We report a case of early NF associated with Klebsiella pneumoniae infection in a 61-yearold man who underwent to open prostatectomy 10 days ago. The patient presented with acute, painful, erythematous, and edematous skin lesions of his left flank. The patient underwent surgical exploration, and a diagnosis of necrotizing fasciitis was confirmed by pathological evidence of necrosis of the fascia and neutrophil infiltration in tissue biopsies. Cultures of fascial tissue biopsies and blood samples were positive for Klebsiella pneumoniae. Following extensive debridement, a VAC system was applied to the large open wound and successfully contributed to wound bed cleansing, which was followed by surgery for skin grafting. Şener Balas1, Fatma Yıldırım2*, Mücait Ünal1, Alper Gök3 and Emre İnözü4 1Department of General Surgery, Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Research and Education Hospital, Turkey 2Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Research and Education Hospital, Turkey 3Department of Urology, Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Research and Education Hospital, Turkey 4Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Research and Education Hospital, Turkey


Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: Private grant(s) and/or Sponsorship. Main funding source(s): BioSense Webster Investigator Initiated Study (IIS) Grant. Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic enforced long-term changes in healthcare towards remote working, implementing digital systems that support the safe online sharing of clinical information. A cloud-based storage and analysis software has been developed that uploads 3D mapping cases within the CARTO-3 system for remote review. In addition, it uses artificial intelligence/ machine learning to analyse large procedural datasets. We tested the feasibility of this technology as a future research tool in analysing the first 8 cases recruited to the Ripple AT PLUS study. Methods The Ripple AT PLUS trial is a planned multicentre randomised trial comparing ablation outcomes in scar based atrial tachycardia (AT) using different CARTO mapping approaches. The study recently commenced recruitment (September 2022). The CARTO files for the first 8 cases recruited into this study from different hospitals were securely transferred from CARTO 3 workstations to the Siemens teamplay gateway. Patient identifiers were removed, and anonymized datasets were successfully uploaded onto CARTONET Microsoft Azure cloud. A secure Web-site (https://eu.cartonet.net/login) was accessed for remote review by the research team. Results Uploaded study cases were readily separated from other clinical cases using a research filter. Figure 1 summarises graphical datasets for these study cases presented by CARTONET, (including total procedural duration, mapping vs ablation times, ablation lesions). Their corresponding numerical values were exportable as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet for individualised review. More detailed mapping and ablation analytics within each case was feasible – this is exemplified in figure 2A, which presents a histogram of the proportion of acquired electrogram bipolar voltages below a modifiable cut-off (0.20mV in this example). Individual case data was easily extracted and combined from all study cases to test different hypothesis – again exemplified in figure 2B, which ascertains how tissue voltage might affect the amount of ablation delivered. Conclusion CARTONET is a secure, simple to use, and efficient cloud-based AI/machine learning system that offers access to clinically relevant data-sets from the CARTO system remotely from the hospital premises. This allows for a variety of rapid analytics, with the potential to improve the efficiency of multicentre clinical electrophysiology research collaboration. Figure 1


The shellcode use of the polymorphic form has become active as the de facto method for avoiding signature based network security system. We present a new static analysis method for detecting the decryption routine of the polymorphic shellcode. This method traces the processes by which the decryption routine stores the current program counter in a stack, moves the value between registers and uses the value in order to make the address of the encrypted code accessible. Most of decryption routines have the feature which they use the program counter stored on a stack as the address for accessing the memory that the encrypted code is positioned.


Occult macular dystrophy (OMD) is an inherited macular dystrophy characterized by progressive loss of macular function but normalophthalmoscopic appearance. Typical OMD is characterized by a central cone dysfunction leading to a loss of vision despite normalophthalmoscopic appearance, normal fluorescein angiography, and normal full-field electroretinogram (ERGs), but the amplitudes ofthe focal macular ERGs and multifocal ERGs are significantly reduced at the central retina. Linkage analysis of two OMD families wasperformed by the SNP High Throughput Linkage analysis system (SNP HiTLink), localizing the disease locus to chromosome8p22-p23. Among the 128 genes in the linkage region, 22 genes were expressed in the retina, and four candidate genes were selected.No mutations were found in the first three candidate genes, methionine sulfoxide reductase A (MSRA), GATA binding 4 (GATA4), andpericentriolar material 1 (PCM1). However, amino acid substitution of p.Arg45Trp in retinitis pigmentosa 1-like 1 (RP1L1) was foundin three OMD families and p.Trp960Arg in a remaining OMD family. These two mutations were detected in all affected individualsbut in none of the 876 controls. Immunohistochemistry of RP1L1 in the retina section of cynomolgus monkey revealed expressionin the rod and cone photoreceptor, supporting a role of RP1L1 in the photoreceptors that, when disrupted by mutation, leads toOMD. Identification of RP1L1 mutations as causative for OMD has potentially broader implications for understanding the differentialcone photoreceptor functions in the fovea and the peripheral retina.


Harm is a recurring theme in the social sciences. Scholars in a range of empirical areas have documented the deleterious outcomes that at times emerge from social structures, institutions and systems of governance. Yet these harms have often been presented under the rubric of 'unintended consequences'. The outcomes of systems are designed to appear devoid of intentionality, in motion without any clear agency involved, and are thus particularly adept at evading accountability structures and forms of responsibility. Drawing insights from decades of social theory – as well as three illustrative examples from Australia's health, welfare and immigration systems – this article argues that many social structures are in fact intended to cause harm, but designed not to appear so. In presenting this argument, we offer a theoretical framework for conceptualising harm as actively administered. We also challenge scholars from across the social sciences to reconsider the partially depoliticising narrative of 'unintended consequences', and to be bolder in naming the intended harms that permeate social life, often serving powerful political and economic interests.


Way of Heavenevolved from celestial phenomena and God's will is an important category of concept of universe,which includes the basic connotation of the process of movement of celestial body, the way and the law combined with astronomy, theology and philosophy. Laozi' dao is derived from the further interpretation of Way of Heaven. Its concrete methods include: 1) Dao is deduced conversely from universe based on the origin of the world; 2)Existence of pure form based on dao of periodic motion is obtainable by extracting the vehicle of Way of Heaven, celestial phenomena; 3) Descending the traditional relations of heaven and human results in the change of dao of rule from human, way, law and universe.


The molybdenum trioxide (α-MoO3) thin films of single orthorhombic phase have been deposited by using spray pyrolysis technique on the glass substrates. α-MoO3 thin films were characterized for structural, morphological and optical measurements. XRD results shows that α-MoO3 thin films are polycrystalline, crystallizes in orthorhombic structure crystalline quality improved with substrate temperature. Surface morphological study shows the conversion of grains into nanorod like structure with increasing substrate temperature. The value of optical band gap shows 2.72 eV at the substrate temperature 400 °C.


The optimal design of liquid electrolytes is vital for the build-up of long-lifespan lithium-metal batteries (LMBs) that function over a wide-temperature range. Tuning the electrolyte solvation-structure using partially-fluorinated ether solvents...


The research discussed in this article deals with the latest ICT developments in libraries, with the libraries' new role in social media, as well as with the chances of implementing these. A questionnaire survey seeks answer to how far the libraries of different sizes and tasks are prepared and equipped to face the changing habits of library use, and the use of intelligent systems in library services. The questions are divided into six major sections, according to the most popular reader expectations, the latest technical innovations, by which any library can declare to have crossed the threshold of the 21st century: 1) Data on the library in question, 2) Remote library use, 3) Social media, 4) Mobileoptimized website, 5) RFID technology, 6) QR codes. Focusing on the considerations and expectations of mobinautes as new players, these six topics are discussed to exchange experience. The example of the paradigm shift process in larger, more advanced, more modern libraries may be instructive for the institutions currently facing innovation.


The thin film culture device for detecting aerobic bacteria in a sample is provided. The culture apparatus, the first main surface and a second major surface having a self-supporting sheet-type base material (self-supporting substrate sheet); Attached to the substrate sheet cover sheet; Disposed between the substrate sheet and the cover sheet sample-receiving zone; The sample-receiving zone is attached to a portion of the substantially dry water-soluble first hydrogel-forming a first layer containing a composition; And a plurality of indicator agent disposed within the at least one layer attached to the base sheet or the cover sheet. The formulation plurality of instructions, the preparation instructions for detecting the distinct glycosidase enzyme three indicator agents, alkyl esterase indicator formulation, phosphatase enzyme activity for the detection of the enzymatic activity for detecting the activity; And a reduction instruction oxidizing agent. A method of using a culture apparatus is also provided.


This manual introduces an inductive theorem prover called TIP system ( T r InductionProver). This prover can be used to verify universally quantified systems of conditional equations over algebraic specifications. The proofs can be done in either an interactive or an automatic way. The reader learns how to use the TIP system, especially how to do inductive proofs in an interactive way. Besides, the internal proof algorithm and the built-in heuristics are explained and some useful techniques for successful theorem proving are presented.


A mathematical model of bearing noise by vibration of its ball was established by vibration ball source model of sound theory. Meanwhile,this model was verified by worksite testing.


Objective: To investigate the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and the blood pressure (BP) values in adolescents of the city of Merida, given its association with the development of non-transmissible chronic diseases in adults. Methods: We studied 385 adolescents, 62.3% female and 37.7% male, between 12 and 15 years of age, with average of 15.17 ± 1.71 years. Anthropometric measures and blood pressure (BP) were taken. The body mass index (BMI) was calculated. BMI and BP between 10th and 90th percentile from Venezuelan curves, according to age and sex, were considered normal. Obesity/overweight and pre-hypertension/hypertension (Pre-HTA/ HTA) were considered when the BMI and the BP were located above the 90th percentile. Results: A total of 75.3% of the adolescents had a normal BMI, 11.2% a low BMI and 13.6% had overweight and obesity. The systolic BP was above the 90 th percentile in 1.1% and the diastolic BP in 6.3% of the adolescents. No association was observed between BMI and BP with the sex and socio-economic stratum. It was found a high and significant association between overweight/obesity and Pre-HTA/HTA (p=0.0001). The risk for Pre-HTA/ HTA of an adolescent with a BMI over 90 th percentile was 9.76 times higher (Odss ratio) than in adolescents


The invention discloses a preparation method of a binder for a blast furnace skimming device and belongs to the technical field of binders for slag-iron separation devices during tapping of blast furnaces. The preparation method disclosed by the invention comprises the following steps: 1) mixing asphalt, maleic rosin and other components and uniformly mixing to prepare a mixture A; 2) adding polyvinyl alcohol and 2-ethylhexyl phosphate into the mixture A and uniformly mixing to prepare a mixture B; 3) mixing cellulose acetate, butyl acrylate and guar gum and uniformly mixing to prepare a mixture C; and 4) adding the mixture C into the mixture B and uniformly mixing to obtain the binder. According to the preparation method disclosed by the invention, the skimming device is prepared by creatively mixing the components and mixing the mixture with refractory aggregate, so that the strength of the prepared skimming device is enhanced, the thermoplasticity is high and the stability is high; the service life of the skimming device is prolonged, the labor intensity before the furnace is greatly reduced and the stable and smooth furnace conditions of the blast furnace can be well ensured.


We start with an e ective Lagrangian describing the interactions of leptoquarks with the known particles. As before [1], we require that the e ective Lagrangian satisfy baryon and lepton number conservation, have non-derivative and family-diagonal couplings to leptonquark pairs, and respect the SU(3)C SU(2)L U(1)Y symmetry of the standard model. With these requirements, the possible representations of the leptoquarks with respect to the gauge groups and the couplings to the gauge bosons are completely determined. Only the leptoquark masses and strengths of the leptoquark-fermion couplings remain as free parameters.


Game theory [1] is a formalism for the study of competitive interaction in the rich spectrum of relationships ranging between conflict and cooperation. Originally conceived as a mathematical foundation of economics, it proved its robustness by providing new techniques and insights in logic and set theory [15, 13], evolutionary and population biology [22], auction design and implementation, the design and study of the internet [19], analysis of cold war strategies, etc. Dynamic games are used to model competitive processes evolving over time. Stochastic transitions are used for abstraction in modelling or to formalize inherent uncertainty, leading to quantitative statistical analysis. Stochastic games are dynamic games with stochastic transitions. They enjoy rich and mature mathematical theory [11, 23] and a wide range of applications including economics, cell, population and evolutionary biology [26], queueing theory and performance evaluation, and quantitative temporal model checking [17, 8]. In this tutorial we explore the spectrum of competitive dynamic behavioural models ranging from Markov chains, to transition systems, to Markov decision processes [20], to 2-player and multi-player perfect-information and general stochastic games [11]. We also consider the spectrum of qualitative and quantitative objectives for the players contained in the class of Borel-measurable functions [16], and we survey most popular concrete choices: discounted and limiting-average objectives [20, 11] used in economics and performance evaluation, and omega-regular objectives [13] encompassing safety, liveness and fairness objectives used in temporal logic model checking. We present the general determinacy result for zero-sum stochastic games with Borel-measurable objectives due to Martin [16], as well as its many refinements for stochastic games with discounted, limiting-average, and omega-regular objectives [11, 6, 9, 17, 4, 28]. Then we survey algorithmic techniques for solving various classes of stochastic games and Markov decision processes, including value iteration and strategy improvement [20, 7], convex optimization [7, 27, 2] and graph-theoretic algorithms [3]. Special attention is given to algorithmic solutions of (perfect-information) omega-regular stochastic games [14, 3, 4] laying the foundation for automated quantitative temporal model checking. We also consider non-zero sum stochastic games. After defining the fundamental notion of a Nash equilibrium we survey recent results [24, 21, 5] on its existence in various classes of stochastic games as well as a few challenging open problems in the area. Then we present the quantitative mu-calculus [10, 17, 8] which is a very expressive, robust, and yet algorithmically feasible logical formalism for specification and automated quantitative analysis. We argue that the quantitative


Introduction Bacterial meningitis is still a pressing public health problem worldwide. Infections with Neisseria meningitidis, in particular, are a major contributor in the incidence of bacterial meningitis and septicemia, two devastating diseases that can claim the lives of children and young adults in a matter of hours. Both the developed and developing countries are equally affected by meningococcal infections, and examples of endemic or epidemic states can be found in both cases regardless of their geographical location [1]. Meningococcal disease, if left untreated, has a mortality rate of 60 to 80%. Although this figure can be reduced to 10% through the use of antibiotics, the antibiotic therapy does not eliminate or decrease the incidence of meningococcal colonization at the nasopharynx within the general population, while at the same time being expensive, and providing only shortterm benefits; additionally, meningococcal disease often leaves permanent sequelae among survivors. The use of immunoprophylactic treatment is generally regarded, therefore, as the only effective means for the successful control of this infection [1]. Most cases of meningococcal disease are caused by serogroups A, B or C meningococci. Although efficacious polysaccharide-based vaccines have been available for a long time against serogroups such as A, C, W135 and Y [2], the capsular polysaccharide from serogroup B is poorly immunogenic due to its structural similarity with polysialic acid polymers present on the surface of human embryonic nervous tissue [3], and serogroup B vaccine research has therefore focused instead on subcapsular antigens such as the outer membrane proteins (OMP). Several different OMPs have been evaluated as vaccine candidates, either as individual subunits or as components of outer membrane vesicle (OMV) preparations. Although some of these formulations have shown promising results, their protective spectrum has so far been restricted to a relatively small number of antigenically related strains, and in general they fail to provide cross-protection against representative collections of epidemiologically relevant heterologous meningococcal strains. The publication in the year 2000 of the genome sequence of a N. meningitidis serogroup B strain spurred a renewed interest in the search for new protein antigens that could induce protective immunity against this serogroup [4], using bioinformatic tools to process genomic and proteomic data. In this context, the present report summarizes the results obtained with these techniques at the Meningococcal Disease Department of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, which resulted in the identification of lipoprotein NlpB (annotated as NMB0928 in the genome sequence) as a component of the OMV from N. meningitidis, used as the active ingredient of the VA-MENGOC-BC vaccine. Additionally, this report presents our results in regard to obtaining and characterizing NlpB as a new vaccine candidate against meningococcal disease.


Objective To study the anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and analgesic effects of Rhizoma Zingiberis alcoholic Extract (RZE) and to explore its in-vitro antibacterial actions. Methods Auricular swelling method in mice, typhoid and paratyphoid vaccines-induced fever in rabbits and bodytwisting test in mice were used respectively to observe the anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and analgesic effects of RZE. Results RZE could inhibit xylene-induced auricular swelling and bodytwisting response reaction induced by acetic acid in mice; RZE also reduce the vaccines-induced fever in rabbits. MIC of RZE for 8 bacterial strains ranged 13.5 mg/mL to 432 mg/mL. Conclusion RZE has a significant anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and analgesic effects and exert in-vitro antibacterial action.


The purpose of this laboratory exercise is to gain a qualitative and quantitative understanding of the static elastic characteristics of the lungs and chest wall individually and to understand how these give rise to the static elastic characteristics of the respiratory system in vivo. Most students will probably have used terms such as elasticity, distensibility, and compliance before without having defined them rigorously or used them quantitatively. All these terms are related to one another, but it is most common to discuss the compliance of the respiratory system. Compliance is a measure of the ease with which an elastic structure can be made to change in dimensions. Definitions of some relevant terms follow.


Abstract During the past ten years, research into the workings of the brain has yielded much new information. Two areas of brain research that have implications for therapy are those of hemisphericity and clinical neurotransmitters. This article provides a simple introduction to braining functioning in these two areas, summarizes major findings of research in these areas as they impact on death educators and counselors, and describes two therapeutic approaches developed in the past decade which recognize these research findings. Implications for the Cartesian mind-body controversy and for future therapeutic directions are discussed.


Simplex natural ventilation often can't meet the demand of ventilation to cooling when outdoor environment is in high temper-ature condition,then natural ventilation and mechanical ventilation are adopted necessarily.In this paper,through numerical simulation,rea-sonable layout of ventilation outlet and optimal configuration are researched.Operating conditions of natural ventilation and mechanical venti-lation are investigated respectively in different case,and corresponding measures in that case are presented so as to insure the optimal effect.Above research can provide regulations to solve problem of ventilation to cooling of power transformer room in high temperature condition.


The issue of learning transfer is of prime importance to the field of adventure education. Adventure education programs are designed to promote a variety of personal development outcomes for participants, and a significant amount of research has validated these outcomes. However, in order for students to use the learning gained during their course, they must transfer the learning from a backcountry context to their postcourse life. This study measured the effects of a theoretically-grounded treatment curriculum designed to foster the transfer of learning of expedition/prosocial behaviors compared to a traditional curriculum. Expedition behavior (EB) is a concern for other people, coupled with the willingness to demonstrate this concern through action. It is a term used in many adventure education programs, and is similar to a psychological construct called prosocial behavior. Prosocial behaviors (PSB) are described as behaviors that are primarily aimed at benefiting others, and may be described as sharing, comforting others, donating goods or money, volunteerism, and instrumental helping. The treatment curriculum was delivered to 14to 15-year-old students who attended 2-week long adventure education courses with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) in the summer of 2008. Each of these courses featured 15 students. The instructors of four of the courses were trained to administer the treatment curriculum and the instructors of the other four courses administered the traditional curriculum.


The fluoroalkyl (Rf) radical mediated ring opening of methylenecyclopropanes (MCPs) 1 and subsequent atom transfer were investigated. In the first part, a copper-initiated radical reaction of Rf–X (X = I, Br) with MCP 1 gave homoallylic halides 2 in excellent yields. Similarly, radical reaction of the RfTMS/CsF/PhI(OCOR)2 system with MCP 1 led to homoallylic alcohol esters 3 in moderate to good yields.


Pedogenic carbonate has been studied with respect to its importance to plant nutrition, carbon sequestration, landscape age, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, and as a phenomenon per se. Four models have commonly been used to describe pedogenic carbonate formation-the per decensum, per ascensum, in situ, and biogenic models. The per decensum model consists of top-down movement of carbonate as the result of illuviation, atmospheric deposition of carbonate dust, Ca in rain, and lateral leaching of carbonate from steep hills. The per ascensum model consists of bottom-up movement as the result of capillary rise of Ca and bicarbonate from groundwater. The in situ model consists of in-place dissolution and reprecipitation of limestone and in-place chemical weathering of igneous rocks. The biogenic model consists of direct carbonate precipitation by bacteria, fungi, plant roots, and termites. Links between biotic and abiotic CaCO3 involve concurrent interaction of biological, chemical, and physical processes in the soil profile. Biotic processes include CO2 input into soil via respiration, Ca extraction by roots, and direct precipitation by organisms. These depend on and contribute to abiotic processes, which include chemical weathering of Ca-silicates, dissolution of pre-existing CaCO3, and precipitation of carbonate resulting from temperature and moisture changes in soil. These interactions through time make pedogenic CaCO3 a good example of a biogeochemical mineral.


This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the Indiana LTAP Center at Purdue University in the interest of information exchange. The information contained herein has been compiled and collected from other publicly available information sources. As such, neither Purdue University nor Indiana LTAP assume liability for its contents or use thereof. Purdue University and the Indiana LTAP Center do not endorse products or manufacturers. Trademarks or manufacturer names may appear herein only because they are considered essential to the objective of this document. The contents of this flipbook reflect the views of the authors, who are responsible for the facts and accuracy of the data presented herein. The contents do not necessarily reflect the official policy of Purdue University or the Indiana LTAP Center. 1 acknowledgements We would like to acknowledge all those who completed our survey. Your invaluable insight informed our understanding of how roundabouts are maintained. Further, we would like to thank the City of Carmel for taking the time to share their best practices, adjustments made based on experience, and maintenance specifications and schedules. This manual would not have been possible without the knowledge and first-hand experience of all those who participated.


Currently, brushless direct current (BLDC) motors are becoming popular in electric vehicles, automation systems and industrial applications. Basically, the BLDC motors are a special type of electronically controlled electric motor systems. In fact, the successful advancement of electronic technology has made these motors a reality. Without an electronic controller, it is impracticable to run this motor. Thus, it is easily conceivable that the motor controller plays an important role in the overall performance of BLDC motors. Many types of controllers have already been developed for these motors. However, poor efficiency, complexity, bulky size, slow response time, etc. are still challenging tasks to solve these problems. Various algorithms are proposed for designing the controller. Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller is the most common control system for the BLDC motor. If the PID controller is modified with a new algorithm, better results can be obtained from the BLDC motor. In this study, a Flower Pollination Algorithm (FPA) has been proposed for the controller to control the speed of BLDC motor. The best outcome of this research is stable is speed and reduce rising time. This study was done by using MATLAB/ Simulink software. The results show a new direction in the improvement of the controller design.


Theory is presented for a mathematical model that includes two-dimensional diffusion for the stripping of randomly distributed metal nanoparticles. Theoretical results are compared with the reversible and irreversible limits in the approximate analytical form derived by Brainina and co-workers (Brainina, K. Z. Talanta 1971, 18, 513.. Brainina, K. Z.; Lesunova, R. P. Zh. Anal. Khim. 1974, 29, 1302.. Brainina, K. Z.; Vydrevich, M. B. J. Electroanal. Chem. 1981, 121, 1.) when considering an average coverage of material across the whole electrode surface instead of the individual particle environments considered in the presented theory. Experimental results are reported for the stripping of different-sized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) from a basal-plane pyrolytic graphite electrode in 0.1 M NaClO4. Different loadings (as measured by the stripping charge) for each size of nanoparticle were investigated. The theory presented was used to explain the observed experimental trends in stripping peak potential and in...


We discuss water oxygen isotopes (δ18Ow) and carbon isotopes of dissolved inorganic carbon (δ13CDIC) of brine‐enriched shelf water (BSW) from Storfjorden (southern Svalbard) in comparison to Recent benthic foraminiferal δ18Oc and δ13Cc calcified in the same water. We determined relatively high δ18Ow values of 0.15±0.03‰ VSMOW in BSW below sill depth at temperatures below −1.8 °C, and high δ18Oc values of 3.90±0.18‰ VPDB. Such high BSW δ18Ow cannot significantly deplete 18Ow contents of Arctic Ocean deep water; furthermore, such high δ18Oc cannot be distinguished from δ18Oc values of 3.82±0.12‰, calcified in warmer Arctic and Nordic seas intermediate and deeper waters. Today, in Storfjorden low benthic δ13Cc and high δ18Oc reflect the low δ13CDIC and relatively high δ18Ow of BSW. High benthic δ18Oc is in contrast to expected low δ18Oc as brine rejection is widely thought to predominantly take place in surface water diluted by meteoric water with very low δ18Ow. Low epibenthic δ13Cc values of 0.50±0.12‰ partly reflect low δ13CDIC caused by enhanced uptake of atmospheric low δ13CCO2 decreased by anthropogenic activities. An adjustment for preindustrial higher values would increase δ13Cc by about 0.6‰. Therefore, in Storfjorden brine formed before the industrial era would be characterized by both high δ13Cc as well as high δ18Oc values of benthic foraminiferal calcite. Our data may cast doubt on scenarios that explain negative excursions in benthic foraminiferal stable isotope records from the Atlantic Ocean during cold stadials in the last glacial period by enhanced brine formation in Nordic seas analogously to modern processes in Storfjorden.


This paper discusses the importance of sampling in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and briefly summarizes the classical sampling theories of simple random sampling, systematic sampling and stratified sampling. The main purpose of this paper is to introduce the architecture of spatial sampling software named as Sandwich Spatial Sampling Package. In this software, the steps of sampling include calculating sampling size, distributing samples, calculating and displaying sampling results. The first step can be divided into four parts: setting configuration files, selecting sampling fields and relative parameters, inputting parameters to calculate sampling sizes and displaying calculated results to help users choose the best function to calculate sampling size.


We have already reported (Hoggarth and Martin, 1948) that members of a certain class of antimalarial compounds (2-arylamino-4-aminoalkylamino-6-methylpyrimidines) show antituberculous activity in mice. When examined by the standardized procedure used throughout this series of investigations (Martin, 1946) the compound showing most promise was 2-p-chloroanilino-4-8diethylamino-x-methylbutylamino 6 methylpyrimidine dihydrochloride (No. 3300).


Comparison between measurements of insolation from pyranometers mounted on ships and estimates from satellite visible measurements during STREX are presented. In general for both hourly and daily insolation values the comparison is quite favorable. The root mean square (rms) difference between the two measurements of daily insolation was about 13 W m−2. From a detailed analysis of the errors and measurement discrepancies it was found that a large part of the difference between the two estimates of insolation could be due to inaccuracies in the surface measurements, interpolation during periods of radio interference, and ship motion. Comparisons between time-averaged insolation values over periods of about 10 days and limited statistical analysis of the pyranometric time series suggest that, on that time scale, the accuracy of the satellite estimates is of the order of 4 W m−2. Large-scale insolation fields derived from satellite during STREX will be presented in the companion paper (C. Gautier and S. Masse, manuscript in preparation, 1984).


This paper examines the effect of the energy shortage on transportation patterns and attitudes in the automobile- oriented, suburban Dutch Fork area in Columbia, South Carolina. Data from several nationwide surveys and selected transit operations are also used. The findings from the Dutch Fork area show that the energy shortage did not appreciably reduce (10 to 15 percent) the amount of automobile travel and did not substantially affect transit patterns or attitudes. Traffic volumes decreased primarily on weekends; there was less decline on weekdays. Travel was reduced by driving slower and limiting social- recreational and shopping trips. Shifts in travel behavior were moderate, although people expressed an interest in public transit. Gasoline supply more than price appears to have greatly affected travel habits, although the effect of price appears to be reflected in the buying of more small cars. In other words, people did not move away from relying on the car but rather adjusted their driving behavior to conserve gasoline. Data from national surveys also show this pattern. Possibly, local public transit will not realize appreciable comparative advantage against the automobile on the basis of price, and this further emphasizes the inability of transit to serve a substantial ridership. In addition, failures of public transit to capture and hold a greater part of the market during the energy shortage are a product of poor service quality. The one favorable result for public transit is the verbal support given to transit as a method for dealing with the energy shortage. Public transit can benefit from this support by garnering greater governmental resources, although there are still many reservations about the likelihood of converting public support and governmental investment into substantial patronage increases.


Few topics in the social sciences have been the subject of such a variety of competing explanations as has the economic development of South Korea. This chapter focuses on four main approaches or schools which have become prominent in the literature: market forces, dependency, etatisme, and Confucianism. Although none is wholly devoid of merit, all suffer in varying degrees from at least two kinds of defects, namely, ideological bias and methodological problems. The author's modest hope is that identifying these may encourage both reflection and better communication among scholars working in this area in future. South Korea has become a successful and skilled operator in a capitalist world economy, but this has not meant unbridled laissez-faire. Such an external orientation carried risks, but they have largely been surmounted. Keywords: Confucianism; economic development; market forces; social sciences; South Korea


Double perovskites Cs2AgSbCl6 have been synthesized via the solution state for applications as a promising photovoltaic absorber. Considering TiO2 as an electron transport layer (ETL), Cs2AgSbCl6/TiO2 heterojunction nanoparticles have also been prepared by the hydrothermal process to study the interface effect. Experimental measurements show that Cs2AgSbCl6 has a cubic structure with the lattice constant of 10.699 A. The absorption peaks in the optical spectrum of the Ag and Sb-based double perovskites agree well with our density functional theory calculations. The Cs2AgSbCl6/TiO2 heterostructure exhibits enhanced optical absorption in the visible-light region compared to that of Cs2AgSbCl6, which is caused by the formation of the interface states and the decreased bandgap, thus facilitating the photo-induced optical transition in the visible-light region. From the charge transfer analysis of two interfaces (Ag2Sb2Cl8/TiO2 and Cs4Cl4/TiO2 interfaces), we find that the efficient separation of photo-induced...


INTRODUCTION. Crop Improvement in the Perspective of Agricultural Advancement and the Necessity for Investigations at the Molecular Level. BIOCHEMISTRY IN CLASSIFICATION AND MOLECULAR MARKERS FOR CROP IMPROVEMENT. Biochemical Characterization of Cultivated Species, Cultivars, and Their Wild Relations. Isozyme Markers and Their Significance in Crop Improvement. Recent Advances in Analyzing Chromosome Structure in Cereals and Their Impact on Breeding Programs. GENETICS OF PHYSIOLOGICAL/BIOCHEMICAL PROCESSES AFFECTING YIELD. Genetics of Photosynthetic Components in Relation to Productivity. Genetic Aspects of Water Relations and Drought Resistance in Crops. BIOCHEMISTRY OF DISEASE RESISTANCE. Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics of Plant-Pathogen Systems. QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND MODIFICATION. Improvement of Cereal Seed Proteins. Genetics of Fatty Acid Composition and Breeding for Modified Seed Oils. Genetics of Secondary Plant Products and Breeding for Their Improved Content and Modified Quality. BIOTECHNOLOGY/GENETIC ENGINEERING. Biochemical Perspectives in Tissue Culture for Crop Improvement. Genetic Strategies for Improved Nitrogen Fixation and Utilization by Crops. Pollen Biotechnology in Crop Improvement. Genetic Transformation and Crop Improvement. Mitochondrial Genome with Special Reference to Male Sterility.


We report on an experimental investigation of a single-photon source based on a quantum interference effect first demonstrated by Koashi, Matsuoka and Hirano (1996 Phys. Rev. A 53 3621). For certain types of measurement-based quantum information processing applications this technique may be useful as a high rate, but random, source of single photons.


Background: Satisfaction is one of the main components of quality of care either for patient's or health provider. This study aimed to explore factors affecting the quality of health services provided at Fayoum University Hospital (FUH) outpatient clinics, by assessing patient and health provider's satisfaction with system of work. Methods: The study is a cross-sectional exploratory time bound study; conducted at (FUH) outpatient clinics. A self-administrated questionnaire tapping patient's satisfaction. In-depth interview with the health care providers about work satisfaction. Results: 73.5% and 87.9% of patients were highly satisfied with the technical quality and financial aspects of service, still, more than two third of patients claimed that the physician did not provide health education. As regards health providers, they were dissatisfied from shortage in numbers of staff members with high case load. Conclusion: It is concluded that service provider-patient communication/ interaction is pivotal and integral part of all hospital care services.


The transactional approaches and credit management of our export enterprises are lagging behind greatly,which is suffering a major credit risk in the international marketing and it is not beneficial to the stable development of our exports.In order to help the export enterprises to deal with the risks,the credit management and funding systems should be built up perfectly to melt these risks;establish the system of credit for the export enterprises;establish the guarantee system to contact with the world;support these enterprises by Export-Import Bank;set up guarantee originations of multilateral investment;and let the private agencies to participate in the insurance business of our export enterprises.


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There seems to be little doubt that work plays an important role in the well-being of the population. Work is after all, just about the only thing that you can do for eight hours a day . This book, aimed at employers and occupational health workers, contains a series of


Objective: This study was designed to observe the efficacy and side effects of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT) in the treatment of hematological malignancies and solid tumors. Methods: In the 7 patients, two received autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT) and five received autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (APBSCT). The conditioning regimen consisted of VCCA (Vincristine, Me- CCNU, Ara- C, CTX) and TLI(total lymph irradiation) for malignant lymphoma, VCCED (VCR, Me- CCNU, CTX, Vp- 16, DNR) and TBI for acute myeloid leukemia- M4, VCCME (VCR, Me- CCNU, CTX, Mitoxantron,Vp- 16) for breast cancer. All harvests of stem cells were stored at 4℃ except one at- 80℃ ,than transfused back to the patients within 72 hours without purgation. Results: The number of mononuclear cells and CD34+ cells in harvest in APBSCT patients was (7.45± 5.89)× 108/kg and (18.62± 4.74)× 106/kg,respectively. The patients' granulocyte count reached≥ 0.5× 109/L on day+ 9.6 and+ 11, platelet count reached≥ 50× 109/L on day+ 12.6 and+ 21.5 and reticulocyte reached≥ 0.5% on day+ 11.2 and+ 16.5,respectively,after APBSCT and ABMT. The side effects were mainly the gastrointestinal reactions. Up to now, no relapse were seen but four women had developed secondary amenorrhea after AHSCT. Conclusion: AHSCT is an efficient way for malignant tumors and there were earlier hematopoietic reconstitution and fewer side effects in patient with APBSCT than with ABMT. The impairment of gonad by conditioning may affect the quality of life.


Fragments of a Map explores the journey towards completion for two women. Their journey is mirrored in the narrative by the women's attempt to unravel the provenance of the Vinland Map. Central to the narrative is the question: "Is the Vinland Map a valuable 15th century map or a clever forgery?" The novel, through its concerns and structure, plays with the notion of research in the creative arts. This exegesis comments upon the concerns of the novel, and the writing and research processes.


That higher vocational education institution students move towards society and go down to production line is beneficial to the increase of their competence and comprehensive quality.It is necessary to normalize the students' social practice and bring it into curriculum management.The author suggests laying stress on its various effects on their growth and establishing relative mechanisms and systems to bring the practice into curriculum management system.The support from all walks of life and the students' participation are necessary as well.


Analysis of an 18-year combined synoptic monitoring catalog shows the existence of three non-Io-related source regions on Jupiter, with centroids being located near but not exactly at the centroids of the three well-known Io-controlled sources. Both Io-controlled and non-Io-controlled sources show variation of occurrence probability with declination of earth (DE) but with distinctly different patterns: the occurrence probability of Io sources peaks near DE = 0°, while that of non-Io sources shows a much greater range of variation and peaks near DE = 2°. Both the Io and the non-Io components of the second and third ('main' and 'late') sources show a positive correlation of centroid longitude with DE, although the non-Io source variations are linear, while the Io source variations are curved. Io sources 1 and 3 show clear evidence of variation in the Io coordinate of their upper boundary with DE. When correction for this effect is made, extremely sharp gradients in occurrence probability are produced, leading to a further distinction between Io and non-Io sources on the basis of the significantly sharper directivity gradients in the Io sources.


Factors which affect photoelectron peak positions on heterogeneous samples are evaluated using patterned indium tin oxide (ITO) on glass. Local sample environment, sample mounting and spatial variation in x-ray flux are all shown to contribute to differential charging effects if no charge neutralization is used. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy data acquisition using both Mg Kα and monochromatic Al Kα x-ray sources shows that confusing and potentially misleading results can be obtained if samples are mounted such that only part of the surface is grounded to the spectrometer. In this case, multiple photoelectron peaks were observed for each photoelectron line of each element in the sample. However, more significant differential charging artifacts were observed from the insulating glass than from the ITO. The proximal causes of the photoelectron peak shifts were evaluated using imaging XPS in conjunction with small-area spectroscopy.


Since the referendum on the League of Nations of May 16, 1920, the most important question to be dealt with by the Swiss people was the initiative on treaties, accepted January 30 of this year. The initiative was presented in the form of an amendment to Article 89 of the federal constitution (the referendum article), and may be translated as follows: "Treaties with foreign powers which are concluded without limit of time or for a period of more than fifteen years shall also be submitted to the people for acceptance or rejection upon demand of 30,000 Swiss citizens qualified to vote, or of eight cantons."


Directions (All Groups): For this activity, you have been assigned to a group with a document to review. You will also use the interactive maps [temporarily located at http://civclients.com/nehint/recon/] in this activity. Each group will first review an excerpt from Walt Whitman and a letter from General William T. Sherman, before moving on to examine their individual document and completing the accompanying worksheet.


The phenology of dissolved oxygen (DO) dynamics and metabolism in north temperate lakes offers a basis for comparing metabolic cycles over multi‐year time scales. Although proximal control over lake DO can be attributed to metabolism and physical processes, how those processes evolve over decades largely remains unexplored. Metabolism phenology may reveal the importance of coherence among lakes and facilitate general conclusions about the controls on lake metabolism at regional scales. We developed a Bayesian modeling framework to estimate DO concentrations and metabolism in eight lakes in contrasting landscapes in Wisconsin, USA. We identify the DO and metabolism phenologies for each lake, and use those to compare how decadal patterns relate to trophic state and landscape setting. We show that lakes can be categorized by their hypolimnetic oxygen consumption dynamics, with oligotrophic lakes having a diverse set of patterns and eutrophic lakes having uniform trends of increased oxygen consumption over the last decade. Metabolism phenology is likewise diverse for oligotrophic lakes, whereas eutrophic lakes in southern Wisconsin share consistent long‐term patterns of metabolic trends and seasonal DO consumption highlighting the importance of trophic state driving metabolism. Eutrophic lakes had higher magnitudes and more seasonal variation in net ecosystem production in contrast to oligotrophic lakes. Generally, long‐term metabolic trends of north temperate lakes suggest a limited influence of climate on lake metabolism and that temporal coherence of long‐term metabolism change is driven primarily by the landscape setting.


Metabolomics is the systematic study of the unique chemical fingerprints of all metabolites in an organism, which is a powerful tool for studying its phenotypic diversity at the molecular level. Metabolomics study in parasites involves the study of their small molecule metabolic profiles. The information on complete genome sequence of some parasites has brightened the prospects for control of parasitic infections. Further investigation into the functional and metabolic levels of parasites is needed for developing effective new therapeutics.  The application of metabolomics study in parasitology requires a multi-disciplinary scientific and analytical approach. This report attempts to highlight some important aspects in parasite metabolomics approaches, as well as the analytical tools and data analysis in parasite metabolomics.


Multi-label classification is a type of classification task, it is used when there are two or more classes, and the data point we want to predict may belong to none of the classes or all of them at the same time. In the real world, many applications are actually multi-label involved, including information retrieval, multimedia content annotation, web mining, and so on. A game theory-based framework known as SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) has been applied to explain various supervised learning models without being aware of the exact model. Herein, this work further extends the explanation of multi-label classification task by using the SHAP methodology. The experiment demonstrates a comprehensive comparision of different algorithms on well known multi-label datasets and shows the usefulness of the interpretation.


This methodological study demonstrates how to strengthen the commonly used world health organizationpsilas quality of life index (WHOQOL) by using the consistency-driven pairwise comparisons (CDPC) method. From a conceptual view, there is little doubt that all 26 items have exactly equal importance or contribution to assessing quality of life. Computing new weights for all individual items, however, would be a step forward since it seems reasonable to assume that all individual questions have equal contribution to the measure of quality of life. The findings indicate that incorporating differences of importance of individual questions into the model is essential enhancement of the instrument.


A budget — federal, state, or municipal — is both fundamental for planning actions and policies and a way to communicate government spending priorities to society. How well Brazilian governments are doing was discussed at this two recent seminars. Kalinka Iaquinto reports.


As we look to today's elections, there have been substantial promises made by all parties. Whilst Asad Abbasi argues in this feature length special that manifestos are unlikely to sway electoral outcomes, if these ordinary promises are fulfilled, much can change for the citizens of Pakistan.


To the Editor: In December 2019, cases of pneumonia of unknown origin were reported in Wuhan, Hubei, China.1 Investigations showed that the cause was a novel RNA virus belonging to the Coronaviridae family. Since the first reported cases, the disease, termed Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has spread widely resulting in the World Health Organization, on January 30, 2020, declaring COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.2 As of the last week of March 2020, many countries are under lockdown,medical services are changing priorities and policies, and healthcare resources have been shifted to focus on outbreak management. These new circumstances, which continue to evolve, may impact negatively on the treatment of other diseases. Of particular interest is the effect on oncology patients,3 and more specifically pediatric oncology patients,4 where disease poses a threat to life. Retinoblastoma is the most common ocular malignancy of childhood.5 Early diagnosis and treatment have improved the prognosis for children with retinoblastoma in high-income countries, now reaching > 90% disease-free survival rate.6,7 We aimed to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on retinoblastoma management in treatment centers across the world, and indirectly on patients' prognosis. This information is important for policy and healthcare planning at national and international levels, during the pandemic, and for better preparation in the future. A survey focusing on retinoblastoma management during the pandemic was sent on March 29, 2020, to members of the Global Retinoblastoma Study Group.8 Participants were asked to return the completed survey beforeApril 4, 2020.During thisweek, daily COVID19 data at country and global levels were retrieved from the World Health Organization database.9 Overall, 194 centers from 94 countries were included in the analysis. Of the participating centers, 73 (37.6%) were fromAsia, 34 (17.5%) from Europe, 40 (20.6%) from Africa, 6 (3.1%) from Australasia, 17 (8.8%) from Latin America and the Caribbean, and 24 (12.4%) from North America. Globally, the total number of COVID-19–positive patients reported on March 29 and April 4, 2020, respectively, was 723 390 and 1 201 483, and reported deaths were 34 065 and 64 690. The total


If ever a conference could be considered timely and local, here it was. This topic, just as celebrities were finishing their scene-stealing evidence to the Leveson Enquiry, and but the day before a leading Government minister attributed recent widespread civil unrest on British high streets to 'celebrity culture'.1 However, in the conjunction of celebrity and ageing, this conference had an intriguingly finer focus. While everyone – including academics – appears to know everything there is to know about their favourite celebrities, Deborah Jermyn, introducing the conference, claimed the day afforded an opportunity to chart the more 'nebulous landscape of the ageing celebrity' and, more widely, 'the role of celebrity in an ageing culture'. Conference – comprising a spectrum of ages – then gently dipped its toes into the mixed waters that opened the morning session. Mary Wood offered a deft account of the debt the long career of Franco Zeffirelli, director of films and operas, owed to a skilful self-manipulation of his celebrity status, one that traded on promoting ideas of the sensual and spectacular as Italian national characteristics. Co-organiser Janet McCabe and co-presenter Mike Alley demonstrated the crucial role of the voice as a register of celebrity in the reflexive performances of comedians Rob Bryden and Steve Coogan in their shaggy-dog TV series The Trip, with the pair teasingly playing 'themselves' on a jaunt around British celebrity restaurants. Over steering wheel and meal table, the two lads use their impressive skills of impersonation in testy masculine competition, the impressions 'deflecting problems of ageing' in the contrasting domestic and roué lifestyles of the two forty-plus-year-olds. In the gradual unweaving of the 'twoages-of-men' focus to their discussions, the pair become – albeit celebrity – everymen. Tim Markham's fascinating interviews with the top rank of British war correspondents revealed that mature age bestowed not just professional authority but a style of reporting younger tyros eagerly emulate and one thereby open to satirical parody. In a nod toward the greater concern with gender politics in the following sessions, the particular case of celebrity female correspondent Kate Adie – allegedly using feminine wiles unavailable to her male counterparts to forge connections and file front-line reports they could not – was at least one up to the Woman. And an old-timer at that.


A device for linking a window pane to a window lifter, in particular in motor vehicles, is characterised by a simple design and by the use of only a few parts. The device uses at least one pair of jaws that form-fittingly and/or frictionally engage each one side of the window pane, in the area of the edge of the window pane, and that on the other hand are secured to the mechanism of the window lifter. The device is characterised in that the jaws are divided into at least one inner contact jaw (1, 1', 1'', 1a', 1a'') swivellingly mounted on a base (10, 10a), and into outer supporting jaws (2', 2'', 2a', 2a'') which in their mounting position form-fittingly engage with their base (10, 10a) the inner contact jaw (1, 1', 1'', 1a', 1a'') so as to move in the mounting direction (7) of the window pane (3). When the working position is reached, the inner contact jaw (1, 1', 1'', 1a', 1a'') is locked in position between the supporting jaws (2', 2'', 2a', 2a'').


Abstract In this paper we show that the limit of a sequence of porous sets under Hausdorff convergence is also porous. This purely topological result is then applied to Kleinian group theory in order to construct a Kleinian group with exponent of convergence arbitrarily small and Hausdorff dimension of the limit set strictly less than two.


The global climate change bears impact on natural conditions. In extreme contexts, these changes can trigger natural disasters. To avoid or minimize a more severe impact, disaster mitigation efforts are needed. A publication media that is able to persuade and attract attention is needed to convey these mitigation efforts to the public. Comics are a medium that can facilitate this. In addition to entertaining and attracting attention from the visual side, comics are also able to convey messages. Using comparative methods and content analysis in the form of qualitative descriptive study, this research aims to see how comic media attracts attention in terms of visual and aesthetic, and conveys the function of delivering messages to the public. Comics as a medium of conveying messages become more effectively accepted by the public if they are supported by attractive visual features. With its image as a medium of entertainment and light reading material, comics make people feel comfortable and not tense or afraid.


It is widely believed that Canada's road system is seriously underfunded and in a state of rapid deterioration. Concurrent with the financial crisis confronting the highway system is a growing controversy, sparked mainly by the railroad industry, with respect to the efficiency and equity of existing methods of highway finance. Taken together, these issues are generating pressure for reform in highway finance. Although many agree that traditional methods can be improved, few agree on how it should be achieved. Numerous complex issues such as cost measurement, cost allocation, treatment of economies of scale, optimization of life cycle costs, etc. must be addressed as part of any reform package. This paper examines the controversies surrounding these critical issues. The primary conclusion of the authors is that progress on reform in the nineties will be difficult to achieve as highway finance is by no means an art, let alone a science. Policy makers are confronted with some difficult choices, not the least of which is whether Canada should adopt the American approach to highway funding. (Author/TRRL )


Sertindole-induced hypomania: a case report Although atypical antipsychotics are now commonly used in the treatment of bipolar disorder, they can also lead to manic and hypomanic states. Here, we report a case of hypomanic episode due to initiation of sertindole treatment in a male patient diagnosed with


In this paper we briefly define pulsed laser deposition, current applications, research directed at gaining a better understanding of the pulsed laser deposition process, and suggest some future directions to enable commercial applications.


A novel composites material consisting of calcium silicate deposited in bacterial cellulose membrane was synthesized by immersing BC membrane in the calcium and silicate solutions by turns with different cycle times and characterized. The results indicated that the CaSiO3 particles were homogeneously dispersed on the surface of nanofibers with the effect of BC template when two cycles of soaking proceed, during which the fabrication of most CaSiO3 particles took place. The FT-IR reveals the strong interaction between the two parts of the BC/CaSiO3 composite. The XRD pattern demonstrated a crystal structure disruption of the cellulose aroused by CaSiO3 particle. BC/ CaSiO3 is considered to have a potential application in bone tissue field.


This article presents the application of the control volume finite element (CVFE ) numerical solution technique to the analysis of drying-induced stresses in timber. Two stress formulations are presented: first, a plane strain elastic analysis and, second, a mechano-sorptwe creep analysis, which models the well-known behavior of stress reversal in timber, In order to highlight the applicability of the CVFE method in stress analysis problems, the numerical solutions to two problems are compared against an analytical solution and previously published numerical simulation results.


Our volunteer program will give you a fascinating wildlife experience whilst you learn about our conservation efforts with these amazing animals.


ABSTRACT. Human milk samples (n=232) collected during the whole lactation period from 25 healthy, Swedish mothers were analyzed by radioimmunologic method for content of bovine β‐lacto‐globulin. Detectable amounts (5‐800 μ/1) were found in 93 of 232 milk samples (40%). Six mothers had no detectable β‐lactoglobulin in their breast milk on any occasion. Two mothers had measurable /Mactoglobulin in all their milk samples. No correlation was found between daily cow's milk intake and concentration of β‐lactoglobulin in the milk samples. Six mothers with allergic symptoms such as asthma, hay‐fever, eczema all had detectable amounts of β‐lactoglobulin in their milk. Of 19 mothers without allergy, 13 had detectable amounts. This difference did not show statistical significance. The presence of symptoms in the infant such as diarrhoea, vomiting, colic, exanthema was significantly correlated to high levels of β‐lactoglobulin in the milk. Bovine β‐lactoglobulin was also detected in 7 of 13 serum samples. The two mothers with detectable β‐lactoglobulin in all milk samples had the highest serum values, and their infants suffered from gastro‐intestinal symptoms, weight decline and exanthema.


Abstract Based on tilting theory, we demonstrate the existence of homogeneous deformations for the Brauer tree algebras, which are derived naturally from a tilting complex.


Phase-only synthesis problems are considered for a train of radio pulses. The synthesis problem is solved in the rms approximation and is reduced to the search for the minimum of a positive definite functional with respect to phases of the train pulses. Different schemes for construction of such a functional are proposed and fast monotonically convergent algorithms of its minimization are described.


Presents the study on characterization and mechanism of real time polarization holographic storage in acceptor donor azobenzene derivatives doped in polymethyl methacrylate film by degenerate four wave mixing, including time properties of grating dependence of the incident beam polarization states, and comparing the storage capability of the materials with azobenzene molecular configuration and concludes that the materials have highly sensitive third order nonlinearity and real time holographic storage ability which mainly result from the azobenzene molecular reorientation in photoinduced cis trans isomerization in low power.


Summary form only given. The demand for long mission duration, associated reliability and availability requirements, operation in unstructured environments, real time operating requirements, and flexibility of use has led to increasing levels of autonomy in underwater vehicles. Aspects of multi-sensor data fusion for vehicle localisation and obstacle detection, together with developments in estimation algorithms are covered in this paper. We illustrate AUV modelling and control which enables both performance and robustness criteria to be satisfied by utilising neuro-fuzzy methods and online data gathering via the sensor bed.


Effects of chlorine, combustion temperature and moisture ratio on the heavy metal distribution are studied with sludge, which is from Shenzhen Municipal Sewage Plant, incinerated in a lab-scale fluidized bed incinerator. The experimental results indicate that percentage of volatile heavy metals in flue gas increase greatly with the increase of temperature, and the increase of moisture ratio of the sludge leads to less percentage of heavy metals Zn and Pb in flue gas. The addition of chlorine also promotes the volatilization of heavy metals, especially for volatile metals.


The article examines the relationship between corruption and voting behavior by defining two distinct channels: pocketbook corruption voting, i.e. how personal experiences with corruption affect voting behavior; and sociotropic corruption voting, i.e. how perceptions of corruption in society do so. Individual and aggregate data from Slovakia fail to support hypotheses that corruption is an undifferentiated valence issue, that it depends on the presence of a viable anti-corruption party, or that voters tolerate (or even prefer) corruption, and support the hypothesis that the importance of each channel depends on the salience of each source of corruption and that pocketbook corruption voting prevails unless a credible anti-corruption party shifts media coverage of corruption and activates sociotropic corruption voting. Previous studies may have underestimated the prevalence of corruption voting by not accounting for both channels.


The non-isothermal thermal degradation behavior of the poly(ethylene terephthalate)(PET)/ poly(ethylene-2,6-naphthalate)(PEN)blends before and after microwave irradiation for different time intervals was investigated by means of thermogravimetric analysis(TGA)in nitrogen.The degradation kinetic parameters of the degradation for PET/PEN blends,incluing the apparent activation energy (E),the reaction order(n),and the frequency factor(lnA),were analyzed by differential subtract differential and graphical differential analytical methods,the effect of microwave irradiation on thermal degradation behavior of PET/PEN blends and its mechanism were discussed.The microwave irradiation decreased the activation energy by 23~74 kJ/mol,the onset temperature of degradation reaction by 4.16~13.08℃,but increased the weight loss rate by 0.06~0.27 %/℃,indicating an acceleration of the thermal degradation of PET/PEN blends.Furthermore,microwave irradiation increased the value of the degradation reaction order(n)from 0.83 to 1.86,which demonstrated the shift of the degradation mechanism from the decomposition control to diffusion control.


Taking heatsupply project by using circulating water in operation under low vacuum of C63.43/0.981 unit at Chengde Thermal Power Plant as example, the concrete technical problems encountered in the retrofitting project, as well as their resolving schemes and influences upon operation of the said unit have been analysed.


The finite-difference frequency-domain method is formulated for calculating band structures of 2-D photonic crystals involving anisotropic materials. The director of the liquid crystal is allowed to rotate in the plane of the unit cell.


A new method for representing distorted wave forms is investigated. The method suggested by us is a modified vector symbolic method. It has been hitherto thought that the vector symbolic method cannot be applied to the distorted waves, because the rotating speeds of each harmonic vector are not identical. Representing the argument of the n-th harmonic vector by l/n times as large as the phase angle of the harmonic component, the relative positions of respective harmonic vectors are invariable wherever the standard vector is put, and the wave shape can be deduced from the vector diagram. We found various correspondences between the wave forms and the vector diagrams. Therefore, the wave shape can be estimated from the vector diagram, and the mutual relationships between two wave forms can also be known. In electric or magnetic circuits, the causes of distorted wave forms are in general obvious. Therefore, there are very often the fixed relationships between the amplitudes and phase angles of the harmonics. Further, in polyphase a.c. circuits, there are often the fixed relationships between corresponding harmonics in the wave forms of the respective phases. When the wave forms of those circuits are discussed, the new method investigated in this paper may offer a useful key.


Cost pressures are driving the semiconductor industry to look for solutions that meet the challenge of expensive next generation silicon node fabrication. Simply integrating all functions in a single die may no longer be the most economical option. In addition, the need for close proximity of die and components has driven the development of packages that provide both the price and performance needs. System-in-Package (SiP) is gaining popularity as one of the most promising integration solutions. SiP is a functional system or subsystem assembled into a single package. It may contain two or more dissimilar die, typically combined with other components such as passives, filters, antennas, and/or mechanical parts. The components are mounted together on a substrate to create a customized, highly integrated product for a given application. SiPs may utilize a combination of wire bond, flip chip, wafer level packages, pre-packaged ICs such as CSPs, stacked packages, and/or stacked die. This presentation examines ...


This paper studies the input-to-state stability (ISS) and the finite-time input-to-state stability issues for the discrete-time stochastic switched nonlinear systems with time-varying delay. Based on the improved vector-version comparison principle and by employing the stochastic analysis method, sufficient conditions are first derived to guarantee the discrete-time stochastic switched system to be finite-time input-to-state stable in mean and finite-time stochastic input-to-state stable. Then, the comparison principle is further utilised to establish the p-th moment ISS result. As an application, the mean-square ISS is analysed for the linear discrete-time stochastic switched system. At the end of the paper, two numerical examples are provided to illustrate the feasibility/effectiveness of the obtained results.


Despite the literature linking education and human capital to growth and development, there is virtually no research in the Australian context which attempts to empirically investigate this link. This study fills this gap in the literature by examining the development of the education system and its effect on productivity growth in the Colony of Victoria between 1860 and 1939. Using a growth accounting exercise, the paper first compares Victoria to the Australian growth experience and finds that Victoria played a major role in shaping Australian growth between 1890 and 1939. The empirical findings suggest that while primary education was important to sustain productivity growth throughout the period, tertiary education was more effective in the first half of the twentieth century. JEL Classification No.: O30; O40


Long-time series global fractional vegetation cover (FVC) products have received widespread international publication, and they supply the essential data required for eco-monitoring and simulation study, assisting in the understanding of global warming and preservation of ecosystem stability. However, due to the insufficiency of high-precision FVC ground-measured data, the accuracy of these FVC products in some regions (such as the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau) is still unknown, which brings a certain impact on eco-environment monitoring and simulation. Here, based on current international mainstream FVC products (including GEOV1 and GEOV2 at Copernicus Global Land Services, GLASS from Beijing Normal University, and MuSyQ from National Earth System Science Data Center), the study of the dynamic change of vegetation cover and its influence factors were conducted in the three-rivers source region, one of the core regions on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, via the methods of trend analysis and partial correlation analysis, respectively. Our results found that: (1) The discrepancy in the eco-environment assessment results caused by the inconsistency of FVC products is reflected in the statistical value and the spatial distribution. (2) About 70% of alpine grassland in the three-rivers source region changing trend is controversial. (3) The limiting or driving factors of the alpine grassland change explained via different FVC products were significantly discrepant. Thus, before conducting these studies in the future, the uncertainties of the FVC products utilized should be validated first to acquire the fitness of the FVC products if the accuracy information of these products is unavailable within the study area. In addition, more high-precision FVC ground-measured data should be collected, helping us to validate FVC product uncertainty.


In this work we present a survey on physical design notations and models for hard real-time systems. We study their features and capabilities to support veriication issues. Finally, we delineate a new proposal integrating analytical scheduling results into operational formal methods to increase the tractability of the analysis of properties.


Business administration is a national macro-control mechanism formed in recent years with the deepening of economic development. With the deepening of the development of economic globalization, China's has more and more frequent economic market exchanges in various fields with international market. Although China's economic development has brought a very considerable development prospects, but also face challenges of all aspects. In order to further improve the functions of business administration, stabilize the social development situation, strengthen its economic role and promote the sustained and healthy development of the social market economy, the Chinese government has improved the relevant laws and regulations and improved the authority of the business administration. Not only the development of targeted laws and regulations, but also a reasonable use of the benefits of business administration. At the same time, the basic institutions responsible for industrial and commercial management in China should also improve the relevant management facilities resources. Business management is an important means and means of government macro-control, the development of the national economy has played a huge role in promoting, it is also adapted to the current economic and social development of a discipline, advanced management concepts and internal settings have become a solid economic development backing. This article will analyze the characteristics, development history and basic functions of the business administration, and on this basis, talk about their understanding of how business management can promote economic development.


As food additives, titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) have been widely used in various products that are usually simultaneously consumed with a high content of sugar, thus necessitating research on the effect of TiO2 NPs on glucose homeostasis. We conducted an animal study to explore the effect of orally administrated TiO2 NPs on glucose absorption and metabolism in rats at 0, 2, 10 and 50 mg kg–1 body weight day–1 for 30 and 90 days. The results showed that oral exposure to TiO2 NPs caused a slight and temporary hypoglycemic effect in rats at 30 days post‐exposure but recovered at 90 days post‐exposure. Decreased levels of intestinal glucose absorption and increased levels of hepatic glucose metabolism may be responsible for the hypoglycemic effect. Remodeling of the villi in the small intestine that decreased the surface area available for glucose absorption and increased levels of hepatic glucose uptake, utilization and storage related to hepatocellular injury are supposed to be the mechanisms. Our results demonstrated that dietary intake of TiO2 NPs as food additives could affect the absorption and metabolism of glucose.


We present three algorithms for joint estimation of source angles and sensor gains and phases. These algorithms are based on the principles of weighted noise subspace fitting (WNSF), conditional maximum likelihood, and unconditional maximum likelihood. We study the statistical performances of the three algorithms assuming the source angles are known. The WNSF algorithm with an optimum weight is shown to be statistically the most efficient among the three and is implementable in an iterative quadratic fashion.


Summary This article starts with a review of different recent theoretical views and positions on culture, menstruation taboos, and ethical consumer behaviour. We performed a quantitative research in England, Germany, Slovenia and Sweden on 1,081 responding female students about the effect of cultural and sociological factors on female consumer behaviour when buying feminine hygiene products. Countries were selected depending on different cultures, religions and consumer behaviour. Based on the acquired results, we established a structural model of female consumer behaviour in the selected countries. This model showed a spiral transfer of cultural limitations and prejudices to the respondent students through the environment.


I studied the teaching of architecture cartography course.In traditional teaching,the architecture cartography course was defined as how to draw buildings.Teachers took it as an instrumental learning course.According to this situation,I did a particular research by setting three specific units which are study the nature of things,understanding,and expression.Using these units can stimulate students' creative spirit.The architecture cartography course should not only be a course about skill of drawing buildings but also a course related to the thought of design.


【Objective】To explore the techniques and curative effects of hepatectomy in the treatment of intrahep-atic cholelithiasis and biliary duct stricture. 【Methods】The clinical data of 80 patients with intrahepatic cholelithiasis and biliary duct stricture,who underwent hepatectomy in our department in the past 4 years,were retrospectively ana-lyzed. 【Results】In 80 patients with intrahepatic cholelithiasis and biliary duct stricture who underwent liver lobecto-my or segmentectomy,common bile duct exploration combined with T tube drainage was performed in 42 cases; hepa-tectomy and choledocholithotomy combined with Roux-en-Y type choledochojejunostomy or hepaticojejunostomy were performed in 10 cases; hepatectomy,hepaticolithotomy and hepaticoplasty on stricture combined with Roux-en-Y type choledochojejunostomy were performed in 7 cases; hepatectomy and hepaticolithotomy combined with choledochoduo-denostomy were performed in 2 cases. Postoperative follow-up was carried out in 66 patients (82.5%) for 6 months to 4 years. Residual stones existed in 12 cases (15.0%) and were cleared up by choledochoscopy in 7 cases. Postoperative subphrenic abscess occurred in 3 cases,bile leak occurred in 7 cases,lung infection in 3 cases,incision infection in 11 cases,and the upper alimentary tract bleeding in 2 cases. All the above-mentioned complications were cured by non-operative therapy. No mortality existed in the perioperative period. 【Conclusions】In allusion to the primary fo-cus of intrahepatic cholelithiasis,appropriate liver lobectomy or segmentectomy can be chosen to effectively relieve biliary duct stricture and obtain smooth drainage,reduce the frequency of postoperative debris and cholangitis. So hep-atectomy is the ideal approach in the treatment of intrahepatic cholelithiasis and biliary duct stricture.


Bis(oligonucleotide) conjugates with synthetic linkers connecting short complementary oligonucleotides are known to form synthetic DNA or RNA hairpins which are, in some cases, more stable than natural hairpins which possess oligonucleotide linkers. The authors report here that conjugates possessing stilbenediether (SE) linkers form exceptionally stable (poly)dT-SE-(poly)dA hairpins. The crystal structure of a Se-bridged hairpin confirms that it adopts a B-form structure in which the stilbene is {pi}-stacked with the adjacent base pair. The stilbenediether also mediates novel lattice interactions that are distinct from those normally found in DNA crystals. The singlet excited state of the stilbenediether is a strong electron donor which is rapidly quenched by either neighboring dT-dA or dC-dG base pairs which function as electron acceptors. This behavior is complementary to that of conjugates possessing a stilbenedicarboxamide linker (SA, Chart 1), which serves as an electron acceptor.


IT HAS BEEN FOUND (1) that the amount of andro gen excreted in the urine of normal adults varies from day to day when determined by the Zimmermann (2) reaction. This fluctuation is approximately ± 40% about a mean which is relatively constant for an individual, even over long periods of time. This finding has been recently confirmed (3). However, Callow (4) demonstrated that there is normally a nonspecific chromogenic fraction which gave a color value of about 6% of the total in a small number of urine specimens from several subjects. Talbot (5) confirmed this although he found a much higher value for this fraction in a number of instances. The question thus arises whether the daily fluctuation in total androgen output of the individual subject is accounted for by changes in the output of this nonspecific component or in the output of the specific 17-ketosteroids. Callow (4) has used the ratio of absorption coefficients with green and violet filters EG/EV, to determine whether an extract is relatively pur...


The new type of ALA+SPM rotor synchronous machine is made of a surface permanent magnet (SPM) part and an axially-laminated anisotropic (ALA) reluctance part separately mounted on the same shaft. Accordingly,its magnet circuit in each part is independent. Using the phasor diagram in d-q reference as the tool for analysis of ALA,SPM,ALA+SPM rotor machine respectively,this paper with a limited current control mode,searched for the basic design rules concerned with field-weakening capacity and maximum electromagnetic torque (overload capacity) to this hybrid rotor by the two given new variables k,the fraction length of SPM part,and α,the displaced angle between two part d-axes. Results show the ratio k has an upper limit (kmax) and the angle α has a singularity (αq). For a higher saliency ratio,a bigger kmax and a smaller αq may occur. And the comprehensive performance of the hybrid rotor machine with reasonable k and α can be improved significantly.


Preservation Manufactured homes and communities have acquired the stigma of being low-income housing associated with transient citizens. In actuality, park residents tend to remain part of a community for extended periods of time; rarely are structures relocated today. This housing typology presents a multitude of opportunities in the realms of density, community, and affordable living. While the historic roots of these homes grew out of travel and mobility, the desire for larger living spaces has all but removed this characteristic from these homes. This thesis aims to redesign the manufactured home and rethink park design in order to re-integrate 'trailer parks' into existing urban fabrics and create a transportable home. Thoughtful design and planning can rekindle enthusiasm for this housing type and lifestyle. All photographs, drawings, diagrams and other graphics in this document are by the author, except where noted. Satellite image underlays were retrieved from Google Earth and manipulated by the author. ii Dedication To my grandparents: First and foremost to William Ballou, who moved his family across the country in a mobile home and truly inspired this project. To Shirley Thacker, who has taken care of that mobile home so I could become curious. To William and Veta Colvin, who have always been there to answer my questions not only about their double-wide manufactured home, but life in general.


The company is a form of formal organization and is a container where the system of cooperation made in carrying out various activities to achieve organizational goals and objectives expected. The expected goals and objectives can be achieved in general is getting a fair profit, growth and ensuring the survival of the company itself, where employees generally tend towards the work at the desired level of performance the company, if the employee has received a satisfaction in working according to level of need. The Importance of Position and Movement Promotion application based on the principle of fairness and objectivity in the company's employees have been interested to see how the actual role of Promotions Position and Movement applied to the company's employees to achieve a high level of achievement.The problem in this research aims to identify and measure explicitly the influence of Position and Movement Promotion of Job Performance in PT. PlN (Persero) Branch Medan North Sumatra Medan Rayon South.This study aims to determine and measure explicitly the influence of Position and Movement Promotion of Job Performance employees. This study used a questionnaire that is used as a tool to get the primary data (quantitative) with Likert-scale system that was distributed to 72 respondents. The data then compiled in the tables showing the frequency and percentage values ??of each respondent's answer, then processed and analyzed using multiple regression, and processed with the help of the program Statistical Product and Service Solution (SPSS version 18.00) . Retrieved calculation Position and Movement Promotion simultaneously and significantly affect the level confidence Job Performance 29% or 5% significant level according to the results of 15.484 Fcount > Ftable of 2.74 with significance level 0.00 <0.05. Thus far below the 0.05 probability then reject H0 (Accept H1.) Partially an effect of Position of Job Performance Promotions, which is seen from tcount of 5.418> ttable amounted to 1.667 and 0.00 significant probability value < 0.05 then concluded Reject H0 (Accept H1.) For the most dominant variable is the variable Position Promotions seen from Table 4.38 Standaridizied value the importance of the largest beta coefficient of the variable under study is equal to 0.552, while the mutation is only worth 0.024, it can be concluded that the dominant influence Promotion Position Job Performance PT.PLN employees (Persero ) Rayon Medan North Sumatra Medan branch of the South, it means that hypothesis 1 and hypothesis 2 acceptable.


Innovative cotton harvesting bag (ICHB) was designed by Ms. Sunita Chauhan of Farm Science Centre, Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur. ICHB was most acceptable for ease in tying, picking, emptying, load carrying and ergonomically efficient compared to other back and front loaded cotton harvesting bags. Significantly 42% higher cotton was harvested and area covered hour-1 over traditional system. ICHB was most efficient in cotton picking with 86% higher output of cotton harvested and cotton harvest area covered heart beat -1 among all cotton pickings. Ergonomics of cotton harvesting was significantly influenced by pickings, time of harvest, age of cotton harvesters in Bt hybrid cotton.


Design techniques of 2.25-in. diagonal poly-Si TFT-LCD panel for an HDTV/XGA projection system are described, especially focusing on the driver circuits. The area-efficiency of the driver circuits is a very important design issue, because the integrated poly-Si driver circuits takes a very large area due to inferior device characteristics of single crystal-Si transistors. For area-efficiency, the pixel with a novel structure of the line memory has been proposed, and the analog switch circuits have been carefully designed in respect of area-efficiency without sacrificing the other performances. A novel gate driver architecture has been also proposed which can provide both progressive and dual-line scanning patterns for HDTV and XGA images. The gate drivers using tri-state buffers are established at both sides of the panel for redundancy, so that a defective one can be electrically separated from gate lines by a control signal instead of a conventional laser-cutting method. Area-efficiency is also discussed in designing the gate driver. Using the proposed design techniques, a 2.25-in. diagonal poly-Si TFT-LCD panel with source driver circuits of 1100 /spl mu/m-width and gate driver circuits of 2650 /spl mu/m-width for an HDTV/XGA projection system has been successfully developed.


The low technology adoption rate is one of the major problems in very small dual-purpose cattle farms in Mexico. Using the social network analysis approach, we characterized the farmer leaders in the innovation network and deepened the knowledge on the low technological adoption causes. The sample consisted of 383 very small farms of dual-purpose cattle characterized by using nine reproductive management technologies. Our findings suggested that the network position of farmers had a significant impact on the technological level. Hence, the farmers farthest from the technology leaders showed the lowest levels of betweenness centrality index and high rates of constraint. Apart from this, advice, productive orientation, and intensification were also differentiating elements at the technological level. The findings provided relevant insights and useful tools to policy makers to better support, coordinate and enhance the adoption of innovation among smallholders.


PURPOSE: A method for supplying preferred channel in service list and an apparatus for doing the same are provided to enable users to register and recognize the preferred channels more easily. CONSTITUTION: A method for supplying preferred channel in service list includes first thru fifth steps. At the first step, a data in a transport stream(TS) is divided and a program specific information(PSI) is separated. At the second step, a service list including effective channel list is generated using the information in the SI/PSI. At the third step, the generated service list is displayed on a screen. At the forth step, channels selected by users are registered in the service list as preferred channels. At the fifth step, the preferred and regular channels are displayed on the screen in a different manner for better discrimination.


Liquid mixing in tall tanks agitated by multiple radial turbines can be modelled by a cascade of well-mixed compartments with backflows. Models have been proposed with different numbers of compartments per stage of agitation. In this paper, the five simplest models are compared in their ability to predict mixing times and concentration transients, and in their requirement for adjusted parameters. Examined models have from 1 to 4 compartments per agitation stage. The model which consists of 3 compartments per agitation stage is shown to be the best, since it predicts reasonably accurate turbulent mixing times and concentration transients, regardless of injection point position, without the need for any parameter adjustment. Compartments within an agitation stage are connected by the liquid circulation rate, known from the literature, while interchange of liquid between agitation stages was measured. The other models either require adjustment of one parameter for mixing time prediction or do not have a structure adequate to account for the effect of tracer injection point.


One embodiment relates to a hybrid vehicle in an idling reduction system used. The system includes a control system for the field data in response to the working vehicle in the charge depletion mode or a charge accumulation mode operation; field data may include estimating an energy working at a job site of the required amount.


The evaluation of flood storage and detention area's project has been discussed in the paper.Based on the systematic theory and thought of sustainable development,9 kinds and 25 indexes and the mathematical model which is established by the fuzzy comprehensive judgment have been made up in the paper.Purpose is to enhance the effect of the project and make it play an important role in controlling the flood.


This note extends the notion of produced inputs to human capital services and shows that the measure of the productivity residual is nil when inputs are produced. The standard growth accounting literature often confuses the services of produced human capital services with the hours of work of skilled workers, explaining why attempts to mine out the productivity residual have failed. The note also criticizes the improper specification of technical progress in the production function when using produced inputs and suggests a reinterpretation of some often uses notions or expressions.


Crowdedness varies widely among U.S. cities. A simple, static general equilibrium model suggests that plausible differences in metro areas' consumption amenities can account for much of the observed variation. Under a baseline calibration, differences in amenities valued at 30 percent of average consumption expenditures suffice to support a twenty-fold difference in population density. Empirical results confirm that amenities help support crowdedness and suggest that they are becoming a more important determinant of where people choose to live. But for the moment, local productivity appears to be the more important cause of local crowdedness.


Central to a theology of feasting is the nearness and newness of the Kingdom of God. Engaging Levinas's philosophy, this article develops a theology of feasting to portray the intimacy of encountering the risen Christ's word of goodness, mercy, and joy in the poor one's face. Such intimacy relates the joy of being children of God, seeking to know the Father's forgiveness and prophetic call not to forget 'the least of these who are members of my family' (Mat 25:40), namely, 'the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame' (Lk 14:3), chosen by God to feast in the Kingdom of God. In the small goodness of being-for-the-other, especially for those on the margins of society, a theology of feasting signifies the hope for Parousia and the resounding of a theological and creative imagination of faith.


Abstract:  The aim of the study was to assess the possible associations between allergies and type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1), stratified by social class. We studied 127 children with DM1 with a median age of 10.8 yr and 150 controls of comparable age and sex distribution. The parents completed questionnaires on their education and occupation and on their children's history of allergic symptoms, breast‐feeding, viral infections, and measles–mumps–rubella (MMR) vaccination. Lower family's social class was more frequently encountered among the DM1 families than in the controls (OR = 0.56, 95% CI: 0.35–0.92). The occurrence of any allergic symptoms among children with DM1 (35.45%) was not significantly different from the controls (38.78%), neither in the total group (OR = 0.87, 95% CI: 0.52–1.45) nor in the stratified analysis by social class. Similar findings were observed regarding the different types of allergic symptoms. In the univariate analysis, breast‐feeding, the experience of viral infections, and MMR vaccination were found to be protective of DM1 presentation in both upper and lower social classes. In the multiple logistic regression analysis, the experience of more than 2 infections/yr (OR = 0.12, 95% CI: 0.04–0.34), the origin from middle and upper social classes (OR = 0.42, 95% CI: 0.22–0.80) and breast‐feeding (OR = 0.58, 95% CI: 0.31–1.07) were protective of DM1 occurrence. In children with DM1, the presence of allergic symptoms was not associated with the development of DM1. Among the environmental factors, the origin from middle or upper social classes, breast‐feeding, the experience of viral infections, and MMR vaccination were found to have a protective effect on DM1 presentation.


Describes briefly the operation system of Siemens MRI Impact.Analyzes the failure of self starting for the system and describes the troubleshooting for it.


How did this project begin? You might say that it was simple good luck provided that it is assumed that collecting titles for never-finished, never-ending "webliographies" is a piece of good luck! The two of us, Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose, are professors in Canada's one and only Graduate Program in Popular Culture at Brock University, and we are both long time readers of detective fiction of all kinds. When Brock's Graduate Program in Popular Culture (the only one in Canada) was created in 2000, we decided to teach a course together on Crime, Mystery and Detective Fiction, Film and Television that would combine both of our scholarly interests. As members of the English Department (Marilyn), and the Communications, Popular Culture and Film Department (Jeannette), we sat down to design a course that would look at Detective Fiction in its various forms, from print to film and television, and beyond (anyone for hypertext?).


The paper is devoted to designing an efficient recursive algorithm for solving the robust PageRank problem recently proposed by Juditsky and Polyak (2012) [4]. To this end, we reformulate the problem to a specific convex-concave saddle point problem minx∈X maxy∈Y q(x, y) with simple convex sets X ∈ ℝN and Y ∈ ℝN, i.e., standard simplex and Euclidean unit ball, respectively. Aiming this goal we develop an extension of saddle point mirror descent algorithm where additional parameter sequence is introduced, thus providing more degree of freedom and the refined error bounds. Detailed complexity results of this method applied to the robust PageRank problem are given and discussed. Numerical example illustrates the theoretical results proved.