Wireless mesh network (WMN) is a promising technology for the next generation of wireless network. Because of its strong points, it is considered to dominate over other wireless networks while human had entered the era of the Internet of Things, WMN is being developed rapidly and inspiring large number of applications. This article intends to study and expand low-cost networking for smart home applications using 6LoWPAN/IPv6 (new and modern technology of WMN), and this development is able to be future platform for advanced smart home systems (using low-profile hardware to popularize this platform). Therefore, it concentrates on contributing to a solution which allows to expand and exploit thoroughly 6LoWPAN technology by combining 6LoWPAN/IPv6 with mesh-wifi. In addition, Batman-adv routing protocol and OpenWRT platform are chosen for mesh-wifi nodes. Particularly, the performance evaluations are investigated in terms of throughput, latency, jitter, and switching time of mesh-wifi nodes and possibility of interconnecting two wireless mesh network technologies to give an objective view for people prior to making a choice for enhancing 6LoWPAN network.


Regional intra‐arterial infusion of human placental lactogen in anaesthetized pigs has been shown to cause coronary, renal and iliac vasoconstriction by antagonizing the vasodilatory effects of β2‐adrenergic receptors. Since nitric oxide is known to modulate or mediate β2‐adrenergic effects, the present study was planned in the same experimental model to determine the role of nitric oxide in the above vascular responses to human placental lactogen. In eight pigs anaesthetized with sodium pentobarbitone, changes in anterior descending coronary, left renal and left internal iliac blood flow caused by intra‐arterial infusion of human placental lactogen at constant heart rate and arterial blood pressure were assessed using electromagnetic flowmeters. Intra‐arterial infusion of the human placental lactogen caused decreases in coronary, renal and iliac blood flow which, respectively, averaged 16.7, 8.1 and 12.2% of the baseline values. The role of nitric oxide in this response was studied in the same pigs by repeating the experiments, after measured blood flows had returned to baseline values, following intra‐arterial administration of Nω‐nitro‐l‐arginine methyl ester (l‐NAME). The subsequent intra‐arterial infusion of human placental lactogen did not cause any significant changes in measured blood flows, even when performed after reversing the increase in arterial blood pressure and coronary, renal and iliac resistance caused by l‐NAME with continuous intravenous infusion of papaverine. These results indicate that the coronary, renal and iliac vasoconstriction caused by human placental lactogen, known to involve antagonism of β2‐adrenergic vasodilatory effects, was mediated by inhibition of nitric oxide release.


This article looks at the U.K. experience and, on that basis, it aims to illustrate how the legal concept and policy aims have been affected by transformational effects of new media forms. Antonio Bavasso (Jevons Institute for Competition Law and Economics at University College London)


The aim of the invention is to produce a thin porous layer, with a defined porosity and, also, a high strength. Said aim is achieved, whereby such a layer with open porosity is produced from a mixture, comprising a sinterable powder with a predetermined powder particle size distribution. The sintered layer is of a thickness which corresponds to about triple the average diameter of the powder particles employed, has a pore diameter in the range from 0,01 to 50 mu m and a tensile strength of in a range from about 5 to 500 N/mm . The invention further relates to a method for the production of said thin porous layer with open porosity.


The risk of acquiring hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections by wild animals living in the European wild nature has previously been reported and high anti-HEV antibody detection rates were detected in several animal species. However, data on the HEV seroprevalence of wild boars and deer held in game reserves are rare. In the present study, we investigated anti-HEV seroprevalence and HEV RNA in 38 deer and 15 wild boars living in a game reserve in Northern Germany. Surprisingly, none of the animals tested positive for HEV RNA in blood, liver, or muscle (diaphragm), and all animals (n = 53, 100%) were anti-HEV negative. In conclusion, HEV infections in enclosed areas, such as game reserves, in Germany are rare, and the risk of HEV transmission through meat from these animals to humans seems to be low.


This document provides the panel outbrief slides from the second day of the workshop. The attendee list, who helped author these slides is provided.


Traditionally, music has been sold to consumers by recording several individual songs/tracks in physical media such as CDs and cassettes. Sales of such physical music have been declining for the past several years. Many academic studies have attributed the decline of physical music sales to online music piracy, yet some other studies have not found evidence to support a negative relationship between online music piracy and physical music sales. Interestingly and importantly, we have observed that while many of the studies that found the negative relationship between online music piracy and physical music sales used data before 2003, other studies that do not find similar results have used post-2003 data. In fact, there was a significant structural change in the music market in 2003. Legal (iTunes-like) online channels for digital music that allow consumers to buy individual tracks became available during that year. This article complements the existing literature by analyzing the impact of online music piracy and physical music sales in the presence of iTunes-like legal channels for digital music using bivariate Granger testing. Our results show that the availability of legal channels for digital music has weakened the negative effect of online music piracy on physical music sales. Moreover, in the presence of legal channels for music distribution, digital music, not online music piracy, substitutes for physical music.


On the basis of the finite element method the main relations describing the process of deformation of workpiece rigid tool are presented.


Useful mineral composition of Calcium Glauber's salt ore are Na_2SO_4,It is a kind of main industrial chemicals made of sulphuric acid sodium,detergent,textile industry and glass.Adopt in the pit heavy to blow up cave room is it soak mining method exploit to dissolve mainly since the fifties of the 20th century.In order to improve the utilization ratio of mineral resources at present,reduce the production cost,has tested"one group of wells causes the pressure of splitting to control water and dissolve and exploit the calcium Glauber's salt ore"again Mining method.This text introduces these two kinds Glauber's salt ores of calcium Tongle of Pengshan county of Sichuan Province and dissolves and soaks characteristic and appraisal that mine.


The spinal cord of rats contains the sexually dimorphic motoneurons of the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus (SNB). In males, SNB dendrites fail to grow after castration, but androgen or estrogen treatment supports dendritic growth in castrated males. Estrogenic support of SNB dendrite growth is mediated by estrogen receptors (ER) in the target muscle. ERα expression in cells lacking a basal lamina (referred to as "extra‐muscle fiber cells") of the SNB target musculature coincides with the period of estrogen‐dependent SNB dendrite growth. In the SNB target muscle, extra‐muscle fiber ERα expression declines with age and is typically absent after postnatal (P) day 21 (P21). Given that estradiol downregulates ERα in skeletal muscle, we tested the hypothesis that depleting gonadal hormones would prevent the postnatal decline in ERα expression in the SNB target musculature. We castrated male rats at P7 and assessed ERα immunolabeling at P21; ERα expression was significantly greater in castrated males compared with normal animals. Because ERα expression in SNB target muscles mediates estrogen‐dependent SNB dendrogenesis, we further hypothesized that the castration‐induced increase in muscle ERα would heighten the estrogen sensitivity of SNB dendrites. Male rats were castrated at P7 and treated with estradiol from P21 to P28; estradiol treatment in castrates resulted in dendritic hypertrophy in SNB motoneurons compared with normal males. We conclude that early castration results in an increase in ERα expression in the SNB target muscle, and this upregulation of ERα supports estrogen sensitivity of SNB dendrites, allowing for hypermasculinization of SNB dendritic arbors. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Develop Neurobiol 73: 921–935, 2013


Here we report the case of a female Caucasian patient with advanced NSCLC who responded to afatinib after numerous previous lines of treatment. Despite likely being EGFR wild-type, she had attained two long-lasting progression-free intervals with erlotinib but eventually relapsed. After 7 years with various treatments, including EGFR inhibitor erlotinib, she started treatment with afatinib in March 2012. The patient was able to recover from the complete atelectasis present at the start of treatment and was able to lead a normal active life. Toxicities were mild and controllable with medication and reduction of afatinib dose. The patient remained symptom- and progression-free for 31 months.


This paper interprets the nature of accounting standards from the perspective of management and economics in order to solve the management significance and the economic value of the accounting standards,and provide new proposition and path study for the follow-up studies.This paper confirms the nature of the accounting standards from nine angels.The research is said that the accounting standards is an economic regulatory system(historical view),a group of allocation criteria(economic consequence view),a balancing mechanism(enterprise pricing view),a decision-making and checks and balances(corporate governance view),a game balanced system(game view),a system of property rights(property rights view),a contract unit(information view),a public goods(public choice view),a risk evaluation of the relationship of the interests configuration(lease view).


When institutional blockholders cross-own multiple firms within the same industry, they are expected to have more private information about each individual firm, which, in turn, can improve monitoring and coordination. We document that cross-ownership facilitates external financing of investment opportunities, consistent with expectations of better post-financing outcomes with the presence of institutional blockholders. We show further that the effect of cross-ownership is stronger for firms that have poorer quality public disclosure, indicating that private information of institutional blockholders could mitigate difficulties in monitoring opaque firms. Our paper sheds light on how the nature of a firm's existing owners can affect its ability to raise capital. JEL classification: G10, G23, G32.


Objective To explore the factors associated with hospital presentation delays after acute stroke and find the probable solution.Methods Use X~2 test and Logistic regressive model to analyze the collected 239 acute stroke patients' data.Results 55.23% of patients arrived hospital within 6 hours after acute stroke.The delaying presentation was significantly associated with the following factors: referral pattern and stroke type. Conclusions Educational programs that increase public awareness of stroke symptom,danger of stroke and the need to seek medical help promptly after stroke may be the most successful in reducing the delay of hospital presentation.In addition,emergency services should also be improved.


Patricia Kadzo Kitsao, Judith N Waudo The child-to-child (CTC) approach to health education was launched in 1979 in preparation for the International Year of the Child. It is based on a deep commitment to certain principles, which include developing the power of individuals and communities to share responsibility for the improvement of their own health; faith in the power of children as members of these communities to spread health messages and health practices to younger children, peers, families and communities, but at the same time conviction that they should enjoy and profit from doing so; and conviction of the need for joint action between schools and communities, and between education and health workers at all levels, to promote health education that is based upon identified priorities and that links health knowledge with health action.


Current face image retrieval solutions are limited, since they treat different facial attributes the same and cannot incorporate user's preference for a subset of attributes in their search criteria. This paper introduces a new face image retrieval framework, where the input face query is augmented by both an adjustment vector that specifies the desired modifications to the facial attributes, and a preference vector that assigns different levels of importance to different attributes. For example, a user can ask for retrieving images similar to a query image, but with a different hair color, and no preference for absence/presence of eyeglasses in the results. To achieve this, we propose to disentangle the semantics, corresponding to various attributes, by learning a set of sparse and orthogonal basis vectors in the latent space of StyleGAN. Such basis vectors are then employed to decompose the dissimilarity between face images in terms of dissimilarity between their attributes, assign preference to the attributes, and adjust the attributes in the query. Enforcing sparsity on the basis vectors helps us to disentangle the latent space and adjust each attribute independently from other attributes, while enforcing orthogonality facilitates preference assignment and the dissimilarity decomposition. The effectiveness of our approach is illustrated by achieving state-of-the-art results for the face image retrieval task.


Preface ix Contributors xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii Editors' Note xxi Dicotyledons 1 Monocotyledons 403 Glossary 497 Literature Cited 525 Appendix I Cronquist Dicotyledon Classification 529 Appendix II Dahlgren et al. Monocotyledon Classification 531 Appendix III Families treated in Flowering Plants of the Neotropics 532 Appendix IV Families of Angiosperms treated by Judd et al. 533 Appendix V Aids to Identification 535 Index to Scientific Names 563


Using various observed data, we examined the evolution of tropical Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) during 2011-2012, with focusing on the development of 2012 El Nio. It is observed that a La Nia event during 2011 was followed by a moderate El Nio during 2012 summer. The 2012 summer El Nio initiated near the west coast of South America on February 2012, and continued to expand westward till August. Given this evolutionary pattern, the 2012 summer El Nio can be categorized as `Eastern Pacific (EP) El Nio` because Nio-3 index is greater than Nio-4 index, and it may be the first well-defined EP El Nio since 2001. On February 2012, this event was initiated mainly by the local air-sea interaction, and at the same time the ocean heat content was accumulated over the tropical western Pacific due to the easterly wind anomaly over the tropical western Pacific. Then, the accumulated heat content slowly propagates to the tropical eastern Pacific, which attributes to maintain El Nio state during 2012 summer. After August, the positive SST anomaly over the equatorial eastern Pacific decays possibly due to the exhausted heat content and the weakening of air-sea interaction, but the weak positive SST anomaly over the central Pacific remains till now (2012 November).


We present a hierarchical equations of motion approach, which allows a numerically exact simulation of nonequilibrium transport in general open quantum systems involving multiple macroscopic bosonic and fermionic environments. The performance of the method is demonstrated for a model of a nanosystem, which involves interacting electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom and is coupled to fermionic and bosonic baths. The results show the intricate interplay of electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom in this nonequilibrium transport scenario for both voltage and thermally driven transport processes. Furthermore, the use of importance criteria to improve the efficiency of the method is discussed.


The present work studies a self‐healing coating based on nanocontainers entrapped polyaspartic acid as corrosion inhibitor. To produce the nanocontainers the layer by layer deposition procedure was used where natural polyelectrolyte chitosan (CS) and polyaspartic acid (PASP) layers were alternatively deposited on SiO2 nanoparticles surface for obtaining a final structure of SiO2/CS/PASP/CS/PASP. The synthesized nanocontainers have been analyzed using zeta‐potential measurement, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscope. Zeta potential results demonstrate the CS or PASP layer adsorbed on the nanoparticles upon each added layer by electrostatic interaction. The anticorrosion performance of the self‐healing coatings was tested by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) in 3.5 wt% NaCl solution. The results showed excellent anticorrosion performance in self‐healing coating, indicating promising practical application in the field of organic coating.


In the above paper, the description of negative control (normal) samples in Section II-A "General tissue samples preparation" was incomplete. The correct and precise description is as following. We sincerely regret the error. For patients who had hysterectomies for benign uterine leiomyoma or adenomyosis, the negative control (normal) samples were obtained from healthy cervix without detectable pathologic change (n=10, Patient No. 1-10).


IN AN EARLIER PAPER (Eisnitz, 1969) I proposed a modification of Freud's (1914) classification of object choice. I suggested that narcissistic object choice be defined as that wherein the major cathexis is directed to the self representation, and attachment object choice as that wherein the major cathexis is directed to the object representation . In this formulation, the emphasis is placed on the intrapsychic cathexes and representations. Most object choices can then be seen to represent a mixture of both types, although, typically, one or the other element is predominant.


Group of men, women, children and dogs sitting on the ground outside a whare (with chimney). Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril somewhere in the Auckland Region.
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This paper introduces the reason that the damper bars of the squirrel-cage rotor is easy to break, compares and analyzes the cases of fitting the fans on the end rings and fitting the fans on the other site, The result shows that the number of broken bars can be reduced by fitting the fans on the clamp ring. The improved schemes are given in this paper.


The integration of multi-access edge computing (MEC) and RAFT consensus makes it feasible to deploy blockchain on trustful base stations and gateways to provide efficient and tamper-proof edge data services for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. However, reducing the latency of storing data on blockchain remains a challenge, especially when an anomaly-triggered data flow in a certain area exceeds the block generation speed. This letter proposes an intelligent transaction migration scheme for RAFT-based private blockchain in IoT applications to migrate transactions in busy areas to idle regions intelligently. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can apparently reduce the latency in high data flow circumstances.


This paper presents an inductive impulse self-destruction circuit utilized in a sense-and-react IC-level countermeasure against physical attacks on a cryptographic processor. Triggered upon an alarm signal assertion by an integrated attack sensor, the proposed circuit instantaneously generates >10 V high-voltage impulse to permanently destruct the cryptographic processor for enhancing tamper resiliency. A compact design with only a single on-chip inductor and a transistor significantly saves the hardware overhead. The inductor accumulates large electric energy in its magnetic field and the switch transistor suddenly opens the accumulated energy to boost the impulse voltage in an inertial manner. Since the inductor is drawn over the cryptographic core by existing on-chip IC interconnections, no extra area for the inductor and no any optional IC process steps are needed. This fully standard CMOS compatible, complete circuit solution, results in no fabrication cost penalty. A prototype implemented in both discrete components and a 0.18 μm standard CMOS process successfully demonstrated the-proof-of-concept.


OBJECTIVES: to analyze evidences in medical literature concerning the possible relation between uterine leiomyomas and infertility, and the advantages /disadvantages of the different treatments available. METHODS: literature review using the key words (MeSh terms) "leiomyomas", "infertility", "treatment", "myomectomy", "pregnancy" in "Pubmed" and "The Cochrane Library 2003" database. The search period was from 1989 through 2003. RESULTS: although there are contradictory results, the majority of authors determined a possible cause-consequence relation between some types of leiomyomas and reproductive impairement. Concerning therapeutics, we were able to clearly place myomectomy as being the surgical technique with the best results. Surgical approaches used for this procedure did not show significant differences from each other, except for submucosal myomas, where histeroscopy is more effective. Other existent treatment options do not seem to be indicated for infertile patients with uterine leiomyomas. CONCLUSIONS: the possible association between myomas and reproductive impairment needs to be further investigated. Success indicated by gestational rates following surgical resection, mainly in patients with submucosal myomas, are an indication that they do have a role in infertility etiology. Concerning the treatment, it became clear that myomectomy is the procedure of choice for all patients desiring to become pregnant.


This topic is a very timely one. If you have any doubt as to the existence of urgent highway needs, just take a trip over some of the major highways in the rural and metropolitan areas of either Illinois or Indiana. Yes, you will be able to get over them! But you will note miles of rough-riding defective pavements which cause needless vehicle repair bills and extra operating costs and require costly maintenance. You will also lose much time and possibly your temper because of congested roads and streets inadequate for the volume of traffic they carry. And you will find many places where sharp curves or lack of adequate stopping sight-distance result in serious danger spots for the traveling public. This is true not only for Illinois and Indiana, but also for most of the other states in the union where traffic volumes are large. In a statement recently issued by Thomas H. MacDonald, Commissioner, Bureau of Public Roads, he gives the total mileage of surfaced high ways of the Primary Federal-aid System in rural areas as 210,000 miles and adds: "The indicated need of surface replacement in the 10-year period from January 1, 1950, to January 1, 1960, is 124,000 miles on the surfaced portion of the rural Primary Federal-aid System. In the same period the 8,700 miles of the system, which on January 1, 1950, were unimproved or graded and drained, should be surfaced. The total indicated surfacing need on the Primary Federal-aid System in rural areas only is 132,700 miles. "A similar estimate for the 14,000 miles of the Primary Federal-aid System in urban areas would show a resurfacing requirement of about 6,500 miles, making a total for the primary system of 13,920 miles annually." Putting it briefly, M r. MacDonald estimates that 66 per cent of the Primary Federal-aid System will need resurfacing in the next ten years.


Determining the appropriate sample size is a widely recognized problem in survey research with important implications for cost and statistical validity. EX-SAMPLE is an expert system computer program using artificial intelligence techniques to assist the researcher in determining sample size for social science surveys. The program runs on an IMB-PC or compatible and is written using ExsYs, an expert system shell. For researchers having only limited knowledge of these sampling procedures, EX-SAMPLE makes it possible to upgrade dramatically the quality of their sample size decisions. For researchers knowledgeable about sample size determination, the program may make it easier for them to employ accepted standards, assisting with the necessary computations, providing an organized printout systematically laying out the decision process, and eliminating the need for looking up formulae in hard-to-


This report is a milestone in work package 1 (WP1) of the project Massive point clouds for eSciences. In WP1 the basic functionalities needed for a new Point Cloud Spatial Database Management System are identified. This is achieved by (1) literature research, (2) discussions with the project members, and (3) customer surveys. In this work package three organizations TU Delft, Rijkswaterstaat and Fugro have worked together to assemble the user requirements for a new Point Cloud Spatial Database Management System. The following persons were involved in this work package. A.E. Nonhebel (Ardi) TU Delft, TU Delft Library/3TU.Datacentrum (work package manager) Ir. I. Alkemade (Ingrid) Rijkswaterstaat, Centrale Informatievoorziening Ir. M.P. Kodde (Martin) Fugro GeoServices B.V. Drs. T.P.M. Tijssen (Theo) TU Delft, Onderzoeksinstituut OTB, department of GIS Technology Prof.dr.ir. P.J.M. van Oosterom (Peter) TU Delft, Onderzoeksinstituut OTB, department of GIS Technology Drs. P.M. Suijker (Paul) TU Delft, TU Delft Library, section Research support During the investigation the Up-to-date Height Model of the Netherlands1 (AHN) datasets have been used as an example of the type of data that will be included in the new point cloud spatial DBMS. The AHN data consists of raster data and point cloud data. Both data types have been considered.


Objective To identify the risk factors of intraprocedual rerupture ( IPR) of ruptured intracranial aneurysm,and illustrate the prevention and management on this event as well as its postembolization outcomes evaluation.Method Endovascular treatment was performed in l,628 ruptured intracranial aneurysms.The clinical records and images,risk factors of IPR were studied by using multivariate logistic regression to summanze the treatment strategy.Results The morbidity of IPR was 0.98% and mortality was 37.50%.8 patients survived from rapid completion of coiling with immediate reversal of heparin anticoagulation with protamine sulfate,and 2 from emergent extemal ventricular drainage ( EVD).However,7 0f them presented with different degrees of disability and 3 were fully recovered.Small aneurysms ( diameter≤ 3.0 mm,OR 21.086,95% CI 2.009 - 221.333, P =0.011),cerebral atherosclerosis ( OR 39.246,95 % CI 2.949 - 522.373, P =0.005 ),Fisher grade Ⅲ ( OR 127.139,95% CI 3.340 -4 839.744, P =0.009),cerebral vasospasm ( grade Ⅰ ) ( OR 111.888,95% CI 4. 154 - 3 013.480, P =0.005) and vasospasm ( grade Ⅱ ) ( OR 93.024,95% CI 5.256 - 1 646.527,P =0.002) were risk factors of IPR.Aneurysms at proximal part of intemal carotid artery ( ICA) bifurcation and basilar artery ( BA) stem ( OR 0.003,95% CI 0.000 -0.101,P =0.001) and Hunt - Hess Grade Ⅱ ( OR 0.003,95%CI 0.000 -0.316,P =0.015) were identified as protective factors.Conclusions Small aneurysms,cerebral atherosclerosis,Fisher grade of SAH and cerebral vasospasm are risk factors for IPR.Aneurysms at proximal part of ICA bifurcation and BA stem and Hunt - Hess Grade Ⅱ are less associated with IPR.Rapid completion of coiling combined with immediate reversal of heparin anticoagulation is confirmed to be the best management strategy.

Key words:
Aneurysm,ruptured;  Intraprocedual rerupture;  Risk factors;  Management


The authors present magnetisation measurements performed on a single crystal of TbCo2 as well as spontaneous distortion studied by X-ray powder diffraction. At any temperature below Tc (240K) the easy magnetisation direction is (111) while the most difficult is (100). A huge rhombohedral distortion appears below Tc; at 4.2K the angular variation between the cube edges is epsilon =4.4*10-3 rad. The anisotropy due to cobalt being negligible, the authors have analyzed the results in terms of the three contributions acting on the 7F6 ground state multiplet of the Tb3+ ions: crystal field, exchange field and magnetoelastic energy. At 4.2K, as the anisotropy of Tb is very high, a 135 kOe field applied along the (100) or the (110) is not strong enough to align the magnetisation parallel to these axes. As in TbFe2, the large spontaneous rhombohedral distortion results from a strong molecular field associated with strong crystal field effects. The molecular field leads to almost the fundamental level Jz=6 ( mu Tb approximately=9 mu B) that is a very anisotropic 4f distribution and the crystalline field essentially arises, as generally observed, from the d character of the conduction band.


This report is an overview of the energy market in four West African countries: The Ivory Coast, Morocco, Nigeria, and Senegal. We feel these countries are representative of the West African region. Together they account for 75% of the total energy use in West Africa, 78% of GDP, and 76% of population. The purpose of the study is to analyze the evolution of energy demand in the context of the general socio-economic background of the region. The study also examines energy supply and trade related to the energy sector. The analysis focuses on the study of commercial fuels. Although we have reviewed studies of wood, solar, wind, and agricultural residues, we leave out detailed discussions of these non-commercial energy forms. The first part of the report is an assessment of the trends in energy demand in the four study countries. We discuss the main factors driving energy demand sector by sector. This is followed by a review of the primary energy resources of the countries, and of the capacity for production of secondary fuels. The last section looks at energy trade, with particular emphasis on the role of the United States.


Ondine's curse secondary to unilateral medullary infarction has been reported. However, the mechanism remains unclear. This case of a patient with an infarction extending from the right side of the medulla oblongata to the spinal cord at the C1 level showed absence and decrease of respiratory movement on the right and left sides of the chest, respectively, during automatic respiration. The physiological respiratory findings implied that Ondine's curse due to unilateral medullary infarction could be caused by both the impaired regulation of automatic respiration and the disconnection of the projection to ipsilateral phrenic motoneurons.


We analyze three observations of GRS 1915+105 in 2017 by Insight–Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope when the source was in a spectrally soft state. We find strong absorption lines from highly ionized iron, which are due to absorption by disk wind outflowing at a velocity of ∼1000 km s−1 along our line of sight. Two of the three observations show large amplitude oscillation in their light curves and the variation pattern corresponds to state κ of GRS 1915+105. From time-averaged and flux-resolved analysis, we find that the variation in the ionization state of the disk wind follows the X-ray continuum on timescales from hundreds of seconds to months. The radial location of the disk wind is consistent with thermal driving. The mass-loss rate due to the outflowing wind is comparable to the mass accretion rate in the inner disk, which demonstrates the important role of the disk wind in the disk accretion system.


This paper analyzes the new trend of technical barriers to trade(TBT), reviews the disadvantages of traditional methods dealing with TBT, and summarizes the principles, characteristics and efficiency of excellent quality. Through the comparison and analysis, the paper proposes the approaches for export companies to reduce the losses caused by TBT.


A bioassay protocol for screening acute and chronic toxicity and endocrine disrupting of whole effluent based on early stage development of Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) was established and recommended. This protocol belonged to in vivo and partial life stage test. The period of the test was 21 days. The protocol had many advantages such as not depending on expensive apparatus, simple to operate, low cost and multiple outputs. In the paper, the proposed protocol was applied to test potential ecotoxicological risks of typical sewage effluent and industrial wastewater discharges in Beijing city. The results showed that acute and chronic toxicity, teratogenicity and endocrine disrupting could be detected in the sewage effluent and industrial waste water. In comparison of different advanced treatment processes aiming at detoxication, it was found that reverse osmosis could remove most of the toxicants from the waters.


In today's world, communication is an important component of organisation activity. Because the global world has become widespread, most organisations need to meet their needs with a lower resource moral through communication. This study examines the significant relationship between communication and workers' performance in some selected organisations in Lagos State, Nigeria. Data for the study were collected through questionnaire with sample population of 120 respondents. The result of this study reveals that a relationship exists between effective communication and workers' performance, productivity and commitment. The study recommended that managers will need to communicate with employees regularly to improve workers commitment and performance.


Since the entry into force of the UK EMC Regulations in 1992 the profile of those engineering design features that relate to EMC has risen significantly. This has resulted, within the railway industry amongst others, in the introduction of formally documented EMC management systems, which include the requirement for confirmatory EMC testing, driven by guidance provided by EMC consultants and other bodies responsible for the interpretation of the UK EMC Regulations. The fundamental requirements of these regulations, known as the "essential protection requirements", are that equipment shall operate correctly in the intended electromagnetic environment, without interfering with the operation of any other equipment in that environment. The Transportation and Industrial Power Supplies Division of CEGELEC PROJECTS Limited (CPL) has been successfully supplying fixed power supplies to the railway industry without problems over many years. One of the reasons for this success is that CPL has continuously developed a design code of practice to achieve EMC. This paper compares and draws conclusions from CPL's experiences of satisfying the essential protection requirements by two different routes for railway fixed power supplies. The first route is through a formally documented EMC management system including EMC testing for a mass transit system within the European Economic Area (EEA), and the second route is through using established design codes of practice applicable to equipment intended for the railway environment for a mass transit system outside the EEA.


Rabbit pre‐B cells are almost uniformly large and low in density and bear a modest number of Fc receptors (McElroy, P. J., Willcox, N. and Catty, D., Eur. J. Immunol. 1981. 11: 76). A simple density gradient centrifugation procedure consistently and rapidly enriches them to 20‐35% frequencies. At the same time, it depletes them of most of the B cells, phagocytic and erythroid cells that are also common in bone marrow, and are of progressively higher densities. The low‐density fractions include 45‐55% of large blast‐like cells and have 35‐45% of cells with Fc receptors.


(57) [summary] input program can be also converted to a variety of what kind of image and television system, and some of actually using the practical use of the system, will be recorded as an image that is data compression. In being processed (180 references) image by pixel interpolation is a common technique, the aspect ratio and size, so that the value in need, it is resized (in 182, 184). The side that received, if not have the same aspect ratio as the signal source, a series of signals in the data of the video, optionally, can be to be able to control the operation of the pan and scanned at the receiving side. Mutual frame conversion between a general scheme is generally well known, by using the techniques used by NTSC and Film from Film conversion to PAL, or is done by interframe interpolation. By judicious choice of parameters on the optimal digitizing, the system user, the aspect ratio, you can build a correlation can family relationship resolution and frame rate. And this relationship is, you can in terms of having a compatibility to the current practical application of, and the future of the system.


Reversible data embedding is also known as lossless data embedding in which invisible data (also known as payload) embeds into a digital image in a reversible fashion. This technique can be used for media notation, copyright security, integrity validation and covert communication etc. The present paper is discussed on various RDH methods in which PSNR has been calculated and it is used for covert communication. The present paper gives the comparison of different reversible data hiding techniques in terms of PSNR, which shows that the histogram modification scheme is one of the best methods of RDH.


Objective: Evaluate the need for gastrostomy and fundoplication in neonates following aortic arch surgery. Method: Sixty neonates from 2007 to 2010 who underwent the Norwood procedure, aortic arch augmentation and reconstruction, or coarctation repair were reviewed retrospectively. Results of modified barium swallow (MBS), laryngoscopy, upper GI series (UGI), and 24-hour pH probe were reviewed for patients who underwent gastrostomy tube placement with or without fundoplication. Results: After aortic arch procedures, 32 neonates (53.3%) underwent gastrostomy tubes (GT); an additional 26 (43.3%) patients also underwent concomitant fundoplication. Of those with unilateral vocal fold immobility, 50% (8 out of 16) aspirated on MBS, 10 out of 18 (55.6%) revealed reflux on UGI, but only 2 out of 9 (22.2%) had abnormal pH studies. Of those with normal vocal fold mobility, 88.9% (8 out of 9) patients demonstrated aspiration on MBS, 9 out of 12 (75%) showed reflux on UGI with one malrotation discovered, and 2 out of 5 (40%) patients had abnormal pH probe studies. Conclusion: Neonates who undergo aortic arch procedures are at high risk of aspiration and other swallowing abnormalities. In this study, over half underwent GTs and many also required fundoplication, although results of pH probe studies seem to be inconsistent and limited, and therefore, its clinical usefulness is questionable for this patient population.


Abstract: The object of present paper is to study projective curvature tensor in a sasakian manifolds. In which semi-symmetric and projectively semi-symmetric Sasakian manifolds are considered. And we have shown that semi-symmetric, projectively semi-symmetric Sasakian manifold becomes Einstein manifold. Also we prove that projective curvature tensor is identical  to  curvature tensor and    2010 AMS Classification No:   53C25.


Abstract This paper describes approach based on active scripts models that controls and restrict personnel activities on controlling technological processes. Script provides sharing personnel control roles by their decision making level, it makes selection of control cases, coordinates different executors and controls task achievement. The development of the scheme controls with application of active technological scripts is presented. A description of HEPS (Human Error Protection System) application package is given, that is developed on the basis of suggested approach and traditional SCAD A.


The unoccupied electronic structure in the surface state of lightly doped SrTiO 3 has been studied by resonant inverse-photoemission spectroscopy (RIPES). The RIPES spectra show two features whose energy separations matchthe t 2 g and e g subbands of unoccupied Ti 3d state. A peak clarified by the Ti 3p→3d resonance effect is observed at ∼6.1 eV above Fermi level (E F ). The ∼6.1 eV peak is not found in the O Is x-ray absorption spectrum, which reflects the electronic structure of the bulk state. The existence of the ∼6.1 eV peak suggests the correlation effect in the surface state of lightly doped SrTiO 3 .


The existing paradigm that ocean island basalts and large igneous provinces are produced by large thermal upwellings (plumes) from the lower mantle is increasingly being challenged. Curiously, a similar debate has been taking place about the origin of Archean komatiites. While seemingly separate, the two debates are, in fact, intimately related and have significant implications for each other and for the history of the Earth. Here we review, in brief, the history and current state of knowledge about the origin of komatiites, and show how it relates to the debate about modern plumes.


The article traces the attitude of various cultures through the centuries toward the hearing and speech handicapped. It outlines the early efforts to develop rehabilitative techniques for such handicaps, and describes a number of the pioneers in the field of education for the "deaf and dumb." The emergence of the opposing philosophies for training the hearing handicapped, the oral school and the signing school, and the influence these two had on the development of education for the deaf is described. The part played by basic research and the development of new instrumentation during the past 50 years in the solution of many of the problems of disordered communication is reviewed. Finally, the philosophic aims are described that led to the establishment of the Boys Town Institute for communicatively handicapped children.


The study, titled "Reconstruction Of The Sport Institute Coaching Arragements In Legislation"  aims to analyze the No. 3 Year 2005 about the National Immune System in the second generation of adults, the political system in Indonesia and the form of breaking up in the Constitution. The method used in this study is normative legal research, the approach taken Law approach, historical approach and comparative approach, there are three sources of legal material, namely the source of primary, secondary and tertiary legal materials. The legal material collection technique analyzes the Minutes of the Indonesian National System, a study of students by collecting and analyzing the population, as well as researchers from the internet. The analysis of the law in the study with descriptive descriptive techniques of the. The results showed that the problem can be concluded as the cause of the obscurity of the norms of the National Sports Committee in 36 articles (1) and (3), based on the SKN Draft Bill, the KONI is written National Sports with the aim to protect the citizenship of KONI. KOI only has to go to the internet and it will take an internal competition. The overlapping of authority in the development of sports due to the absence of legal certainty. Giving the concept of setting up KONI and KOI after being in the mid-1980s, KONI and KOI will eventually be led by a third, Reconstruction in the SKN Law makes it appear that it has a disadvantage so it does not cause conflict.


Objective:To study the diagnosis and treatment of mammary duct expansion. Methods: 85 cases of mammary duct expansion between June,1995 and June, 2004 were reviewed retrospectively. Diagnosis were made depending on history, signs and pathological examination. Therapy methods were selected depending on situations of disease;The expansible mammary duct and around tissue were excised in patients without inflammation; Anti-inflammation was adopted first, then the treatment was taken as above in patients with inflammation; The involved lactiferous duct, the subareolar abscess were incised and all the encompassing inflammatory tissues were excised in patients with mammary duct fistula. Results: 96% of patients were cured thoroughly. 5 cases were recurrent,and we opened the wound for drainage,incised it thoroughly and excised the encompassing inflammatory tissues, then exchanged dressings,all wounds were healed. Conclusion:It's sure to be diagnosed when disease history, signs and frozen pathological examination are obtained. In case of difficult diagnosis, fine needle aspiration cytological examination is a choice. They can be cured by the complex treatment of anti-inflammation,excision of disease plus around tissue and drainage,etc.


Purpose This study aims to investigate the relationship between peripheral blood oxytocin (OT), vasopressin (AVP), and subjectively perceived stress and cortisol in male opioid addicts based on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. We also investigate the impact of exercise on reducing subjectively perceived stress, craving level, negative reinforcement, anxiety, sleep quality, plasma OT, AVP, and cortisol levels. Methods Participants were divided into 28 subjects in the low-stress control group (LSC group), 29 subjects in the medium-high stress control group (MTHSC group), and 28 subjects in the moderate-high-stress exercise group (MTHSE group), based on their subjectively perceived stress levels. Subjects in the MTHSE group performed 12 weeks of combined aerobic resistance training (60 min per day, 5 days per week). Plasma OT, AVP, and cortisol concentrations were analyzed via Elisa. PSQI was used to assess the subjective perceived stress, craving, negative reinforcement, anxiety, and sleep quality level, respectively. Mixed-effects ANOVA and Pearson correlation analysis were employed to explore the impact and correlation between different parameters. Result Plasma OT levels significantly increased (95% CI: –7.48, –2.26), while plasma AVP (95% CI: 2.90, 4.10), and cortisol (95% CI: 19.76, 28.17) levels significantly decreased in the MTHSE group after exercise. The PSS (95% CI: 1.756, 4.815), "Desire and Intention" (95% CI: 1.60, 2.71), and "Negative reinforcement" (95% CI: 0.85, 1.90) (DDQ), SAS (95% CI: 17.51, 26.06), and PSQI (95% CI: 1.18, 3.25) scores of the MTHSE group were significantly decreased after exercise. Plasma OT, plasma cortisol, craving, negative reinforcement and anxiety were negatively correlated. Plasma AVP was positively correlated with craving. Conclusion As an auxiliary treatment, exercise improves the plasma OT, AVP, and cortisol levels of opioid addicts, and reduces their subjective perceived stress level, desire, negative reinforcement level, anxiety level, and sleep quality. In addition, peripheral plasma OT, AVP, and cortisol may play a role as potential peripheral biomarkers to predict stress in male opioid addicts.


By using newly developed software and tools, the present authors have been creating self-made teaching materials and conducting school activities at both special-needs classes and schools and general public schools. The research project organized by one of the present authors, Shigeru Ikuta, is now widely spread all over the world; more than 200 schoolteachers even in Japan join the present project. All the school activities described in the present paper were performed to help students with various difficulties learn and improve their required subjects and daily lives. Shigeru Ikuta had a chance to introduce the present research to the kindergarten and elementary schoolteachers in Saudi Arabia at the 6th International Education and Forum (in Teaching and Learning for Early Childhood Education 2018). He was also invited by the China-ASEAN Special Education Development of Exchange and Cooperation, talking about "School Activities with Handmade Teaching Materials for Students With Disabilities." He has just completed editing a new book of "Handbook of Research on Software for Gifted and Talented School Activities in K-12 Classrooms," where 17 chapter-papers, submitted by the researchers all over the world, are included in the edited book. The present paper describes the activities performed in 2018 academic year by the Japanese schoolteachers and Otsuma Women's university students.


The purpose of this result is to improve the activity and learning outcomes in the basic competence learning the process of energy conversion machine by applying the demonstration method using a motor fuel model for students of class X TKR 2 Kebumen Vocation High School 2nd semester school year 2015/2016. The procedure of the research is carried out through two cycles, each cycle consisting of four steps, namely: (1) planning, (2) the implementation, (3) observations, and (4) evaluation process with reflection. The results of the empirical research proves that implementation method using demonstation method using a motor fuel model, the liveliness of very active students category increase from the initial condition there are 3 students (8%) become 8 students (13,9%) in cycle I, become 7 students (19,4%) in cycle II, and in cycle III increase to 9 students (25%). The liveliness of active students category increase from the initial conditions there are 16 students (44%) become the 21 students (58,3%) in cycle I, increase to 25 students (69,4%) in cycle II, and from cycle II to cycle III there is no improvements. Yhe number of students who learning comprehensively is 36 students in initial conditions 31% with an average value 65,7 increase in cycle I become 44% with an average value 69,6 increase in cycle become 78% with an average value 74,1. From cycle II to cycle III number of students who learning comprehensively increase to 89% with an average value 76,0.


Nowadays, Herbal products are attracting the whole population of the world because of their safety features. The present study aimed to reveal the phytochemical compositions, anthelmintic activity, antioxidant and antimicrobial potential of Salvadora persica leaves extract in different extraction solvent systems. Shade dried leaves of Salvadora persica were extracted in chloroform, ethyl acetate, methanol, ethanol, and water using the modified fractional maceration method. These extracts were analyzed for their phytochemical, anthelmintic activity, antioxidant and antimicrobial potential. The antioxidant activity was done using DPPH and H2O2 radical scavenging method. While the antimicrobial potential was analyzed using the disc diffusion method. Anthelmintic activity was determined against Indian earthworms (Eiseniafetida).The highest percentage yield of extract was found in the hydro solvent extraction system. The DPPH radical scavenging was found 67.3% (lowest) and 99.07% (highest), (dose100µg/ml), in SPLEC and SPLEW respectively. The highest antimicrobial activity was found in SPLEE (200µg/ml and 100µg/ml) i.e. 6 mm and 4 mm zone of inhibition against E.coli while 5mm and 3mm again B. subitilis respectively. All extract fractions of Salvadora persica exhibited anthelmintic activity but less than standard drug albendazole. Based on our findings, we were concluded that leaves of Salvadora persica have an anthelmintic effect good antioxidant and antimicrobial potential so their consumption may exert a beneficial effect on human and animal health as well


Disclose microfluidic devices and systems for the desalination of water. Devices and systems can include an electrode configured to generate an electric field gradient in the vicinity of the intersection formed by the branches of the two microfluidic channel from the inlet channel. In response to application of a bias, and in the presence of a pressure based flow promoting brine field gradient, the ions in the brine, can be guided preferentially to one of the microfluidic channel that branches, on the other hand, demineralized water, flows through the second branch to the channel. For reducing the salinity of the water, the use of write devices and systems herein are also provided.


A PC based multichannel signal processing method were introduced.Through setting up a mathematic model this method can do a real-time self-adjusting process.Because of the advanced guadruplex system,the accuracy and speed of the thermometer is increased.The relative error of system is 0.5% when the temperature of target ranging between 800 ℃ and 1 300 ℃ accord to our probation.


Objective To explore the role of research on the substantial basis of acupuncture effect in the innovative study of the mechanism of acupuncture action.Methods The characteristics of researches on the mechanism of acupuncture action and the substantial basis of acupuncture effect were reviewed.The innovative value of researches on the substantial basis of acupuncture effect in the study of the mechanism of acupuncture action was analyzed.Results Researches on the substantial basis of acupuncture effect were characterized by holism,application of high-throughput technologies and methods,independent of already gained knowledge as a basic starting point,and elucidation of the mechanism of the holistic effect.The research conformed to the thought and method of studying the mechanism of acupuncture action.Conclusion Introduction of research on the substantial basis of acupuncture effect into the study of the mechanism of acupuncture action is of important strategic significance for keeping our country's international leading position and obtaining original and independent intellectual property in the field of acupuncture research.


Peats are encountered in waterlogged deltaic areas, where degradation is delayed by favourable environmental conditions. The recent increase in frequency and severity of droughts is expected to accelerate peats degradation, in turn increasing subsidence and flood risk, urging better understanding of the response of peats to drying events. To this aim, compression tests on natural and reconstituted peat samples were performed, supported by X-ray Micro Computer Tomography. The peat fabric is found to be the key factor in the response to drying, with fibres playing the most significant role. Drying in peats starts affecting the macro-fabric, with an irreversible reduction in volume and disruption of the fibrous network occurring under saturated conditions until a threshold void ratio is reached, below which desaturation occurs of the intra-fibres and intra-peds pores. The first drying stage decreases dramatically the compressibility, while the hydraulic conductivity is hardly affected due to enlargement of macropores. Secondary compressibility is affected by the peat fabric besides the organic content. The total organic content does not change substantially over drying, hence, it is not the best proxy to describe the consequences of drying on the response of fibrous peats. The fibre content can be better used to the aim.


Hairy cells are stimulated to DNA synthesis by low molecular weight B cell growth factor (LMW-BCGF) and this proliferative response is suppressed by interferon (IFN)-a, both in vitro and in vivo. The suggestion that the CD23 molecule (FcdI receptor) might be involved in the signalling pathway of LMW-BCGF prompted us to study the expression of this molecule on hairy cells and its modulation by IFN-a. By flow cytometry and direct binding experiments with anti CD23 monoclonal antibodies, the presence of the CD23 antigen was detected in 7 of 1 2 cases tested, on variable percentages of cells, ranging from low to medium expression. In vitro incubation of hairy cells with IFN-a, which elicits a suppression of the proliferative response of these cells to LMW-BCGF, induced a parallel significant reduction of CD23 expression in only three cases. Similarly. a transient in vivo decrease of CD23 expression, concommitant with an inhibition of the LMWBCGF response, could be detected in only one of three patients injected with IFN-a. Soluble sCD23/lgE-binding factor (BF) was quantitated in the serum from six other


Changes in day length enhance or suppress component of immune function in individuals of several species. The purpose of the present experiment was to study the role of photoperiodic manipulation on the nitric oxide production by splenic macrophages in the fresh-water snake, Natrix piscator. To study effect of photoperiod, animals were subjected to 24 hour continuous light and continuous dark for 30 days. Animals kept in natural day length served as control. At termination of experiments, animals were sacrificed, and spleen was excised. Macrophages were incubated for 24 hours and nitric oxide production was measured by measuring the nitrite concentration. Nitrite production was significantly decreased to the cultures obtained from the animals kept under continuous light. No change in nitrite concentration was found in animals kept under continuous dark, when compared to the animals kept under natural day length. The possible role of decreased melatonin synthesis in light is suggested to decrease the nitric oxide production.


The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about significant changes in human movement activities. My activities, especially physical activity, are one of the non-pharmacological N77 treatments that can have a positive impact on humans. This study aims to determine the biological activities carried out by adolescents in East Java. One hundred twenty-eight youths in East Java aged 19-24 years participated in this study. This study uses a survey method in data collection. The questionnaire used the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). The results showed that, on average, the respondents did high and moderate-intensity physical activity three times a week. In comparison, the low intensity was carried out four times a week according to the duration of exercise that people did in 30 minutes of 60 minutes and only moved. An average of 2 hours per day for sitting activity. The conclusion in this study is that respondents combine physical exercise that aims to improve performance. This is very unprofitable if done during a pandemic if the respondent does not balance the training load and the volume of activity carried out with adequate rest and nutrition.


Biomimetic testosterone receptors were synthesized via molecular imprinting for use as antibody mimics in immunoassays. As evaluated by radioligand binding assays, imprinted polymers prepared in acetonitrile were very specific for testosterone because the nonimprinted control polymers bound virtually no radiolabeled testosterone. The polymers present an appreciable affinity, with association constants of Ka = 3.3 x 107M− 1 (high‐affinity binding sites). The binding characteristics of the polymers were also evaluated in aqueous environment to study their viabilities as alternatives to antibodies in molecularly imprinted sorbent assays. Compared with the testosterone‐specific antibodies present in commercial kits, our molecularly imprinted polymers are somewhat less sensitive but show a high selectivity. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Green energy saving of large-scale data centers is getting more and more focused on. The design and construction of server rooms for power supply enterprises need to fully take energy saving and emission reduction into account. Through analysis of the power efficiency standard of server rooms, this paper puts forward a green energy saving method from two aspects of management and technology. Practical application to the server room at Zhejiang Jinhua Electric Power Bureau shows that the method can greatly improve the power efficiency of server rooms.


In 1971, the Cornell University Program on Science, Technology and Society developed an interdisciplinary course for undergraduates called The Impact and Control of Technological Change. The intent of the course is to develop the capacity of students to analyze a set of policy problems associated with technological change. This requires an unusual use of university resources. The course tries to innovate by drawing on faculty members from different disciplines whose research is in areas which could contribute to the understanding of specific policy issues. The course is concerned with public and private decision-making in areas requiring considerable expertise, and it emphasizes problems of controlling technological change within the economic and political constraints of the American system. The main issue explored is how recent demands for participation in decision-making can be reconciled with the need for expert judgment in technological decisions having broad public impact. The development and utilization of technology has had certain institutional imperatives-efficiency, specialization, concentration of public and private resources, and reliance on expertise. Management structures are generally organized to facilitate the coordination and integration of specialized activities in a rational manner. The tendency is to think in terms of large scale, centralized institutions. Salient operational values are professional autonomy, managerial control, and insulation from the uncertainties of the political process for the sake of efficiency. Counter to these organizational prerequisites for rational technical planning is a community-based participatory ethos: this has taken on increasing importance during the last decade as the negative side effects of both technological change and social interventions have become increasingly visible. Beginning with 'maximum feasible participation' in the war on poverty,


PURPOSE: To provide a method and a device for piercing a coating material for coating a bar-shaped article in a tobacco working industry. CONSTITUTION: The coating material 13 is guided through a piercing band 53 and pierced by a laser beam 56 there. At this time, the laser beam is radiated in a pulsating state corresponding to the pattern of guidance to be formed and the pulse width and intensity of the laser beam are controlled depending on a machine speed measured in a speed recorder 69 by a control mechanism 58.


The decay ${\ensuremath{\rho}}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\nu}\overline{\ensuremath{\nu}}$ is postulated. The decay width is calculated by two different methods. One method involves the neutrino electromagnetic form factor and the other involves a direct $\ensuremath{\gamma}\ensuremath{\nu}\overline{\ensuremath{\nu}}$ vertex since it has been proposed that photons can interact weakly with neutrino-anti-neutrino pairs with coupling strength $g$. For the case of muon neutrinos after setting the cut-off $\ensuremath{\Lambda}$ equal to various values of the spin-one boson mass ${M}_{W}$, we estimate $g_{\ensuremath{\mu}}^{}{}_{}{}^{2}\ensuremath{\approx}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}15}$.


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Interest in understanding long-term coastal morphodynamics has recently increased as climate change impacts become perceptible and accelerated. Multiscale, behavior-oriented and process-based models, or hybrids of the two, are typically applied with deterministic approaches which require considerable computational effort. In order to reduce the computational cost of modeling large spatial and temporal scales, input reduction and morphological acceleration techniques have been developed. Here we introduce a general framework for reducing dimensionality of wave-driver inputs to morphodynamic models. The proposed framework seeks to account for dependencies with global atmospheric circulation fields and deals simultaneously with seasonality, interannual variability, long-term trends, and autocorrelation of wave height, wave period, and wave direction. The model is also able to reproduce future wave climate time series accounting for possible changes in the global climate system. An application of long-term shoreline evolution is presented by comparing the performance of the real and the simulated wave climate using a one-line model.


Abstract The reduction of racemic γ-hydroperoxy-α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds in the presence of lipid-coated horseradish peroxidase as a homogenious catalyst in organic solvents such as toluene, benzene and chlororform containing a small amount of water enantioselectively afforded optical active (R)-alcohols and (S)-hydroperoxides, respectively.


In addition to the two groups of radiative fragments which have previously been described, two groups of nonradiative fragments are first observed in laser-ablated fragments of YBa2Cu3Oy, using a space/time-resolved optical transmittance measurement. The average velocities of the nonradiative fragments (2×105 cm/s and 2×104 cm/s) are much lower than those of the radiative fragments (5×106 cm/s and 1×106 cm/s). The yield of the nonradiative fragments increases with increasing laser wavelength, while that of the radiative fragments is nearly wavelength independent.


Poster: "ECR 2012 / C-2462 / Quantitative evaluation of HRCT findings in advanced Cystic Fibrosis patients based on Brody scoring (Revised 2006) in Masih Daneshvari Hospital from 2006-2009" by: "S. Kahkouee, A. khodayari; Tehran/IR"


Based on introducing corn armyworm disaster in northern of China in 2012,the migratory habits and damage characteristics of the armyworm were discussed,the objective conditions of the insect infestations and human factors were analyzed.And thus some suggestions of crop pests and diseases management were put forward from following aspects,including definiting responsibility,establishing the pest disaster relief fund,remodeling chemical control and allowing the civil liability investigated.


Dielectric resonator antenna with its circulator characteristics and radiation properties are presented in this paper. Dielectric resonator antenna replaced the traditional radiating element, especially for the high frequency range. Dielectric resonator antenna has high radiation efficiency and large bandwidth resistance. In this paper, comparison of different paper has been presented with updated literature survey.


[reaction: see text] A practical and general two-step synthesis of carbamate-protected (E)-vinylglycines from aliphatic aldehydes is reported. The key step involves the kinetic alpha-protonation of dianionic dienolates derived from dehydroamino acids.


In this paper, an integrated sandwich composite adopting 3-D woven fabrics as the core material is thoroughly studied for its effective elastic modulus. In spite of the extensive applications of 3-D woven sandwich composites due to their improved mechanical properties, no suitable theoretical model has been proposed to predict the elastic modulus for such composite structures in the open literature so far. For the present work, a theoretical model by means of a micromechanics approach and the rule of mixtures is proposed to predict its effective in-plane elastic modulus. To verify the veracity of our prediction, unidirectional tensile tests were also carried out to determine the effective elastic modulus. Eventually, our experimental results turn out to agree with our prediction very well.


Neural Processing Units (NPUs) frequently suffer from low hardware utilization as the efficiency of their systolic arrays heavily depends on the characteristics of a deep neural network (DNN). Spatial multitasking is a promising solution to overcome the low NPU hardware utilization; however, the state-of-the-art spatial-multitasking NPU architecture achieves sub-optimal performance due to its coarse-grained systolic-array distribution and incurs significant implementation costs. In this paper, we propose dataflow-mirroring NPU (DM-NPU), a novel spatial-multitasking NPU architecture supporting fine-grained systolic-array distribution. The key idea of DM-NPU is to reverse the dataflows of co-located DNNs in horizontal and/or vertical directions. DM-NPU can place allocation boundaries between any adjacent processing elements of a systolic array, both horizontally and vertically. We then propose DM-Perf, an accurate systolic-array NPU performance model, to maximize the spatial-multitasking performance of DM-NPU. Utilizing the existing performance models achieves sub-optimal performance as they cannot accurately capture the resource contention caused by spatial multitasking. DM-Perf, on the other hand, exploits the per-layer performance profiles of a DNN to accurately capture the resource contention. Our evaluation using MLPerf DNNs shows that DM-NPU and DM-Perf can greatly improve the performance by up to 35.1% over the state-of-the-art NPU architecture and performance model.


Background: Exposure to contact allergens and specific allergic sensitization to them are common, but possible related health effects have been rarely studied.


Abstract: This paper studies the existence and uniqueness of solutions of a non local initial boundary value problem of a singular two dimensional nonlinear fractional order partial differential equation involving the Caputo fractional derivative by employing the functional analysis. We first establish for the associated linear problem a priori estimate and prove that the range of the operator generated by the considered problem is dense. The technique of obtaining the a priori bound relies on the construction of a suitable multiplicator. From the resulted a priori estimate, we can establish the solvability of the associated linear problem. Then, by applying an iterative process based on the obtained results for the associated linear problem, we establish the existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence of the weak solution of the considered nonlinear problem.


The "death of God" has hardly been considered in psychoanalytical terms. On the basis of some Lacanian proposals, the article attempts to clarify whether the expression refers to the end of everything divine or rather as a radical transformation of the relationship to the divine. Likewise, the article seeks to identify the historical roots of this "death" and its effects on the spiritual life of Western peoples.  As we shall see, the expression denotes the decline—in our time— of the inventive capacity linked to desire.


7526 Background: HDT with stem cell rescue has been increasingly used in pts. with FL. The aim of this retrospective analysis was to evaluate the outcome of a large series of pts. who received HDT for FL.

PATIENTS
From 1979 to 1995, 702 pts. (median age: 45, range: 17-68 yrs.) underwent HDT with a TBI-containing regimen in 407 cases and chemotherapy-based regimens in 276 (BEAM, 164). The median time from diagnosis to HDT was 2.2 yrs. Disease status at the time of HDT was as follows: CR, 323 pts. (1st: 138; 2nd: 141; 3rd: 44); PR, 170 pts.; recurrence/progression, 187 pts. ("sensitive", 152; resistant, 20; untested, 15); primary refractory, 22 pts. The source of progenitor cells was bone marrow (BM) in 384 pts. (55%), peripheral blood progenitor cells (PBPC) in 288 (41%) and BM + PBPC in 30 (4%).

RESULTS
353/702 pts. (50%) developed recurrent lymphoma at a median of 1.7 yrs. (range: 0.2 to 13.3) after HDT. 5-year PFS after HDT was 43%. On multivariate analysis, age at HDT <45 yrs. and HDT in CR1 correlated with longer PFS; refractory disease was the only variable predictive for risk of recurrence. 23 pts. developed secondary MDS/AML, in 18 cases after receiving TBI. With a median follow-up of 10.2 yrs., 338 patients have died, 96 without lymphoma progression. The 5-year non-relapse mortality (NRM) was 9%. On multivariate analysis, age > 45 at HDT, refractory disease at HDT and TBI were associated with a higher NRM. 5-yr and 10-yr OS from HDT were 64% and 52%, respectively. For pts. treated with HDT in CR1, 10-yr OS and PFS from HDT were 71% and 46%, respectively. The variables that predicted for a longer OS in the multivariate analysis were younger age at HDT, CR1 at HDT and the use of a non TBI-containing regimen. The effect of TBI on NRM and OS was mostly as a consequence of late mortality.

CONCLUSIONS
This analysis confirms that the best outcome was associated with younger age and treatment in CR1. In addition, in this study TBI was associated with a negative impact on survival. No significant financial relationships to disclose.


The combined surface is decomposed into a number of combination curve on the basis of analyz the principle of combined surface.A non-uniform rational B-spline as a tool,use the powerful modeling capabilities of NURBS to express the combined curve and then Interpolate it.Through the decomposition of the curve for all the processing to achieve the purpose of processing of surfaces.At last lead into the error control,automatically adjust the size of the interpolation step through limit the size of the error to achieve the combination of high speed and precision surface processing purposes.


Background: Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita (EBA) is a chronic subepidermal blistering disease that is frequently resistant to therapy. Objective: A 58-year-old man who had a one-year history of a bullous eruption involving the hands, forearms, trunk, scalp, and oral mucosa. Histopathology revealed a subepidermal bulla, and direct and indirect immunofluorescence studies were consistent with EBA. The patient failed respond to niacinamide and tetracycline and oral prednisone 40 mg per day. Methods: Complete control of his blistering was achieved within two months of initiating oral dapsone, 150 mg per day. Conclusion: Dapsone may be an effective agent for some patients with EBA.


In Malaysia, there is a question in term of intellectualism activities in the context of visual epistemology. Therefore, this paper revealed the problems that linger in the Malaysian contemporary visual art scene. In fact, Malaysian contemporary artists appear to have insufficient intellectualism values and less discourse activities. The lacks of scholars in the field of visual arts create a gap in the visual arts scene in Malaysia. The question of this study was to uncover the main problems in Malaysian visual arts that led to the problem of art intellectual development. In addition, this paper presents the awareness of the valuable contributions in the intellectual development that able to enhance the communication in the art object. Keywords: art knowledge; art object; contemporary art; interpretation; perception;


Chronic sun exposure causes photoaging of the skin and cutaneous malignancies. Considerable evidence shows that skin cancer is associated with elevated


Synthesis of TiO2-ZnO and its activity test in Sono photocatalysis degradation of phenol has been conducted. The synthesis was performed by the sol-gel mechanism by using titanium isopropoxide and zinc acetate as precursors with the Ti: Zn ratio of 5:1. Characterization of material were conducted by x-ray diffraction analysis, surface area analysis and also diffuse reflectance UV-Visible spectrophotometry. The material obtained from the synthesis was tested in photocatalysis, Sono catalysis and Sono photocatalysis degradation of phenol solution. Results showed that material exhibited the activity of varied mechanism o- phenol degradation. In advance, the Sono photocatalysis degradation produced the synergy index of 1.169 compared to both photocatalysis and Sono catalysis.


In this letter, we propose a low-complexity adaptive channel state information (CSI) feedback scheme to maximize the throughput in IEEE 802.11ac systems. We analyze the two factors - the interference and the feedback overhead -and develop a method to attain an optimal CSI feedback quantization level with minimal additional complexity. Our numerical results and complexity comparisons verify the efficiency of the proposed scheme in terms of throughput and complexity.


Historically, Radio Frequency (RF) windows have been a common point of failure in cavity input power couplers; therefore, reliable RF windows are critical to the success of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) project. The normal conducting part of the SNS accelerator requires six RF windows at 402.5 MHz and eight RF windows at 805 MHz. Each RF window will transmit up to 180 kW of average power and 2.5 MW peak power at 60 Hz with 1.2 millisecond pulses. The RF windows, designed and manufactured by Thales, were tested at the full average power for 4 hours to ensure no problems with the high average power and then tested to an effective forward power level of 10 MW by testing at 2.5 MW forward power into a short and varying the phase of the standing wave. The sliding short was moved from 0 to 180 degrees to ensure no arcing or breakdown problems occur in any part of the window. This paper discusses the results of the high power testing of both the 402.5 MHz and the 805 MHz RF windows. Problems encountered during testing and the solutions for these problems are discussed.


Recent investigations of the intertidal macrophyto- and zoobenthos of the island of Helgo- land (North Sea) revealed that species composition and spatial extent of communities have changed within the last century. To evaluate the situation in the subtidal, a diving study from the late 1960s was repeated with comparable methods in 2005 and 2006. Along 2 vertical transects, the cover of dominant brown seaweeds, Fucus serratus, Laminaria digitata, L. hyperborea, Saccharina latissima (= Laminaria saccharina), Sargassum muticum and Desmarestia aculeata, was semi-quantitatively assessed to define vegetation zones. Within each zone, all macroalgal species were estimated quantitatively in 3 to 6 random 1 m 2 quadrats. Additionally, a replicated biomass survey was performed at 6 depths (0.5, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 m below mean low water spring tide (MLWS)). Comparison of recent and historical data showed some characteristic changes. The previously dominant brown seaweed S. latissima showed a decline in the northern part of the island, but is still present at other sites. S. muticum invaded the kelp forest, but is not dominant within this vegetation. The vertical distribution of L. hyperborea increased, and its lower depth limits as well as those of various understory seaweeds deepened by about 2 to 8 m. Biomass data followed this trend. The maximum biomass of L. hyperborea shifted from 2 m below MLWS in 1967 to 4 m below MLWS in 2005. The overall downward extension of the Laminaria forest is concordant with the increase in water transparency observed around Helgoland since 1975.


In the present work, a new method for constructing differential bases is presented. The bases constructed by this method allow us to distinguish symmetric spaces with different behaviour of fundamental functions at zero, as in the case of Hayes and Stokolos, and even allow us to distinguish Lorentz and Marzinkiewicz spaces or Lebesgue and Marzinkiewicz spaces whose fundamental functions are the same.


Electron state transition of deep level point defects in a semiconductor crystal was studied. Low-temperature grown GaAs produced excess antisite As (AsGa) which produces localized spin when doped with Be. A nearly abrupt decrease of 1.7% of the resistance is detected at a temperature around 4 K which is consistent with abrupt decrease of magnetization. These observations are explained as a result of cooperative transition of electron states of AsGa defects. First-principal calculations of the electron state of an AsGa atom with a shallow acceptor Be show that at the transition an AsGa+ ion is displaced to the interstitial site and becomes a neutral atom and finally results in formation of a hole producing enhancement in conductivity.


Review of Elizabeth Jacka ed., Continental Shift: Globalisation and Culture, Double Bay, Sydney: Local Consumption Publications, 1992. pp.162. ISBN 0 949793 24 8 (pbk), $24.95.


A new skeleton of diterpenoid, 1,2,3,4,4α,9,10,10α-octahydro-(4α-hydroxyymethyl)-1,1-dimethyl-9-(1-methylethyl)-(2S,3S,4αR,9R,10αS)-2,3,5,7-phenanthrenetertrol, named plebeianiol A (1), along with four known diterpenoids (2–5), were isolated from Salvia plebeia R. Br. Their structures were determined on the basis of spectral analysis. In the bioactivity tests, compounds 1, 2 and 5 showed 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging activities with IC50 values of 20.0–29.6 µM. In addition, these three compounds had significant inhibitory effects on reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced macrophages. Compounds 1–3 inhibited nitric oxide (NO) production in LPS-induced macrophages with IC50 values of 18.0–23.6 µM. These results showed that compounds 1, 2 had significant antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities and might provide basis for the treatment of diseases associated with oxidative lesions and inflammation.


The paper presents the results of calculations of the water-hammer course accompanied by the column separation caused by a rapid closure of the butterfly valve. The computational method takes into account the cavitation characteristics of the valve that has been determined on the special laboratory stand in the Szewalski Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery in Gdansk, Poland. In addition, calculations have been conducted using authors' own discrete-vapour-cavity-model (the New Single-Zone DVCM). The paper presents also a comparison between these calculation results and the experimental ones obtained at the own laboratory stand for investigation of the water-hammer phenomenon in the pump discharge pipeline. The comparison of the numerical and empirical results is a basis for the verification process and assessment of the computational method that has been developed. © 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the CCWI2013 Committee.


Purpose: To explore the therapeutic role of amber powder in endometriosis by investigating its effect on endometrial ultrastructure, ERK1/2, p38MAPK, and NF-κB mRNA pathways and CSRC/EFR/ERK1/2 proteins. Methods: Sprague Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into blank group, disease model group (untreated), amber powder high-dose group, amber powder medium-dose group, amber powder lowdose group and danazol group. Morphological changes in endometrial cells were studied using transmission electron microscopy. The expression of ERK1/2, p38MAPK, and NF-κB mRNA in endometrial tissues of each group was determined using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). Immunohistochemistry was utilized for the measurement of C-SRC/EFR/ERK1/2 pathway protein expression. Results: The endometriosis rats treated with a high-, mediumand low-dose amber powder showed a decrease in the volume of ectopic lesions, compared with the untreated disease model group. The expressions of ERK1/2, p38MAPK, NF-κB mRNA, and C-SRC/EFR/ERK1/2 protein were higher in the eutopic and ectopic endometrial tissues in untreated disease group than those in normal control group. Moreover, treatment of endometriosis rats with amber powder revealed a reduction in the expressions of ERK1/2, p38MAPK, NF-κB mRNA and C-SRC/EFR/ERK1/2 proteins in eutopic and ectopic endometrium tissues. Conclusion: Amber powder reduces ectopic lesions and slows down the development of endometriosis, probably via inhibition of MAPK pathway genes in eutopic and ectopic endometrial tissues.


In the wake of the Manchester bombings and London terror attacks, being able to respond in an appropriate fashion to a major incident is becoming increasingly important for healthcare students in all fields, along with working within a multi-disciplinary environment. We looked to develop an inter-professional simulation exercise using major incident style training. Our student nurses and paramedics worked with qualified doctors and advanced clinical practitioners in interdisciplinary teams imitating real life. A simultaneous simulation exercise demonstrating the patient journey. The key element of this exercise was the 'hands off' facilitation style. The patient scenarios had a brief outline, but what followed was fluid and responsive in real time to the actions of the students. There was no active facilitation during the simulation, allowing the students to be fully immersed in the scenario. The hands off approach allowed students to put their leadership skills into practice; learning in a safe environment in a real time situation, enhancing innovative thinking through real time simulation and debriefing. This promoted learning and working together across the multi-disciplinary field with both qualified and pre-registration students. All students completed a pre and post exercise questionnaire designed to get an idea of the current level of experience around simulation training and what the students' expectations were. The questionnaire highlighted the lack of simulated activity that the nursing students had in comparison to the paramedic students. This was noted on the day of the exercise as the student nurses were more apprehensive prior to the activity. Within the questionnaire the student nurses more frequently highlighted their need for improved confidence. The post questionnaire results showed very positive feedback and calls for more simulated learning from both student nurses and paramedics. All responses were positive when asked about interdisciplinary working. The feedback in all cases supported that the exercise had not only met but exceeded the students' expectations. The key emerging themes from the project so far are; students' educational expectations, experience of multidisciplinary working, the theory to practice gap, training in a safe environment. The work around analysing the data gained from the simulation exercise is still a work in progress, but it is already informing and developing practice across the School.


On 21 December 2004 the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic issued a decision whereby it affirmed the earlier decision of the Office for the Protection of Competition, in which the…


Because of the importance of seed surface area, volume, and fill to hydraulic and thermal exchanges with the soil, mechanistic simulation of seed physiological processes associated with tree migration dynamics and the spread of invasive species require accurate equations to model seed shape. Seed dimensions have previously been described with measurements of the three principal axes, assuming an implied single ellipsoid. However, conifer seeds often exhibit anisotropy that results from bilaterally symmetric pairing on cone scales. We developed a method for measuring and modeling conifer seed shape as a sum of 2j partial ellipsoids fused at their equators, where j = 0, …, 3. We demonstrate the use of the methods in the study of shape characteristics of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa P.& C. Lawson) seeds from four families in Montana and among commercial lots of ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud.), and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirbel) Franco). The shapes of 92%, 73%, ...


The present study is phase one, of a research that proposes art as a field from which pedagogical tools (mediations) can be thought that can enrich the processes of children in early childhood between three and five years, by means of the qualification of the mediator practices proposed by the artistic meeting, thus enabling a dialogue between pedagogy and art. In this way the research takes place in the socio-cultural proposal of Lev vigotsky and the artistic experience as a space of awareness, exploration, learning and integral construction of the subject, in this case the child.
This study was based on the analysis of the proposals of artists of the project Nidos-Arte in early childhood of the IDARTES (District Institute of Arts) developed in the City of Bogota, which is a district proposal articulated to the RIA (Route of Attention comprehensive to early childhood) that seeks to promote the right to art and culture of children in this city, where artists propose artistic experiences for children between zero and five years.
From this analysis was found the importance of proposing pedagogical mediations that enrich the artistic experience of the child and therefore the learning processes of these, thus generating a series of guiding principles that were intended to be a reference for the mediator (artist, pedagogue, caregiver) when proposing experiences with children, at the same time as a pedagogical tool that enriches the practices of these mediators from the different artistic languages.
Therefore, this research resulted in a pedagogical proposal for early childhood, a guide of pedagogical orientations and mediations that seek to enrich the artistic experience of children between three and five years, which was born from an analytical exercise based on the method holistic projective research by Jackeline Hurtado, which enabled the continuous review of the instruments and analysis matrices made in this study. Concluding on the importance of proposing pedagogical mediations from the art and that allow to contribute to the integral learning of the child, as well as the possibility of dialogue between disciplines such as art and pedagogy.


In this study, molecular imprinted polymers (MIPs) are designed for improving the sensitivity and selectivity for specific volatile organic components (VOCs) such as xylene isomers. Various MIPs are synthesized using different templates. Toluic acid (TA) isomers have been used as non-covalent bound templates in order to generate selective cavities for specific VOCs in the polymer matrix. The selective behaviors of the MIPs are studied by their adsorption and desorption responses. Furthermore the effect of template and the content of a cross-linker (1,4-divinlybenzene) on the performance has been rigorously investigated. From the results, the molecular recognition ability could be controlled by template structure.


Despite the best antenatal care, complications may arise during the course of any pregnancy, labour or puerperium. Some groups of women are more likely to develop complications. A method of detecting these high risk patients is discussed.


Recent advances in capturing and display technologies, as well as the proliferation of platforms to share images on the Internet, will further increase the bandwidth and storage space required by image coding based applications. To reduce the image coding rate, some techniques taking into account the properties of the human visual system can be used. In this context, this paper proposes an inpainting based image codec which is able to improve the image compression efficiency. The proposed codec builds on top of the JPEG image coding standard and its rate-distortion performance is assessed using a novel methodology, particularly suitable for perceptual image codecs as the one proposed in this paper. According to this methodology, the proposed image codec allows a bitrate reduction of up to about 20% regarding the JPEG standard, at the same perceptual quality.


In this report, we present 3 cases of abscess caused by Citrobacter koseri. All infected patients recovered after initial empirical antibiotic treatment and percutaneous drainage of the abscess. We reviewed the literature and found 9 adult cases of C. koseri abscess. Most of these patients recovered after timely antibiotic treatment and drainage.


Combining neuroscience and chemical engineering, researchers at Stanford have developed a process that renders a mouse brain transparent. The postmortem brain remains whole — not sliced or sectioned in any way — with its three-dimensional complexity of fine wiring and molecular structures completely intact and able to be measured and probed at will with visible light and chemicals. The process, called CLARITY, ushers in an entirely new era of whole-organ imaging that stands to fundamentally change our scientific understanding of the most important but least understood of organs, the brain, and potentially other organs, as well. The process See brAiN, page 4


765 The conclusion recaps each chapter, with emphasis on dynamic verbs like "ripping" and "blasting" to describe the effect of looking at these aspects of city life from a Benjaminian point of view. It's hard for me to read this faith in the power of explosive imagery unironically, used as I am to thinking of it as characteristic of mainstream recuperation. I am too schooled in brushing off TV shows "ripped from the headlines" and in deflecting commercialized appeals to youth culture that replace the word "copying" with "ripping" (as in "ripping" CDs). Chisholm seems genuinely to believe in revolutionary potential, revolutionary energy, and "the revolutionary value of sexual transgressivity" (254). In sum, then, Queer Constellations offers a challenging application of Benjamin to a corpus of work that has often remained beyond the boundaries of the Academy. In the process of following Chisholm's theoretical arguments, the reader is likely to encounter some new texts that, in the language of the Michelin guide (the coin of urban writing, after all), are "worth the detour." But ultimately this reader is left wondering whether there is still not something more useful to be said about the value of Marxist opposition (albeit filtered through Benjamin's lyrical lens) in a postmodern world where opposites are understood to be always locked in a mutually supporting relationship.


5,5-Dimethylhydantoin was prepared and allowed to react with an excess of acrylonitrile in dioxane in the presence of potassium hydroxideas a catalyst, giving 1,3-di-(β-cyanoethyl)-5,5- dimethylhydantoin, which on hydrolysis in hydrcchloric acid was converted to 1,3-di-(β-carboxy- ethyl)-5-dimethylhydantoin. Reactions of acrylonitrile with compounds structurally related to hydantoin, such as cyclic ureides, thiohydantoins and rhodanines, are now under investigation.


The article presents American penologist's David Garland's social theory of punishment. The main aim is to show the background of his ideas and the theoretical foundations of his studies. Article shows what ideas of E. Durkheim and M. Foucault have been introduced into penal theory of American penologist. Article describes and highlights these aspects: E. Durkheim regards punishment as an outcome of collective consciousness and gives tools for its sociological analysis; theoretical approach of M. Foucault shows punishment as the tool of power in disciplinary society of the XXth century. These ideas on punishment were neatly synthesized and introduced into D. Garland's approach to punishment. Article also analyses the concept of "culture of control" that is suggested by D. Garland to name the culture of crime prevention field in the second half of the XXth century. This analysis makes a conclusion that punishment is not the tool of crime control in a narrow penal sense but has wider social and cultural background.


In this research, an inexpensive aerodynamic shape optimization of airfoil is performed for Darrieus type vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT). Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) evaluations of various airfoil shapes are treated inexpensively by considering the apparent flow velocity magnitudes and apparent angles of attack at multiple positions of VAWT airfoil, which includes some assumptions as two dimensional steady flows and no consideration about flow interactions between blade airfoils. Global optimal shapes are efficiently explored by using a Kriging response surface model approach. An optimal VAWT airfoil is obtained by the maximization of a proposed objective function. Since our objective function for this design optimization of VAWT airfoil can be primary decomposed into the terms of thrust force and pitching moment, another multi-objective optimization of thrust/pitching moment coefficients is also performed for detailed discussions about the obtained optimal airfoil. Analysis of variance is performed on the Kriging response surface model to extract design knowledge in this design optimization problem. The obtained optimal airfoil achieves a significant improvement in the aerodynamic performance compared with an existing airfoil. Finally, expensive unsteady CFD simulations are performed for the obtained airfoils, that take into account unsteady flow interactions between three blade airfoils. The results of the unsteady CFD simulations validate the effectiveness of the proposed aerodynamic shape optimization approach for VAWT airfoil.


Background: Extended Synaptotagmins selectively bind the active FGF receptor but the mechanism is unknown. Results: ESyt2 and 3 but not ESyt1 recognize the active conformation of the FGF receptor independently of catalytic activity. Conclusion: ESyt2 and probably ESyt3 access the active cleft of the FGFR1 kinase domain. Significance: How ESyts recognize FGFRs is essential to understanding how they modulate receptor signaling. We previously demonstrated that ESyt2 interacts specifically with the activated FGF receptor and is required for a rapid phase of receptor internalization and for functional signaling via the ERK pathway in early Xenopus embryos. ESyt2 is one of the three-member family of Extended Synaptotagmins that were recently shown to be implicated in the formation of endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-plasma membrane (PM) junctions and in the Ca2+ dependent regulation of these junctions. Here we show that ESyt2 is directed to the ER by its putative transmembrane domain, that the ESyts hetero- and homodimerize, and that ESyt2 homodimerization in vivo requires a TM adjacent sequence but not the SMP domain. ESyt2 and ESyt3, but not ESyt1, selectively interact in vivo with activated FGFR1. In the case of ESyt2, this interaction requires a short TM adjacent sequence and is independent of receptor autophosphorylation, but dependent on receptor conformation. The data show that ESyt2 recognizes a site in the upper kinase lobe of FGFR1 that is revealed by displacement of the kinase domain activation loop during receptor activation.