The C/NOFS satellite, launched April 16, 2008, contains a GPS receiver that performs routine occultation measurements. The C/NOFS Occultation Receiver for Ionospheric Sensing and Specification, CORISS, measures total electron content (TEC) along the line-of-sight between C/NOFS and occulting GPS satellites. CORISS observes over 300 occultations per day in the low to mid latitude region. Within the low latitude thermosphere region exists the Midnight Temperature Maximum (MTM) phenomenon that is characterized by a significant increase in temperature and pressure, as well as a decrease or reversal in the meridional neutral winds. This persistent feature has a latitude variation [Colerico and Mendillo, 2002]. In this paper we report on global TEC enhancements that may be coincident with the MTM and discuss the coupling between the changing temperatures and wind to ionospheric dynamics.


Clara SALERI LUNAZZI, David THURA* and Amélie J. REYNAUD* 4 Lyon Neuroscience Research Center – Impact team 5 Inserm U1028 – CNRS UMR5292 – Lyon 1 University 6 7 * Equal contribution to the work 8 9 Running Head: 10 Decision and action influence subsequent decision and action behaviors 11 12 Corresponding author information: 13 David Thura 14 Lyon Neuroscience Research Center – Impact team 15 Inserm U1028 – CNRS UMR5292 – Lyon 1 University 16 16 avenue du Doyen Jean Lépine, 69675 Bron, France 17 E-mail: email@example.com 18 19 20 21 Manuscript information: 22 Abstract: 253 words; Introduction, Methods and Discussion: 3094 words 23 28 pages – 5 figures 24 25 26 27 28 Acknowledgements/Funding: 29 The authors have no financial or non-financial interests to declare 30 This work is supported by a CNRS/Inserm ATIP/Avenir grant to David Thura 31


As a kind of potential carcinogenic materials,furan is formed during the heat treatment and widely exists in the commercial food.In this experiment,furan was chosen as the template,2-methyl furan as dummy template,methacrylicacid(MAA)as function monomers,and ethyleneglycol dimethacrylate(EGDMA)as cross linkers.The molecularly imprinted polymer(MIP)was synthesized by non-covalent method.In this study,the preparation of MIP was optimized,and the kinetics of adsorption,static equilibrium binding and recognition properties of the polymers to furan and 2-methyl furan were also investigated.The results showed that the best imprinting effect(Q MIP =69.64 mg/g,imprinted factorα=1.879)was observed when 2-methyl furan was chosen as dummy template and template monomer ratio was 1∶4.The MIP had the similar absorbability to furan and 2-methyl furan(α=Q 2-methyl furan /Qfuran=1.004).The results also showed that MIP had specific adsorption for furan in the instant coffee.Thus,it could be used as a solid phase extractant to extract the furan in food and drinks by using solid phase extraction.


Safeguarding the rights of the minority is of great importance and difficulty to the protection of human rights,and it is also the essential standard used to measure the quality of the safeguarding of human rights. The definition of the minority not only concerns the amount of the population,but also concerns some comprehensive factors like the people 's ethnic identify,religious belief,language and characters,culture and tradition. On the basis of scientific definition of its concept,we should make the concrete content of safeguarding the minority rights clear according to the tradition and characteristics of the minority rights. In the end,we can achieve safeguarding the minority 's rights through tendentious policies,the region of national regional autonomy and the establishment relevant judicial system.


The finite element (FE) implementation of a hyperbolic sine unified cyclic viscoplasticity model is presented. The hyperbolic sine flow rule facilitates the identification of strain-rate independent material parameters for high temperature applications. This is important for the thermo-mechanical fatigue of power plants where a significant stress range is experienced during operational cycles and at stress concentration features, such as welds and branched connections. The material model is successfully applied to the characterisation of the high temperature low cycle fatigue behavior of a service-aged P91 material, including isotropic (cyclic) softening and nonlinear kinematic hardening effects, across a range of temperatures and strain-rates.


The past three decades have seen an increase in the prevalence and mortality rate of chronic kidney disease (CKD). It is estimated that between 1990 and 2017, the global all-age prevalence of CKD increased by 29.3%, whilst the mortality rate rose by 41.5%. Over this period, CKD became the 12th leading cause of death worldwide, with an estimated 1.2 million deaths attributed to the disease in 2017 [1]. With global prevalence currently estimated at 10% [2], CKD is a leading cause of disability, accounting for 35.8 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in 2017 [3]. This growing burden of the disease calls for robust healthcare policy interventions to improve disparities in health, socioeconomic, and environmental outcomes. The aim of this research is to build a Healthcare Policy framework for CKD that will analyse the drivers and components of the burden of disease in terms of clinical, socioeconomic and environmental outcomes. It will also incorporate current knowledge of best practices and challenges in the organisation of healthcare services to mitigate these burdens. The framework will facilitate the analysis of the burden of disease attributable to CKD and be used to inform further research on areas in which policies could be implemented to optimise CKD prevention, early detection, and treatment at different stages of CKD and different levels of health systems. The framework presented here reflects the UK context but can be adapted for different country contexts.

 The framework development included two stages. First, a scoping review of the literature in this field was conducted. The literature review included peer-reviewed articles, grey literature, policy documents, academic reports and congress and conference reports. The second stage saw the validation of the framework by a multidisciplinary expert panel in the UK. This expert panel was composed of eight UK experts in the fields of nephrology, public health, primary care, organ donation and transplantation, and other disciplines.

 The framework outlines a holistic patient pathway from pre-CKD development to kidney failure along with the corresponding interdisciplinary level of care. The framework stresses the need to implement a population-wide approach focused on preventative care strategies, chiefly on the risk reduction of kidney failure. Underlying aetiologies and disparities in access to care were found to be inherently linked to disease progression and health outcomes. Data systems were identified as vital to ensuring continuity of care between primary and specialty care which in turn could lead to improved patient outcomes. The use of greener energies coupled with a reduction in the incidence of renal failure requiring dialysis could reduce substantially the environmental footprint of this disease. The burden of disease reflects the sum of the individual and system-level impact and outcomes of CKD which are labelled as economic, social, and environmental (Fig. 1).

 The conceptual framework underscores how underlying aetiologies, socioeconomic factors, and fragmentation of care are reflected in disparities in healthcare access, particularly in marginalised and underserved populations. The environmental footprint of this disease could be reduced through optimal standard of care. The framework can inform future research to model the burden of CKD in terms of clinical, societal, economic, and environmental outcomes in the UK and the targeting of policy interventions to mitigate these burdens across different country contexts.


Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of single crystals of semiconducting organic crystalline charge-transfer salts [R{sub 1}(R{sub 2})NCH{sub 2}CH{sub 2}OCH{sub 2}CH{sub 2}]{sup +}[TCNQ]{sub 2}-1a: R{sub 1} = cH{sub 3}, R{sub 2} = CH{sub 3}, triclinic and (Ph(H)NCH=CHCH=N(H)ph){sup +} (TCNQ){sub 2}- (TCNQ = tetracyanoquinodimethane) is described. The STM data reveal tunneling current features that compare favorably with the electronic properties and crystal structure of the salts. The local density of states (LDOS) exhibit orientation and corrugation consistent with the topography and electronic structure of dimerized TCNQ stacks contained in the molecular layers that define the exposed low-energy crystal planes. In the case of 1a, crystallographically inequivalent TCNQ layers that alternate through the crystal are revealed dramatically different tunneling current contrast due to the different molecular motifs of their respective crystal faces, as surmised from the crystal structure. While the lattice constants determined from the tunneling current contrast correspond favorably with the values expected based on single-crystal X-ray structures, in some cases there appears to be a slight compression of the surface layer. This behavior is consistent with weak interaction between the molecular layers of the charge-transfer salt, and the tendency of the molecular constituents in the surface layer to achieve a higher packingmore » density in order to lower the crystal surface free energy. These studies reveal that STM can provide substantial insight into the structure of organic crystals, and can probe molecular-level structural and electronic features. 27 refs., 10 figs., 1 tab.« less


This paper argues that bioscience research laboratories must take steps to reduce the likelihood that high consequence pathogens and toxins could be illicitly or maliciously diverted from their facilities. Such a "biosecurity" system should be based on the unique nature of biological material and research, an understanding of biological weapons and bioterrorism, and the articulation of specific system objectives. Using this approach, policy makers, bioscientists, and security engineers can strike an appropriate balance between protection of biological material that could be used in a biological weapon and preservation of an environment that promotes legitimate microbiological research.


The knowledge management, is related to the management of the intangible assets that generate value for organizations. The majority of these intangible assets are present in related processes, of one form or another, with the acquisition, structuring and transmission of knowledge. Knowledge management is thus in formative research, an effective tool that comes from the understanding of the critical value of other factors, less "typical" that the documentation or the isolated data, and awareness of the need to find ways to sustain it and get this strategic benefits. For its part the research groups of research are spaces in which intangible assets of knowledge within university institutions, because the formative research embodied in the students, can generate a range of skills to facilitate scientific production.


Islam has provided an economical system which certainly reflects the utiliza- tion of resources given by Allah to fulfill human's principal needs and give them good life. Moreover, Islamic economical system is not only based on divinity and moral values, but also based on humanism principal. This be- comes the antithesis of the capitalism system which had been practiced all these times which forced human to be a hedonistic, secularist, and materialistic economy doer. Through the pattern of Islamic philosophical law, the prob- lems will be analyzed by thinking comprehensively, radically, and reflective- critically. Key word: Humanism Dimension, Humanism, Islamic Economical System, Capitalist Economical System


There are rich germplasm resources in Gossypium and wild cotton species possess many valuable agronomic traits which cultivated cotton always lacks. In order to introgress the useful traits from wild species G. australe and G. capitis-viridis into cultivated species for improving upland cotton, tetraploid G. hirsutum was crossed directly with C-genome species G. australe as the pollen-providing parent, creating a triploid hybrid. Chromosome doubling of this triploid hybrid leads to an allohexaploid which was then crossed with B-genome wild species G. capitis-viridis, resulting in trispecific hybrid (G. hirsutum, G. australe and G. capitis-viridis). The characteristic of chromosome behavior during meiosis of trispecific hybrid F1 was further investigated in this study. Results indicated that the meiosis of trispecific hybrid was abnormal, which mainly reflected that the chromosomes were divided unequally during the anaphase II; and many abnormal multispores appeared in the telophase II, which finally developed into abortive pollen grains, directly leading to the sterility of trispecific hybrid F1. This study provides the main reason of sterility for this hybrid and supplies the theory basis and the effective method for restoring the fertility and further creating new cotton intermediate germplasms.


Increasing the availability of organs for tnnsplanta-tion-we can do it! J Intensive Care hled 1998;13:267-268. Any physician involved in the treatment of patients with end-stage organ failure is familiar with the acute shortage of organs for transplantation. The waiting time for organs such as hearts and livers can be as long as 1 to 2 years. Every day patients are dying on the waiting list and others are being admitted to intensive care units for treatment of life-threatening complications from a failing organ. Can we do anything to improve this difficult situation? Although most of the effort to increase the number of donors for transplantation is directed at public education and family consent, the primary responsibility to achieve this important goal lies with the medical community. Organ availability for transplantation is primarily dependent on the identification of all potential donors, a process that precedes the request for donation from the family. Therefore it is our obligation to create a system that would identify each potential organ donor. This should be a priority in the medical community at all levels. Hospital administrators, treating physicians, intensive care physicians, nursing services, social services, transplant surgeons and physicians, all need to work closely together to increase awareness of potential organ donors and to create a mechanism in each hospital that would identify all potential donors. This most important task cannot be left only to the organ procurement organizations (OPO). The recent new regulations published by the Department of Health and Human Services [ll require, as a condition for participation in Medicare, that hospitals report all deaths to the OPO and that death records be reviewed. This requirement is an indication of our failure, as a medical community, to identify all potential donors and to initiate the donation process. In New England, 40 hospitals out of 180 contribute 95% of the organ donors [21. If each of the 140 hospitals that are not donor hospitals would contribute one donor per year, this would result in almost doubling the number of organ donors per year in New England. However, if only 30% of these 140 hospitals would contribute one donor per year, the increase in the number of organ donors would still be very significant (20-25%). About 9% of the hospitals in New England are transplant centers; however, these centers contribute approximately 50% of the organ donors [21. The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare …


By suspension polymerization,glycidyl methacrylate(GMA),styrene(St),acrylonitrile(AN) monomer were radical polymerized into transparent ternary polymers with the number-average molecular weight as 7×104 g/mol and the dispersity as 2.36,respectively.Through infrared analysis,there was a strong carbonyl stretching vibration absorption peak in the 1 727 cm-1.The Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy(FTIR) absorption peaks at 1 253 cm-1and 915 cm-1,861 cm-1,originated from symmetrical and two asymmetrical stretching bands of epoxy group,demonstrated the existence of epoxy group.No absorption peak of hydroxyl group was observed between 3 200 cm-1 and 3 600 cm-1 wavenumbers,manifesting that the epoxy group rings in GMA were seldom or no opened.From the results,assumed that the polymerization of GMA monomers was carried out with the mechanism of addition polymerization through opening the carbon-carbon double bond.


This paper deals with an adaptive sub-sampling process that is an example of a more general class of data processing. Our approach consists of spanning a Z-tree over the image. The Z-tree is the bin-tree built from the 1D pixel sequence obtained through a peculiar scan called the Peano traversal. A conditional rotation operator, defined to manipulate the Z-tree, supports the Peano scan adaption. Iterating rotations before tree inversion allows us to rebuild various mosaic versions of a same initial image. In the application outlined here, a fair stress is put on the way spatial redundancies are highlighted by this image shuffling process. This helps in constructing various versions from the initial data where both edges are simultaneously detected.


European Union (EU), being the second biggest energy resource consumer in the world, has been concerned about energy security too. During the last decade it implemented a number of both internal and external energy security policies to preserve and, eventually, increase energy security in the union. Its policies aimed at creating one internal energy market all the member states would be integrated to by 2014 and, second, making such energy market highly liberal and competitive. Yet it appeared that not all EU countries were ready to participate as there were three countries totally isolated from the EU energy system and, therefore, unable to create free and open energy market – these countries were the Baltic States.


Base on the satisfied curve of management appraisal for the market body laying foundation on grey system theory and Policy method ,introduce the grade and classified method basing on integrating information,expound the information collecting and handling technology line and method after practicing classified management,demonstrate the feasibility,reliability and publicity,give main regulation design and policy regulation,and probe into relevant applying question.


It is described a microfluidic device, for use in the field of analytical fluorescence based assays and, in particular, in FISH assays.


This paper seeks to explain the continuing lack of economic convergence and the persistence of market dysfunctionality, or wild capitalism, in post-communist transformation. An overview of key statistics on economic convergence and market failure are presented. The paper then analyses the causes of malaise through the lens of institutionalist and radical perspectives. In doing so key data are assembled and presented from documents of the international financial institutions and other agencies monitoring crime and corruption. The paper concludes that, rather than encourage convergence and tame dysfunctionality, neoliberalism and its offspring of labour market reform have created the conditions for continuing economic divergence and for wild capitalism to survive and thrive.


Aim at the characteristics for risk analysis of international construction,this paper introduced the AHM method,which carries out certain construction projects application,achieved the sequence of the risk factors,evolution of the total system risks and establish corresponding decision-making step.Simultaneity,compare with AHP method result and analysis.


The actual viability of a peasant agriculture implies an accessibility of land that is now far from obvious, especially in contexts marked by proximity to centres or by remarkable landscape beauty, where the stronger is the tendency to a collapse of historic rural structures or to final de-ruralisation. In such contexts access to land - both as actual availability of agricultural lots on the sale or rental market, and as purchase and management chances for people without high liquid assets wishing to set up or manage a farm - is a crucial point about the 're-conquest' of countryside by the manifold universe of 'neo-rurality': through a comparison among local circumstances and regulations, the paper considers the issue with reference to the province of Florence and Florentine Chianti, territories which are emblematic for the conflict between two opposite concepts - and two opposite practices - of a "return to earth".


We study the dissipation enhancement by cellular flows. Previous work by Iyer, Xu, and Zlato\v{s} produces a family of cellular flows that can enhance dissipation by an arbitrarily large amount. We improve this result by providing quantitative bounds on the dissipation enhancement in terms of the flow amplitude, cell size and diffusivity. Explicitly we show that the mixing time is bounded by the exit time from one cell when the flow amplitude is large enough, and by the reciprocal of the effective diffusivity when the flow amplitude is small. This agrees with the optimal heuristics. We also prove a general result relating the dissipation time of incompressible flows to the mixing time. The main idea behind the proof is to study the dynamics probabilistically and construct a successful coupling.


pretenders, abdication, and the Harem. These chapters are founded largely on genealogical charts and tables derived in the main from six standard works which " present a mass of conflicting evidence and are far from complete " (Introduction, p. xiii). There is, also, a full bibliography of the sources—most of them secondary and some, indeed, written for " popular " consumption—on which the author has relied for additional data. Mr. Alderson observes (Introduction, pp. xiii-xiv) that his book " is based almost entirely on the research of others. There is little in it that is strictly original . . . its chief aim . . . is to act as a synthesis, bringing together many related subjects which have so far never been considered in conjunction ". A grave doubt must be raised as to the wisdom of an enterprise at once so bold and, in view of the defective means available, so perilous. The literature devoted to Ottoman studies provides as yet no corpus of detailed and exhaustive research into the problems here under discussion. Where so much of the basic material is of uncertain value, no valid synthesis can be achieved. Although Mr. Alderson has laboured with assiduous care at his chosen task, his own admissions make it clear that the result is in fact a compendium ex compendiis more liable, by its very nature, to perpetuate old errors and confusions than to confer on the historian new and solid benefits.


This paper describes a very successful demonstration experiment developed for a course on electromagnetic compatibility at Masters' level at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Such demonstrator plays a big role in teaching both practical concepts and theoretical skills relevant for the topics on cabling, grounding and shielding. The success of the demonstrator relies on several factors, among which: its simplicity, its versatility, its possibility to confront measurements with actual field calculations and on the astonishing fact that these effects occur at 50 Hz. The demonstrator evidences current and magnetic field distributions in a hollow iron tube, for different connection configurations. Some key principles are evidenced, among others: skin effect, proximity effect and the principle of the path of least impedance.


Prior study of the impact of IT investment on bank performance was reviewed.Based on the test model of traditional collusion hypothesis,this paper adds variable of IT investment measured by ATM number,empirically analyzes the impact of ATM investment on bank performance with data from 14 major banks in China through 1995-2002.We find that ATM investment has positive impact on ROE of all banks and ROA of the four state-owned commercial banks except ROA of the ten incorporated commercial banks,but it has significantly different impact degree among the four state-owned commercial banks and the ten incorporated commercial banks.Through analyzing the causes of the difference,we conclude that the four state-owned commercial banks will be confronted with a period of ATM steady investment and payoff,while the ten incorporated commercial banks will increase ATM investment,and the payoff will increase to final steady.


An orthogonal function-type adaptive digital filter (orthogonal function type ADF) is known as a means of improving the convergence speed of a tap coefficient in the case in which input is a colored signal such as a voice. Two different methods have been used for pole location of a transfer function of this ADF. One is the pole location of equal interval of 2π/N(rad). (N: tap number of ADF) starting at the phase 0 (rad) on the circle whose radius is very close to 1 within the unit circle of the z-plane. The other is the one resulting from rotating the above location by π/N(rad). In the case of the former pole location, it has been shown that it is equivalent to a frequency sampling type ADF such that input is a periodic process of period N. Why improvement in convergence speed of the latter is the case is not clear at this date.

In this paper we first derive an equivalent circuit of an orthogonal function type ADF using the latter pole location. In this circuit a modified discrete Fourier transform (MDFT) appears in which phase of a pole of a resonator of frequency sampling filter is shifted by π/N(rad). Next, we present a condition for expansion coefficients of the MDFT circuit to be orthogonal to one another. Moreover, we clarify that this equivalent circuit is of a construction that satisfies the orthogonal condition of the MDFT circuit. Finally, we verify these results of investigation by several computer simulations.


There is a lot for growth in specialty pharmacy but chains and independent pharmacies should make their move soon if they want to enter this market. The window of opportunity is closing.


By applying econometric model and the GLS means in order to raise strategy,the calculated results are the number of high-tech industry employment and new product sales and tech spending in the contribution from high to low.It would develop vigorously the human resources and enhance the innovation ability and increase R D in Henan province.


Introduction: Approximately 15 % of patients with cancer debut with metastasis. The search for a primary tumor is complex and in many cases unsuccessful. The carcinoma of unknown primary tumor defines a disseminated malignant neoplastic disease, demonstrated by anatomopathological study of one of its metastases, without being able to identify the primary tumor despite a study considered "optimal" during the patient's life. Objective: To identify detection predictors of primary tumor in patients presenting metastasis. Methods: A retrospective case-control observational study was conducted. The information was obtained from the database of the occult primary carcinoma protocol. It included 99 patients consecutively treated in the internal medicine service from 2010 to 2013 after debuting with metastasis. We assessed whether or not the variables site, number of metastases, physical condition according to Eastern Cancer Oncology Group (ECOG) scale and histological variety could be detection predictors of primary tumor. Results: No statistically significant differences were found between patients with (47.5 % of the total) and no primary tumor identified (p< 0.05) regarding site, number of metastases and ECOG score. The odds ratio for detection of primary tumor in adenocarcinoma was moderately differentiated and well. It was 5 times higher than for poorly differentiated carcinoma and 11 times higher than for neuroendocrine carcinoma. The odds ratio of detecting a primary tumor was 8 times higher in squamous cell metastasis compared to poorly differentiated carcinoma and 15 times higher than in neuroendocrine carcinoma. Conclusions: The score on the ECOG scale, site and number of metastases were not identified as independent variables in the detection of the primary tumor. The probability of detecting it was higher than the rest of the histologies, in those who debuted with metastasis due to squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma. The lowest probability was for those with neuroendocrine carcinoma.


Omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids are molecules found in oils that are of fundamental importance in the maintenance of human health, that need to be consumed by the humans. Special attention is given to the omega 3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFAs), like eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) due to their influence in the prevention and modulation of certain pathological conditions like obesity and cardiovascular diseases and by their essentiality to brain and retina development. The main sources of LCPUFAs are fishes, specially those of deep and cold marine waters. Several studies have demonstrated that these oils found in the fishes come from their zooplancton ingestion of organisms, which contain microalgae that produce large amounts of LCPUFAs. Among these microalgae are those of the diatomacea family, and due to these are good candidates for the study of the omega 3 biosynthetic pathway and corresponding genes. Here we report a partial functional genome analysis of the diatomacea Thalassiosira fluviatilis, with the objective of contributing to the further understanding of the biosynthetic pathway of LCPUFAs. To accomplish that, two cDNA libraries of two omega 3 diatomacea producers were constructed, Thalassiosira fluviatilis e Chaetoceros muelleri. It is our goal in the future to do a comparative functional genome analysis of the two microalgae with others reported in the literature. With the objective of generating molecular tools for molecular engineering of LCPUFAs in plants, we report the cloning and characterization of the gene encoding Δ6desaturase, the first enzyme envolved in the synthesis of EPA and DHA, responsible for the production of the intermediate stearidonic acid from αlinolenic acid. T. fluviatilis cDNA, originally used to make the cDNA library, was used as a template to isolate and clone the gene encoding Δ6-desaturase using PCR and RACE approaches. The gene cloned has an ORF of 1455 nucleotides, encoding a putative protein of 484 aminoacid residues. The total sequence includes a 3 ́UTR of 120 nucleotides. The predicted protein has a cytochrome b5 domain fused at the N-terminal and three histidine-box conserved motifs as described in other desaturases; the predicted protein has also high identity with the Δ6-desaturase from Thalassiosira pseudonana. Regarding the analysis of the cDNA libray of T. fluviatilis, 1920 ESTs were


Formation and evolution of pressure waves on the barrier were numerically simulated at non-staionary outflow of the superheated vapor from the vessel. The simulation conditions were fully consistent with the experimental conditions (1982) [1]. The calculated pressure fields were calculated both at the initial stage of non-stationary vapor outflow and at the quasistationary flow of superheated vapor on the barrier. The dynamics of interaction between shock waves and vortex structures on the barrier was studied at quasi-stationary outflow of the superheated vapor, and the experimental pressure profile on the target was compared with the calculated pressure profile. Comparison of the experimental data and the calculation results has showed acceptable agreement between the pressure profiles on the target up to a distance from the target to the nozzle approximately X/D = 6.


A frequency-tunable low phase noise magneto-acoustic resonator is developed on the base of a parallel-plate straight-edge bilayer consisting of a yttrium-iron garnet (YIG) layer grown on a substrate of a gallium-gadolinium garnet(GGG). When a YIG/GGG sample forms an ideal parallel plate, it supports a series of high-quality-factor acoustic modes standing along the plate thickness. Due to the magnetostriction of the YIG layer the ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) mode of the YIG layer can strongly interact with the acoustic thickness modes of the YIG/GGG structure, when the modes' frequencies match. A particular acoustic thickness mode used for the resonance excitations of the hybrid magneto-acoustic oscillations in a YIG/GGG bilayer is chosen by the YIG layer FMR frequency, which can be tuned by the variation of the external bias magnetic field. A composite magneto-acoustic oscillator, which includes an FMR-based resonance pre-selector, is developed to guarantee satisfaction of the Barkhausen criteria for a single-acoustic-mode oscillation regime. The developed low phase noise composite magneto-acoustic oscillator can be tuned from 0.84 GHz to 1 GHz with an increment of about 4.8 MHz (frequency distance between the adjacent acoustic thickness modes in a YIG/GGG parallel plate), and demonstrates the phase noise of -116 dBc/Hz at the offset frequency of 10 kHz.


In Temple Grandin's review of The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida, she relates her own experience living with and studying autism to better understand the mind of a remarkable 13-year-old Japanese boy with severe autism. Structured as a series of questions that a nonautistic person might ask an autistic one, Naoki's book is translated by David Mitchell (author of the novel Cloud Atlas) and his wife, Keiko Yoshida, and contains an impassioned introduction in which Mitchell discusses his experience with his own autistic child.


For people with disabilities, accessing healthcare services can be problematic, uncomfortable and potentially unsafe. Whether it is situational, temporary or permanent impairment, disability can affect everyone. When the healthcare company Philips Healthcare embarked on designing their next generation MRI machines, we, the human factors team, applied an inclusive design approach from the outset. In this paper, we will share details of a research study we conducted into how people with disability currently experience MRI. Data were collected via qualitative online interviews, with ten participants experienced disabilities from the UK. The findings showed that access to MRI radiology is an uncomfortable experience, both physically and cognitively. Accessibility issues were found throughout the process from travelling to the appointment, preparing for the scan, accessing and exiting the MRI machine. The general findings from the study are shared and recommendations for how to improve access to MRI radiology are presented.


The utility model discloses a fire resisting cable. The fire resisting cable comprises a conductor, a ceramic bovine silicone rubber layer which is squeezed out in one shot outside the conductor and vulcanized and an outer sheath layer. The ceramic bovine silicone rubber material is used by the fire resisting cable, two processes of wrapping and squeezing are replaced by means of one-shot squeeze and vulcanization, and thus time is saved and efficiency is improved. Meanwhile, the ceramic bovine silicone rubber material has good properties of fireproofing, fire resistance, flame retardance, low smoke and non-poison. At the same time, residues after the ceramic bovine silicone rubber material burns out are ceramic-shaped hard shells which do not fuse and drip down under the environment of 600 DEG C to 1300 DEG C, the unimpeded line is secured in the case of a fire disaster, and thus the hard shells play a strong protective effect. The fire resisting cable can fully meet requirements of product standards and fire resistance test standards.


The phenomenal progress made during the last twenty years in road-making and maintenance is common knowledge. In no other sphere of the country's public activities has so great an advance been made in such a short time. The rapid progress is due largely to the wise and active co-operation of the Ministry of Transport and the considerable financial help derived from the taxation of motor vehicles.


The synthesis of the new high density energetic compound 4,8-dinitro-12H-[1,2,5]-oxadiazolo[3,4-e][1,2,5]oxadiazolo[3',4':4,5]benzotriazolo[1,2-a]benzotriazol-13-ium inner salt 1,11-dioxide (7) was achieved in three steps (37% yield) from 2,4,8,10-tetranitrobenzotriazolo[1,2-a]benzotriazolo-6-ium inner salt (4). The compound 7 was found to be thermally stable up to 274 °C and was insensitive to impact (hammer/anvil test).


Different grid locations and capacity of distributed power supplies will bring different degrees of influence to the power grid. Considering the active power loss, voltage deviation and voltage stability margin, the multi-objective optimization of location and the capacity determination of distributed generation is studied in this article. An improved simulated annealing particle swarm optimization algorithm is proposed, which solves the problem of multi-objective equilibrium optimization, improves the diversity of the algorithm, and solves the problem that the traditional particle swarm optimization algorithm tends to fall into the local optimization. Finally, the proposed method is verified in the IEEE 33 node standard example, which can effectively improve the voltage quality and stability margin of the distribution system with distributed generation and reduce the system network loss.


This study assessed whether quantile regression can identify design specifications that lead to particularly long glances, which might go unnoticed with traditional analyses focusing on conditional means of off-road glances. Although substantial research indicates that long glances contribute disproportionately to crash risk, few studies have directly assessed the tails of the distribution. Failing to examine the distribution tails might underestimate the disproportionate risk on long glances imposed by secondary tasks. We applied quantile regression to assess the effects of secondary task type (reading or entry), system delay (delay or no delay), and text length (long or short) on off-road glance duration at 15th, 50th, and 85th quantiles. The results show that entry task, long text, and some combinations of variables led to longer glances than that would be expected given the central tendency of glance distributions. Quantile regression identifies secondary task features that produce long glances, which might be neglected by traditional analyses with conditional means.


This work mainly studied the effects of hot extrusion on microstructure, texture and mechanical properties of Mg-5Li-3Al-2Zn alloy. The results show that the microstructures of as-cast and as-extruded alloys both consist of α-Mg matrix and lamellar eutectic structure (α-Mg and AlLi phases). During the hot extrusion, the large eutectic structure of as-cast alloy was crushed into small eutectic structure and the grains were effectively refined. A {0002} basal texture was formed after hot extrusion. The as-extruded alloy exhibits remarkably improved tensile properties, which is mainly attributed to the grain refinement and the formation of texture.


Objective To study the DNA typing of urine samples. Method Ten urine samples were collected randomly from unrelated individuals. Meanwhile, blood samples from urine sample providers were also obtained to compared with DNA typing of urine samples. Using PCR-STR analysis, DNA typing of FIBRA and D18S535 loci of urine samples were identified. Results DNA typing of FIBRA and D18S535 were detected in all urine samples, accorded with the results of blood samples. Even difference volume of urine sample such as 10 ml, 1ml and 0.2ml, the type of DNA were successfully identified. In addition, DNA typing were also successfully analyzed in urine samples storage 4 days at room temperature and 4 weeks at 4 oC, respectively. Conclusion These results suggest that PCR-STR method is effective to DNA typing of urine samples, and have considerable valve in personal identification by urine samples.


The article introduces the electric generator protection set-up of Guangxi You River Hydro Power Station,its operation theory,and the combining application of both this protection set-up and its supervision system.


To create a complete numerical model of the Fe II emission we use spectroscopic observations of the Orion Nebula obtained from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. We have identied 40 [Fe II] lines in the spectrum, allowing extensive comparisons between theory and observations.


A chemical oxygen-iodine laser (COIL) was used for cutting aluminum and carbon steel. Cut depths of 20 mm were obtained in aluminum and 41 mm in carbon steel using an N2 gas assist and 5 - 6 kW of power on target. The same laser at the same power level produced a cut depth of 65 mm in carbon steel with an O2 gas assist; a low quality cut to a depth of nearly 100 mm in carbon steel was demonstrated. These data are compared with existing COIL and carbon-dioxide laser cutting data. COIL cuts carbon steel and stainless steel at approximately the same rate. For a given cut depth, power and spot size, COIL cuts steel approximately three times faster than a carbon-dioxide laser using an inert gas assist. COIL cutting speeds in carbon steel are improved by approximately a factor of three when an O2 assist is used in lieu of an N2 gas assist. With an N2 gas assist, COIL cuts aluminum at approximately the same rate as carbon-dioxide cuts steel. To improve the agreement between data and an existing theoretical cutting model, an empirical correction factor was added to the model; this modification provides excellent agreement with data.


Addition of 2% NH4Cl to feed effectively attenuated growth of pigs fed a diet specifically formulated with reduced lysine, phosphorus, and potassium (HG). The reduction in K was intended to minimize the amount of NH4Cl required to attenuate growth, as the K:Cl ratio affects growth. The objective was to validate the importance of the K:Cl ratio in HG diets supplemented with 2.0% NH4Cl. The K:Cl ratio hypothesis assumes that excess Cl from NH4Cl supplements interacts with K to create an apparent K deficiency, as renal K excretion must increase to counterbalance excess Cl under restraints imposed by HG diets. Additions of K should rescue growth of pigs fed diets with 2% NH4Cl. After adjustment to individual pens, 18 F2 barrows (12-15 kg) were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 diets: Control standard diet (Ctl, n=4); basal HG, low K diet, no added NH4Cl (HG, n=4); HG+2% NH4Cl for growth-attenuation (2%NH4Cl, n=5); and HG+2%NH4Cl+K2CO3 to counter-balance excess Cl from NH4Cl (2%NH4Cl+K, n=5). Pigs were allowed free access to fresh water and assigned diets for 14 days. Daily pig weights and feed consumption, end of treatment urine electrolytes, and whole-body DXA scans were used to calculate gain, intake, body composition, and efficiency of Ca and P retention. Gain (74%); lean (72%); bone ash (58%); Ca (27%); and P (32%) efficiency traits were reduced (P< 0.05) in pigs fed 2%NH4Cl vs. Ctl. Addition of K to NH4Cl diets partly rescued responses of these traits, restoring responses to that of pigs fed the HG diet. Inferences from urine electrolyte concentrations were consistent with K allowing an increase clearance of excess Cl. In conclusion, NH4Cl attenuation of growth and bone ash responses were mediated by K X Cl interactions. Future experiments will focus on diet modifications to enhance body composition during recovery.


The City of Vancouver, Washington implemented an adaptive control system for traffic signal operations at 12 intersections along Mill Plain Blvd. Performance measurement of this system was the main objective of this research. Link, intersection, and travel-time data were compiled and statistically analyzed. Data observed from travel-time runs (collected via a "floating car") and data collected from system detectors were used to compare performance of the system in the control case (time of day signal control) and the treatment case (adaptive signal control). This research showed that adaptive traffic signal control generally has a positive impact on the system; however, differences could be observed based on the direction of traffic and volume thresholds. Based on the operational studies, average speed improved up to 25%, the travel time decreased up to 20% and number of stops decreased up to 44% under adaptive control in the eastbound direction. Westbound traffic, however, was impacted…negatively!


Lakes in the Bench Lake/Mount Pinchot area of Kings Canyon National Park were surveyed in summer 1992 and found to range in pH from 5.0 to 9.3. Ten lakes were acidic (pH 6.0. Four species of trout were collected, and their presence appeared to be related to historical stocking patterns. Trout appeared to have large effects on the distributions and abundances of larval amphibians and large, mobile invertebrate taxa that were rare or absent in trout lakes, but common in lakes lacking trout.


For a long time, there was no action that a group controller could take during incoming traffic conditions other than returning the elevators back to the main entrance and opening their doors. Passengers would arrive in the main entrance and board the first available elevator car. However, in the early 1990s, sectoring was introduced during incoming traffic conditions. Sectoring is the soft division of the building into groups of (usually but not necessarily contiguous) floors, usually of equal populations. One or more elevators are assigned to a sector. The allocation of the elevator(s) to a sector can either be fixed (static sectoring) or variable (dynamic sectoring) within consecutive round trips. In addition, the size and composition of the different sectors can be static or dynamic. Sectoring is thus a powerful tool in dealing with peaks of incoming traffic demand. However, most of the analysis carried out to understand the effects of sectoring on the performance of the elevator traffic system has been based on simulation only. This paper presents a comprehensive calculation-based analysis of static sectoring control for incoming traffic as a control tool. The analysis is based on the approach of progressively increasing the number of sectors in a building, starting from a single sector (i.e., no sectoring) and proceeding to full sectoring (where the number of sectors equals the number of elevators in the group) and even increasing the number of sectors up to the total number of floors above the main entrance (which has been given the new term: super-sectoring). An analysis is carried out in each case showing the handling capacity, car loading, average waiting time, and average traveling time. Practical application: This paper allows a control system designer to adapt the actions of the controller to the change in passenger arrivals. The control can detect the intensity of passenger arrivals and adjust the number of sectors to suit such an arrival intensity. The aim would be to maximize the handling capacity of the system or minimize the car loading.


Date Presented 04/01/2022
 People with mental illness and limited resources tend to experience depression and decreased motivation to socialize with others. As a therapeutic intervention, gardening can affect a person's mental health, well-being, social participation, and life satisfaction. This case series monitored four residents at a transitional housing facility to assess the preliminary and conclusive effects of a 5-week gardening group therapy on hope and well-being.
 Primary Author and Speaker: Jessica Dawn Tsotsoros
 Additional Authors and Speakers: Reagan Collins, Amberlee Middleton, Juanita Hinckley, Breanna Boyer, Alexandra Speer
 Contributing Authors: Hope Beach, Piper Rinehart, Alexandra Hamilton, Elizabeth Wallace, Amber Estes, Kaci Cunningham


Balanced scorecard is a management system that enables organizations to translate vision and strategy into action. This system provides feedback on internal business processes and external outcomes to continually improve organizational performance and results. Robert Kaplan and David Norton created the balanced scorecard approach in the early 1990s. Most traditional management systems focus on the financial performance of an organization.According to those who support the balanced scorecard, the financial approach is unbalanced and has major limitations:


Amtrak celebrated its silver anniversary in 1996. This study argues that, as Amtrak appears no closer to financial independence than 25 years and $13 billion of federal subsidies later, virtually every previously stated justification for continued subsidies is based on myth, not reality. The paper considers two alleged justifications for taxpayer subsidies: market failure and social equity; and believes that Amtrak fails on both counts. The paper strongly argues that Amtrak can be profitable but only if Congress puts it back on track by weaning the railroad from federal subsidies, and the most promising alternative recommended is privatization.


AbstractThis study describes step-by-step analytical closest-point projection (CPP) implicit return mapping solutions for von Mises, Drucker-Prager, and Hyperbolic Drucker-Prager yield surfaces in ...


Management is a multiform phenomenon of the objective reality and is investigated in context of various fields of knowledge. The economic, juridical and historic sides are traditional for management research. The new aspects of this concept study, exceeding the bounds of classic and modern philosophy and culturology, is offered.


In this article, homotopy perturbation method is implemented to give approximate and analytical solutions of nonlinear ordinary differential equation systems such as a model for HIV infection of CD4 + T cells. A modification of the homotopy perturbation method (HPM), based on the use of Pade´ approximants, is proposed. Some plots are presented to show the reliability and simplicity of the methods.


ABSTRACT The microstructure and mechanical properties of the Mg–3Sn–2Al–1Zn (TAZ321) alloy extruded at 180–250°C and at a ram speed of 0.08 mm/s were investigated by optical microscope, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope, transmission electron microscope, tensile testing and microhardness tester. The results indicate that the as-extruded alloy shows ultrafine dynamic recrystallisation grains, nanoscale Mg2Sn precipitates of 50–80 nm, strong texture and excellent mechanical properties, the degree of which mainly depends on the extrusion temperature. The tensile yield strength and elongation vary from 413 MPa and 6.7% of TAZ321 extruded at 180°C to 312 MPa and 14.1% of TAZ321 extruded at 250°C, which can be regulated flexibly.


3047Background: Many patients that initially respond to cancer immunotherapy with adoptive cell therapy (ACT) using T cell receptor (TCR) engineered autologous T cells eventually develop resistance...


Garc?a Lorca's notoriously complex play, As? que pasen cinco a?os, has lent itself to a plethora of readings, from the structuralist to the historicist. It has been seen as influenced by Expressionism (Anderson 1992), or has been situated broadly within the avant-garde, with its self-consciously anti-naturalistic characters (possibly drawn from Lorca's visit to New York) and its explorations into the psyche of the pro tagonist The assertions of Carlos Morla Lynch, the Chilean Ambassador to Madrid, who heard Lorca read the play at a gathering in his house in October 1931, set the tone for early interpretations: "me infunde la impresi?n de 'cosa incon clusa,'" he wrote, "de una originalidad y belleza evidente, mas dif?cil de explicar" (Morla Lynch 1958: 106). In later interpre tations, it became more or less accepted that the oneiric at mosphere of the play could be attributed to Garcia Lorca's knowledge of Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (Hu?lamo Kosma 1989). Furthermore, as Paul Julian Smith notes in his influential reading of the play, there has been a "consensus


In this paper, a novel over-constrained 2-RRU&RSR parallel manipulator is proposed and analyzed. This mechanism is composed of a moving platform and a base, which connected by two identical revolute-revolute-universal kinematic chains and one revolute-spherical-revolute kinematic chains. Three revolute joints, fixed on the base, are set to be actively actuated. The design process and kinematic are studied in this paper. Firstly, the configuration design and structure characteristics of the mechanism are expounded. Secondly, the kinematic problems, including the inverse and the forward position analyses, are solved analytically. Then, the reachable workspace of the mechanism is analyzed by the inverse position equations. Finally, some numerical examples and conclusions of the mechanism are pointed out.


Influenza and dengue viruses present a growing global threat to public health. Both viruses depend on the host endoplasmic reticulum (ER) glycoprotein folding pathway. In 2014, Sadat et al. reported two siblings with a rare genetic defect in ER alpha-glucosidase I (ER Glu I) who showed resistance to viral infections, identifying ER Glu I as a key antiviral target. Here we show that a single dose of UV-4B (the hydrochloride salt form of N-(9'-methoxynonyl)-1- deoxynojirimycin; MON-DNJ) capable of inhibiting Glu I in vivo is sufficient to prevent death in mice infected with lethal viral doses, even when treatment is started as late as 48 hours post-infection. The first crystal structure of mammalian ER Glu I will constitute the basis for the development of potent and selective inhibitors. Targeting ER Glu I with UV-4B derived compounds may alter treatment paradigms for acute viral disease through development of a single-dose therapeutic regime.


A radiometer using noise from a neon discharge tube to effect gain stabilization of a 13-cm maser radiometer is described. A balancing technique is used to make the output insensitive to gain and bandwidth fluctuations. The output does, however, depend on the total system noise temperature, and the technique is best suited to a receiver using a low-noise traveling wave maser, whose effective noise temperature is inherently stable.


Multiple temporal anomaly detection algorithms have important research significance in many application fields, such as system state estimation, fault prediction and diagnosis, network behavior anomaly detection and so on. Aiming at the problems of abnormal noise, high dimensionality, lack of labeling, and difficulty in learning abnormal features of various temporal data, an anomaly detection model TRAD based on Transformer reconstruction was proposed, which used self-conditioning to extract robust multi-modal features to obtain the stability of training. At the same time, the adversarial training process is used to amplify the reconstruction error. Experiments on three public datasets show that the proposed model not only has excellent detection performance, but also has strong applicability and generalization ability for unknown heterogeneous time series data.


Curcumin, a popular yellow pigment of the dietary spice turmeric, has been reported to inhibit cell
growth and to induce apoptosis in a wide variety of cancer cells. Although numerous studies have
investigated anticancer effects of curcumin, the precise molecular mechanism of action remains
unidentified. Whereas curcumin mediates cell survival and apoptosis through mitogen-activated
protein kinase (MAPK) and nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) signaling cascades, its impact on the
upstream regulation of MAPK is unclear. The leucine-zipper and sterile-α motif kinase alpha
(ZAKα), a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase (MAP3K), activates the c-Jun N-terminal
kinase (JNK) and NF-κB pathway. This paper investigated the prospective involvement of ZAKα in
curcumin-induced effects on cancer cells. Our results suggest that the antitumor activity of curcumin
is mediated via a mechanism involving inhibition of ZAKα activity.


The increasing amount of internet users, websites and retail sales requires web development should be carried out in a competent, professional manner to increase business so as to increase profit. Therefore, before developing any web site, it is important to analyze information which is to be provided on the web site. This is necessary for maximization of profit and to increase number of visitors to the site. Web analytics tool is used for the measuring and analyzing web data to optimize web usage. Similarly in education also it is necessary to analyze traffic of educational website. Here the traffic is said with reference to stakeholders of education. The important stakeholders of education are students and teachers. Analyzing educational web site will help the head of the institute to know whether students are really accessing the web site, whether they are aware with the latest content uploaded, pages viewed per day/hour/month, resources accessed. To assess the educational traffic log files are used. This study discusses case study of one of the management Institute affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University(SPPU) to know the student traffic across Open Source Learning Management System (OSLMS) – Moodle. Result of the study shows that students are frequent visitors of Moodle accessing different pages and resources of the Moodle – OSLMS.


The conversion of glucose and sorbitol in the presence of Ru and Pt catalysts supported on carbon was carried out at different pressure and temperature conditions, using a batch and a semi-batch reactor. Attempts were made to improve the selectivity of glycols and alcohols (ethanol), introducing a promoter and inhibiter of the hydrogenolysis in the reactant mixture. On the basis of these results, which confirm the higher activity of Ru with respect to Pt, and the important role of an inhibitor like sulphur, the mechanism driving these reactions and the promising thermocatalytic conditions are clearer.


There is difference attitude about whether it is necessary to open all the governing valve in sliding pressure operating mode.In practice,all the governing valve open mode is commonly used.This paper analyzes this question from the point of view of economy and safety,and gets the conclusion that it would be more economic if the last governing valve is not open in operating,and this operating mode is worth popularizing.


Research results are presented which enable conclusions to be made on the frequency of car use in vehicle related journeys per year based on car use resistance, which can be calculated for given cost an dincome parameters within the period and traffic area under consideration. The total number of cars on the road can be determined from this value. This makes it possible to determine the effects of changes in for instance economic aspects of the transport market on the total number of cars. Citing the examples of three precautionary scenarios for the reduction of environmental pollution from traffic and for the preservation fo mineral oil resources, the article shows to what extent the number of cars on the road would change.


This work provides a set of reflections on the prob-lematic link between the social disciplines of Ethics and Economics. That is the modest objective of these lines, which do not pretend to go beyond being a set of reflections that allow to translate some "working hypothesis", which in turn play as triggers of the thought of those interested in its reading. In the first section, a very brief history of ethics as a discipline is presented. Of course, this brief history implies a per-sonal selection in the list of authors and in the short sentences that present them, but it is by no means an exhaustive presentation. The next three sections then take an evolutionary look at the connection between Economics and Ethics, from their early proximity to each other to their current divorce. Of course, such a review takes place from a personal reading of the process. Then, in the fifth section, a "unique" way of touching the moral problem in Economics is men-tioned: the debate on corruption and its effects on efficiency. In turn, the last section closes with some brief final words.


Designing breakwaters on steep foreshores faces some problems. At present, it is not known what the influence of the steepness of the bottom slope is. Design formulae for armour layers don't take the bottom steepness into account in a direct manner. In theory, in irregular waves, wave average heights in shallow water become higher as the bottom becomes steeper, but clear formulae don't exist. In this report, an attempt has been made to investigate the influence of the slope of the sea bottom on the stability of an armour layer. The two main questions were: is there an influence of the foreshore slope at all? if yes, how large is this influence? In a literature study, no answer could be found to these questions, so a model investigation has been done in order to measure the influence of the foreshore steepness. In the investigation, two foreshore steepnesses have been compared (1:30 and 1:8) and four different wave periods have been used. In most experiments, the armour existed of stone. Two comparisons have been made: one was with the same wave conditions at the wave board, the other was with similar wave conditions close to the toe of the breakwater. The experiments showed a clear influence of the steepness of the foreshore: with equal offshore wave conditions, the damage is significantly higher at a steep foreshore. if the wave conditions near the breakwater are known, even then the damage on the steep foreshore is higher than on the mild foreshore. interlocking units showed more rocking. As, for the last case, the wave heights and the wave spectra were equal at the toe, these cannot explain the differences. Therefore, another explanation has been tried to be found. It appeared that the wave shape, or more precise: the steepness of the wave front, changes. On the steep foreshores, the wave fronts are steeper. This may explain the larger damage levels at the steep foreshore. At present, there are no wave theories that can calculate such a steepness of the wave front. Therefore, an empirical correction factor has been derived, which can take several values, depending on the situation. Until more research has been done on this topic, it is recommended to pay special attention to areas with steep foreshores if model tests are performed in the breakwater design process.


With importance of data value is approved, data-sharing will create more and greater value has become consensus. However, data exchange has to use a trusted third party(TTP) as an intermediary in an untrusted network environment, which may lead to leakage of data privacy. In this paper, we design a system named TeeSwap, which uses smart contract to complete data exchange, and at the same time uses cryptographic algorithms and trusted execution environment (TEE) to ensure privacy in process of data transmission, verification and contract execution. Meanwhile, TeeSwap can ensure the credibility, fairness, integrity and privacy while data are shared in our system. In the end, we implement contracts about data market and data exchange. When confirming the data transaction, data market contract can automatically generate and deploy exchange contract, which can complete the data exchange authoritatively.


Taking into account the currentmovement of frequent increase in both packaging and power densities in modern day's electronic components, the search for the suitable cooling techniques, depending on the applications, motivated the investigators all over the world. As the conventional air cooling technique is no longer adequate for the high heat flux applications, the search for alternative forms of cooling have captured much attention in recent years to circumvent the problems of high thermal resistance associated with the system hardware. Keeping it in mind, the present article describes about the heat generation from the facilities to the chip, road map of the high performance chip and various causes of the failure of the chip. In addition, it also elucidates on the thermal issues relating to the electronic package assembly, thermal management challenges together with the various cooling methods which comprise both active as well as passive cooling practices.


Objective To observe the clinical curative efficacy of edaravone in treatment of acute cerebral hemorrhage.Methods Sixty four cases were randomly divided into treatment group(n=32)and control group(n=32).Patients in the control group were given routine treatment of acute cerebral hemorrhage.Patients in the treatment group were treated with edaravone in addition to the routine treatment,bid,a total of 14d.Results Clinical efficacy of the treatment group after 1 month,neural function defect score improvement was significantly better than the control group(P0.05).Conclusion Edaravone in treatment of cerebral hemorrhage is safe and effective,and is worth generalizing in clinical application.


The article presents the chemical composition of medicinal plants the mixture of the multivitamin raw material. The methods of identification biologically active compounds, depending on their nature, such as the qualitative of the reaction, thin layer chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography are considered. Methods of quantitative definition as separate components of a metabolom of folia Urticae and fructus Sorbi, and total content of biologically active connections are given.


This work describes an unsplit scheme for multi-dimensional systems of hyperbolic conservation laws with source terms, such as the compressible Euler equations for reacting flows. The scheme is an extension of the algorithm for 1-D problems (Papalexandris M.V., Leonard A., and Dimotakis P.E., J. Comp. Phys.), 134, pp. 31-61. It is a MUSCL-type, shock-capturing scheme that integrates all terms of the governing equations simultaneously. Appropriate families of space-time manifolds are introduced, along which the conservation equations decouple to the characteristic equations of the corresponding 1-D homogeneous system. Numerical integration of the characteristic equations is performed on these manifolds in the upwinding part of the algorithm. Numerical studies of 2-D detonations in channel flows will be presented. The proposed scheme appears capable of capturing many of the important details of the flow-fields. No explicit artificial-viscosity mechanisms or other fixes need to be employed with the proposed scheme.


A passionate public debate regarding the best way to conduct clinical trials ethically in low income countries developed after studies to prevent mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were initiated in Africa and Asia. Some of these studies had placebo-only treatment groups and generated concern after publication of the first US trial showing an effective way to prevent mother-to-child transmission. Even though this debate focused on research ethics the underlying problem was and remains differences in available levels of resources. The debate over medical research ethics in the context of vastly unequal health care resources served in important ways to focus public attention on research that uses placebos or unproven treatments when effective interventions exist. However a focus on the best way to conduct research in the midst of gross disparities in health care misses the more fundamental ethical imperative: how to achieve a more equitable distribution of health care and ensure that effective health care is brought to resource-poor countries as rapidly as possible. In this issue of JAMA articles by Kent and colleagues and Bulterys and colleagues include findings that are important to any effort to increase the speed and extent of implementation of effective life-saving and health-improving programs in low-income countries. Kent et al reviewed clinical trials of HIV treatment tuberculosis (TB) treatment and malaria prevention conducted in sub-Saharan Africa and published between 1998 and 2003 to see if the trials met "best current" standards of care. In particular they examined whether the studies met recommendations supported by the research literature global standards when guidelines had been promulgated by the World Health Organization (WHO) and national practice in high income countries such as the United States. All of the TB treatment trials reviewed met best current standards; however only a small percentage of HIV trials provided optimal care even in the intervention groups and 90% of the malaria prevention trials failed to offer acceptable prevention strategies in the control groups. (excerpt)


Raman spectroscopy is used to study GaAs heavily doped with carbon. Hole concentrations in these samples range from 2.3×1019 to 1×1020 cm−3. Three main Raman features are investigated: the longitudinal-optic (LO) phonon mode, the substitutional carbon-at-arsenic local-vibrational mode, and the coupled plasmon–LO phonon present due to the interaction between the LO phonon and the free carriers. Only one allowed phonon-like coupled mode is observed due to the large plasmon damping and high effective carrier masses. The coupled mode is seen to systematically redshift as carrier concentration increases. This behavior is described by a model which includes the effects of high hole concentrations on the dielectric function and an additional shift in the optic phonon we tentatively attribute to carbon size effect. The local vibrational mode intensity is found to be directly proportional to the carrier concentration p. Interestingly, the local mode intensity shows good correlation with that of the coupled plasmon...


An ambient-temperature formaldehyde in-depth removal agent was developed.The influence of reaction temperature,space velocity,inlet formaldehyde content and relative humidity were examined.The results showed that the formaldehyde removal agent can remove formaldehyde in the air to outlet formaldehyde content≤0.03 mg/m3 quickly at the conditions of relative humidity 10%~90%,temperature 0~40 ℃,and formaldehyde capacity≥12%.


• In New Zealand, Davis, Lay‐Yee, Bryant, ScoK, Johnson, and Bingley (2001), reported a 12.9% iatrogeneic rate for those hospitalised. Their retrospec8ve study inves8gated documented adverse events across 13 NZ hospitals. The undocumented adverse event rate can be presumed to be much higher. Evans (2007) portrayed the staggering size of these preventable events as: the death rate being equivalent to four Boeing 747's crashing in New Zealand every year; three 8mes the road traffic death rate; and double the deaths from both homicide and suicide.


How can we speak of grief and mourning? There are things, events, horrors, place of sorrow and love for which we have no words. Grief, like art, can leave us mute, it can paralyse – there is nothing more to be said, nothing more to be done. And yet, grief can be very eloquent and rather than presenting us with a privileged view, which excludes those who have not shared the experience, can provide a vehicle for understanding. Two art works that act as such a vehicle are Untitled (Portrait of Dad)(1991) by Felix Gonzalez Torres and Strange Fruit (for David)(1992-1997) by Zoe Leonard. These works are ephemeral and embody the experience of mourning. Discussing these works risks losing the central experience, because they demand an engagement that does not sit comfortably with the aesthetic detachment and the wariness of deeply felt personal This chapter, written in two sections, the first in a conventional academic form follow by the same territory explored in narrative form, explores this myth of detachment and relate the experiences of these works to my own local knowledge as an artist and as a mourner.
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This study is a natural continuation of modified Picard operators, defined by Agratini et al, preserving an exponential function. Herein, we first show that these operators are approximation processes in the setting of large classes of weighted spaces. Then, we obtain weighted uniform convergence of the operators via exponential weighted modulus of smoothness. Finally, we give, by using the weighted modulus of continuity, the result regarding global smoothness preservation properties for the generalized Picard operators, which based in Agratini et al.


The utility model relates to a high-temperature food processing device which comprises a high-temperature heat source component which is a normal pressure boiler, wherein the normal pressure boiler comprises a hearth and a bended flue communicated with the hearth, and the hearth and the flue are used as heat emission components. One side wall of a food processing box in the side of the boiler is used as a heat exchanging interface of a heat emission area around the heat emission components. The utility model has strong structural integrity and is especially suitable for being used in food processing enterprises with small batch quantity production or small producing families providing semi-processing food.


This document defines P2PSIP client protocol, one protocol for client-
peer communication, which is used to create, implement and maintain
the services between a client and its associated peer.


To develop a fluorescent MGB probe real time PCR platform for detection the mutation of phenylalanine hydroxylase gene in patients with phenylketonuria.Fluorescent MGB probe real time PCR technology was used to detect the mutant allele in 33 classic Phenylketonuria patients and 43 parents,30 normal controls. All mutant alleles were confirmed by sequencing. 11 PKU had R243Q mutation, mutant rate was 33%,including 4 homozygous mutant alleles and 7 heterozygous mutant alleles.9 Parents had R243Q heterozygous mutant alleles. The controls were all normal. All mutations were confirmed by direct sequencing.[Conclusion]The R243Q mutations in Exon 7 may be one of mutation hot spots in Chinese PKU. Fluorescent MGB probe real time PCR technology can be applied in the diagnosis of PKU.


Whether the main girder of a bridge hit by a super high vehicle can continue to be used is related to traffic safety. To reveal the damage of the bridge caused by the impact, the damage assessment method of the main girder of the affected bridge based on trace theory and nonlinear calculation theory was studied. First, the collision accident between a super high truck and a reinforced concrete girder bridge was taken as the research object, and a nonlinear finite element model of the vehicle–bridge collision was established by using ANSYS/LS-DYNA software. The posture of the vehicle body and the bridge, and the deformation of the vehicle body after collision were obtained by calculation and analysis of multiple working conditions with super high vehicle weight and impact speed as the variables. The collision speed of the vehicle and the impact force were established by using the method of multiparameter curve fitting. Finally, the damage of the crashed bridge was assessed by inputting the vehicle speed or impact force parameters in the vehicle–bridge collision model, which considers the material constitutive relation. Results demonstrate that, the deformation of the van body is linearly positively correlated with the speed and weight of the impacted vehicle. The average value and the peak value of the horizontal impact force with vehicle weight and vehicle speed are positively correlated, but the correlation ratio is 0. The average value and the peak value of the vertical impact force have a quadratic relationship with the vehicle velocity and the vehicle mass. When the vehicle weight reaches 25 t or the vehicle speed reaches 65 kph, the average value and the peak value of the vertical impact force reach the maximum values. The duration of the impact has a quadratic relationship with the vehicle speed and a nonlinear increasing relationship with the vehicle weight. This study provides a theoretical basis for the damage assessment of impacted bridges.


Over the last five years, studies and progress in jet mixing noise prediction coupled with CFD computations have been of large interest at Snecma, especially in the application of High Speed Civil Transport research, where jet noise remain as a major noise contributor. If a good understanding of turbulence mechanisms and mixing processes is needed for further improvements in jet noise reduction, an accurate flow-field description is also searched for, in a way to perform reliable turbulent mixing noise predictions. For the purpose, acoustic and Laser Doppler Velocimetry (L.D.V) measurements were conducted at the CEPRA19 anechoic wind tunnel on axisymmetric confluent flow nozzles operated at high-power conditions, under static and forward flight simulation. Mean flow velocities and turbulent characteristics have been used to validate and calibrate CFD computations performed by the CANARI code used in conjunction with a k-s turbulence model. Calculations were carried out up to 20 diameters downstream of the nozzle exit. The aerodynamic data have then been used as inputs in the MGB code relying on a LighthiU's acoustic analogy for jet noise predictions. In the present study, comparisons between experimental and computational results are shown for both the aerodynamic and acoustic parts. Flight effect and influence of input parameters on flowfield and noise calculation were investigated


Blood transfusions are a new problem in Islamic law discourse. In the context of Jurisprudence studies, blood includes unclean objects material (lidzatihi). And there is no syar'i law that explicitly addresses the practice of blood transfusions. This confuses Muslim life. Risks and also benefits arising from the practice of blood transfusions both, from donors and recipients of blood donations (recipient) need to be considered by both. The purpose of this is to save the lives of the recipient either, because of accidents or diseases. The unlawful legal status of the use of blood becomes mandatory when faced with urgent needs, at a time when blood transfusions are the only way to save a person's life. In this case, it is based on the fourth principle Fiqhiyyah rule which is:  al-Ḍarar Yuza>l (الضَّرَرُ يُزَالُ) that the danger must be eliminated/prevented. So the practice of blood donation is a thing that must be done to avoid greater harm, for example, it will lose lives if it does not immediately make a blood donation. Also, it is revealed in a hadith narrated by Ibn Majah from Ibn 'Abbas, لَا ضَرَرَ وَلَا ضِرَر (not to fade and should not be harmed). Therefore,  in practice, blood transfusions need to have adhered to the procedural requirements of the health program to donors and recipients so as not only to eliminate the danger of recipients but also avoid harm to the donor.


identify the location of the stenosis ranged from 60% (in cases of extensive obstruction) to 88% in cases of bronchial obstruction. When bronchial obstruction was present, VRI identified the affected side in 88% of the cases. The analysis of VRI after disobstructing procedures demonstrated an accuracy of 84% in defining the outcome, in comparison to other methods used (dyspnea score, pulmonary function tests, chest X-ray, CT scan). In the paper by Anantham et al. [3] , VRI was employed in 56 consecutive patients to detect pleural effusion and, when compared to chest X-ray, it was able to correctly predict the diagnosis (right, left or bilateral effusion) in 45 cases (80%). When compared to thoracic ultrasound, VRI identified the effusion in 75% of cases. The agreement between VRI and chest X-ray for determining the size of the effusion was 74%. In the paper by Blanco et al. [4] , VRI was performed on 15 healthy volunteers and on 14 patients affected by pneumothorax. VRI's sensitivity and specificity in detecting pneumothorax was 100 and 87%, respectively, but the accuracy of the technique for determining the size of pneumothorax was 79%. The above-mentioned papers report a positive or enthusiastic conclusion on this tool. I would not like to appear as a devil's lawyer, but some comments and questions arise spontaneously. A large section of this issue of Respiration is dedicated to a new technology called vibration response imaging (VRI). VRI is a computer-based lung sound recording system that is able to convert breath sound to dynamic images in grayscale during both inspiratory and expiratory phase. With 40 sensors placed on each side of the patient's back, it is also possible to record quantitative data, showing distribution and percentage of breath sound in different areas of the lung. More details regarding this technology are well described in the interesting article by Becker [1] that is published in the 'Opinion Corner' of this issue; there are also 3 other papers in this issue that evaluate the possible role of VRI in the outcome assessment of disobstructing interventional bronchoscopy procedures [2] , in pleural effusion [3] and in pneumothorax [4] . Becker et al. [2] studied 25 healthy volunteers and 83 patients suspected of having a central airway obstruction (CAO), 51 of whom underwent 64 bronchoscopic disobstructing procedures. VRI was performed on the healthy subjects, before bronchoscopy in all patients and after the interventional procedures in those who were bronchoscopically treated. VRI was able to correctly identify patients with CAO with a sensitivity of 97%, but the specificity value was lower (88%), since in 4 patients VRI showed a pattern that was considered suggestive for CAO while stenosis was not present. The accuracy of VRI to


Our patient was an 85-year-old man who had experienced an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in September 1990 and subsequently underwent the implantation of an automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator as part of the Cardiac Arrest in Seattle: Conventional versus Amiodarone Drug Evaluation (CASCADE) trial, as well as bypass surgery in Seattle, Wash. The defibrillator was placed abdominally. The patient did quite well for …


Paraneoplastic syndromes are symptoms or sets of symptoms accompanying cancer which often pass after said cancer is effectively treated. Causes of paraneoplastic syndromes are not fully understood. Mechanisms are related to abnormal hormone or cytokine secretion, as well as production of antibodies directed against the neoplasm. The most common paraneoplastic syndromes take the form of neurological syndromes, haematological disorders and skin lesions. The article presents the relation between malignant neoplasms and autoimmune connective tissue diseases.


The quantum chemical parameters including dipole moment and HOMO energies of 46 halo-genated arenes are calculated by the HMO method. The total surface area (TSA) of each molecule is calculated too. Based on the Linear Solvation Energy Relationships (LSER) theory, the quantitative relationship between the molecular structures and the octanol/water partition coefficients is studied, and a successful partition model is proposed. This model can accurately calculate the difference of surface tension between the two solvents.


The reversible color phase transitions between the blue phase and the red phase caused by annealing have been reported for Langmuir-Blodgett polydiacetylene (LB PDA) films. We have already proposed an application of the LB PDA films to optical devices. In this paper, the reversible color phase transitions are investigated for the LB PDA films, that are pre-annealed before polymerization in order to improve the characteristics of the films. Absorption spectra of the LB PDA films without pre-annealing have main peaks at 640nm, while the spectra of the preannealed films have new main peaks at 704nm. The new peaks at 704nm exhibit stronger reversibility of the color phase transition than the peaks at 640nm. Moreover, X-ray diffraction measurements show that the pre-annealed LB PDA films have extremely ordered layer structures. Pre-annealing is thought to be an important technique for improving characteristics of LB films.


Abstract : Process techniques required for the fabrication of semiconductor networks are being established. Studies of silicon slice preparation, diffusion, contact formation, film dielectrics and test structures are discussed. Equipment assembly techniques for a serial, digital computer are investigated. (Author)


A significant attempt has been made to enhance the flammability property of polymer composites that are used in the aircraft structural application. With cumulative interest in carbon fabric reinforced epoxy polymeric composites, it is imperative to enhance the fire-resistant property of these materials. In this context, work has been carried out to investigate the improvement in the fire resistance property of epoxy/carbon fabric reinforced laminate using titanium nitride as a coating material. In addition, the influence of thickness of the coating over the improvement in the fire resistance properties was also studied using cone calorimeter test. X-ray diffraction spectrum confirms the titanium nitride coating over the surface of the composites. Thermogravimetric analysis of uncoated and coated epoxy/carbon fabric laminate of 3.24 µm shows the decomposition temperature of 325 ℃ and 340 ℃, respectively. By increasing the coating thickness of the titanium nitride to 0.01 mm, there is an increase in the decomposition temperature, which is around 360 ℃. Limiting oxygen index value of the uncoated and varied thickness coated epoxy/carbon fabric laminate evidently shows that increase in the thickness of the titanium nitride coating leads to enhancement of the limiting oxygen index value up to 15%. Time-to-ignition has also been calculated theoretically by employing the linear conduction theory, which revealed an upsurge of 65 s when compared to basic epoxy/carbon fabric composites. The above findings visibly designate that the titanium nitride coating as well as the coating thickness significantly plays a vital role in improving the fire resistance property of epoxy/carbon fabric laminates.


We examine the causality between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth for 66 developing countries, taking into account their interaction with exports and technological change. Time series analysis for each country is conducted, based on a method introduced by Toda and Yamamoto (1995) for testing Granger causality in the presence of nonstationary time series. The main findings of this article are: FDI causes growth in several of the developing countries, but the mechanism through which this works differs across countries and reverse causality from growth to FDI exists for many countries.


A state-dependent relay channel is studied in which strictly causal channel state information is available at the relay and no state information is available at the source and destination. The source and the relay are connected via two unidirectional out-of-band orthogonal links of finite capacity, and a state-dependent memoryless channel connects the source and the relay, on one side, and the destination, on the other. Via the orthogonal links, the source can convey information about the message to be delivered to the destination to the relay while the relay can forward state information to the source. This exchange enables cooperation between the source and the relay on transmission of message and state information to the destination. First, two achievable schemes are proposed that exploit both message and state cooperation. It is shown that a transmission scheme inspired by noisy network coding performs better than a strategy based on block Markov coding and backward decoding. Next, based on the given achievable schemes and appropriate upper bounds, capacity results are identified for some special cases. Finally, a Gaussian model is studied, along with corresponding numerical results that illuminate the relative merits of state and message cooperation.


Abstract The kinematics and dynamics of two planar rigid manipulators handling a rigid object are studied. The system dynamics is formulated by combining the dynamics of manipulators and the object. A regressor based sliding mode control scheme is developed for the control of object to reach the desired position and orientation. The main advantages of the proposed robust control scheme are that, it can handle quickly varying parameters and alleviate the problem of choosing the upper bounds of the uncertainties in the robust approaches; it also does not need persistency of excitation, and guarantees the exponential convergence of transient behavior. The main problem with this type of control is chattering, which is eliminated with the help of adding boundary layer thickness in the control law. Simulations are performed which confirm the effectiveness of the proposed control approach.


The study suggests that the process of globalization has started with the process of migration and trading activities in the human history across the globe. With the increase of trading activities across the border of the nation states, the process of globalization got accelerated. The process of globalization also has a deep connection in the political, cultural and social spheres. The well known political scientist and the father of political science Aristotle said " the state came in to existence for the sake of life and continued for the sake of good life " (Mukherjee and Ramaswamy 2011). So, in search of good life, cross-cultural, cross-political and economic activities started among the individuals and among the various nation states. From the above analysis, it could be understood that the globalisation is a process which leads to free flow of resources, money, culture, ideas, media, knowledge and political institutions etc. across the border of the nation states. The border of the nation states becomes blood in the process of globalization.


Intelligent analysis about coal mine water hazards simulate the flooding process and staff corresponding behavior. The program begin with the place where water gush severely, underground workers have their post responsibility and survival skills. In the whole simulation, casualties and direct economic loss can dynamic display. It provide the reference for prevention and control of water plan, improve the drainage system, and can strengthen water disasters forecast of excavating surface.


The analysis of the nitrogenous fertilizer loss and the influence of nitrogenous fertilizer showed the different influence of nitrogenous fertilizer to rice was various with the difference of rice variety,the planting way,the types of chemical fertilizer and the fertilizalion method and so on.


Os odontoideum is a common cause of atlantoaxial instability in the pediatric population. The authors present the cases of 2 patients whose initial clinical presentation and MR imaging findings were suggestive of an intramedullary neoplasm, but whose ultimate diagnosis was determined to be cervical spine instability and cord injury due to os odontoideum.


The reversible acetylation of protein lysine ε‐amino groups, catalyzed by lysine acetyltransferases and deacetylases, serves as a molecular switch in the orchestration of diverse cellular activities. Here, we aimed to investigate the role of lysine acetyltransfer in platelet function.


(1987). Teaching and Examining The History Of Economic Thought At Duke University. History of Economics Review: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 30-34.


Grammatical Evolution (GE) is a novel data-driven, model-induction tool, inspired by the biological gene-to-protein mapping process. This study provides an introduction to GE, and demonstrates the methodology by applying it to construct a series of models for the prediction of bankruptcy, employing information drawn from financial statements. Unlike prior studies in this domain, the raw financial information is not preprocessed into pre-determined financial ratios. Instead, the ratios to be incorporated into the classification rule are evolved from the raw financial data. This allows the creation and subsequent evolution of alternative ratio-based representations of the financial data. A sample of 178 publicly quoted, US firms, drawn from the period 1991 to 2000 are used to train and test the model. The best evolved model correctly classified 86 (77)% of the firms in the in-sample training set (out-of-sample validation set), one year prior to failure.


Aims: The purpose of this study was to examine the acute effects between different volumes of static stretching (SS) and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) stretching (30 and 60 seconds) on the maximum number of repetitions at 40 and 80% 1RM and rating of perceived exertion (RPE). Methods: Eleven recreationallytrained women (26.45 ± 5.27 years) performed ten experimental protocols using a repeated measures crossover design: (a) 30 s of SS followed by 40% of 1RM (SS1); (b) 60 s of SS followed by 40% of 1RM (SS2); (c) 30 s of SS followed by 80% of 1RM (SS3); (d) 60 s of SS followed by 80% of 1RM (SS4); (e) 30 s of PNF followed by 40% of 1RM (PNF1); (f) 60 s of PNF followed by 40% of 1RM (PNF2); (g) 30 s of PNF followed by 80% of 1RM (PNF3); (h) 60 s of PNF followed by 80% of 1RM (PNF4); (i) 40% of 1RM with no stretching (NS1); and (j) 80% of 1RM with no stretching (NS2). In both stretching protocols, shoulder girdle muscle exercises were performed. Results: Stretching volume did not seem to significantly decrease the number of repetitions after a bench press session (p > 0.05). However, RPE was greater for PNF2 (28.5 ± 1.0; p = 0.016) when compared with PNF1 (26.9 ± 1.9). Conclusion: Stretching volume does not seem to decrease the maximum number of repetitions after a bench press session; however, greater stretching volume appears to increase perception of effort in women when using PNF stretching of longer duration.


The topic of this report is the Koutsoupias-Papadimitriou (KP) game-theoretic model for a class of job-scheduling problems. It contains a presentation of the results from the original paper by Koutsoupias and Papadmitriou [1] and a follow-up paper by Czumaj and Vöcking [4]. The papers address the problem of bounding the ratio between the worst case Nash equilibrium and optimum allocation of a set of jobs to a set of machines.


In this article Liz O'Brien discusses the need for a distinctive approach to the religious education of children and young people with autism and/or severe and complex learning disabilities. She describes how an imaginative and creative approach, built on an underlying principle of understanding, empathy and respect in relation to the 'culture of autism' can lead to enriching, meaningful and enjoyable RE experiences. Through an RE and Special Needs Fellowship, awarded by the National Society for Promoting Christian Education, she was given the opportunity to assemble Connecting with RE (O'Brien, 2002), a resource for all those seeking accessible RE for children with autism and/or severe and complex learning disabilities. This article presents some of the fundamental philosophy and methodology that underpin the Connecting with RE approach.


Gridhrasi is one among 80 types of Vatavyadhi. Symptoms of Gridhrasi closely resembles to the clinical features of Sciatica. Sciatica is a severe painful condition where sciatic nerve of one or both the legs is involved. The study was undertaken to evaluate the clinical efficacy of Agnikarma (treatment done with cauterization) in the management of Sciatica. The most important symptoms are radiating leg pain and related disabilities. The management provided by modern practitioners for this condition is either conservative like rest, immobilization, analgesic and anti-inflammatory drugs, physiotherapy etc. or Surgical. If the pain and neurological findings do not disappear on prolonged conservative treatment, finally they go on surgery. Surgery is also not the ultimate solution as there is a common problem of recurrence and some patients lose their working capabilities. Hence considering above facts this study has been planned with aim and objective to evaluate the effect of Agnikarma in the management of Gridhrasi (sciatica). Acharya Charaka has described Basti, Siravyadha (Venepuncture) and Agnikarma in the management of Gridhrasi. In Present clinical study Agnikarma was advised weekly for 4 weeks in 30 patients of Gridhrasi. The signs and symptoms were assessed before and after the treatment based on the grading. Results obtained were analysed for the statistical significance using paired t test, which revealed that there is statistically significant improvement in symptoms of Gridhrasi. Ideally this technique should be evaluated scientifically using principles of biophysics and nerve conduction studies.


Scotland is a nation of some 5 million people, historically distinct from the other countries which form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Since the union of the English and Welsh Parliament with the Scottish Parliament in 1707, Scotland has been an integral part of Britain (all of the opposition parties currently favour some form of devolved government in Scotland). However, the key institutions of law, education and the Church of Scotland were already well-established and secured privileged status in the Act of Union. As a result, the Scottish education system has many different features from the system operating elsewhere in the UK, and one of these - a more unified approach to the curriculum in schools and further education (community colleges) - has had some important implications for development in student access to social work training in universities and other higher education institutions.


Abstract Latent fingerprint has become more popular and attracted among the researchers in the recent days and it has been used widely in security such as India's Aadhaar project, Department of Homeland Security's US-VISIT program, the UK Border Agency, law enforcement and forensic applications. There have been different biometric traits that were used for matching to identify the person. While investigation a small number of accesses are recognized in latent fingerprint images because the fingerprint has own individuality. Latent fingerprint has been consisting some challenges in term of poor quality images, unclear texture and nonlinear distortion, appropriate matching algorithm and publicly available latent fingerprint database. Consequently, the study has considered and talked about different accessible strategies and methods that have been utilized as a part of the past exploration concentrates on furthermore gives the bearing to further research in the different field of inactive unique finger impression application.