When performing tasks in complex environments robots are likely to encounter objects they have not seen before and consequently cannot identify. Thus the ability to learn novel objects during run time is an essential skill for advanced mobile service robots. Another helpful skill is the ability to track known and unknown objects since changes in the visual scene are very common due to motion of the robot and of possible objects of interest. Moreover, knowledge about the position of an already localised or classified object reduces the necessity of recalculations for every new image. We present a multi-stage visual object recognition system that localises and identifies objects using an adaptive colour-based visual attention control algorithm and hierarchical neural networks for object recognition and is able to track the localised objects as well as to learn novel objects during run-time. The approach is evaluated in a test scenario where a robot is located in front of a table with different kinds of fruit and other simple objects on it. The robot has to localise and identify these objects as well as to perform a set of object manipulating tasks such as grasping, showing or moving specified objects. The experiments conducted showed encouraging results. New objects can be learnt with reasonable classification rates and in adequate time. The tracking of the objects allows for advanced object classification even on slower computers because classification is not exerted for every image.


A condensation reaction between ethylenediaminetetraacetic dianhydride and ethylenediamine provided two new macrocyclic ligands: one is a 12-membered macrocycle with two pendent acetato groups, C 8 H 14 N 4 O 2 (CH 2 CO 2 H) 2 (represents as L(12)H 2 ], and the other is a 24-membered macrocycle with four pendent acetato groups, C 16 H 28 N 8 O 4 (CH 2 CO 2 H) 4 [represents as L(24)H 4 ]


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The rumen microbial population associated with feeding cows 3 rations, hay alone, 20% hay/80% flaked maize and 20% hay/80% rolled barley has been examined. The differences between the hay and the cereal rations were considerable but between the cereal rations only slight. Both cereal rations provoked & large drop in the proportion of butyrivibrios, and a rise in the proportion of selenomonads, peptostreptococci, lactobacilli and bifidobacteria. The importance of these and other changes occurring in the microbial flora are discussed in relation to their possible effect on the products of the rumen fermentation.


this that country-villas with terrace and atrium in conjunction existed at this early date needs more proof than is afforded by the ambiguous testimony of two Etruscan urns and by the other scraps of evidence which the authors adduce. Might it not be possible to argue that the external portico of the type found in the ' Casa di Sallustio ' (third-second centuries B.C.) developed on suitable terrain into the simple terraces that were found in Regio viii, Insula 2, during the second century B.C., and that during the first century B.C. the combination of atrium and terrace spread, not from the country to the town, but from the town to the country ? (3) At the end the authors suggest that in this multi-storeyed terrace-architecture may be seen the forerunner of the large tenement houses of Ostia and imperial Rome. The origin of the latter has been much discussed of recent years, and it clearly was complex. This fact need not surprise us in view of the Roman fondness for ' synthetising,' but it suggests that no single investigator, approaching the problem from one particular angle, can hope at present to say the last word. The detailed similarities which the authors point out between terrace-houses and tenements make a valuable contribution to the study of the problem, but it cannot in the nature of the case be the sum of the whole matter.


A quantitative evaluation of the microstructure of aluminium foams and, particularly, any quantitative comparison is a very demanding and complex issue. In this work, the cell-size distribution (CSD) was proposed as the most efficient approach for their assessment. The foams were made by the powder metallurgy (P/M) route, by applying titanium hydride and dolomite powders of five different average particle sizes as the foaming agents. The average size of the pores and the pore-size distribution were estimated by assessing optical and scanning electron micrographs of as-polished foam bars by applying the point-counting method and image-analysis software. The uniformity of the CSD in the foamed samples with closed cells was studied as a function of the particle size distribution of the foaming agents, the average particle size of the applied AlSi12 powders, the concentration of the foaming agents, the foaming temperature and the foaming time. Generally, the samples foamed with the dolomite foaming agent had a more uniform cell-size distribution and a lower average bubble size. The most uniform cell-size distribution was achieved in the foam samples foamed with the minimum amount of the mass fraction (w = 0.5 %) of dolomite powder grades, having the lowest average particle size and a narrow particle-size distribution. In contrast, in samples made from coarser and less-uniform grades of foaming agents, the cell-size distribution was broader, with a significantly higher fraction of large bubbles. Longer foaming times and higher foaming temperatures also led to foam samples with a less-uniform microstructure. Based on the experimental findings and theoretical considerations regarding aluminium-foam microstructural development, the preconditions for stable bubble growth into a homogeneous and uniform foam structure were modelled and compared with the experimentally determined values.


The three-dimensional cobalt(ii) compound of formula {[Co(2)(P(2)O(7))(bpym)(2)].12H(2)O}(n), where the pyrophosphate and 2,2'-bipyrimidine act as bridging ligands, is a new example of a spin-canted antiferromagnet with T(c) = 19 K.


Objective To evaluate the efficacy of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and analyze the prognostic factors influencing the long term survival. Methods One hundred and eighteen CML patients with a median follow-up period of 41 months were enrolled, including 88 in chronic phase, 8 in accelerate phase and 22 with blast crisis. Eighty three patients received related donor allo-HSCT and 35 with unrelated donor allo-HSCT. Thirty six patients received total body irradiation and cyclophosphamide (Cy) as preconditioning regimen and 82 patients received modified BuCy (busulfan,Cy, cytosine arabinoside) protocal. For graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis, ciclosporine (CsA) and methotrexate (MTX) were used in patients receiving human leucocyte(HLA) fully matched sibling donor (MSD) transplants and CsA, MTX, antihuman thymocyte globulin (ATG) and mycophenolate (MMF) were used in patients receiving HLA not fully matched related donor (MRD) and unrelated donors (URD) transplants. Cox regression model was used to evaluate the prognostic factors of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and Kaplan and Meier survival analysis model was used to estimate the cumulative overall survival (OS) and the disease free survival (DFS). Results Except the three cases died of preconditioning related toxicity, all others got hematopoitic reconstruction. Five years cumulative infection rate was 42.6%, CMV antigenemia was 41.6%. The cumulative incidence of Ⅱ-Ⅳ acute GVHD was 33.3%; 23.1% in MSD and 46.9% in MRD/URD (P=0.01). One year cumulative incidence of chronic GVHD was 47.8%; 51.4% in MSD and 42.2% in MRD/URD, respectively (P=0.260). The 5-year cumulative relapsing rate was 17%; 12.5% in MSD and 23.9% in MRD/URD (P=0.228). Five years cumulative OS and DFS rates were 69.5% and 62.6%, respectively; 78.5% and 72.7% in MSD, 57.2% and 48.3% in MRD/URD, respectively (P=0.018, P= 0.017). Five years OS and DFS rate in chronic phase and accelerate/blast phase were 79.9%, 36.7% and 72.4%, 32.6%, respectively (P0.001). Multivariate Cox model analysis showed that grade Ⅱ-Ⅳ acute GVHD, HLA mismatch and time from diagnosis to transplantation ≥ 1 year were independent risk factor for OS. Accelerate/blast phase and MTX+CsA+ ATG or MMF for GVHD prophylaxis were risk factors for DFS. Conclusions Patients had transplantation done within one year from diagnosis,low grade acute GVHD, HLA identical sibling donor and chronic phase had better prognosis. The main risk factor of death is GVHD.


Temporal dysfunction in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) patients is a relatively new area of research and is surprising the limited number of study available considering the clinical and theoretical implication. An extensive number of studies were conducted to investigate prospective memory dysfunctions in TBI patients, but the findings are in contrast. This PhD thesis is organised in two sections: the first one include two studies about time perception and TBI patients (study 1 and study 2); while the second focus on prospective memory and TBI patients (study 3 and study 4)


This video equips the viewer with a method to determine if a melody can support tonally idiomatic inverted canonic combinations, detecting not only diatonic consonances but also prohibited parallel motions. This method reveals that the subject for the third fugue from Clara Schumann's op. 16 can form two dubious combinations at a particular time delay; she concludes her fugue with an ameliorating hybrid of these two combinations.


Since the outbreak of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) disease in China, late December 2019, it took a substantial detriment and challenges for more than 200 countries worldwide. Recently with the upcoming insights about etiology of the virus, there is increasing evidence that many patients with COVID-19 are asymptomatic or they have only mild symptoms, but they act as carrier and are able to transmit the virus to others. There are technical difficulties in screening for these asymptomatic infections, which makes it even more challenging for any nation to control this epidemic. This article reviews entry & replication of the virus, pathogenesis, asymptomatic infections, dissemination, prevention, control & treatment in asymptomatic infections with COVID-19, expecting it would be helpful for early prevention and containment of this severe public health threat worldwide.


A procedure to calculate the natural frequencies of in-plane loaded, thin, slightly curved, simply supported rectangular plates is presented, with numerical results. This includes the solutions to von Karman's static equilibrium equation and the linear shell vibration equation using Galerkin's method. The compatibility equations are given in terms of Airy stress functions which satisfy the "shear free" and "constant normal displacement" in-plane edge conditions. This procedure is an extension to the method presented by Hui and Leissa, the difference being the use of a multiterm Fourier series representation for the initial imperfection, the static deflection and the vibratory modes. ©2002 ASME


The article analyzes two high profile initiatives related to suicide prevention in Brazil, based on documents produced by their responsible and released by the media. It discusses the medicalization in suicide approach regarding the "Yellow September" campaign and the moralization that underpins the National Policy for the Prevention of Self-Harm and Suicide, related to the conservative concept of family. It notes that such initiatives are articulated as a result of the union of conservative forces in the country. Although they have fundamental contradictions in the way they understand suicide, they have in common the erasure of the social determinants of mental suffering. Finally, it discusses the risks of its implementation in the school context.


The adsorbent was prepared from banana peel and adsorption of Reactive Yellow 15 (RY15) dye by the banana peel adsorbent was examined. Batch adsorption tests showed that extent of dye adsorption was dependent on pH, dye concentration, contact time and adsorbent dose. Equilibrium adsorption was attained in 3 h, with maximum adsorption occurring at a pH value 2 and adsorbent dose of 6 giL. Equilibrium adsorption data were well described by Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption isotherm models. The adsorption of Reactive Yell ow 15 followed pseudo-first-order kinetics. The results indicate that adsorbent prepared from banana peel is effective in adsorptive removal of Reactive Yellow 15. Hence, banana peel would be suitable low cost substitute for commercial activated carbon in the removal of reactive dyes from aqueous solution.


Hybrid IP networks that use both control plane paradigms - distributed and centralized - promise the best of two worlds: programmability and flexible control of Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and at the same time the reliability and fault tolerance of distributed routing protocols like Open Shortest Path First (OSPF). Hybrid SDN/OSPF networks typically deploy OSPF to assure care-free operation of best effort traffic, while SDN can control prioritized traffic. This "ships-passing-in-the-night" approach, where both control planes are unaware of each other's configurations, only require hybrid SDN/OSPF routers that can participate in the domain-wide legacy routing protocol and additionally connect to a central SDN controller. This mode of operation is however known for a number of challenges in operational networks, including those related to network failures, size of forwarding tables, routing convergence time, and the increased complexity of network management.

There are alternative modes of hybrid operation that provide a more holistic network control paradigm, either through an OSPF-enabled SDN controller, or a common network management system that allows the joint monitoring and configuration of both control planes, or via the partitioning of the legacy routing domain with SDN border nodes. The latter mode of operation offers to some extent to steer the working of the legacy routing protocol inside the sub-domains, which is new. The analysis, modeling, and evaluative comparison of this approach called SDN Partitioning with other modes of operation is the main contribution of this thesis.

This thesis addresses important network planning tasks in hybrid SDN/OSPF networks and provides the according mathematical models to optimize network clustering, capacity planning, SDN node placement, and resource provisioning for a fault tolerant operation. It furthermore provides the mathematical models to optimize traffic engineering, failure recovery, reconfiguration scheduling, and traffic monitoring in hybrid SDN/OSPF networks, which are vital network operational tasks.


Pregnant women who receive a high screening risk result for Down, Edwards or Patau syndrome are offered diagnostic tests that carry a risk of miscarriage. This study determined how many women had such tests per syndrome diagnosis.


ABSTRACT Angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) plays a vital role in blood pressure regulation. In vitro ACE inhibitory activity assays are commonly used for evaluating the activity of inhibitors in many researches. In the present study, a rapid, sensitive, simple, and accurate HPLC method for ACE inhibitory activity determination using chicken meat as a model was developed. Specific attention was paid to assess the ACE inhibitory activity of peptides released during simulated gastrointestinal digestion. Using hippuryl–histidyl–leucine as the substrate, ACE can catalyze it into hippuric acid, which is rapidly and sensitively detected by the HPLC at the retention time of 8–10 min. The ACE inhibitory activity of each digestion solution can be rapidly determined every 15 min or less. The model protein displayed a high ACE inhibitory activity during simulated gastrointestinal digestion, but the digestion solution in the stomach showed stronger activity than in the intestine. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT


Life adaptability refers to a kind of behavior reacting trend of matching individual and living environments through adjusting mental states or changing living environments positively and effectively in daily life. Life-adapting tutorship of middle school students is gradually formed in daily life, in actual living situation and individual' s owned mental quality structure, especially the interrelationship of life-adapting development. Among them,the special sensibility and attitude in living situations play a very important role in adapting living environments positively for individuals. The content of life-adapting tutorship of middle school students is mainly concerned with living concept, habits, skills and ways.


Modern digital systems are growing in size and complexity, introducing significant organizational and verification challenges in the design cycle. Verification today takes as much as 70% of the design time with debugging being responsible for half of this effort. Automation has mitigated part of the resource-intensive nature of rectifying erroneous designs. Nevertheless, most tools target failures in isolation. Since regression verification can discover myriads of failures in one run, automation is also required to guide an engineer to rank them and expedite debugging. To address this growing regression pain, this paper presents a framework that utilizes traditional machine learning techniques along with historical data in version control systems and the results of functional debugging. Its aim is to rank revisions based on their likelihood of being responsible for a particular failure. Ranking prioritizes revisions that ought to be targeted first, and therefore it speeds-up the localization of the error source. This effectively reduces the number of debug iterations. Experiments on industrial designs demonstrate a 68% improvement in the ranking of actual erroneous revisions versus the ranking obtained through existing industrial methodologies. This benefit arrives with negligible run-time overhead.


I was born a storyteller in a world of church-going, wealthy, middle-class amoebas known as the residents of East Lansing, Michigan. I felt no connection or companionship with the inhabitants of my suburban town, learning the art of observation as a method of intellectual survival at a young age. My father always said, "A true storyteller always places himself in the one corner of a room from which he can see and hear everything because a true storyteller never stops looking for characters." This was my approach to life, and mid-westerners were the perfect example of that. I loved watching their flux of emotions. I especially received pleasure in evoking the inevitable expression of shock on executive mothers' faces when I saucily told them I didn't believe in God, my mother was a stay-at-home mom, and that I would rather go to Hell and be interesting than go to Heaven and be good. Often, their ill-concealed attempt at composure took form in quaking voices thinning to a nervous laugh. Whatever their reaction though, one comparison remained the same throughout. "Well," they would titter incredulously, "she does take after her father." It was my father who guided my childhood, nurturing my imagination and grooming me for a lifetime of storytelling. A writer himself, "my papa," as I called him, kept my mind occupied by making me tell him stories about the neighborhood squirrels on the way to the park. There was Frankie and Stewart, Aunt May and Uncle June, all of whom were customized and molded into tangible characters, each lending themselves to all the trouble and mischief that could be conjured up in the mind of a four-year-old. I was entirely disinterested in the other children's games, fashioning my own world of make-believe which my father firmly encouraged. As I grew older and squirrels no longer captivated my imagination, my papa would tell me stories about his childhood every night until my questions wore him out. My father did not come from a happy home, but his


Monitoring the carbon dioxide concentration in arterial blood is vital for the evaluation and prevention of pulmonary disease. Yet, domestic pure arterial blood carbon dioxide sensor technologies are not being developed, instead all sensors are imported. In this paper, we develop a real time monitoring system for arterial blood partial pressure of carbon dioxide() gas from the wrist by using a carbon micro-heater. The micro-heater was fabricated with a thickness of 0.3 in order to collect the carbon dioxide under the skin. The micro-heater has been designed to perform temperature compensation in order to prevent damage to the skin. Two clinical trials of the system were undertaken. As a result, we demonstrated that a portable, transcutaneous carbon dioxide analysis() device produced domestically is possible. In addition, this system reduced the analysis time significantly. Carbon films could reduce the unit price of these sensors by replacing the gold film used in foreign models. Also, we developed a real time monitoring system which can be used with optical biosensors for medical diagnostics as well as gas sensors for environmental monitoring.


dataareincreasingly available on-line through the Webandother distributed protocols. Thisheightens the needtocarefully control access todata. Control meansnot onlypreventing theleakage ofdatabutalsopermitting ac- cesstonecessary information. Indeed, thesamedatumis often treated differently depending oncontext. System designers create policies toexpress conditions on theaccess todata.Toreduce source clutter andimprove maintenance, developers increasingly usedomain-specific, declarative languages toexpress these policies. Inturn, ad- ministrators needtoanalyze policies relative toproperties, andtounderstand theeffect ofpolicy changes eveninthe absence ofproperties. Thispaperpresents Margrave, asoftware suite forana- lyzing role-based access-control policies. Margrave includes averifier thatanalyzes policies written intheXACMLlan- guage, translating themintoaformofdecision-diagram to answer queries. Italso provides semantic differencing infor- mation between versions ofpolicies. We haveimplemented these techniques andapplied themtopolicies fromaworking software application.


Public programme as part of the parallel exhibition at MARSistanbul,
Metaphorical Space, co-organized with Pinar Ogrenci.

Writing on the City is an essay film on the evolution of graffiti in Tehran by Kurdish-Iranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi. It tells the story of Iran's political history over the last three decades. The film is neither 'for', nor 'against' something, but instead presents the walls of Tehran as a site of social, political, as well as quotidian and subconscious expressions by a diverse Iranian public.

The event was the premiere of the film in Turkey and was supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum Istanbul, Arts Council England, Openvizor, Seven Cerceve, SALT, Depo Istanbul and Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV).


In this article we discuss the symmetries of periodic solutions to Hamiltonian systems with two degrees of freedom in mechanical form. The possible symmetries of such periodic trajectories are generated by spatial symmetries (a finite subgroup of O(2) ), phase-shift symmetries (the circle group 1 , and a time-reversing symmetry (associated with mechanical form). We focus on the symmetries and structures of the trajectories in configuration space (R 2 ), showing that special properties such as self-intersections and brake orbits are consequences of symmetry.


The invention relates to a method for lift pump control. Methods and systems are provided for controlling a low pressure pump in port fuel direct injection (PFDI) engines. One method includes, when operating a high pressure pump in a default pressure mode, pulsing the low pressure pump when pressure in a high pressure fuel rail decreases below a threshold. The method further includes, when operating the high pressure pump in a variable pressure mode, pulsing the low pressure pump based on presence of fuel vapor at an inlet of the high pressure pump.


Letter from the mayor of the City of Cleveland. It discusses the 75th Anniversary of the city, and talks about the achievements that have been made over the years.


'Secularism in Western societies' begins by considering the city states of Ancient Greece and then the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire, with increasing church–state relations. It was the thinkers of the age of Enlightenment in Europe from the late 17th to the late 18th century whose work on church and state gave birth to a full theory of secularism that for the first time affected the policy of states in the real world. Official state secularism in France and America is discussed along with a look at modern Western societies where the rule of law through non-religious values embedded in constitutions has become the foundation of most states.


We describe what is known about the atmospheric properties (Teff, lob g, [FelH]) and fundamental properties (mass, age, and metal content) of nearby stars and how they influence the habitable zones and habitable eras of these stars. We then take an observer's point of view to assess the ability of optical telescopes to detect photosynthetic or methanogenic life on planets orbiting these stars.


Contents: "Madura cattle," the variety found on the Indonesian island of Madura, is most often referred to as a cross between Bos javanicus and Bos indicus, based largely on phenotypic appearance. The karyotypic patterns of Madura cattle resemble those of Bos taurus, with the exception of the Y chromosome, which is of Bos indicus type. Based on what is known of Bos javanicus, it is concluded that Madura cattle could be the result of a cross between a Bos taurus or Bos javanicus cow and a Bos indicus bull.

Inhalt: Eine cytogenetische Untersuchung uber das Madura-Rind

Das Madura-Rind, eine Varietat der indonesischen Insel Madura, wird wegen seines Aussehens oft als Kreuzung zwischen Bos javanicus (Banteng) und Bos indicus (Zebu) angesehen. Das karyotypische Bild des Madura-Rindes gleicht jenem von Bos taurus mit Ausnahme des Y-Chromosoms, welches dem Bos indicus-Typ entspricht. Nachdem, was uber Bos javanicus bekannt ist, muβ man folgern, daβ das Madura-Rind ein Kreu-zungsprodukt zwischen einer Bos taurus- oder Bos javanicus-Kuh und einem Bos indi-cusBullen sein konnte.


This research is a descriptive research with the title "The Influence of Vehicle Taxation Implementation Through Samsat Corner Service on Taxpayer Compliance". This research is aimed to find out the influence of vehicle taxation implementation through samsat corner service on taxpayer compliance. Data instrument examination was performed by conducting validity test which used correlation coefficient and reliability test which used alpha cronbach. Analysis tools which used to find out the influence of significant variable were including Normality Test, Classical Assumption Test which consists of Multicolinearity Test, Autocorrelation Test and Heterokedasticity Test. We used Double Linear Regression Analysis as well as F Test (simultaneous) and T test (partial) to find out the variables influent. The results show that vehicle taxation system variable – which consists of tax access, facility, complaint center, and website – were significantly influent the taxpayer compliance. Website is the most significant vehicle taxation system variable through Samsat corner service in Mall Olympic Garden. This is because the website provides 24-hours service and provide complete information about the process and procedure to pay the vehicle tax through Samsat corner. Keywords: taxpayer compliance, samsat corner, vehicle tax, taxation system.


Modulated acoustic phonons and their interactions with electrons in a coated cylindrical silicon nanowire (SiNW) are investigated theoretically. The impact of acoustic phonons on the interactions is encapsulated in the form factor. The form factor for a SiO2-coated SiNW is larger than that calculated using bulk phonons while that for a HfO2-coated SiNW is smaller, when the coating shell thickness is sufficiently large. This result can be qualitatively explained by the relationship of acoustic impedance between the nanowire core and shell. The form factor reduction directly weakens the interactions, and thereby provides higher electron mobility than that limited by bulk phonons.


Gardenia jasminoides Ellis is widely used as screens, hedges, borders or ground overs in the field of ornamental plants. Besides, it has been included in traditional medicine due to its homeostatic, antiphlogistic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic effects. This work aimed to alleviate the abiotic effects of salinity stress using some elements nanoparticles. The experiment was carried out to assess the effect of BA concentration (0.0, 0.5 and 1.0 mg/l) on in vitro propagation ability of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis plant and mitigate the effect of different levels of salinity stress (0.0, 2000, 4000 and 6000 ppm) on the plant using two concentrations (2.5 and 5.0 mg/l) of some elements Nanoparticles (Zn, Ti and Fe NPs). MS supplemented with BA at 1.0 mg/l combined with NAA (0.2 mg/l) was the suitable in vitro propagation medium and the proliferated shoots couldn't form any roots under all used salinity levels. At 2000 ppm of salinity, using high concentration (5 mg/l) of Ti NPS had the best results for shooting and rooting abilities. While, adding 5 mg/l of Zn or Fe NPs with 4000 ppm of salinity induced shoot proliferation, elongation and rooting capability. Increasing NaCl salt to the highest level (6000 ppm) increased the phenolic, flavonoids and proline contents of shootlets. The highest values of these compounds were noticed when 2.5mg/ l of Ti NPs was added the culture medium that contained 4000 ppm salinity.


Measurements of the yield and effective cross sections for the D(t,n)He/ sup 4/ and D(d,p)T reactions using heavy ice in the energy range from 50 to 200 kev are reported. The results are graphed, and the yield measurements were reproducible to within 3% for the D(d,p)T reaction and 2 to 2.5% for the D(t,n)He/ sup 4/ reaction. A comparison is made with other results, and the origin of the descrepancies is discussed. (J.S.R.)


The analysis of foreign policies of the Middle Eastern countries on the axis of sectarian differences and the tendency to show that the political polarity among countries in the region as a sectarian tension might make it difficult to comprehend real reasons of their policies. Although economic, historical and social data are used to mobilize the masses through sectarian approach, the relation between interests and power still keeps its value in foreign policies of the countries in the region. In this study it is propounded that how Iran, as a significant country of the region, uses the sectarian differences in its Middle East policy aimed at being the leader of the Islamic World. Developments in the Middle East are, in essence, seen as revenge-driven energy geopolitics. But it is belied through the Sunni-Shia opposition on Shiite ground conducted by Iran.


【Although advances in multi-detector computed tomography (CT) technique make it possible to evaluate peripheral subsegmental pulmonary arteries, several studies have reported that small peripheral embolisms may still be missed. Recently, some reports demonstrated that dual-energy CT improved the capability to detect peripheral pulmonary embolism. We report a case of lymphoma presenting as disseminated microvascular pulmonary tumor embolism, detected by perfusion images using dual energy CT.】


This paper introduces an approach to calculating the minimum value of split DC link capacitance in three-phase three-level grid-connected DC-AC converters operating with unity power factor without either active balancing circuits or AC zero sequence injection. Due to the fact that partial DC link voltages and rectified mains phase voltages reach their maximum and minimum values, respectively, at different time instants, it is feasible to decrease the minimum value of the former below the maximum value of the latter while still maintaining proper functionality of the power stage. The minimum possible split DC link capacitance values are hence derived from the boundary condition where the above-mentioned voltages are tangent to each other. The accuracy of the analytical derivations is confirmed by simulations and experiments carried out on a 10 kVA T-type converter prototype, which show a high degree of agreement.


Recent animal experimentation has demonstrated that lymphocyte dissolution and lymphoid tissue atrophy is one of the functions of the "S" hormone (11-oxycorticosteroid) of the adrenal cortex (Dougherty and White, 1945; White and Dougherty, 1945; Dougherty and White, 1947). This response is also initiated by pituitary adrenotrophic hormone in the presence of sufficient functional adrenal cortical tissue (Dougherty and White, 1943; Reinhardt and Li, 1945). It is the current opinion that this lymphoid tissue response to pituitaryadrenal cortical secretion is the mechanism responsible for the earlier described thymus and lymphoid tissue changes resulting from various types of stress in experimental animals (Selye, 1937; Ingle, 1938). There is a paucity of published studies concerning this response in man. One group of workers (Elmadjian and Pincus, 1946; Pincus and Elmadjian, 1946; Hoagland, Elmadjian and Pincus, 1946) have compared diurnal lymphocyte variations and lymphopenia resulting from stress in smallg...


This paper studies commitments in multi agent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument. A practical commitment corresponds to an agent being obliged to another to bring about a condition. Although commitments have been used in many works, an adequate formal semantics and axiomatization for them does not yet exist.

This paper presents a logic of commitments that illustrates the commonalities and differences of the two kinds of commitments. In this manner, it generalizes the developments of previous papers, precisely delineates the meanings of commitments, and identifies important postulates used informally or semiformally in previous work.


The invention relates to a temporary plugging agent for the acidization of the water injection well of a low permeability reservoir. The temporary plugging agent is prepared from stearate, borate and acrylate in a weight ratio of 3:1:6; 0.2wt% of polyacrylamide aqueous solution is used as the carrying fluid of the temporary plugging agent, the mass concentration of the temporary plugging agent is10%; the construction pressure is 1-2MPa higher than the water injection pressure, the low-pressure low speed injection is adopted; the injection speed is kept to 10-15m /h; the temporary plugging agent can generate a filter cake with lower permeability near the wall of the well, thus effectively preventing the particles of the temporary plugging agent from intruding the deep part of the oil-gas reservoir; the temporary plugging agent has better compatibility with water, acidizing fluid, additive and the like under the formation condition; and when the shunting and turning functions of acidization are realized, the temporary plugging agent can be washed away fast and completely and the well which is not plugged temporarily can be recovered.


Background Influenza-related hospitalizations impose a considerable economic and social burden. This study aimed to better understand the economic burden of influenza-related hospitalizations among patients in China in different age and risk categories. Methods Laboratory-confirmed influenza-related hospitalizations between December 2009 and June 2011 from three hospitals participating in the Chinese Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARI) sentinel surveillance system were included in this study. Hospital billing data were collected from each hospital's Hospital Information System (HIS) and divided into five cost categories. Demographic and clinical information was collected from medical records. Mean (range) and median (interquartile range [IQR]) costs were calculated and compared among children (≤15 years), adults (16–64 years) and elderly (≥65 years) groups. Factors influencing cost were analyzed. Results A total of 106 laboratory-confirmed influenza-related hospitalizations were identified, 60% of which were children. The mean (range) direct medical cost was $1,797 ($80–$27,545) for all hospitalizations, and the median (IQR) direct medical cost was $231 ($164), $854 ($890), and $2,263 ($7,803) for children, adults, and elderly, respectively. Therapeutics and diagnostics were the two largest components of direct medical cost, comprising 57% and 23%, respectively. Cost of physician services was the lowest at less than 1%. Conclusion Direct medical cost of influenza-related hospitalizations imposes a heavy burden on patients and their families in China. Further study is needed to provide more comprehensive evidence on the economic burden of influenza. Our study highlights the need to increase vaccination rate and develop targeted national preventive strategies.


Through study on effect of architecture's top structure on soft foundation's uneven sedimentation,this paper adopts reasonable building measures and structural measures,thus reduces uneven sedimentation of architecture on soft foundation,and ensures safety and use of buildings,and accumulates experiences for such work.


Objectie To probe into the effect of using Rivanol and Mifepristone to treat The Scarred Uterus Abortion Interim Pregnancy. Methods In research group,Mifepristone 50mg was used in 114 patients orally,tid and total 150mg. After taking Mifepristone for 24 hours,amoniotic cavity was injected Rivanol 50mg. The patients incontrol group were given Rivanol only. Results The effective rate reached 100% in research group using Mifepristone one time. But in the control group,the effective rate was 92.8%.There was a significant difference between the two groups(p 0.01). Conclusion Combined uging Rivanol it can shorten the couirse of abortion,alleviate the pain improve the success rate,reduce placedta embryolemma remaining,decrease the amount of blood and the occurrence rate of infection.


This paper addresses timed test cases generation using test purposes given as Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) [1]. A test purpose is a partial behaviour of the system under test. Test purposes are very important in testing because they help reduce the number of test cases while guaranteeing acceptable fault coverage. The adoption of MSCs as a model for test purposes is very important because they have graphical notations that can be used to express clearly what the user wants to test. The approach presented in this paper is fundamentally based on timed input output automata (TIOA) theory. The approach has been implemented using C++.


This paper is meant to outline the ways in which the 2002 legislation, No child left Behind, which has had a major effect on public education in the United States, redirected educational thinking along new channels, thrusting the teachers, schools and school districts into a new federal educational policy.


Equilibrium strategies are explicitly derived for a family of two-bidder common-value first-price auctions in which players have ex ante different information represented by finite partitions of the set of possible values for the object being sold. The distribution of bids for the ex post strong player stochastically dominates that for the ex post weak player. Comparison with the dominance-solvable equilibrium in a second-price auction shows the Milgrom-Weber finding that the second-price auction yields at least as much revenue as the first-price auction fails with asymmetry: in some cases the first-price auction provides greater expected revenue, in some cases less.


The purpose of this study is to analysis the planning characteristics of Segok Rien Park 4th complex at Gangnam-gu which has been developed very first senior apartment by Seoul city. In order for this study, the method is as follows. First, analysing the advanced research of senior apartment and draw analysis items from that. Second, research of senior apartment project in and out of Korea. Also figure out a outdoor rest area and welfare facilities using CAD drawings, E-Brochure, and visiting site. The result of this study is as follows. First, in the case of site plan, the senior apartment is designed with the flow of minimum human traffic compare with other complex because the welfare facilities are located in the middle of complex. But it has a weakness for social exchange with neighbor complex. Second, outdoor plan is well designed along with 5th complex. 4th complex has gate ball place for senior person and there are more health equipment, sport facilities such as acupressure treatment street which is good for senior. only 4th and 5th complex have a water space among the 1st through 5th complex. And it is very unique item in these apartment complex. Third, in the case of welfare facilities 1st to 5th complex have no difference at hall for the elderly even if 4th complex is specially designed for senior apartment. But at 4th complex has one another facility which is senior center. there are rest area, sport room and meeting room in senior center. In conclusion, Rien Park 4th complex which is fist senior apartment in seoul has not enough research for senior behavior and study for senior apartment. So later on it need to study on post occupancy evaluation of senior apartment and more research on senior satisfaction for complex environment.


The purpose of this study was to evaluate the historical skill of models in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) in two regions of Ethiopia: northwestern Ethiopia and the Awash, one of the main Ethiopian river basins. An ensemble of CMIP5 models was first selected so that atmosphere‐only (Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project, AMIP) and fully coupled simulations could be directly compared, assessing the effects of coupled model sea surface temperature (SST) biases. The annual cycle, seasonal biases, trends, and variability were used as metrics of model skill. In the Awash basin, both coupled and AMIP simulations had late Belg or March‐May (MAM) rainy seasons. In connection to this, most models also missed the June rainfall minimum entirely. Northwest Ethiopia, which has a unimodal rainfall cycle in observations, is shown to have bimodal seasonality in models, even in the AMIP simulations. Significant AMIP biases in these regions show that model biases are not related to SST biases alone. Similarly, a clear connection between model resolution and skill was not found. Models simulated temperature with more skill than rainfall, but trends showed an underestimation in Belg (MAM/April‐May (AM)) trends, and an overestimation in Kiremt or July‐September (JAS/June‐September (JJAS)) trends. The models which were shown to have the most skill in a range of categories were HadGEM2‐AO, GFDL‐CM3, and MPI‐ESM‐MR. The biases and discrepancies in model skill for different metrics of rainfall and temperature found in this study provide a useful basis for a process‐based analysis of the CMIP5 ensemble in Ethiopia.


Software testing is an important issue in software development process to ensure higher quality on the products. Formal methods has been promising on testing reactive systems, specially critical systems, where accuracy is mandatory since any fault can cause severe damage. Systems of this nature are characterized by receiving messages from the environment and producing outputs in response. One of the most challenges in model-based testing is the conformance checking of asynchronous reactive systems. The aim is to verify if an implementation is in compliance with its respective specification. In this work, we develop a practical tool to check conformance relation between reactive models using a more general theory based on regular languages. The approach, in fact, subsumes the classical \ioco conformance which is also available in our tool. In addition, we present some studies with different sceneries that are applied to practical tools with both notions of conformance.


A series of organic compounds, including hydrocarbons, alcohols, ketones, and esters were analyzed for hydrogen by a thermal neutron scattering technique. The neutron transmission was found to vary smoothly with the hydrogen content over the range investigated (8 to 10% hydrogen) indicating that the thermal neutron cross section per hydrogen atom is constant for all these compounds. The lower limit of sensitivity for determination of hydrogen content was found to be approximately 0.1% hydrogen by weight. The neutron source consisted of a Pu-Be mixture emitting 8.2 x 10/sup 6/ n/sec which were thermalized by D/sub 2/O. A collimated beam was directed at an A/sub 1/ cell containing the sample, and the transmitted neutrons measured with a BF/sub 3/ counter. (auth)


Objective To explore the effect of electroacupuncture on the abilities of learning and memory of focal cerebral ischemia model rats.Methods Focal cerebral ischemia model rats were divided into sham,model and electroacupuncture groups.The changes of action were tested by Morris water maze.Results Electroacupuncture could decrease escape latency,and there was significant difference between model and electroacupunture groups.The swimming time of original platform quadrant,the time of first penetration,the time of 40 cm cutting splice,and the times of 40 cm cutting splice in electroacupunture group were better than those of model group(P0.05 or P0.01).Conclusions Electroacupuncture can improve the ability of cognizing induced by focal cerebral ischemia injury,and increase the abilities of learning and memory.


ABSTRACT Understanding the underlying forces of citizens' support for public service is of utmost importance to public administration. Among the many areas of public services, the police are inimitable. This study therefore, explores public views on Community Policing (CP) in a Nigerian case study. The study area was stratified into two: area with high crime rate (AHCR) and area with low crime rate (ALCR). The data used were from a survey of 217 respondents in the AHCR and 242 respondents in the ALCR. Results show that both the AHCR and ALCR reported support for CP, although there was higher support among the AHCR respondents. Findings show that none of the demographic characteristics were significant predictors of support for CP in AHCR; whereas, age and educational level had positive associations in ALCR. Fear of crime was positively linked with support for CP among AHCR residents. Neighborhood attachment was positively linked to support for CP in both areas. Police effectiveness was positively associated with support for CP in ALCR but not in AHCR. Combined analyses reveal that age, educational level, neighborhood attachment, police effectiveness, and support for aggressive policing all had statistically significant associations with support for CP. Results show that none of the important predictors were the same in terms of significance and/or in the same direction in the AHCR and ALCR regression models. The determinant variables explained marginally different amounts of variance of the dependent variable (CP) for the AHCR (37%) and ALCR (30%). The study concludes that factors predicting support for CP are contextual and could vary between neighborhoods. Hence, understanding the particular factors in respective locality is necessary for improved support for CP.


Since the beginning of the 20th century manuscripts explore the importance of ruminants supporting the man1,2 and as a major global element in agricultural economy.3‒5 Recent studies have predicted that to reach the future demand of animal protein for the next 30years, it is necessary to increase animal protein production in more than double by 2050.6‒8 Recently we have reviewed ruminant adaptations and evolution throughout the centuries and the new scenario of diets provoking morphological changes in the digestion and feed behavior in domestic ruminants.9 Hence, this new situation indicates that feeding a long-term high-concentrate (HC) diet, induces cellular damage on both ruminal and colonic epithelium in goats,10 and in genes that regulate thickness of the ruminal epithelium in cows.11 Therefore, despite the fact that dietary changes and nutritional shifts can increase the chance of ruminal/metabolic diseases, and may cause more drastic modifications to the future evolutionary adaptations of ruminant digestive system,9,12 new approaches of evaluating ruminal behavior may be a strong marker to predict the risk of diseases and suitable herd welfare.13‒16 Hence, this review aims to provide recent information of the associations between ruminal behavior and metabolic disorders. In addition, show the relations among the new approaches of monitoring ruminal function, predicting the risk of diseases.


Distributed database systems can yield significant cost and performance advantages over centralized systems for geographically distributed organizations. The efficiency of a distributed database depends primarily on the data allocation (data replication and placzment) and the operating strategies (where and how retrieval and update query processing operations are performed). We develop a distributed database design approach that comprehensively treats data allocation and operating strategies, explicitly modeling their interdependencies for both retrieval and updateprocessing. We demonstrate that data replication, join node selection, and data reduction by semijoin are important design and operating decisions that have significant impact on both the cost and response time of a distributed database system.


PURPOSE: A semiconductor device including a buried bit line and a manufacturing method thereof are provided to easily implement a low resistive buried bit line by bonding a different structure to a substrate with the buried bit line. CONSTITUTION: A trench (53) is formed on a substrate (51). A buried bit line (55) partially fills the trench. A first source and drain layer (56) fills the remaining trench on the buried bit line. A second insulation layer (57) fills a space between the adjacent first source and drain layers which are etched on the buried bit line. A laminate pattern is bonded to the first source and drain layer. A word line is in contact with the sidewall of a channel layer.


EJD, vol. 28, n◦ 4, July-August 2018 lonodular pattern, 29% were diagnosed as sarcoidosis. This study also suggested that black tattoos with papulonodular reactions should be seen as markers of sarcoidosis [5]. In a detailed review, Kluger [4] found that tattoo sarcoidosis was mostly associated with male gender and black and red colours. Based on a review of patients with sarcoidosis related to tattoos in the last five years, we identified six patients between 20 and 55 years old (mean age: 38.3); one man (20 years old) and five women (aged 23-55 years; mean: 42). Tattoos were located on the eyebrows (n=2), ankle (n=1), and forearms (n=2). One patient had multiple sites of involvement (arms, chest, and wrist). The colours of the lesions were black in one case, red in another, blue/black in another, and unknown in three cases. The lesions were mainly itchy or painful papules, nodules, raised plaques, or erythema on the tattoos, with occasional tenderness [6-10]. In summary, we present this case in order to draw dermatologists' attention to complications associated with tattoos. Our case also highlights the necessity for a thorough systemic examination in patients with skin lesions relating to tattoos.


Our objective was to assess the HIV‐1 quantification performance of the Livzon HIV‐1 viral load (VL) assay and the Roche Cobas HIV‐1 assay to evaluate an HIV‐1 VL testing reagent for application in China.


This study aims to analyze the results of the implementation of learning methods namely real experiments and virtual experiments on learning physics in SMAN 1 Kediri. In the real experiment method three-dimensional media is used, whereas in the virtual experiment method computer simulation in the form of Physics Education Technology (PhET) is used. Learning tools used consist of syllabus, learning implementation plans, subject matter books, learning media, student worksheets, and learning outcome tests. Test subjects are limited to learning devices using learning methods namely real experiments and virtual experiments are students of Class XI Science 1 in SMA 1 Kediri Academic Year 2017/2018. The learning model applied is inquiry with 6 stages, namely identification and formulation of problems, formulation of hypotheses, data collection, data interpretation, development of conclusions, repetition. Learning activities are carried out in 4 meetings. Assessment of the implementation of learning using a scale of 4 with criteria that is a score of 12 to 16 including very good criteria, a score of 8 to 11 including good criteria, scores 4 to 7 including poor criteria, and scores less than 4 including bad criteria. Based on the data analysis obtained the average value of learning implementation for 4 meetings is equal to 14. Thus it can be concluded that the implementation of learning methods namely real experiments and virtual experiments on learning Physics at SMAN 1 Kediri are very good criteria.


Twelvehealthy volunteers were givenorally placebo, itraconazole 100mg or terbinafine 250mg for4 days. Midazolam 7.5mg was ingested on thefourth day, after whichplasmasamples were collected andpsychomotor performance tests carried outfor17h.Itraconazole increased theareaunderthemidazolam concentration-time curvesix-fold (P< 0.001), thepeakconcentration 2.5-fold (P< 0.001) and theelimination half-life two-fold (P< 0.001) compared withplacebo andterbinafine pretreatments. Thepharmacokinetic parametersdidnotdiffer between placebo and terbinafine phases. Thehigher concentrations ofmidazolam during theitraconazole phase were associated withincreased effects. Incontrast toitraconazole, terbinafine hadno effect on midazolam pharmacokinetics andpsychomotor performance tests were unchanged fromplacebo.


At a time of heightened awareness and public interest, post-9/11, with increased concerns surrounding the 'other' and pronouncements of the 'death of multiculturalism,' this thesis stresses the renewed relevance of cross-cultural feminist discussions. I examine a broad range of sources to show how the rhetoric of feminism is being co-opted to support the promotion of an 'us' and 'them' perspective, particularly in the media. By returning to well established feminist debates on difference, and the importance of adopting an intersectional position in order to avoid suggesting a singular experience of oppression based solely on gender, I argue for an intergenerational approach to current issues affecting feminism as we move into the fourth wave. Providing an original contribution, both by applying existing theory to highly contemporary debates, and by exploring the possibilities (and pitfalls) offered by online media to fourth wave feminism, I claim that the co-opting of a feminist position in an attempt to shore up national identity and discredit multiculturalism, has, in fact, created a resurgence of interest in feminism, but without a foundational understanding.
Taking the opportunity provided by this resurgence of interest to critically examine Western feminism through current debates surrounding FGC, 'honour'-based violence and veiling, offers a lens through which to explore assumptions of the 'post-feminist' West, and emphasize the renewed importance of engaging with the 'other' in feminist discussions. Globalization and multiculturalism, as well as the global communities forged on the internet, increasingly offer 'insider voices' whilst simultaneously questioning the myth of a pure 'other,' or a universal feminism. By looking back on previous debates and 'waves,' this thesis advocates the need to think across the boundaries of generations, as well as cultures, suggesting that an intergenerational and cross-cultural approach is key to moving discussions forward with the arrival of feminism's fourth wave.


A clear current oscillation related to the n=3 subband levels was observed up to room-temperature in the forward I-V characteristic of the InGaAs/InAlAs MQW diodes, as well as a current oscillation related to the n=2 subband levels. A significant hysteresis characteristic was also observed for the current oscillation related to the n=3 subband levels at 77 K. The energy difference between the n=1 and n=2 subband levels estimated from the I-V characteristic agrees with that obtained from the absorption spectrum.


This preliminary result in the study of the bacterial viruses of Brucella also opens a field of research of great practical significance. The taxonomy of the Brucellaceae and the genus Brucella has given rise to heated controversies, which have not yet been settled conclusively. In many cases the form of the disease involved has not been sufficiently emphasized. The introduction of a characteristic in Brucella determination which is definite in outcome has marked advantages over the characteristics which differ only in the degree in which they are manifest in the different " species ". Thus bacteriophage typing can profitably be added to the following characteristics:


The aim of this work is a study of the flow parameters relevant for the Oswatitsch intake configuration. Geometry of the cone and inlet are equivalent to those on MiG‐21bis fighter aircraft. Supersonic flow parameters for a channeled cone were studied at two different operational Mach numbers. Center body cone is movable along longitudinal axis and analysis is focused on specific positions for supersonic flight regimes. To study the problem, numerical model of axisymmetric two‐dimensional Euler flow is applied. (© 2011 Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


PURPOSE
This study was designed to repair a recurrent rectovaginal fistula using a new surgical approach that incorporates a Surgisistrade mark mesh.

METHODS
A 63-year-old female with a history of recurrent rectovaginal fistula, which was treated originally by a traditional mucosal advancement flap technique, underwent a surgical procedure in which a biocompatible mesh was incorporated into the repair.

RESULTS
The patient was symptom-free one-year after the procedure.

CONCLUSIONS
Surgery for recurrent rectovaginal fistula incorporating a Surgisistrade mark mesh can be used as an innovative option.


For economic development in China, the transform of economic growth mode is the key problem to be solved. According to the situation of our economic development and the experience and lessons from domestic and aboard, the transform of economic growth should be achieved from own innovation and speeding up the restructuring of economic systems by transforming to intensive economy.


We have simulated collisions of 5 keV silicon atoms with a silicon substrate. At this energy the simulation provides an atomistic description of the evolution of the displacement cascade. We discuss the structural changes occurring as the cascade regions transform from crystalline to liquid to amorphous phases. We compare the structure of the amorphous material with that of rapidly quenched liquid silicon. We also discuss the time evolution of the stress, kinetic and potential energies, and atomic density. An assessment of defect production mechanisms is made.


We address the problem of moving object reconstruction. Several methods have been published in the past 20 years including stereo reconstruction as well as multi-view factorization methods. In general, reconstruction algorithms estimate the 3D structure of the object and the camera parameters in a non-optimal way and then a nonlinear optimization method refines the estimated camera parameters and 3D object coordinates. In this paper, an adjustment method is proposed which is the fast version of the well-known down-hill alternation method. The novelty which yields the high speed of the algorithm is that the steps of the alternation give optimal solution to the subproblems by closed-form formulas. The proposed algorithm is discussed here and it is compared to the widely used bundle adjustment method.


In this paper, we introduce the potentialities of the digital hologram for the three-dimensional shape measurement from numerical reconstructed image. The image processing of the Fresnel digital hologram recorded by CCD sensor and the algorithm for 3d shape reconstruction is taken into account. Firstly, we stitch a series of small digital holograms to obtain a hologram with larger size. Secondly, the reconstructed image sequences of different depth planes are obtained by numerical reconstructing hologram. Finally, the depth information of each sample point of object is gained by algorithm of focus measure evaluation, in which the maximum focus measure of a region is found by the grey level variance of image sequence. The basic principle of this technique and its experimental verification are presented.


Background: Preterm birth is an emerging global public health problem. The aim was to determine the epidemiological, clinical, and prognostic aspects of preterm newborns delivered at a sanitary training centre in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and describe the mothers of preterm newborns, the circumstances of childbirth, and the clinical characteristics of preterm newborns in order to calculate and study mortality. Material and methods: This retrospective study includes all preterm newborns hospitalized in the neonatology unit of Clinique El Fateh-Suka over a 10-year period. Results: The frequency of preterm birth was 193 of 574 gestational age-specified newborns (33.6%). Insufficient antenatal consultation, premature rupture of membranes, and pathology during pregnancy comprised 58%, 64.9%, and 82.6% of preterm birth cases, respectively. The main pathologies associated with preterm birth included hemorrhagic and hematological disorders (42.5%), neonatal infections (23.3%), congenital malaria (21.8%), and intrauterine hypoxia and birth asphyxia (13.5%). The incidence of mortality was 21.2%, and the major causes of mortality included hemorrhagic and hematological disorders (46.3%), intrauterine hypoxia and birth asphyxia (22%), and neonatal infections (14.6%). These deaths were more frequent in the early neonatal period than late neonatal period (30.8% vs. 6.1%) (OR = 6.91; 95% CI [2.34–20.40]; P = 0.000). Conclusion: Preterm birth occurs frequently in our neonatology unit, and the involved complications are as expected. Providing high-quality antenatal consultations will reduce the incidence of preterm birth. An improved system of care for newborns would also greatly reduce preterm mortality.


Through analysis of transient autocorrelation traces, we show that intracavity dispersion significantly affects the number of initially oscillating modes as well as the buildup of passive mode locking in picosecond and femtosecond lasers.


The techniques such as FTIR,MAT,XRD were used to investigate acid properties and hydrothermal stability of USY zeolite with different Na content.The results showed that under the certain crystal cell and rare earth content with the increase of Na content,the stability and activity of USY deceased as well as the B acid and L acid.The change trend of the amount of strong acid and weak acid indicated that Na+ dipped in USY preferentially acts with the strong acid of molecular sieves,especially with that of the molecular sieve skeleton.The testing results of MAT indicated that the coke yield decreased while coke selectivity increased with the increase of Na content.


Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Conservation Biology, Section of Conservation Botany, Box 7072, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden; University of Oulu, Department of Biology, Linnanmaa, 90 570 Oulu, Finland, and University of Lund, Department for Theoretical Ecology, Ecology Building, 223 62 Lund, Sweden; University of Lund, Department for Theoretical Ecology, Ecology Building, 223 62 Lund, Sweden


Solenoid valve having a liquid 圧本 body provides one pole to the solenoid valve is provided. Liquid 圧本 body has a central bore to provide a bearing surface for the armature having an integral poppet. Poppet seals the liquid 圧本 body and the valve seat is integral. .FIELD 1


Thank you for downloading handbook of electronics manufacturing engineering. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have search numerous times for their chosen novels like this handbook of electronics manufacturing engineering, but end up in infectious downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they are facing with some infectious bugs inside their laptop.


OBJECTIVE: To discuss the promoter methylation of estrogen receptor-alpha in sporadic basal-like breast cancer.METHODS: The methylation of ERα promoter was investigated in genomic DNA of 60 sporadic basal-like breast cancer by methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction.The correlation between ERα methylation and clinicopathological features of basal-like breast cancer was analyzed.RESULTS: ERα methylation was observed in 48 of 60(80.0%) sporadic basal-like breast cancer.No correlation was found between the ERα methylation and age,menopausal status,while it was significantly associated with lymph node metastasis,tumor stage,nuclear p53 accumulation,BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 expression in sporadic basal-like breast cancer.CONCLUSION: ERα methylation maybe plays an important role in basal-like breast carcinogenesiss.


Integral sine by cosine that has a certain Fibonacci number as a solution. The formula is useful both for finding line integrals of functions type x * y on curved trajectories if we want a Fibonacci number as a solution. As for integrals of vector fields as a force field in curved trajectories.


We develop a general method to study inhomogeneous liquids in an external field using orthogonal polynomials tailored to the one-body density. The procedure makes integral equation calculations of these systems no more difficult than those of ordinary homogeneous molecular fluids. We apply this method to the ferromagnetic Heisenberg spin fluid in a magnetic field using a "reference" version of the Zerah-Hansen closure, with no further approximations. Comparison with simulation shows this integral equation procedure yielding nearly exact results. [S0031-9007(98)05886-4] The Gibbsian N-body density function of a Hamiltonian HN that is rotationally and translationally invariant must itself be rotationally and translationally invariant, as must then also be all reduced n-body density functions of this Hamiltonian. In particular, the one-body density is a constant. An external field destroys this homogeneity, producing anisotropy or nonuniformity in the one-body density [1,2], and so makes necessary the joint calculation of the coupled one-body and two-body density functions. A striking if familiar example of the response of a bulk system to an external field is ferromagnetism. In this paper, we shall use this particular case to present a general procedure to compute the coupled one-body and two-body density functions of an inhomogeneous classical fluid in an external field. Remarkably, the procedure is no more difficult to carry through than similar calculations for ordinary homogeneous systems. Perhaps the simplest model of a disordered continuum system exhibiting ferromagnetic behavior is a fluid of hard spheres with embedded Heisenberg spins described using classical statistical mechanics [3 ‐6]. This interaction potential is clearly inadequate to model ferrofluids, in particular at low concetrations, where the dipole-dipole interaction is dominant, but it is however relevant for a description of ferromagnetism in undercooled liquid metal alloys [7]. The Heisenberg spin fluid in an external magnetic field B0 is succinctly defined by the canonical excess partition function Z ex › 1 s4p V d N Z N Y j›1 fdrj dvj f0svj dg


Fluctuating blood pressure during high-intensity interval exercise (HIIT) may challenge dynamic cerebral autoregulation (dCA), specifically post-stroke after an injury to the cerebrovasculature. We hypothesized dCA would be attenuated at rest and during a sit-to-stand, immediately following and 30 min after HIIT in individuals post-stroke compared to age- and sex-matched controls (CON). HIIT switched every minute between 70% and 10% estimated maximal watts for 10 min. Mean arterial pressure (MAP) and middle cerebral artery blood velocity (MCAv) were recorded. Resting dCA measured spontaneous fluctuations in MAP and MCAv via transfer function analysis. For sit-to-stand, time delay before an increase in cerebrovascular conductance index (CVCi = MCAv/MAP), rate of regulation, and %change in MCAv and MAP were measured. Twenty-two individuals post-stroke (age 60{+/-}12 yrs, 31{+/-}16 months) and twenty-four CON (age 60{+/-}13 yrs) completed the study. VLF gain (p=0.02, {eta}2=0.18) and normalized gain (p=0.01, {eta}2=0.43) had a group-by-time interaction, with CON improving immediately and 30 min after HIIT. Individuals post-stroke had impaired VLF phase (p=0.03, {eta}2=0.22) immediately following HIIT compared to CON. We found no differences in the sit-to-stand. Our study showed lower resting dCA up to 30 min after HIIT in individuals post-stroke compared to CON while the sit-to-stand response was maintained.


Although badminton is a popular sport for public fitness and entertainment, it is often limited by the field equipment, coaches, number of people and time, which leads to low attention.Most of the time, few people go to watch badminton games. As a fan who has been practicing badminton for about three years, the author knows that most people who don't practice badminton don't know the rules of badminton, even most students majoring in sports. In most people's eyes, badminton is just you hit me back in the past. This shows that there are still big problems in the promotion of badminton, but it also shows that the promotion space is huge. On May 13, 2019, the badminton world federation, China badminton association and guangzhou sports bureau held a press conference at guangzhou tianhe stadium to officially launch the Air badminton competition. Airbadminton is more free and casual, allowing men and women of all ages to participate, not only on the beach, but also in grasslands, sand and parks around the world. So that more people participate in the sport of badminton, so as to achieve the goal of physical exercise, enjoy sports.


This paper documents the existence of a significant forecast error on crude oil futures. We interpret it as a risk premium, which, in part, could have been explained by means of a real-time U.S. business cycle indicator, such as the degree of capacity utilization in manufacturing. This result is robust to the specification of the estimating equation and to the considered business cycle indicator. An out-of-the-sample prediction exercise reveals that futures adjusted to take into account this time-varying component produce significantly better forecasts than those of unadjusted futures, of futures adjusted for the average forecast error and of the random walk, particularly at horizons of more than 6 months.


The fundamentals or direct current circuits are established. Emphasis is placed on the characteristic description of circuit behavior. Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's law are used to determine circuit characteristics. See what the NVCC Library has on Electrical Engineering.


Abstract Rapidly moving sources create pairs in the vacuum and lose energy. In consequence of this, the velocity of charged bodies in their center-of-mass frame cannot approach the speed of light closer than a certain limit which depends only on the coupling constant. The vacuum back-reaction secures the observance of the conservation laws. A source can lose up to 50% of energy and charge because of the vacuum instability.


The comparison of nucleotide substitutions rates between DNA sequences has two major difficulties: rates are result of pairwise comparisons between sequences so they are not independent, and the statistical distribution of this rates is unknown. Moreover the sample is sometimes small, which can limit the use of statistical methods. So, the comparisons of the evolutionary behaviour of genes through analysis of nucleotide substitution rates should be done using appropriate statistical approach. In the present study a statistical procedure is proposed to overcome these difficulties.


30 Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important component of the water balance system in the "Asian water tower" region, the Tibetan Plateau (TP). However, accurately monitoring and understanding the spatial and temporal variability of the ET components (soil evaporation E s , canopy transpiration E c , and intercepted water evaporation E w ) on the TP remains gravely challenging due to the paucity of observational data for this remote area. In this study, the 37 years (1982–2018) of monthly ET component data for the TP were produced using the MOD16-STM model, 35 which uses the recently available soil properties, meteorological conditions, and remote sensing datasets. The estimated ET results correlate very well with the measurements from nine flux towers, with a low root mean square error of 13.48 mm/month, mean bias of 2.85 mm/month, coefficient of determination of 0.83, and index of agreement of 0.92. The annual average ET for the entire TP (specified as elevations higher than 2500 m) is about 0.93 ± 0.037 Gt/year. The main contribution of the ET on the TP comes from the soil, with the E s accounting for more than 84% 40 of the ET. During the study period, the ET exhibited a significant increasing trend, with rates of about 1–4 mm/year ( p < 0.05), over most parts of the central and eastern TP and a significant decreasing trend, with rates of −3 to −1 mm/year, over the northwestern TP. The rate of increase in the ET on the TP over the past 37 years was around 0.96 mm/year. The increase in the ET over the entire TP from 1982 to 2018 can be explained by the warming and wetting trend of the climate on the TP during this period. The MOD16-STM ET data exhibited an acceptable performance 45 over the TP compared with previous results. MOD16-STM ET can accurately estimate actual ET for research in water resource management, drought monitoring and ecological change. The whole datasets are freely available at the Science Data Bank the loam, silty clay loam, silty clay, and clay) for independent sites with three surface cover types (grassland, evergreen forest, and cropland) (Appendix A). Furthermore, the ET estimation needed to be validated through 215 comparison with independent flux tower observations. In this study, hourly flux data measured by EC towers at nine stations (Table 2) of the China-Flux (Dang-Xiong site (DX), Hai-Bei site (HB), Yu et al., 2006; Zhang et al., 2019a), the Tibetan Observation and Research Platform (TORP) (BJ, NADORS, SETORS, QOMS, NAMORS, and Shuang-Hu (SH), Ma et al., 2020), and the Heihe Water Watershed Allied Telemetry Experimental Research (HiWATER) ET and observed ET exhibited clear seasonal variation characteristics at the nine flux tower stations. 255 Moreover, an annual periodic variation was observed at most stations. The site-scale validation demonstrates that the MOD16-STM ET has a satisfying accuracy in the TP region. for the is The main this is with of this study because of the The of the classifies the surface of the TP as bare soil, which leads to an in the proportion of soil evaporation.


Dyotropic rearrangement of β-lactones is a neglected treasure in the family of multi-bond reactions and pericyclic reactions. Despite its appealling synthetic potential, the complicate migration selectivity greatly limits its broadwide...


Regulations mandating energy-efficient design and performance in a variety of consumer products are emerging throughout the world. Compliance organizations can leverage technical skills already in place and scale to meet the increased responsibilities


The inhibitive action of p-hydroxybenzoic acid (p-HBA) on the corrosion behaviour of copper was investigated in a 0.5 M NaCl solution. The results of polarization measurements indicate that the p-HBA acts as a mixed-type inhibitor. The values of standard free energy of adsorption, as calculated from the Freundlich adsorption isotherm, indicate that p-HBA adsorbs on copper by the physical adsorption mechanism. The impedance spectra performed at open circuit potential are determined by two time constants, the first one relating to the charge transfer process while the second one includes mass transport of copper ions through the surface layer. The thickness and protective properties of the surface layer increase with the increase of inhibition concentration and immersion time.


We have studied atomiclike Auger peaks appearing in the electron energy spectra of solids under low-energy heavy-ion bombardment. These peaks are usually associated with Auger transitions of either projectiles or target atoms. A controversy exists on whether these excited atoms decay inside or outside the solid. Simple considerations show that the energy of an electron ejected from an excited atom placed outside the solid surface, referred to the Fermi level, should depend on the work function. We have observed this correlation in three different cases, which shows that such atomiclike peaks correspond to Auger decays outside the solid.


A three-dimensional numerical model is used to simulate the Friction Stir Welding (FSW) process using the computational fluid dynamics package 'FLUENT'. Two mechanical models: the Couette and the Visco-Plastic fluid flow models for Al-6061-T6 were simulated. The simulation results are compared to experimental data for Al 6061-T6 welded at high rotational (1500–5000 rpm) and travel speeds ranging from 11 to 63 ipm (4.66–26.7 mm/s) are presented. This paper examines the forces and torques associated with the FSW process with respect to considerations necessary for robotic implementation. It is shown that force control is an important requirement of robotic FSW.


The search for unstable resonances produced in the proton–proton collision data of the Large Hadron Collider provides us an avenue through which physics beyond the Standard Model can be probed. A key challenge in current LHC searches is how one can model the interference effects that can severely distort the shape of the invariant mass distribution obtained from the decay products of the resonance, relative to the case where there is no interference. Such effects are strongly dependent on the beyond-Standard Model theory that gives rise to the resonance, which is unknown a priori. This thesis presents a physically-motivated, yet model-independent, template functional form for the purpose of modelling interference effects, both in the characterization of positive discoveries and in the presentation of null results. We select a benchmark Higgs-like scalar resonance decaying to a pair of photons to illustrate the approach of an analysis, utilizing fully simulated Monte Carlo events and toy datasets to exhaustively test the general parametrization. A chapter is also dedicated to the study of detector smearing effects on experimental datasets.


We deal with the electric current ∞owing through a short chain of paramagnetic ionic blocks, coupled to metallic electrodes in the serial conflguration. An original three-band Hubbard{Anderson Hamiltonian is diagonalised at the level of the single ionic block. A minimal but su‐cient set of the latter's four hybridised eigenstates serves as a basis for the determination of the time-ordered temperature-dependent matrix Green functions, in terms of which all the current{voltage (I{V ) characteristics can be expressed provided the coupling to the electrodes is weak. The separation of the opposite-spin contributions to the electric current and, consequently, the spin current from the left to right electrode can result from the on-site Coulomb repulsion term of Hubbard{Anderson Hamiltonian, with no spin polarisation at the electrodes, but with the Zeeman-like coupling of the centre to either a molecular or an external magnetic fleld.


ABSTRACT Ninety children in third-and fourth grade were assessed on a hierarchical class inclusion-task, Scores were trichotomized, and children from each level were randomly assigned to one of three cueing,conditions (no cues, two superordinate cues, six subordinate.cues). Subjects were administered a recall task of categorized words and "newt, words (paralogs). Significant'-effects for classification level and cueing condition were found for total recall on trial one, and for classification level, cueing cdAdition, and their interaction, on trial:four. Recall of paralogs on trial five was a function of classification level only. This study suggests that classification skills mediate both acquisition and recall of categorized words. (Author/AA) ,


AHP method and entropy were utilized respectively on index system of criteria layer and index layer.The development trends of land ecological security in 2004-2009 were evaluated and analyzed with land ecological security model.Index data in 2009 was processed with coordination degree model.The coordination degree and potential degree of land ecological security system were got.Thus the land ecological security situation in Nanchong was evaluated longitudinally.The results showed that land ecological security level overall in Nanchong City was increasing in 2004-2009,but land ecological security system in Nanchong City was still in an uncoordinated state.It had bigger mining potential.


The research assessed the performance of the learners after exposure to conventional method and the validated researcher-made instructional material in Araling Panlipunan. The school has been engaging in the trends of the current educational system. Projectors, computers, laptops, screens, televisions and speakers have become evident in the classrooms at present. In light of this, the researcher conducted a focus group discussion among grade 5 learners to gather their expectation of the utilization of technology in their respective classrooms. Voices of the Grade 5 learners mostly indicated that they wanted to have interactive presentations during teachers' delivery of the lesson. They perceived that teachers used the technology primarily for display of text, pictures and videos. Hence, this became an avenue for the researcher to craft PowerPoint presentations turned into video clips highlighting interactive responses from the learners. The study was conducted in Taytay Elementary School during School Year 2019-2020. The researcher employed experimental method of research utilizing two groups of respondents with 40 learners in each group. The researcher selected and grouped the respondents based on their previous grade or Grade 4 academic grade in Araling Panlipunan. The groups were comprised of learners with same academic grades in Araling Panlipunan ranging from 78-90. Controlled group underwent the conventional method while the experimental group had the researcher-made IVMAP. Afterwards, 20-item test were administered to the groups of respondents. Results indicated that the controlled group attained mean rating of 12.19 while the experimental group garnered mean rating of 15.19. Furthermore, results found out the significant difference between the performance of the 2 groups of respondents indicating t-value of 3.17 and critical value of 1.99. Results implied that t-value which was greater than the critical value had sufficient evidence to reject the hypothesis; thus, stating that there was a significant difference on the performance of the learners as revealed by the posttest scores. The research had inherent limitations due to the researcher-made material and test which might not fully cover all the essential aspects of the endeavor. Hence, this study signified that interactive technology-integrated instructional material helped in the improvement of performance of the learners in Araling Panlipunan. Thus, the researcher recommended its use in other lessons, subjects and grade levels. GSJ: Volume 8, Issue 12, December 2020 ISSN 2320-9186 776 GSJ© 2020 www.globalscientificjournal.com


Recently, virtualized environments such as cloud computing and a virtual cluster are used popularly by lots of MapReduce applications to reap the benefits of low cost and flexibility. However, the I/O bottleneck of the virtualization software gives a burden especially for processing big data. To relieve the burden, we propose a novel burstiness-aware I/O scheduler. Our analysis has revealed that the I/O bottleneck is caused by I/O interferences among the bursty I/Os triggered by different virtual machines, especially when they execute the map and/or reduce tasks. The I/O interferences result in frequent context switches in the virtualization software and long seek distances in a disk. Our proposed I/O scheduler first detects I/O burstiness of a virtual machine on-line. Then, it schedules bursty virtual machines in a round-robin fashion so that a scheduled virtual machine utilizes most of I/O bandwidth without interferences. Real implementation based experiments have shown that our scheduler can enhance the I/O performance up to 23% with an average of 20%.


In this paper, we show that there exist wavelet frames generated by two functions which have good dual wavelet frames, but for which the standard dual wavelet frame does not consist of wavelets. That is to say, the standard dual wavelet frame cannot be generated by the translations and dilations of a single function.


Interaction of ascorbic acid with silicic acid in the solid state was studied using diffuse reflectance spectroscopic techniques. Surface degradation products from ascorbic acid breakdown were effectively observed using diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, whereas the corresponding transmittance spectral method did not give significant information concerning degradation products. Adsorption of ascorbic acid from methanol solution by silicic acid did not occur, However, after evaporation of the methanol, ascorbic acid did undergo strong interaction with silicic acid, probably through hydrogen bonding. Thermal degradation of ascorbic acid in the adsorbed state was found to be different from that in solution. In acid solution, furfural was a major degradation product; whereas in the adsorbed state, furfural could not be detected.


Harmonic distortion is one of the most important power quality issues in third rail electrification systems. The use of rectifiers and inverters in the third rail system can inject a significant amount of harmonic distortion to the electrical network. This paper aims to investigate the harmonic distortions for a DC urban third rail system at various operating conditions. The electrical network of Mass Rapid Transit Line 2 (MRT 2) Malaysia is modelled using ETAP software. The model had considered the effect of the inter-phase transformer in the 12-pulse rectifier. The current injection method is used to measure harmonic distortion at Point of Common Coupling (PCC) at the 132 kV and 33 kV buses. A normal and degraded operating conditions of power supply are investigated. From the simulation results, it is found that the 11th and 13th order harmonics have exceeded the statutory limit at 33 kV network for the normal operating condition. For the degraded operating condition, only the 11th harmonic order has exceeded the statutory limit. Keywords: Harmonic Distortion; DC Urban Rail; Various Operating Conditions


Considering across mode branches (i.e, NACT) instead than the classical Path AVerage Approximation (PAVA, Woodhouse and Dziewonski, 1984) is important when higher order modes are modelled. 2-D broad band sensitivity kernels The dataset is composed by 39829 of fundamental and 59831 of higher order surface waveforms (minor and major arc) for teleseismic events (15o < ∆ < 165o) with MW > 6. We consider period down to 60 s.


The study attempted to examine the role of principal in school financial management practices. The main objective of the study was to discover the role of principal in school financial management by reviewing relevant literatures as to understand and have clue on the status of the principals' ability to manage it properly. The roles of school principal in the study had inferred from their inputs to different questions associated with financial management. Their activities were considered ranging from the budget obtaining and its monitoring to reserving, reporting and recording evidences of expenditure. The study was carried out in four public secondary schools in Southern region, Eritrea. The principal of each school was participated in the study. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used with questionnaire as instrument. To consolidate results personal observation and informal questioning to principals also included in analysis. Descriptive analysis based on frequency and percentage was used to analyze close-ended items while open-ended items were analyzed through narrative analysis. The study showed that schools mostly depended on an income from the community mainly through student tuition. However, the study revealed that parents take time to raise little fund for schools by which the Principals confront shortage of budget, and similarly, little aid from the Ministry; All schools have account and deposits in the bank but most of the schools found have no budget calendar to plan and spend financial cost; Financial reporting was done on monthly basis; Little knowledge and training was troublesome to principals especially, the PTA members in financial management. The study recommended there should be updated financial management training for principals, administrators and cashiers. Keywords : school, financial management, budget, Principal's role, decentralization, delegation


The proposal of the research is used localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) modified Cuprous Oxide/Zinc oxide nano-rod array (Cu2O/ZnO NRA) composite electrode to apply in non-enzymatic glucose sensor. An anodic aluminum oxidation (AAO) method is used for growing aluminum array holes, then ZnO is grew in these holes by hydrothermal method to form ZnO NRA. Cu2O is electrodeposited on ZnO NRA at different pH values from 4 to 10. Au NPs are prepared by chemical synthesis and is uniformly dispersed on the surface of Cu2O/ZnO NRA by Nafion dispersant. The stability and linearity of the glucose sensing electrode of Cu2O/ZnO composite materials are improved by utilizing the catalytic, stable and high-sensitivity characteristics LSPR of Au NPs. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) is used to check the array hole size of the AAO. A sorption spectrum of ZnO is used to verify the energy gap. The sensor would be tested by the chronoamperometry method with the increasing of glucose concentration. The calibration curve of glucose sensor has linear ranges: 7.41-11.111 mM and the sensitivity of 315.67 μA/M-1 cm-2.


The population is a variable key in any geographical space, th lack of it can represent multiple situations; so as to analyze the behavior of the advance population centers on the socioeconomic environment in light of the figures provided by the censuses of 1993 and 2005.


A compilation of country reports from the Advanced International Programme in Lund, Sweden, 27 september to 14 october 1994. A programme on the equal status and human rights of women was arranged in Lund, Sweden from September 27 to October 14, 1994. It focused on human rights and gender issues, international standards of equality and politics aiming at enhancing gender equality. The present report contains some of the papers delivered during the programme. ISSN 0283-085X


Preface 31. Measures of Gomes Freyre at Maranham 32. First laws of the mines 33. Alarm of invasion at the Rio 34. Foundation of the town of Tarija 35. Antequera sent to Asumpcion as judge 36. D. Lourenco de Almeida governor of Minas Geraes 37. Growing importance of Montevideo 38. First cattle introduced into Paraguay 39. Characters of Ferdinand VI and his queen 40. Character of Pombal 41. Companies of Maranham and Pernambuco established 42. Zeballos recalled from the Plata 43. Praca dos Przeres destroyed 44. View of the state of Brazil Notes Index.


Bacoor City, Cavite, is one of the Philippines' largest mussels producers.
Thus, determining the changes in the microbiological and physico-chemical
attributes of the mussels along its supply chain is essential to ensure the
safety and quality of this commodity. Mussel samples were subjected to a
time-distribution study to identify the presence of foodborne pathogens and to
determine the changes in pH and drip loss. A high prevalence of pathogenic
bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Salmonella, and Vibrio spp. was detected
in the mussel culture sites. Microbiological counts and detection showed
increased aerobic plate count (APC) along the supply chain, higher than the
standard limits. The total coliform still conformed to the required range while
E. coli levels increased along the supply chain, exceeding acceptable levels
for raw consumption. For the presence of pathogenic bacteria in the different
points of the supply chain, results revealed that enteric bacteria E. coli and
Salmonella were present. Furthermore, pathogenic strains of Vibrio such as
V. parahaemolyticus, V. cholerae, and V. alginolyticus were detected. The
study emphasizes the need for improved post-harvest practices, including
proper temperature control and packaging, to maintain the quality and safety
of green mussels. Additionally, efforts to mitigate bacterial contamination
in the culture areas and implement effective depuration processes are
necessary to ensure consumer safety.


The rise in the jointly owned wealth of the collective farms has created large opportunities for extensive housing construction. Many Uzbek kishlaks have already been transformed into modern settlements with utilities. With each passing year this process takes on broader scope. Today housing construction involves the use of modern equipment and the very latest building materials. New principles of home layout, corresponding to the rising cultural demands of the rural population, are being introduced more and more broadly. However, the change in the way of life, both public and private, and the appearance of modern norms do not yet mean the complete disappearance of ethnic traditions. They continue to exist to this day. Traditional features may be traced in settlement patterns, in the use of certain building materials, in the components of the dwelling and its floor plan, in the external decoration of homes, and in certain customs and rituals associated with folk architecture.


(57) Abstract: battery (200) includes a device (201) used to simulate the high temperature condition of thermistor (216) disposed within the battery (200). Battery (200) includes a charging node (203), temperature node (205) and ground node (207). Control circuit (209) is used as the lithium ion cell (211) measures the temperature of the lithium ion cell (211). Control circuit (209), when in recharging the desired temperature is reached, generates a control signal. The control signal is a high temperature switch (217), thermistor (216), acts with the diode (213) and resistor (215), controls the voltage on temperature node (205). Change in the voltage on temperature node (205) is detected by the mounted charging system, so that the charging system can change the operating mode.


To reduce the CO2 emissions of vehicles during driving and production, a hybrid injection moulding process is being developed for lightweight housings of automotive power electronic modules. During the process, a thin deep-drawn metal sheet is coated with recycled polymer. Back-molded cut-outs are used to form a proper connection between both materials, which is easily recyclable. To ensure the far-field shielding effectiveness (SE), the effect of different apertures in the electromagnetic shield is investigated. This contribution indicates, whether the reduced SE due to apertures can be estimated with a simple transverse electromagnetic (TEM) cell measurement according to the ASTM D4935 standard. This paper presents measurement results of planar metallic material with apertures and with one or two insulating layers. Additionally, a simple simulation model of the TEM cell is presented.


Exchange couplings in [{Ln(hfac)3}2Cu(dpk)2] (Hdpk stands for di-2-pyridyl ketoxime) were evaluated by high-frequency electron paramagnetic resonance and magnetization studies, showing ferromagneti...


Background: Faculty members are one of the main factors in the higher education system, that high level of occupational stress caused by educational, research, and executive duties makes them exposed to burnout. The purpose of this study was predicting burnout of faculty members of Yazd Payame Noor University using artificial neural network technique.
Methods: The present research was descriptive in terms of method, and applied in terms of purpose. The statistical population of this research was the faculty members of Yazd Payame Noor University. The analysis was performed on 315 data from 105 faculty members that were acquired during the last three academic years. Data were collected using two closed questionnaires. Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 22. For analysis of data, including 23 independent variables and one dependent variable, two types of neural network, including MLP and RBF were designed and implemented.
Results: Correct percent of burnout prediction in the training, testing and validation data for the MLP neural network was 83.3, 80.9 and 74.5, respectively, and for the RBF neural network was 73.1, 93.3 and 9.76, respectively. The area under the rock for MLP and RBF networks was 0.823 and 0.833, respectively.
Conclusion: Comparison of two MLP and RBF neural networks based on rock curve and prediction correct percent showed that the RBF neural network is more effective in forecasting job burnout of faculty members of Yazd Payame Noor University, and the variables scientific group, teaching master students, age and communication had the greatest impact on burnout.