The present article rectifies a noticeable lacuna in the analysis of the Mandinka verbal system and offers a detailed discussion of the meaning of the KAŊ locution (i.e. of the analytical expression be + infinitive + kaŋ) as well as a presentation of its most relevant structural properties. First, the author demonstrates that there are no structural or contextual restrictions on the use of the formation. It may be employed in all kinds of environments: transitive and intransitive or affirmative and negative. It likewise tolerates various types of roots, admitting dynamic, static and adjectival predicates. Second, in respect to the semantic content, although the progressive value of the pe riphrasis clearly predominates various refinements are necessary. The progressive mean


Trilobites are common faunal elements in the Melbourne Formation, a unit of early Ludlow (upper nilssoni Biozone) age, which crops out extensively in the Darraweit Guim Province of the Melbourne Zone, central Victoria. New diagnoses are given for species previously described, including Maurotarion euryceps (McCoy, 1876; = Cyphaspis spryi Gregory, 1901), Raphiophorus jikaensis (Chapman, 1912; = Ampyx yarraensis Chapman, 1912), Cromus simpliciculus (Talent, 1964), Cromus spryi (Chapman, 1912), Sthenarocalymene kilmorensis (Gill, 1945; = Gravicalymene hetera Gill, 1945) and Trimerus harrisoni (McCoy, 1876). A new phacopid genus, Orygmatos is described, represented by the species O. yanyeani gen. et sp. nov. Other species newly described include Cromus melbournensis sp. nov., Arcticalymene australis sp. nov., "Ananaspis" woiwurrungi sp. nov. and Kettneraspis hollowayi sp. nov. Species composition of the trilobite fauna varies spatially, and a number of distinct assemblages can be defined. Abundant trilobite moult configurations are conclusive for interpretation of the benthic fauna as autochthonous, inferring depth estimations based on benthic community distribution to be valid. A depth-related succession of communities is recognised and indicate the Melbourne Formation was deposited at relatively shallow depths on a broad, eastwardly deepening shelf, with deposition dominated by storm processes. The palaeoenvironment comprised a BA-1 community including the Arcticalymene australis trilobite assemblage, restricted to very shallow depths (∼20 m) on the SW coastal margin of the shelf and preserved in proximal tempestite lithologies; and a BA-5 community group containing three distinct trilobite assemblages dominated by species of Cromus and a deeper water fauna, preserved in distal tempestite lithologies and ranging widely over the shelf at depths in the range of maximum storm wave base (∼50 – 80 m).


Since the mandatory introduction in 1998 of electronic immobilisers in all vehicles, new cars are impossible to start without their keys. Some offenders have thus resorted to stealing car keys during domestic burglaries in order to steal the car — a relatively new phenomenon referred to as 'car key burglaries'. With these crimes becoming an increasing problem in the UK, it is imperative that they are recorded accurately in order to identify the true scope of this problem and tackle it effectively. As yet, no universal definition of a car key burglary exists according to which all police constabularies can work, leading to inconsistencies in the recording of these types of crimes. Car key burglary data recorded by Northamptonshire Police was examined and analysed, and significant differences were found between car key and regular domestic burglaries. These differences pertained to the time of day at which the offence occurred, the neighbourhood in which the offence occurred and the search of the property by the offender. The implications of these findings are discussed, as well as limitations of the study, and possible directions for future research that may allow the police to record a domestic burglary more accurately as a car key burglary.


Guided by the scientific development viewpoint and with quality education as its pursuit,the principals' training from primary and secondary schools tends to enhance the principals' ability for their sustainable professional development.Take the training in Chongqing as an example.Facing the new national and city state of elementary education and based on the innovative experiences already made,we explore effective systematic strategies actively so as to realize the coordinate and balanced development of Chongqing elementary education.


The 2008 financial crisis and its impacts on the urban landscape contributed to a proliferation of research on the financialization of urban space, particularly of housing. Today, financialization is a mainstream focus of study within geography. But while scholars have responded to earlier calls to center space and place in their research, it has only been quite recently that geographers have taken up efforts to politicize and contest the financialization of urban space. This essay assesses the emerging body of literature on urban struggles with financialization. It first draws on historical materialist perspectives to situate financialization within urban contexts, showing why there is a particular relationship between this process and urban space, and how moments of crisis reveal tensions in this relationship. Reviewing literature focused on places exposed to the most systemic housing–financial crises in 2008, the essay then explores how residents, activists, and movements have grappled with financialization. It argues that a key aspect of such struggles is the ability to make their presence felt within chains of financial intermediaries or the corporate headquarters of foreign investors. The essay also highlights how moments of crisis open space for more radical tactics that disrupt the dominant production of space and emphasize the social value of housing. It suggests ways to fruitfully expand geographic inquiry into urban struggles with financialization through focusing on the formation of political subjectivities and engaging geographies beyond the global north.


Optical hybrid integration using a PLC platform leads to great progress in optoelectronic technology. Hybrid integration reduces costs of optical modules and also provides us with highly functional modules. Moreover, the platform will enable us to establish an OE multichip module which will be compatible with the electronic assembly hierarchy. This means that hybrid integration will help us to construct broadband optical networks in the multi-media era.


The combination of scientific development with social harmony is "harmonious development".Marx's thoughts on historical progress scale are very illuminating: the development of productivity in the final analysis will promote the development of human beings;the developmental degree of productivity is the signal of the development degree of human beings;"common prosperity" is the end-result of productivity and human beings' harmonious development;the innovation abilities of the subjects are the sustainable strength.Only "harmonious development can bring about intrinsic unification of the development of productivity and the free development in an all-around way of human beings.


Vision alterations associated with globe flattening, chorodial folds and papilledema, shown in some crew members returning from long duration missions. Hypothesis: Ocular neuroanatomical changes observed in the VIIP syndrome are accompanied by retinal changes at the molecular and cellular level that may affect retinal health and physiology. Objective: Investigate evidence of ocular (retinal) changes associated with spaceflight: (1) histological markers of cellular death and damage (2) molecular markers of oxidative stress (3) gene expression markers of stress


The utility model relates to a friction monitor of a welding machine, which belongs to the electromechanical field; a pressure sensor is directly connected to a main cylinder; a coder is directly connected ot the main shaft; output signals passing through the terminal board enter a data collection card and then is delivered to a computer system; the data do comparison with the set parameter of the computer system to monitor pressure and rotation number; a grating scale is connected to a slide table, and signals output by the grating scale are delivered to a digital display table and then the signals passing through an RS232 interface are delivered to the computer system by the digital display table; friction shortening quantity is controlled by computer analysis and judgment; an input output card of a relay is connected with a programmable controller PLC by the terminal board to collect the state of input and output work of the welding machine, and thus the welding machine is controlled. The utility model has the advantages of direct viewing of work process, high respond speed, simple installation and operation, easy maintenance, and stable and reliable operation, and related data and parameters can be displayed in time and stored in the computer.


Abstract In discussing ethnography as a valid heuristic tool in the study of a given community, a number of diverse methodological details were considered. Among these were the phenomenon of modern migrations, ethnicity and minority group cultures in modern urbanized societies, and the South African setting. The validity of participant observation was examined as the most accurate way of analysing and presenting mainly qualitative detail. Participant observation was preceded by a review of other studies of migrant cultures, and was supplemented by a questionnaire-based survey of a section of the community concerned. The study itself sought to investigate select salient details of an urban Hellenic community within the South African social context. The subjects comprised foreign-born as well as South African-born individuals. However, the structured questionnaire was administered to post-1945 immigrants only. Substantive detail included the distinctive elements of Greek ethnicity in general and the charact...


ity of patients were women, representing 57.63% (83 female patients) of the case group. In the 1,728 total entheses evaluated in the case group, thickening was the most common ultrasound finding, identified in 29.1% of patients, followed by alteration of tendon ecotexture (structure) in 27.3%, calcification in 21.6%, bursitis in 16.5%, positive Doppler power signals in 7.2%, and erosion in 2.8%. Of the 1,728 entheses that were evaluated by ultrasound, 1,143 (66.14%) showed at least one signal indicative of enthesopathy. The most affected joint corresponded to thickening of the calcaneus tendon (165/288; 57.3%), followed by thickening of the plantar fasciae (151/288; 52.4%), the distal patellar tendon (288; 20.5%), triceps (55/288; 19.1%), quadriceps (53/288; 18.4%), and finally, the proximal patellar tendon (6.9%). In the PsoA framework, it is possible to evaluate types of injuries and the degree of injury. Doppler is an indicative signal of an inflammatory process in evaluated entheses of the body, according to the ultrasound criteria for MASEI, and should be incorporated into the standard evaluation protocol for patients in order to provide better followup. The epidemiological profile of patients with psoriasis and/or subclinical and clinical psoriatic arthritis reveals overweight women with a mean age of 50 years who have a disease duration of more than 15 years, controlled disease, and who are treated with topical medications and methotrexate. The majority of patients were negative for rheumatoid factor, with controlled cutaneous psoriasis, and 39.8% had a diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis and a reduction in quality of life.


With the help of linguistic data obtained from Russian epic tales deep conventional meanings of key concepts (reward, boasting and sadness) represented by identical folklore formulas are analyzed, which proves the variety and richness of existential content of the latter in the face of a limited set of means of their expression. Variations in conventional meanings in the formulas correlate to tradition and occur in the text


We herein report a 79‐year‐old woman who underwent surgery had recurred non‐small cell lung cancer and developed irAEs following ICI treatment. During ICI treatment, we conducted monthly measurements of the serum antibody levels in this patient, including those which were both tumor‐ (anti‐p53 antibody) and nonspecific (immunoglobulins). Anti‐p53 antibodies and IgM had not increased during ICI treatment, but the serum levels of IgG and IgA had gradually increased before the occurrence of irAEs. These results suggest that monitoring serum immunoglobulin levels might enable the early detection of ICI‐induced immune responses in patients with lung cancer.


The representation of good audio features is the first and foremost requirement for improving the identification performance of any system. Most of the representation learning approaches are based on connectionist systems to learn and extract latent features from the speech data. This research work presents a hybrid feature extraction approach to integrate Mel‐Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) features with Shifted Delta Cepstral (SDC) coefficients features, which are further stacked to Deep Belief Network (DBN), for yielding new feature representations of the speech signals. DBN is utilized for unsupervised feature learning on the extracted MFCC‐SDC acoustic features. A 3‐layer Back Propagation Neural Network (BPNN) classifier is initialized in terms of the learning outcomes of hidden layers of DBN for identifying language from the uttered speech. The efficiency of the proposed approach is evaluated by simulating several experimental algorithms on the user‐defined database of isolated words in four languages, namely, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, and English, in the working platform of MATLAB. The obtained results for the proposed hybrid approach MFCC‐SDC‐DBN are promising. The proposed approach is also compared with the baseline feature extraction approach MFCC‐SDC by utilizing traditional acoustic features and BPNN classifier. The accuracy obtained with our proposed approach is 98.1% whereas that of the baseline approach is 82%, thereby providing an overall improvement of 16.1%.


The publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 began a scientific revolution that changed many people's view of the world. Although Darwin's ideas were controversial, in the United States he had a powerful advocate: Harvard's Asa Gray, an evangelical Christian who was America's leading botanist and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (of which William Jennings Bryan— one of John Scopes's prosecutors—was a member). Gray, who helped arrange for the publication of Origin in the United States, was the only American taken into Darwin's confidence before Origin was published (Larson 1989). Gray espoused a progressive, God-driven evolution of life. Although some people were disturbed by Darwin's ideas, Gray's reconciliation of God and evolution eased many people's concerns about evolution (Scott 1994, Moore 1997). Gray's First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology (1857; later renamed The Elements of Botany) was the leading botany textbook of the late 19th century and the first high school textbook after the publication of Origin to include Darwin's ideas about evolution. Early in the 20th century the public's concerns about evolution resurfaced, for by the end of World War I, religious attitudes in the United States had shifted. A perceived decline in morality, along with a collective longing for the seeming simplicity of prewar life, prompted many people to reexamine and increasingly rely on their religious faith for comfort and stability. Religious fundamentalism, based on a literal interpretation of the Bible, became increasingly popular. People who endorsed biblical literalism got their name—fundamentalists—from a series of 12 small pamphlets (containing 90 articles) entitled The Fundamentals that were written between 1910 and 1915. These pamphlets, whose publication was funded by Lyman and Milton Steward (the founders of the Union Oil Company), proclaimed biblical literalism as the antidote to "modernism." Millions of the pamphlets were distributed (Larson 1989, Clouse 1995). In the 1920s, fundamentalists tried to translate their beliefs into political reform and thereby save the nation's morality. After a successful crusade to outlaw liquor, fundamentalists set out to eliminate discussions of evolution in public schools. Led by religious leaders such as William Bell Riley, J. Frank Norris, and—most prominently—William Jennings Bryan, fundamentalists began a campaign that blamed Darwin's ideas for the decline of the nation's morality. Fundamentalist preachers such as Billy Sunday (a former Chicago Cubs outfielder) used theatrical services to link evolution with eugenics, prostitution, and crime; Aimee Semple McPherson presided at ritual hangings of "monkey teachers"; other preachers claimed that Darwin's ideas promoted the four P's: prostitution, perversion, pornography, and permissiveness


Based on the associated theory of spleen-kidney deficiency about the traditional Chinese medicine and experimental research to discuss myasthenia gravis treated by integrative medicine.According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine,the mechanism of myasthenia gravis is Qi deficiency of the spleen-stomach.Experimental studies showed supplementing spleen and kidney can improve ATP,muscle glycogen,fat content,other molecular biology material foundations,skeletal muscle cells under hypoxia and mitochondrial structure of animal models and patients,and therefore treat the deficiency of both spleen and kidney.

Key words:
Spleen-kidney deficiency; Myasthenia gravis


Animal experiments recently suggested that administration of anti‐C5a, anti‐C5a receptor or soluble complement receptor type‐1 may be of value in the treatment of septic shock. Because results regarding C5a receptor expression (C5a‐R, CD‐88) have been found to differ between septic animals and patients, the aim of this study was to investigate the neutrophil and monocyte receptor expression of CD‐88 and complement receptor‐1 (CR‐1, CD‐35) after stimulation with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) ex vivo.


A ball balancer for a vertical rotor having multi-layer balancing rooms is provided to increase balancing effect by assisting the balancing action of the lower balancing room by the action of the upper balancing room. A ball balancer installed at a vertical rotor to keep balance when the rotor is turned is composed of a body(1) having cylindrical balancing rooms(12) formed inside in multiple layers and plural balls(2) stored in the balancing rooms formed in the body. Each balancing room comprises a body(11) having an inclined part(122) extended from a bottom(121), a curved part(123) extended from the inclined part, an upper large diameter part(124) extended from the curved part, and a cover(12) installed at an opening end portion of the body.


The stability of a two-step data correlation processing algorithm against the errors in directional patterns and power gains of antenna system reception paths has been studied in the problem of passive amplitude monopulse direction finding.


This research aims to find out the influence of Science Process Skills between a group of students who learn Science by using subject spesific pedagogy (SSP) of the elaborative lab work result - based with the ones who learn by using subject spesific pedagogy (SSP) of conventional lab work - based in the IX grade of SMPN 2 Tolitoli in academic year 2016/2017. The type of research is quasi-experimental study using non equivalent control group design. Two classes are chosen as samples by using random sampling techniques, they are class IXB as the experimental class and IXC as the control class. Each class consists of 31 Students. The data of science process skills (SPS) are obtained through observation sheets. Then the data are analyzed by descriptive analysis techniques on significance of 5%. The result shows the significance is < 0,005, thus it can be concluded that the application of SSP during teaching and learning process of Science of the elaborative lab work result-based significantly effects on science process skills (SPS) of the students compared with the conventional ones. It is also reinforced by the improvement of criteria of SPS, which is 0,5 (medium category) for the experimental class and 0,1 (low category) for the control class.


ARTICLE INFORMATION Received: September 2, 2011 Received in revised form: November 20, 2011 Accepted: December 3, 2011 Email: A six day trial evaluating three different trapping methods for red palm weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, was conducted in a commercial coconut plantation in the Philippines. Results clearly demonstrated that the treatment composed of freshly cut coconut palm stumps with stacks of sectioned trunks and palm hearts combined with the RPW aggregation pheromone (Ferrolure), the synergist ethyl acetate (weevil magnet), and food additives (either fermented dates of sections of palm hearts) was most effective at attracting and retaining adult RPW (n = 23 adults captured in six days). Two other treatments, bottle traps with aggregation pheromone and synergists, or freshly cut coconut palm stumps and stacks of cut palm trunks, failed to capture to adult RPW over the course of this experiment. * Corresponding Author: INTRODUCTION aggregation pheromone, a two component blend of "ferrugineol" (4-methyl-5-nonanol) and "ferrugineone" (4The red palm weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus methyl-5-nonane) (Hallett et al., 1993), pheromone (Olivier), (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) is considered to be the technology has been widely used to manage RPW in world's most serious invasive pest of palms. Larvae feed commercial date plantations (e.g., Saudi Arabia) and for internally causing extensive damage which can result in palm monitoring populations in urban areas (e.g., California). mortality. Native to South Asia and Melanesia where Area-wide control and monitoring programs for RPW depend coconuts (Cocosnucifera L.) are a highly preferred host, RPW heavily on trapping active adult weevils using bucket traps has been moved globally through the international trade in baited with the aggregation pheromone, synergists (e.g., ethyl palms (Murphy and Briscoe, 1995). It is an economic pest of acetate), and food additives (e.g., fermented dates, sugar cane, date palms (Phoenix dactylifera L.) in the Middle East with or pieces of freshly cut palm). Despite the commercial ~50% of these nations having RPW infestations (El-Mergawy availability of this pheromone and recommendations for its and Al-Ajlan, 2011; Faleiro, 2006) and the FAO has identified use as part of an IPM program in date plantations, little RPW as a category-1 pest of date palms in this region. information is available on the utility of trapping RPW, Ornamental plantings of Canary Islands palms (P. canariensis especially the red stripe "vulneratus" morph, in the native Chabaud) in urban areas in the Mediterranean (e.g., France, area of this pest. Sivapragasam et al. (2010) demonstrated that Italy, and Spain) have been severely affected by this pest the "vulneratus" morph is attracted to the RPW aggregation (Faleiro 2006). The red stripe form of RPW (i.e., adults are pheromone in coconut plantations in Malaysia, which black with a dorsal red stripe that runs from the anterior encompasses part of the native range of this color morph margin of the pronotum to the posterior margin of the (Wattanapongsiri, 1966). Here we present results from metanotum), formerly known as R. vulneratus (Panzer) and R. trapping trials conducted to assess the attractiveness of the schach Olivier, before being synomized by Hallett et. al., RPW aggregation pheromone together with the ethyl acetate (2004) with R. ferrugineus, is a potential new palm pest in synergist and food additives to the "vulneratus" morph in a Southern California (USA) following its discovery in Orange commercial coconut plantation in the Philippines, an area that County in 2010 (Hoddle, 2011a,b,c). constitutes part of the native range of this color form With the identification and synthesis of the male produced (Wattanapongsiri, 1966).


AbstractA prototype wideband coherent Doppler profiler (MFDop) was tested for measuring bedload velocity of different gravel and coarse-sand-sized fractions (d = 1–32 mm) in the laboratory. The sediment was spread out on a smooth-surface tray, and motion was initiated by tilting the tray at angles of α = 20°–39° from the horizontal. Particle velocities downslope (u), cross slope (υ), and vertical to the tray (w) were determined for different MFDop parameter settings, such as monostatic/bistatic configuration, acoustic beam angle, and pulse length. Video observations of bed particle velocity were made for comparison to the acoustic measurements. Velocities estimated using the MFDop equal to, on average, 71%–74% of the velocities determined using the video observations. Standard deviations ranged from 21% to 35%, including observed irregular motion. Three stages of sediment motion were observed: (i) single particles moving with u ≤ 5 cm s−1, (ii) varying motion of particles and particle groups with predomin...


In this work we present the magnetic structures and spin reorientation (SR) transitions of the mixed orthochromite-orthoferrite perovskites $R\mathrm{F}{\mathrm{e}}_{0.5}\mathrm{C}{\mathrm{r}}_{0.5}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ ($R=\mathrm{Tb}$, Dy, Ho, Er). Magnetization as a function of temperature and external magnetic field as well as neutron powder diffraction measurements were used to characterize the magnetic transitions, including the SR transitions in the transition metal sublattice and the ordering of the rare earth sublattice. The studied compounds order antiferromagnetically below 270 K in a ${\mathbf{G}}_{\mathbf{x}}$ configuration compatible with the ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Gamma}}}_{4}$ representation. As temperature decreases, all the compounds show a SR transition from ${\mathbf{G}}_{\mathbf{x}}$ (${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Gamma}}}_{4}$) to ${\mathbf{G}}_{\mathbf{z}}$ (${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Gamma}}}_{2}$). This transition occurs in a wide temperature range, where both magnetic configurations coexist. Below this SR, the behavior in each case depends on the rare earth. $\mathrm{HoF}{\mathrm{e}}_{0.5}\mathrm{C}{\mathrm{r}}_{0.5}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ shows $\mathrm{H}{\mathrm{o}}^{3+}$ sublattice ordering at a relatively high temperature (45 K). $\mathrm{DyF}{\mathrm{e}}_{0.5}\mathrm{C}{\mathrm{r}}_{0.5}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ and $\mathrm{ErF}{\mathrm{e}}_{0.5}\mathrm{C}{\mathrm{r}}_{0.5}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ show a second SR transition of the transition metal sublattice, from ${\mathbf{G}}_{\mathbf{z}}$ (${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Gamma}}}_{2}$) to ${\mathbf{G}}_{\mathbf{y}}$ (${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Gamma}}}_{1}$) at low temperatures (15 and 8 K, respectively). Below these temperatures a metamagnetic (MM) transition is observed for these two compounds at an external magnetic field of H \ensuremath{\approx} 7 kOe. The fact that this is only observed for compounds showing ${\mathbf{G}}_{\mathbf{z}}$ (${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Gamma}}}_{2}$) to ${\mathbf{G}}_{\mathbf{y}}$ (${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Gamma}}}_{1}$) transition suggests that there is a correlation between the ${\mathbf{G}}_{\mathbf{y}}$ (${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Gamma}}}_{1}$) order and the MM transition. Finally, $\mathrm{TbF}{\mathrm{e}}_{0.5}\mathrm{C}{\mathrm{r}}_{0.5}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ is a peculiar case, since it is the only compound in this family that shows a re-entrant SR to ${\mathbf{G}}_{\mathbf{x}}$ (${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Gamma}}}_{4}$) at very low temperatures. By combining these results with previous reports on $R\mathrm{Fe}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$, $R\mathrm{Cr}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$, and $R\mathrm{F}{\mathrm{e}}_{0.5}\mathrm{C}{\mathrm{r}}_{0.5}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$, we develop a method to qualitatively estimate the SR temperature and the type of transition. We also propose a complete magnetic phase diagram containing the SR transitions and ${R}^{3+}$ ordering temperatures for all the $R\mathrm{F}{\mathrm{e}}_{0.5}\mathrm{C}{\mathrm{r}}_{0.5}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ ($R=\mathrm{Tb}$, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu) compounds.


Cuticular membranes (CM) were isolated enzymatically from leaves of amphibious and submerged plants, and the oxygen permeability of aerial and aquatic CMs was compared using a specially constructed oxygen electrode. Their thicknesses were estimated from transmission electron micrographs of intact leaves. When dry CMs were moistened, the permeability of typical aerial CMs changed differently from that of typical aquatic CMs during the desiccation, apparently reflecting different internal structures. The cuticle thickness was mostly < 100 nm, and the range of permeance values was 5–143 × 10−6 m s−1, corresponding to resistance values of 7–210 × 103 s m−1. The resistance of an aerial CM was always higher than that of an aquatic one from the same species. Only the aquatic CMs showed a weak proportionality between resistance and thickness. The relation between resistance and thickness varied from aquatic to aerial CMs in a species specific way.


We demonstrated that the total deletion of sodium/ glucose cotransporter 1 (SGLT1) protected against transverse aortic constriction (TAC)-induced cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis in C57 BL/6J mice. In contrast, Ferté, et al. showed that compared with wild-type (WT) mice, the same type of SGLT1 knock-out mice as used in our laboratory did not exhibit protection against TAC-induced cardiac remodeling. In fact, there are several differences between our and their SGLT1 knock-out mice. Phosphorylated AMPKα protein expression and gene expressions of GLUT1 and GLUT4 were increased in our SGLT1 knock-out compared with WT mice, while they were similar between their SGLT1 knock-out and WT mice. Moreover, phosphorylated ERK protein was also increased in our SGLT1 knock-out compared with WT mice. Although both we and they obtained the same SGLT1 knock out mouse model from Koepsell's group, these differences may have led to the discordance in results between our study and their study. In fact, there are several environmental differences, such as diet, between our laboratories, which may reflect the differences between our and their results. Moreover, Mekada and Yoshiki reviewed genetic differences among C57BL/6 substrains. Although the type of C57BL/6 substrain used in their SGLT1 knock-out mice is not known, our SGLT1 knock-out mice obtained from Koepsell's group were crossed with newly purchased C57BL/6JJmsSlc mice several times, suggesting the presence of differences in C57BL/6 substrains between our and their SGLT1 knock-out mice. Therefore, our SGLT1 knock-out mouse may not be identical to theirs, which may reflect the different results between the two studies. As they indicate, TAC-induced left ventricular contractile dysfunction was mild in our study compared with that in their study. This may also have affected the differences in the results. Ferté, et al. showed that murine and human hearts exclusively expressed an SGLT1 transcript variant that lacks glucose-binding domains mandatory for glucose transport, and cardiac SGLT1 hardly worked under physiological conditions. However, whether cardiac SGLT1 functions under pathological conditions is still uncertain. We demonstrated that phenylephrine failed to increase the size of cardiomyocytes isolated from SGLT1 knock-out mice compared with that of WT mice. Moreover, KGA2727, a selective SGLT1 blocker, which does not act on the transcript variant described above, inhibited cardiomyocyte hypertrophy by phenylephrine in WT mice (Figure A), suggesting the participation of cardiac SGLT1 in the development of cardiac remodeling under pathological conditions. Our recent study demonstrated that myocardial infarction (MI) caused by left descending coronary artery ligation decreased left ventricular fractional shortening (FS) and induced cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis in WT mice. MI also increased SGLT1 protein expression in WT mouse ventricles. KGA-2727 treatment improved this cardiac remodeling in MI hearts. We also studied the effects of KGA-2727 on TAC-induced cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis. KGA-2727 treatment protected against TACinduced decreases in FS (Figure B), cardiac hypertrophy (Figure C), and fibrosis (Figure D) in WT mice. These results suggest that SGLT1 participates in the development of cardiac remodeling through increases in SGLT1 protein expression in mouse hearts under pathological conditions. Nevertheless, in our SGLT1 knock-out mice, whether cardiac SGLT1 functions under pathological conditions is still unclear. Therefore, cardiac glucose uptake via SGLT1 should be measured using positron emission tomography ( PET ) with α-methyl-4-deoxy-4[ 18 F ] fluoro-Dglucopyranoside (Me4[F]FDG), which is selectively taken up via SGLT1, in our SGLT1 knock-out mice after TAC.


According to the raw material condition of Anyang Iron and Steel Co.Ltd.,analyze the adoption feasibility of low temperature sintering technology,put forward the corresponding technical measure,and introduce the production effect.


Besides the common-Semitic forms mšrq and m'rb for east and west, we find in certain Sabæan inscriptions the terms "towards Yatîl" and "towards Qatabân" employed. Rhodokanakis followed by Höfner assumes the former of these terms to imply "eastwards" and the latter "westwards". The argument leading to this seems to be roughly as follows: (1) in the Minæan inscription EES 2830, 1–2, ḍr' is opposed to mṣbḥ, and since the latter plainly means the east ḍr' must mean west and is to be compared with the Arabic expression "the sun was near setting"; (2) in the Minæan RES 2774, 5, bn śnn ḍr' is opposed to bn śnn ytl, which therefore must mean eastwards (3) in the Sabæan CIH 570, 5, "towards Yatîl" is a correlative of "towards Qatabân", which therefore means westwards; (4) this is confirmed by Gl. 739, 3, where "towards Qatabân" is opposed to "towards the east" (mšrqn) in the parallel text RES 852.


The point of departure for this study is the offical recognition by the Swedish government in 1977 of the Sami as an indigenous people. This recognition was typical for its time in an international perspective. The 1970s saw a shift in the global discourse on the status of indigenous peoples that included recognition as something else than "mere" minorities. In the 1980s this development took institutionalised form when the UN appointed a Working Group on Indigenous Populations and gave it the task of drafting a declaration on indigenous peoples' rights. This process ended in 2007 when the General Assembly adopted the Declaration and thereby recognised that, in addition to the traditional rights of miorities, such as cultural, linguistic and religious rights, indigneous peoples also have the right to self-determination and special rights to land. The global discourse of indigenous peoples' rights is further strengthened by ILO Convention no 169 from 1989. During the same period, the UN have developed the global discourse on minority rights trhough its Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities from 1992. The minority discourse has also been developed regionally through the Eruopean Council's Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (1993) and Framework Conventionf or the Protection of National Minorities (1995). This study has analysed how the official Swedish discourse of the status and rights of the Sami have developed from 1986-2005, i.e. from the year when the Sami Rights Commission (appointed by the government to inquire what the recognised status of the Sami as an indigneous people might mean in practice) produced its first report on the status of the Sami, and compared that to development within international law during the same period. The conclusion is that Sweden, a country otherwise propagating human rights, has trouble adapting to the developing global discourse on indignous peoples' rights. It has not ratified ILO Convention no 169 dute to the issue of land rights and has not taken steps to implement other parts of the convention, leaving the global discourse of indigenous peoples outside Swedish Sami politics. In contrast, Sweden has ratified the two minority conventons of the European Council and has based its minority politics (which includes the Sami) on these conventions. Sweden has thereby clearly adapted to international standards regarding national minorities. For the Sami, this means that in addition to unique, but very limited, historical rights to the use of land, that do not live up to the standards set by the global indigenous rights discourse, they also have national minority rights. Discursively, this puts the Sami in Sweden in a position of being a "minority de luxe" rather than an indigenous people.


A semiconductor memory device and a driving method thereof are provided to easily repair a defective memory cell of the semiconductor memory device, which does not include an external reset pin, by enabling initialization of an internal logic even while operating the semiconductor memory device. A semiconductor memory device includes a power up signal generator(200), an internal reset signal generator(230), an internal logic initialization signal generator(240), and internal logics(220). The power up signal generator generates a power up signal, which is activated when the level of a source voltage exceeds a predetermined threshold level. The internal reset signal generator generates an internal reset signal in response to a pad signal received through an external pin, which is not a dedicated reset pin. The internal logic initialization signal generator generates the internal logic initialization signal in response to the internal reset signal and the power up signal. The internal logics are initialized to a predetermined value in response to the internal logic initialization signal.


Not all product and service quality are equally important to customers. Several studies have applied regression analysis to identify the key elements affecting customer satisfaction. This paper used an extended Kano model based on the moderated regression analysis to improve the defects of the traditional Kano model. The model is validated using data collected from express delivery service. And the empirical results show that the method produces more accurate classification. Overall, this study makes contributions to both Kano model improvement and express delivery service quality optimization.


A PRELIMINARY survey of the incidence of parasitic protozoa in the mouths of 50 patients revealed that 56 per cent harbored Entamoeba gingivalis, 62 per cent Trichomonas tenax, and 30 per cent both of these. One sample taken from the mouth of a woman 50 years of age who had traveled in Central and South America revealed, in addition to E. gingivalis, numerous leptomonad stages of Leishmania braziliensis. These results were determined from microscopic examination (wet smear) of scrapings from debris in various cavities and in and around the gingival crevice within 2 hours after collection of the material. Leptomonads were also successfully cultured in Novy, MacNeal, and Nicolle's medium (Contrib. Med. Research [V. C. Vaughn], Ann Arbor, Mich., 1903, p. 549). Further study of 300 additional patients revealed: 41 per cent harboring E. gingivatis, 22 per cent T. tenax, and 18 per cent both. Nineteen samples diagnosed as negative by original wet smear examination were found positive on culturing (6, E. gingivalis; 13, T. tenax) in Balamuth's egg-yolk fluid medium (Am. J. Clin. Path. 16: 380, 1946), Dobell and Laidlaw's solid egg slant medium (Parasitology 18: 283, 1926) and a combination of these, overlaying solid egg slants with egg yolk fluid. Cultures showed better growth when bacteria were inhibited by the addition of 200-300 units of penicillin G and 1,000-1,200 units of streptomycin per milliliter. While both these protozoans were found not infrequently in mouths rated as "clean and healthy" (226 patients-E. gingivalts 31 per cent, T. tenax 11.5 per cent, both 8.0 per cent), E. gingivalis was demonstrated invariably and ft. tenax frequently in cases of pyorrhea (12 patients E. gingivalis 100 per cent, T. tenax, 58.3 per cent, both 58.3 per cent). A high incidence also occurred in patients showing early progressive stages of periodontosis (62 patients-E. gingivalis 66 per cent, T. tenax 53.2 per cent, both 46.7 per cent). Wet smears of samples from diseased mouths revealed as many as 5 E. gingivatis and 25 T. tenax per highpowver field (650x) in contrast to only an occasional organism in cases of infection in "clean and healthy" mouths. The average number of various lesions per individual was 1.99 per cent for the infected patients and 1.63 per cent for patients who were not harboring the protozoa. In general, the incidence of both E. gingivalis and T. tenax increased with age of patients. Findings by age groups were (1) 11 children 6-12 years no protozoa; (2) 76 teenagers 13-19 years E. gingivalis 21.1 per cent, T. tenax 3.9 per cent; (3) 89 patients 20-30 years E. gingivalis 44.9 per cent, fT. tenax 22.5 per cent; (4) 40 patients 31-40 yearsE. gingivatis 55 per cent, T. tenax 32.5 per cent; (5) 56 patients 41-50 years E. gingivalis 50 per cent, T. tenax 37.5 per cent; (6) 23 patients 51-60 years E. gingivalis 60.9 per cent, T. tenax 39.1 per cent; (7) 5 patients 61-80 years-E. gingivalis 60 per cent, T. tenax none. Approximately equal numbers of males and females were examined (males 151, females 149) and each sex showed about an equal incidence of protozoa (males, E. gingivalis 39 per cent, T. tenax 21.8 per cent; females, E. gingivalis 42.9 per cent, fT. tenax 22.1 per cent). The degree of salivary flow (slight, average, extreme) was not correlated in any way with the presence or absence of protozoa. Both E. gingivalis and T. tenax were found capable of cytolysis of epithelial cells, erythrocytes, and leukocytes, and E. gingivalts commonly ingests red blood cells and nuclear fragments of white blood cells. Each of these protozoa shows, in certain stages of its life cycle, structural characteristics and behavior patterns characteristic of the other. T. tenax was observed to throw out short, blunt pseudopod structures, to form comparatively thick and


The main topic of the bachelors work is an issue of the cyberbullying among children and teenagers. A theoretical part pursues the context, basics terms, the definition and the partition of the cyberbullying. It deals with actors, solutions and projects in the Czech republic and abroad. A practical part describes the research at an elementary school. The main objective is to find out whether the problem of the cyberbullying concerns students. It focuses on a students awareness, experiences with the cyberbulying and a students movement on the internet. It solves how much time they spend here, which activities they are looking for or the safety.


Choosing an effective spherical numerical integration method is one of the key problems in reconstruction of incident sound field by using spherical microphone array based on spherical near-field acoustic holography (SNAH). Many different spherical numerical integration methods are reported, such as I.H.Sloan, Spherical-t design, J.Fliege, etc., each method applies different distributions of discrete positions and integral weights in the design of spherical microphone array. In the paper, the accuracies of sound pressure reconstruction results based on SNAH with different spherical numerical integration methods are examined and compared. It is found that spherical-t integration method can provide more options of discrete points, simple algorithmic due to equal weight of each point, and the same or higher precision of sound pressure reconstruction. Meanwhile, the expansion terms of reconstructed sound pressure has to be truncated at an optimal number in order to minimize the impact of spherical numerical i...


Background: Arsenic is a significant global environmental health problem. Exposure to arsenic in early life has been shown to increase the rate of respiratory infections during infancy, reduce childhood lung function, and increase the rates of bronchiectasis in early adulthood. Objective: We aimed to determine if early life exposure to arsenic exacerbates the response to early life influenza infection in mice. Methods: C57BL/6 mice were exposed to arsenic in utero and throughout postnatal life. At 1 week of age, a subgroup of mice were infected with influenza A. We then assessed the acute and long-term effects of arsenic exposure on viral clearance, inflammation, lung structure, and lung function. Results: Early life arsenic exposure reduced the clearance of and exacerbated the inflammatory response to influenza A, and resulted in acute and long-term changes in lung mechanics and airway structure. Conclusions: Increased susceptibility to respiratory infections combined with exaggerated inflammatory responses throughout early life may contribute to the development of bronchiectasis in arsenic-exposed populations. Citation: Ramsey KA, Foong RE, Sly PD, Larcombe AN, Zosky GR. 2013. Early life arsenic exposure and acute and long-term responses to influenza A infection in mice. Environ Health Perspect 121:1187–1193; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1306748


Near-duplicate keyframes (NDKs) are important visual cues to link news stories from different TV channel, time, language, etc. However, the quadratic complexity required for NDK detection renders it intractable in large-scale news video corpus. To address this issue, we propose a temporal, semantic and visual partitioning model to divide the corpus into small overlapping partitions by exploiting domain knowledge and corpus characteristics. This enables us to efficiently detect NDKs in each partition separately and then link them together across partitions. We divide the corpus temporally into sequential partitions and semantically into news story genre groups; and within each partition, we visually group potential NDKs by using asymmetric hierarchical k-means clustering on our proposed semi-global image features. In each visual group, we detect NDK pairs by exploiting our proposed SIFT-based fast keypoint matching scheme based on local color information of keypoints. Finally, the detected NDK groups in each partition are linked up via transitivity propagation of NDKs shared by different partitions. The testing on TRECVID 06 corpus with 62k keyframes shows that our proposed approach could result in multifold increase in speed as compared to the best reported approach and complete the NDK detection in a manageable time with satisfactory accuracy.


The structure and dielectric properties of Bi2O3-ZnO-Nb2O5 based (Bi1.5– SmxZn0.5)(Zn0.5Nb1.5)O7 ceramics x doped with Sm2O3 were investigated. Samples were prepared by conventional ceramic processing technology. The X-ray diffraction technique was used to analyze the phase structure .The results shtow that the crystal structure of undoped (Bi1.5Zn0.5)(Zn0.5Nb1.5)O7 samples are characterized as pure cubic pyrochlore. Lower amount of Sm2O3 doped(0≤x≤0.5), the crystal structure is still cubic pyrochlore. With increasing amount of Sm2O3 doped(x≥0.6), the crystal structure transformed from cubic pyrochlore to Sm3NbO7 and ZnO biphases. The dielectric properties changed regularly with the structure.


The translating process is determined by many factors. The translating process can proceed according to the language scales and hierarchies. In this article, the reasons for the determination of translation on the text are discussed, and the objective and subjective factors are analyzed.


The invention relates to an exothermic molding material mixture for producing feeders for casting aluminum, comprising at least: - a fireproof base molding material; - a binder; - a proportion of an oxidizable metal of from 5 to 18% by weight relative to the molding material mixture; - an oxidizing agent at a proportion of 10 to 50% by weight relative to the quantity of oxidizing agent required for completely oxidizing the oxidizable metal; and - an igniter for oxidizing the oxidizable metal at a proportion of 15 to 50% by weight relative to the quantity of the oxidizable metal. A feeder made of the exothermic molding material mixture ignites reliably, even at low temperatures, and is characterized by low heat emission. It is therefore particularly suitable for casting aluminum.


Introduction: There are few studies on the prevalence of anemia in first year College students. In our country, the number of adolescents with anemia is unknown. In this research, 103 cases of anemia out of 3127 university students between the ages 18 and 24 were studied. Objectives: To determine the prevalence of anemia in the students of the "Universidad Veracruzana "through the Annual Integral Health Exam (AIHE). Materials and methods: A total of 3127 files of the AIHE files were reviewed and analyzed, and they presented low hemoglobin levels, indicative of anemia. Results: The prevalence of anemia in the first-year students, according to the AIHE, was of 3.3% (103 cases). According to the gender, females presented the greater percentage with 96 (93.2%) files with low hemoglobin


If g(z) is analytic, univalent, and convex in the unit disk E = {izi -0. In particular, it is proved HA is starlike in E for each A e: [0, 1} when g" (0) = 0. §l. Introduction. Let S be the class of analytic univalent functions fez) = z+I:=2anzn in the unit disk E ={z:lzl -2/3 but HA need not be starlike for 0 < A < 2/3. Later, Chichra and Singh [1] found subclass* es of S such that HA e: S for alIa < A < 1 whenever g is in


Background: Despite multiple study trials, the management of Term PROM is still controversial. The current study was carried out in our population to compare the results of both active and expectant management that will be applicable for management of such patients in future. Aim: To compare the outcomes of active versus expectant management in patients with term PROM in terms of cesarean section rate, mean latency period &chorioamnionitis. Study design: Randomized controlled trial Settings:Department of Obs.&Gynae,AllamaIqbal Medical College, Jinnah Hospital Lahore. Duration: Six months period (1 st January 2013 to 30 th June 2013). Methods:Two hundred women with rupture membranes at or >37 weeks gestation fulfilling the inclusion criteria were enrolled in this study.The cases selected were allocated randomly through lottery method into two groups i.e. Group A (actively managed group) was induced with tablet misoprostol and Group B (expectantly managed group) watched for spontaneous occurrence of labour within 24 hrs after PROM.Data was compiled, transferred and analyzed through SPSS (version10). Means and standard deviations were calculated for quantitative data e.g., age, latency period. Chi square was applied for comparison of outcome variables i.e., C-section &chorioamnionitis and t test was used to compare the mean latency period in both groups. Results:The induction to labour interval was significantly shorter in induced group. Delivery within 12 hours occurred in 97(97%) cases of group A and 83(83%) cases in group B while within 24 hours occurred in all 100(100%) and 97(97%) cases respectively. There was no statistically significant difference in the duration of labour and also in the mode of delivery. There was also no statistically significant difference in Apgar score at 5 minutes and admission of neonates to intensive care unit (87% and 80%) in group A and group B respectively. Conclusion:There was no difference in the active and expectant management in patients with prelabour rupture of membranes at term.


Here I develop the idea, which I have presented elsewhere, that time instants are abstract entities existing tenselessly and therefore that events and changes likewise may be said to exist tenselessly in virtue of their place at a certain space-time point.


Over the past few years, as part of the Oak Ridge Leadership Class Facility project (OLCF-3), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been engaged with several third party tools vendors with the aim of enhancing the tool offerings for ORNLs GPU-based platform, Titan. This effort has resulted in enhancements to CAPS' HMPP compiler, Allinea's DDT debugger, and the Vampir suite of performance analysis tools from the Technische Universität Dresden. In this paper we will discuss the latest enhancements to these tools, and their impact on applications as ORNL readies Titan for full-scale production as a GPU based heterogeneous system. Keywords-Programming Environments; GPU compilers, Performance Tools, Debuggers, GPU programming


Background: Abortion is one of the important issues that must be considered. This problem gets important attention in health problems because it affects the birth rate and maternal mortality. One of the factors that cause unsafe abortion is the lack of safe abortion services.
Objective: To analyze the relationship between maternal characteristics and abortion behavior at PKBI clinics in East Java province.
Methods: This type of research is analytic using a cross sectional design. Samples from 186 couples of childbearing age were taken randomly. Data collection used secondary data obtained from medical records of patients accessing abortion services at the PKBI clinic in East Java province. Data analysis used logistic regression.
Results: The results showed the relationship between birth spacing (p = 0.001), mother's occupation (p = 0.00), contraceptive use (p = 0.00), history of miscarriage (p = 0.00), gestational age (p = 0.00), reasons for abortion (p = 0.00). = 0.00), family dependents (p = 0.004) with the behavior of couples of childbearing age who had an abortion, while maternal age (p = 0.273), parity (p = 0.341), maternal education (p = 0.069) did not have a relationship with the behavior of age couples fertile who had an abortion.
Conclusion: birth spacing, mother's occupation, use of contraception, history of miscarriage, gestational age, reasons for abortion, and family responsibilities have a very large effect on abortion.


Microstructural-level residual stresses arise in ceramics due to thermal expansion anisotropy. The magnitude of these stresses can be very high and may cause spontaneous microcracking during the processing of these materials. The orientation data obtained by backscattered electron diffraction and grain boundary energies obtained by AFM were used in conjunction with an object oriented finite element analysis package (OOF) to predict the magnitude of residual stresses in alumina. Crack initiation and propagation were also simulated based on the Griffith fracture criterion.


The design of the animation is the core and important part of the whole animation. In the animation works into the appropriate animation design is an important component of animation design, not only has a high appreciation of value, but also for the animation works to bring great commercial value, to better attract people's attention. With the rapid development of science and technology and the rapid development of the global economy, the animation industry should grasp the opportunity of this era, the traditional culture and animation modeling organic combination, in the promotion of animation character modeling process, for the development of traditional culture to create favorable conditions.


The text that follows has focused on the possible conceptual relationship, between inequality, poverty and violence, from the settings of the social question in Brazil. The intention is to make notes and wave to future research problems. The sustained argument over the text seeks to relativize the importance given to the economic dimension as dening the situations of social inequality. It is not the case, however, to deny the importance of the economic aspect, but exploring other possibilities such as exclusion notions, social stigma and subordinated identications. In this sense, poverty and violence may also be located within other dynamic that not only the graphics and international rates (although these are important Vol. 11 Número 22 Jul./Dez. 2016


A method for the synthesis of the steroidal nucleus in general and in particular for the cardiotoxin batrachotoxin has been carried out using a 'one-pot' palladium-mediated annulation sequence. © Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart.


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 The genus Onesia (Diptera: Calliphoridae) is essentially Australasian/Oceanian and Palaearctic Regions in distribution. Two new species of the genus from China are described, viz. Onesia dynatophallus Xue & Bai sp. nov and Onesia franzaosternita Xue & Dong sp. nov. A key to Onesia species in China and a map of their distribution are given. The type specimens are deposited in the Institute of Entomology, Shenyang Normal University.


Non–lesion-directed minimally invasive breast tissue sampling is currently used in the research setting both for risk stratification and for acquisition of material for response biomarkers in phase II chemoprevention trials. Prospective data linking morphology to eventual development of cancer are


Face-to-face communication has turned directly online, which encourages changes in the communication culture of lecturers. Changes in the communication culture require communication competence so that face-to-face thesis guidance runs effectively. Therefore, this research aims to measure the communication competence of lecturers and students when carrying out online guidance. To answer the research objectives, researchers used a case study with a qualitative approach. The theory of analysis used in this study uses the theory of communicative competence based on two dimensions: the cognitive dimension and the behavioral dimension. The data technique used in this study used purposive sampling, which includes several criteria for informants, including two final-year students preparing a thesis using the zoom cloud meeting application, then actively carrying out online thesis guidance and other supporting informants of two supervisors. The results showed that the face-to-face change to online in the guidance of the online thesis culture is still positive because there are communication competencies that are owned; there are two components of communication in online thesis guidance, namely: knowledge (knowledge) and skills (skills), the most positive communication competence—perceived by students and lecturers, namely skills.


1. MOTIVATION In today's scenario, the teaching of courses in embedded systems has become very important. The ever decreasing feature sizes ( keeping in tune with Moore's law) has led to the integration of ever increasing number of transistors in the die. Moore's law also has the additional cascade effect of more devices (or functional units) being integrated in the chip. This clearly has led to the chip becoming more "powerful". These chips when assembled on a PCB now have enough capabilities to build large ("embedded") applications. Apart from this, even single chips offer a lot of processing power. For example, a Virtex II Pro [1] chip contains two embedded PowerPC processors (operating at 400 MHz), 100+ single cycle multipliers, resources to build a memory hierarchy, clock managers and high speed serial transreceivers. Clearly using all these features effectively falls into the embedded systems design paradigm. Today hardware designers are compelled to think of at the level of systems rather than at the level of individual components. Similarly software developers for embedded systems requires proficiency in exploiting available hardware resources and they also may have to guide the other system developers in choosing resources appropriately. In the embedded systems domain, system level design is of crucial importance --this domain fundamentally depends on how effectively we utilize the available resources in an optimum manner. Although embedded systems design is truly interdisciplinary in nature, for purposes of discussion in this paper, we only look at processor based design. The other reason which motivates us to embark on teaching courses in embedded systems is the trend in industry. Today a systems developer is in more demand than a specialist hardware designer. Also the availability of embedded development boards and kits has made the teaching of such courses feasible. In this paper, we try to describe our efforts, in teaching embedded systems and systems design in this scenario. In the next section we try to enumerate what we perceive to be the major constraints in teaching such a course. In section 3, we try to list the key enablers which we believe will help in the success of courses in the embedded systems area. We conducted an experiment in the summer (2006) by organizing a Summer Workshop [2][2]. Section 4 describes the structure of the workshop and the results of the experiment. In section 5, we try to summarize our findings.


Modeling the spatial correlation of ground motion residuals, caused by coherent contributions from source, path, and site, can provide valuable loss and hazard information, as well as a more realistic picture of ground motion intensities. The USGS computer model, ShakeMap, utilizes a deterministic approach to simulate median ground motions based on observed seismic data. ShakeMap based simulations are used to estimate fatalities and economic losses after a seismic event. Incorporating the spatial correlation of ground motion residuals has been shown to improve seismic loss estimation. The method of Park et al. (2007) has been investigated for computing spatially correlated random fields of residuals. However, for large scale ShakeMap models, computational requirements of the method by Park et al. (2007) are prohibitive. In this thesis, for our application-specific seismic ground motion problem, we develop and implement three new computationally efficient methods to model spatially correlated random field of residuals, in conjunction with ShakeMap. First, we develop a memory efficient algorithm to improve the approach proposed by Park et al. (2007). This new, multilevel parallel algorithm is based on decay properties of an associated ground motion correlation function. The first approach is dependent on input grids and the stochastic dimension is induced by the grid size. In the second method, we seek to reduce the dimensionality associated with the computation through global Karhunen Loève (KL) expansions for random fields on the sphere. In the third method, we use a localized version of the KL representation using needlet approximations. We demonstrate the three approaches using extensive simulations.


Online recommendation service had brought economic benefits for traditional catering industry. Aimed at the status quo, user-based collaborative filtering (UCF) algorithm was applied to restaurant recommendations in this paper. However, users' preference about restaurant was affected by many factors, leading traditional UCF algorithm precision was low. In order to solve this problem, three improvement were proposed. Firstly, mean score was enhanced to the calculation of similarity. Secondly, the number of common items between two users was utilized to affect the credibility of similarity, so modification factor was added to weaken the pseudo similar error. Finally, the real personal information online users registered were used to calculate the similarity based on users' attributes. The experimental results show that the modified algorithm (AdvancedCF) can improve the accuracy of the similarity calculation and provide users with more accurate restaurant recommendations.


This paper presents an attempt in education for information society at the University of Rijeka Faculty of Education. The idea that rooted this project is that change in content, but in methods as well, have to be obtained in order to prepare the students for the information age. The simplicity of HTML for development of hypermedia applications allows that students not only learn hypermedia and searching the WWW, but also that they themselves create their own projects. In this study students with no prior experience with Internet and hypermedia were introduced to elementary hypermedia concept and how to design hypermedia applications for World Wide Web. The study focused not on the content of the projects, but more on the design and presentation on a computer using hypermedia elements and HTML.


Although contemporary technology adoption theories incorporate societal norms or peer references, it is unclear to what extent these factors influence choices. In this research, we apply institutional theory and the concept of mimetic isomorphism as peer influences to the technology evaluation process to determine the degree to which managers conform when selecting between competing information technologies. More specifically, we test if peer influence is sufficient to overcome a product evaluation where the choice is believed to be inferior. An experiment is conducted using the World Wide Web and a national sample of 348 senior information technology and business decision makers. Significant effects are found where inferior technologies are selected if respondents are informed that competitors have selected them. Further research is warranted to investigate the presence and extent of these effects but overall implications are that product evaluations may be more ornamental than substantive.


A subdural hematoma (SDH) is usually traumatic in etiology. Non-traumatic instances of SDH are uncommon, and are rarely due to metastases involving the dura. We report a 68-year-old male patient with a one day history of, not communicating and not mobilizing and a 2 weeks history of generalized body weakness. A computed tomography (CT) scan revealed a left sided hypo-dense subdural collection. A diagnosis of left sided chronic subdural hematoma (SDH) was made. Burr hole drainage of the hematoma was performed. Intra- operatively, liquefied blood was drained and a thick dura with reddish material infiltrating the dura was noted. A specimen of the dura was submitted for histology and revealed metastatic carcinoma, confirmed at immunohistochemistry to be of prostatic origin. Conclusion: Metastatic disease should be considered when there is a chronic subdural hematoma with no history of trauma and an unusual dural appearance on imaging.


A flat panel micro speaker was fabricated from (K, Na) NbO3 (KNN)-based multilayer piezoelectric ceramics by a tape casting and cofiring process using Ag-Pd alloys as an inner electrode. The interface between ceramic and electrode was investigated by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM). The acoustic response was characterized by a standard audio test system. We found that the micro speaker with dimensions of 23 × 27 × 0.6 mm3, using three layers of 30 μm thickness KNN-based ceramic, has a high average sound pressure level (SPL) of 87 dB, between 100 Hz–20 kHz under five voltage. This result was even better than that of lead zirconate titanate (PZT)-based ceramics under the same conditions. The experimental results show that the KNN-based multilayer ceramics could be used as lead free piezoelectric micro speakers.


Respiratory illness is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Rett syndrome. This study investigated respiratory morbidity and relationships with age, mutation type, feeding, and walking status.


Introduction The Results: How Britain Voted Overview The Electoral System The Conservatives Labour The Liberal Democrats The EU and the UKIP Factor Scotland Wales Northern Ireland Party Finance Women & the Campaign Media Coverage Immigration The Economic Crisis Disaffection Conclusion Index


A full quantum-mechanical formalism has been developed in order to evaluate the spontaneous emission rate of dipoles embedded in multilayer dielectric structures. A realistic example of an antisymmetric Silicon waveguide is shown and discussed.


Abstract Ensemble integrations of three general circulation models (Center for Ocean–Land–Atmosphere Studies, NCAR, and NCEP) have been performed over five different boreal summer seasons (June through September of 1986–88 and 1993–94) with prescribed observed sea surface temperature to assess the predictability of seasonal climate during the boreal summer. Beyond some inconsistent initialization of soil wetness among the models, there is no land surface contribution to predictability that can be assessed. The models show a rapid degradation of skill in global terrestrial surface temperature after the first month, and no skill in precipitation over land. Potential predictability is assessed by examining in tandem the models' skill as measured by their anomaly correlation coefficients, and the models' signal-to-noise ratio (essentially interannual versus intraensemble variance) as a measure of confidence in the results. Collocation of skill in anomaly simulation and a robust signal is a strong indicator of...


The shape memory effect of stainless shape memory alloy is associated to non-thermolastic g (CFC) « e (HCP) martensitic transformation. Recent results generated by our group have demonstrated that the parent austenite grain size is an important parameter for the degree of shape recovery and also in some others properties such as yield stress, hardness and volume fraction of thermal martensite. Using EBSD, this work shows that besides the above-mentioned parameters, the number of martensite orientation variants decreases when the grain size decreases.


Of the seven essays and one review in this special issue of Life Writing, the first three emerge from the 'Framing Lives' Conference of the International Auto/ Biography Association (IABA) held in July 2012 at the Australian National University in Canberra, and convened by Professors Paul Arthur, Rosanne Kennedy and Gillian Whitlock. The conference was held in partnership with the Humanities Research Centre, the National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University, and the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Its rubric drew attention to the 'extraordinary turn to the visual in contemporary life narrative' across a range of genres, including digital and social media. It also defined its use of the word 'framing' by suggesting 'the ways that lives are lived, recorded and viewed through multiple frames including those of language, politics, place, gender, history and culture.' This issue includes essays that range across and engage with all of these frames. Given the common concern of these essays with post-apartheid South African writing, and especially with the rapidly changing nature of identity-formations since the formal demise of apartheid, this special issue of Life Writing uses the term 're-framing' rather than framing. There is also a noticeable shift to the visual or 'autographics', a term defined by Gillian Whitlock and Anna Poletti as 'indicating from the first its attention to the multiple modes and media of autobiographical texts, and to the tensions between "auto" and "graph" in the rapidly changing visual and textual cultures of autobiography' ('Self-Regarding Art', v). The changing nature of identity-formations has contributed much to the continued exploration of and experimentation in the generic forms of life writing, autobiography and memoir, as each of the essays collected here illustrates. We have not insisted on patrolling strict generic boundaries around the use of these terms, but it is useful to recall the expansiveness given the term by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, who consider 'life writing' to refer to written texts that take as their subject a life, either one's own or another's; and then, by Life Writing, 2014 Vol. 11, No. 2, 155–158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2014.899728


Low-temperature gas generator (LTGG) for producing gas with a temperature of 350 ... 450 K. It consists of two main parts - a combustion chamber with a charge of solid propellant and cooling chamber with granules of the solid coolant. The products of combustion of solid propellant have a high temperature that does not allow to use them in a variety of technical devices. Cooling gas is the result of its interaction with the solid granules cooler on the thermal decomposition of which consumes part of the internal energy of the gas. To describe the processes of heat and mass transfer in LTGG developed a mathematical model based on the one-dimensional equations of continuity, momentum, energy and mass balance of the components of the gas mixture. The gas mixture is composed of products of combustion of solid propellant, degradation products and the air cooler. The mathematical model takes into account the ignition and combustion of the fuel within the gas mixture in LTGG, heat exchange with the structural elements LTGG and kinetics of degradation of pellets cooler. To implement the mathematical model developed numerical method for solving the boundary value problem based on the finite difference method. The system of equations is approximated by implicit difference schemes. For the solution of nonlinear differential equations applied Newton's method. A boundary value problem was solved orthogonal factorization. The calculation results are compared with experimental data. The influence of constructive and regime parameters on the change in temperature, pressure, flow, speed expansion cooler.


Since some of the earliest measurements of the auroral electron spectrum at rocket altitudes were made, there has been a question about how two very distinct features of the spectrum can occur simultaneously. These features are (1) a spectrum peaked in energy and isotropic over all pitch angles directed into the atmosphere (the isotropic peak) and (2) intense fluxes of field aligned (FA) electrons which are usually observed at pitch angles of 10° or less. Recent rocket measurements with improved temporal and pitch angle resolution have added considerably to the data set on the FA component and are discussed in this paper. A summary of the characteristics of FA electrons is as follows: (1) Field-aligned electrons are associated with evening, midnight, and cusp auroras. Field aligned electrons are a common feature, seen in 8 out of 10 University of New Hampshire evening auroral rocket flights and in half of the AE satellite orbits through the cusp over a six-year period. About 80% of the S3-3 passes through the statistical auroral oval recorded field aligned electron beams. (2) Rocket data associate the field aligned electrons with active auroral forms and on the edges of moving discrete arcs, predominantly the leading edge. Occasionally they are observed between bright auroral forms. (3) The spatial/temporal scale of field aligned events seen by satellites is a few seconds or tens of kilometers. The rocket data time scale extends from seconds to hundreds of seconds. When bursts of field aligned electrons appear, they may be due to incomplete energy and/or pitch angle coverage by the detectors. The intensity of field aligned electrons has been observed to oscillate at a few hertz. (4) At any given time the electrons are field aligned over a wide range of energies, often extending from the peak energy in the isotropic Maxwellian population that coexists with the field aligned electrons to very low energies. On occasion the field aligned electrons terminate at low energies in an isotropic halo. (5) Because of the high degree of field alignment and the restriction to low energies, the field aligned population does not deposit appreciable energy into the ionosphere but can be a significant current carrier. (6) At satellite altitudes of 3000–8000-km, precipitating field aligned electrons are often associated with up streaming field aligned electrons and conic ion distributions. At satellite altitudes, field aligned electrons are also observed on the edges of ion inverted-V structures. Recent rocket data have revealed field alignment of auroral electrons up to 15-keV energy. The differential intensity of these electrons is very intense and gives no evidence for acceleration by static field aligned electric fields. These field aligned electrons are observed to have a distribution function very similar to that for electrons injected at synchronous orbit during substorms. Recent acceleration mechanisms involving turbulence are discussed.


Systems of image processing, containing optical analog and electronic (digital and analog) device facilities have got the name of hybrid opto—elec— tronic systems. Such systems are very effectively used for the tasks of spec— tral analysis [1 1 , image recognition [2] , analysis and forming of images in radars with synthetic aperture [3].


The aim of this study was to determine the impacts of endophyte (E) inoculation on Nickel tolerance of the Lolium prenne by measuring the physiological and biochemical traits in two populations of ryegrass consisting both (E-) and (E+) plants cultivated under Ni stress. The plants were grown in a Ni polluted soil at 0, 30, 90 and 180 mg Ni kg -1 using a factorial experiment based on a completely randomized design with three replications. The present research showed that the activity of antioxidant enzymes increased in Ni treated plants in contrast to the control plants. Whereas the activity of glutathione reductase enzyme decreased. Also, endophyte infection increased the activity of some antioxidant enzymes but decreased the activity of superoxide dismutase enzyme. Upregulation of aquaporin gene (LpTIP1;1) was shown in population 1 E+ plants at all treatments and 30 ppm Ni in Eplants, whereas, the expression of LpTIP1;2 in population 1 Eplants increased and no significant difference was shown for E+ plants. After 3 months from treating plants, considerable reduction in shoot biomass of E+ and Eplants was observed in 180 ppm Ni and endophyte inoculation decreased the biomass of plants. The shoot water content of Eplants was greater than E+ counterparts. Also, a significant increase of Ni concentration of roots and shoots was observed under Ni stress and the Ni concentration of E+ plants was 88.7% and 12.7% greater in shoots and roots, respectively, than non-infected plants. Overall, results suggest that variation in response to Ni stress in E+ and Eryegrass populations may aid survival of the grass under stress conditions.


The role of teachers today in special education requires extensive background knowledge about various types of learners, their specific needs and the particularities of the stakeholders with whom the teacher is called to collaborate. The knowledge constructed by future teachers is acquired not only in the formal context of initial training, but also in the field, in contexts other than the purely academic milieu. In this frame, the implementation of practical activities involving the application of diverse knowledge has its place in a training curriculum. This is the case of the clinic activity referred to in this article.


Procedures for the determination of nitrate in mineral water in the 0,5 - 5 p.p.m. concentration range with the nitrate selective electrode and U.V. spectrophotometry are compared with a classical colorimetric procedure.

Because the use of a calomel electrode and Hg-Hg2SO4 electrode as reference electrode caused short-time fluctuations, the potentiometric determination was carried out using a fluoride selective electrode as reference electrode after addition of a fluoride spike to the solution.

The U.V. method proved to be rapid, precise and accurate.

The potentiometric method was also very rapid and although it gave acceptable results in five cases out of six it is inferior to the U.V. spectrophotometry in the other aspects.


[Introduction]The prognosis of patients with malignant melanoma is extremely poor because of the frequent metastasis. We have occasionally experienced the clinical cases that malignant melanoma patients rapidly developed distant metastases after the surgical resection of primary cancer lesion. These cases suggested that a primary tumor may control a metastatic tumor. We hypothesized that primary melanoma cells might produce a factor(s) which regulate the progression of metastatic melanoma cells. We reported that the conditioned medium from B16 cells significantly (p=0.02) suppressed the invasion ability of B16/BL6 cells, which is a subline of B16 melanoma and shows high metastatic potential to lung at the previous meeting. Then we investigated the growth and invasion interaction between primary malignant melanoma cells and high metastatic melanoma cells at the molecular level. [Materials and methods]We used two mouse melanoma cell lines, B16 and B16/BL6, that latter of which is a subline of B16 melanoma and shows high metastatic potential to lung. We investigated the interaction between the parent B16 cells and daughter B16/BL6 cells by invasion assay, cell morphology, cytokine array, RT-PCR, and gelatin-zymography. [Results]The conditioned medium (CM) from B16 cells significantly (p=0.02) inhibited the invasion ability of B16/BL6 cells. The morphology of the B16/BL6 cells was changed by the CM from bipolar in B16 cells to a multipolar shape. The B16 cells produced high levels of C-X-C motif ligand 1 (CXCL1), CXCL10, and M-CSF compared to the B16/BL6 cells. CXCL1 significantly (p=0.01) decreased the invasion ability of B16/BL6 cells, but CXCL10 and M-CSF did not. The invasion-inhibitory activity of the CM from B16 cells was significantly (p=0.046) suppressed following the addition of a neutralizing anti-CXCL1 antibody. The CM of B16 and CXCL1 increased the E-cadherin mRNA level and MMP2 activity of B16/BL6 cells. [Conclusion]Primary melanoma cells might down-regulate the invasion activity of metastatic melanoma cells through CXCL1 signaling. Citation Format: Takaharu Hatano, Masakazu Yashiro, Hisashi Motomura, Heishiro Fujikawa, Shusaku Maeda. C-X-C motif ligand 1 from melanoma cells downregulates the invasion of their metastatic melanoma cells [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018; 2018 Apr 14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 4507.


We propose a power estimation technique for controllers that operates at the register-transfer level to provide early warning of a power problems. Our estimator is based on the use of entropy as a measure of the average activity in the final implementation of a circuit given FSM network description. FSM networks are constructed from a partition of a initial FSM state transition graph (STG). The technique has been implemented and tested on a variety of benchmarks.


Introduction The surface of implants is coated with Hydroxyapatite (HAp) which can promote Osseointegration. However, such the surface is sometimes exposed to bacterial infection and then the application of photocatalyst to achieve antimicrobial properties has been investigated(1). Titania can exhibit photocatalytic property under visible light. However, the effects of composition of HAp/ Titania, particularly deposited by Suspension Plasma Spray(SPS) method, on antibacterial property has not been revealed yet.


The author discusses one of the mysterious terms that healers and wizards or witches used in traditional East Slavic folk texts or incantations. In healers' incantations against alcoholism, the lexemes vino and vino "kagor" as a method of treating "like with like" are especially frequent.


The safety and accident principle, basic proposition in safety subject, and the macro/micro reasons of accident were described and explained, followed with the definitions of the qualitative and quantitative analysis methods of a group of basic concepts in safety subject, such as danger, safety, accident, hidden peril, hazard, safety management, and risk assessment.


Cytochrome P450 reductase (POR) is a microsomal electron transport protein that is essential to P450‐mediated drug metabolism and sterol and bile acid synthesis. The conditional deletion of hepatic POR gene expression in mice results in a marked decrease in plasma cholesterol levels counterbalanced by the accumulation of triglycerides in lipid droplets in hepatocytes. It is unclear why lipids accumulate when POR expression is extinguished, as POR is not known to be involved in lipid processing in cells. Moreover, it has not been determined if this hepatic lipidosis is dependent on the transport of lipids from peripheral tissues to the liver. To address these questions, we have developed a stable, siRNA‐mediated cell culture model for the suppression of POR. McARH7777 rat hepatoma cells were transfected with a POR siRNA‐producing plasmid and grown in standard media under continuous neomycin selection for up to 20 days. Real‐time PCR analysis revealed less than 20% of normal POR mRNA levels by day 5, and less than 2% by day 20. Immunoblot analyses demonstrated a greater than 50% reduction in POR protein expression by day 10, and nearly complete loss by day 20. Lipid accumulation was evident by Oil Red O staining by day 15. Immunofluorescence studies demonstrated a marked decrease in POR expression in treated cells at day 20, and a marked accumulation of lipid droplets by Nile Red staining. These results demonstrate that the suppression of POR expression in hepatoma cells results in the accumulation of lipid droplets similar to that seen in the livers of mice in which POR expression is extinguished. This cell culture model should facilitate investigation of the mechanism by which POR contributes to lipid processing in hepatocytes.


SUMMARY Eight patients with rheumatoid disease and associated pleuritis have been described. The majority of cases previously reported have had a nonspecific inflammatory pleural reaction. The possibility of coexisting disease as a cause of pleuritis is difficult to dispel; however, the diagnosis can be suspected by appreciation of the clinical setting. The age and sex of the patient (middle-aged men, primarily), the stage of the disease (flare-ups), the duration of existence of the disease (usually of long duration), high incidence of allergies, and the presence of rheumatoid nodules should receive careful consideration. Many of these criteria are applicable to younger patients. The definitive pathology of the rheumatoid nodule is much less likely to be noted in the lung than in affected joints. However, the presence in pleural fluid of "RA" cells, high lactic dehydrogenase levels, and positive rheumatoid factor, with positive rheumatoid factor test but negative lupus cells in the blood, substantiate the rheumatoid etiology. Circulating eosinophilia may be of additional value in the diagnosis.


Trends in the development of the automobile gasoline market focused on the production of eco-friendly fuel are analyzed, and the associated needs for the modernization of technological processes and ensuring their safety are identified. In order to improve the environmental performance of automobile gasoline, a flow-through scheme of deep oil refining with optimization of the technological process of the catalytic reforming unit is proposed. Within the framework of improving the level of industrial safety at the reforming site, the types of emergencies are considered and modern approaches to solving this problem are presented.


The liver is characterized by sexually dimorphic gene expression translating into sex‐specific differences in lipid, drug, steroid hormone, and xenobiotic metabolism, with distinct responses of males and females to environmental challenges. Here, we investigated the role of the Krüppel‐associated box (KRAB)‐associated protein 1 (KAP1) epigenetic regulator in this process. Liver‐specific KAP1 knockout (KO) led to strikingly sexually dimorphic phenotypic disturbances, including male‐predominant steatosis and hepatic tumors with up‐regulation of protein kinase B and extracellular signal‐related kinases 1/2 mitogen‐activated protein kinase signaling. This correlated with the sex‐specific transcriptional dysregulation of a wide range of metabolic genes, notably those involved in retinol and sex hormone processing as well as in detoxification. Furthermore, chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by deep sequencing indicated that a number of dysregulated genes are direct targets of the KRAB/KAP1 repression system. Those genes include sexually dimorphic cytochrome P 450 Cyp2d9, glutathione S‐transferase π, Cyp2a, Cyp2b, and Cyp3a gene clusters. Additionally, we identified a male‐restricted KAP1‐binding site in the fat‐specific protein 27 gene, correlating with its male‐predominant up‐regulation upon Kap1 deletion, suggesting that the latter might be an important trigger in the development of male‐specific hepatosteatosis and secondary tumorigenesis. Conclusion: This work reveals KRAB/KAP1‐mediated transcriptional regulation as a central event in metabolic control hormones, drugs, and xenobiotics in the liver and further links disturbances in these processes with hepatic carcinogenesis. (HEPATOLOGY 2012)


Moral Education is an effort to educate students to become moral and virtuous human beings by emphasizing the developmental aspects of moral reasoning, moral feelings and moral behavior. In this regard, the teaching process of Moral Education teachers plays an important role in producing students with noble morals. This study aims to examine the teaching of Moral Education teachers in Tamil National Type Schools in Seremban district. The design of this study was an action research. The sample of this study consists of 76 teachers from 20 Tamil National Type Schools in Seremban District, Negeri Sembilan. The data of this study were obtained by using a questionnaire instrument constructed by the researchers themselves. To identify the teaching methods of Moral Education teachers, descriptive analysis was used to obtain the frequency, percentage and mean. The findings of the study show that most teachers still use traditional methods and focus more on examinations only.


: We consider the transmission of confidential data over a wireless quasi-static fading wiretap channel when the main and eavesdropper channels are correlated there. Under the assumption that before transmission the transmitter only knows the channel state information (CSI) of the main channel but has no idea about the CSI of the eavesdropper channel, we derive the asymptotic outage probability and also asymptotic outage secrecy capacity as the transmission power goes to infinity, which cover the corresponding results when the main and eavesdropper channels are indepen- dent as special cases. Based on the theoretical results, the e ff ects of channel correlation on the asymptotic outage probability and asymptotic outage secrecy capacity are explored. Remarkably, our results reveal that the correlation between the main and eavesdropper channels has a significant impact on both the asymptotic outage probability and asymptotic outage secrecy capacity and that such an impact can be helpful or harmful depending on the relative channel condition between the main and eavesdropper channels.


The software reliability is the significant factor to find out software failures in software development Life Cycle. The one more factor considered is the quality of software measurement process. These two factors are mostly considered for the possibility of execution of the software without failures in a software development life cycle. The software reliability and software quality cannot be predicted accurately because of its unsuccessful detection of failures in certain scenarios. This paper mainly focuses on improving the software engineering metrics using an expert opinion and in order to resolve the software failures. On choosing the software engineering measures there are different types of problem that are been occurred in that in this paper we have taken two main issues. The first issue is number of measures that are utilized in estimating software quality and these software measures are chosen with the help of expert opinion. However, the experts are humans so they may have less adequate knowledge about different software evaluations. The Problem is resolved by taking consideration with first level and second level of experts' opinion for selecting the best measures for software quality. The second issue is of data aggregation function which is not suitable for large number of data aggregations, here in this paper we select a prioritized opinion for data aggregation. The prioritization is based on number of experts involved in each life-cycle phase of software development with time duration to give the opinion. Finally the experiments results are shown for the software quality improvisation by the proposed framework. Keyword - Software Metrics, Software Quality, Data Aggregation, Software engineering, Experts' opinion.


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With very rapid technological advancements, it is not possible now that all activities can be carried out quickly, easily, and instantly. The Internet of Things (IoT) allows us to solve various problems by making some devices communicate with each other across the virtual world network. This study uses the prototyping method by explaining how to design a home door security system that can be controlled by a smartphone with a WiFi connection and can use a card consisting of a chip connected to a reader. The design of this tool consists of several stages, namely designing a block diagram of how the circuit works, and designing hardware (Hardware) and software (Software). From the results of system testing, it can be seen that when conducting RFID testing by tapping the card on the reader. The system is successful and the door can be opened according to the NUID card that has been registered with the program and it can fail by using a card that is not registered in the system. Which indicates the test results are working properly. The working capability of the system on the door security device is as expected and the response from the magnetic reed switch sensor as input from the notification is very good. This system using RFID functions to make it easier for users to control the door of the house with a smartphone connected to wifi so that users don't just use conventional keys.


Using a hierarchical model with an adjustment for sample selection, we estimate the overweight prevalence for adults, by states, using data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III). A two-stage hierarchical model was selected to account for geographic variability of outcomes and to model possible overdispersion of estimates due to cluster sampling. We compare our model-based estimates with design-based estimates at the national level and obtain excellent agreement. We also provide a check of our model at the state level by comparing estimates with design-based and synthetic estimates.


63 (and at its output at time t + 1) is called the state of the wire at time t. From the unit wire one obtains by composition more general wires of arbitrary length. Thus, a wire of length i (i • 1) represents a space-time signal path whose ends are separated by an interval of i time units. For the moment we shall not concern ourselves with the specific spatial layout of such a path (cf. constraint P8). Observe that the unit wire is invertible, conservative (i.e., it conserves in the output the number of 0's and l's that are present at the input), and is mapped into its inverse by the transformation t-t. 2.4. Conservative-Logic Gates; The Fredkin Gate. Having introduced a primitive whose role is to represent signals, we now need primitives to represent in a stylized way physical computing events. Figure 1. The unit wire. A conservative-logic gate is any Boolean function that is invertible and conservative (cf. Assumptions P5 and P7 above). It is well known that, under the ordinary rules of function composition (where fan-out is allowed), the two-input NAND gate constitutes a universal primitive for the set of all Boolean functions. In conservative logic, an analogous role is played by a single signal-processing primitive, namely, the Fredkin gate, defined by the table u x 1 x 2 v y 1 y 2 and graphically represented as in Figure 2a. This computing element can be visualized as a device that performs conditional crossover of two data signals according to the value of a control signal (Figure 2b). When this value is 1 the two data signals follow parallel paths; when 0, they cross over. Observe that the Fredkin gate is nonlinear and coincides with its own inverse. Figure 2. (a) Symbol and (b) operation of the Fredkin gate. In conservative logic, all signal processing is ultimately reduced to conditional routing of signals. Roughly speaking, signals are treated as unalterable objects that can be moved around in the course of a computation but never created or destroyed. For the physical significance of this approach, see Section 6. 2.5. Conservative-Logic Circuits. Finally, we shall introduce a scheme for connecting signals, represented by unit wires, with events, represented by conservative-logic gates. c a b c a' b' 0 a b 0 a b 1 a b 1 b a (b) (a) Figure II.11: Fredkin gate or CSWAP …