In the field of plasma technologies a significant portion of the design and developmenttime is devoted to ensure safety. High voltages, currents, temperatures, and pressures encountered among a range of plasma technologies can lead to unnecessary risksfor the people and the environment. There is no method for systematic and easy safety verification of any particular plasma device. The challenge of structuring a universal methodology for any particular plasma device is due to the fact that there are different plasma devices with different specifications and configurations. Although there exist different manuals for safe operation of specific plasma units, as well as the ranges of safe operation, however, in terms of the design for safe operation, there is a lack of comprehensive methodologies for safety design and verification of plasma experimentation. There are risks that stem from the sources of high pressure equipment, vacuum equipment, high voltage and high current equipment. In this work, an approach to risk assessment of plasma devices is demonstrated based on functional modeling, which is used to compare the performance of two case studies in terms of risks and safety breaches, particularly the performance of induction electrode-less fluorescent lamp (IEFL) fixture and a high pressure plasma device. The results of the two cases showed ability to assess risks in different plasma technologies, which made the proposed methodology more relevant for risk assessment and hazard tracking for a range of plasma devices.


Provided are a decorative resin sheet that sufficiently brings together embossing property and embossment-retaining property, and a molded resin article on which an embossment excellent in design is formed and a method of manufacturing the molded resin article. The method of manufacturing a molded resin article includes the steps of: providing a resin sheet having a mold layer containing a polyolefin-based resin as a main component, followed by formation of an embossment on the resin sheet so that the embossment is formed on a surface of the mold layer; crosslinking the mold layer on which the embossment is formed so that a 100% modulus of the resin sheet at 200°C becomes 0.02 MPa or more, which is measured in conformity with JIS K6251 (2004 version); placing the resultant resin sheet (10) in an injection molding die (20) so that the surface (11) of the mold layer faces a side from which amolten resin (30) is injected; injecting the molten resin (30) onto a side of the surface (11) of the mold layer in the injection molding die (20) to mold a molded resin article; and separating the molded resin article and the mold layer.


Three kinds of the periodical structures are designed as low-pass, high-pass, and band-pass filters for elastic wave. The theoretical simulations have proved that the periodical surface slots can act as a low-pass filter for elastic wave. With increasing depth of the surface periodical structure in the sample, the cutoff frequency of the low-pass filter is decreased. Unlike the surface periodical structure, the periodical subsurface structure can work as a high-pass filter for elastic wave. The cutoff frequency of the high-pass filter is suppressed by the increase of the subsurface structure thickness. When the two periodical structures are combined together, the band-pass filter is obtained, in which the pass band is determined by the cutoff frequencies of the low-pass and high-pass filters.


The field experiment was laid out for two consecutive years during Kharif season of 2008 and 2009 at Bikaner, Rajasthan to find out the suitable and feasible technology for the establishment of sewan (Lasiurus sindicus Henr.) grass pastures and grasslands in hot arid ecosystem of Rajasthan. Results indicated that transplanting of nursery raised seedlings of sewan grass recorded maximum and significantly higher green fodder (12.23 and 13.56 t/ha), dry matter (4.52 and 5.10 t/ha) and crude protein (363.1 and 388.8 kg/ha) yields in both the years over all other methods of grass sowing or planting. The same treatment recorded highest values of energy ratio (8.86), energy productivity (492.1 g/MJ), net returns (Rs. 3558/ha) and B:C ratio (1.23). It was followed by soaked seed sowing method which recorded GFY 9.67 and 11.56 t/ha, DMY 3.58 and 4.35 t/ha, CPY 289.2 and 337.2 kg/ha in first and second years, respectively along with energy ratio (8.09), energy productivity (449.4 g/MJ), net returns (Rs. 2703/ha) and B:C ratio (1.20). Sowing of germinated seed and dry seed sowing in mud were found low productive and highly uneconomical for grass establishment. Though, net benefits recorded under pasture establishment may not be so attractive but looking to the difference in cost involved on establishment of perennial pastures in first year and decreased costs in subsequent years, makes it justified. Sewan grass sowing with seed pellet improved the soil fertility status especially organic carbon (%) and available N & K contents. Thus, for getting proper establishment, more productive, economical and energy efficient sewan grass pastures and grasslands, nursery raised seedling transplanting method should be adopted; whereas, in case of manpower crisis, soaked seed sowing method can be followed.


We thank Smith, Johnson, and Gray and Jani for their responses.1 -3 Our intent was to highlight the harms associated with a common form of overuse—routine and repetitive blood testing performed on stable inpatients.4 By this, we mean blood tests that are ordered for stable inpatients on a regular basis, without a specific clinical question in mind. The 2021 National Minimum Retesting Intervals in Pathology Guidelines recommend repeat testingonlywhen there is a major change in the patient's condition.5 We suggested evidence based multi-pronged strategies to curb this overuse.4 Smith mentions an additional approach—reflex and reflective testing. This has been shown to reduce the ordering of certain tests, including thyroid and rheumatological parameters.6Butweareunawareof evidence showing its use to attenuate the practice that we were discussing—routine and repetitive blood testing performed on stable hospital inpatients. It is, however, a promising area for ongoing research. We also appreciate Johnson's wariness about use of paediatric vials. But if ongoing studies validate their safety and value,7 they might be a worthwhile investment for health systems to pursue. Lastly, we agree with Gray and Jani that most clinicians' motivation to integrate Choosing Wisely recommendations intopractice is improving thevalue of available resources by ensuring that they are used more effectively, not just cost savings.8 The core of ChoosingWisely campaigns ishighlighting theharms of overuse to foster conversations between clinicians and patients about risks and benefits and to underscore that more is not always better.8 9 Reducing overuse is also emerging as a pragmatic strategy to tackle healthcare's climate impact. The effect of the climate crisis on human health is increasingly clear10; as such, strategies to tackle planetary health, including the decarbonisation of healthcare, can also improve patients' health. We think that continuing to frame campaigns around those two pillars—shared decision making and sustainability—is essential for ongoing uptake of Choosing Wisely recommendations.


In this paper we explore the effects of corruption on financial sector performance for a sample of 38 developed and developing economies for the period 1995-2005. Using system-GMM technique our results demonstrate that corruption undermines the efficacy of a developed financial sector. Governments, therefore, should control corruption and to improve financial sector performance in order to increase the likelihood of economic growth and prosperity.


: Association of obesity with high fat diet is no longer debatable. Obesity causes hyperlipidemia and upregulates the generation of several metabolic by-products such as reactive oxygen species (ROS). Excess generation of ROS is toxic to the cell that often induces DNA damage and eventually induces cell death. Accumulation of lipid along with high level of ROS increase mortality and impair organisms' growth. Herein, we have used Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism to assess the accumulation of lipid by commonly used dietary fat (commonly known as ghee ) in Asia and its effect on the growth and mortality. Synthetic polyphenol, quercetin was used along with the high fat diet to address if this particular polyphenol can be used as a protective health supplement to minimize lipid-related toxicity. Our study suggests that high fat diet impairs the growth of D. melanogaster as detected by measuring total protein, whereas this is not affected by quercetin. It also appears that quercetin alone can induce high level of lipid accumulation and this is further enhanced in presence of dietary high fat ( ghee ) in these experimental flies.


Abstract : This report covers the design considerations for an Area Intrusion Detection and Alarm System. The system uses a radiating coaxial cable to surround the protected area. Construction details and schematics are also included. (Author)


To study the effects of ovariectomy on CCl 4 induced hepatic fibrosis in rats and to investigate the suppressive effects of estrogen on liver fibrosis. Liver fibrosis was induced in ovariectomized rats by CCl 4 administration and then treated with benzoic estradiol(1mg/kg) twice a week. The expression of type I and Ⅲ collagen, the hepatic collagen synthesis and other indicators were studied. Results demonstrated that in CCl 4 group with typical liver fibrosis. ovariectomy aggravated hepatic collagen content, increased AST, ALT, hyaluronic acid(HA) and type IV collagen(CIV) in serum and enhanced expression of type I and Ⅲ collagen significantly in the fibrotic rats. Estradiol replacement therapy had an opposite effect. It was showed that ovariectomy aggravated CCl 4 induced hepatic fibrosis in rats. The mechanism may be explained by antifibrogenic effect of estrogen in liver.


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This research was conducted in the City of Los Rios Province Babahoyo, the aim of this study was to determine the incidence of neoplasms in dogs attending veterinary clinics in the period January 2005 to January 2013, according to race, sex, age, origin . To which they were based information registries and medical records of each dog attending the respective locations.
The result obtained records of the 257 sampled, 19 cases were with neoplasms, representing 7.3 % incidence.
Determining the incidence of neoplasia in dogs according to the sex of the 257 sampled cases with neoplasms accounted for 3.11% for males and 4.28% for females, determining that the highest frequency of cases is presented in females , the incidence of canine neoplasia in the 257 sampled cases according to age, accounted for 5.05 % for the ether group of more than 4 years, 2.34% for 1 and 4, and of months to 1 year with 0% , determining that the higher frequency of cases was presented in the ethereal group of more than 4 years of age, showing no statistical significance


Extravaganza King: Robert Barnet and Boston Musical Theater. By Anne Alison Barnet. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 2004. 190. $18.95 (Hardcover)The author, the great granddaughter of Robert Barnet, tells the story of the stage productions of Cadet Theatricals or Extravaganzas, written, directed, and produced by Barnet in the very late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The "cadets" were members of the First Corps of Cadets, a volunteer militia made up primarily of Harvard graduates and connected solidly to Boston Brahmin society. The theatricals were increasingly elaborate musicals in which all parts were played by the male cadets. They were staged to raise money to build an armory so the Corps could easily defend Boston from an immigrant uprising.The author's purpose was to tell the story of her great-grandfather's involvement in musical theater as indicated by the sub-title, "Robert Barnet and Boston Musical Theater." Although the book details his work, this subtitle is misleading for several reasons. First, it indicates that Barnet was a major player in Boston Musical Theater from the 1880s through the turn of the century. This is not the case. It would also seem that one would get a detailed, or at least broad, overview of what was going on in Boston Musical Theater during this time period. This is also not the case. Rather, the book is a piece of "little-known Boston history," as stated in its introduction (xiii). It provides detailed research showing the results of Barnet's work on planning, writing, managing, and directing these musical extravaganzas. Although the story has a number of possibly interesting narratives, the author does not focus or develop these, and so the book becomes a detailed, sometimes tedious, look at a small subsection of amateur Boston musical theater from 1889 through 1906.The book begins by briefly explaining the origins of Boston's First Corp of Cadets, and their connection to the city, Harvard University, and the Boston Brahmins. The focus is their plans to build an armory. It only minimally introduces Robert Barnet, at the time a prosperous sugar merchant, and describes how he became involved in the First Corps' efforts to raise funds by putting on elaborate shows with the cadets as performers. Barnet, who was neither a member of the Corps nor a Boston Brahmin, became the primary author, lyricist, director, and stage manager for these elaborate productions that contributed a substantial amount of money toward building the armory. …


John Russell's lunar images have so far been neglected and misunderstood by both historians of art and of astronomy. On the one hand this is due to the fact that the images do not come within many current definitions of the notion of art, particularly when the function of art is seen as an agency of subjective experience. Ironically, the reverse of this argument explains why historians of astronomy neglected Russell's moon images. Compared with the more technical look of lunar maps, equipped with latitude and longitude grids as well as legends, Russell's 'photo-realistic' pastels came across as works of art. They were therefore neglected because of their very nature, their double identity combining aspects from both art and astronomy. On the other hand, the moon images have to be seen in the context of Russell's life and as more than just the work of an artist and astronomer, but also as the work of a Methodist. Russell's lifelong devotion to Methodism is well known. Never before, however, has this pivotal attitude of the artist towards religion been taken into account in connection with the study of his moon images. In my paper I argue that Russell was part of the movement that attempted to unite nature and religion in the late eighteenth century. While prominent artists such as William Blake argued that nature was the work of the devil and to study it was blasphemy, Russell shared his beliefs with other evangelicals who saw the study of nature in no contradiction with God at all. In fact, Russell actively searched for proof of God's part in the creation of the world and His presence within it. This association between God and nature has been termed natural theology and peaked in the late seventeenth century, with the work of Isaac Newton himself. I attempt to show that Russell conducted years of astronomical study, leading to the moon pastels, out of religious motivation. This contextualisation of Russell's work within the tradition that believed in the 'God of Nature', will, I hope, explain the previously unsolved puzzle of the artist's incentive to portrait the moon.


Phytoplankton standing stock and production increased between June and October in St. Georges Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada. Inorganic nitrogen is believed to be the limiting nutrient in the Bay and it is deduced that in situ regeneration must have satisfied most of the summer demand by primary producers. The proportion of organic matter sedimented, relative to that produced by phytoplankton during this time, depended upon the degree of water stratification. Sedimentation of organic carbon and nitrogen amounted to between 9 and 14 % of that assimilated by phytoplankton during maximum stratification in August, implying that 90 % of the organic matter produced was recycled above the thermocline. Although copepod biomass decreased, production increased in late June and remained high throughout the summer because of rapid development at high summer temperatures. The production of mackerel and lobster larvae, estimated from studies in other years, was greatest from late July to mid-August. Thus, maximum consumption of the products of phytoplankton production in the water column above the thermocline and minimum transfer of particulate organic matter to the benthos coincided with maximum growth and production rates of copepods and their predators. Calculations of potential food consumption by larval and adult fish, estimated from biomass, showed that standing stocks of planktonic prey organisms could not support the biomass of fish present. The predictable occurrence of warmer waters with rapid production of prey organisms and the restricted exchange with offshore waters makes St. Georges Bay a successful nursery ground for pelagic spawners.


The utility model provides a hearing test system which comprises an audiometer, a control device and at least one toy box; the audiometer is connected with the control device and is used for outputting test tone to the control device; and the control device is used for receiving the test tone from the audiometer and an instruction from a person receiving the test, and sends out a control signal to one or a plurality of toy boxes in the toy boxes connected with the control device according to the received instruction from the person receiving the test so as to control the one or the plurality of toy boxes to be started or stopped. The utility model also provides a control device and an audiometer for hearing test. By adopting the utility model, the hearing test efficiency and the test accuracy can be improved.


The article discusses the problem of prosocial behavior – behavior aimed at the benefit of other people and non-anticipated response assistance and benefits for themselves. The research problem is the identification of social determinants that determine this special type of human behavior. The theoretical ideas of Russian psychology about the determinism of a personality by its social relations and self-determination of a personality as a result of its active life position are the basis of the study. The authors presented an analysis of approaches to defining and understanding the nature of prosocial behavior. The general conclusion is made that in the scientific literature "prosocial behavior" is an integral term that includes many manifestations of personality in terms of its individual and social nature. It is separately noted that the psychological content of "prosocial behavior" is revealed through motivation and social attitudes that determine the manifestation and orientation of constructive activity that is useful for other people or society. The positive and negative aspects of prosocial behavior realized in the context of "honest deeds", selfish motivation, and semantic altruistic attitudes are analyzed. The questions of the possible negative impact of prosocial motivation on professional activities are raised. The article contains the results of a study of differences in the social attitudes of the prosocial behavior of boys and girls. The study proved the assumption of greater emotionality of the prosocial behavior of girls and the pragmatism of the attitudes of prosocial behavior in boys. The results of the study allow the authors to conclude that for the modern young generation, prosocial behavior is a natural form of social activity and is carried out in accordance with internal normative values. Attitudes toward anonymity prevail in it. But "true", not suggesting reciprocal gratitude, prosocial behavior requires development in the male group through increasing the empathy of interpersonal relationships.


This study examines how the dependence of organisations on external stakeholders leads to the global diffusion of Corporate Environmental Responsibility initiatives. Drawing on resource dependence theory, we propose that the global diffusion of the ISO 14001 initiative is associated with three types of stakeholder pressure: environmental protection, media freedom and trade dependence. Empirical results based on panel analyses of 112 countries during the 1996-2005 period suggest that the resource dependence approach provides useful insights for better understanding organisation-stakeholder relations to predict the diffusion process.


Among people who engage in the same amount of physical activity weekly, is vigorous physical activity (versus moderate activity) associated with lower


Microwave absorption was measured in the mixed state of ~Bi or Tl! 2~Sr or Ba! 2Ca n21Cu nO y . In a La-substituted Bi2Sr2CuO y ~Bi-2201!, a sharp resonant structure was found in the absorption as a function of magnetic field only when the microwave current flowed across the CuO2 planes, as well as in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O y ~Bi-2212!. Together with the frequency-dependence data, the resonant structure in the absorption in Bi-2201 is considered to be the Josephson plasma resonance. The anisotropy ratio g[(mc /mab) 1/2 was tentatively estimated to be ;750. A striking difference was found in the temperature dependence of the resonance field between Bi-2201 and Bi-2212. We argue that this comes from the difference in the dimensionality of the vortex systems. In Tl2Ba2CaCu2O y, no such resonance was found in the microwave region, which is probably due to a smaller anisotropy in this material. @S0163-1829~96!51622-X#


Considering a Multi-Objective Optimization problem for a Dynamic System, we propose a controller that drives this system into a point on the Pareto front.At such a point, no change in any control variable can be made without deteriorating one of the objectives. Gradient Estimators are the core of this controller. A sinusoidal Perturbation based gradient estimation approach is adopted.


Objective To investigate the clinical value of breast blood oxygen functional image(BOI) combined with Doppler ultrasound(DU) in diagnosis of breast cancer.Methods 225 cases of breast masses in People's Hospital of Bao'an District in Shenzhen City from December 2010 to March 2012 were selected and tested with BOI and/or DU,aspiration biopsy,surgical removal and pathological examination were used too.The rates of sensitivity,specificity,positive prediction and negative prediction were calculated for BOI,DU,and BOI jointed with DU with pathological diagnosis as the check standard.Results The rates of sensitivity,specificity,positive prediction value,and negative prediction value diagnosed by BOI alone were respectively 91.9%(34/37),88.3%(166/188),61.8%(34/55),and 98.2%(167/170).The rates of sensitivity,specificity,positive prediction value,and negative prediction value diagnosed by DU alone were 86.8%(33/38),85.6%(160/187),52.4%(33/63) and 98.8%(160/162).There was no significant differ ence between the diagnostic efficiency of BOI and DU(P 0.05).The rates of sensitivity,specificity,positive prediction value,and negative prediction value diagnosed by BOI jointed with DU were 97.4%(37/38),90.3%(169/187),67.3%(18/55),and 99.4%(169/170) which were all significantly higher than that of BOJ or DU alone(P 0.05).Conclusion BOJ has no advantage over DU in sensitivity,specificity,positive prediction value and negative prediction value for the diagnosis of breast carcinoma.However,BOJ is more harmless,convenient and inexpensive than DU.BOI jointed with DU can promote the sensitivity and specificity for breast carcinoma significantly,it is an effective assisting aid for the diagnosis of breast carcinoma.


We construct a geometric ideal triangulation for every fundamental shadow link complement and solve the gluing equation explicitly in terms of the holonomies of the meridians of the link for any generic character in the distinguished component of the $\mathrm{PSL}(2;\mathbb{C})$-character variety of the link complement. As an application, we obtain a new formula for the volume of a hyperideal tetrahedron in terms of its dihedral angles. Moreover, by using the ideal triangulation, we verify the 1-loop conjecture proposed by Dimofte and Garoufalidis for every fundamental shadow link complement. We also prove a surgery formula for the 1-loop invariant with respect to certain nice ideal triangulations of 3-manifolds with toroidal boundary.


Integrated system 200 may operate in a scheme to secure (secure operation) initialization (initializing), management (maintaining), update (updating) and restore (recovering) are provided. This technique of using an integrated system, the data access control function unit 240 in the (200) includes an integrated within the system has a current level of software, a next level of software authentication (authenticating). This authentication is performed before control is passed to the next level of software. In addition, the ability of the next level of software to modify the operating characteristics of the integrated system (operational characteristic) by using the data access control function unit 240 may be selectively limited. In addition, the software in the initializing secure operation of an integrated system 200, the first transform the encrypted (encrypted) data using the key set to data encrypted using a second key set, the integrated system 200 and updating a key, and is subsequent to the triggering event (trigger event) provides a technique to restore the function of the integrated system 200.


The article discusses categories of becoming in the philosophical and pedagogical context. Becoming is a feature of a borderland man living in a multicultural world. The borderland was defined and the features of a person living on this borderland have been indicated. The borderland unit is dynamic, it crosses both territorial and axiological boundaries, it just becomes.


responsibility for genocide, while accusing the Tutsi leader Paul Kagame of crimes against humanity (pp. 51–68). It would take at least a large book to launch a serious defense of any of these claims, and yet Herman and Peterson make all of them in a slim 159-page volume—while finding space to devote to Iraq, Darfur, Israel, East Timor, El Salvador, and Guatemala as well. To be blunt, nobody skeptical of any of these claims will be convinced by The Politics of Genocide. All in all, this book does not really try to examine the politics of genocide. It tries to provide ideological ammunition to people who already hate US foreign policy. There is surely much to hate about US foreign policy, but the book purports to be about more than that. Anyone who wants to do more than just chant, "So-and-so, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide" at American leaders deserves more from a book like this than example after example of bad things the US government has done. Whatever its merits as a source on the evils of US foreign policy, The Politics of Genocide never comes close to fulfilling the promise of its title.


Designing an efficient controller for controlling and maintaining the Continuous Stirred Tank Heater (CSTH) is one of the demanding and crucial process in recent days. For this reason, different controlling strategies such as Proportional Integral Derivative (PID), Proportional (P), and Fuzzy Logic Control (FLC) are developed in the traditional works. It mainly focuses to control the tank based on its temperature level, but it failed to reduce the error and settling time. The increased settling time can affect the chemical reactions inside the tank, so it must be maintained at certain level. Thus, this work aims to develop an optimal strategy, namely, Tri-Energy based Neural Network Controller (TENNC) for controlling and maintaining the temperature of CSTH. It is developed based on the material balance and energy balance of the tank and jacket. In this design, the output of system is compared with the input of system for estimating the error value, based on this, the controller obtains the desired output. Moreover, it focused to increase the efficiency and reduce the operating cost of the controller. The major benefits of this design are, it enabled an automated control system with increased efficiency and reduced man power. In simulation, the traditional PID, PC and FLC controlling strategies based on the measures of time, amplitude, and error. The results showed the effectiveness of the proposed controller design. Index Terms — Continuous Stirred Tank Heater (CSTH), TriEnergy based Neural Network Controller (TENNC), Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) Controller, Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC), Jacket, Tank, Error Reduction, and Settling Time Minimization.


Artificial intelligence has evolved enormously over the last two decades, becoming mainstream in different scientific domains including education, where so far, it is mainly utilized to enhance administrative and intelligent tutoring systems services and academic support. ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-based chatbot, developed by OpenAI and released in November 2022, has rapidly gained attention from the entire international community for its impressive performance in generating comprehensive, systematic, and informative human-like responses to user input through natural language processing. Inevitably, it has also rapidly posed several challenges, opportunities, and potential issues and concerns raised regarding its use across various scientific disciplines. This paper aims to discuss the legal and ethical implications arising from this new technology, identify potential use cases, and enrich our understanding of Generative AI, such as ChatGPT, and its capabilities in education.


Boredom is a prevalent theme in Herman Melville's works, but rather than amounting to a passing trend or an accent for drawing attention to the action that also permeates his work, this volume argues for the centrality of boredom in the writings. The author contends that in Melville's mature work, especially Moby Dick, boredom presents itself as an insidious presence in the lives of Melville's characters, until it matures from being a mere killer of time into a killer of souls.


Given how desperately ill many of our patients are, it hasalways seemed a shame that our field insists on divid-ing itself—for example, biological vs. psychological, descrip-tive vs. historical, psychodynamic vs. cognitive-behavioral.Sometimesthisiscarriedtosuchextremesthatthepatient'swelfare appears to be secondary to the desire of a zealoustherapist to "score points" for his or her point of view.This case report is refreshing in that it presents the his-tory of a seriously ill woman who has been successfullytreatedwithacombinationofmedicationandpsychotherapystrategies. A review of the cognitive-behavioral and psycho-dynamic formulations contained here will reveal some sig-nificantsimilarities:cognitivedistortionsanddefensemech-anisms, affect avoidance and affect intolerance, and so on.The technical recommendations do of course differ betweenmodels, but we should consider whether or not these schoolsof thought, and perhaps many others not represented here,might each include significant pieces of the same truths inworking with patients.


The invention self relates to a magnetizing motor, flows of the same current in aeksa data coil, under the condition that the same turn number of the winding, along the circumferential direction of the rotor larger the width of the aeksa data pole width and aeksa data slot of and women slot the smaller the width of the tisseu adjacent to, while the flux-linkage in the air gap between the rotor and the stator is smaller the width of the tisseu adjacent to the width and the woman slot of aeksa data slot increases the magnetic field strength of aeksa data tinted confident using the principle, the width of the aeksa data pole in the circumferential direction of the rotor and, as the width of the aeksa data slot, the width of the tisseu adjacent to a woman slot 7.0 ~ 8.6: by configuring to 2.7 ~ 3.3 ratio: 3.8 ~ 4.6 , significantly increase the strength of the magnetic field data aeksa mounting the female and flux-linkage can be efficiently improved in the performance of the motor. Magnetized magnetic, Paul aeksa data, data aeksa coil, complex data aeksa confident


ABSTRACT Mechanical damage of seeds due to harvest, handling and other process is an important factor that affects the quality and quaintly of seeds. Seed damage results in lower grain value, storability problem, and reduces seed germination and seedling vigor and subsequent yield of crops. The objectives were to determine the effect of different levels of zinc sulphate fertilization on the breakage susceptibility of three irrigated wheat varieties (Bahar, Shiraz and Pyshtaz). An experiment was conduct at the Experimental research station of Lorestan University, Iran. A factorial experiment was conducted with three replicates in a completely randomized block design (CRBD). Factors included three levels of zinc sulphate. Zinc sulphate treatments were combinations of three fertilization rates (0 - control, 25 and 50 kg/ha) at three replicates. The harvested seeds were subjected to impact energies of 0.05 and 0.1 J at constant moisture contents of 9.8, 15 and 20% using an impact test apparatus. The analysis of variance showed that wheat variety, fertilization level of zinc sulphate and moisture content significantly influenced breakage susceptibility of wheat seeds at the 1% probability level. Resistance to the breakage of wheat seeds for all varieties increased, as polynomial functions, with increase in the zinc sulphate rate. The average values of percentage breakage of seeds decreased from 37.07 to 27.80% as the fertilization level of zinc sulphate increased from 0 to 50 kg/ha. Bahar variety exhibited the highest resistance to breakage than other varieties. As the moisture content increased from 9.8 to 20% the percentage breakage of seeds decreased from 36.58 to 30.03%. Increasing the impact energy from 0.05 to 0.1 J caused an increase in the percentage breakage of seeds from 16.19 to 50.47%.


Author(s): Glassow, Michael A. | Abstract: The Island Chumash, Behavioral Ecology of a Maritime Society Douglas J. Keimett. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005.310 pp., 22 b/w photographs, 23 line illustrations, 15 maps, 20 tables, $60 (cloth).


ABSTRACT Based on a conduction equation with an intrinsic reaction rate term, a methodology has been developed to systematically study the factors affecting the forced ignition of a long pellet compressed out of a mixture of titanium and carbon reactant powders. This methodology enables identification of the parameters that determine whether or not ignition would occur under a given set of conditions and the time to ignition if it occurs. The ignition process is accountable through four nondimensional parameters: the intensity of ignition source, the Damkohler number, a reaction energy parameter and the Arrhenius number. Sample calculations show that the methodology is physically reasonable.


This project is executed for the company Menperium that specializes in motivational sculptures. In the past they created sculptures which convey motivating and encouraging messages to employees. They gave us the challenge of designing and creating a motivational sculpture showing life purpose quotes. Beforehand, research was conducted into various types of art installations. Distinctions between these installations have been found and were used during the ideation phase. Next, multiple concept ideas have been created while keeping the requirements given by Menperium in mind. The final concept met all the requirements and was thus chosen to be created. The components of the chosen idea were further specified and realized. The finalized prototype was placed in the hallway of the Vrijhof to execute the prepared tests. Unfortunately, the installation did not meet the envisioned result on passersby. The amount of people standing still in order to observe the installation was moderate, yet if the prototype is going to be sold to companies the amount of people who have interest in it should be brought up. Future recommendations including adding a title or a sign with an explanation are given.


This paper includes a simple means of operationally converting conventional inductively coupled plasma (ICP) torches of the popular Scott and Fassel design to an extended configuration which is useful for excluding atmospheric gases. Entrained atmospheric N2, CO2, and O2 otherwise act as undesirable quenching agents and contaminants in the ICP atomic spectrochemical determination of the elements oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon. The simple torch extension described here excludes these entrained contaminents. The extension may be of any length and may be constructed of any nonconducting, high temperature, optically transparent material. Since the extension is not permanently sealed to the main torch, it may be conveniently installed or removed at will while the main torch remains in position in the ICP stand. The system can therefore be rapidly changed back and forth between the normal and extended modes of operation. The changeover is quickly performed without dismantling any portion of the ICP stand or torch assembly.


The characteristics of hypermarket is outlined firstly in this paper, then the relation of hypermarket and manufacturer is analyzed, and then we explain the relation between hypermarket and manufacturer employing the Five Force Model, lastly the foreground of hypermarket is prospected.


As public sector agencies use the e-government model to improve delivery of their services, it is important that this model become integrated into education of future leaders of the public service. A fully scaled implementation of e-government requires more than simple automation of the existing processes. It can affect significantly the overall organizational structure of public agencies, their missions and goals, and the way they interact with customers and with each other. Because of its profound impact on the functions and even structure of government, implementing e-government involves significant challenges, including resistance to change and the problem of lack of information technology skills among public managers. To address these challenges, public affairs programs must include into their curricula courses that would prepare cadre qualified for the era of e-government. Survey results are presented outlining efforts of graduate public affairs programs to meeting demands related to the e-government model. Major components of the model are outlined and the extent to which these components are covered in graduate courses in leading public affairs programs is assessed.


The scientific matter of the manuscript isn't a really new; actually in the literature there are many example on this, either in the modelling field or in the analysis of the in situ observations and correctly in the manuscript there are a long list of key references. However, the manuscript tackle an important and new relevant scientific issue dealing with the analysis of the ocean processes related to the propagation, spreading and adjustment of the density anomaly in a complex topography like as it is the Ionian Mediterranean sub-basin. This study, specifically the tank-experiment, reveals the important role of the n-layer stratification in the vortex rotation within the framework quasi-geostrophic model on an f-plane. For all these reasons that the results of this paper are very interesting for the oceanographic communities and in particular for those scientists more implicated on the Mediterranean studies. However the present version of the manuscript have a lot of a weak points and therefore is not ready to be published for the following reason.


We have a wide variety of teaching experiences, from formal settings in elementary school (Valarie), high school (Alex, Taukir, and Meize), higher education (Steven), and teacher education (all) to...


With the development of the times, the level of science and technology is changing with each passing day. Online educational resources have become one of the research directions in the field of educational technology, which is an indispensable part of the sustainable development of individuals in the life-long learning society. Analyzing of the relevant literature in CNKI, the knowledge map of online educational resources in China from 2000 to 2020 is generated based on the visualization analysis tool CiteSpace, and the online educational resources in China in the 21st century are displayed and analyzed in the way of knowledge map, so as to explore the change and evolution of the research of online educational resources in China. Based on this, the conclusions and suggestions are drawn to provide the reference for the theoretical and practical construction of online educational resources.


We consider empirical risk minimization for large-scale datasets. We introduce Ada Newton as an adaptive algorithm that uses Newton's method with adaptive sample sizes. The main idea of Ada Newton is to increase the size of the training set by a factor larger than one in a way that the minimization variable for the current training set is in the local neighborhood of the optimal argument of the next training set. This allows to exploit the quadratic convergence property of Newton's method and reach the statistical accuracy of each training set with only one iteration of Newton's method. We show theoretically and empirically that Ada Newton can double the size of the training set in each iteration to achieve the statistical accuracy of the full training set with about two passes over the dataset.


Modem manufacturing systems must follow a repeatable and accurate behaviour. The thermal behaviour of modern manufacturing systems is a very important part of a unitary concept for design, testing, control and reception. Unfortunately, according to a CIRP evaluation, more than 50% of machining errors at the modern manufacturing systems are due to the thermal phenomena [J. Bryan, 1990]. The author has studied the problem more than 30 years and he had his doctorate in this field. The paper presents some of the author's results obtained at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. The main topic of the paper is testing under thermal stress and reliability of manufacturing systems. The experimental researches were focused on the testing of the thermal behaviour of the Romanian grinding machines with a real research relevant, the development of new trends in the design, construction and testing of manufacturing systems. There were some first steps (in the years '70 -'80) of the advanced quality concepts in Romania, according to the national and international standards. The author carried out for the first time in Romania the thermographical study of machine tools. The thermographical study, as an image processing, place the paper in an other, supplementary topic of this Conference. One of the latest researches of the author: "analysis of thermal behaviour of new types of machine tools" were carried out at the University of Stuttgart and granted from the NATO.


This report documents the lab tests that have been carried out to evaluate the first CHIANTI prototype implementing the core infrastructure components CHIANTI Proxy and CHIANTI Client The main focus of the tests were laid on the benefits from the DP-BASIC TCP protocol, i.e. robustness against network outages that would have caused TCP connection timeouts on Microsoft Windows XP and Linux platforms. The standardisation and dissemination activities included contributions to the DTN working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Future Internet programme of the EU, a joint meeting with the PSIRP project as well as invited talks at research conferences such as the ICT-MobileSummit and several industry fora. FP7-ICT-2007-1 CHIANTI 216714 chianti-D5.1.doc © The CHIANTI consortium – 2008-2009 Page 2 of 30


The present invention relates AZO glass insulation coating and preparation method for doped NiO, wherein: said coating composition comprising in percentage by mass: AZO doped NiO nano powder 10 to 15% titanium dioxide coated insulating filler hollow microbeads 10 to 20%, 40 to 60% of film-forming materials, film-forming aid 1 to 6% of deionized water. The present invention and the conventional use of hollow glass beads or nano-insulating indium tin oxide as compared to the filler coating film which is made of a high infrared shielding effect, can effectively reduce the temperature of the surface coating and internal environment, the cost of low and non-toxic environmentally friendly, with superior stain resistance, self-cleaning, antifogging capability and weatherability. It can be widely used in automobiles, trains, aircraft windshields, building glass.


The doctrine of unconstitutional conditions is notoriously opaque and complex, and scholars have long struggled to explain not only how it functions, but also why it exists in the first place. This Article draws on concepts from moral philosophy to provide new insight into these two important questions, at a time when clarity is urgently needed: the doctrine of unconstitutional conditions has increased markedly in current relevance during the Trump Administration, from challenges to the executive order threatening to defund "sanctuary cities" to the reimplementation of the "Global Gag Rule," which prohibits non-governmental organizations that provide abortion counseling from receive federal funding.
This Article argues that "anticommodification discourse," a set of moral arguments that holds certain goods and ideas must not be treated as "commodities" that can be bought and sold for money, elucidates recent developments in unconstitutional conditions jurisprudence and provides a coherent theory for how the Supreme Court has approached these kinds of cases. Moreover, the idea that rights, and even aspects of constitutional structure, should not be treated as commodities actually provides the normative underpinning for the doctrine's existence. To demonstrate the analytical power of anticommodification discourse, the Article applies those principles to explain various problems in the realm of unconstitutional conditions, including recent Supreme Court cases on the First Amendment and the Affordable Care Act, the prevalence and acceptance of plea-bargaining, and the constitutional challenge to President Trump's executive order on sanctuary cities. In doing so, the Article fills an important gap in the scholarship on unconstitutional conditions, as scholars have long overlooked the importance of anticommodificationist principles to explaining, understanding, and justifying the unconstitutional conditions doctrine.


As a result of our comparative study of the Ukrainian-Belarusian and Greek-Byzantine musical manuscripts, the significant number of Greek chants from the Ukrainian and Belarusian staff-notated Heirmologia of the late 16th –18th centuries were authorized. The Heirmologia include the works of the prominent Byzantine composers, such as Ioannes Glykys, Ioannes Kladas and Manuel Chrysaphes. The Greek chants' authorization produce the question how the borrowed Greek chants sounded, whether or not the Ukrainian and Belarusian singers reproduced the Byzantine modes. The objectives of the article are 1) to reveal the peculiarities of the Greek chants' designations of modes in the Ukrainian and Belarusian staff-notated Heirmologia, 2) to imagine the Greek chants' sound based on the musical acoustics approaches, 3) to analyze the thoughts and ideas of the non-Greek musicians who mastered the Byzantine music. Scientific novelty. It is established that the Greek chants' designations of mode offered in the Ukrainian and Belarusian manuscripts are often "false" in comparison with the original definitions of the chants' ihos. For the first time the sound of the borrowed Greek chants songs in the light of the Byzantine music's modern methods analysis is considered.


Nowadays, all types of electrical equipment, including cables, are exposed to various power quality effects. The harmonics are among the severe power quality problems, which can directly affect the insulating material in cables and other power system elements. Cables are costly power system elements, which deserve special attention in this regard. Cross linked polyethylene cables are widely used in all parts of the power system. The insulation material of such cables is significantly affected by high frequencies appearing as harmonics in the supply voltage. In this paper, a high voltage, high frequency circuit is developed to create different voltage harmonic orders and to test cross linked polyethylene insulation under condition of 10 kV with frequency of 50, 150, 250, 350 Hz. Test circuit consists of high voltage resonance transformer and low voltage rectifier/inverter to generate high frequency waveform. This arrangement is a good simulation for the real life operation of such cables in harmonic-polluted grids. This paper shows the negative effect of high frequency, high voltage supply on the performance of cable appearing as a growth of electrical tree on XLPE insulation of power cables. Different shapes of electrical trees and growth patterns were obtained as a function of frequency variation. This is attributed to the intensive partial discharges and photo ionization occurring at high frequency. This work is of great importance for the transmission and distribution grids, which currently suffer from a high penetration level of harmonics exceeding the standards limits.


"A Dream in a Pillow" is a popular legend text,but the significance of this text is more than its artistic achievements.The introverted and recreational features represented by of this text affected are the two trends affecting the scholar mentality in mid-Tang Dynasty,which was caused by the unique social and historical background of the mid-Tang Dynasty."A Dream in a Pillow",as a landmark work of Tang legend turning into the flourishing period,is also the beginning of the change of the scholar mentality in the mid-Tang Dynasty.


The article presents the results of the pedagogical experiment covering the study of the efficiency of the use of the special training device "special crossbar" for the development of the local power endurance of athletes grasp in mas-wrestling. This device differs from the known ones by that that it consists from rods of the different shapes, which are mounted at different angles. Due to this, when performing the exercises on this crossbar, the load is unevenly distributed between the hands, besides, by changing the position of the grasp it is possible to change the direction of the load at the flexor muscles of the fingers. The multiple rods allow performing simultaneously the exercises for several athletes with the rapid transition from one to another rod, which increases the intensity of your workout. Because of the experiment, the athletes of the experimental group have significantly improved their performance at the test exercises, being closer to the model parameters of the highly skilled athletes.


Method: The sampling was formed by 422 students (252 women and 169 men) from University of Cumhuriyet. The data of the study were obtained from the questionnaire determining their sociodemographic characteristics of the students and AMI and ASI in order to determine their tendencies of sexism. After obtaining the permission from the Rectorate of Cumhuriyet University, the application was carried out with the help of academic staff at relevant faculties and vocational schools between 01.02.2012 and 30.04.2012.


The extensions of response-dependent concepts are a priori connected with the subjective responses that competent users of that concept have in normal conditions. There are two strategies for specifying normal conditions for response-dependent concepts: topic-specific and topic-neutral. On a topic-specific specification, a characterization of normal conditions would be given separately for each response-dependent concept (or a non-trivial subset of response-dependent concepts, such as our colour concepts), whereas a topic-neutral specification would be given in a uniform way for all response-dependent concepts. In this paper I argue, using a thought experiment, that only topic-neutral specifications will deliver the a priori knowledge constitutive of response-dependence.


This article aims to determine the influence of the Virtual Learning Teaching students Pedro Vilcapaza Technological Institute of the province of Azangaro Department of Puno; where specific objectives: to determine and compare the level of student learning before (pre-test) and after (posttest) of the implementation of e-learning; The research is experimental, using a quasiexperimental design, consisting of two groups of students (experimental group and control group). Study results for the comparison between the pretests, EXP1 and CON1 show that: the level of learning of the experimental and control groups did not initially show significant differences, indicating the homogeneity of the groups before the intervention of virtual learning. After application of virtual learning, comparing the post-test and CON2 EXP2 was significant, favoring the experimental group scores, indicating that there has been change in the group. In relation to the means of the experimental groups before (EXP1) and after the intervention of virtual learning (EXP2) were statistically different; while in the control group no significant differences between the pre-test (CON1) and post-test (CON 2) were observed. Therefore, according to the hypothesis test of mean difference for related samples with 95% probability, it is stated that the implementation of virtual learning is positively enhances the level of student learning.


The aim of our study is to investigate the natural history of scaphoid non-union. Factors affecting the outcome of scaphoid fracture non-union surgery were assessed using data collected retrospecti...


Preserving cognitive functions from age-related decline and Alzheimer's Disease (AD) represents one of the major challenges of modern Neuroscience. However, we are currently unable to counteract the neurodegenerative process at an early stage, a prerequisite to minimize structural damage and recover learning and memory functions. Reduced neurotrophic support by Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) and Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) to the basal forebrain system has been extensively shown to cause cholinergic related cognitive dysfunction and neurogenesis alterations, thus contributing to AD aetiopathogenesis. Neurotrophin binding to the specific tyrosine kinase receptor (TrkA for NGF and TrkB for BDNF) allows phosphorylation and docking of early Trks adaptors shc (Src homology and collagen homology), thus promoting neuronal survival, phenotype maintenance and synaptic activity. Shc family is made of several isoforms sharing phosphotyrosine binding domains consisting of the N-terminal phosphotyrosine-binding (PTB) and the C-terminal Srchomology2 (SH2) sequences, and is involved in brain development/functions, cancer and immunity. The neuronal Shc isoform C (N-Shc), also known as ShcC/Rai/Shc3/Shk, is envisaged as an elective molecular target to achieve brain neuroprotection in AD. The N-Shc protein evolutionary correlates with vertebrate brain development. In line with a major role in central nervous system functions, N-Shc is implicated in brain and retinal development, as well as in adult neurogenesis [1,2]. It is expressed as two 55 (p55) and 69 (p69) kDa isoforms specifically in post mitotic CNS neurons, and it is topographically enriched in the forebrain [3]. N-Shc initiates PI3 kinase-dependent sustained survival/differentiation, potentiates MAPK signaling and hampers JNK activation, being antiapoptotic [4]. N-Shc activation exerts a crucial role in Long Term Potentiation (LTP) and is neuroprotective against aging-associated diseases, like ischemia [5] and oxidative stress [6]. In line with a major neuroprotective role of the signaling adaptor protein, a reduction of NShc protein and mRNA have been reported in brain aging, and AD [6]. Also, we observed a perturbation in the Shc pathway, with a specific down regulation of NShc phosphorylation in the forebrain of Tg2576 mice, a diffuse mouse model of AD (D). In line with this, N-Shc Editorial


Three cultivars with thick fruit skin of Cucumis melo were taken as the materials in the experiment.By means of artificial regulation of the individual leaf numbers,the effects of change in source-sink relationship between leaves and fruits on the fruit characteristics were studied.The results indicated that along wth increase of individual leaf numbers,fruit size and total soluble solids of three cultivars firstly increased,then tended to stability,and displayed certain differences among cultivars,the fruit shape indexes(vertical-transverse diameter ratio)gradually decreased with increase of leaf numbers.According to the results above,it was holded that the primary characteristic of fruit would be evidently affected by the source(leaves) change only within a very small strength.In addition,both fruit size and total soluble solids appear to have its threshold.


Abstract Oceanographic variability creates a weak random propagation medium for acoustic waves. The impact on acoustic transmission is becoming increasingly appreciated as the deterministic modelling of sound propagation in the ocean has become tractable and better understood. Beyond the near field (where phase fluctuations are weak) and the far field (where the scintillation index becomes saturated) multiple-scattering theory predicts that random focusing will greatly enhance the acoustic energy density over small volumetric regions, which we call 'ribbons'. In 1986 an experiment was carried out in the eastern Mediterranean to test this prediction using acoustic propagation along distinct, resolvable ray paths. This experiment is one of the few to map the spatial structure of acoustic intensity with such a large vertical aperture, and as far as the authors are aware it remains the only experiment to attempt to detect the two-dimensional structure of the predicted focused ribbons for individual energy paths. Renewed impetus to publish the results has been provided by the recent focus on moderate- to high-frequency acoustics in near-shore and shallow-water environments. The experiment is described and high-intensity regions consistent with the theoretical predictions are reported. A 3.5 kHz pulsed signal was transmitted over ranges of 11–23 km and sampled over a vertical aperture of 250–350 m and horizontal apertures of 4–4.5 km. The acoustic signals travelling along individual ray paths developed randomly focused regions of 6–18 dB over regions with a vertical dimension of about 20 m and whose horizontal length could possibly be up to 1 km. The understanding of these features allows system limitations to be estimated quantitatively and opens up the way to their constructive tactical use. The results are applicable to many systems from towed array sonars to high-frequency bathymetric sidescan and minehunting.


According to the requirements of multidimensional vibration sensor,a kind of three-dimensional MEMS vibration sensor imitated insects cilium is developed.After discussing the bionic mechanism and the operating principle,the mechanical model and the finite element model of the sensor were established.Combining the analysis of the static and dynamic characteristics of the sensor with experimental verification,the results show that the sensor ' s sensitivity is 274.18 μV/gn,and the demensional coupling interference is less then 0.612 5%,and the measurement range is ±25 gn,and the resonance frequency is 0-2 342.6 Hz.Its resistant to impact is 100 gn.


The aim of the study was to determine the effects of ziprasidone on both sleep and cortisol excretion in healthy subjects under standard sleeping conditions and within a model of insomnia. The volunteers stayed in the sleep laboratory twice for two consecutive days with a five day wash-out period. On the two consecutive evenings they received either 40 mg ziprasidone or a placebo in a randomized order. Medication was administered under double-blind conditions. To experimentally provoke sleep disturbances and elevations of cortisol excretion, the participants were exposed to acoustic stimuli during the second nights. The participants sleep was polysomnographically investigated during four nights. To examine the subjective sleep quality, standardized sleep questionnaires were carried out. Furthermore, urine was collected during three fractionated collection periods (evening, night, morning) for determination of cortisol excretion. The acoustic sleep disturbances resulted in a decrement of sleep continuity, a reduction of slow wave sleep and an elevation of cortisol excretion. Thus, a model of insomnia was developed, which simulates sleep disturbances and activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis as they occur in schizophrenic patients.Ziprasidone had a significant effect on sleep under both standard conditions and within the model of insomnia. The suppression of REM sleep was most pronounced. This was reflected in a distinct reduction of the percentage of REM sleep and REM density as well as a nearly doubled REM latency. Moreover, an increase in the percentage of slow wave sleep was seen under ziprasidone. Sleep continuity improved, i. e. total sleep time and sleep efficiency increased while the number of awakings decreased. Evaluations of the standardized questionnaires also showed sleep consolidating properties. Cortisol excretion was significantly suppressed by ziprasidone under both standard conditions and acoustic stress.This is the first study giving evidence that ziprasidone can normalize sleep parameters which are disturbed by schizophrenia. Furthermore, this work indicates that ziprasidone influences the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis by decreasing its activity. Since there is a connection between disturbed sleep, enhanced activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and schizophrenic symptoms, ziprasidone might have a positive influence on the symptoms shown by schizophrenic patients.


Background Currently, there are serious limitations in the direct diagnosis of active tuberculosis (ATB). We evaluated the levels of the IL-18/IL-37/IP-10 signalling complex proteins in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb)-specific antigen-stimulated QuantiFERON® Gold In-Tube (QFT) cultures and in serum samples from ATB patients, healthy individuals with latent M.tb infection (LTBI) and healthy controls (HC) to examine whether combined analyses of these proteins were useful in the differentiation of M.tb states. Methods The concentrations of IL-18, IL-18BP, IFN-γ, IL-37 and IP-10 in the serum and QFT supernatants were measured using specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits. Free IL-18 levels were calculated using the law of mass action. Results Increased concentrations of total and free IL-18, IL-18BP, IFN-γ and IP-10 in the sera of ATB patients were detected. These increases were not counterbalanced by the overproduction of IL-37. Complex co-expression of serum IL-18BP and IL-37, IP-10 and IFN-γ was identified as the highest discriminative biomarker set for the diagnosis of ATB. Conclusions Our results suggest that the IL-18 signalling complex might be exploited by M. tuberculosis to expand the clinical manifestations of pulmonary TB. Therefore, direct analysis of the serum components of the IL-18/IL-37 signalling complex and IP-10 may be applicable in designing novel diagnostic tests for ATB.


The article analyzes the changes in the ideological policy of the Soviet state based on the materials of periodicals and archival funds of the letters sub-Department Of the General Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU. The article deals with the problem of representation of religion for the world community. In the course of the study, it is established how the process of changing the representation of religion was influenced by a foreign policy factor. The reasons for the support of international religious organizations for the changes taking place in the Soviet state are also revealed.


1 Platelet‐activating factor (PAF) is a phospholipid mediator with potent cardiovascular and haematological actions. But its mechanisms of action in vivo have not been fully elucidated, probably due to difficulties arising from previous findings that the effects of PAF are largely mediated by the release of a variety of other autacoids. In the present study, the roles of nitric oxide and eicosanoids in the effects of PAF (0.01‐0.25 μg kg−1 i.v.) on systemic and pulmonary vasculatures and circulating blood cell count were pharmacologically evaluated in anaesthetized dogs. 2 Higher doses of PAF (>0.1 μg kg−1) produced a biphasic systemic hypotension. The first hypotension seen 30 s after the injection was accompanied by a decrease in systemic vascular resistance, thrombocytopenia and leukopenia, while the second hypotension seen 1–2 min after PAF was accompanied by a marked rise in pulmonary vascular resistance and decreases in aortic blood flow and cardiac contractility. Lower doses of PAF (0.01‐0.05 μg kg−1) caused only the first responses in a dose‐dependent manner. 3 Pretreatment with indomethacin inhibited the second responses to PAF without affecting the first responses. The thromboxane A2/prostaglandin H2 (TP)‐receptor antagonist vapiprost blocked the PAF‐induced rise in pulmonary vascular resistance. AA‐861, a 5‐lipoxygenase inhibitor, attenuated the PAF‐induced cardiac depression. The nitric oxide synthase inhibitor NG‐nitro‐l‐arginine methyl ester inhibited the PAF‐induced early decrease in systemic vascular resistance. 4 All observed changes in haemodynamics and blood cell count after PAF were almost abolished by TCV‐309, a PAF‐receptor antagonist. 5 Reproducible hypotension and thrombocytopenia produced by a lower dose of PAF (0.05 μg kg−1) were respectively attenuated and potentiated by pretreatment with NG‐nitro‐l‐arginine, another nitric oxide synthase inhibitor. Administration of l‐arginine reversed the effects of the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor. 6 These results indicate that PAF‐receptor‐mediated production of not only eicosanoids but also nitric oxide may contribute to the cardiovascular and haematological responses to PAF in the dog.


There is a steep increase in data encoded as symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix in the past decade. The set of SPD matrices forms a Riemannian manifold that constitutes a half convex cone in the vector space of matrices, which we sometimes call SPD manifolds. One of the fundamental problems in the application of SPD manifolds is to find the nearest neighbor of a queried SPD matrix. Hashing is a popular method that can be used for the nearest neighbor search. However, hashing can't be directly applied to SPD manifolds due to its non-Euclidean intrinsic geometry. Inspired by the idea of kernel trick, a new hashing scheme for SPD manifolds by random projection and quantization in expanded data space is proposed in this paper. Experimental results in large scale near-duplicate image detection show the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method.


This paper examines the growing trend of demographic changes in the admission process in the educational sector in Nigeria. It is an analysis of the admission trend in privately owned Universities, using Fountain University, Osogbo as a case study. It was discovered that the number of female enrolment is on the rise. This increased interest in educational and professional training of the girl child in higher institutions of learning bespoke a silent revolution that will impact the structure and coloration of the labour market and the working class in the nearest future. Using secondary data from the archives of the University, supplemented with interview of selected students, it was discovered that the bulk of this admission offered to the feminine gender was by no means moderated to favour them as some of these female candidates have been discovered to out-perform their male counterparts in virtually all subjects areas taught.


There are numerous researches relevant to genetic and environmental influences on asthma, but little is known about dietary risk factors in development of asthma. Aim. This study's purpose was to analyze the actual nutrition of patients with late onset asthma. Material and methods. We studied 37 patients with late onset bronchial asthma. Age 54 years (34-75), BMI 32,1 kg/m 2 (28,6-36,4).The control group consisted of 47 people without asthma only, and 44 persons without asthma but with metabolic syndrome. Subjects completed questionnaires by specifying the frequency and amount of food intake. Results. It is revealed that the diet of patients with bronchial asthma have less amounts of vitamins: А 771,7 mcg, В 1 0,6 mg, B 2 1,02 mg, B 3 9,9 mg, macroelements: Mg 241,2 mg, Сa 500,9 mg, P 1085,9 mg, Fe 12,2 mg, К 2575,1 mg and polyunsaturated fatty acids 9,23 g in comparison with the control group. Conclusions. Nutritional correction of the diet of patients with bronchial asthma should include sufficient amounts of vitamins and dietary fiber.


Generally, image feature extraction takes long time for large amounts of images. In limited cluster resource, simultaneously using Multi-Core CPU and GPGPU can achieve more utilization than using only single CPU. This paper proposes system for getting high performance in SIFT algorithm using Multi-Core CPU and GPGPU cluster.


The new recommendations detail refined, personalized lipid management and emphasize multiple levels of evidence. The result? Care is more complex but patients might benefit more.


Correction of cubitus varus is commonly attempted through supracondylar humeral osteotomy. We hypothesized that lateral distal humeral hemiepiphysiodesis (LDHH) could be used to gradually correct this deformity in children. We conducted a retrospective study including all patients who underwent LDHH with the eight-Plate system between 2008 and 2018, with a minimum 4-year follow-up. We collected demographic, fracture-related, pre- and postoperative clinical (carrying angle (CA), ROM), and radiological data (humeral-ulnar angle (HUA), Baumann angle (BA), shaft-condylar angle (SCA), lateral capitellohumeral angle (LCHA)), as well as data on complications and satisfaction at last follow-up. Fifteen patients were included, with a median follow-up of 81 (64–103) months. All the variables had improved significantly as follows: CA −16 (−18 to −9)°, HUA −16 (−19 to −12)°, BA −11 (−17 to −7)°, SCA 7.5 (3.3 to 13.8)°, LCHA −4.8 (−6.8 to 0.6), flexion 10 (0 to 24)°, and extension 10 (0 to 10)°. The annual correction rate in terms of HUA was 2.41° (1.9 to 3.2). There were 5 cases of aseptic screw loosening, 4 of them requiring replacement, without relation to age at surgery (p = 0.324). Most patients (86.67%) were satisfied, and a relationship was found with younger age at surgery (p = 0.037). In conclusion, preliminary results show that LDHH with the eight-Plate system is an effective technique for mild to moderate cubitus varus deformity correction in children. Patients should be advised of the relatively long duration of implant retention and the possibility of reoperation for screw replacement or implant removal.


Junction-less FETs are used as top-tier devices in a 3-D sequential integration. Due to the low thermal budget allowed in the 3-D integration, conventional inversion mode FETs show extremely poor BTI reliability. In contrast, a junction-less FET shows improved BTI reliability, which is attributed to the reduced oxide electric field of operation. We observe that the reliability of junction-less FETs can be further improved by increasing the channel doping and/or the channel thickness. Correspondingly, a tradeoff exists between performance (subthreshold slope, carrier mobility), reliability, and variability. This tradeoff is verified in both planar/FinFET structures and can serve as a device optimization matrix. Furthermore, we use the non-radiative multi-phonon (NMP) theory, as implemented in the imec/T.U. Vienna BTI simulation framework "Comphy," to investigate the degradation kinetics and show that the stress/recovery traces measured in inversion mode and junction-less nFETs can be reproduced with the same set of oxide defect parameters. This observation confirms that the reliability improvement in junction-less devices is inherent to their specific operation mode and not related to the different fabrication flows compared to standard inversion mode devices. Based on the calibrated Comphy model, we perform BTI lifetime projections, exposing for junction-less devices a substantial deviation from the commonly used power-law voltage acceleration.


The Dead Sca Scrolls exhibited at the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem represent not only a unique archaeological discovery but also the religious and cultural message of the Qumran community of the Second Temple and the written word of the Bible. The cultural legacy of thesc rare documents only opens up new vistas on anclent Judaism and throws light on the background and origin of first century Christianity, but also provides a contemporary vehiclc for interfaith study and dialogue. ldcntifying the correct digital solutions to illust~.ate the manuscripts must reflect both their compelling aesthetic presence, scribal features, and historical context as wcll as a solution to disseminate the cultural and spiritual messages that reflect insights to contemporary questions. This challenge has becn met by the curatorial and cducational team of the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. A unique aspect of their pedagogical approach is the inter-disciplinary nature and thc use of a wide range of cducational activities, including traditional reading and lecture materials, but also vidco films, multimedia, other state of the art technologies, and active independent research by the students-participants. This paper will discuss the nurncrous digital platforms that have evolved out of this project. Since their discovery in1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls havc stimulated much public interest all over the world. Symbolizing esoteric wisdom and cloaked in a veil of mystery, scholars and laymcn flock to the Shrine of the Book in the Israel Museum, Jerusalcrn in order to see with their own eyes, the original ancient manuscripts and associated collections. Through the distribution of digital images, scholarly research, translations and transliterations distributed, on CD-ROM, o n-h e , and across digital networks and today, a newly develop~ng VRML platform, the internationally famcd s c ~ o l l s continue to carry the message of the Dead Sea Scrolls into the third millennium. The approximately 800 ancient manuscripts were discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves near Khirbet Qumran, on the northwestern shores of thc Dead Sea. The Scrolls can be divided into three broad categories, some two hundred and twenty biblical scrolls, with texts identical to the


Abstract Two new species of scale insects are described. These are the only scale insects known to occur in the Canadian Arctic. One is a species of Pulvinaria Targ. and one a species of Pseudococcus Westw.; both genera are known to occur in Greenland.


The effect of total parenteral nutrition (TPN) with fat emulsion was evaluated in 20 patients with liver disorders who showed Diabetes Mellitus (DM) type in preoperative oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). The patients were divided into two groups according to Child's classification (Child A group; 10 cases, Child B group; 10 cases) and they underwent TPN after direct operation for esophageal varices. Blood glucose level in Child B group in the first to third days after operation was over 190 mg/dl and it was higher than that of Child A group during TPN. But blood glucose level of fat containing TPN cases in both groups tended to be lower than that of fat free TPN cases. There was no abnormal finding in liver function tests during TPN with or without fat emulsion after operation. It was indicated that fat containing TPN had little influences on the liver function in patients with liver disorders such as Child A and B who were classified in DM type in preoperative OGTT. Serum essential fatty acids level before operation was lower than normal level, and it further decreased after operation. The decrease was inhibited in patients of both groups undergoing TPN with fat emulsion. The plasma removal rates of fat emulsion (K2 values) during postoperative TPN were higher than those in preoperative period.It is concluded that the administration of fat emulsion is available to the patients with liver disorder accompanied with DM in OGTT during postoperative TPN.


Review(s) of: Restless Souls: Rebels, Refugees, Medics and Misfits on the Thai-Burma Border, by Phil Thornton. Bangkok: Asia Books, 2007, 220 pp. ISBN 9748303918. Includes references.


Background: The aim of this study was to determine if hypertensive type 2 diabetic patients, when compared to patients with essential hypertension have an increased left ventricular mass index (LVMI) and a worse diastolic function, and if this fact would be related to 24-h pressoric levels changes. Methods: Ninety-one hypertensive patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) (group-1 [G1]), 59 essential hypertensive patients (group-2 [G2]) and 26 healthy controls (group-3 [G3]) were submitted to 24-h Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) and echocardiography (ECHO) with Doppler. We calculated an average of fasting blood glucose (AFBG) values of G1 from the previous 4.2 years and a glycemic control index (GCI) (percentual of FBG above 200 mg/dl). Results: G1 and G2 did not differ on average of diurnal systolic and diastolic BP. However, G1 presented worse diastolic function and a higher average of nocturnal systolic BP (NSBP) and LVMI (NSBP = 132 ± 18 vs 124 ± 14 mmHg; P < 0.05 and LVMI = 103 ± 27 vs 89 ± 17 g/m2; P < 0.05, respectively). In G1, LVMI correlated with NSBP (r = 0.37; P < 0.001) and GCI (r = 0.29; P < 0.05) while NSBP correlated with GCI (r = 0.27; P < 0.05) and AFBG (r = 0.30; P < 0.01). When G1 was divided in tertiles according to NSBP, the subgroup with NSBP≥140 mmHg showed a higher risk of LVH. Diabetics with NSBP≥140 mmHg and AFBG>165 mg/dl showed an additional risk of LVH (P < 0.05; odds ratio = 11). In multivariate regression, both GCI and NSBP were independent predictors of LVMI in G1. Conclusion: This study suggests that hyperglycemia and higher NSBP levels should be responsible for an increased prevalence of LVH in hypertensive patients with Type 2 DM. Published: 12 September 2006 Cardiovascular Diabetology 2006, 5:19 doi:10.1186/1475-2840-5-19 Received: 03 July 2006 Accepted: 12 September 2006 This article is available from: http://www.cardiab.com/content/5/1/19 © 2006 Felício et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


A strongly regular ring R is one in which for all x ∈ R, there is an a ∈ R with x = x2a. Equivalently, for all x there is an a with x = ax2. Such a ring is regular, duo, biregular, and a left and right V-ring. Moreover since R is reduced, all nilpotent elements are central (vacuously) and so all idempotent elements are central.


Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a betaherpesvirus that causes severe disease in immunocompromised transplant recipients. Immunotherapy with CD8 T cells specific for HCMV antigens presented on HLA class-I molecules is explored as strategy for long-term relief to such patients, but the antiviral effectiveness of T cell preparations cannot be efficiently predicted by available methods. Therefore, we developed an Assay for Rapid Measurement of Antiviral T-cell Activity (ARMATA) by real-time automated fluorescent microscopy and used it to study the ability of CD8 T cells to neutralize HCMV and control its spread. As a proof of principle, we used TCR-transgenic T cells specific for the immunodominant HLA-A02-restricted tegumental phosphoprotein pp65. pp65 expression follows an early/late kinetic, but it is not clear at which stage of the virus cycle it acts as an antigen. We measured control of HCMV infection by T cells as early as 6 hours post infection (hpi). The timing of the antigen recognition indicated that it occurred before the late phase of the virus cycle, but also that virion-associated pp65 was not recognized during virus entry into cells. Monitoring of pp65 gene expression dynamics by reporter fluorescent genes revealed that pp65 was detectable as early as 6 hpi, and that a second and much larger bout of expression occurs in the late phase of the virus cycle by 48 hpi. Since transgenic (Tg)-pp65 specific CD8 T cells were activated even when DNA replication was blocked, our data argue that pp65 acts as an early virus gene for immunological purposes. Therefore, ARMATA does not only allow same-day identification of antiviral T-cell activity, but also provides a method to define the timing of antigen recognition in the context of HCMV infection.


We present the results of surgery in 53 patients with intractable pain due to chronic pancreatitis associated with pancreatic duct dilatation. Using a limited mucosal to mucosal anastomosis over a silastic T tube the main pancréatic duct was drained in 33 patients into a Roux‐en‐Y jejunal loop (pancreaticojejunostomy, PJ) and in 20 patients into the stomach (pancreaticogastrostomy, PG). There was one postoperative death in the PJ group and none in the PG group. All patients were followed up for a minimum of four years. There was significantly greater pain relief in the PG group both at 1 (P<0·01) and 4 years (P<0·05) after surgery. We argue that PG is the operation of choice to relieve intractable pain in most patients with chronic pancreatitis associated with duct dilatation.


To study the correlation between job burnout and social support for hotel staff,150 participants,who came from four hotel from zhangzhou,completed questionnaires that include MBI—GS and social support scales.The results showed that:①the current hotel staffs ' job burnout were in medium level,different age,sex,position and time of working have significant difference in three dimensions of job burnout.②Job burnout had negative relevance to social support.Conclusions:①We should put more emphasis on the prevention of the job burnout in the hotel staff who is older,the hotel staff who have longer work experience and the hotel staff who work in front desk positions.②job burnout and social support for hotel staff were closely related;③ Training,career management and the provision of psychological services can be taken by hotel managers to prevent and reduce job burnout.


We have computed the elastic constants of nanostructured carbon films as obtained from classical molecular dynamics simulations of a cluster beam deposition process. The calculations show that the elastic constants of the deposited films are related to the average size of the clusters by a power law. This allows us to extrapolate the present theoretical data to the scale of the experimental results obtained by Brillouin scattering.


Late-Pleistocene was an important geological age witnessing frequent climatic environment and sea-land changes throughout the world.The events of Late-Pleistocene in Taiwan Strait,can be understood through the strata of that age.On the basis of the study of columnar samples(6.5 m) taken from the Taiwan Strait in the 1980s,three transgressions("Jinmen","Fuzhou",and "Strait" transgressions) in Late-Pleistocene were discovered.It was believed that the Taiwan Strait was a shallow sea environment with water depths of 30~60 m,and did not outcrop 18 000 a ago during the height of Wurm glaciation.The current study analyzed the evidence of these three transgressions,especially the "Strait Transgression".Firstly,the sedimentary layer of columnar samples makes us believe that it belongs to the superficial-surface sedimentary layer of Q3-Q4.Since the Taiwan Strait has an open sedimentary environment,14C-dating of this layer may appear older than its chronological age.Late-Pleistocene stratum of the west sea area in the Taiwan Strait had not been precisely delineated and the evidence for stratification of the three "transgressions" is doubtful.A large amount of Late-Pleistocene terrestrial mammals remain of various climatic zones and ancient human fossils on the seabed of the Taiwan Strait indicate that it had outcropped during the height of the Wurm glaciation.


In order to determine the effects of salicylic acid (SA) on postharvest life and quality of peach fruits, four different concentrations (0.5, 1.0, 1.5 or 2.0 mmol L -1 ) were applied to peach fruits cv. 'Flordaking'. Fruits harvested at commercial maturity were washed, dipped for five minutes in SA solutions and stored at 0oC with 90% RH on the same day for a period of five weeks. Lower SA concentrations did not offer any significant effect on quality parameters of peach fruits when compared with control. However, SA at 2.0 mmol L -1 concentration significantly exhibited less weight loss, higher flesh firmness, increased SSC, higher TA contents, higher skin luminosity and decreased a* values compared with other treatments including control. Consequently, SA at 2.0 mmol L -1 concentration also showed a significant increase in ascorbic acid and total phenolics content while, relative electrical conductivity was reduced during five weeks of storage. Thus, the present results suggest that SA at 2.0 mmol L -1 concentration could be used commercially to preserve peach fruits for up to five weeks without any spoilage.


the establish of mine lot planar coordinate systems,is to meat cmeasurement accuray at survey and design stage、mine construction stage and production phase.This text on the basis of projection length deformation calculation formula,mine lot elevation surface projective deformation、central meridian and the choice of elevation planes are analyzed in detail,the method of select and establishing mine lot planar coordinate systems,relate and analyze is discussed in order to provide the beneficial reference for surveying and mapping counterparts at practical work.


Antibiotics are medications that are used to prevent and
manage infections caused by bacteria. Antibiotic resistance
arises when bacteria mutate in response to antimicrobial
therapy


The monomial initial ideals of a graded polynomial ideal are in bijection with the vertices of a convex polytope known as the state polytope of the ideal. The Gröbner fan of the ideal is the normal fan of its state polytope. In this paper we present a software system called TiGERS (Toric Gröbner basesEnumeration by Reverse Search) for computing the Gröbner fan of a toric ideal by enumerating the edge graph of its state polytope. The key contributions are an inexpensive algorithm for local change of Gröbner bases in toric ideals and the identification of a reverse search tree on the vertices of the state polytope. Using these ideas we obtain a combinatorial Grabner walk procedure for toric ideals. TiGERS has been used to compute state polytopes with over 200,000 vertices.


Real time accurate representation of electric load model is of great importance in power system simulation, control and stability studies. Composite load model made up of an induction motor in parallel with static load has been widely accepted as an appropriate structure for describing load behaviors, especially for the studies that deal with power system stability. Measurement-based composite load model is reviewed in this paper and a real time observer is proposed to estimate the load model parameters using the concept of multiple model estimation algorithm. Simulation results are provided for a composite load including IEEE type 6 motor to show the effectiveness of the proposed real time estimator. This paper is a step in the right direction toward developing accurate real time techniques for stability analysis.


This qrticle is started with the analysing the destruction of the data bases completeness and consistency under the mode of C/S (client/server). The applied examples of the VFP (a kind of advanced data base applied program developing system),hepl to introduce several ways to make the data complete and consistent.


Biopsies are the gold standard approach for obtaining skin samples to test for biomarkers in atopic dermatitis, but tape strips may offer a far less invasive alternative for young children with the disease, research suggests.


In this paper, we propose a new framework to construct corpus-based topic-sensitive language models of highly in-(cid:13)ected languages for large vocabulary speech recognition. 1 We concentrate on feature extraction process devoted to languages where words are formed by many di(cid:11)erent in-(cid:13)ectional a(cid:14)xatations. In our approach all words with the same meaning but di(cid:11)erent grammatical form are col-lected in one cluster automatically by using fuzzy comparison function. Using topic classi(cid:12)er sub-corpus of a large collection of training text is selected. Language models are built by interpolation of topic speci(cid:12)c models and general model. Results of experiments on English and Slovenian corpus are reported.


A literature study concerning the effects of high mounted, supplementary brake lights has been carried out. The research findings have been analysed and the state of the art is summarized. Results show that there are potential safety benefits with well-designed high mounted, supplementary brake lights. (TRRL)


A differential UWB filter with stub-loaded SIRs and its improved compact type are presented in this paper. The proposed filters suppress common mode through a symmetrical structure. For differential mode, the plane of symmetry is an electric wall, like the capacitor is grounded. Therefore, the equivalent structure is a bandpass filter. Conversely, for common mode, the symmetry plane is a magnetic wall, and the equivalent circuit is a band-stop filter. Besides, the size of the open stubs is specifically designed to control the resonance frequency. To verify the design, a balanced UWB filter with Stub-loaded SIRs is manufactured. The center frequency of the passband is 2.4 GHz, the -10dB relative bandwidth can reach 91.3%, and the common-mode transmission suppression level can be as low as -50dB. The measurement results of the fabricated filter are in good agreement with the simulation results. Moreover, based on the former filter, an improved compact type is designed to realize further miniaturization, which size is as small as 23.5 mm (0.34λg) × 29mm (0.42λg).


Ladies and gentlemen, Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh!I take this opportunity to thank my Centre and Istanbul Foundation for Science and Culture for providing me an opportunity to present a paper in this international seminar.This paper aims to highlight the causes of decline of Muslims and its solution in the light of the Damascus Sermon delivered by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1877-1960) in the grand historic Umayyad Mosque of Damascus.Bediuzzaman Said Nursi was born in 1877 in eastern Turkey and died in 1960 in Urfa in Turkey. His long and exemplary life spanned the last decades of the Ottoman Empire, its collapse after the First World War and the setting up of the Republic, then the twenty-five years of Republican Peoples' Party rule, well-known for the measures taken against Islam, followed by the ten years of Democrat rule, when conditions eased a little for Bediuzzaman.1


Abstract : New Cumberland Dam spillway will consist of eleven 110-ft-wide bays through which flow will be regulated by five submergible- and six nonsubmergible-type tainter gates. Energy dissipation will be accomplished on a horizontal apron surmounted by baffle piers and an end sill. Bulkhead sections will be provided for emergency closure of the spillway bays. Model investigations were conducted in a 1:25-scale section model which reproduced one gate bay and adjacent half bays, and were supplemented by observations of stilling basin performance in a 1-ft-wide glass-sided flume. Test were concerned with hoist loads and vibration tendencies of the submergible tainter gate, the performance of the stilling basin below both the submergible and nonsubmergible gates, and hydraulic forces acting in a vertical direction on the emergency bulkheads.


The present invention discloses a remote control system for a medical device, the system comprising a medical device, wherein the key, the system further comprises a telephone remote control subsystem, a key signal for receiving a telephone line transmission of a control operation of the the medical apparatus according to a control signal indicative of the operation buttons. The present invention also discloses a method for remote control of a medical apparatus. Application of the present invention, while avoiding the waste of energy, saving operator time to wait field.


This paper, we discuss the solutions' characterize of Cauchy-Riemann equation and the extension phenomenon of Hartogs in Cn and, a series of new extended results of the solutions for Cauchy-Riemann equations is obtained by using the latest developments of the solutions' extension. Furthermore, the case of the extension's limitation for the solutions is also given.


This collection of papers from the 2006 North American Serials Interest Group conference addresses all aspects of managing serials, including collection development, acquisitions, cataloging, budgeting, workflowandmore.Mile High Views is organized into four sections, including preconference programs, "Vision Sessions," "Strategy Sessions," and "Tactics Sessions." About two-thirds of the papers are reports written by observers, not the presenters themselves. The first section includes reports of four preconference programs. The first two are summaries of the Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training ProgramWorkshops, the Basic Serials Cataloging Workshop and the Advanced Serials Cataloging Workshop, presented by Joseph P. Hinger and Steve Shadle, respectively. The third preconference was presented by Tim Jewell et al. and addresses the mapping of license data in electronic resource management systems. The final preconference discusses the implementation of an institutional repository and was presented by Carol Hixson and Linda Cracknell. Although these four papers, as summarized in these proceedings, have most likely dramatically condensed the content of the preconference presentations, they are still quite informative and useful. Of the three vision sessions, the third, "What's a Serial When You're Running on Internet Time?" by T. Scott Plutchak, is the strongest. In this stimulating discussion of the history of scholarly communication and publishing, he describes the challenges facing libraries as they grapple with rising costs and a rapidly changing environment. Also of interest is the second paper in that section, a case study on the creation of Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection by Brenda Bailey-Hainer. The third section of the proceedings includes 11 papers, many of which are noteworthy. Topics include Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, open access journals, electronic resource management systems, transitioning away from print journals, the OpenURL, and an environmental scan of the state of scholarly communication. The final section consists of 15 shorter papers addressing topics of interest to serialists, but also some general topics as well, such as the use of social networking software in the library, a status report on the development of Resource Description and Access (RDA), and technical services reorganization. Although some of thematerial, such as the RDAupdate, became dated almost immediately, it is nevertheless useful to have a record of the conference proceedings, and, in the case of the RDA report, it documents the development of the standard over time. Overall, this is a well-edited collection of papers offering an excellent snapshot of the current state of serials librarianship. It would be an excellent addition to all library collections that do not already subscribe to The Serials Librarian.


Abstract The properties of a particular kind of small molecule that is built from two oligomers of different monomers, i.e. a diblock co-oligomer, as the electron donor in the active layer of organic solar cells are investigated theoretically. For these molecules, this work shows that it is possible to predict the energies of the frontier molecular orbitals by knowing the same energies for the oligomers that constitute the diblock, opening the possibility of designing new materials with optimal energy levels and optical properties. Furthermore, it was observed that the optical absorption bands of these diblock co-oligomers were broader than that of the constituent oligomers and also of the homopolymers, allowing greater absorption of photons and possibly an improved electric current in the device. It was also shown that these phenomena are size-dependent.