At a time when climate change is affecting human health and the number of people with chronic diseases is increasing, people are trying to use natural treatments and aftercare. Although Mongolian territory for the weather evolution index is divided into three bioclimatic regions, the study about its effects on human health is rare. The aim of the study was to study the spatial and temporal patterns of bioclimatic pathogenicity on human health using daily average meteorological data of 1991-2020 from 69 weather stations representing the climate, physical geography, natural zones, and belts of Mongolia. The pathogenic bioclimatic conditions per year were calculated as a total index that includes pathogenic conditions of air temperature, temperature change between days, pressure changes, relative humidity, clouds, and wind parameters. From the estimation, 107 days were "suitable" for humans and 135 days were "unsuitable" while the remaining 123 days dominated "pathogenic conditions" in Mongolia. Seasonally, the effect of weather change on human health were suitable in summer while the pathogenicity is heavy in winter. However, pathogenicity conditions were moderately variance the transition seasons. The annual pathogenicity index was unsuitable for any natural zone in Mongolia, but in the Gobi and Desert regions, it was slightly lower around 18-20 while the index values tended to increase northward. When the percentage of meteorological variables in the total pathogenicity index was studied, the effects of daily changes in air temperature and wind speed had a significant impact on human health. This study has used the daily climate data for the last 30 years to update bio-climatic pathogenicity conditions in Mongolia, and it will be the fundamental data for exploring the relationship between weather oscillations and human disease. Therefore, it will provide an opportunity for further research in this area.


New radio is a 5G mobile networks that are being rapidly deployed in commercial operation all over the world. In the framework of this paper, the issues related to the software development of 5G broadcast PBCH channel for generating and receiving data are considered. The PBCH data reliability is also estimated demonstrating the dependency between PBCH block error rate and the number of incorrectly received bits. Algorithms of open 3GPP 38.212 specification are used to form the channel, and non-standardized algorithms are developed for receiving data.


Composite vascular grafts formed by micro-imprinting and electrospinning exhibited improved mechanical properties relative to those formed by electrospinning alone. The three-layered composite grafts mimic the three-layered structure of natural blood vessels. The middle layer is made by micro-imprinting poly-p-dioxanone (PPDO), while the inner and outer layers are electrospun mixtures of chitosan and polyvinyl alcohol. The graft morphology is characterized with scanning electron microscopy. For constant graft thicknesses, the PPDO increases the mechanical strength. Cells cultivated on the vascular grafts adhere and proliferate better because of the natural, biological chitosan in the inner and outer layers. Overall, the composite scaffolds could be good candidates for blood vessel repair.


In diverse fields such as computer science, economics and psychology, bounded rationality has emerged as an important research topic. Models which assume the existence of perfectly rational agents seem inadequate for many realworld problems where agents often lack perfect rationality. Classes of imperfect rationality include the conditions of incomplete knowledge, memory, information or computational ability. In this paper, bounded rationality is investigated in the context of the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma (IPD). Six papers are surveyed which address issues of optimality and cooperation in repeated games with applications to IPD, using either a machine learning or game theory approach. Each paper imposes some bound on players' rationality; these approaches to bounding are classified and compared based on their results and applicability.


could be observed from table: 1 the calculated 't' value 2.82 is Significant at 0.01 level. It suggests that the high school level boys and girls students significantly differed in their level of attitude hence the null hypothesis 1 is rejected. The present study was conducted to expect the attitude and achievement motivation of students at class IX. The sufficient comprised of six hundred fifty IX class students (325 boys and 325 girls) from the government, aided, and matriculation high schools of Coimbatore educational district. The data were obtained by using Attitude Scale developed and standardized by Boonrangsri et al. (2004) revalidated by the investigator in 2017. Achievement Motivation Scale developed and standardized by Beena.S, revalidated by the investigator on 2017 was used for data collection. The finding the estimate of attitude of students on the basis of achievement motivation is significantly higher as compared to their different likelihoods. ABSTRACT


The effect of mild head injury in 78 preschool children on their cognitive performance, especially reading ability, evaluated one year after injury and at 6.5 years of age was investigated at the Department of Neurosurgery, Auckland Hospital, New Zealand.


We have used the Cornish radio catalogue combined with the use of multi-wavelength data to identify 62 new Planetary Nebula (PN) candidates close to the Galactic mid-plane. Of this sample 11 have weak optical counterparts in deep narrow band H$\alpha$ imaging that allows their spectroscopic follow-up. We have observed eight of these candidates spectroscopically, leading to the confirmation of 7 out of 8 as PNe. All but one of our sample of newly detected PNe appear to be of Type I chemistry with very large [NII]/H$\alpha$ ratios. This indicates that our selection method heavily favours detection of this kind of PN. Cornish is a low Galactic latitude survey where young objects and Type I PNe (thought to derive from higher mass progenitors) are more plentiful, but where optical extinction is large. The very high success rate in correctly identifying PNe in this zone proves the efficacy of our radio and multiple multi-wavelength diagnostic tools used to successfully predict and then confirm their PN nature, at least in the cases where an optical counterpart is found and has been observed. The study reinforces the effective use of a combination of multi-wavelength and optical data in the identification of new Galactic PNe and especially those of Type I chemistries whose dusty environments often prevents their easy detection in the optical regime alone.


"The Preface" was finished after the work on "Reflections of a unpolitical Man" and explains the reasons behind its creation. Thomas Mann decided that armed conflict between Germany and the West was the result of different perspectives. Democracy damages the world order and German values. The greatest advocate of democracy among Germans is the civilization's man of letters. Mann undermines the value of his art and gives reasons for the disagreements with this revolutio-nary knowledge, which he calls "The new Pathos". He develops the theory of the greatness of Germans as a nonpolitical nationality, recognizing Martin Luther as a reflection of this theory. He mentions the great minds of the 18th and 19th centuries to emphasize the most crucial differen- ces, seeing in himself a child of the 19th century. In conclusion, Mann claims that his opposition to democracy hastens its victory.


The first paper of this issue, ''The early unrepressed unconscious in relation to Matte-Blanco's thought,'' is one of the last papers written by Mauro Mancia (1929 2007), a training analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, professor emeritus of human physiology at the University of Milan, and of one of the pioneers of the most fascinating new frontiers of our field, the dialogue between psychoanalysis and the neurosciences. A few months before his death (the day before the inauguration of the International Psychoanalytical Association [IPA] Berlin Congress), I was again able to experience his passion for interdisciplinary research at the workshop on ''mirror neurons'' and their implications for psychoanalysis, which he had organised with the Italian neurophysiologist Vittorio Gallese at the annual congress of the European Psychoanalysis Federation held in Barcelona. He had published a paper with the title ''On the beginning of the mental life in the foetus'' as far back as 1981, and the same volume of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis also featured a paper on the ego-ideal that he had written together with Donald Meltzer. The important role he played in building bridges between English and Italian psychoanalysis materialised also in his promotion of and introduction to the Italian edition of the Collected papers of another colleague of wide interests, Roger MoneyKyrle (1898 1980). His scientific openness had also allowed him to review in 1996 Stephen Mitchell's Hope and dread in psychoanalysis for the Italian Rivista di psicoanalisi and to conclude qualifying him as ''a maı̂tre à penser of contemporary psychoanalysis.'' Very curious and extremely productive, he kept being very creative all along: in 2006, he was the editor of the important volume Psychoanalysis and neuroscience (Springer), and shortly before his death, Feeling the words. Neuropsychoanalytic understanding of memory and the unconscious (Italian edition, 2004) came out in the prestigious New Library of Psychoanalysis. It is no wonder that, in the paper opening this issue, Mauro Mancia tries to operate a new connection, to revisit the early unrepressed unconscious in terms of Ignacio Matte-Blanco's (1908 1995) concept of symmetry and asymmetry, that is, his bilogical perspective which he had articulated in his 1975 book The unconscious as infinite sets and further refined in 1988 in Thinking, feeling and being. Having emigrated from Santiago de Chile to Italy in 1966 (after training as a psychoanalyst in London), MatteBlanco also played a significant role in bridging the gap between Italian and international psychoanalysis (one of the themes of my editorial of No. 2/2008) and gathered around himself a group of students, to whom we for example owe the anthology L'emozione come esperienza infinita. Matte Blanco e la psicoanalisi contemporanea [Emotion as infinite experience. Matte Blanco and contemporary psychoanalysis], edited in 2007 by Alessandra Ginzburg and Riccardo Lombardi. A new frontier of our field is also what Franco Borgogno touches upon in the next paper, ''The relevance of 'role reversal' in today's psychoanalysis,'' which he presented at the IPA Berlin Congress and in which he revisits one of his most significant treatments (which he had already dealt with in several publications, including, in 2004, Psychoanalytic Dialogues) in the light of the interview that Christopher Fortune conducted with him (see Zvi Lothane's review of the latter in No. 2/2008), recently published with the title ''The Vancouver interview'' in the American Journal of Psychoanalysis. This is what allows him to tell us for the first time that his treatment of the very difficult woman patient at the center of the paper could be successful also because ''I was one of these children: a child partly unseen in my specificity (I had to be different and change for my parents' benefit and renounce being myself) and partly not listened to in my particular needs (my mother was often psychically absent and my father cared only for his family of origin).'' This is what allowed him to share her ''nonexistence'' in such an authentic and profound way as to produce the kind of ''interpsychic acting cure,'' which he calls working as he does in Ferenczi's footsteps ''role reversal;'' in his own words: ''For this kind of patient . . . the analyst's 'mutative' interpretation is not the classical one, but rather the whole action of literally interpreting and living 'in the patient's place' a part of psychic life that is simply unknown to them or which has been expelled by them because of the pain connected to it.'' Since not only Ferenczi, but also Bion played a central role in Borgogno's professional development International Forum of Psychoanalysis. 2008; 17: 197 200


Coloration of fabrics is a major process in the production of textile material. In the current study, natural dye was extracted from onion skin (Allium Cena) using microwave irradiation technique and used to dye wool/cotton blended fabrics, via eco-friendly natural mordants, i.e., aloe vera and chitosan. Factors that may affect pre-mordnating process were studied like mordant conc., curing time/ temperature. Various parameters that affect on the dyeing process were investigated such as dye concentration, dyeing time/temperature as well as pH value of the dyeing bath. The fastness properties gave results ranged from good to excellent. [Wessam El-Zairy. A Novel Eco-Friendly Pre-Mordnating Technique For Dueing Cellulose/Wool Fabrics Using Allium Cena Natural Dye. Nat Sci 2016;14(12):58-63]. ISSN 1545-0740 (print); ISSN 2375-7167 (online). http://www.sciencepub.net/nature. 11. doi:10.7537/marsnsj141216.11.


SSL protocol has been one of the key technologies for realizing secure communication in internet, it plays a has the function in encrypting and authenticating information transmission, however SSL may not be a flawless protocol. The paper first introduces SSL protocol and man-in-the-middle attack, then analyses the problem of distrust in the handshake of SSL protocol, discusses the restriction of trust negotiation based on X.509 digital certificate, and makes a concrete analysis of the principle of ssl man-in-the-middle attack based on arp redirection. Finally, the paper gives some suggestions on how to prevent the attack.


The robust servo control of a model-based biomedical application, namely the glucose-insulin control of diabetes patients under intensive care, is presented in the paper. The synthesis and analysis is based on a modified two compartment Bergman model and realized with a two degree of freedom controller structure permitting to assure insulin tracking. The augmented Δ − P − K structure is described with the necessary weighting functions. A non-conservative complex μ-synthesis method is applied. Using the controller, not only the robust stability is met under multiplicative uncertainty, but also the nominal performance i.e. the disturbance rejection is fulfilled. Food (sugar) intake is considered as disturbance. Closed loop simulation results are edged for optimizing the insulin amount.


Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide. Ischemia is the most common cause of it which is being treated by combined therapy. One important management of acute stroke candidate for recanalization (r-TPA) that can perform for some patient with special condition in 3 to 4/5hours of onset in a few centers in Iran. there are many studies with different results regard to anti-coagulant therapy in acute stroke. The aim of this study was determination of heparin effects on mobility problems among non-hemorrhagic stroke patients. In regard of absence of diagnostic tools & teams of acute ischemic stroke treatments with r-TPA. In a double-blind randomized controlled clinical trial, 60 non-hemorrhagic stroke patients in Kashani Hospital in Shahrekord were randomly assigned in according to scale definition of NIHSS(part 5 & 6 : motor arms & legs) into two groups with same motor signs(0=no drift -1=drift -2 = cant's resist gravity-3 = no efforts against gravity-4 = no movement UN=untestable): experiment and control groups. While experiment group were subcutaneous received 5000 to 10000 unit BID every day for 3 days +aspirin 100-325 mg, control group were received only 100-325 mg aspirin. Muscular power and dyspnea & pulses of peripheral veins for evaluation of lung emboli & DVT and radiological data in CT(the first and third days) were evaluated after 3 days in two groups. There was no statistically significant difference between two groups in age, gender, power of all limbs, and duration of hospitalization. There was no significant difference between two groups in muscular power of upper and lower limbs in first day, but it was significant in the third day. In comparison of the muscular power of limbs of patients less than 55 years between two groups, there was no significant difference in the first day; however, it was significant in the third day. For patients more than 55, the significant difference was seen only in the third day in the power of left side limbs. This study recommends using heparin in non-hemorrhagic stroke patients which is more efficient than using only aspirin. Jivad N, Moghni M, Azari Beni A, Shahrifar M, Azimian M. Heparin effects on mobility problems of non-hemorrhagic stroke patients. Life Sci J 2012;9(4):5601-5604] (ISSN: 1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 833


Background: The coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic negatively affected people's way of life regardless of age, sex, or ethnicity. This infectious disease is particularly lethal among the elderly, with even higher fatality rates among this age group. Aim of the study: Assess knowledge and quality of life of rural older adults during COVID-19 pandemic. Subjects and Methods: Research design: A descriptive design was utilized. Setting: The study was conducted in a rural area Shobera el nakhla selected randomly from Sharkia Governorate, Egypt. Subjects: Purposive sample composed of 300 older adults aged ≥60 years. Tools of data collection: Three tools were used to collect the study data. Tool I: A structured interview sheet. Tool II: knowledge of the studied older adults about Covid-19. Tool III: WHO Quality of life instrument short form (THE WHOQOL-BREF). Results: among the studied older adults, 68.7% had inadequate knowledge and 51.3% had poor quality of life. Statistically significant relations were found between quality of life and illiteracy, insufficient monthly income, and unmarried status. Conclusion: two-third of older adults had inadequate knowledge and more than half of studied older adults had poor quality of life during covid-19 pandemic. Recommendation: Healthcare Providers should be aware that older individuals were particularly vulnerable to the effects of covid-19 on quality of life and explore strategies to minimize their suffering during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Uncertain data PT-TopK present invention discloses a water environment monitoring network for query processing system and method approximation, by the establishment of model uncertainty tuple x-tuple of tuples rule, using two stages of data within a cluster and between clusters Save sticks and query processing method, in the case does not affect the accuracy of the final results, reducing communication overhead data, uncertain data query processing to solve problems facing the water environment monitoring network system; reduce the amount of data transfer and network energy consumption, improve data query the credibility of the results, reduce water environment monitoring network data management system development and deployment costs.


The application provides a kind of method preparing electrode material, electrode material and battery, to solve the problems, such as that silicium cathode material is easy dusting under completely embedding state in battery existing in the prior art.The electrode material includes:Stratiform silicon kernel and graphene quantum dot, the stratiform silicon kernel include at least two layers of silica-base material, have bedding void between the adjacent two layers of at least two layers silica-base material, which includes at least one of the oxide of silicon or silicon;The graphene quantum dot is located at the bedding void of at least two layers silica-base material.


Theoretical estimation, computer simulation and experiment were performed to evaluate temperature of the deformation heating of magnesium during severe plastic deformation by lateral extrusion method. The simulation of the deformation process was carried out by DEFORM-3D. Experimental temperature measurement of magnesium deformation-induced heating at the deformation zone was made. According to the simulation, temperature of the magnesium billet has reached 114°C during deformation. Experimental results showed that the maximum temperature of deformation heating of the material is ∼140°C.


We demonstrate real-time single-shot dynamics of soliton spectral broadening and Cerenkov radiation predominately induced by slow-light enhanced free-carrier nonlinearity in silicon photonic crystals. Ultra-stable free-carrier dispersion based continuum generation is identified for the first time.


Tin phosphide (SnP0.94) particles were synthesized by thermal decomposition of tin acetate in a mixed solution of trioctylphosphine and a high-boiling solvent. Teardrop-shaped SnP0.94 particles with the size of about 500 nm were obtained by using trioctylphosphine oxide as a coordinating solvent. In the case using oleylamine as a solvent, the shape of SnP0.94 particles was not uniform. Formation mechanism of teardrop-shaped SnP0.94 was discussed. SnP0.94 particles prepared by using the trioctylphosphine oxide as a coordinating solvent were applied as an active material to all-solid-state lithium cells. The cell Li–In/80Li2S·19P2S5·1P2O5/SnP0.94 exhibited the initial discharge capacity of 1000 mAh g−1 at a current density of 1.3 mA cm−2.


Background. Gender has now been proven to have a significant impact on the development, course and outcome of a large number of diseases, including alcoholic liver disease. Alcohol consumption is one of the leading risk factors for various diseases. Alcohol-related diseases cause 10% of all deaths worldwide among young and middle-aged people. The occurrence of renal dysfunction in cirrhosis of the liver is an integral part of the natural course of the disease. At the moment, the diagnosis of gender-specific renal dysfunction that occurs against the background of liver cirrhosis is essential for the development of effective treatment strategies and the improvement of survival.Objectives. The study is aimed at identifying the features of the gender-specific renal function and urinary syndrome in patients with liver cirrhosis of alcoholic etiology and assessing the comprehensive prognostic significance of the indicators of common urine analysis in the diagnosis of renal dysfunction.Methods. An observational study was carried out using data from medical records of 158 patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis (95 men and 63 women), aged 36 to 72 years, who were inpatients between February 2016 and March 2020. Physical examination and laboratory diagnostic data were taken into account. Binary predictors of renal dysfunction progression in patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis were determined based on the analysis of descriptive statistics. Statistical data processing was performed using computer program Statistica 10 (StatSoft, Inc., USA) and standard Microsoft Excel software package (Microsoft Office 2016). Non-parametric statistical methods were used to describe the results. Quantitative results were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney test; comparison of two samples by a qualitatively defined feature was performed by means of the Fisher angular transformation method. Differences were considered significant at p ˂ 0.05. A multilayer neural network function from the Statistica 10 Neural Networks software was used to construct a classification scheme for renal dysfunction (yes/no). Neural network performance was assessed using descriptive and inductive statistics, calculating sensitivity, specificity, performing ROC analysis and constructing cumulative gains charts.Results. A renal function test revealed a significant decrease in glomerular filtration rate (p = 0.029) and a significant increase in urinary albumin/creatinine ratio (p < 0.0001) in women with alcoholic liver cirrhosis as compared with men. Women are also reported to have a high incidence of proteinuria, leukocyturia and bacteriuria. According to ROC-analysis, the urinalysis indicators have a high prognostic significance in identifying renal dysfunction in men and women with alcoholic liver cirrhosis (AUROC = 0.902 and sensitivity 81.82%, AUROC = 0.881 and sensitivity 75.00%, respectively).Conclusion. Renal dysfunction develops earlier and occurs twice as often in women with alcoholic cirrhosis than in men of the same age. The application of a neural network mechanism to predict renal dysfunction in men and women with alcoholic liver cirrhosis according to the indicators of urinalysis provides a high prognostic ability.


Aims: Pterygium is caused by a type of angiogenesis process and Bevacizumab (Avastin) acts against all kinds of VEGF and inhibits angiogenesis. According to the anti-angiogenic effect of Avastin and the considerable recurrence of Pterygium after surgery as the treatment choice, this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of this medication on recurrent Pterygium. Materials & Methods: This single arm clinical trial study was performed on 17 recurrent Pterygium patients who referred to the ophthalmology clinic of one of Tehran military hospitals during November 2008 to March 2009 and were selected by simple sampling method. Symptoms, refraction, astigmatism, angiogenesis and Pterygium size were measured at the beginning, at the first week and 1 and 3 months after injection of 1.25 mg Avastin in Pterygium bed. Data was analyzed by SPSS 11.5 software using Wilcoxon and Chi-square tests. Results: Eye irritation (p=0.04) and Pterygium angiogenesis (p=0.001) significantly improved. No significant difference was observed in astigmatism, Pterygium size and the level of refraction (p>0.05). Conclusion: Avastin has significant effect on eye irritation and angiogenesis but has less effect on other symptoms; therefore, judgment about its efficacy on recurrent ptrygia needs further study.


This study focuses on kindergarten teachers' consciousness and action of autonomous professional development. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 teachers from a public kindergarten in Shanghai to elicit their perspectives. It was found that teachers with a strong consciousness of autonomous development actively participate in various learning activities in order to facilitate their professional growth, while teachers lacking that consciousness have negative attitudes toward training and learning opportunities. Based on the findings, cooperative learning in the professional learning community and reflective teaching could help strengthen kindergarten teachers' consciousness of autonomous professional development and facilitate positive actions to achieve development.


A new transient response enhancement circuit topology for LDO is presented based on the ideology of the RC high-pass circuit.The design enables fast-transient behavior,which doesn't bring the power dissipation increase during the circuit normal operation periods.The chip design is based on 0.18 μm CMOS mixed-signal process of SMIC.The simulation results indicate that the quiescent current of the overall system is just 3.2 μA,the phase margin is over 90.19°.When the LDO regulates at a 1.8 V supply and a 1.3 V output,and the load current drops from 100 m A to 50 mA in 10 ns,the settle time decreases from 28 to 8 μs.Analogously,when the load current is 100 mA,and the supply voltage of the LDO increases from 1.8 V to 2.3 V in 10 ns,the settle time of the output voltage changes from 47 to 15 μs.


Hochtemperaturreaktionen mit H2/H-Mischungen eines Hochfrequenzplasmas fuhrten zu (A): EuBeEu2O5 und (B): CsBePr2O5 in einkristalliner Form. Die Untersuchung der Kristallstrukturen ergab (A): Raumgruppe CP21/c (a = 7,1749; b = 6,5061; c = 9,4708 A; β = 90,37°; Z = 4) und (B): Raumgruppe DPnma (a = 9,5149; b = 7,1962; c = 6,544 A; Z = 4). (A) enthalt im Gegensatz zu (B) Eu2+ in geordneter Verteilung.

Europium an Earth-Alkaline- and Lanthanoid-like Metal in EuBeEu2O5 and a Contribution about CaBePr2O5

High temperature reactions with mixtures of H2/H in presence of a highfrequency plasma torch lead to the new compounds (A): EubeEu2O5 and (B): CaBePr2O5. Single crystal X-ray investigations show a monoclinic symmetry for (A): space group CP21/c (a = 7.1749; b = 6.5061; c = 9.4708 A; β = 90.37°, Z = 4) and orthorhombic symmetry for (B): space group DPnma (a = 9.5149; b = 7.1962; c = 6.544 A; Z = 4). In (A) the metal positions are occupied by Eu2+ and Eu3+ in an ordered way. In contrast to that in (B) a statistical distribution of Ca2+ and Pr3+ in the trigonal prisms of the Kagome network was found.


A parallel protocol verification algorithm, called the two-phase algorithm, is proposed in an attempt to provide a maximum of verification with a minimum of state space. Rather than compose all communicating finite-state machines (FSMs) into one large global reachability tree, the two-phase algorithm constructs a local expanded tree for each FSM augmented with external information. The first phase of the algorithm performs the expanded tree construction and the second phase performs error detection based on the constructed expanded trees. By separating verification into two phases, the algorithm allows verification for all FSMs to be executed in parallel. The algorithm thus requires a shorter run-time. Moreover, by introducing a new method for the construction of the expanded trees, the algorithm requires fewer explored states. The algorithm can verify protocols with any number of processes. Verification for protocols with more than two processes is illustrated.<<ETX>>


Study creation Kidney Care Home company focused on providing health services to the claimant community, aimed to provide comprehensive patient care dialysis at home through a marketing study, technical knowledge of it, the stipulation of an organizational structure solid and financially, by identifying the hemodialysis population requesting housing in the city of Bogota and projectable to other areas of the country


In this final volume of Hinson's three-part Old Testament introduction, he argues that all that happened in Old Testament times was a preparation for the coming of Christ. As in all books in the series, the text is supported with suggestions for further study and topics for discussion.


This paper reports on the integration of a speech recognition component into a small robot, J. Edgar, which was developed in the AI Vision Lab at the University of Melbourne. While the use of voice commands was fairly easy to implement, the interaction of the voice commands with the existing navigation system of the robot turned out to pose a number of problems.


Background: Desmoglein-2 mediates intestinal epithelial intercellular adhesion. Results: Galectin-3 was identified to associate with the ectodomain of desmoglein-2 and inhibit the degradation of desmoglein-2 and enhance intercellular adhesion. Conclusion: Galectin-3 lattices stabilize desmoglein-2 at the cell surface to regulate intercellular adhesion in intestinal epithelial cells. Significance: This study identifies a novel role of galectin-3 in controlling desmosome structure and function. The desmosomal cadherins, desmogleins, and desmocollins mediate strong intercellular adhesion. Human intestinal epithelial cells express the desmoglein-2 isoform. A proteomic screen for Dsg2-associated proteins in intestinal epithelial cells identified a lectin referred to as galectin-3 (Gal3). Gal3 bound to N-linked β-galactosides in Dsg2 extracellular domain and co-sedimented with caveolin-1 in lipid rafts. Down-regulation of Gal3 protein or incubation with lactose, a galactose-containing disaccharide that competitively inhibits galectin binding to Dsg2, decreased intercellular adhesion in intestinal epithelial cells. In the absence of functional Gal3, Dsg2 protein was internalized from the plasma membrane and degraded in the proteasome. These results report a novel role of Gal3 in stabilizing a desmosomal cadherin and intercellular adhesion in intestinal epithelial cells.


A 5% nickel alloy steel* was specifically designed for cryogenic service. The low temperature capability of this steel is attained by composit ion optimization and microstructural control through a special three-step heat treatment. For particularly critical applications, fracture toughness and fatigue data have been developed. Rotating beam fatigue characteristics, stress intensity (Kc ), and fatigue crack growth rate (da/dN vs AK) data at cryogenic temperatures are presented for steel plates and weldments. These data further demonstrate the suitability of this steel for cryogenic service and provide the designer with information that should enable development of safe and economical containment systems.


Reference, typed cards: W Clouston, Popular tales and fictions - their migrations and transformation. Notes: Stith Thompson motif index of folk literature. Back of card is blank.


In this article, several square open‐loop resonators with transmission lines are proposed to design the optimized bandpass filters. A compact microstrip filter using an open‐loop resonator was designed, fabricated and measured. At the center frequency f0 = 1.80 GHz, a 3‐dB bandwidth of 5% can be varied from 1.76 to 1.85 GHz. The filter shows a maximum insertion loss in passband of 0.1 dB. A transmission zero is realized at about 3.1 GHz, and the attenuation at this frequency exceeds 70 dB. When compared with the conventional filters using coupled square open‐loop resonators, the proposed filter has a size reduction of 30%. Good agreement between measurements and simulations are obtained. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 49: 2755–2757, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.22837


Graphene field emission devices are fabricated using a scalable process. The field enhancement factors, determined from the Fowler-Nordheim plots, are within few hundreds and match the theoretical predictions. The devices show high emission current density of ∼10 nA μm−1 at modest voltages of tens of volts. The emission is stable with time and repeatable over long term, whereas the noise in the emission current is comparable to that from individual carbon nanotubes emitting under similar conditions. We demonstrate a power law dependence of emission current on pressure which can be utilized for sensing. The excellent characteristics and relative ease of making the devices promise their great potential for sensing and electronic applications.


All of the field work for the project was completed during the 1991 field season. All of the vegetation data from both field seasons hav~ been entered into the USD mainframe computer in preparation for detailed analysis. The first objective of the 1991 field season was to identify suitable relict and lightly grazed pinyon-juniper sites that could be ·used as reference points in evaluating the effects of livestock grazing on the pinyon-juniper communities of the Orange Cliffs. Two sites in western Canyonlands National Park were considered in 1990, but they proved to have been either disturbed by livestock in the past or located on a significantly different substrate. Two areas, the North Block and the South Block, were selected during the 1991 field season as potential relict sites.


Adiabatic vacua are known to be Hadamard states. We show, however, that the energy-momentum tensor of a linear Klein-Gordon field on Robertson-Walker spaces develops a generic singularity on the initial hypersurface if the adiabatic vacuum is of order less than 4. Therefore, adiabatic vacua are physically reasonable only if their order is at least 4. A certain nonlocal large momentum expansion of the mode functions has recently been suggested to yield the subtraction terms needed to remove the ultraviolet divergences in the energy-momentum tensor. We find that this scheme fails to reproduce the trace anomaly and therefore is not equivalent to adiabatic regularization.


This article discusses how the music used in Guided Music and Imagery (GIM) functions as a container for the client's experience as he opens to unconscious depth. Many different but related perspectives are systematically presented and integrated. Included is a discussion of music having an inner necessity that governs its unfolding. As a result of the client attuning with this necessity, which can be understood ultimately to be that governing the creative unfolding of the universe itself, the music can help the client discover inner resources, find solutions to problems, and experience healing and transformation in the often unexpected yet deeply enriching ways that are possible in GIM.


The restrained state has always sought to devalue socially reproductive work, often consigning it to the private family unit, where it is viewed as a natural part of female relational roles. This marginalisation of social reproduction adversely affects those performing it and reduces their resilience to vulnerability. The pandemic has largely shattered the liberal illusions of autonomous personhood and state restraint. The reality of our universal embodied vulnerability has now become impossible to ignore, and society's reliance on socially reproductive work has therefore been pushed into public view. However, the pandemic has also exacerbated harms and pressures for those performing paid and unpaid social reproduction, creating a crisis that demands an urgent state response. As it is argued in this paper, the UK response to date has been inadequate, illustrating an unwillingness to abandon familiar principles of liberal individualism. However, the pandemic has also created a climate of exceptionality, which has prompted even the most neoliberal of states to consider measures that in the past would have been dismissed. In this paper, it is imagined how the state can use this opportunity to become more responsive and improve the resilience of social reproduction workers, both inside and outside the home.


Corruption in Nigeria has festered and irredeemably so due in part to the virtual non-existence of institutional mechanisms for ensuring that the machinery of governance and public administration are not unduly distorted or diverted to the satisfaction of egotistical and parochial interests. Nigeria's public service is saddled with a bureaucratic arrangement that is notoriously overbloated, yet it is always easy for particular officials or civil servants to hijack the paraphernalia of public service and deploy same in the service of amoral designs. The just concluded probe by the Nigerian Senate on the mismanagement of the police pension funds is one incident out of numerous cases which exemplifies this odious phenomenon. The leadership newspaper captures it as follows: "At last count the amount said to have been stolen amounts to about N156 billion. Perhaps most disturbing was the brazen falsification of documents to withdraw the pension funds that will not get to the beneficiaries." Illustratively, there was a situation where the Senate probe committee heard how officials of the Police Pension Board falsified documents to withdraw N24 billion from the budget office for the payment of pension that required only N3.5 billion. One does not require any further elaboration to prove that Nigeria, as a social entity, has lost its soul. For when a society degenerates to the level where public officials cultivate sadistic delight in stealing death benefits of retirees, such officials will also harbour no reservations about stealing the buried coffins of dead bodies. This paper examines the police pension scam that was investigated by the Nigerian Senate. It explores the background information to the scam, the investigations and findings. The paper concludes by positing that the scam is a blatant indication of the porosity of the county's institutions and the weakness of its statutory processes for the public officers indicted in the pension probe to have found the latitude to flirt with such stupendous sums of money without any institutional inhibition. Even with the hullabaloo being made by Sanusi's CBN about the all-important requirement of lodgement disclosures in the new banking reform, it is curious that debauched public officers could launder and divert public funds into private accounts without being dictated and halted.


We have previously shown that jacalin, a CD4+ T cell lectin, induces phosphorylation of intracellular events, moderate levels of interleukin (IL)‐2 secretion. We have also shown that in the presence of CD28 costimulation, jacalin induces IL‐4 secretion. In the present study, we showed that stimulation of normal CD4+ T cells with jacalin plus CD28 cross‐linking (CD28XL) resulted in phosphorylation of signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT)‐6 and expression of Bcl‐2 and Bcl‐xL, which were inhibited significantly when cells were cultured in the presence of the p38 mitogen‐activated protein kinase (MAPK) inhibitor SB203580. We further generated jacalin‐induced CD4+ T cell blasts, examined the effects of CD28XL, and observed enhanced up‐regulation of p38 and activation of STAT‐6, Bcl‐2, and Bcl‐xL. Engagement of CD28 alone induced a marked degree of phosphorylation of p38 MAPK and IL‐4 secretion in memory T cells (jacalin blasts), whereas in naïve T cells, jacalin plus CD28XL was required to induce these molecules. Incubation of cells with p38 inhibitor prior to CD28XL resulted in down‐modulation of all these molecules. Further treatment with IL‐4 has not reversed this trend. Our studies imply that p38 MAPK may play an important role in induction of these molecules and a putative role in protecting cells from undergoing apoptosis.


The concept of acculturation is used to describe adjustment of a foreign-born immigrant to their new country of residence by means of the adoption of newer customs, rituals, norms, and behaviors. In today′s world, amidst the globalization, various reasons, such as international trade and commerce, industrialization, propagation of religion, education opportunities, vocational openings, and conquest, have facilitated "culture contact". Acculturation tends to have an important influence on health by bringing about alterations in the levels of stress, access to the healthcare delivery system, and by remodeling the general attitude of people towards health. To conclude, acculturation has a significant impact on almost all determinants of the health and it is an important phenomenon in the process of globalization and development of society in the modern era.


Many cities in the developing countries have now exceeded the population levels that were originally planned at the time of their development. Cities exist that were planned to accommodate 400,000 but now have populations exceeding six million. This places intolerable strain upon all of the urban infrastructure, not least transportation. In addition to the problems of congestion, delay, and road accidents, the urban environment is under severe pressure. The lack of will to control traffic results in it having an almost free reign to overwhelm the space available. Traffic management, where it exists, has focused solely on traffic signal design at junctions. The problem is not a natural consequence of growth. This paper gives some examples of areas in which good urban design can help.


The present invention discloses a magnetic levitation flywheel energy storage device, comprising an energy storage and conversion portion, support portion and the auxiliary magnetic levitation portion; an energy storage and conversion portion includes a rotor and a stator portion flywheel motor / generator; supporting portion includes a radial magnetic levitation magnetic bearings, axial magnetic bearing, an axial sensor, a radial sensor, protective bearing; auxiliary section includes a housing, a mounting shaft; radial magnetic bearing as a radial magnetic bearing cone mixing, each axial magnetic bearing, respectively suction disc surfaces of both wheels disposed flywheel, and the radial magnetic bearing cone mixing axial magnetic bearing are non-magnetic bearings in mechanical contact; part of the energy conversion and storage, magnetic shaft support portion and a mounting portion of the auxiliary sealing the auxiliary inner housing part, inner housing maintained in a vacuum state. The present invention has a compact structure, the depth of discharge and high energy density, long life, low power consumption, stable performance and no pollution.


A retrospective analysis of 88 out-patients and 181 medical histories of children diagnosed with acute respiratory viral infection were analysed to assess the structure and effectiveness of antiviral medications prescription. It was revealed that both in children clinical and hospital practice the highest frequency for prescription had immunomodulators, among them the leading place belonged to Viferon and etiotropic chemo therapeutic agent Arbidol. Efficacy of Viferon in children with mild forms of acute respiratory viral infection was 91,7 %, Arbidol 86,7 %, while in moderate form of the disease Viferon was effective in 40 %, and Arbidol in 79,1 %. In the group of children receiving Viferon and being hospitalized, bacterial complications were observed in 45 % of cases, in patients taking Arbidol in 14,3 %. It was found out that pediatricians most every third child (27,3 %) prescribed homeopathic remedies to almost every third child (27,3 %). It is not appropriate.


Chapter 16 describes an experiment that is in progress in Kenya to encourage entrepreneurial activity through financing investment by micro-equity rather than micro-debt. The experiment involves individuals distributing Wrigley chewing gum products alongside other goods in Kenya, in particular in areas of the country which were previously impenetrable by existing distribution mechanisms. To assist with their activities, funding arrangements were put in place to allow the distributors to purchase bicycles. The study investigates what happens when the distributors were offered alternative forms of finance ranging from traditional debt instruments to more equity forms of risk (revenue) sharing.


Objective To investigate the roles of overexpression of macrophage stimulating 1 receptor(MST1R)on motile and invasive ability of human colorectal cancer cell.Methods A eucaryotic expression vector pDR2 containing full-length wt-MST1R cDNA was transfected into the colorectal can- cer cell line RKO,and a stable expressive clone was selected.Then the motile ability was tested by cros- sing-river test and transwell migration assay,the invasive ability was evaluated by matrigel invasion method,and expression of E-cadherin was detected by Western-blot,respectively.Results Motile ability of human colorectal cancer cell line RKO was significantly promoted by transfecting wt-MST1R (P0.01).There were statistical differences of crossing-river time among transfected group(42.50h ±4.12h),parental group(69.50h±2.52h)and control group(70.50h±3.42h).By matrigel invasion test,the penetrated cells were 47.90±6.82/field in transfected group,25.90±4.56/field in parental group and 26.50±5.36/field in control group,respectively(P0.01).The expression of E-cadherin was significantly decreased after pDR2-wt-MST1R transfection.Conclusions Overexpression of wt-MST1R decreased the expression of E-cadherin and intercellular adhension,meanwhile induced pro- motion of migration/invasion ability.These results indicated that abnormal accumulation of MST1R might play potential roles in invasion and metastasis of colorectal cancer.


There are three typical modes in littoral in the heuristic procedure of China's rural industrialization.They are called "Sunan Mode","Wenzhou Mode" and "Zhusanjiao Mode" which greatly promoted the local rural industrialization.But these years,with the developing of the economic environment at home and aboard,some disadvantages of the three modes appeared gradually.Especially under the spread of economic crisis form last year,these three modes face more difficulties and austere challenge.This paper raises the enlightenment to China's further development from analyzing the developing process and difficulties of the three rural industrialization modes.


In power network analysis it is increasingly desirable to implement controller and power systems models within different software environments. This stems from, among other things, an increasing influence of new and distrib-uted control functions within smart grids and a growing influence of market operations. The computation time re-sulting from use of multiple simulation environments can cause significant delays and constrain the number of scenarios considered. This paper introduces and com-pares several techniques for integrating external control system models into power systems models for time do-main simulations. In particular, a new technique is reported in this paper for PowerFactory-MATLAB/Simulink co-simulation interfaces, which offers a significant advantage over alternative methods in terms of the reduction in simulation runtimes and flexi-bility for the end user.


The generalized use of new public management tools, in the name of the effi ciency and effectiveness of public action, forces us to question once more the relationship between democracy and administration. At a local level, it is possible to reanalyze the politics-administration-citizens triangle, as it evolves following the appropriation of new strategic management tools and participation mechanisms. Th e study of the emergence of these new mechanisms in the Walloon region of Belgium highlights new means of exercising power and public action and bring into question their involvement in the logic of democratic reinforcement.


Acknowledging that the political scientist wanting to explore Arkansas government and politics is often frustrated by the lack of sources and data, the author presents a wideranging guide to little known materials. There are a few general reference works, such as the Historical Report of the Secretary of State, and a half-dozen bibliographies and document listings. Numerous documents of more narrow focus are noted, available from various executive, legislative, and judicial offices as well as from university groups and historical societies. The author also offers a syllabus for a course in Arkansas politics, drawing upon a number of the sources cited and focusing on the dramatic change believed to have characterized Arkansas politics in recent years.


For many years in South Africa, sexual acts with, and between children under the age of sixteen, were regarded as a sexual offence, even if consensual. A twist to this legal position was brought about by the case of Teddy Bear Clinic for abused Children v Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development (2013 (12) BCLR 1429 (CC)), where the Constitutional Court decriminalized consensual sexual activity between children of certain age-ranges, starting from the age of twelve. Prior to serving before the Constitutional Court, this case was heard by the North Gauteng High Court (Teddy Bear Clinic for abused Children and Another v Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, case number: 73300/10 (unreported)). The application brought before the High Court challenged the constitutional validity of sections 15 and 16 of the Sexual Offences and Related Matters Act (32 of 2007) in as far as the said provisions criminalize a range of consensual sexual activities between children of a certain age (see par 1-2; and see also par 23). Sections 15 and 16 respectively criminalize acts of consensual sexual penetration and sexual violation between children (par 16).


One of the most obvious ways of eliminating the ends of a magnetic field is to wrap the field lines around into a toroidal shape. However, even before this geometry is considered, the possibility of simply using a long solenoid should be considered. These two geometries are considered.


Infinitive in the Aspect of linguistic Axiology. The analysis of the functional features of grammatical units allows linguists to focus on their pragmatic significance in the communicative process. Grammatical units as the means of appreciation expressing require multipurpose research, which demands the continuation of the problem development and determines the actuality of the study. The aim of this research is to analyze the peculiarities of infinitive verbal forms functioning with using the ideas of the grammatical stylistics of the Ukrainian language by S. Doroshenko (on the material of the manual «Grammatical stylistics of the Ukrainian language» (Doroshenko, 1985)); to describe the mechanisms of grammatical ludism for the appreciation expressing with infinitive forms. The article describes the process of grammatical ludism modeling (a unit that is formed by purposeful violations of grammatical norms, restrictions for achieving communicative-pragmatic goals) with the infinitive forms (the model «Сидіти!»). Infinitive verbal forms which are used in the imperative meaning instead of personal forms, metaphorically, function as the means of negative expression. The definition of an action not according to the norms, but to the categorical demand of the subject indicates his/her dismissive, ignorant, negative attitude towards the addressee. The usage of such language means determines the connection between the semantics of politeness and the semantics of estimation which allows to model the corresponding pragmatic meaning in a peculiar way. As such forms in the official language are typical in the documents and do not express the negative meaning, their usage can cause communicative deviations between the speaker and addressee through unequal perception of simulated pragmatic meanings. In particular the addressee may understand the motivation as negative through the appropriate experience of using the infinitive forms in the situation when the speaker does not want to express the specific estimation.


Description: The thiolester site of the human alpha-2-macroglobulin (A2M) is essential for the function of A2M as a proteinase inhibitor (1, 2). This site, which is encoded for by exon 24 of the A2M gene, was amplified by polymerase chain reactio (PCRa usinr tho primer 5'-CTGAAGAATTATCCCTGAAAC-3' and 5'-TGGTTCCTGCCATATCGCTC-3'. PCRs were performed in 100 /xl volumes containing 0.5 ng genomic DNA, 25 pmoles of each primer, 200 /iM of each dNTP in 50 mM KC1, 10 mM Tris-HCl, 3.0 mM MgCl2, 0.01% (w/v) gelatin and 2.5 U Taq polymerase. 30 cycles of amplification were conducted, each consisting of 1 min at 94°C, 1 min at 58°C, 30 sec at 72°C. Sequencing of the 0.8 kb amplification product with the primer 5'-ATTAGGCTCTGCCATGCAA-3' according to the method of Wong et al. (3) showed a sequence polymorphism of the gene.


The use of aluminum is often found The mechanical properties of aluminum that arelightweight and rust resistant are among the reasons aluminum is often used for certainraw materials. However, the mechanical properties of aluminum if the levels are pure willnot correspond to the intended use, because the hardness value is very small. Thereforealuminum to add mechanical properties need to be added to other alloy compounds. Thisresearch is focused on Magnesium (Mg and Zinc (Zn) compounds with levels of variation ofboth aluminum 95%, magnesium 2.5%, 2.5% zinc. tons and temperature 550 ° C (2)pressure 10 tons and temperature 570 ° C (3) pressure 12 tons and temperature 590 ° C.From each impact test, hardness and tensile variations of the third which has the highestvalue. From the picture above, it can be seen that the spread in the pressure andtemperature variations in each Metal Matrix Composite (MMC) specimen. there is novariation in the MMC microstructure.


Australia is one of many countries to encourage its students to study abroad and hence develop a global perspective. Traditionally, students who have pursued this option represented a relatively privileged and demographically narrow group. More recently, governments and other agencies have been offering funding support with the aim of 'democratising' study abroad so that it is more accessible to all students. To help inform the 'democratisation' discussion, this paper presents an analysis of the demographic profile of students from Australian universities who currently study abroad, examining changing trends over time and identifying demographic groups that may be underrepresented in the current Australian study abroad population.


ABSTRACT Comamonas testosteroni strains belong to the family of Comamonadaceae and are known for their ability to utilize steroid compounds as carbon source. Here, we present the draft genome sequence of strain ATCC 11996, with a G+C content of 61.48%.


Various programs exist to take data points and use them to render a graph. However, once the data are put into visual form, there is a loss of numerical information if the original data cannot be obtained. This project seeks to take data from a graph; in essence, the purpose is to reverse engineer a given graph. This will provide for a set of data points which can be used for various other numerical purposes, not simply the graph form in which they are presented. The purpose of this project was to investigate basic forms of image analysis while being able to display the results in a streamlined fashion. This program was chiey an exploration into the ideas of visual analysis without the use of any specic theories.


The importance of soluble solids,lycopene and ascorbic acid on the improving quality of tomato were discussed,indicated that theseindex were objectives and trends of the quality breeding of tomato.


A full Monte Carlo simulation of sample scattering and the final flight path for direct geometry time-of-flight spectrometers has been developed. This allows the scattering from systems with both realistic and complex scattering geometries as well as realistic scattering functions to be modeled. This simulation, PULSCAT, interfaces with commonly available ray tracing programs, such as VITESS, that simulate the incident beam. Spectra with elastic and inelastic features resulting from scattering from isotropic scattering systems in addition to multiple scattering for amorphous scattering systems can be modeled with PULSCAT. The sample geometry used in the simulation is entered through a GUI interface. Due to the large flexibility in the input parameters for the sample, sample environment equipment can be included in the simulations allowing for scattering from ancillary equipment (such as from a standard orange cryostat) to be modeled. This makes PULSCAT a powerful tool for simulating systems and investigating spurious effects present in collected spectra.


Twentieth Century Drawing. Sketching and Lettering. The Use and Care of Drafting Equipment. Geometry for Technical Drawing. Multiview Drawing. Dimensioning. Auxiliary Views and Revolutions. Basic Descriptive Geometry. Sectional Views and Conversions. Fasteners. Working Drawings. Pictorial Drawing - Technical Illustration. Inking. Drafting Media and Reproduction. Systems for Controlling Graphic Communication. Welding Drafting. Surface Developments and Intersections. Cams and Gears. Architectural and Structural Drafting. Map Drafting. Graphic Charts and Diagrams. Electrical and Electronics Drafting. Aerospace Drafting.


A direct and selective method for the functionalization of aerobactin has been described. Selectivity was achieved by masking the functioning carboxylate via iron-chelation, leaving the two remaining carboxylates for direct modification. Both mono- and bis-functionalized aerobactin effectively targeted pathogenic bacteria, showing a facile method with prospective applications.


Background—Lesch-Nyhan disease (LND) is a rare, X-linked, neurodevelopmental metabolic disorder that results from a near-complete lack of hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl-transferase enzyme activity. LND is characterized by hyperuricemia, motor neurological abnormalities, recurrent self-injury, and cognitive impairment, but its neural substrates remain poorly understood. Methods—In this cross-sectional study, we measured gray matter abnormalities in 21 persons with LND, 17 with an attenuated variant of the phenotype (LNV), and 33 healthy controls using voxel-based morphometry. We conducted an analysis of covariance to identify group differences in regional gray matter volume (GMV), followed by six pair-wise post-hoc group comparisons. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Correspondence: David J. Schretlen, PhD, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St, Meyer 218, Baltimore, Maryland 21287-7218, Ofc: (410) 614-6341, Fax: (410) 955-0504, email@example.com. Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. Contributions: Dr. Schretlen: study concept and design, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting/ revising manuscript for content, statistical analysis, study supervision, secured funding Mr. Varvaris: drafting/revising manuscript for content, analysis and interpretation of data, statistical analysis, acquisition of data Ms. Ho: drafting/revising manuscript for content, interpretation of data, study coordination, acquisition of data Dr. Vannorsdall: drafting/revising manuscript for content, study concept and design, interpretation of data, acquisition of data Dr. Gordon: revising manuscript for content, secured funding Dr. Harris: revising manuscript for content, study concept, acquisition of data Dr. Jinnah: drafting/revising manuscript, study concept and design, interpretation of data, acquisition of data, study coordination, secured funding Conflicts of Interest: All authors have no conflicts of interest related to the content of this manuscript. NIH Public Access Author Manuscript Lancet Neurol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 December 01. Published in final edited form as: Lancet Neurol. 2013 December ; 12(12): 1151–1158. N IH PA Athor M anscript N IH PA Athor M anscript N IH PA Athor M anscript Findings—Patients with LND showed 20% smaller intracranial volumes (17% gray and 26% white matter) than healthy adults. The largest differences were found in basal ganglia, frontotemporal, and limbic regions, with sparing of parieto-occipital regions. The gray matter volumes of LNV participants invariably fell between those of patients with classical LND and healthy controls. Compared to healthy adults, patients with LND showed additional GMV reductions in the temporal lobe and left lateralized structures, and patients with LNV showed additional reductions in lingual and precuneus regions with sparing of right frontal and temporal regions. LND participants showed reductions in the ventral striatum and prefrontal areas relative to LNV. Interpretation—This study of brain morphology reveals regional abnormalities associated with known neurological and behavioral deficits in persons with LND. It also revealed that patients with LNV show milder gray matter abnormalities in many of the same brain regions and preservation of GMV in other regions which could provide important clues to the neural substrates of differences between thephenotypes.


The distinctive thalli of trichomycetes can only be isolated from the larval stage of the host. There is a general lack of knowledge on the presence of trichomycetes in other developmental stages of their host. Two new primers, TR3F and TR4R, were designed based on SSU ribosomal DNA sequences from two Harpella species, one Harpellomyces species, four Smittium species and Aedes aegypti (host). These primers amplified DNA from species of the Harpellales but discriminated against other groups of organisms including other fungal phyla. The presence of Smittium species was detected in laboratory-infected pupae and adult flies of Aedes aegypti and in field-collected larvae of Culex pipiens by PCR using the new primers.


Extensive construction of gravity dams in developing countries has resulted in a great demand for seismic analysis of these structures based on reliable methodologies. The exhaustive cost of existing time domain solutions for the soil-structure analysis problem as well as the tradition of conducting two-dimensional analysis on dam systems have led to the wide-scale use of two-dimensional analysis routines for seismic demand estimation. The primary goal of this study is to investigate the accuracy of two-dimensional analyses for predicting the seismic demands on concrete gravity dams. A frequency domain analysis approach is used for conducting soil-structure interaction analysis of concrete gravity dams rigorously [1]. A variety of threedimensional models in different canyons are analyzed and the frequency response functions are obtained. The results from the three-dimensional models obtained in the form of the first mode resonant frequency and the corresponding amplitudes are compared to those of conventional two-dimensional methods. The results of the study show the importance of the consideration of the 3D SSI effects in seismic analysis for the design of new gravity dams as well as the evaluation of existing stock.


The influence of shapes and sizes of toner particles on electrophotographic image quality was studied, using a high-resolution laser beam printer. Six kinds of toners with different particle shapes and sizes were prepared in this study-two irregular, two quasispherical, and two spherical. All the toners were charged at almost the same values of q/m by mixing with ferrite carriers. An electrostatic latent image on the photoreceptor of the laser beam printer was developed by the dual-component magnetic brush development method. Images, both as developed on the photoreceptor before the transfer and fixed on the recording medium, were evaluated by optical microscopy. Effects of toner particle size and shape on as-developed images on the photoreceptor and on fixed images on the recording medium were studied. The quality of fixed images on the recording medium depended on both the shape and the size of the toner particle. Results were confirmed by the measurement of MTF of the fixed images on the recording medium. It was concluded that toner size plays an important role in as-developed images on the photoreceptor and that toner shape is further important for the final images. It is suggested that high-quality images are made by optimizing the combination of toner particle size and shape and electrophotographic process parameters.


In principle, infection in the operating area can be prevented if health care facilities implement infection prevention and control programs consistently. In 2021 during that year there were 710 births with SC and there were 8 people who experienced IDO Post SC, this development researchers are interested in analyzing the effect of Midwife Knowledge in Post Sc surgical wound care on the incidence of Infection in the Operation Area (IDO) in the SC post in the Aster Room. Tangerang Hospital 2021. This study aims to analyze the effect of Midwife Knowledge in Post Sc surgical wound care on the incidence of infection in the operating area (IDO) in SC post in the Aster Room of Tangerang Hospital 2021. The research design used in this study was cross sectional study, total sample technique, the sample in this study were midwives and patients who had been exposed to SSI in the Aster room of the Tangerang District Hospital, when the research was carried out December 2021 to March 2022. The level of knowledge of midwives has shown good enough knowledge, Test Results obtained p-value of 0.5 24 or > 0.05 this result shows that there is no significant relationship between the level of knowledge of midwives on post SC wound care and the incidence of Operational Area Infection (IDO) in SC Post in the Aster Room of Tangerang District Hospital in 2021.


Shortening the treatment journey for patients suffering from diseases like cancer is challenging for healthcare providers. The underlying difficulty lies in the fact that each treatment journey involves different healthcare units possibly in different hospitals and the shortening is hard to be achieved without careful coordination among them. In this thesis, we first investigate how patient scheduling can be improved to better utilize existing healthcare resources for patient journey shortening. As healthcare resources are geographically distributed and the patient demand is dynamic over a year, many existing centralized scheduling methods become inapplicable. With the assumption that healthcare resources can be mobilized between different healthcare units, a multi-agent based bidding approach is proposed for addressing the patient journey shortening problem. In particular, the approach allows patients to swap their timeslots with others via a bidding protocol. With reference to a dataset containing 9340 cancer patient journeys (which is provided by the Hospital Authority in Hong Kong), simulation models were designed for carrying out related what-if analysis. According to the simulation results, the proposed multi-agent scheduling framework can shorten patient journey as far as resource mobilization is allowed. Another obvious alternative to shorten patient journey is to inject additional resources. The challenge is how to best allocate the resources for more effective patient journey shortening. In the second part of the thesis, we propose a 3-level bidding mechanism for dynamically allocating the resources. In particular, we designed several variants of the bid formulation so as to reflect the demand on additional resources, and proposed different strategies for distributing the resources over a year. In addi-


Preface 1. The theory of genealogists as to the origin of Arabic tribal groups 2. The kindred group and its dependents or allies 3. The homogeneity of the kindred group in relation to the law of marriage and descent 4. Paternity 5. Paternity, polyandry with male kinship, and with kinship through women 6. Female kinship and bars to marriage 7. Totemism 8. Conclusion Notes and illustrations Index.


Changes in vegetation density, especially in sub-watershed areas, will continue to occur over time. This is due to increasing human activities impacting land use change. The Malino sub-watershed one part of the Jeneberang watershed, almost all located in Tinggimoncong District. Monitoring changes in vegetation density in the Malino Sub-watershed is carried out by utilizing remote sensing technology in the form of sentinel-2A imagery and using the NDVI type of vegetation index method. This study aims to determine the distribution and changes in vegetation density in the Malino Sub-watershed in 2017, 2019, and 2021. From the analysis results conducted using the NDVI vegetation index, the distribution of vegetation density in the Malino Sub-watershed is divided into four classes, namely the non- vegetation, sparse vegetation, medium vegetation, and dense vegetation. Changes in vegetation density in the Malino sub-watershed from 2017 to 2019 occurred in the dense vegetation density class of 2.21% or 192.69 ha, while the smallest occurred in the non-vegetation density class of 0.24% or 20. 97 ha. Meanwhile, the most significant change in vegetation density in the Malino sub-watershed from 2019 to 2021 occurred in the dense vegetation density class of 11.64% or 1,016.60 ha, while the smallest occurred in the non-vegetation density class of 0.12% or 10.46 ha.


Despite the advantages that digital technologies offer to the teaching-learning process there are still limitations in their use, which was evidenced, when online education was assumed as an alternative to continue training processes in times of Covid-19. The objective of this article is to analyze the usefulness of the Moodle didactic platform during the sanitary crisis caused by COVID-19 and how this experience has served for its better use in post-pandemic face-to-face courses. For which a descriptive study with mixed focus was carried out, based on hermeneutical, analytical-synthetic and statistical methods. In addition, a survey was applied to the 16 students of the second year of the Sociocultural Management for Development career at the University of Granma. The results obtained indicate that regardless of the initial difficulties and uncertainties, the students quickly adopted online education for the development of the teaching-learning process, achieving, not only the fulfillment of the objectives of the curriculum, but also the quality of learning. They currently advocate maintaining the experience of using ICT in the post-pandemic face-to-face modality.


Cassava flowering characteristics are important for breeding program in order to operate the preferred crossing along with the plan. Therefore, this research aims to assess cassava response to growth and flowering traits when it was induced by spraying 6-benzyladenine (BA) at different concentrations along with silver thiosulfate (STS). The Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with four replications was planned by using Huay-bong 80 as a commercial variety that was sprayed with BA at concentrations of 0, 0.5, 1.0 1.5 and 2.0 mM with 2.0 mM STS concentrations. The data from growth traits which consisted of the plant height, the 1st branching height, and the 1st branching ratio to plant height were recorded after planting for 2-8 months. The data from flowering traits which consisted of the number of female flowers, the number of male flowers and the number of bunches per plant were recorded after planting for 5-8 months. The results showed that BA at different concentrations did not affect the growth traits of Huay-bong 80. There was no statistically significant difference in all traits of every month studied. For the flowering traits of Huay-bong 80, BA at different concentrations led to the statistically significant differences (P<0.01) in the number of female flowers, the number of male flowers and the number of bunches per plant. When the cassava was 7 months old after planting as well as the number of male flowers and the number of bunches per plant. Spraying 1.0 millimolar BA in combination with STS resulted in the greatest effect. Although the concentration of BA resulted in statistically significant difference in the flowering traits of cassava in some months studied, it did not affect the number of flowers sufficient for using in the cassava breeding program.


Madness, folly, the bizarre and excess are types of extravagance formulated in the Renaissance and the Baroque. While the notion of extravagance fades away after those periods, the poet Charles Baudelaire revives it in several poetic texts, especially in prose poetry. The etymological resonance of wandering makes itself felt in Baudelaire's writing. Extravagance enters the aesthetics of Paris Spleen, particularly in the portrayal of the arts and in the artist's vocation. This essay proposes to explore the poetics of extravagance that takes shape in fictional characters, poetic images, and the dramatizing of aesthetics in several prose poems.

Keywords: Charles Baudelaire, prose poetry, aesthetics, poetics of the city


We measure the phase-space of coherent and partially coherent light beams as they propagate. The 4D distributions are captured by scanning and Fourier-transforming an aperture created by a spatial light modulator(SLM).


It is well known that diffraction can cause serious errors in the response of a SAW transversal filter, and that such errors can be reduced by corrections in the filter tap strengths and positions. In the past these tap perturbations have typically been obtained using calculations made at the center frequency only. However, recent fast methods for the calculation of Fresnel diffraction assuming "parabolic" anisotropy allow iterative algorithms to be practical for optimizing the response. Herein these methods are utilized in an iterative correction method which improves the frequency response by matching bandlimited responses in the tine domain. Trial example designs which initially had severe errors due to diffraction were greatly improved by corrections obtained using this algorithm, whereas the degree of correction achieved using the center frequency method was much less. Both tap position and amplitude corrections are found to be necessary.


EDITORIAL 1 Editor's Comments RESEARCH AND APPLICATION ARTICLES 2 The use of self-managed proofreading for detecting and correcting mechanical errors by students with a learning disability Randy L. Seevers, Paul Malanga & John 0. Cooper 19 Using Repeated Readings and Error Correction to Build Reading Fluency with At Risk Elementary Students Paul Malanga 28 Celeration of Publication Frequency Michael Lamport Commons CHART SHARES 35 The Precision Teaching of Food Acceptance to a Child with Cerebral Palsy Nicole Bank, Duy Le & Michael Fabrizio 37 Climbing Bottoms Show AAG Malcom Neely 39 Teaching children with autism to engage in play-related talk Kevin S . Cauley, Jessica A. Brian & Jennifer Snider


Understanding neural functions requires the observation of the activities of single neurons that are represented via electrophysiological data. Processing and understanding these data are challenging problems in biomedical engineering. A microelectrode commonly records the activity of multiple neurons. Spike sorting is a process of classifying every single action potential (spike) to a particular neuron. This paper proposes a combination between diffusion maps (DM) and mean shift clustering method for spike sorting. DM is utilized to extract spike features, which are highly capable of discriminating different spike shapes. Mean shift clustering provides an automatic unsupervised clustering, which takes extracted features from DM as inputs. Experimental results show a noticeable dominance of the features extracted by DM compared to those selected by wavelet transformation (WT). Accordingly, the proposed integrated method is significantly superior to the popular existing combination of WT and superparamagnetic clustering regarding spike sorting accuracy.


By arranging a plurality of members of a polygonal pillar shape the conductive traces formed on the side of the one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally to form a sound-absorbing layer of the ultrasonic probe, the ultrasonic wave which is connected to the sound-absorbing layer to the acoustic of the ultrasound probe transducer while the array more easily can be reliably connected electrically.


Introduction: Implanters are becoming more popular for implantation of follicular unit excision (FUE) grafts due to their relatively short learning curve and the inherent protection against trauma they provide the graft. However, the reluctance of staff to embrace a new technique, coupled with the per-patient cost of implanters and the number of personnel required to load them, may have slowed the adoption of implanters by clinics. Our T-Fast multi-implanter was designed to address these issues. Methods: We describe the novel T-Fast multi-implanter that we developed and detail the design and benefits of sharp-tip implanters. Results: The T-Fast implanter has two needles and can implant two grafts simultaneously. The design is highly ergonomic and allows multiple implanters to be held with one hand, further simplifying the procedure. Discussion: The T-Fast implanter reduces operating costs by reducing surgical time and the implanter cost per patient, which may persuade clinics to embrace this new technique. By saving time and costs, this implanter has the potential to increase adoption of implanters to place FUE grafts.


This article discusses the Supreme Court's treatment of the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in Saenz v. Roe. The article explores the possible effects should the Court decide to abandon the due process clause as a source of rights under the amendment and look to the privileges or immunities clause. In particular, it addresses the effects on the Court's enumeration of fundamental rights and the level of scrutiny applied to alleged violations of those rights.


Digoxin is a class I recommended drug for ventricular rate control in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), despite a scarcity of randomized trials to support such use and inconsistent results from observational studies of digoxin in patients with AF. Cardiovascular outcomes associated with digoxin treatment in patients with AF, including those both with and without heart failure, were assessed in the Rivaroxaban Once Daily Oral Direct Xa Inhibition Compared with Vitamin K Antagonism for Prevention of Stroke and Embolism Trial in Atrial Fibrillation (ROCKET AF). Of the 14,171 study participants recruited from 45 countries, digoxin was used as a baseline in 5,239, the majority of which were females with a history of heart failure, diabetes, and persistent AF. Cox proportional hazards regression models adjusted for baseline characteristics and drugs were used to investigate the association of digoxin with all-cause mortality, vascular death, and sudden death, all of which were determined to be significantly increased in patients with AF treated with the drug. These findings suggest that digoxin should not be a first-line treatment of ventricular rate control and should be used with caution in patients with AF with and without heart failure. Washam, J. et al. Lancet doi:10.1016/ S0140–6736(14)61836-5 (Epub ahead of print)


Objective
To investigate the molecular mechanism of calreticulin (CRT) transcription induced by HBV and its viral proteins.

Methods
The human hepatocellular cell line, HepG2, was transfected with pHBV1.3 and eukaryotic expression plasmids of HBV viral proteins, respectively. The expression of CRT was measured after transfection. A reporter plasmid of CRT promoter was constructed to analyze the induction of CRT promoter by pHBV1.3 and HBV viral proteins. Furthermore, two truncated and one C/EBPα site deficient mutants were constructed to evaluate the regulatory effects of HBx on CRT promoter. Finally, HepG2 cells were transfected with HBx expression plasmids and the cellular localization of C/EBPα was analyzed.

Results
In this study, pHBV1.3 could significantly up-regulate the expression of CRT at mRNA and protein levels as well as enhancing the activity of CRT promoter. Among the seven HBV viral proteins, HBx could enhance the activity of CRT promoter and the expression of CRT at mRNA and protein levels. HBx could not induce the transcription of CRT when the C/EBPα binding site was deleted from the CRT promoter. The expression of HBx could promote the nuclear translocation of C/EBPα.

Conclusion
HBV and its viral protein HBx could up-regulate the CRT expression at transcriptional level. The transcriptional factor C/EBPα played a critical role in HBx-induced transcriptional activation of CRT.

Key words:
Hepatitis B virus; Calreticulin; Promoter; Transcriptional regulation


ABSTRACT Filicide is the act of killing one's own child. We propose a new classification of subtypes of filicide and make suggestions for helping its prevention. This binational, register-based study covers all cases of filicide and their perpetrators in Austria and Finland in the years 1995–2005. The following variables emerged as differentiating factors: gender, age of victim and offender, circumstances before and during the offence, the offender's socioeconomic and criminal background, and childhood conduct disorder. Latent class analysis (LCA) was used to identify profiles. We found five: (1) Homicidal–Suicidal Fathers; (2) Violent Impulsive Parents; (3) Single Sober Parents; (4) Prosocial, Psychotic Parents; and (5) Infanticidal Mothers. We present suggestions for focused strategies of prevention for each group.


The invention provides a replacement method for a Cache row in a last level cache (LLC). If a target Cache address is lost in the LLC, the replacement priority of a Cache row which is recently called in is calculated according to the operation type, the original Cache row with the highest replacement priority is replaced according to the replacement priority orderly principle, and the Cache row which is recently called in is stored to the corresponding position of the target Cache; if the target Cache address is in the LLC, the replacement priority of the current access Cache row is updated according to the Cache consistency state and operation type, and the priority of the current access Cache row is upgraded or degraded according to the replacement priority orderly principle. Performance losses caused by inclusive victims led into the inclusive Cache in a replacement mode can be effectively reduced.


The consequences of the rise of sea environment pollution reflect on the economy, public healthcare and irretrievable loss of biodiversity and sea organisms. Facing this fact, great efforts are being made to cut down trends in sea pollution and sea environment pollution. This is achieved by establishing organizations which coordinate services in charge of surveillance and control, as well as interventions if pollution happens. Ordinances and standards are also regulated by legal acts and regulations that refer to protection against sea pollution by dangerous and harmful matter.


The authors hypothesized that laudanosine, a metabolite of atracurium and a central nervous system stimulant, might increase the minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) of halothane. An initial study in five rabbits anesthetized with halothane used a two-compartment model to produce estimates of pharmacokinetic variables for laudanosine. These estimates were used to determine the rates of infusion that would produce steady state plasma concentrations of laudanosine of approximately 200, 400, and 800 ng.ml-1. Subsequent infusion of laudanosine in eight rabbits produced mean (±SD) steady state plasma concentrations of laudanosine of 234 ± 56, 457 ± 66, and 873 ± 105 ng.ml-1. The control value for MAC of halothane was 1.08 ± 0.28%. At the lowest steady state plasma laudanosine concentration, MAC did not significantly differ from control (MAC = 1.15 ± 0.23%, P < 0.1). However, at 457 and 873 ng.ml-1, laudanosine significantly increased the MAC of halothane by 23% and 30%, respectively. Infusion with saline in two additional rabbits did not affect MAC. Therefore, at the plasma concentrations of laudanosine found in humans after administration of atracurium, laudanosine increased the MAC of halothane in rabbits.


In China,sports legal education should take the students in institutes of P.E.and law schools as the major objects of education.Teaching materials are important in sports legal education.Sports legal theory system is not satisfactory and sports legal ethics should be emphasized.


Objectives : The purpose of this study is to analyze the causes of stress driven by the national examination and to find out correlation between stress factors and students` general characteristics. Methods : Data were collected from self-reported questionnaires by dental hygiene students in D university in February, 2012. Results : Those having good high school GPAs (p


Objective To investigate the resistance of Culex pipiens quinquefasiatus to six differ ent kinds of insecticides and make corresponding control statics. Meth ods Soaking test-larva soaking in insecticide solution (recommended by WHO) was used in the experiment to test medium lethal concentration of the larva of the fourth instar. Results The resistance times of Culex pipiens quinquefasiatus to s ix kinds of commercial insecticides, Dic hlorphos, Bassa, Acetofenate, Permethr in, Deltamethrin, high effect cypermethrin in different city on spot test were s howed as following:3.58, 2.78, 1.20, 4.43, 7.58,2.24.Conclusion The present experiment showed that the Culex pipie ns quinquefasiatus had resistance to six different kinds of insecticides, and especially had more resistance to Permethrin and Deltamethrin.


Previous studies have reported a high prevalence of inflammatory
bowel disease among the relatives, and especially siblings, of patients with
Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. This high familial prevalence of Crohn's
disease and ulcerative colitis suggests that genetic factors could play a role in the
development of these disorders. The present study attempted to assess the relative
risk for relatives of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis patients based on data
provided by 1015 questionnaires completed by patients in northern Alberta. A Mx2 2x2 test among relatives was performed on the diseased versus normal data for
each diagnosis to determine if significant differences existed. The prevalence for
mothers and sisters was the highest of the relative groups for Crohn's disease
( 6430 of 105 and 4670 of 105 , respectively). Female relatives tended to have twice
the prevalence of their male counterparts. There were differences between
mother, daughter and sister prevalence rates for Crohn's disease. These results
support the hypothesis that a genetic predisposition in families combined with
possible environmental and lifestyle influences determine the relative risk of
developing Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.


Karl Barth rejected Nygren's well-known proposition. The theory of pure love belittles Eros. On this subject, Bossuet is more acceptable than Fenelon: love is always a blend, composite and dialectic. A too-rigid opposition between agape and Eros shows poor understanding of desire. Rougemont's thesis retains a certain topicality: to reinvent the genesis of the passion of love. In this respect, he criticizes Nygren. Rougemont clearly understands that a confusion of motives cannot be avoided. The Christian conception of love cannot exclude passion. Benedict XVI made the remark in his Deus est caritas. Lacan, Jean-Luc Marion more recently, but also Nabert invite us to seek an ethic of desire as a quest for a double identity: what I receive from the other cannot be assimilated with what I receive from God.


2014 A very simple optical device is proposed, which enables the velocity in a convective fluid, and the map of the temperature isogradients to be simultaneously measured. The simultaneity of these two measurements is an important step in the understanding of unsteady phenomena. This fact is illustrated by the study of the time oscillatory behaviour of the motion observed in a fluid confined in a small box, and submitted to the RayleighBénard instability. Tome 40 N° 19 1er OCTOBRE 1979 LE JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE LETTRES


Globalization has been the development trend of the world economy since the 1980s. The globalization of higher education is especially affected by economic globalization, in this context, Sino-Foreign cooperative education in higher education emerging. The development, after more than 30 years of exploration and practice, of Chinese foreign cooperation in running schools is in high speed, and the scale, level and mode of running schools have tremendously changed, which is bound up with the incentive policies of our government. Based on the evolution and review of China's Sino-Foreign cooperative education policy, this paper will analyze the problems and shortcomings of the policy, heading first. It is the policy suggestions that we need make out, of Sino-Foreign cooperative education suitable for China's national conditions from the perspective of higher education nationalization, which is expected to be beneficial to the promotion of China's higher education internationalization process and the optimization of Sino-Foreign cooperative education.


The utility model relates to an installing and positioning frame for a T-shaped beam rib reinforcement. The installing and positioning frame comprises a horizontal base, at least two transverse angle irons which are fixedly arranged on the horizontal base, longitudinally arranged in the horizontal direction and extended along the horizontal transverse direction, a pair of vertical positioning rods which are vertically arranged on the same side of the two transverse ends of the horizontal base, a horizontal transverse connecting rod which is connected between top parts of the two vertical positioning rods and a plurality of horizontal transverse positioning rods which are distributed at intervals along the horizontal transverse direction and vertically and fixedly connected on the horizontal transverse connecting rod, wherein a plurality of horizontal longitudinal positioning slots which are corresponding to the horizontal transverse positioning rods up and down are arranged on the two transverse angle irons at intervals along the horizontal transverse direction; and a plurality of positioning holes which are capable of inserting horizontal reinforcement supporting rods are distributed on the vertical positioning rods at intervals along the vertical direction. The purpose of the utility model is to provide an installing and positioning frame for a T-shaped beam rib reinforcement, which can quickly position and install the T-shaped beam rib reinforcement accurately, so that manual work and time investment is greatly reduced, and the construction cost is reduced.


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The objective of this research is to ensure
environmental safety and increase soil fertility. Adding
sorbents like clinoptilolite and palygorskite to poultry
droppings reduces ammonia evolution to the atmosphere.
Further, sorbents create conditions for gradual feeding of the
root system of plants with ammonium nitrogen. This will
prevent it from washing out by ground water, and allow
reducing the environmental hazard of atmosphere pollution by
ammonium nitrogen and utilizing droppings from poultry
farms, contributing to lower nitrogen loss during storage and
the increase of soil fertility.


We propose a new measure for housing sentiment and show that it accurately tracks expectations about future house price growth rates. We construct the housing sentiment index using partial least squares on household survey responses to questions about buying conditions for houses. We find that housing sentiment explains a large share of the time-variation in house prices during both boom and bust cycles and it strongly outperforms several macroeconomic variables typically used to forecast house prices.


It is commonly accepted that the ocean's ambient noise levels are rising due to increased human activities in coastal and offshore areas. It has been estimated that low‐frequency noise levels increased more than 10 dB in many parts of the world between 1950 and 1975. [Ross, Acoustics Bulletin, Jan/Feb (1993)]. Several other sources cite an increase in manmade, or anthropogenic, noise over the past few decades. [D. A. Croll et al., Animal Conservation 4(1) (2001); Marine Mammal Commission Report to Congress (1999); C. W. Turl, NOSC Tech. Report 776 (1982)]. However, there are few historical records of ambient noise data to substantiate these claims. This paper examines several sectors of anthropogenic activities to determine their contributions to ambient noise. These activities include shipping, oil and gas exploration, military sonar development, and academic research. A series of indices for each of these industries is developed to predict ambient noise trends in the sea. It is found that the amount of ...


Objective:To observe and analyze the effects of combined medication in treatment of ulcerative colitis.Methods:80 patients suffered with ulcerative colitis were divided in two groups.The control group treated with sulfasalazine,the drug combination group treated with Tongxieyaofang oral administration and clysters,and sulfasalazine.The effects,C reaction protein,and side effects were recorded.Results:There were significantly higher for invalid effect and side effect,but lower heal rate in control group than the drug combination group(P0.05).After treatment,C reaction protein reduced significantly in two groups(P0.05).Conclusion:Combined medication is an effective and safe method in treating ulcerative colitis.


Gate units of todaypsilas converters are in most cases voltage sources charging the input capacitance with a fixed gate resistor. In some publications, fixed current sources are implemented to support the charging process with a supplementary gate current. These solutions are implemented in an analog way and are designed and respectively optimized for fixed parameters and devices. During operation, there is no adaption process to adjust the switching transients to their actual optimum. The possibilities to implement new features or to adapt the units for a different device are related with time and effort.


Reliability of functioning of space systems with heat pipes can be determined by work during their starting and going to a design condition, by shutting-off, by transition from one heat condition on another. The report represents new results of investigation of influence force fields (vibration and gravity) on heat and mass transfer processes in heat pipes on non-stationary operating modes. Heat modes are investigated in variable gravitational fields simultaneously with action of vibrations on non-stationar y modes. Dynamics of thermal channels with phase transitions in capillary - porous structures and its influence on areas of the worsened and improved modes of heat and mass transfer is investigated. The temperature criterion for the generalized description of an estimation of a thermal condition of a pipe is offered. Time of achievement of 95 % of a corresponding mode is used as an estimation of efficiency of its work.