In certain communities of engineering education, especially where intersections with entrepreneurship shape the discussion, "Learning from Failure" has become a catch phrase. Usually these refer to pedagogical approaches in which students recognize the benefits of trying, failing, reflecting, and trying again. This iterative process also describes a teacher's journey over a decade, learning to implement and practice research-based educational techniques with patience and a focus on the students. However, the stakes can be much higher when teachers try and fail! Examples from an elective course designed for a wide engineering audience, Acoustics in the Human Environment, will trace its evolution. It began as an experiment in a studio classroom format and became an asynchronous online class intended to mirror an engineering work environment. Milestones marking the steps of this journey: parallels to iteration involved in the engineering design process; suggested elements that provide a safety net for teaching failure, and other lessons learned along the way.


Background and Aim:  Western countries are seeing an increasing prevalence of chronic viral hepatitis and a subsequent rise in the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Screening patients at high risk of HCC has become standard practice. The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy and cost of screening high‐risk individuals for HCC in an Australian tertiary hospital.


Jennifer R. Lupo, The Database Management Course at Camden County College and the Effect on the Technological Needs of Industry, 1995, J. Sooy, Computer Science Education The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Database Management course at Camden County College to determine if it currently meets the needs of businesses in Camden County. A review of recent literature and the proposal of the Data Processing Management Association expressed that teehlological courses should be reviewed every two years. The researcher queried one hundred randomly chosen Camden County businesses and twenty-seven Camden County College Database Management students from the Spring, 1995 semester. Opinionnaires were mailed to local businesses and a survey was administered to the students. A comparison was made between industry's needs and the students' perception of industry's needs through compilation of percentages per response. It was concluded that Camden County College's Database Management course is presently providing the hardware and "hands-on" experience that industry requires for their entry level employees. The software requirements were inconclusive. Also, a strong indication for a second level course to provide an in depth experience for the students was evidenced.


The present paper is an attempt to spread a thought concerning the ambiguity in the actual pandemic context. Although we definitely cannot reach out any solution nor even a clear answer for the problems involved in, we surely may put some questions about the limits of Politics and Public Health policies as well. Finally, one can also think about the moral impossibility brought in by this scenery.


Board for access ladder or jet bridge comprising a bellows (5) coating a gangway bottom plate (10), the bellows in one end that is free, a flexible frame (3) and being arranged in its other end a gantry frame (2) intended to be fastened on the walkway or stairs to aircraft, adjoining the flexible frame (3) with the outer skin of the aircraft when the bellows is deployed and an actuation device being provided (20) for the bellows (5) to extend and contract the bellows (5), the actuator (20) a shaft (40) rotatable, provided with a drive comprising allowing said rotary shaft (40) rolling and unrolling at least one traction member connected to the flexible frame, comprising the actuator (20) two articulated arms (30) arranged at a distance from each other, each arm artic drafted to homologate (30) an upper arm (31) and an element of the lower arm (35) connected thereto by a hinge, the upper arm (31) of the articulated arm (30) fixed hingedly being in the roof of the bellows (5) and lower arm (35) attached to the flexible frame (3) being, and an extension device (51, 55) being provided for extending the bellows (5), the lower arm (35) being fixed pivotably in the flexible frame (3), characterized in that the extension device comprises first and second drive cylinder piston (51, 55) for extending the articulated arm (30), serving the first unit cylinder (51) to extend the lower arm (35) relative to the upper arm (31), the first cylinder and piston (51) fastened with one end pivotably on the upper arm (31) and piston and fastened with the other end pivotably in the arm inferi or (35), serving the second piston and cylinder unit (55) for rotating the upper arm (35) outwards.


An emended diagnosis of the genus is provided. Three new species are described: Lechytia sini and Lechytia arborea, both from Florida and Texas, and Lechytia hoffi from several western states. The relations of these to other American species are discussed. Aside from Chthonius, species of which have apparently been re- peatedly introduced from Europe, the most widespread heterosphyro- nid genus in the New World is Lechytia. Its five described species range from Argentina, Paraguay and Chile northward through South and Central America and into the United States as far north as Wash- ington and it has also been reported from Jamaica and Trinidad in the Caribbean. But in spite of this wide geographical distribution, Lechytia is very poorly known. As in most chthoniids, its representa- tives are quite small, easily overlooked and seldom collected, with the result that few specimens have been studied carefully. No good de- scription is yet available for any North American species and the common species of western United States is currently without a valid name (see Schuster 1968). The present paper emends the diagnosis of the genus, describes two new species from Florida and Texas, and provides a name and com- plete description for the western U.S. form. Type specimens are deposited in the American Museum of Natural History in New York except as noted otherwise.


Based on the results of observations and supervision carried out by the author, the teacher's pedagogic competence in preparing lesson plans is still low. The purpose of this study was to describe and obtain information about improving the pedagogical competencies of productive teachers in preparing Learning Implementation Plans (RPP) through In House Training (IHT) at SD Negeri 21 Padang Laweh. This research is a school action research. The research procedures in this study include planning, action, observation and reflection. This study consisted of two cycles with four meetings. The research subjects consisted of 6 productive teachers who taught at SD Negeri 21 Padang Laweh. The research data was collected using observation sheets. Data were analyzed using percentages. The results of the study indicate that the implementation of the In House Training (IHT) can improve the pedagogical competence of the teacher in preparing lesson plans. This is evidenced by the value of the initial teacher competency before the program is 74. Then after IHT activities there is an increase in the first cycle is 78.70 (good) and after that increases in the second cycle to 87.56 (Very good).


Abstract The effects of calculator usage on the scores of students taking the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills math battery were investigated. Two hundred seventy 8th grade students from Ames Middle School were included in the study. All students took the three mathematics subtests, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematical Problem Solving and Mathematical Computations, included in Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. Half of the randomly selected class groups were supplied with, and allowed to use, calculators on all three sections of the mathematics tests, the other half of the students were not allowed to use calculators. The results indicated that both groups of students did equally well on the Mathematical Concepts portion of the test. The calculator group scored slightly above the non-calculator group on Mathematical Problem Solving subtest and scored significantly (p<.01) better on the Mathematical Computation portion of the test. The continuous increase in the use of calculators in the mathematics curriculum implies a need for educators to examine the effects of calculator use on standardized test scores in an attempt to seek out alternative methods of evaluation. Abstract The effects of calculator usage on the scores of students taking the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills math battery were investigated. Two hundred seventy 8th grade students from Ames Middle School were included in the study. All students took the three mathematics subtests, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematical Problem Solving and Mathematical Computations, included in Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. Half of the randomly selected class groups were supplied with, and allowed to use, calculators on all three sections of the mathematics tests, the other half of the students were not allowed to use calculators. The results indicated that both groups of students did equally well on the Mathematical Concepts portion of the test. The calculator group scored slightly above the non-calculator group on Mathematical Problem Solving subtest and scored significantly (p<.01) better on the Mathematical Computation portion of the test. alternative methods


Medical college of Xi`an Jiaotong university offered the functional experiment course in 1997. The courseincludes the basic knowledge of medical scientific research, the experimental design and the implementation of theexperiment, totally 24 hours. The course determines the key role of students in teaching, cultivates their ability to studyindependently and raises their comprehensive ability. The course assessment shows a good result.[


Silicate standard reference materials have been largely depleted. The function and value of these materials and the adequacy of several certification processes is examined. Concentrations of 42 elements measured at this laboratory are presented along with the available comparative data.


A new concept for infrared imaging using a pixelless photon frequency up-conversion device together with a CCD array is presented. The concept is applicable to wavelengths longer than the CCD response range (longer than about 1.1 /spl mu/m). Preliminary imaging results using a quantum well infrared photodetector integrated with a light emitting diode are also presented.


Abstract : Sixty maps are presented on computational data pertaining to the geometric properties of the geomagnetic field and a brief related theoretical description to make this material more meaningful. The maps display (1) the values of total field intensity (B) and McIlwain's magnetic shell parameter (L) for altitudes from zero to two thousand kilometers, (2) the detailed value of total field intensity near the South Atlantic anomaly, (3) the traces in both hemispheres of points with a fixed value of B and L and (4) some other geomagnetic properties. The description inclables of the geomagnetic coefficients used and a description of the codes utilized. The maps have been carefully checked. Because of the magnitude of this task and the wide distribution, notification of any detectable errors which may have been overlooked would be appreciated.


Background. Alkylbenzene-1,3-diols, extracted from plants or exomatabolites of some microorganisms, have various types of biological activity including the feature of being autoinductors of bacteria anabiosis. Presence of alkylbenzene1,3-diols in the structure of exometabolites of human normal flora has never been established before the present research. The study aims at the development of methods enabling reliable identification of alkylbenzene-1,3-diols in bacteria supernatants and establishment of mass-fragmentation features typical for the present compound group. Materials and methods. Materials of investigation were the clinical strains Bifidobacterium bifidum from the collection of the Institute of cell and intercellular symbiosis of Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. To isolate and identify alkylbenzene-1,3-diols from bacteria exometabolites the researchers developed a method including lyophilization of supernatants, extraction and chromatography with subsequent mass-detection via chromatography-mass-spectrometer. Results. The authors developed a method enabling reliable detection of alkylbenzene1,3-diols presence in bacteria supernatants and identification of the chemical structure of the present compounds. It is ascertained that in exometabolites of bacteria Bifidobacterium bifidum there are alkylbenzene-1,3-diols of various formation, and the structure thereof is confirmed. Conclusions. The article shows that the bacteria Bifidobacterium bifidum produce 5-alkylsubstituted benzene-1,3-diols with nonramified alkyl links that are replete and feature multiple bonds.


The purpose of this study is to look at the factors that affect stock market returns so that they can provide useful profits to maximize profits, because it is very important for investors to maintain confidence and forecast price movements. Return on shares is the goal of investors in investing in the stock market. Stock returns are divided into two forms, namely dividends and price differences. Investors usually do analysis with various financial variables before buying stocks. The independent variables in this study are dividend yield, EPS, PER, market capitalization, and trading volume. While the dependent variable is stock return. This research was conducted by collecting data from 16 companies included in the LQ45 index over a period of 7 years (2015-2021) and using the regression model data panel in this test. Dividend yields have a significant negative effect on stock returns. The price-to-earnings ratio has a positive effect on stock returns. Earnings per share, trading volume and market capitalization do not significantly affect stock returns. The implication of the research that has been conducted is to provide direction for financial managers to be able to formulate policies that can maximize shareholder welfare by considering variables such as dividend yield and PER. For investors, this research is expected to provide information for investors related to the formulation of strategies to minimize their risk in investing in stocks.


Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a neurological disorder which has affected cattle in the UK. It has been suggested that it is caused by prions and these may also be responsible for scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt± Jakob disease (CJD) in humans. The molecular mimicry theory is an alternative model which suggests that BSE could be an autoimmune disease caused by exposure of cattle to bacteria showing cross-reactivity with nervous tissue. Acinetobacter calcoaceticus , Ruminococcus albus , Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Escherichia coli have been shown to contain molecular sequences which resemble brain tissue. Neurological damage is caused either by prions or by autoimmune mechanisms and the contrasting features of these two theories are reviewed. Furthermore, the autoimmune theory implies that there is no need for a cull of cattle, and that humans will not develop CJD provided they are not exposed to these bacteria.


Informatization" is one of the important keywords in the context of the current era. In many industries and fields, informatization has brought unprecedented thinking inspiration and technical impact, and in the field of English teaching, informatization has also brought profound Impact and rare opportunities. When it comes to the informatization of English teaching reform in colleges and universities, most people first think of specific technologies, products or application systems, such as micro-classes, mu-classes, multimedia technology, and TEP oral test system. In the background of the rapid development of Internet technology and mobile terminal technology, through the introduction of these information technology products, colleges and teachers can better use the efficient and convenient technical advantages of information technology, breaking the time and space limitations in traditional English teaching, And further cater to the information acquisition methods and English learning habits of students under the premise of conforming to the development trend of the times, so that the introduction of technology in English classrooms is at the forefront of the technology of education informatization, effectively ensuring the overall efficiency, quality and teaching of English teaching Standardization and data accuracy can reach a higher level.


The article analyzes the results of numerical modeling of information processes in vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs). The review of works devoted to clustering and data caching schemes in Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) systems is given. L1-metric was chosen as a metric because of its active use in cities with modern layout. Two approaches to the description and evaluation of the efficiency of interaction of boundary devices in a traditional configuration and using a cluster scheme with a shared cache are considered. A mathematical model is constructed and an analysis of its effectiveness is carried out. It is shown that the introduction of new IEEE 802.11bd standards will increase the percentage of serviced devices, thereby minimize the overall delay of computing, which will improve the efficiency of the V2X-system. The results of the study can be used in the design and deployment of automated traffic control systems in cities.


Au thin films with atomically smooth surfaces on Cr or Ta underlayers were bonded after a degas annealing treatment for MEMS packaging. In the case of bonding after the degas annealing step at 200 °C for 600 s in vacuum, the Cr/Au films were poorly bonded though the Ta/Au films were strongly bonded. This is because Cr2O3 was formed on the Cr/Au film surface during the degas annealing step, but Ta was absent on the Ta/Au film after the degas annealing step. We expected that packaging with Ta/Au sealing layers allows low-temperature MEMS-packaging process after degas annealing.


There is an increasing tendency to speak of reasonable expectations as a factor that should be taken into account when giving meaning to the terms of a contract. Some theorists even say it should become the new "golden key" of contractual interpretation. After summarizing the status of the doctrine of reasonable expectations in common law Canada, this article analyzes how the concept of reasonable expectations may help explain the interpretive practices of civil law judges in Quebec. While many contractual interpretation cases may be explained on that basis, the author shows that the duty to act in good faith, a central tenet of civil law systems, may constitute just as good an explanation. The author concludes that it is probably impossible to find a single overarching principle, be it intent, reasonable expectations or good faith, form which rules of interpretation may be deduced with any degree of precision.


Autopsy not only provides a final diagnosis for a) sudden/acute death or rapidly deteriorating illnesses, where a sufficient clinical investigation was not available, or b) difficult cases, where biopsy and/or surgical pathology could not establish the diagnosis, but also: 1) helps us grow new insights/viewpoints for already well-known disorders, making clear of their intrinsic problems; 2) provides a correct understanding of a given pathologic finding, which had once been described in the old archival literature but may since have been neglected/overlooked by modern textbooks; 3) establishes a new disease entity by providing full-blown pathologic descriptions especially regarding its end stage, and taking a whole range of evolution of the disorder into account; 4) provides comprehensive pathologic descriptions of an altered nature, i.e., consequences of newly explored therapeutic modalities; and 5) helps us develop our own hands-on pathology for a sophisticated understanding of the human body as a whole.


We analyzed several factors which could influence the immunogenicity of colon tumor cells, using a series of clones derived from a single chemically induced rat adenocarcinoma cell line. These clones display variable tumorigenic potential in syngeneic immunocompetent animals, and it has been established that in this model the tumorigenicity of the cells depends on their ability to escape immune surveillance. The results show an absence of relationship between tumorigenicity and expression of MHC‐class‐I antigens, cell adhesion to rat fibroblasts or fibroblast extracellular matrix. The secretion of latent and active TGFβ I appeared to be quite variable from one clone to the other, but was unrelated to tumorigenicity. Unexpectedly, some regressive clones produced elevated levels of this cytokine, suggesting that in this model, spontaneous secretion of TGFβ I is not sufficient to impair the immune system of the host. In contrast, the more tumorigenic clones were more resistant than less tumorigenic ones to cytotoxicity mediated by NK or LAK cells. They also showed arrest of cell proliferation after reaching confluence, something not observed in the less tumorigenic clones. Finally, the strongest relationship with tumorigenicity was found for expression of blood‐group carbohydrate antigens. Increased expression of blood‐group‐H antigen and, conversely, decreased expression of β‐galactoside precursors of this antigen correlated with increased tumorigenicity. © 1992 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


THE number of substances employed in recent times to increase or diminish the excitability of the spinal cord has been gradually increasing. It seems, therefore, advisable that a systematic investigation of the precise effects produced by these drugs should be undertaken, with a view to testing physiologically their effects upon some of the lower animals. The present investigation was undertaken with the view of ascertaining the effects of the chief salts of the mon-atomic metals upon the reflex excitability of the spinal cord of the frog. The research does not by any means pretend to be exhaustive -it is rather only a preparatory step in the direction indicated. The disposal of my time at present is such that I cannot easily obtain the number of consecutive hours necessary for carrying out such investigations, and I am therefore induced to publish these results in the hope that they may form a basis for future work. A large number of investigations have been made in recent times on the conditions governing reflex actions in the frog,amongst others, the results of Setschenow, recorded in his work "On the Electrical and Chemical Stimulation of the Sensory Spinal Nerves of the Frog," a most important contribution to this subject. TUrck adopted the method of stimulating the skin with a dilute acid, and Baxt, bi Ludwig's Laboratory, using the method of Tiirck, found that the latent periods of reflex actions increased in a geometrical progression, whilst the degree of acidity-dilute sulphuric acid-followed an arithmetical one. I undertook several years ago a similar investigation, using electrical instead of chemical stimulation.' A systematic


Betchov and Criminale found certain singularities in the eigenvalue relations for the combined stability problem in space and time. It is shown why these singularities must occur, and how they influence the perturbation generated by a pulse.


The developments in the last three decades in the area of seismic design of mechanical and electrical equipment, architectural components, as well as other secondary structures and nonstructural components attached to the floors, roof, and walls of buildings are reviewed here. A description is made of what constitutes a secondary structure, the characteristics that make these systems particularly susceptible to the effects of earthquakes, and the parameters that affect their response to earthquakes. The methods that have been proposed and are available to improve and simplify the analysis of this type of structure, the methods that are currently used as reflected by various building codes and seismic provisions, and the experimental studies and field observations carried out to further investigate some of their dynamic properties and response characteristics are also reviewed here. The paper closes with a summary of what research is still needed to advance current efforts to protect these systems against ...


4Goldberg, D., Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning, Addison Wesley Longman, Reading, MA, 1989, p. 22. 5Isaacs, R., Differential Games, Wiley, New York, 1965, p. 279. 6Horie, K., "Collocation with Nonlinear Programming for Two-Sided Flight Path Optimization," Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL, Feb. 2002. 7Goldberg, D. E., and Voessner, S., "Optimizing Global-Local Search Hybrids," Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 1999, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, 1999.


A development plan and the present status of the optical lattice clock in NMIJ, especially the details of the vacuum system and the laser sources, are described


The influence on torque of three viscosities, three original filling rates and three rotational speed differences were discussed in order to study the torque characteristics of liquid viscous coupling. It was showed that the higher of the viscosity, the lower of the minimum speed difference. When the filling rate is less than 90%, no hump was founded. Moreover, input speed has no influence on hump. The surface temperature of liquid viscous coupling was also given, which is important for researching the temperature changing in liquid viscous coupling.


Power source 120 for LED supplies power to the LED light source 110 having a variable number of LED in series and / or wired in parallel. Power source 120 uses the current and voltage feedback to adjust power to the LED, to provide protection to the LED light source 110. Feedback controller 125, the sensed current and sensed voltage compared to the reference signal, and generates a feedback signal, the feedback signal, power factor to adjust the current through the transformer supplying current to the LED It is processed by the corrector 124. LED control switch 127, to provide further protection to the LED light source 110 and clamps the peak current to the LED. Short / open detection circuit 130 indicates the detection of the "LED output" of the LED light source 110.


Silicon Valley start-up Solar Junction has raised the bar for solar efficiency to 44 percent, and even higher values are in the cards: The company has a road map for reaching 50 percent efficiency and beyond


Ion implantation systems use a mass spectrometer to both mass analysis and angle correction. Ion source along a beam path to generate the ion beam. The subsequent stage of the ion source, a mass spectrometer is disposed. The mass spectrometer performs mass analysis and angle correction on the ion beam. Along the rear stage and the beam path of the mass spectrometer part, resolving aperture is disposed within the opening assembly. It said resolving aperture has a size and shape corresponding to the mass resolution and a beam envelope selected in the ion beam. The subsequent stage of the resolving aperture, angle measurement system is located. The angle measurement system obtains an angle of incidence value of the ion beam. The control system, in accordance with the angle of incidence value of the ion beam from the angle measurement system to perform the magnetic field adjustment to the mass spectrometer.


Author examined the human foot pressure in 51 cases of fused feet by means of oppress spur used dental modelling.The feet examined were operated by usual methods of arthrodesis. The preoperative deformities were classified into talipes calcaneus (7 cases), equinus (15 cases), varus (15 cases), planovalgus (one case) and flail feet (13 cases).By this method could be recorded precisely the pre- and postoperative deformities of talipes.According to the records, most excellent results were obtained in equinus deformities, and next in varus deformities but remained slight varus in many cases: in another talipes deformities, some degree of the deformities remained in the usual methods of fusion operations.


Recently when addressing a group of friends of the Colby College Art Museum, James M. Carpenter, Chairman of the Art Department and Director of the Museum recalled that when he first arrived at Colby in 1950 the Harold T. Pulsifer Memorial Collection of works by Winslow Homer had just preceded him as an indefinite loan to the College from Mrs. Harold T. Pulsifer. He remarked that this group accounted for the only important works on the campus with the single exception of the anonymous portrait of a Colby graduate of 1834, the Reverend Silas Ilsley. Mr. Carpenter added that there seemed to him then little hope there would ever be a prominent collection at Colby.


Melting and freezing transitions of clusters of tellurium hexafluoride containing 12, 13, and 14 molecules have been investigated using a seven-site intermolecular interaction potential. Various diagnostic methods were applied to simulations of heating and cooling stages including caloric curves, the Lindemann δ index, Pawley-Fuchs projections, and indices of translational and rotational diffusion. Results differed markedly from those for clusters of similar size obtained in simulations of argon and benzene systems and from experiments on charged clusters of SF 6 . All of the latter systems exhibited special stability at the magic number 13, but TeF 6 clusters did not. The hexafluoride molecules rotated freely down to the lowest temperatures studied where the cluster's translations were all but frozen


On March 30, 2020, the New Mexico Governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, informed the US President Donald Trump of the "incredible spikes" in cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) within the Navajo Nation in the rural Four Corners region of the American Southwest. Governor Grisham noted " . . . a much higher hospital rate, a much younger hospital rate, a much quicker go-right-tothe-vent(ilator) rate for the population, and a doubling in every day-and-a-half" of cases, adding, that the disease " . . . could wipe out those tribal nations." Although the pandemic has failed to spare any section of the US society, the American Indians of the Southwest constitute a particularly susceptible population for this disease, implying a greater risk for poor health outcomes from viral exposure. Dikos Ntsaaigii-Náhást'éı́ts'áadah is the Navajo term for COVID-19, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2). The Navajo Nation, home of the largest American Indian tribe, sprawls across 3 adjoining states (New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah), covering more than 17 million acres. The tribe has a registered population of over 300,000, of whom 157,000 lived on the Navajo land at the time of the 2010 census. As of April 4, 2020, 321 cases and 13 confirmed deaths of Navajo Nation residents from COVID-19 have been reported, with a per capita rate of reported cases on Navajo land more than 7 times higher than in New Mexico state. With the first case reported on March 17, 2020, there was an average increase of 40 cases daily between March 31 and April 1, 2020. The Navajo Nation government declared a state of emergency on March 13, 2020, and closed all branches of the government and their services for the remainder of the school year. Although the region has a low population density, Jonathan Nez, President of the Navajo Nation, described the difficulty with social distancing, because "many generations live in 1 household." Along with the Navajo Nation, Isleta Pueblo in New Mexico placed curfew restrictions. Also severely affected is the Cherokee nation in Oklahoma, where social distancing is similarly at odds with the native culture.


The reform of transmission and distribution price is the core of power system reform. There are few studies on the impact of new investment on the transmission and distribution price. This paper discussesed the impact of new investment on the transmission and distribution price under different depreciation rate, asset liability ratio and new investment included in fixed asset rate. The results showed that the asset liability ratio does not have a significant impact on the electricity prices, while the change of the depreciation rate and the ratio of newly increased investment included in fixed assets will have a direct impact on electricity prices.


Abstract A 44-year-old man presented with acute airway obstruction. A pedunculated lesion was found arising from the right vallecula. This was confirmed to be an angioleiomyoma, a type of hamartoma rarely found in the oropharynx.


The invention is applicable to the field of a mobile terminal, and provides a charging method and a charging system. The charging method comprises the following steps of acquiring a voltage value of a cell through a cell detection circuit, and transmitting the acquired voltage value of the cell to a second controller; finding out a current regulation command which is matched with a threshold value section in which the voltage value of the cell stays from a threshold value section table by utilizing the second controller, transmitting the current regulation command to a regulation circuit, wherein the threshold value section table is provided with one or more threshold value sections and a current regulation command having a mapping relation with the threshold value section; regulating the current according to the current regulation command by utilizing the regulation circuit, and outputting a power supply signal after the current is regulated. By adopting the charging method and the charging system, the charging current flowing into the cell can be adjusted in real time, so that the over-charging of the cell can be avoided; a charging circuit in the mobile terminal and a charging circuit in a charging adapter can be protected.


The present invention is a reflective polarizer formed without the use of high birefringence polymer. The present invention provides a reflective polarizer by utilizing birefringence of the polarizing / splitting of an incident, it can make the polarization direction of the first linear polarization component parallel to the first polarization plane of incident light transmitted therethrough, and reflects a polarization direction parallel to the the second linear polarization component of the second polarization plane perpendicular to the first polarization plane. The reflective polarizer comprises one dielectric multilayer film, the dielectric multilayer film is formed by alternately repeatedly stacking a high refractive index layer and a low refractive index layer is formed, wherein the high refractive index layer is formed by using a dielectric having birefringence characteristics material is formed, the low refractive index layer used in the formation of a dielectric material is substantially the same refractive index as the refractive index of the dielectric material and one of a dielectric material having birefringence characteristics possessed.


To penetrate the micro-mechanisms of strategic human resource management "black box",two questions must be solved: what is the psychological mechanism of human resource management systems on employees' behavior and whether the native culture plays a moderating role. Based on a questionnaire data of 729 permanent employees in firms scattered across 21 provinces,using structural equation models investigate the micro-mechanism of supportive human resource management system on employees' helping behavior. We find that the supportive human resource management system can directly cultivate employees' helping behavior,and affective commitment and job satisfaction play mediating roles,in turn.In addition to,results also showed that Zhongyong value plays significance moderating role only to the relationship of supportive human resource management perception and employees' affective commitment.Findings indicate that firms can get employees' psychological attachment when they provide supports to their employees,which will not only create well work climate,but also enhance work satisfaction and inspire initiative helping behavior from their employees. Meanwhile firms should respect employees' Zhongyong value in order to accelerate psychological fusion with employees.


Abstract : This paper reports the first direct, one-step addition of FDNEOH to certain unsaturated hydrocarbons to form new 2-fluoro-2,2-dinitroethoxy acetal and ether compounds in high yield. These nonaqueous mercury salt catalyzed Markovnikov additions with FDNEOH are achieved under the mild, neutral reaction conditions. The scope and limitations of this new polynitroaliphatic reaction as a complementary alternative to other polynitroaliphatic syntheses are discussed.


The concept of green building has extended its boundaries over the past decades as it now involves several other disciplines. Greening takes advantage of available human and natural resources, including solar access, wind patterns, accessible, and affordable construction materials. The introduction of some specific green ideas and features into vernacular buildings in northern Nigeria will not only improve the living condition of the building occupants but can also sustain, and preserve the traditional practices while also introducing new innovative design ideas into vernacular architectural traditions, thereby, saving the vernacular architecture of such regions. Geographical factors such as solar radiation and the problem of the Tropical Continental Air mass (CT) locally known as the harmattan wind, which significantly affects the daily usage of the residents. This study recommends the use of some selected green building concepts into the vernacular architectural practices in northern Nigeria with the view of identifying the impact of the proposed features on the performance of vernacular buildings in Northern Nigeria. Proposed concepts were integrated into a prototype of the existing buildings. Reviewed literature is used to determine the adaptable features, and An energy simulation using Autodesk Insight, an add-in of Revit software, and Autodesk flow simulation software are used to assess their effects on such buildings. The result shows that the adopted ideas will significantly improve the indoor environment quality and the entire livelihood of the building occupants.


We experimentally demonstrate a transmission of 73. 15Gbit/s 4096-QAM OFDM signal at 117GHz over 13.42-m wireless using probabilistic shaping and Volterra nonlinearity compensation.


Abstract A numerical model is developed to study the internal tidal motion on the continental margin. The system includes irregular bottom topography and a horizontal density stratification maintained by a mean geostrophic current. Both the propagation and generation processes are examined. In the propagation process, the topographic effect alone will scatter a significant part of the incident wave energy into higher modes, resulting in a beamlike structure for the transmitted wave. For a density front over a flat bottom, energy in the transmitted waves remains largely in the original wave mode, though the wavelength, and hence wave amplitude, varies with local density stratification. When the density front is located over a sloping bottom, the topographic effect is reduced, whereas the frontal effect is not affected. Thus, scattering into higher modes becomes more restricted. In the generation process, internal tides are produced in the upper and lower parts of the slope region due to the interaction bet...


SAMPLE CLOCK 30 A method and System for detecting a position of a metallic object are disclosed. The method includes (a) exciting a coil with an electrical Signal to produce an electromagnetic field enveloping the object, (b) allowing a frequency of the electrical Signal to be at the resonant frequency of the coil as affected by the object, and (c) adjusting a control signal controlling a characteristic of the electrical Signal So that the characteristic Substantially equals a predetermined Standard level. The method further includes (d) periodically coupling and decoupling a resistive element in parallel with the coil while performing (a)-(c), and (e) deriving a signal based upon the control Signal. The derived signal is indicative of a difference between first and Second values of an interme diate Signal functionally related to the control Signal, which are obtained when the resistive element is coupled in parallel with the coil and decoupled, respectively.


In 404 B.C. there were at least 8000 hoplites in Athens, still the thirty tyrants confined franchise to 3000 hoplites. Possession was not the only condition of franchise, but loyalty to the system was one as well. It is clear, however, from Xenophon's Hellenica that the 300 hippeis were not included in that number. Thus the leadership structure during the time of the thirty would be 3000 hoplites, 300 hippeis and 30 leaders.


Unconscious Imagery in Painting. The paper uncovers a new and unknown level of painting expressed in the concept of unconscious imagery in paintings. The technique necessary to see an unconscious image is presented, thereby opening up a royal road to the understanding of the dream or vision behind a painting or pictorial statement. Several examples of unconscious imagery in paintings by great artists are presented, with particular emphasis on the works by Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Munch. Peri-and prenatal experiences embedded in the unconscious will often surface in unconscious imagery, which may thus be viewed as yet another instrument by means of which we may gain access to this hidden and important realm of the individual's unconscious.


High-resolution imaging of protoplanetary disks around T Tauri stars is an important key to understanding of planet formation processes. The standard model for the origin of our solar system has predicted a compact disk with a radius of 36 AU, i


Media markets recently have been identified as multisided markets. The application of the theory of multisided markets provides a better understanding of such markets. It enriched the hitherto economic approach and led to new insights and perspectives especially for the antitrust authorities when evaluating competition constraints and mergers. This paper reviews the theory of multisided markets and subsequently applies it to media markets. Finally the paper draws attention to the new perspectives and insights the theory provides but also brings open research questions to light.


US Senator Tim Johnson was admitted in late 2006 with a suspected stroke. The post operation CT scan did not show any edema. The health problem of a single senator, or news about stroke does not usually appear in headline news across the United States. However, Senator Johnson's illness was widely reported because his illness may have tilted the balance of power in the powerful US Senate. The Democrats has a narrow 51-49 majority. If Senator Johnson could not survive his stroke or resign, it would be up to the Republican Governor of South Dakota to appoint a new senator. A likely Republican appointment would result in a tie 50–50 Senate. Vice President Dick Cheney would then have the opportunity to break the tie, in effect giving Republicans control of the Senate. The situation was so critical that the Democratic leader Senator Harry Reid rushed to the hospital immediately to clarify Johnson's condition. His illness also attracted a lot discussion about the limited action can be done to remove incapacitated law makers. May be this will encourage governments to take stroke, and stroke funding more seriously (Sources: NYTimes, CNN, Reuters, Washington Post, USA Today). News report


The rise of economics (or rather, the variant of economistic thinking that insists that all social life can be explained with reference to instrumentally rational self-interested behavior) is perhaps the most remarkable feature of modernism in the academy, and by extension in the political decisions that frame our everyday lives. Return on investment, utility, cost, empiricism, market–agent interaction, efficiency, growth, cycles, uncertainty – these ideas provide powerful vocabularies of motive, means of assessing actions or behaviors, explanatory rationalities, and are the foundations of a disciplinary language that most people working in/for Western capitalism recognize and experience. This book, and its spirited author, ask why. Why is this so? Why do we usually accept it? Why has it happened? Why do we grant economistic thinking so much credence (and therefore power)? And why do we not think in different ways about the origins, rise and current practice of the triumphant capitalism we live in and through? The origins and rise of capitalism are the two largest issues that an economic historian can address, and McCloskey speaks to a series of key thinkers from the nineteenth century in particular. This book forms part of her attempt to lay down a complex series of arguments and explanations for what is happening in this third century of modern capitalism (following McCloskey's own historical scheme here, taking the late eighteenth/ early nineteenth century as the moment when the idea of capitalism took hold). In this, the author is confident enough to:


The In-visible city. A Spatial Statistical Analysis of Foreigners' Location in the Municipality of Rome - This contribution is aimed at builgin a sort of social geography of multicultural cohabitation in the municipality of Rome and identifying ethnic locations based a series of statistical indicators - some of which unpublished - with the use of certain instruments of spatial statistical analysis. The study is articulated on two levels. The first examines the urban areas and offers a horizontal overview of foreigners' spatial distribution. The second takes into consideration units of analysis referred to different administrative divisions (City, Municipality, urban area). This is a vertical analysis that takes into account the specific aspects of a certain urban area compared to the city and municipality of reference.


Abstract : Suppose a sample of size n is observed from the d-dimensional density f. Conditions are given which insure that a single-linkage clustering algorithm can asymptotically find the decomposition of the support of f into connected closed sets. (Author)


Objective: This study examines the benefits of online brand community interactivity in social media in the Indonesian automotive sector.
Design/Methods/Approach: The proposed model was empirically assessed using survey data from 332 Indonesian-based automobile online brand community members on social media. In addition, the link between the constructs in the research model was examined using SEM PLS.
Findings: The findings strongly link perceived interactivity and community benefits. In Addition, the results also demonstrate that community members' trust in a brand strongly and positively impacts brand loyalty. Special treatment and a sense of membership increase members' trust in the brand and community satisfaction. However, social influence has negligible effects on community satisfaction.
Originality/Value: This study combines value, trust, and satisfaction as the mediating variables in the relationship between interactivity in the online community and loyalty.
Practical/Policy implication: Given the results, brands should provide flexibility to access information or content by optimizing the usage of social media features that members can easily access anytime, such as adding links to the Instagram bio or description on Facebook or WhatsApp groups. Enhancing these community benefits can be done by ensuring that the information circulated within the community is accurate and informative.


Utilizing the encoders mounted on redundant actuators, the auto-calibration method of the kinematic uncertainties of cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs) with redundant actuation is firstly discussed in this paper. According to the kinematic model, the relation between the structural parameters and the measurement errors is analyzed and the auto-calibration workflow is designed. In addition, due to the mechanical design of CDPRs and the characteristics of cables, the transmission ratio between the cable length and the actuator angle may change during the motion process and cannot be calibrated offline. To obtain the actual value of the ratio, the online-adjustment scheme using an extra camera is then presented. To validate the proposed auto-calibration method and online-adjustment scheme, the corresponding experiments are carried out on our 8–6 (6 DOFs with 8 cables) CDPR. The results of the experiments indicate that the auto-calibration method is very useful to enhance the structural accuracy. Meanwhile, the mechanical structure of our self-built CDPR is also reliable. Moreover, the online-adjustment scheme is also effective to improve the motion accuracy indirectly.


Abstract Using Fourier transform spectra recorded at 25 and 12 μm, it has been possible to perform the first analysis of the 3ν9 − 2ν9, 3ν9 − ν5 and 3ν9 − ν9 hot bands of HNO3 located at 392.4 cm−1, 409.8 cm−1, and 830.4 cm−1, respectively. An accurate description of the torsional splitting in the v9 = 3 vibrational state was achieved, leading to the determination of the two torsional band centers Evg=3,1 = 1288.8451 cm−1 and Evg = 3,2 = 1288.9036 cm−1 and to the first determination of the ν9 torsional potential of HNO3. Finally, the 4ν9 − 3ν9, ν5 + ν9 − 2ν9, and ν5 + ν9 − ν9 hot bands were identified for the first time at 375.3-376.1 cm−1, 447.2 cm−1 and 885.424 cm−1 respectively.


Knowledge of the spatial and temporal variability of surface soil water content (SWC) is important to understand the linkage between hydrological, ecological and geological processes in a region. Optical Earth observation (EO) data offer the possibility to retrieve surface soil water information, since an overall decrease of soil reflectance corresponds to increasing SWC. Sensitivity analysis of the combined leaf (PROSPECT) and canopy (SAILH) reflectance models (PROSAIL) to soil reflectance variations was carried out, and remote sensing and ground data from different experimental agricultural sites (ESA Spectra Barrax Campaigns (SPARC) 2004, ESA Airborne SAR and Optic Campaigns (AgriSAR) 2006 and participatory multi-level EO-assisted tools for irrigation water management and agricultural decision-support (PLEIADeS) 2007) were exploited. A simple look-up table (LUT) inversion technique was implemented to estimate canopy and soil variables. High negative relationships (r = −0.87) between the soil reflectance factor of the model and the measured SWC were found for several crop types and different locations exhibiting a low fractional vegetation cover (fCover). Even though quantification of SWC is difficult, the method could be useful to obtain relative SWC information, especially before the start and at the beginning of the growing season. Furthermore, the physically based estimation approach offers the possibility of getting information about soil and canopy characteristics concurrently from optical EO data. The methodology presented in this article may also represent a suitable complement in the retrieval of SWC from active microwave.


Wahhabism and the World: Understanding Saudi Arabia's Global Influence on Islam, edited by Peter Mandaville. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 352 pages. $99 cloth, $29.95 paper.


The neutron-induced fission of 234 U has been studied for neutron energies ranging from 200 keV to 5 MeV. Special focus was put around the prominent vibrational resonance in the sub-barrier region around 800 keV incident neutron energy. The aim was to investigate the fission fragment (FF) characteristics and search for fluctuations in energy and mass distributions. The strong angular anisotropy in the case of 234 U(n,f) was verified and correlations with changes in energy and mass distributions were found. The TKE around the resonance increases contrary to earlier literature data. Furthermore, the TKE and mass distribution were found to be dependent on emission angle. At the resonance, the TKE was smallest near the 0 o emission of the FF. This effect was consistent and coherent with a change in the mass distribution around the resonance. The mass distribution was observed to be less asymmetric near 0 o emission. From a fitting analysis based on the Multi-Modal Random Neck-Rupture (MMRNR) model, we found the yield of the standard-1 mode increasing around the resonance. Because the TKE is increasing at larger angles and the mass distribution becomes more symmetric also at larger angles, we conclude that this behavior is due to an increase of the standard-1 mode at these larger angles. Based on the formalism of MMRNR, such difference in angular distribution may be an indication of a different outer barrier height for the standard-1 and standard-2 modes. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the organizer


The general idea of this text is to reflect biopolitical constitution of the society and its implications related to the issues of animal welfare. Since animal in biopolitical formation is technically reduced to an object - commodity for contentment of the industry and of the people needs - critical public advisories are calling from moral, ethical and legal standpoint for attention to the fact that is necessary to protect animals from the unnecessary exploitation. It is obvious that animal protection is evoking animal rights question. But in the last instance protection of animal rights is related to the nutritional dilemma of animal food use. Question is arising: does animal rights in particular also envisage change in food politics (abandonment of meat food use), what is for instance the extreme veg(etari)an option taking for granted? This challenge sent to the culture of all-food eaters is opening up new questions and dilemmas. First of all, there is a question linked to the right of men to choose his own nutritional option, and of course dilemma which is related to scruples about meat-eaters and their (non)ability to love animals.


Vibrio alginolyticus occasionally causes life-threatening infections in immunocompromised individuals. Bacteremia and necrotising fasciits caused by V.alginolyticus have been reported. We described a case of sepsis due to V. alginolyticus isolated from catheter of 19-year-old patient with hypercholesterolemy. Moreover the cases of invasive V.alginolyticus reported in the literature were reviewed. Blood cultures of the patient were evaluated by the BACTEC 9120 system. The identification of the bacteria was performed conventional methods and confirmed by the automatized ID32GN and VITEK 2 automation systems. Antibiotic susceptibility tests were performed according to recommendations of Clinical Laboratory and Standards Institute (CLSI). The patient recovered due to early diagnosis and appropriate therapy. No identifiable source of this infection could be determined. In conclusion, rapid and correct identification of the bacteria and early administration of appropriate antibiotics is essential for controlling invasive Vibrio infections, such as V.alginolyticus sepsis, especially in immunocompromised hosts. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of V.alginolyticus bacteremia in Turkey.


The impacts of evaluation exercises on people and services being evaluated are examined, including those that are unintended. Using the example of a parents' centre in central London, the paper asks whether evaluators are measuring the right things, whether the resulting 'evidence' is valid, and what effects an evaluation may have on the service. It seeks to identify the features of research and evaluation exercises that are most likely to justify the time spent on data collection by leading to improvements in services for children and families


Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a rare condition characterized by the presence of autoantibodies distinctive of type 1 AIH (AIH‐1) and type 2 AIH (AIH‐2). The aim of this study was to evaluate the autoantibody profile in a cohort of pediatric and adult AIH patients, using both indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) and a new multiplexed line‐blot assay.


The RVES is a "R" package devoted to automatizing the interpretation of VES (Vertical Electrical Soundings) commonly used in groundwater exploration.
RVES allows to perform the followingt tasks:

filtering of the apparent resistivity measurements (using smoothing splines, kernel regression and wavelet thresholding).
Automatic inversion using nonlinear least squares, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimization and differential evolution.


The historical and political visions of France's greatest statesman of the 20th century Charles de Gaulle resonate in present controversies over essential topics including prospects for nation states and civilizations in globalization era, the concept of European integration, structures and norms of the 21th century international order and more. The value of de Gaulle's political philosophy is not in the originality of underlying theoretical ideas, but in an uncommonly harmonious dualism of fundamental antithesis applied to the changing concrete realities and political action strategy. His foreign policy thinking combined recognition of the continuing role of nations with globally scaled and universalist approach, historicism – with attention to recent and upcoming shifts; realism – with values and principles; pragmatism in tactics – with strategic vision and political will. De Gaulle's "national idea" is aware of the line that separates constructive national ambitions from destructive ones and is balanced by the European and global dimensions of his concerns and motivations. National interests, being the core priority for de Gaulle as head of state, were conceived not in a standard way but within the framework of rebuilding the Cold War bipolar system into a more plural and cooperative international order with a "true" Europe of Nations as an independent center of power. Of particular importance in today's context are the humanist aspect of de Gaulle's views on civilization and technological progress and his recognition of ideological pluralism in international relations.


Study was aimed to assess the effect of eating habits on cardiovascular risk factors and the assumed cardiovascular risk among 18–60 years old individuals in Hungary. The 1320 patients were recruited who had not been treated previously because of known cardiovascular risk factors or diseases. Taking questionnaire on eating habits, physical examination, laboratory tests (total cholesterol, LDL-, HDL-cholesterol, triglyceride, fasting blood glucose, OGTT) and cardiovascular risk assessment were carried out.Proportion of involved people who tended to follow healthy diet (determined on the basis of relevant European cardiovascular primary prevention guideline, focusing on the following parameters: total daily calorie-, fat-, cholesterol intake, fruit/vegetable- and salt consumption) was 66%. In "healthy diet" group we found more patients with normal total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol and triglyceride, blood pressure (BP) and body mass index (BMI) levels compared to "unhealthy diet" group and this difference w...


Operating a computer using eye- gaze technology offers unique possibilities for communication, learning, and participation for individuals with severe speech and fine motor impairments and good comprehension of spoken language. However, providing a child with high- tech communication is not enough. In addition to everything that needs to be in place for language to develop – including a stimulating language environment where augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is acknowledged as the language of the child, motivating and meaningful activities and partners to communicate with, as well as access to appropriate vocabulary at all arenas – children need access to their communication aid on an even more basic, operational level. 1 Eye gaze offers a possibility for operating computerized communication aids when fine motor impairments preclude direct pointing with a finger or a hand. However, research pertaining to whom might benefit from such equipment, how the use of eye- gaze technology is best implemented, and whether there are specific considerations that needs to be taken, is for a large part absent. 2 The paper


The present work was undertaken to develop shelf stable ready to eat chicken meat pickle and evaluate its quality and storage stability. The pickle was prepared by two different methods; frying and smoking methods. These meat were mixed with spices, salt and vinegar followed bylight frying and was separately filled in clean glass jars and was topped with mustard oiland packed air tight. The pickle prepared from smoking method was found to be best product from sensory evaluation. The chemical composition of best pickle (smoked) was found to be protein (23.3%), fat (35.71%), ash (4.3%), moisture (33.59%), salt (2.60%) and carbohydrate (0.5%). The pickle prepared by smoking method was found to be the best product due to low number of TPC, yeast and mold count, PV and pH on 60 day of storage period. On 60 day the mean value of TPC (Log10cfu/g), yeast and mold count (Log10cfu/g), PV (mEq/Kg) and pH were found to be 2.34, 1.4, 7.17 and 4.75, respectively for pickle prepared by smoking method. Coliform, Salmonella spp, and Staphylococcus spp were not detected in both the products over the entire storage period that was analysed.


The invention discloses a channel information quantization feedback method, a channel information quantization feedback device and electronic equipment. The method comprises the step as follows: a terminal determines a channel information quantization feedback parameter, and feeds back quantized channel information according to the channel information quantization feedback parameter, wherein the channel information comprises M pieces of amplitude coefficient information, N pieces of phase coefficient information, M is not less than 0, N is not less than 0, and channel information sub-sets corresponding to L resource sets, L is not less than 1; the k-th channel information sub-set of the channel information sub-sets comprises Bk pieces of pre-coded indication information, k is not less than1 and not more than L, Bk is not less than 0.


Multiferroic (BFO) nanoparticles doped with strontium with the general formula Bi1–x Sr x FeO3 (x = 0, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7) were synthesized using a modified sol-gel auto-combustion process. The structural, electrical, optical, and magnetic properties of the samples are discussed. The structural analysis, carried out using the x-ray powder diffraction technique, shows a structural transition from rhombohedral (R-3c) to cubic (Pm-3m) for the doping amount of strontium (Sr) equal to x = 0.3. Morphological analysis of the prepared samples were carried out using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Frequency-dependent dielectric constant and ac conductivity were studied. The doped samples, with improved dielectric properties, can be used to fabricate different optoelectronic devices. Strong dielectric dispersion and broad relaxation were exhibited by all the samples. Cole–Cole plots were employed as an effective tool to study the dispersion parameters, namely, the optical dielectric constant, static dielectric constant, relaxation time, and spreading factor. The activation energy was calculated from the relaxation peaks and Cole–Cole plots, which were found to be compatible with each other. The bandgap of the samples was calculated using diffuse reflectance spectral (DRS) analysis. Sharp and strong photoluminescence in the IR region was observed in the samples, similar to ZnO, which was reported for the first time. Room-temperature and low-temperature magnetization studies point towards the superparamagnetic nature of the samples, with an improvement in magnetic properties with doping. The antiferromagnetic behavior of bulk bismuth ferrite transforms to superparamagnetic in nature for both pure and Sr-substituted bismuth ferrite nanoparticles due to the close dimensions of crystallite size with magnetic domains leading to the break-down of the frustrated spin cycloidal moment.


There is nothing greater than the bond between a mother and her child. Food, the basic building block of life, is supposed to be nurturing and yet it can cause a deadly reaction. This dissonance causes stress and anxiety for families of kids with allergies. Mothers are primarily involved in their child's health care (fathers usually defer to mothers to manage their child's allergies and know the medical history).


The World Health Organization (WHO)‐Five Well‐being Index (WHO‐5) is a short 5‐item index designed to assess the level of emotional well‐being. The positive questions of the WHO‐5, shifted towards measuring cheerfulness and the level of energy, work in the screening of depression. This paper describes the psychometric properties of the Spanish WHO‐5 in older persons.


is erythropoiesis has also been observed in individuals without an underlying hematologic disorder. In these patients, erythropoiesis is basically normal; thus, the acute aplastic crisis is not associated with significant anemia and is rarely recognized.2 The etiology of the aplastic crisis in people with hemolytic disease and in patients without a hematobogic disorder is usually unknown. Since the changes are frequently preceded by non-specific infections thought to be viral, the (lueStiOn arises as to the role of viral agents in the pathogenesis of the aplastic crisis. An experimental animal model would add support to this viral hypothesis and could result in an understanding of the pathogenesis of the aplastic crisis. For this purpose we have studied two inbred strains of mice, NZB/ Bi with genetically determined autoimmune hemolytic anemia3 and CBA/T6 animals without hematologic disorders. Both strains have been investigated, following infection with various enteroviruses. One of the agents used, Coxsackie B virus, type 4, caused changes in peripheral blood and bone marrow similar to those described in humans with aplastic crisis. The findings indicate that viral infection can be etiologically related to the depression of red cell production in mice and may be similarly involved in the aplastic crisis observed in man.


leading to the establishment of the International Criminal Court and the additional courts and tribunals, and paving the way for more effective deterrence. The tribunals' most significant contributions, I guess, are four: (1) spawning a revival of customary law driven by the jurisprudence of the tribunals, which needed to ensure that they avoided violations of the principle of legality; (2) creating a set of evidentiary and procedural rules that even the Nuremberg Tribunal did not bequeath, as well as a corpus of substantive law expressed in detailed jurisprudence and hundreds, virtually hundreds of judicial decisions; (3) criminalizing for individuals an increasing number of norms of international law which previously only applied to states as principles of state responsibility; and (4) finally laying to rest the age-old question of whether international law really is law. The direct enforcement of international law through international courts and tribunals clearly leaves no doubt that it is. Thank you.


An experiment was designed to appraise the effect of the word-type writing of Chinese characters on the reading efficiency of third to sixth grade pupils by determining the reading speeds and reading comprehension rate of reading Chinese word-type writing text and traditional character-type writing text apart.The result showed that reading Chinese word-type writing text could enhance the reading efficiency of pupils in different degrees,comparing with that of reading traditional character-type writing text,in despite of that it was the first time for the pupils to read Chinese word-type writing text.


We present the results of a CO survey of gravitationally lensed quasars, conducted with the Plateau de Bure Interferometer over the last three years. Among the 18 objects surveyed, one was detected in CO line emission, while six were detected in the continuum at 3 mm and three in the continuum at 1 mm. The low CO detection rate may at least in part be due to uncertainties in the redshifts derived from quasar broad emission lines. The detected CO source, the z =3 :2 radio quiet quasar MG 0751+2716, is quite strong in the CO(4 3) line and in the millimeter/submillimeter continuum, the latter being emission from cool dust. The integrated CO line flux is 5:96 0:45 Jykms 1 , and the total molecular gas mass is estimated to be in the range MH2 =1 :6{3:1 10 9 M.


Accurate characterization of pathogenic microbes that may be present in food or clinical samples is essential in the design of appropriate intervention strategies. Inherent genomic patterns (codon-biases and rate of evolution) do simplify the classification of microbes at most taxonomic levels (genus and above), but mostly blur classification at Species/Strain levels. Hence, their classification at these finer taxonomic levels requires high-resolution genomic-data that provide SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism) level precision. Existing classification methods involve either targeted amplification of sero-specific genes (serotyping and MLST) or sequencing of the entire microbial genome, both of which require extra time and resources. We present a computational approach, which harnesses the power of the metagenomic NGS-data and object-detection abilities of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)(Inception V3), for precise classification of pathogens by converting genomic-data (NGS-reads) into images (nucleotide-by-color). A small scale retraining (<50 images/class) of 'Inception V3' resulted in a classifier with 100% and 96% validation and test accuracies, respectively, when classifying pathogens such as Campylobacter coli/jejuni and Escherichia coli (O157:H7 and Non O157-STECs). We aim to extend this protocol to the detection of several microbes (multiple-objects) in a metagenomic image (genomic image of an entire microbial community).


Purpose: As for pathologic N category, various regrouping strategies have been raised in non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) but little was done in small cell lung cancer (SCLC). On the basis of the suggestions discussed in NSCLC, we proposed a novel, metastatic lymph node station number (MNSN) based pathologic N parameter and compared its efficacy in predicting survival with pN in SCLC. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the patients operated and pathologically diagnosed as SCLC in our hospital between 2009 and 2019. Kaplan Meier method and Cox regression analysis were used to compare survival between groups defined by pN and MNSN. Results: From 2009 to 2019, 566 patients received surgery for SCLC and 530 of them were eligible for subsequent analysis, with a median followup time of 21 months. The 5-year overall survival (OS) rates were 58.8%, 38.6%, 27.9% for pN0, pN1, pN2 stages and were 58.8%, 36.8%, 22.1%, 0% for MNSN0, 1-2, 3-5, 6-7 groups, respectively. Analyses of overall and recurrence-free survival (RFS) revealed that pN1 could not be distinguished from pN2 (OS, p=0.099; RFS, p=0.254), but the groups in MNSN were well separated from each other (OS, p<0.001, p=0.001, p=0.063; RFS, p<0.001, p=0.026, p=0.01, compared with the former group). When adjusted for sex, age, smoking, tumor purity and T stage, MNSN groups were independent hazard factors for OS and RFS.


We establish symmetry results for two categories of overdetermined obstacle problems: a Serrin-type problem and a two-phase problem under the overdetermination that the interface serves as a level surface of the solution. The first proof avoids the method of moving planes; instead, it leverages the comparison principle and the fact that the solution of the obstacle problem is superharmonic within its domain. The second proof utilizes a suitable version of Serrin's method of moving planes.


Breast cancer is considered the first or second most common cancer and major cause of death in women globally. The TP53 tumor suppressor gene is one of the most commonly mutated genes in all types of human cancer including breast cancer. numerous studies showed that the significant association between Tumor suppressor protein TP53 gene polymorphism (Arg72Pro: rs 1042522) and the risk of breast cancer. We aimed to study and investigate the association of TP53 (Arg72Pro) gene polymorphism with the risk of breast cancer. The genotypes and allele frequencies of TP53 (Arg72Pro) gene polymorphism were determined by polymerase chain reactionrestriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) analysis in 300 breast cancer patients and 200 controls after extraction of DNA from blood samples of all participants. PCR product was digested by BstUI restriction enzyme and the DNA fragments resolved by electrophoresis in 2% analytical grade agarose gel. The results indicated that the Tumor protein TP53 gene G→C (Arg 72 Pro) SNP genotype frequencies of wild genotype (GG) , heterozygous genotype (GC) and homozygous genotype (CC) were 23.3 %, 50.3 % and 26.4 % in cases of breast cancer group and 55 %, 37.5 % and 7.5% in the control group respectively. The heterozygous genotype (GC) was found increased the risk of breast cancer by five folds higher than those of the wild (GG) genotype (OR= 4.77, 95% C.I= 3.12–7.29, P = 0.0001). In contrast, the homozygous genotype (CC) was recorded that statistically significant increased the risk of breast cancer by seven folds higher than that found in wild genotype (GG) after adjustment for age and BMI (OR= 6.98, 95% C.I = 3.95-12.4, P = 0.0001). We concluded from this study that the Pro allele of TP53 gene was increased the risk of breast cancer in patients of Iraqi population.


In this paper, a technique for fabrication of Ag-doped TiO 2 ink by sol-gel process is reported. The TiO 2 ink is ma inly used to prepare of working electrode for dye sensitized solar cells by employing screen printing. The prepared ink was characterized by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, dynamic light scattering and UV-visible spectroscopy.


Hypermedia systems have gained attraction for the purposes of teaching and learning. These systems provide users with freedom of navigation that allows them to develop learning pathways. Empirical evidence indicates that not all learners can benefit from hypermedia learning systems. In order to develop a learning environment, individual differences need to be taken into account to ensure they impact on students' achievements. In this paper, we describe and propose a web based instruction (WBI) program which accommodates preferences of individual differences; learner's prior knowledge and cognitive styles using the three key design elements of navigation tools, display options and content scope are explored. We also add learner's gender behaviour as a third dimension of individual differences.


On May 19, 1977, a series of eight treatments were applied to a landscape planting of yews at the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity adjacent to the Purdue Campus. At the time,of treatment the over-wintering nymphs were moving out onto the new growth. The sprays were applied to runoff utilizing a B and G stainless steel sprayer operating at 30 psi. The air temperature was 87°F and the wind was 2 mph. The acephate spray was repeated 10 days later. The experiment was replicated four times. Six inch twig samples were, placed in paper sacks and returned to the laboratory where they were refrigerated until counts were made under a binocular microscope. Samples were taken at time of treatment, seven, twenty-one and forty days post treatment. There was no indication of phytotoxicity. The results of the experiment approached significance at the 5% level.


Hydrogen (H) is thought to be strongly involved in the light and elevated temperature-induced degradation observed predominantly in p-type silicon wafers, but the nature of the defect or defects involved in this process is currently unknown. We have used infrared (IR) spectroscopy to detect the vibrational signatures due to the H–B, H–Ga, and H2*(C) defects in thin, hydrogenated, p-type multicrystalline silicon wafers after increasing the optical path length by preparation and polishing the edges of a stack of wafers. The concentrations of the H–B and H–Ga acceptor complexes are reduced to 80% of their starting values after low intensity (5 mW/cm2) illumination at room temperature for 96 h. Subsequent high intensity illumination (70 mW/cm2) at 150 °C for 7–8 h further decreases the concentrations of these defects; to ∼40% (H–B) and ∼50% (H–Ga) of their starting values. Our results show that, with careful sample preparation, IR spectroscopy can be used in conjunction with other techniques, e.g., quasistead...


an integral part of the program of the business department. Alert principals and business teachers have become increasingly aware of the need for enriching the education of prospective business leaders of society now under their supervision, and together they can plan extraclass activities which will increase vocational knowledge and skill as well as social understanding. The chart which appears later in this article presents a variety of extraclass activities in relation to their contributions to the objectives of business education. It will be found useful in planning and evaluating a program of extraclass activities.


The NASA Ames Airborne Autotracking Sunphotometer was used to obtain correlative optical depth measurements in conjunction with LITE (Lidar-In-Space Technology Experiment) measurements during STS-64 Orbits 35, 66, and 82, The sunphotometer was operated on, board the NASA C-130 and obtained data in Canada a few hours prior to the shuttle overpass during Orbit 35. Because of the approximate two-hour slip in STS-64 launch time, all overpasses in Canada after Orbit 35 occurred after local sunset. Therefore, immediately following the Orbit 35 C-130 flight, the sunphotometer was removed from the C-130 and transported via commercial carrier to Southern California, where ground-based measurements were taken prior to and during the shuttle overflights of Orbits 66 and 82. Vertical profiles of optical depth spectra, as well as ground-based spectra, are shown. The spectra derived from measurements acquired during Orbits 66 and 82 are compared with analogous spectra derived from solar radiometer measurements obtained by the University of Arizona at various Southern California sites. Both data sets are available for comparison to nearby LITE measurements and for calculation of backscatter-to-extinction ratios, derivation of aerosol size distributions, and use in transmission-correction of LITE signal profiles.


ABSTRACT Protozoan predation is one of the main environmental factors constraining bacterial growth in aquatic environments, and thus has led to the evolution of a number of defence mechanisms that protect bacteria from predation. These mechanisms may also function as virulence factors in infection of animal and human hosts. Whole transcriptome shotgun sequencing of Vibrio cholerae biofilms during predation by the amoebae, Acanthamoeba castellanii, revealed that 131 transcripts were significantly differentially regulated when compared to the non‐grazed control. Differentially regulated transcripts included those involved in biosynthetic and metabolic pathways. The transcripts of genes involved in tyrosine metabolism were down‐regulated in the grazed population, which indicates that the tyrosine metabolic regulon may have a role in the response of V. cholerae biofilms to A. castellanii predation. Homogentisate 1, 2‐dioxygenase (HGA) is the main intermediate of the normal L‐tyrosine catabolic pathway which is known to auto‐oxidize, leading to the formation of the pigment, pyomelanin. Indeed, a pigmented mutant, disrupted in hmgA, was more resistant to amoebae predation than the wild type. Increased grazing resistance was correlated with increased production of pyomelanin and thus reactive oxygen species (ROS), suggesting that ROS production is a defensive mechanism used by bacterial biofilms against predation by amoebae A. castellanii. &NA; Graphical Abstract Figure. Pigment production by the pathogenic bacterium that causes cholera protects the bacterium from being consumed by the natural predatory amoeba A. castellanii.


We have made a Monte Carlo simulation of the intergalactic absorption in order to model the Lyman continuum absorption, which is required to estimate the escape fraction of the Lyman continuum from distant galaxies. To input into the simulation, we derive an empirical distribution function of the intergalactic absorbers which reproduces recent observational statistics of the Lyman a forest, Lyman limit systems (LLSs) and damped Lyman a systems (DLAs) simultaneously. In particular, we assume a common functional form of the number evolution along the redshift for all types of absorbers. The Lyman series transmissions in our simulation reproduce the observed redshift evolution of the transmissions excellently, and the Lyman continuum transmission also agrees with an observed estimation which is still quite rare in the literature. The probability distribution of the Lyman a opacity in our simulation is lognormal with a tail towards a large opacity. This tail is produced by DLAs. The probability distribution of the Lyman continuum opacity in our simulation also shows a broad tail towards a large opacity. This tail is produced by LLSs. Because of the rarity of LLSs, we have a chance to have a clean line of sight in the Lyman continuum even for z ∼ 4 with a probability of about 20 per cent. Our simulation expects a good correlation between the Lyman continuum opacity and the Lyman a opacity, which may be useful to estimate the former from the latter for an individual line of sight.


The article begins by examining the artistic effects of a formal device, narrative iteration, which consists in presenting the same events twice or more times. As an example from Tolstoy's Anna Karenina shows, this kind of recounting has important artistic consequences: within the story's plot it emphasizes the characters' feelings and responses, thus offering the readers elements that naturally attract human attention: passions, conflicts, options, and decisions, in particular spectacular, risky decisions. Asserting that for a long time successful narratives were built around worthy topics of gossip and/or news—couple formation, individual violations of law, and fights between nations—the article argues that in twentieth-century high literature attractive, well-organized plots are less frequent, the main modes of modernist literary attention being a dispersal of attention that encourages detachment from the world and a self-involvement that entails an endless wandering within one's own inner depths. These two kinds of narrative attention, one naturally focused on human actions and passions, the other one turning away from them, either through dispersion or self-examination, shape the way in which readers relate to the world of the story, sympathize with its characters, and participate in it. Based on Jonathan Lear's theory of catharsis, the article concludes that "gossip/news" narratives induce a significant amount of empathy, while narratives of dispersal and self-involvement often fail to do so.


Coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID‐19) lead to one of the pandemics of the last century. We aimed to predict poor prognosis among severe patients to lead early intervention.


In vehicular safety applications, a vehicular positioning algorithm plays a crucial role in preventing road accidents through the perception of a dangerous situation in advance. However, most of vehicular positioning devices, e.g. a low-cost GPS receiver, have too large position error to be used for these applications. To reduce this error, we present the vehicular positioning accuracy enhancement (VITAE) algorithm which reduces the position error of a vehicle by taking into account the GPS estimate and the sensing estimate of each nearby vehicle; A GPS estimate is obtained from vehicle-to-vehicle communications, whereas a sensing estimate is measured at local sensors, e.g. vehicular radar. We first present a greedy data-association (GDA) algorithm to find a minimal-weight matching between a GPS estimate and a sensing estimate based on an Euclidian distance. We next adjust the position estimate of the vehicle by using the difference in the mass center of GPS estimates and that of sensing estimates. From the law of large numbers, this adjustment leads to the reduction of the position error by 1/√N times, where N is the number of nearby vehicles. To further reduce the position error, we combine our positioning algorithm with the Kalman filter. From the numerical results, we demonstrate that our positioning algorithm can reduce the position error by 81.8% on average.


The present article explored the perception of spouse, date and cross-sex friend among the college-going youth. Six demographical, 14 physical and 25 psychological characteristics were selected from a larger number of traits generated in a preliminary study on 200 college students. In the final study these traits were presented to 240 college students who rated them in terms of their desirability in either a spouse, or a date or a cross-sex friend. Responses to the demographical variables were obtained on a multiple-choice response format with qualitative categories. The physical and psychological characteristics were assessed through responses to the items on five-point Likert-type scale. Results indicated that women put greater emphasis on demographical features and psychological characteristics, while men emphasised physical traits. Perception of the wife by the men was a combination of sex object and nurturing object, while a date was a companion without much commitment. For the women a husband and a date possessed overlapping characteristics, dates having greater sexual appeal. Cross-sex friends for both sexes shared some characteristics of spouse and date in less intensity. Results have been interpreted in terms of the evolutionary versus learning model of love.


In the session-initiated protocol (SIP) for wireless networks, delays and disruptions that occur during the handoff of nodes are related to authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA). Various schemes have been proposed to reduce these handoff delays, and one such proposal, shadow registration in adjacent cells, has been adopted. Shadow registration reduces handoff delays by preregistering a cell with all of its neighboring cells. However, preregistering with multiple adjacent cells significantly increases both the amount of network traffic and the corresponding waste of network resources. This paper introduces region-based shadow registration (RSR) for efficient mobility management in mobile SIP environments. The proposed scheme performs shadow registration with neighboring cells selectively, only when it is necessary at the FAAA level. In an experiment implementing the system, we show that it reduces handoff latency while decreasing excessive signaling traffic during shadow registration.


Aims In 2018 the Psychiatry Ward Review Safety Checklist was created for ward reviews on the Trust electronic clinical recording system with the aim to improve the documentation of legal and safety information. In 2019 an audit was conducted to ensure compliance with the safety checklist and in 2022 a re-audit was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the ward review checklist. Both audits examined 6 questions: Have you discussed the legal status of the patient? Is the patient for resuscitation? Does the patient currently have capacity for admission? Does the patient demonstrate deteriorating health? Does the patient have any physical health concerns? Review indication, current dosage and side effects of medications. Methods A retrospective case note review of three ward round assessments of a sample of 25 patients. First male and first female admission of the month to Tower Ward (Landermere Centre, Clacton On Sea) were selected over the period from 1st December 2020 to 1st December 2021. Inclusion criteria: all patients. Exclusion criteria: None. We maintained the same standards as the previous audit in 2018 and 2019: 80% completion. Results 12 male and 13 female patients were identified. Q1. This was documented in 88% patients during the 1st week, and in 100% patients in mid-point stay and pre-discharge. In 2019 it was documented in 93% of the cohort. Q2. This was documented in 42% in the 1st week, in 53% patients in midpoint and 45% in pre-discharge review. In 2019 this was recorded as 39% compliancy. Q3. This was documented in 92% in the 1st week and midpoint, and in 67% during the pre-discharge review. In 2019 capacity was only documented in 14% of the cohort. Q4. It was directly mentioned in 100% patients in all three reviews. In 2019 this was recorded in 64% of cases. Q5. It was documented in 92% in the 1st week and mid-point review, and in 88% of the cohort in the pre-discharge review. In 2019 it was recorded for 69% of the cohort. Q6. The information was included in 88% of the cohort during the 1st week, in 83% in mid-point and 75% in the pre-discharge review. In 2019 it was recorded for 81% of the cohort. Conclusion Compared to the 2019 audit the overall compliance with the documentation was satisfactory (over 80%) in all audited points with the exception of question 2 regarding resuscitation status for all audited weeks (40–50%).


Bankruptcy regulation according to Article 12 point a of Law No. 2 of 2014 on Notary Positions lead to different interpretations and this article provide sanctions to Notaries by dismissing them disrespectfully if the Notaries has been declared bankrupt by a court decision. This disrespectful dismissal is a treatment that is not in accordance with the concept of bankruptcy that has been regulated in Law No. 37 of 2004 on Bankruptcy. This study aims to determine and analyze bankruptcy regulation for Notaries based on Law No. 2 of 2014 on Notary Positions and Law No. 37 of 2004 on Bankruptcy as well as the legal consequences of Notaries declared bankrupt. This is a type of normative legal research using the legislation and conceptual approach and analyze it using descriptive qualitative methods. This research uses primary and secondary legal materials. The results of this study conclude that the regulation of bankruptcy of a Notary Public based on Article 12 point a of the Notary Law is not to cause disrespectful dismissal from his position. Notary as a legal subject that represents an individual who has a debt. The legal consequences of a bankrupt notary based on the Bankruptcy Law only causes a person to lose the right to act freely on his assets but not lose the right to carry out his profession and position. Suggestions from this research are, the government needs to do a review in order to amend the regulation on bankruptcy for the Notary to avoid mis-interpretations.


The recommendation in regard to screening for non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) among type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients differs in major guidelines. The aim of this paper was to study the prevalence of NALFD and advanced fibrosis among T2DM patients.


ABSTRACT Universities have traditionally made use of the face-to-face model of lectures and tutorials as a passive mode of course instruction. When lectures are made available online and class time is used for conceptual understanding and cognitive skills among students, the approach is known as 'flipping' the classroom. The purpose of this study was to explore students' perceived experiences of flipped classrooms at a South African university. A quantitative survey method was used in this research study to elicit students' perceptions about a flipped classroom. A structured questionnaire called the Student Perception of Instruction Questionnaire was used to collect data from 130 students enrolled for a Database course over a 4 week period. The results show that the students' experienced the flipped classroom as positive and enjoyable. Even though they worked harder in the course and needed more technical assistance, most would opt for a similar course in the future.


This study presents an analysis of the impact of asset price bubbles on a liquidity risk measure, the liquidity risk option premium ('LROP'). We present a styled model of asset price bubbles in continuous time, and perform a simulation experiment of a stochastic differential equation ('SDE') system for the asset value through a constant elasticity of variance ('CEV') process. Comparing bubble to non-bubble economies, it is shown that asset price bubbles may cause an firm's traditional risk measures, such as value-at-risk ('VaR') to decline, due to an increase in the right skewness of the value distribution, which results in the LROP to decline and therefore an underpricing of liquidity risk.


Clostridium difficile–associated diarrhea (CDAD) occurs most often in patients who are exposed to broad-spectrum antibiotics. This review examined the efficacy and safety of probiotics (any strain ...


For over half a century the continental tradition favored a historical
method in philosophy of science, while the Anglo-American tradition promoted a logical
method. In recent years this contrast has tended to lessen. On the one hand, there has
been a growing interest since the 1970s in France for the analytic tradition, due to the
pioneering studies of Vuillemin and Gilles-Gaston Granger. On the other hand, Kuhn
has brought out the philosophical relevance of history of science. This tendency takes a
new turn in Feyerabend's final texts as well as in the works of Ian Hacking. The latter
deliberately combines the historical instruments of the French school with the logical
techniques of the North-American school. How to understand this evolution ? What
directions of research does it open up ? I address these questions by way of a comparative
study of some recent developments in philosophy of science both in France and North
America.


Aim: To evaluate the ability of â-carotene to protect oxidation effect of H2O2, and to enhance proliferation and differentiation intoAD-MSCs into EPCs. Experimental:AD-MSCswere induced byEGMBulletKitmedium with or without â-carotene. The proliferation of EPCs was determined by viable cell number counts. Differentiation into EPCswas characterized by the following surface markers: CD 34, CD133 and vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR-2). The protective effect of â-carotene was measured base on the level of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) by fluorescence with 2Â',7Â'- dichlorofluorescein diacetate (DCF-DA) using flow cytometry. Results: â-Carotene enhanced cell proliferation and differentiation of AD-MSCs into EPCs, and also decreased the accumulation of H202-induced intracellular ROS in EPCs. Conclusion: â- Carotene plays a role in cell proliferation and differentiation ofAD-MSCs to EPCs that might be due to decreased intracellular ROS level.


Objective:To investigate the effectiveness and safety of Buzhong Yiqi Decoction combined with low molecular weight heparin calcium in preventing the formation of deep venous thrombosis in lower extremity after hip operation.Methods:148 cases were randomly divided into the treatment group(75 cases) and the control group(73 cases),the former given Buzhong Yiqi Decoction combined with low molecular weight heparin calcium and the latter treated by low molecular weight heparin calcium after operation.Comparison of the deep venous thrombosis of lower extremity and the incidence of adverse reactions of the two groups was made and the blood platelet count(BPC) and four items of blood coagulation were detected after 3 days of operation.Results:There were 6 patients with deep venous thrombosis of lower extremity after operation in the treatment group,the incidence rate being 8.00%,and there were 10 patients with deep venous thrombosis of lower extremity after operation in the control group,the incidence rate being 13.70%.The difference between the two groups was statistically significant(P 0.05).The differences of BPC,hemoglobin,prothrombin time,activated partial thromboplastin time and the incidence of adverse reactions between the two groups were not statistically significant(P 0.05).Conclusion:Buzhong Yiqi Decoction combined with low molecular weight heparin calcium in the prevention of deep vein thrombosis after hip operation had an curative effect,with no infl uence on blood coagulation mechanism,safe and worthy of clinical application.


Distrubution antibiotic tract five-year Abstract Objective: In our study, we aimed to evaluate the prevalence of microorganisms, antibiotic resistance rates, and changes over a five-year period in order to plan timely and appropriately the treatment of urinary tract infections in children. Material and Methods: In this retrospective study, data were obtained by screening the microbiology laboratory records from the automation system of our hospital. Urine samples were collected by the midstream urine or bag culture. 105 colonies with a single microorganism in a urine culture were evaluated as positive urine culture. A total of 4938 urine cultures were retrospectively screened over a five-year period. Results: Of the total 613 (12.4%) positive urine cultures, 83.4% were identified as gram-negative and 16.6% as gram-positive. The most common bacteria in gram-negative growth was Escherichia coli (68.3%), followed by Proteus spp. (16.4%) and Klebsiella spp. (10.6%). The most common bacteria in gram-positive agents was Enterococcus spp. 42.2%. be 22/102 (21.6%) in 2017. The highest ampicillin resistance was observed in Klebsiella strains (79.6%) and the lowest in Proteus strains (44%). Increased ampicillin resistance (54.2% to 66.7%) and decreased trimethoprime/sulfamethoxazole resistance (54.2% to 45.1%) were found over the years. Conclusion: We think that aminoglycosides and nitrofurantoin can be effectively used as an alternative option in empirical treatment due to increased resistance to ESBL, ampicillin, and amoxicillin clavulanate. Antibiotic selection should be customized according to the results of urine culture antibiogram.