 9 ~ 15 parts, peach kernel 9 to 15 parts, 5 to 15 parts safflower, Codonopsis 10 to 20 parts, 9 to 15 parts Chuanxiong, Atractylodes 10 to 20 parts, 10 to 20 parts by Shi Di, 10 to 20 parts by gardenia, Huang Bai 5 to 15 parts, 6 to 12 parts of gelatin, 5 to 15 parts altogether, mint 9 to 15 parts and 10 to 30 parts by floating wheat. Traditional Chinese medicine composition of the present invention has blood and yin, heat purging fire, the efficacy of uneasiness of mind, promoting blood circulation, the treatment effect is significant deficiency of the heart, acting reliable; drug source component of its wide, easy preparation, toxic side effects.


In airborne collision avoidance system (ACAS) and air traffic control radar beacon system, altitude tracking filter is used for altitude prediction. These trackers are known to have large error when the data are lost. This paper presents the new prediction filter to improve the accuracy in this coast situation. the extrapolation of natural spline function is used for this purpose. the simulation shows this tracking filter has better performance than conventional filter.


The Effect of Learning Media and Motivation towards the Students' Reading Ability at Private Colleges in Subang Regency. The aim of the research is to know the effects of learning media and motivation towads the students' reading ability at private colleges in Subang regency. The total sample constitutes 50 students. The technique of collecting data uses questionnaires and reading test by multiple choice with 20 items instrument. The wirter uses quantitative method to know the effects of independent variables towards dependent variable. The statistics test used is descriptive statistics and Tukey comparison. These findings are 1). There is significant effects of learning media towards the students'reading ability at private colleges in Subang regency proved by the significance value 0.000<0.05 and Fobserved equals to 102,914. The average of the students'reading ability with high motivation is greater than that of with low motivation. The mean of the experiment class equals to 81.42 and conventional class equals to 68.76. 2). There is effect of motivation towards students' reading ability at private colleges in Subang regency and proved by the value of sig 0.000<0.05, and Fobserved equals to 14.671. The total motivation equals to 77.48 for high motivation students, and 72.70 for low motivatin students. 3). There is effect of learning media and motivation towards the students' reading ability, proved by the value of sig 0.005<0.05 and Fobserved equals to 8.230. Keyword: Learning Media; Motivation; Reading Ability Abstrak Pengaruh Media Pembelajaran dan Motivasi terhadap Kemampuan Membaca Siswa pada Perguruan Tinggi Swasta di Kabupaten Subang. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh media pembelajaran dan motivasi terhadap kemampuan membaca siswa pada perguruan tinggi swasta di Kabupaten Subang. Jumlah sampel sebanyak 50 siswa. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan angket dan tes membaca dengan pilihan ganda dengan instrument sebanyak 20 butir. Metodologi yang digunakan adalah penelitian eksperimen untuk mengetahui pengaruh variable bebas terhadap variabel terikat. Uji statistik menggunakan statistik deskriptif dan perbadingan Tukey. Temuannya adalah 1). Terdapat pengaruh yang signifikan media pembelajaran terhadap kemampuan membaca siswa pada perguruan tinggi swasta di Kabupaten Subang, dibuktikan dengan nilai signifikansi 0.000<0.05 dan Fobserved =102.914. Rata-rata kemampuan membaca siswa dengan motivasi tinggi lebih besar daripada siswa dengan movitasi rendah. rerata kelas eksperimen sebesar 81,42 dan kelas konvensiona sebesar 68.76. 2). Ada pengaruh motivasi terhadap kemampuan membaca siswa pada perguruan tinggi swasta di Kabupaten Subang, dibuktikan dengan nilai signifikansi 0.000<0.05, dan Fobserved sebesar 14.671. Total motivasi adalah 77.48 untuk siswa dengan motivasi tinggi, dan 72.70 untuk siswa motivasi redah. 3). Ada pengaruh media pembelajaran dan motivasi terhadap kemampuan membaca siswa, dibuktikan denan nilai signifikansi 0.005<0.05 dan Fobserved sebesar 8.230. Kata kunci: Kemampuan Membaca; Media pembelajaran; Motivasi Diterima (14 Juli 2021) Disetuji (20 September 2021) Dipublikasikan (18 Januari 2022) Biormatika: Jurnal ilmiah fakultas keguruan dan ilmu pendidikan p-ISSN 2580-6335, e-ISSN 2461-3961 Vol. 8 No. 1 Bulan Februari 2022 , Hal. 9 – 21 http://ejournal.unsub.ac.id/index.php/FKIP 10 INTRODUCTION English is an international language and it spoken in multifarious ways, depending on the geographical area of the individuals, with social and cultural aspects playing essential roles in shaping and influencing the form English text. People from all over the world are speaking their own distinctive English: Singaporean English, Indian English, Nigerian English, Indonesian English, and many others. In Indonesia, English is taught as a foreign language for about 13 years from primary school until university level. High school students are obliged to have good English proficiency to prepare them to continue their study to the university or to the work field. In order to achieve their academic goals, they need to improve their English language proficiency in four basic skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Richards, skills is the style that language used. According to him, the skill refers to productive skills including speaking, writing and receptive skills, including reading and listening 1985:160). Reading is an important skill that every student must have, especially for EFL (English as Foreign Language) students. It is needed for students to understand any text material. That will be essential need to be successful in their academic and future career or job. It also becomes increasingly important skill to be taught in learning English language as it becomes basic language curriculum and essential for students in Indonesia. Reading is also one of the most dominated subjects in English examination. It means that the student must have a good reading comprehension to be able to pass on the examination in their schools. Reading is the most difficult skill for the students compared with the other three skills of English language. Student's inability to comprehend texts often can be seen among first year students where they still have difficulties in dealing with reading English texts. Reading comprehension is to master the total message of the writer, both main points and supporting details. It is that stage of understanding at which the reader is able to paraphrase the author's ideas but has not yet made a critical evaluation of those ideas. This type of reading is the primary concern of classes for reading. In fact, the most common weakness of reading courses is that this style of reading—the careful word-by-word approach—is practiced exclusively, without recognition of the fact that it is not necessary for some tasks and insufficient for others. Holding students accountable for what they have read is valid. However, when developing thorough comprehension questions, a number of pitfalls should be avoided. We must make sure that the questions have the focus and direction of a passage. The information demanded by a question is accessible to the students during a careful reading. A good rule to follow when developing exercises is to read the passage and construct initial questions on the major points without looking back to the selection. We can hardly expect students to retain more after one reading than we have. Certain materials (such as research articles or textbooks) require careful reading and study, and we expose students to a number of such readings. Aebersold and Field (1997: 15) say that reading is what happens when people look at a text and assign meaning to the written symbols in that text, further, the text and the reader are the two physical entities necessary for the reading process to begin. Davies (1995:1) says that reading is a private activity. Grellet (1998:7) defines reading as an active skill that constantly involves guessing, predicting, checking, and asking oneself questions. Wallace (1992: 4). Williams (1996: 51), there are three main phases needed to be followed in reading activity, namely: 1). Pre reading and 2). Whilst reading. Bartol and Martin (1998) consider motivation a powerful tool that reinforces behavior and triggers the tendency to continue. Motivation is a term used to describe those processes both institictive and rational. People seek to satisfy their basic drives, perceived needs and personal goals which triggers human behaviour. Therefore motivation is a process and a drive Motivation may be defined as keeness for a particular behaviour or simply willingness to work in order to achive a predetermined reward or goal. The introduction of students' motivation as well as possible is the first step in making strategic in student learning. Ability to recognize the motivation of a student is the provision of a teacher to show the performance of his professionalism. A teacher who is able to Biormatika: Jurnal ilmiah fakultas keguruan dan ilmu pendidikan p-ISSN 2580-6335, e-ISSN 2461-3961 Vol. 8 No. 1 Bulan Februari 2022 , Hal. 9 – 21 http://ejournal.unsub.ac.id/index.php/FKIP 11 capitalize on student's motivation in the process of implementation of education and learning, is the teacher who managed to carry out its executive duties and function properly. The motivation that is necessary known by a teacher in carrying out the process of learning English are integrative motivation and instrumental motivation. Integrative motivation is a motivation acquired under the student to express their desire to learn English is one of them wants to be an English teacher or they are eager to be an English expert. While the instrumental motivation gained students to learn English language in the hope that they can use English as an instrument to get a job or to be able to work in relevant fields with their best. Motivation results from the interaction of both conscious and unconscious factors such as the intensity of desire or need, incentive or reward value of the goal, and expectations of the individual and of his or her peers. These factors are the reasons one has for behaving a certain way. An example is a student that spends extra time studying for a test because he or she wants a better grade in the class. within the achievement goal approach (Elliot, 2005), motivation is conceptualized as being based in very stable personality attributes. Media is everything that can transmit information from a source of information to the recipient information. Media is a tool that is used as a channel for conveying message or information from a source to recipients (receiver) (Soeparno, 1988: 1). It's the tools for teaching and learning communication process (Rohani, 1997: 2-3). Van Els et al. (1984), media are all aids which may be used by teachers and learners to attain certain educational objectives. Hamijoyoas quoted in Latuheru (1988) states that instructional m


The invention relates to a method for reducing the corrosion of metals and alloys of the circuits of heat exchangers in which circulating aqueous fluids heat transfer may contain antifreeze. The process consists in mixing these aqueous fluids heat transfer on the one hand 0.05% to 5% by weight of one or more alkali metal or amine salts of aliphatic dicarboxylic acids of the formula (CH2) n (COOH) 2 wherein n is between 2 and 10 and secondly from 0.05% to 2.5% by weight of one or more polyols having a number of carbon atoms between 5 and 12 and a number of alcohol groups between 5 and 12 and having no reducing power.


Background The British Horseracing Board ("BHB") plays a central role in organising British horseracing. It maintains a large database which includes detailed "pre-race data" regarding forthcoming…


In recent years, many institutes and organizations have been made efforts into
 developing new networkarchitecture. Universal Identifier Network(UIN) is one of them
 which is designed to providebetter mobility, better security and better reliability.
 Multicast is the basic network layer service thatis designed to save bandwidth for the
 whole network. The deployment of existing multicast schemeis restricted because of low
 security and the lack of control in sources. In this paper we have designeda
 central-controllable and secure multicast(CCSM) system for UIN that aims to achieve
 bettersecurity and scalability. We design the group management protocol and multicast
 routing protocol.The former one restricts the group members' joining with authentication
 and the latter one provides asecure way to install multicast entries on routers. We
 evaluate CCSM by comparing it with PIM-SM,and the results show that CCSM is more secure
 and reduces the multicast flow entries for the wholenetwork.


In order to make the modern power system more intelligent, various data acquisition equipment and information management systems are required, such as smart meters, remote terminal units (RTU), phasor measurement units(PMU), power distribution management systems(DMS), and energy management systems(EMS), customer management system(CMS), power generation management system(GMS) have been widely installed. These systems create large amounts of data, which is the main source of smart grid big data. Researching advanced data analysis technology is the most urgent task for the development of smart grid. It can make the best decision for the control and operation of the grid, and can improve the flexibility, safety, reliability and efficiency of the power system. This article analyses the cause of smart grid big data and the importance of data analysis, and discusses the development trend of big data technology. Selectively analysed the source and type of smart grid big data, summarized the characteristics of smart grid big data, gave various application scenarios, and introduced the smart grid big data analysis platform and the functions being developed.


SUMMARY In this note it is shown how a convenient class of random field models with rational spectral densities can be augmented to incorporate the possibility of long range dependence.


Mercury is a neurotoxic heavy metal, found in some polluted soils. A soil survey of Nekede mechanic village in Owerri area, Southeastern Nigeria polluted with automobile wastes was conducted. A transect was cut from the automobile service station outwards to link soils affected by automobile activities. Two profile pits, representing polluted and nonpolluted sites were dug, described and sampled for laboratory analysis. Soil samples were collected based on differences in pedogenic horizons. The soil samples were analyzed in the laboratory for physical and chemical properties. Results of the physical properties showed that the bulk density of the soils ranged from 1.48-1.57 g cm -3 , clay fraction ranged from 6-32 %, Silt fraction ranged from 2.0 to 8.0 % while sand fraction ranged from 62-80 %. Soil reaction ranged from 4.7 to 5.8, organic carbon ranged from 2 to 2.5 %, total nitrogen ranged from 2 to 23g/kg, CEC ranged from 2.9 to 6.9 cmol kg -1 and Hg ranged from 0.22 to 1.88 mg kg -1 . The soil organic carbon, total nitrogen and mercury content of the soil decreased down the profile, while the bulk density increased down the profile.


The Danjiangkou reservoir watershed is the source region of middle route of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project.However,agricultural non-point source pollution is threatening the security of water environment in the watershed.Based on Geographic Information System(GIS) and Digital Elevation Model(DEM),the database of agricultural non-point source pollution for the reservoir watershed was established.According to the filed measured data,Soil and Water Assessment Tools(SWAT) were adjusted to analyze the temporal-spatial distribution patterns of non-point source pollution load in the watershed.The agricultural non-point source pollution loads per unit area of major land-use types were also calculated.Results showed that there was a greater temporal difference in the output of agricultural non-point source pollution within the year in the watershed(p0.01).The load of agricultural non-point source was strongly correlated with rainfall(rN=0.896,rP=0.920,p=0.01),sediment storage,ammonia nitrogen,total nitrogen and total phosphorus in the rainy period of June,July,August,accounted for 57.6%,64%,50.1%,50.8% and 47.3% of total year.The loss amount of soil nutrient such as nitrogen and phosphorus showed a great spatial variability in the watershed(p0.01).Both farmland and bare land had a high contribution to the non-point source pollution load,whereas the contribution of forest to the pollution load was low.Its sediment load per unit area,nitrogen adsorption,dissolved nitrogen,phosphorus sorption and dissolved phosphorus were 7.15 t/hm2,8.92 kg/hm2,8.35 kg/hm2,8.07 kg/hm2,0.06 kg/hm2,respectively.This suggested that the agricultural non-point source pollution per unit area under different types of land use was obviously different.Under the simulated scenarios including different fertilizing amount and soil and water conservation measures,the reduction of fertilizing amount could effectively decline the pollution load of total nitrogen and total phosphorus,and returning farmland to forests or grasslands could notably reduce the output of sediment from farmland to river as well as the load of agricultural non-point source pollution in the watershed.


The documentation of software architecture is carried out in many different ways. One method is to break up the description into separate perspectives that address the different concerns that stakeholders have with software architecture. These perspectives, sometimes called viewpoints, can contain multiple diagrams to describe the complete system. Various models have been proposed that detail viewpoints and specify the stakeholders and concerns that they will satisfy. In this paper we survey five viewpoint models to determine the extent to which they cover the software architecture domain. We attempt to identify a set of viewpoints from different models can be combined to provide the widest possible coverage. We found that no model has complete coverage, but an optimal set of viewpoints can be selected from the models. This optimal set, whilst not providing complete coverage, has a greater coverage than any of the individual viewpoint models.


Background The incidence of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is in the top 10 of all cancer entities. Regular oral examinations by dentists play an important role in oral cancer prevention. Methods Patients with OSCC (n = 1,607) and physicians (n = 1,489) completed questionnaires during the DÖSAK Rehab Study. The psychosocial and functional factors collected in these questionnaires were assessed in the present study. We compared patients who visited their dentist at least once a year (group A) with those who visited their dentist less than once a year (group B). Results Patients in group A had significantly better health-related quality of life after tumor treatment than patients in group B. Patients in group A also had a smaller tumor size and less lymph node metastasis and lost fewer teeth during the treatment. This resulted in better prosthetic rehabilitation and better psychological status after tumor treatment. Conclusions Dentists play an important role in the early recognition of oral cancer. This study should encourage dentists to take a more active role in oral cancer prevention.


The problem of concentric pervious spheres carrying a fluid source at their centre and rotating slowly with different uniform angular velocities Ω1, Ω2 about a diameter has been studied. The analysis reveals that only azimuthal component of velocity exists, and the couple, rate of dissipated energy is found analytically in the present situation. The expression of couple on inner sphere rotating slowly with uniform angular velocity Ω1, while outer sphere also rotates slowly with uniform angular velocity Ω2, is evaluated. The special cases, like (i) inner sphere is fixed (i.e., Ω1=0), while outer sphere rotates with uniform angular velocity Ω2, (ii) outer sphere is fixed (i.e., Ω2=0), while inner sphere rotates with uniform angular velocity Ω1, and (iii) inner sphere rotates with uniform angular velocity Ω1, while outer sphere rotates at infinity with angular velocity Ω2, have been deduced.


The e-government involves both the internal information resources for the government and the public resources for exchanges. From the integer point of the view, the security architecture of the e-government is a large-scale multilevel distributed architecture. Therefore it is essential to look for a access control solution satisfying the need of the e-government application. This paper discusses the application of the Arbac97 model in e-government and presents a framework using PMI (Privilege Management Infrastructures) to implement role based access controls.


[C]o-operative federalism is not a constitutional term. It is a political slogan, not a criterion of constitutional validity or power. … Where constitutional power does not exist, no cry of co-operative federalism can supply it. If the object lies outside the reach or the effect of what a State or the Common-wealth can constitutionally do, the subject matter is beyond the reach of the legislature. 1 1 Re Wakim; Ex parte McNally (1999) 198 CLR 511 ('Re Wakim') at 556 per McHugh J. See also McHugh J's pertinent comment in McGinty v Western Australia (1996) 186 CLR 140 at 231-32: "After the decision of this Court in the Engineers' Case, the Court had consistently held, prior to Nationwide News and Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd v The Commonwealth, that it is not legitimate to construe the Constitution by reference to political principles or theories that are not anchored in the text of the Constitution or are not necessary implications from its structure" (emphasis added). For a discussion of the High Court's alternative "flexible" approach to constitutional interpretation, refer to J McConvill "The United Kingdom is a Foreign Power- Sue v Hill" (2000) 4(2) Deakin L R 151.


The results of the experimental investigations of the influence of hormone of prolactin pituitary on morphogenesis of skin scar and its characteristics have been presented. It has been found that the hormone increases the resistance of the connective tissue cells in post-traumatic period, stimulates the functional activity of leukocytes, macrophages and accelerates collagenogenesis. It stimulates the formation and maturation of the granulation tissue as well as reorganization of the scar structure.


Anurans show a wide variety of complex mating behaviours. Most of these comprise external fertilization, which takes place in water bodies. Male frogs initiate this process by producing species-specific mating calls (also known as advertisement calls) which attract conspecific females. Amplexus follows, during which the male grasps the female with its front legs, leading to fertilization of the eggs deposited by the female. Any deviation to this characteristic mating strategy is known as abnormal amplexus. This phenomenon can be categorized into specific types, including multiple amplexus (Ayres, 2008), amplexus from the abdominal side; amplexus between a living


FIELD: transportation. SUBSTANCE: on board the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) controlled is installed that is connected with observation equipment, autopilot system and first transmit-receive module. UAV is also supplied with propulsion device and steering linkage connected to the corresponding controller output. Aerodynamic controller is connected to the steering linkage output. The system is also supplied with ground-based worn or transported information-processing and control devices with a second transmit-receive module, data processing and display block and control module. The second transmit-receive module is designed so that it is able to share information via radio with the first transmit-receive module. Data processing and display block input is connected to the output of the second transmit-receive module. The first output of the control module is connected to the input of the second transmit-receive module. Control module is designed so that it can form the on/off instructions at its first output for the propulsion device in order to switch the UAV into the airplane mode or into the kite mode during the flight in the given conditions, when there is or there is no wind. In order to operate in the second of the mentioned modes the additionally system comprises pulling hoist with hand rope. The control input of the pulling hoist is connected to the second output of the control mode, the hand rope is reeled on the spool of the pulling hoist, and the hand rope end is fixed to the UAV body frame. EFFECT: this system is designed so that it can exercise watch under control of the ground controller of the given region and broadcast the received information to the ground in order to submit it to the operator. 4 cl, 2 dwg


Objective To evaluate the baseline level of corticosteroid and adrenocorticotrophic hormone(ACTH) in patients with cirrhosis and to investigate the clinical characteristics in patients with cirrhosis complicated with adrenal insufficiency(AI).Methods The basal level of corticosteroid and ACTH in 118 liver cirrhosis cases,who were hospitalized in the Department of Gastroenterology in our hospital were measured.Then the patients were divided into two groups as with or without AI.Clinical characteristics and prognosis of the two groups were analyzed.30 cases of gastrointestinal polypus were selected as control.Results The serum corticosteroid in 118 cirrhosis patients was(329.67±136.1) nmol/L,that was lower than that(460.7±165.48) nmol/L in the control group(t=-4.501,P0.05).Of 118 cases of cirrhosis,there were 32 cases combining AI and the propotion of them was 27.1%(32/118).In addition,spontaneous bacterial peritonitis(SBP) complication rates,Child pugh grades and scores,MELD scores and fatality rates of 32 liver cirrhosis cases with AI are all higher than that in the cases without AI(P0.05).The level of albumin and high density lipoprotein-cholesterol was lower and the incidence rates of pigmentation,ascites and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis(SBP) are significantly higher(P0.05).But there was no statistically significant difference in other clinical characteristics and laboratory parameters(P0.05).Conclusion The level of corticosteroid and ACTH in cirrhosis patients is lower,and about 27% cirrhosis cases are complicated with AI,these patients have higher incidence rate of SBP,worse hepatic function and higher mortality,leading to poor prognosis.


Features of the mechanical behavior of ultrafine-grained titanium, magnesium, aluminium alloys and copper under quasi-static loading and shock-wave loading with the amplitudes below 10 GPa are investigated using a numerical simulation method. The multi-scale level model is used to describe the mechanical behavior of the alloys. The model accounts for a number of structural factors influencing the mechanical behavior of coarse-grained and ultrafine-grained alloys. The obtained results testify to essential distinction between strain-rate sensitivity of the yield stress of the investigated coarse grained and ultrafine-grained HCP and FCC alloys in the strain rate range of 10 -3 to 10 6 s -1. The spall strength of a UFG FCC alloys is higher than that of the coarse grained alloys, but does not exceed values of the spall strength of single crystals in the range of strain rates of 10 3 to 10 6 s -1.


Hydatid disease is a human parasitic infection caused by larvae of Echinococcus granulosus in various sheep‐ and cattle‐raising areas. It can be found commonly in the liver and lungs, but rarely involves the heart. In this report, we present an unusual case in which cardiac echinococcosis mimicked acute coronary syndrome by compressing the right ventricular outflow tract. The patient was referred to our emergency room for typical angina. His electrocardiogram revealed ischemic changes, but coronary angiography was normal. The diagnosis of cardiac echinococcosis was made by transthoracic echocardiography and contrast‐enhanced CT and confirmed by pathologic examination. The patient accepted cardiac surgery for resection of the cyst. The postoperative period and follow‐up were uneventful. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound 44:518–521, 2016


Abstract. 200 (ig of synthetic thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) was administered intravenously to six normal men and six normal women on two occasions. A positive correlation between the basal TSH level and maximal serum TSH after TRH was found. The TSH responses in the mid‐follicular and mid‐luteal phase were similar. There was no difference in the response between the men and the women investigated. The variability was considerable, the intra‐individual coefficient of variation of the TSH response being 30 per cent when expressed as per cent increase above the basal level.


A second sub-loop genetic optimization algorithm was proposed in order to improve the narrow particle distribution inversion by laser diffraction method,which suffers from inaccurate peak positioning and relatively big deviation in peak value measurement.Numerical simulation results show that the consistency between particle size distribution inversion curve by the second sub-loop genetic optimization algorithm and the actual particle size distribution curve has been significantly improved.In the range from 1 μm to 140 μm,peak positioning of the narrow particle distribution is accurate and the difference with the actual value is decreased to less than 1μm.Moreover,the precision of peak value is obviously increased and the relative error is reduced to about 10%.


abstract We introduce a basis of a bi-dimensional finite matricial calculus and a bi-dimensional finite matricial action principle. As an application, we analyze scalar and spinorial fields in D = 4n + 2 in this approach. We verify that to stablish a bi-dimensional matricial principle of least action we have to define a Dirac-algebra-modified Leibniz rule. From the bi-dimensional matricial equations of motions we obtain a matricial holomorphic feature to massless matricial scalar and spinorial fields.


Slowness diagrams facilitate the determination of plane‐wave reflection patterns. A small addition to the conventional diagram makes it possible to represent the decay rates of plane waves with complex slowness. A complete survey is made of all causal reflection patterns for an isotropic elastic half‐space with a stress‐free boundary.


We read with interest the study by Leeds et al. assessing the relationship between celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease (1). In their investigation, they found an increased prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease among celiac disease patients. Interestingly, a recent report suggested that celiac disease and ulcerative colitis might share common genetic risk factors involving tight junction-mediated barrier defects of the bowel (2). Inspired by these facts, we wanted to conduct a large Scandinavian population-based study to test if there is evidence for co-occurrence of celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease and other autoimmune disorders.

We took advantage of an existing large Scandinavian population-based database which has been described previously(3–5). Briefly, the database includes all lymphoma patients (n=41,179) diagnosed in Sweden (1958–1998) and Denmark (1968–1997); 93,781 population-based controls; and all their linkable first-degree blood relatives (n=371,043) (3–5). Thus, a total of 506,003 individuals were included in the database. Through record-linkage with the nationwide inpatient registers in Sweden and Denmark, we captured hospital-discharge record data regarding celiac disease and a wide range of 32 other autoimmune and related disorders (4). For lymphoma patients, we restricted the information on celiac disease and other autoimmune disorders to one year prior to the date of lymphoma diagnosis. We used Chi-square statistics to test if celiac disease patients had excess co-occurrence of inflammatory bowel disease and other autoimmune disorders.

In our study, we were able to confirm and extend the results by Leeds et al. (1). First, we defined a total of 253 individuals (prevalence rate ~1 per 2,000) with a hospital-discharge diagnosis of celiac disease. Second, when evaluating the co-occurrence of celiac disease and other autoimmune disorders, we found persons with (versus without) celiac disease to have a higher frequency of ulcerative colitis (n=8, p<0.0001) as well as Crohn's disease (n=6, p<0.0001). Also, based on small numbers, we found co-occurrence for other autoimmune conditions (Table 1).

TABLE 1

Co-occurring hospital-discharge diagnoses of celiac disease and other autoimmune disorders among 506,003 individuals in Scandinavia

In summary, in this study based on over half a million individuals, we found 253 persons with a hospital-discharge diagnosis of celiac disease. Using a large Scandinavian population-based database, among individuals affected with celiac disease we observed significant co-occurrence of both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, which confirms and expands the clinical-based observations by Leeds et al (1). Our findings support the theory that there might be a shared susceptibility for celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease (2). Alternatively, one might conjecture that celiac disease, in some cases, could be a precursor state of a subsequent inflammatory bowel disease (1). Future work is needed to better define underlying mechanism of these findings.


We have developed a small, thin, maglev ventricular assist device (VAD), which can be implanted under the thorax muscle layer like a pacemaker. Radial position of a levitated impeller and its rotation are actively controlled by radial type self-bearing motor. An Axial position and tilt motion, stabilized passively with self-restoring characteristics of permanent magnets, are measured by using the three laser displacement sensors to evaluate the performance of the passive stability. Irregular motion of axial position and tilt angle of the levitated impeller caused by irregular hydrodynamic force are observed in higher flow rate condition and shut off condition. The impeller posture aligned in horizontally with increasing rotational speed due to the gyroscopic effect.


Results obtained from comparative analysis of the pulse repetition rate performance of Cu- and CuBr-vapor lasers operated at high pump pulse repetitions (approximately 100 kHz) are reported. For a CuBr laser with a 8 mm diameter discharge tube the laser pulse repetition rate as high as 270 kHz was realized.


On a basis of research achievements of retaining walls technics in recent years in China.The design requirement of antifreezing structure,load composition ,selection of frost heaving force value in design,check calculation of wall strength and stability for retaining walls in seasonal frost regions are introduced.


In this world that lost its utopias and their projection of perfect and (im)possible worlds into the space-time continuum, dystopian narratives are the representations and the key to understand contemporary time and its fears. In this age devoid of a world order, political directions and, after 1989, temporal perspective towards the future, natural and human catastrophes, "internal" and "external" monsters, as well as the thinning of the borders between natural and artificial besiege our imag...


A leiomyoma of the small bowel produced laboratory features of hyperparathyroidism which disappeared promptly after tumour resection. Hypercalcaemia, hypophosphatemia, hyperchloremia, elevated chloride/phosphorus ratio, increased urinary cyclic AMP, and blood levels of immunoreactive parathormone were present. Electron microscopy showed dense round granules in the tumour cells.


The data coming from the CERN WA102 experiment, update our understanding of the central production process. The "naive" Double Pomeron Exchange (DPE) picture with the "vacuum Pomeron" do not fit to the experimental data. The non-uniform azimuthal angle distributions require the exchange particle spin greater than 0. The model of Close and Schuller with the exchange particle (Pomeron) transforming like a non-conserving vector current, fits well to the experimental data.


In the evaluation of engagement in occupation, it is important to access the qualitative data, including the client context. However, there are no tools capable of quantifying such data. The purpose of this study is to develop a Classifier of Engagement in Occupation with Machine Learning (CEOML) that is capable of quantifying context and evaluating engagement in occupation through the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and to validate the model performance. A supervised machine learning approach was adopted in this study for the development of clinical artificial intelligence, and it was conducted based on the Minimum Information about Clinical Artificial Intelligence Modeling. The research object was the Twitter data comprising 1,542 tweets posted over a one-week period, beginning on April 1, 2020. Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, an NLP model, was fine-tuned to learn a dataset labeled for the status of engagement in occupation. The model performance was validated using indicators (sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, F-measure, and area under the curve of receiver operating characteristic curve), Cohen's weighted kappa coefficient, and the attention level of the model to the text. The CEOML demonstrated suitable model performance, on par with the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure. High interpretability of the CEOML was also confirmed based on its level of attention. The developed CEOML can quantify and classify problems of engagement in occupation based on the client context.


This study aims to establish an insulation diagnosis technique using partial discharge (PD) detection for cast resin transformers (CRTr). In the previous paper, the frequency components of PD current in a PD test of a CRTr by applying AC voltage between lumped high voltage and low voltage terminals were identified and analyzed in EMTP using an equivalent circuit model. On the other hand, another PD test is the test with an inductive voltage application in which an AC voltage is applied to the low voltage side of the transformer and then a high voltage is applied between the high voltage terminals in a transformer. This paper presents investigation on dominant frequency of PD current detected with high frequency current transformer (CT) in the inductive PD test of a 6.6 kV cast resin voltage transformer 6.6 kV CRTr-VT. An attempt is also made to identify PD signal source, the signal propagation path of the PD current, as well as the dominant frequency components.


Most of the conflicts and problems in Sino–Japanese relations have their roots in two main issues: the history of World War II and the status of Taiwan. And the historical and the Taiwan issues have been exacerbated by other disputes such as competing territorial claims, ownership of oil and gas fields in the East China Sea, and the location of the planned Siberian pipeline. In spite of these conflicts and frictions, it must be noted that there are broad common interests between China and Japan. Firstly, the Chinese and Japanese economies are highly complementary. Secondly, China and Japan working together to promote regional economic cooperation in Asia has important significance for peace and stability in the entire Asia–Pacific region. Thirdly, in the political and diplomatic arena, room for cooperation is even broader. The imminent issue at present is to seek an appropriate solution to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. There is both a need and a possibility for closer Sino–Japanese relations in spite of real difficulties and potential clashes. Current Sino–Japanese relations have unprecedented hopes, which particularly require people to view and handle the Sino–Japanese relations from a strategic height and in a long-term perspective. Friendly coexistence and win–win cooperation are the only right choices in line with the fundamental interests both of China and Japan.


Preliminary investigations have determined that conventional epoxy resins can be cured at selectable temperatures with high glass transition temperatures (essentially the same as with thermal curing), while still exhibiting equivalent or comparable mechanical properties. A cationic photoinitiator at a concentration of 1--3 parts per hundred of the epoxy resin is required for this process. Gamma cell screening of cationic photoinitiators with bisphenol A, bisphenol F, and cycloaliphatic epoxies demonstrated that diaryliodonium salts of weakly nucleophilic anions such as hexafluoroantimonate are most effective. Diaryliodonium salts were also found to be most effective initiators for the cationic polymerization of epoxy resins when a high energy/power electron beam accelerator was used as the source of ionizing radiation. For example Dow Tactix 123 (bisphenol A epoxy) containing 3 phr (4-octyloxyphenyl)phenyliodonium hexafluoroantimonate was irradiated at a total dosage of 100 kGy. Glass transition temperature (tan delta) of the cured material as determined by dynamic mechanical analysis was 182 C as compared to 165 C thermally cured material.


Pressure measurements were made at Mach numbers between 1·3 and 2·8 over a range of incidences on three simple models representing thick conical uncambered wings with sharp leading edges. These tests form part of an investigation into the effects of thickness and camber on slender wings. The aspect ratio of the models was unity in each case, and the spanwise cross sections were bounded by: (i) Rhombi - total leading edge angle = 60°. (ii) Biconvex circular arcs - total leading edge angle = 60°. (iii) Biconvex circular arcs - total leading edge angle = 120°. The measured pressure distributions are presented, along with overall lift and drag (excluding skin friction and base drag) obtained by integration.


Before repairing the cracks of bituminous pavement,we should first expand the cracks.For this,the paper discussed the expanding of cracks machine.


A compressed sensing approach for robust time-frequency analysis of signals corrupted by strong heavy-tailed noise is proposed. When using traditional time-frequency distributions and the corresponding ambiguity functions, the strong and impulsive nature of the noise introduces spurious peaks and compromises the sparse time-frequency signal reconstruction. In order to provide accurate localization of the signal power and reduce false positives, compressed sensing is applied to the robust ambiguity function based on the L-estimation approach. This enhances the sparse time-frequency trajectories that correspond to the instantaneous frequencies of signal components. Simulation examples involving non-Gaussian noise and signals with different instantaneous frequency laws are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.


We present our final results for the excited charmonium spectrum from a quenched calculation using a fully relativistic anisotropic lattice QCD action. A detailed excited charmonium spectrum is obtained, including both the exotic hybrids (with $J^{PC} = 1^{-+}, 0^{+-}, 2^{+-}$) and orbitally excited mesons (with orbital angular momentum up to 3). Using three different lattice spacings (0.197, 0.131, and 0.092 fm), we perform a continuum extrapolation of the spectrum. We convert our results in lattice units to physical values using lattice scales set by the $^1P_1-1S$ splitting. The lowest lying exotic hybrid $1^{-+}$ lies at 4.428(41) GeV, slightly above the $D^{**}D$ (S+P wave) threshold of 4.287 GeV. Another two exotic hybrids $0^{+-}$ and $2^{+-}$ are determined to be 4.70(17) GeV and 4.895(88) GeV, respectively. Our finite volume analysis confirms that our lattices are large enough to accommodate all the excited states reported here.


This essay looks at the American cultural values reflected in the institution of sport as articulated in the medium of sportswriting. Specifically, we examine the values displayed in baseball as expressed in sportswriting about the 1984 Chicago Cubs. We identify six sets of cultural themes—each composed of oppositional value orientations—including winning and losing, tradition and change, teamwork and individualism, work and play, youth and experience, and logic and luck. We examine the ways in which sportswriters use these themes as interpretive schema for describing and explaining the 1984 Chicago Cubs and conclude that sportswriting not only displays these cultural values but provides a vehicle through which pervasive but conflicting cultural values can be integrated.


The Eurasian otter, Lutra lutra (Linnaeus, 1758), is the most widely distributed of the otter species and is listed as Near Threatened in the IUCN Red List. However, in Tunisia, information about its distribution remains poorly known. A new sighting of this species was made during an expedition near the shores of El Barrak's dam where a dead body and footprints were found. This sighting is a new record, 36 years after the last one by Macdonald and Mason.


Association mining aims to find valid correlations among data attributes, and has been widely applied to many areas of data analysis. This paper presents a semantic network-based association analysis model including three spreading activation methods. It applies this model to assess the quality of a dataset, and generate semantically valid new hypotheses for adaptive study design especially useful in medical studies. The approach is evaluated on a real public health dataset, the Heartfelt study, and the experiment shows promising results.


We describe a new pose estimation approach for a 3D object capture system. This 3D pose estimation approach offers several advantages: increased visibility, robustness to lighting conditions, and improved reliability with evenly distributed errors. The calibration pattern is built using 3D conic features. We use simplex search to find the camera position and orientations that minimizes the error between the projected 3D cone features and the corresponding 2D image features. We demonstrate that our approach is accurate, efficient and robust.


Abstract Several homologous benzoate series which exhibit ferroelectric smectic SC* phases have been synthesized. The used chiral acid chains were prepared from commercially available α-amino acids. The series allow us to determine the influence of the size of the substituent of the chiral carbon on the existence and the stability of the SC* phase. They also give some compounds or mixtures which display high spontaneous polarization.


This thesis explains and defends Hume's lead argument against the infinite divisibility of a finite extension (T 1.2.1). The structure of the thesis is as follows: First, I construct a comprehensive version of Hume's lead argument, which I will divide into four parts, each with its own chapter. The first chapter provides a thorough textually-based defence of Hume's first principle that "...the capacity of the mind is limited, and can never attain a full and adequate conception of infinity." (T 184.108.40.206 SBN 26)
 Chapter two explains Hume's argument from the principle that the mind is limited to the conclusion that the only adequate idea the mind can use to form ideas of extended objects is an indivisible coloured or tangible point, i.e. Hume's "least idea." I will argue that Hume's "least idea," contrary to widespread opinion, is decidedly non-empiricist and follows from a priori and transcendental arguments. I will also reply to the criticisms that it is ridiculous to colour an extensionless point and that extensionless points cannot form an extension.
 Chapter three unpacks Hume's second principle that "...whatever is capable of being divided in infinitum, must consist of an infinite number of parts, and that 'tis impossible to set any bounds to the number of parts, without setting bounds at the same time to division." (T 220.127.116.11 SBN 26-7) Following Thomas Holden, I endeavour to show that Hume's divisibility principle is not a mathematical, but a metaphysical principle, which depends upon the actual parts doctrine.
 Chapter four interprets Hume's adequacy principle, which states "WHEREVER ideas are adequate representations of objects, the relations, contradictions and agreements of the ideas are all applicable to the objects." (T 22.214.171.124 SBN 29) Commentators generally interpret Hume as claiming that we can infer from our clear and adequate ideas of space the nature of space itself. However, I will argue that Hume simply means that when two ideas contradict, we infer that the objects of these two ideas do not both exist—a far more innocuous move. In this final chapter I will lay out Hume's argument for why the idea of an infinitely divisible extended object is contradictory, despite our intuitive belief to the contrary. Under this reading, the case for Hume's atomism and relational theory of extension becomes more potent, and is seen to be consistent with the philosophical elements found in his Treatise.


The quality management of radiation environmental monitoring is an important part of the radiation environmental monitoring work,and the fundamental premise of providing scientific and accurate basis for environmental management,government decision-making and other activities in the radiation environment monitoring.Introduces the history and current situation of China's radiation environmental monitoring,and finally describes the development of China's radiation environmental monitoring.


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