The wave nature of heat conduction has been developed in situations involving extreme thermal gradients, very short times, or temperatures near absolute zero. Under the excitation of a periodic surface heating in a finite medium, the hyperbolic and parabolic heat conduction equations and the damped wave equations in heat flux are presented for comparative analysis by using the Green's function with the integral transform technique. The Kummer transformation is also utilized to accelerate the rate of convergence of these solutions. On the other hand, the temperature distributions are obtained through integration of the energy conservation law with respect to time. For hyperbolic heat conduction, the heat flux distribution does not exist throughout all the region in a finite medium within the range of very short times(${\xi}


Traditional PI controllers have no self-adjusting function,which can't satisfy the needs of high performance AC speed control system for the permanent magnet motor.The relationship between PI parameters and inertia is deduced on the basis of permanent magnet motor speed loop equivalent principle and classical control theories.Inertia identification model is established based on the mechanical equation and discrete model reference adaptive control theory of permanent magnet synchronous motor.Full-digital AC speed control results based on TMS320F2407A indicate that discrete model reference adaptive control can realize on-line inertia detection.PI self-adjusting can eliminate speed overshooting,decrease latency time,thus improving the dynamic performance of the system greatly.


Objective: This study was carried out to investigate cell cycle arrest activity toward T47D cells of Litsea cubeba heartwoods and fruits extract.Methods: Dry extracts were prepared from dry-grounded heartwoods and fruits by cold maceration using n-hexane, ethylacetate, and ethanol solvent. Cytotoxic activity were measured by [3-(4,5-dimethylthiazole-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide] methods and interpreted with inhibitory concentration 50% (IC50) value. Cell cycle arrest was investigated by flowcytometry method.Results: IC50 values for each n-hexane, ethylacetate, and ethanol of L. cubeba heartwoods and fruits were 76.34±2.61; 67.52±2.45; 71.23±2.37; 75.59±3.24; 162.58±15.08; 63.70±2.67 I¼g/mL, respectively. Cell cycle arrest for ethylacetate extract of heartwoods and fruits were accumulated in G0/G1 phase (56.70% and 65.56%).Conclusion: These results suggest that L. cubeba heartwoods and fruits has cell cycle arrest activity.


Objective
To explore the strategy of exposing M1 segment safely in the craniotomy clipping surgery of the middle cerebral artery bifurcation(MCBIF) aneurysms.

Methods
The clinical data of sixty patients with sixty-five MCBIF aneurysms performed surgical management between March 2012 and March 2018 in Shanxi Dayi Hospital were retrospectively analyzed, including 29 males and 31 females, with the onset age ranging from 35 to 65(40±0.5) years old. There were 3 cases in level 0, 13 cases in levelⅠ, 13 cases in level Ⅱ, 16 cases in level Ⅲ, 7 cases in level Ⅳ, 8 cases in level Ⅴ by aneurysm bleeding Hunt-Hess classification in admission. The MCBIF aneurysms were divided into projecting superiorly (27), projecting laterally (22) and projecting inferiorly (16) according to the coronal planes of MIP. Meanwhile the length of M1 segment was measured and the curvature of M1 segment was observed in the ipsilateral middle cerebral artery of the aneurysm. Reconstructed images to simulate the pterional approach. The sylvian fissure was splitted by proximal or distal approach. The M1 segment was exposed from its upward side for the aneurysm that projecting inferiorly and laterally. Alternatively, the M1 segment was exposed from its downward side for the aneurysm that projecting superiorly. The right clips should be selected to occlude the aneurysms. All patients were followed up to observe aneurysm reappear. Glasgow outcome score (GOS) was used for prognosis evaluation. The difference in prognosis of aneurysm with different projection was compared.

Results
The length of M1 segment was 8.2-16.5(13.5±0.3) mm. Projection of the aneurysms depended on the curvature of M1 segment: the projection superiorly with the downward curvature, the projection inferiorly with the upward curvature and the projection laterally with straight M1 segment. The anatomic relationship between the aneurysm and its parent artery in the 3D-CTA image of simulated pterional approach was in accordance with the actual condition in operation. All aneurysms were clipped and didn't reappear in 6 months after surgery. The follow-up period was 6 to 36 months(Mean 18.0±2.5 months). The GOS was 5 in 37 cases, 4 in 10 cases, 3 in 4 cases, 2 in 3 cases, and 1 in 6 cases according to the last follow-up. There was no statistically significant difference in the favorable prognosis rate of the aneurysms with different projection. (P>0.05).

Conclusions
We should make full use of the technology of 3D-CTA to identify the projection of the aneurysm and both the length and curvature of M1 segment, assess accurately the orientation of the aneurysm and M1 segment in sylvian fissure. In this way, we can avoid the dome of aneurysm, take the appropriate strategy to expose M1 segment and accomplish effectively the proximal control of the parent artery. These strategies are the reliable guarantee for the operation safety.

Key words:
Middle cerebral artery; Intracranial aneurysm; Imaging, three dimensional; Computed tomography angiography; Surgical strategy


Objective: To investigate the feasibility and safety of lasparoscopic repair in gastroduodenal ulcer perforation.Methods: 14 patients with gastroduodenal ulcer were performed laparoscopic repair.Results: 14 patients with gastroduodenal ulcer perforation were safely operated,the mean operation time was 80 min,there was no intraoperative and postoperative complication.Conclusion: Laparoscopic respair is one of the safe,quick recovery an d little suferment treatment for gastroduodeal ulcer perforation.


Through the discussion on library's service etiquette,this paper expounds the absence of service etiquette in university library at present,and puts forward some countermeasures for strengthening the construction of service etiquette in university library.


p‐Type and n‐type organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) and complementary inverter circuits with finely patterned electrodes are fabricated by reverse offset printing. The electrodes achieve a channel length of less than 3 µm under optimized printing conditions. High‐performance OTFTs are fabricated using these electrodes and printed p‐type and n‐type organic semiconductors, each achieving a mobility of 0.2 cm2 V−1 s−1 at a channel length of 50 µm. A complementary inverter circuit fabricated with a stacked OTFT structure is demonstrated using reverse offset printing. The inverter circuits successfully operate at a supply voltage as low as 2.5 V with a high signal gain of 14. These results are expected to contribute greatly to the development of integrated circuits with high‐speed operation using OTFTs.


1. Introduction 2. Male Teacher Shortage and the Politics of Representation 3. Black Teachers' Narratives About Role Modelling and Representation 4. Beyond Race-Role Modelling: Black Male Teachers as Organic Intellectuals 5. The Question of Male Privilege 6. The Scourge of Repressive Female Authority 7. The Case of Male Bonding and the Demonization of Female Teachers 8. The Lure of Hegemonic Masculinity for Male Elementary School Teachers 9. The Politics of Multiculturalism, Representation and Role Modelling in a Multi-Racial Muslim School Community 10. Do the Gender and Race of Teachers Really Matter? Students' Perspectives on Role Modelling 11. Conclusion: Towards a Social Imaginary Beyond Role Modelling


Objectives:  To formulate a simple equation for determining the daily dose requirements of digoxin by inclusion of creatinine clearance (Ccr) values as an explanatory variable.


Take Home Messages-Automated activity monitoring systems (AAM) can be incorporated as a tool to replace visual observation of estrus.-General considerations before an AAM system acquisition include: current estrus detection (ED) efficiency, system cost, visual observations cost, and system life expectancy. Purchasing a system with a life expectancy of at least 5 years would be critical under all conditions.-Improvement in ED efficiency necessary to breakeven or improve profitability largely depends on the: (1) baseline proportion of cows inseminated in estrus with the current ED program; (2) life expectancy of the AAM system and its cost: and (3) cost of the program for visual observation of estrus.-AAM systems may be a feasible and economically beneficial solution for dairy farms with limitations to conduct an efficient ED program or dairy farms that prefer to allocate personnel to other activities.


The present case report describes the nonsurgical management of maxillary sinusitis of endodontic origin (MSEO) caused by iatrogenic root perforation. A 32-year-old woman had facial pain on her upper posterior teeth. The pain increased when she ran on a treadmill or bent over. Root perforation of the left maxillary second premolar (#25) and its anatomical proximity to the maxillary sinus has been shown on cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) and clinically detected by the dental operating microscope. Based on these findings, a diagnosis of MSEO with root perforation on #25 was made. The maxillary sinusitis was successfully treated with nonsurgical management of the root perforation using a premixed bioceramic repair material. Many clinicians have a tendency to opt for surgical repair or extraction when they encounter a complex situation involving failing perforated root canals with maxillary sinusitis. To avoid a surgical approach on the posterior maxilla, dentists should consider CBCT taking and nonsurgical repair of root perforation and not attempt to make a final decision of extraction.


Alums Bruce MacLeod develops cell phone technology for health care delivery in Ghana H igh quality and timely health information is not readily available to pregnant women and new mothers in the Upper East region of Northern Ghana. Internet access is virtually non-existent, literacy rates are low, and travel distances to clinics can be significant. Yet the need for health information is especially important. Malaria remains the major cause of death among under-5 children, and proper use of intermittent preventative treatment during pregnancy can reduce anemia, fetal loss, and dangerous complications for the unborn child. Local beliefs and superstitions often guide women when information about best practices is not available. In the Upper East, elder female relatives encourage younger pregnant women to labor at home for as long as they can stand before going to a health facility, as a mark of strength and willpower. When women do come to a health clinic, they are given a booklet of basic health information for the pregnancy; unfortunately, most women are unable to access the information because they are illiterate. The combination of poverty, remote villages, low literacy, and widespread disease creates a health crisis for women and children all over Africa. Lack of information, and bottlenecks in the gathering of data and transfer of information, contribute to the negative health outcomes. Although the Ghana Health System coordinates local volunteer health workers, outreach nurses, clinics, and district health centers to provide care and track the success of interventions, information gaps and challenges pervade the health system. " Yet cell phone coverage for this remote and rural society is expanding rapidly. In Ghana, the coverage even includes GPRS capabilities which allow communication between cell phones and internet servers. Most of the women in the Upper East of Ghana have mobile phones and our baseline research found that only 16% of women had no access, " says Bruce MacLeod, Software Architect on the Mobile Technology for Community Health initiative (MoTeCH), and Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern Maine. The team's MoTeCH project attempts a systemic change in Ghana's existing health information system through integrating mobile phones into the rural health system. Pregnant women and new mothers with access to a phone can get relevant, person-alized health information from MoTeCH. Nurses are given a low-cost mobile phone for entering data and receive MoTeCH messages about patients overdue for health care. The …


— In this modern era, the internet development has progressed too rapidly, includs in the economic sector. All information and needs can be obtained just accessing by the internet. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, many people have fulfilled their daily needs by minimizing activities in the outside, and many people prefer to shop by using e-commerce from home. Researchers chose e-commerce research objects, such the Shopee, and Tokopedia website, by distributing questionnaires to respondents determine the website acceptance of user satisfaction during the pandemic in 2020 by the Webqual 4.0 method. To assess the acceptance of the website can be done using the Webqual 4.0 method has used three categories. The three categories are usability, information quality, and service interaction quality. This research used the multiple linear regression analysis techniques by SPSS 23 processing. By this research, it can be concluded that the quality of information didn't have effect on the partial test results on the Shopee website, but these three variables will simultaneously have an effect to the satisfaction for each user of Shopee, and Tokopedia website.


Presentation of Case A fifty-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of pain in the abdomen. She had been well until fifteen years previously, when there was the onset of a cough that b...


This paper analyzed the cause of vanish of the public welfare of public hospitals from system and ethics defect.It proposed the ethics basis of the public welfare regression of public hospitals:some peculiarities of medical products and services,social responsibility as being a public hospital,respect for human beings,the principles of giving priority to fairness.And it also discussed about how to fulfill public welfare of the public hospital,including increasing government investment,strengthening supervision of health industry,promoting informatization of health system,reforming of the property rights system,financial policies,personnel system,and improving cooperation with grass-roots unit.


For the solution of equivalent resistance among the asymmetric three-phase electrodes used in electric melting and electric boosting glass furnaces,graphic method and analytic method were used on the basis of the electric engineering theory,and the calculation results were compared,coming to conclusions that the impedance of molten glass is a resistive load with weak capacitive reactance,that from the engineering viewpoint,molten glass can be well regarded as a pure resistive load,and that by using vector equations,the phase current,phase resistance and phase power in a system of asymmetric three-phase electrodes can be solved by either graphic method or analytic method.These conclusions have long been used in the design and research of electric boosting and electric melting furnaces for glass fiber production.


August 9, 2016 e77 CORRPONDENCE CORRPONDENCE To the Editor: We read with interest the article by Lai and coworkers1 published in Circulation about the favorable cardiovascular and metabolic effects of inorganic nitrite and metformin in patients with pulmonary hypertension in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Accumulating studies have demonstrated the therapeutic effects of stimulating the nitrate–nitrite–nitric oxide (NO) pathway in renal, cardiovascular, and metabolic disorders. However, the underlying mechanisms are still being debated. Patients with metabolic syndrome are generally considered to have a higher risk of developing pulmonary hypertension in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. In this study, Lai et al use a novel animal model of combined metabolic syndrome and pulmonary hypertension in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and demonstrate that long-term treatment with inorganic nitrate combined with nitrite for 12 weeks reduces pulmonary pressures and vascular remodeling and improves glycemic control. The findings of glucose lowering and improved glucose tolerance in metabolic syndrome are in agreement with a previous study using dietary nitrate supplementation in aged mice lacking endothelial NO synthase.2 In the present study, Lai et al conclude that activation of sirtuin-3 (SIRT3) and AMP-activated protein kinase in skeletal muscle is crucial for the observed effects associated with nitrate and nitrite treatment. The concept of improved AMP-activated protein kinase signaling by the nitrate-nitrite-NO pathway supports recent studies in rat vascular smooth muscle cells and isolated rat hearts3 and in mouse liver in a model of the metabolic syndrome.4 The authors argue that activation of SIRT3 is independent of NO formation and instead propose that reactive oxygen species are required for the nitrite-mediated effects (Figure 4F). However, we do not fully agree with the authors' conclusion. Lai et al use a combination of peg-catalase and peg–superoxide dismutase and suggest that this antioxidant treatment abolished the favorable effect of nitrite (10 μmol/L) in human skeletal muscles cells exposed to palmitic acid, glucose, and insulin. However, from Figures 4F and 5A, it seems clear that antioxidant treatment alone restored SIRT3 expression during treatment with palmitic acid, glucose, and insulin, which leaves no room for further improvement with nitrite. In our opinion, this could rather suggest that the effect of inorganic nitrite on SIRT3 and AMP-activated protein kinase activation is due to attenuation of oxidative stress, which is in agreement with recently published studies.4,5 Moreover, the authors used a combination of nitrate and nitrite treatment. It would be interesting to find out whether dietary nitrate alone is sufficient to achieve activation of SIRT3. In summary, the work by Lai et al sheds new light on the underlying mechanisms of nitrate-nitrite–mediated therapeutic effects in cardiovascular and metabolic disease. Although additional studies are warranted, these findings could possibly open a new door to therapeutic applications in patients with metabolic syndrome and increased cardiovascular risk. Letter by Carlström and Lundberg Regarding Article, "SIRT3-AMP–Activated Protein Kinase Activation by Nitrite and Metformin Improves Hyperglycemia and Normalizes Pulmonary Hypertension Associated With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction"


A novel technique to design a wideband implantable antenna has been proposed by using magneto-dielectric material. The antenna is a half cutting of a coplanar waveguide fed antenna with symmetric geometry printed on a flexible substrate with 24 μm thickness. A piece of magneto-dielectric sheet with 0.25 mm thickness is attached on the bottom layer of the antenna to tune the antenna bandwidth. The antenna is simulated in a one-layer body phantom. Simulation shows that the antenna has a wide bandwidth covering 902–928 MHz Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) band when the body phantom is filled with muscle. There are frequency bandwidth shifts when the body phantom is filled with different tissues of skin, small intestine, and stomach, respectively. The antenna has wide bandwidth covering ISM band in these tissues. Measurement has been done in meat mince. The measured bandwidth of proposed antenna is 810–1062 MHz. The proposed antenna has a compact size of 4mm × 12mm × 0.274 mm suitable to be applied in capsule endoscope, wireless pacemaker, etc.


The present invention relates to a power conversion apparatus (100) for charging and discharging an energy storage device (400), an energy storage system (700) as well as a method for operating a power conversion device. The power conversion apparatus (100) comprising: - can be connected at least one bi-directional voltage converter (10) to a power grid (300) and to the energy store (400); - a control device (20) which is connected to the voltage converter (10) and is adapted to control the voltage converter (10) with respect to its direction of energy flow; - a network-side auxiliary power supply (30) which is adapted to draw power from the power supply (300) and to supply the control means (20) with energy at an operating voltage; - an energy storage sided auxiliary power supply (40) which is adapted to draw energy from the energy storage (400) and to supply the control means (20) with energy at the operating voltage; wherein said control means (20) is adapted to control the network-side auxiliary power supply (30) and the energy storage side auxiliary power supply (40) depending on the direction of energy flow of the voltage converter (10).


This article discusses the major problems existing in our modern education,and the inspiration for modern education from educational thinking of Confucius including education of both the rich and the poor,combination of study and thinking,teaching students in accordance with their aptitude,and elicitation method.


Objective To investigate whether there is loss of heterozygosity (LOH) on p73 gene in retinoblastoma (RB) , whether the LOH on p73 gene is related to clinical stages. Methods The LOH on p73 gene in conventional paraffin sections from 30 RB cases were analyzed with single strand conformation polymorphism (PCR-SSCP) technique. Results The LOH on P73 gene was 13. 33% in RB, but the LOH on P73 gene was not related to clinical stages. Conclusion There is LOH on p73 gene in RB , but the LOH on p73 gene is not an inevitable event of the form of RB.


Objective: To study the levels of plasma C-reactive protein (CRP)tumor necrosis factor-a (TNF-a) and its clinical significance in patients with acute cerebrovascular disease. Methods: The concentration of CRP TNF-a in patients with acute cerebral infarction were dynamically determined, and the relationships among CRPTNF-a concentrations, the focus size and the severity of infarction were analyzed. Normal healthy group and stabilized cerebral hemorrhage patients were treated as controls. Results: Plasma CRPTNF-a concentrations in patients with acute cerebral infarction dropped in the acute phase and increased in the rehabilitation. The levels of CRPTNF-a in acute cerebral infarction group reached a peak in 3 days, and began to decrease slowly and approached to the level of normal group in 21 days. The CRPTNF-a levels in the larger infarction size was significantly higher than in the smaller infarction size group (p0.01). Conclusion: There is disturbance of neuro-inflammatory/immune-endocrine function in acute cerebrovascular disease patients. The changes of plasma CRPTNF-a could correlate with the disease course of acute cerebral infarction.


We provide new Schmidt-type results through an investigation of two bijections, which are results involving partitions with parts counted only at given indices. Mork's bijection, the first of these, was originally given as a proof of Schmidt's theorem. We show that a version of Sylvester's bijection is equivalent to Mork's bijection applied to 2-modular diagrams, which implies refinements of existing results and new generating function identities. We then develop a bijection based on an idea appearing in a recent paper of Andrews and Keith, that places partitions counted at the indices $r$, $t+r$, $2t+r, \dots$ in correspondence with $t$-colored partitions. This leads to a substantial generalization of an identity of Bridges and Uncu, and complements a similar investigation of Li and Yee.


The author talked about the legal situation of the negation of the subject about the unit crime, and set forth the others situations of the negation of the subject about the unit crime. At last, the author put forward to maintain of the natural person crime.


The present invention is an uplink data transfer control of a wireless mobile communication system, a wireless mobile that it is possible for the control of the data transmitted via an uplink from a mobile station to reduce the burden of the system by reducing the amount of control information transmitted from a base station in a communication system It relates to a method. Uplink data transmission control method according to the invention, in the control of traffic data, a method of transmitting to a base station in a terminal of a wireless mobile communication system, the method comprising: receiving a scheduling command (scheduling command) transmitted from the base station; And it is characterized by configured by comprising the step of transmitting the traffic data in accordance with the teachings of the scheduling command after a specified time has elapsed a predetermined time from receiving the scheduling command for a predetermined time interval to the base station.


This paper contains two results related to the material in [2]. Suppose/is a one-one transformation of the open unit interval /" (where n^2) onto /". 1. If/ is absolutely measureable and £>0, then there is an absolutely measurable homeomorphism ç»t of /" onto /" such that m({x:f(x)^(pc(x) or f~'(x)^ 9'J1W})<£. where m denotes /»-dimensional Lebesgue measure. 2. Suppose p is either (1) a nonatomic, finite Borel measure on /" such that /»(G)>0 for every nonempty open subset G of I", or (2) the completion of a measure of type (1). If/ is /»-measure preserving and «>0, then there is a /¿-measure preserving homeomorphism <pt of I" onto /" such that /u({x:f(x)^q>E(x)})<E. 1. For any subset S of «-dimensional Euclidean space 7?", denote by J(iS) the set of all measures p such that p is either (1) a nonatomic, finite, Borel measure on S such that /¿(G)>0 for every nonempty open subset G of S or (2) the completion of a measure of type (1). If, for z'=l, 2, Si is a subset of Rn and pt £^iSA, and/is a one-one transformation of Sx onto S2, then we say that / carries px into p2 provided f[D(pA] = Dip2) and p2if[A])=pxiA) for every A in Dipx), where Dip,) is the domain of pf. If SX = S2 and px=p2, then we say that/is /^-measure preserving. In this note, we show how a minor modification of the proof of Theorem 5 of [2] yields the following result. Theorem 1. Suppose px, p2 e^(7n), where «^2 and 7" denotes the open unit interval in R", and f is a one-one transformation of 7TM onto In which carries px into p2. For every e>0, there is a homeomorphism <pt ofIn onto 7" which carries p¡ into p2 such that Pi({x:f(x) * <pcix)}) = p2i{x:r\x) * <p7\x)}) < e. Presented to the Society, July 31, 1972; received by the editors July 6, 1973. AMS (MOS) subject classifications (1970). Primary 28A65.


The use of borrowed models from similar urban areas is one way of reducing the costs associated with conducting full-scale travel surveys. However, in order to tune borrowed models to reflect the local conditions of the study area, these models can be updated using low-cost information (objective or subjective) from the study area. A method based on Bayesian statistics for updating cross-classified household trip generation rates is presented. Some updating techniques are briefly reviewed. Previous applications of Bayesian statistics in the transportation field are also discussed; a methodology for their use to update cross-classified trip rates is presented along with sample application.


The hotel activity is very important and sacrificed, requiring of a lot of effort and creativity, this he/she has an intimate relationship with the tourist sector, generating resources and employment sources so much direct as indirect, demanding constant changes and innovations that allow a better service and the users' attention.

For these reasons the present project has as purpose to implement a strategic plan of marketing for the Great Hotel I Remove, with the purpose of improving in its organization, operation, and the users' attention.

For the realization of the present investigation, he/she took in consideration some such aspects as: the literature revision, in which makes reference to the Marco Referencial and conceptual around the carried out study. In the used methodology they consist the methods and technical of investigation used for the development of the present investigative work, with their corresponding size of the sample.

In the Results he/she is carried out a situational diagnosis, with their respective external analysis in which is analyzed some factors that impact in the hotel structure, a competitive analysis of the forces of Porter is made also. Inside the internal analysis a historical and current description of the hotel is made, making mention from some relating aspects to its functional organic structure, being added to this analysis a macro and micro localization of the Grand Hotel Removes. With these antecedents you proceeds to make an analysis and study FODA, of the internal and external factors and the construction of the womb of high impact and ponderacion, to be able to determine their real strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

Inside the Discussion the whole proposal of the strategic plan is approached for the Grand Hotel I Remove, in which the proposed strategic objectives are detailed, with its respective logical mark (problem, objective, goal, strategies, activities, political, tactical, financing, time of duration, responsible).
Later on the total budget of the plan strategic matter of this study is determined, which ascends to $4.120.00 dollars. .

Finally the conclusions and recommendations are presented that have been determined, after the study carried out by means of the process of strategic planeacion, the same ones that will be put to the directive of the Grand Hotel consideration Remove, for their later execution


LiNiO2 and LiNi0.5Co0.5O2 cathodes for lithium-ion batteries were synthesized with co-precipitation method and their electrochemical property was characterized by Galvanostatic cycling. Meanwhile, plane-wave pseudopotential method base on density functional theory was used to calculate average cell voltage and the electronic structure of LiNiO2 and LiNi0.5Co0.5O2. The experimental and computational results showed that the average voltage of the cell decreased as Li-ion intercalated to the host cathode (discharge); The potential of LixNi0.5Co0.5O2 was higher than that of LixNiO2 (when 0.25≤x≤0.5). The calculations also indicated that the distortion of the NiO6 octahedron in LixNiO2 was decreased by Co-doped. During the Li-ion intercalates to the host cathode, the micro-structures of NiO6 and CoO6 in the LixNi0.5Co0.5O2 were mutually stabilized, the Jahn-Teller effect was weakened and the electrochemical properties of the materials were enhanced.


One of the most dramatic, horrifying and powerful images in the Tarot deck is the image of the Tower – trump # XVI – which in some decks is called The Tower of Destruction. This paper, employing the method of interpretive analytics, attempts to decipher the symbolism inscribed in the imagery of this card. What emerges as a result of interpretation is a two-fold hybrid of Kristeva's (1982) theory of abjection and the Jungian and post-Jungian archetypal psychology.


The electrocardiogram (ECG) was the first biomedical signal for which digital signal processing techniques were extensively applied. By its own nature, the ECG is typically a sparse signal, composed of regular activations (QRS complexes and other waveforms, such as the P and T waves) and periods of inactivity (corresponding to isoelectric intervals, such as the PQ or ST segments), plus noise and interferences. In this work, we describe an efficient method to construct an overcomplete and multi-scale dictionary for sparse ECG representation using waveforms recorded from real-world patients. Unlike most existing methods (which require multiple alternative iterations of the dictionary learning and sparse representation stages), the proposed approach learns the dictionary first, and then applies a fast sparse inference algorithm to model the signal using the constructed dictionary. As a result, our method is much more efficient from a computational point of view than other existing algorithms, thus becoming amenable to dealing with long recordings from multiple patients. Regarding the dictionary construction, we located first all the QRS complexes in the training database, then we computed a single average waveform per patient, and finally we selected the most representative waveforms (using a correlation-based approach) as the basic atoms that were resampled to construct the multi-scale dictionary. Simulations on real-world records from Physionet's PTB database show the good performance of the proposed approach.


To shed light on lactation's cardiovascular protective effects, researchers for the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) investigated the


. We investigate the transmission properties of a quantum one-dimensional periodic system of fixed length L , with N barriers of constant height V and width λ and N wells of width δ . In particular, we study the behaviour of the transmission coefficient in the limit N → ∞ , with L fixed. This is achieved by letting δ and λ both scale as 1 /N , in such a way that their ratio γ = λ/δ is a fixed parameter characterizing the model. In this continuum limit, the multi-barrier system behaves as it were constituted by a unique barrier of constant height E o = ( γV ) / (1 + γ ). The analysis of the dispersion relation of the model shows the presence of forbidden energy bands at any finite N .


: Motivation : This paper is aimed at analyzing the impact of foreign investment (FI) on economic growth (EG) in Australia, Canada, Germany, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, and USA. Novelty : The research is: 1) concentrated in countries belonging to the OECD; 2) based on a greater number of countries, variables and periods; and 3) addressed to correcting multicollinearity and autocorrelation of data. Methodology : A Granger causality analysis is carried out and both static and dynamic panel data models are estimated. Data and Empirical Analysis : Data is obtained from World Bank for the period 1977-2017. The causality of Granger reveals that during the first 10 years there is a unidirectional relationship from FI toward EG. In the following 15 years, there is empirical evidence of a bidirectional causal relationship. Moreover, during the whole period of study, 7 years have a unidirectional causality from EG toward FI. Finally, estimates of both static and dynamic panel data models show that FI has a positive impact on EG in all the studied economies. Policy Considerations : A set of recommendations for policy designers and decision makers is provided to build the appropriate instruments and incentives to encourage the attraction of FI to boost EG and, therefore, to enhance social welfare.


Until recently, the paradigm of computing was the Turing machine and its numerous equivalents. All operations are made with state machines. Each operation is irreversible and brings about an increase of entropy and, therefore, an expenditure of energy of at least kTln2 per bit. We show that optics allows the first practical quantum mechanical digital processors. These processors require digital input and produce digital output but need no intermediate state machines. We show that, in the sense of not requiring material devices which would otherwise be required, nothing is superior to something for computing.


[Objective] To compare anatomical structure of Potentilla L. from the of phylogenetic perspective,as important basis for plant classification. [Methods]Stem morphological anatomical structure of 9 Potentilla L. varieties in Daqing was studied by traditional paraffin section observations and comparative analysis. [Results]Three types of stem including straight stem,stolon,erect or oblique stem structure were similar in anatomical structure. The stem has a well-developed pulp and cortex,vascular bundles rounds of a ring arranged vascular tissues with the underlying organizations(cortex and marrow) ratio of 19. 20%-26. 70%. [Conclusion]Stem of these 9 Potentilla L. varieties have the characteristic of xerophil,but the anti-drought structure degree is different. More data and evidences were accumulated for the classification of genus Potentilla and its rational exploitation.


The amount of data produced by simulations and experiments in science, engineering and medicine is growing at an exponential rate. Visualization research aims to address the resulting data analysis challenge through graphical representations that facilitate the identification of interesting attributes of these datasets. In particular, a large effort in the visualization community targets the creation of methods that can automatically identify so-called features of interest and therefore focus the attention of the user on the aspects of the data that are most likely to benefit his or her analysis. Unfortunately from a methodological standpoint, these features are typically domain-specific and lack a clear and objective definition. In this dissertation, we consider the general problem of characterizing the geometric structure of numerical datasets, which we define as a set of distinguished manifolds exhibited by the data in its spatial embedding. Indeed, this research is premised on the idea that the precise and efficient visualization of these remarkable manifolds can greatly improve the interpretation and assessment of scientific datasets across a wide range of application scenarios. In particular, our work focuses on the analysis of the fluid flow phenomena that are ubiquitous in scientific and industrial research. This general approach raises a number of research questions that we address in the work presented here.
The first problem concerns the definition of the distinguished manifolds at the core of our proposed model. We apply to their characterization concepts from dynamical systems theory and differential geometry that are motivated by physical, perceptual, and topological considerations. Specifically, generalizations of the notions of Lagrangian coherent structures (LCS) and ridges are presented that enable the structural analysis of multivariate and multifield datasets. A second major difficulty stems from the computational cost associated with the geometric extraction of these manifolds. Extracting nonlinear manifolds spanning multiple scales from very large time-dependent datasets is a challenging task that is further compounded by the need to afford the user interactive control over the visualization. To address this problem, a method is introduced for the simultaneous extraction and visualization of LCS in large transient fluid flows. In addition, two high-performance techniques are described that allow for the efficient visual representation and geometric processing of high-quality ridge manifolds in large-scale datasets. Finally, a new scalable method for the approximation and adaptive refinement of the flow map is proposed that opens the door to an application of Lagrangian fluid flow analysis at scale in numerical simulations. Applications of these techniques are presented that span computational fluid dynamics, aeronautics, combustion research, high energy physics, climate study, and biomedicine.


The behaviors of the metal-insulator (MI) transitions for θ-(BEDT-TTF) 2 (Rb 1- x Cs x )Zn(SCN) 4 [ x =0.00, 0.07, 0.25, 0.34, 0.47, 0.61, 1.00] were investigated by transport and magnetic measurements. Although the unit cell volume ( V ) increases and the dihedral angle between the donor columns (θ) decreases in proportion to the Cs content ( x ), the MI transition temperature does not change continuously. For x ≤0.07, the MI transitions occur around 200 K with a large hysteresis due to the structural modulation coupled with charge ordering. Magnetic behaviors in slow and rapid cooling runs are distinctly different. These transitions ( x ≤0.07) are called the Rb-type. The MI transition temperature at x =0.25 drops to 35 K abruptly and the transition temperature decreases slowly with increasing x further. The transport and magnetic behaviors show a reduced hysteresis and no hysteresis is observed at x =1. These features characterize the Cs-type transition (0.25≤ x ). These results indicate that the mechan...


The article deals with some basic definitions of theology in the works of Oswald Bayer. Epistemologically be locates theology between mythology and metaphysics, standing in connection with both but also critical of both. In Bayer's view Theology is not science in a modern sense but a kind of » metacritical « wisdom. But his term of Metakritik as well as his description of the relationship between theology and modern age is ambivalent. It could be misunderstood as a kind of theological antimodernism. For that reason the author tries to develop an idea of metacriticism which is based on a more sophisticated understanding of modern age. Therefore it is necesarry to discuss the position of theology in history and presence concerning its relation to metaphysics and to modern theories of its end.


Introduction Deborah Mascalzoni.- Biobanks: a definition Barbara Parodi.- A participatory space beyond the "autonomy versus property" dichotomy Mariachiara Tallacchini.- Intellectual Property and Biobanks Naomi Hawkins.- Consent, Privacy and Property in the Italian Biobanks Regulation: A Hybrid Model within EU? Matteo Macilotti, Simone Penasa, Marta Tomasi.- Data Protection Principles and Research in the Biobanks Age Roberto Lattanzi.- The New General Data Protection Regulation - where are we are and where might we be heading? Jane Reichel and Anna-Sara Lind.- The Tension between Data Sharing and the Protection of Privacy in Genomics Research Jane Kaye.- Incidental findings: the time is not yet ripe for a policy for biobanks Jennifer Viberg, Mats G. Hansson, Sophie Langenskiold, Par Segerdahl.- Biobanking across borders: the challenges of harmonization Ruth Chadwick, Heather Strange.- Governing Biobanks Through A European Infrastructure Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag, Anne Cambon-Thomsen.- EU governance for research and ethics in biobanks Jane Reichel.- A Bold Experiment: Iceland's Genomic Venture David Winickoff.- The Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu Aime Keis.- The management of the ethical aspects of a local mental diseases biobank for research purposes. An Italian experience Corinna Porteri.- Biobank governance in Spain: From the autonomy of research ethics committees to the autonomy of lay people Antonio Casado da Rocha.- Public deliberation and the role of stakeholders as a new frontier in the governance of science: the British Columbia Biobank Deliberation and the DePGx Project Claudio Corradetti, Gillian Bartlett.- Making researchers moral Linus Johnsson, Stefan Eriksson, Gert Helgesson, Mats G. Hansson.


The term autism is used in this article to refer to autism spectrum disorders (Waterhouse et al., 1996), which may also be described as pervasive developmental disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). Autism spectrum disorders include but are not limited to autistic disorder and Asperger's disorden Semantic pragmatic disorder is not considered to be an autism spectrum disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual W-Revised (DSM IV-R) or for the purposes of this article. There is little published research into autism and ageing despite the fact that autism is no longer considered to be a low-incidence developmental disability. There has been an increase in the rate of identification of autism across the spectrum in recent years, most particularly at the top end of the spectrum; however, it is not clear whether this increase is the result of increasing incidence or better identification of a broader phenotype (Fombonne, 1996). Research into incidence and prevalence suggests that there may be as many as 92 people currently identified with autism for each 10,000 in the population (Ehlers & Gillberg, 1993; Wing & Gould, 1979), which is almost 1 in 100 of the population. Autism may be associated with profound intellectual disability at one end of the spectrum and average or well above average IQ at the other (high-functioning autism and Asperger 's disorder). Steffenberg and Gillberg (1986) suggest that 20 of the 92 identified on the autism spectrum have autistic disorder. In the autistic disorder group, 75% of people have a significant intellectual disability (Pfeiffer & Nelson, 1992; Rutter & Schopler, 1987). There is much, as yet unresolved, debate about the apparent increase in prevalence and its cause(s) (Fombonne, 1996; Wing, 1996); however, it is clear to service providers internation-


Aiming at the problems in the real time video transmission in the Internet,this article presents the ideas which use MPLS to dissolve the loss and delay of the video data in the transmission,and expounds the feasibility of this application on the theory.Furthermore,this article describes the foreground of applying the technology in the power system.


This column continues a review of the 1988 SCS Eastern Simulation Conferences in Orlando, April 18-21. It is an attempt to summarize the featured presentation by Professor Ramana Reddy of West Virginia University. The title of his talk was &dquo;Knowledge Based Simulation as a Problem Solving Tool&dquo; Dr. Reddy is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratories at West Virginia University. He also holds a Visiting Professor appointment at Carnegie-Mellon University.


Control center technologies for smart grid are surveyed.Flowing rule of power flow,information flow and capital flow and mutual influence between both of them are analyzed.It is pointed out that a best way to implement smart grid is to adjust and control information flow wisely so as to improve the way of power flow and capital flow.Based on the information flow,frame structure of dispatch and control system for smart grid is investigated from aspects of the information hierarchy,the information mutual interation between hierarchies and the coordination between informations with different time scales.The future changes and innovations of application softwares in smart grid control centers are prospected from aspects of the system design with 3-dimensional(spacial,temporal and objective) coordination,phasor measurement unit(PMU) based transient management system(TMS) in control center and system-level close loop control,etc.Discussions on the control center technologies for smart grid adaptable to ultra high voltage(UHV) transmissions are also given.


The dissertation reviews the effects, on capital markets, of implementing, within the EU, an excise tax (the FTT) on all financial transactions. We review the effects on the volatility, the liquidity, trading volumes and the price of assets. In Chapter I, we analyze the option market-makers hedging strategies. We conclude to an insignificant effect of the FTT in highly liquid options markets, as opposed to a significant effect in low liquid option markets, the maximum being reached when market makers hold positions until their expiration date. Chapter II evidences a negative impact of the FTT on the corporate cost of capital due to the illiquidity of long dated option markets, and the arbitrage between equity and credit derivatives. The FTT would increase considerably the cost of capital of European companies whose main competitors are outside the EU.In Chapter III, we model both stocks and bonds theoretical prices and conduct simulations of their reaction to the introduction of the FTT. We find that both shares and bond prices will be negatively affected by the FTT, increasing the cost of capital, in the short and long run. Companies with high leverage and a low tax rate will see the price of their shares fall further than the price of shares of comparable, high-tax, leveraged companies. This suggests that EU should level all corporation tax rates, within the EU, prior to the introduction of the FTT. Finally, the FTT has an antagonistic effect to the Basel III regulation which seeks to increase the capital of banks, because at the same time it lowers the prices of securities issued by Banks. In conclusion, our original approach focusing on options, is fruitful. It makes possible to quantify the impact of FTT on volatility and allows a theoretical justification of the negative impact on asset prices found in empirical reviews of past experience of the introduction of a FTT.


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In order to effectively improve the role of battery energy storage system in power system, this paper studies the optimal scheduling strategy of BESS in power grid. Firstly, taking the minimum power exchange cost between power grid and the penalty cost of node voltage deviation as the objective function, an optimal scheduling model of BESS in distribution grid based on mixed integer programming is proposed. Secondly, when BESS tracks the scheduling instruction, the life attenuation of each BESS is inconsistent due to the difference of operation conditions. A scheduling method considering the state of health (SOH) of BESS is proposed. Finally, the SOC and total charge and discharge capacity of each BESS are analyzed, and the change characteristics of SOC under different SOH conditions (0.8, 0.85, 0.9, 0.95, 1.0) are verified effectively, which indirectly verifies that this scheduling method can effectively reduce the scheduling loss.


The performance characteristics of Kansas Department of Transportation's standard curb and gutter inlets have been determined from hydraulic model tests and theoretical calculations. The standard inlets are the concrete gutter inlet, the Type B gutter inlet, the Type 12 combination inlet, and Type 22 curb inlets with lengths of 1.5 m, 3.0 m and 4.5 m. Model tests of these inlets on grade provided the relationships between captured discharge and total discharge for grades from 0.5% to 5.0% and cross-slopes of 1.6% and 3.1%. The model tests were performed in the hydraulics laboratory at the University of Kansas. The inlets, curbs and gutters were modeled at one-quarter scale. The model roadway was 15 m long with adjustable grade and cross-slope. The three inlets with gutter openings (the concrete gutter inlet, Type B gutter inlet and Type 12 combination inlet) exhibited similar performance characteristics under all conditions tested. The grade of the roadway does not have a significant effect on performance of these inlets. The Type 22 curb inlets perform better on mild grades than on steep grades. All of the inlets perform slightly better on the steeper cross-slope. The depth-discharge relationships for the inlets in sag locations were computed form fundamental hydraulic principals of orifice flow and weir flow. Relationships for the spread of water on streets with the standard gutter and the Type I combination curb and gutter were also developed from standard hydraulic formulas. The design aids in this report provide a sound basis for the selection and sizing of curb and gutter inlets.


Off‐axis ion injection into an FT‐ICR ion trap is desirable for capturing ions from a continuously generated beam (e.g., electrospray). A conventional E×B (Wien) filter focuses ions of a single velocity (independent of mass). Here we show that by segmenting opposed flat electrodes into small sections, the electric field may be tailored to produce well‐focused ion trajectories over a wide range of ion velocity and mass‐to‐charge ratio, m/z. In the limit of infinitely extended deflector electrodes, small m/z, and/or high B, ion trajectories vary as powers or roots of distance.


The paper of Unal [J. Math. Phys. 59, 062104 (2018)], though worthy of attention, contains a conclusion that is in error and may mislead the efforts to extend his results. The aim of the present note is twofold: we provide a correction to such a conclusion and then we emphasize some missing points that are necessary to clarify the content of the paper.


OBJECTIVE
To replicate, in a Northern Irish population, the previously reported association between a locus on chromosome 6 and hip osteoarthritis (OA).

METHODS
Patients with hip OA were identified from a registry of patients who had undergone total hip replacement surgery over an 8-year period at a single large orthopedic unit in Northern Ireland. Patients identified as index cases were contacted by mail and asked to reply only if another family member also had undergone total hip replacement surgery. Using this approach, we identified 288 sibling pairs concordant for primary hip OA. DNA was extracted from peripheral blood, and microsatellite markers were amplified by polymerase chain reaction and subsequently genotyped.

RESULTS
No evidence of linkage to this region was demonstrated by either 2-point analysis or multipoint analysis of 17 microsatellites.

CONCLUSION
The reported association between a locus on chromosome 6 and hip OA could not be confirmed in this population. Different methods of ascertainment and phenotyping of OA may contribute to the current inability to replicate genetic associations for hip OA.


The novel compounds Nd3Fe29−xTx (T=V and Cr) have been successfully synthesized. Their x-ray patterns can be indexed with a monoclinic symmetry and the A2/m space group. The Curie temperatures of Nd3Fe29−xTx are 455 and 413 K for T=V and Cr, the saturation magnetization at 4.2 K and room temperature are 54.7 and 46.8 μB/f.u. for T=V and 49.9 and 32.2 μB/f.u. for T=Cr, and the anisotropy fields at 4.2 K and room temperature are 12.8 and 2.4 T for T=V and 9.1 and 1.2 T for T=Cr, respectively. The spin reorientations of the easy magnetization direction of Nd3Fe29−xTx are observed at around 230 K for T=V and 135 K for T=Cr, respectively. After nitrogenation the relative volume expansion was about 6%, Curie temperature of each nitride increased about 50%, and the transition temperature Tsr of the spin reorientations of the nitride also increased 145 K for T=V and 250 K for T=Cr, respectively, compared with its parent compound. Nitrogenation resulted in remarkable improvements in the saturation magnetization an...


We present a new scheme of picosecond optical parametric chirped pulse amplification (OPCPA) in which a Fourier-transform-limit 5.0 ps pulse is optically sheared from a single-longitudinal-mode 1064 nm CW laser. The pulse is amplified and frequency-doubled as the pump in order to maintain the pump narrow bandwidth and picosecond duration simultaneously, which is very important to ensure the high temporal contrast for an OPCPA amplifier. Combined with the cross-polarized wave generation (XPW), a compound frontend for the high-power femtosecond laser system that delivers a 1 Hz chirped pulse train is established. The experiments provide an output pulse energy of 17.1 mJ, a spectrum bandwidth 71 nm (FWHM), and a pulse duration 16.4 fs. The pulse contrast reaches 1:10−12 several picoseconds before the peak of the main pulse, which is the best value of the available measuring instruments.


From the creation of a multidisciplinary Working Group for the elaboration of normative institutional documents "Digital Preservation Plan" and "Digitalization Manual", aimed at the implementation of actions related to digital preservation in the scientific and cultural collections of the Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), it was observed the need to establish minimum standards of descriptive metadata, to integrate and streamline access to the different digital objects that represent the archival, bibliographic, museological and biological collections that make up the institution's patrimony. Considering the historical character (some dating from the eighteenth century), evidence, informative, and the scientific and cultural function of these objects, specific metadata will also be set to support both their long-term preservation and the very descriptive metadata attributed to them. It should be noted that although different objects (museum pieces, bibliographic items, archival documents and biological collections) are treated, the proposal of this communication will be to present the methodology applied for the definition of integrative metadata based on the use of the Dublin Core (DC) standard and for the definition of long-term preservation metadata, based on the Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) with the authenticity, reliability and accessibility premises.


Thirty percent of psoriasis patients develop psoriatic arthritis (PsA), nevertheless the mechanism remains unknown. Endogenous GU‐rich miRNAs activate endosomal TLR7 that plays a critical role in autoimmune diseases. We found that endogenous TLR7 ligands, miR‐29 and miR‐Let7b, were markedly increased in PsA compared to osteoarthritis (OA) synovial fluid (SF)s. We showed that intradermal (i.d.) miR‐Let7b injection promoted skin inflammation, which was characterized by amplified Th1 cells, CD68+M1 macrophages, and transcriptional upregulation of glycolytic mediators, GLUT1, C‐MYC, and HIF1α. Expansion of skin Th1 cells driven by miR‐Let7b was also linked to elevated M1‐associated IRFs. Interestingly, i.d. miR‐Let7b administration exacerbated suboptimal joint inflammation along with metabolic reconfiguration of the PsA‐like preclinical model. Moreover, TLR7 agonist, R837, potentiated metabolic reprogramming and expression of IL‐1β, IL‐6, and IL‐12 in murine macrophages, enabling myeloid‐to‐T‐cell crosstalk. Consistently, treatment with glycolytic inhibitors, 2‐DG and/or HIF1αi, reversed R837‐induced metabolic remodeling and disrupted the TLR7‐driven inflammatory phenotype in myeloid and lymphoid cells. Similar to miR‐Let7b, R837 also differentiates progenitor cells into mature osteoclasts, primarily through RANKL induction. Taken together, this study indicates that TLR7‐instigated metabolic rewiring of macrophages and their cross‐regulation of T cells connects skin immunopathology to joint inflammation.


This study is a confirmatory study that was carried out by testing several hypotheses in order to figure out the causal relationship of all the stated variables. In attempt to such efforts, the study took the population of 205 manufacturing companies in East Java. All of them hold SNI (standard recognision of product). This study employed complete enumeration or census method; for that reason, the sample and sampling technique were not required. The technical analysis applied to test the research hypothesis was Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with the support of Amos 5 program. The results of this research show that there are positive and significant relationship between communication level of objectives, frequency of feedback, effectiveness of incentive system of the quality on product internal and external quality and on change of financial performance. The benefit of this research is for scientific information regarding the variables of communication level of objectives, frequency of feedback, and effectiveness of incentive system of the quality on internal and external quality of product and on change of financial performance of the manufacturing companies in East java.


In the process of highway engineering project construction,whether construction units could ensure the compliance of contract duration would directly reflect the project management level of the enterprises that would also influence the economic benefits of the project. This paper has briefly introduced the methods of bar chart method,banana curve method,S curve method,front line method and secant method,etc. adopted in progress follow- up control in dynamic management of construction progress and also has proposed correction measures and reference for construction units.


FIELD: simultaneous generation of heat, cold and electric power. SUBSTANCE: boiler plant includes gas-turbine unit, steam turbine, low-pressure steam generator and hot-water boiler. Provision is made for bypass of part of steam from steam generator and after steam turbine to combustion chamber at operation of gas turbine on steam-and-gas mixture. Specific feature of this system consists in availability of gas-and-water surface-type cooler-condenser which makes it possible to separate steam from combustion products of coolers during operation of steam-and-gas mixture; cooler-condenser is connected before evaporator of refrigerating plant. EFFECT: enhanced efficiency; increased cooling coefficient of refrigerating plant used for production of cold. 2 cl, 1 dwg


1 Pardanani A. How I treat patients with indolent and smoldering mastocytosis (rare conditions but difficult to manage). Blood 2013; 121: 3085–3094. 2 Middelkamp Hup MA, Heide R, Tank B, Mulder PG, Oranje AP. Comparison of mastocytosis with onset in children and adults. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2002; 16: 115–120. 3 Pullarkat V, Bueso-Ramos C, Lai R et al. Systemic mastocytosis with associated clonal hematological non-mast-cell lineage disease: analysis of clinicopathologic features and activating c-kit mutations. Am J Hematol 2003; 73: 12–17. 4 Pollard JA, Alonzo TA, Gerbing RB et al. Prevalence and prognostic significance of KIT mutations in pediatric patients with core binding factor AML enrolled on serial pediatric cooperative trials for de novo AML. Blood 2010; 115: 2372–2379. 5 Goemans BF, Zwaan CM, Miller M et al. Mutation in KIT and RAS are frequent events in pediatric core-binding factor acute myeloid leukemia. Leukemia 2005; 19: 1536–1542.


The aim of this study was to estimate the relative contribution of predictable and unpredictable environmental variations to the lines x environments interaction and verify if it is possible to reduce the number of evaluation environments of the Value for Cultivation and Use Trials (VCU) conducted in Minas Gerais, Brazil. We used grain yield data from 166 VCU trials of common bean conducted in the state from 2002 to 2012. Individual and joint analyses of variance of the environments were carried out for each two-year period and the contribution of each source of variation to total variation was estimated. Subsequently, ecovalence was used, and joint analyses of variance were made considering different numbers of environments by means of resampling. The source of variation that most contributes to the interaction is location. Reduction in the number of environments in the VCU trials is not a good strategy for recommendation of cultivars in Minas Gerais.


The Perley Bridge spans the Ottawa River between the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. During a 1979 rehabilitation project, epoxy-coated rebar (ECR) was installed in an effort to extend the service life of span 17. External signs of corrosion were observed in the west lane of span 17 as early as 1985, but none were observed in the east lane. The cover concrete on the east lane was almost twice that of the west lane. A wide variety of techniques were used to evaluate the difference between slabs cut from the east and west lanes. The most useful techniques were potential mapping, chloride profiling, petrographic analyses, adhesion testing, epoxy damage, analyses of reinforcing bar-concrete crosssections, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements of epoxy properties. Cover depth and chloride contamination were the most significant factors affecting damage to the rebar. Based on these techniques, results showed that the epoxy coating used on the west lane of the Perley Bridge deck in span 17 provided only 1 to 4 years of additional corrosion protection over bare rebar.


Objective: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease is a rare X-linked recessive leukodystrophy caused by a mutation in the proteolipid protein (PLP) gene on chromosome Xq22. PMD is an early-onset neurological disorder characterized by nystagmus, spastic quadriplegia, ataxia, and developmental delay. Genetic analysis has identified Xq22 microduplications (60-70%), point mutations (10–25%), and deletions (5-10%) within the coding region of the PLP genes in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease. This study evaluated six patients with PLP1 deletion and duplication in four Turkish families.

Material and Methods: To detect the duplication and deletion of PLP1, chromosomal microarray analysis, and multiplex ligation-related probe amplification assays were performed.

Results: In these four families, two brothers had a hemizygous deletion in the PLP1 gene, their carrier mother had a deletion in the PLP1 gene, and another two unrelated boys and one girl had duplication of the PLP1. Also, we identified the rare case of two brother patients who were found to have a hemizygous deletion in the PLP1 gene. Their carrier mother had unexplained dementia.

Conclusion: Genotype-phenotype correlations of the PLP1 mutation in these families were identified in this study while trying to elucidate the genetic etiology of six individuals from four different families.


Accurate streamflow simulations rely on good estimates of the catchment-scale soil moisture distribution. Here, we evaluated the potential of Sentinel-1 backscatter data assimilation (DA) to improve soil moisture and streamflow estimates. Our DA system consisted of the Noah-MP land surface model coupled to the HyMAP river routing model and the water cloud model as backscatter observation operator. The DA system was set up at 0.01° resolution for two contrasting catchments in Belgium: i) the Demer catchment dominated by agriculture, and ii) the Ourthe catchment dominated by mixed forests. We present results of two experiments with an ensemble Kalman filter updating either soil moisture only or soil moisture and Leaf Area Index (LAI). The DA experiments covered the period January 2015 through August 2021 and were evaluated with independent rainfall error estimates based on station data, LAI from optical remote sensing, soil moisture retrievals from passive microwave observations, and streamflow measurements. Our results indicate that the assimilation of Sentinel-1 backscatter observations can partly correct errors in surface soil moisture due to rainfall errors and overall improve surface soil moisture estimates. However, updating soil moisture and LAI simultaneously did not bring any benefit over updating soil moisture only. Our results further indicate that streamflow estimates can be improved through Sentinel-1 DA in a catchment with strong soil moisture-runoff coupling, as observed for the Ourthe catchment, suggesting that there is potential for Sentinel-1 DA even for forested catchments.


Each year more than 1.3 million metric tonnes of oil are released into the seas from manmade and natural sources. While mechanical and chemical processes have proven to have limited effectiveness, in many cases biological techniques are promising alternatives because of the lower costs, environmental friendliness associated with them. This study focuses on assessing the effectiveness of a rhamnolipid biosurfactant (JBR 425(TM)) and two other commercial biological products on biodegradation of weathered light crude oil, heavy crude oil, and diesel fuel spilled on saline water following the USEPA's biological effectiveness test method. The two products contain bacterial consortia and nutrients and were used as supplementary additives to enhance the biodegradation rate and extent of hydrocarbon compounds. Results show that at 20°C and 35 [per thousand] salinity, the mixture of rhamnolipid biosurfactant and one of the biological products overall produced the highest percentage of biodegradation at 81% for diesel fuel, 76% for light crude oil, and 64% for heavy crude oil after 28 days of experiment. Degradation rates of oil types for most of the treatments were in the order of diesel fuel > light crude oil > heavy crude oil and generally removal percentage and microbial densities had a direct relationship. The results obtained from this study show the potential for petroleum hydrocarbon removal enhancement in various oils by the addition of biological agents to the rhamnolipid biosurfactant


The arc suppression coil based on controllable magnetic flux uses the variable-frequency current injection to measure the grid-to-earth capacitance. When the neutral displacement voltage is high,there is strong power-frequency interference in the output variable-frequency current of inverter,which goes against the stable operation of inverter and the precise detection of resonant frequency by comparing the phases of variable-frequency current and voltage. The neutral displacement voltage feed-forward control is introduced to the digital PI controller,which forces the inverter to output a voltage in real time to cancel out the effect of the interfering voltage and makes the inverter an ideal variable-frequency constant-current source. In addition,the phasor filtering technology is adopted to filter out the power-frequency component and reserve the variable-frequency component of the neutral displacement voltage. The resonant frequency is identified according to the maximum neutral variable-frequency voltage. The experimental results of an 800 kV·A arc suppression coil prototype show that,the improvement is simple and effective,and the grid-to-earth capacitance can be precisely measured under different neutral displacement voltages.


The CFRP-confined circular concrete-filled steel tubular column is composed of concrete, steel, and CFRP. Its failure mechanics are complex. The most important difficulties are lack of an available method to establish a relationship between a specific damage mechanism and its acoustic emission (AE) characteristic parameter. In this study, AE technique was used to monitor the evolution of damage in CFRP-confined circular concrete-filled steel tubular columns. A fuzzy c-means method was developed to determine the relationship between the AE signal and failure mechanisms. Cluster analysis results indicate that the main AE sources include five types: matrix cracking, debonding, fiber fracture, steel buckling, and concrete crushing. This technology can not only totally separate five types of damage sources, but also make it easier to judge the damage evolution process. Furthermore, typical damage waveforms were analyzed through wavelet analysis based on the cluster results, and the damage modes were determined according to the frequency distribution of AE signals.


This study aims to elaborate that the expansion and extension of the agricultural chain is an important way to promote the industrialization of agriculture,however,due to the different goals of different subjects,poor results from the dice game that the government,enterprises and farmers played has become a major obstacle to confine the extension of the agricultural industry chain.This study tries to prove that agricultural cooperatives as mutual aid economic organizations in which many farmers join voluntarily,could solve the contradiction between the "small farmers" and "big market",and is helpful to coordinates the objectives of the three subjects and promote the extension of the agricultural industrial chain effectively.


Hyperthyroidism primarily presents with the symptoms and signs of thyrotoxicosis. However, many cases might present with a precipitating factor that unmasks the hyperthyroid status of the patients. These factors are associated with a stress condition, with infections being the most common factors, diabetic ketoacidosis, acute coronary syndrome, and pulmonary embolism. We present a case of hyperthyroidism masqueraded as acalculous cholecystitis.


The author has proposed a model for evaluation of the efficiency of small and medium business. The model is based on the determination of business performance efficiency in comparison to the budget funds spent on support and development. The performance is considered and assessed from the perspective of three groups ("the concerned parties"): business, population, territories.


Modelling the compositional process by which the meaning of an utterance arises from the meaning of its parts is a fundamental task of Natural Language Processing. In this paper we draw upon recent advances in the learning of vector space representations of sentential semantics and the transparent interface between syntax and semantics provided by Combinatory Categorial Grammar to introduce Combinatory Categorial Autoencoders. This model leverages the CCG combinatory operators to guide a non-linear transformation of meaning within a sentence. We use this model to learn high dimensional embeddings for sentences and evaluate them in a range of tasks, demonstrating that the incorporation of syntax allows a concise model to learn representations that are both effective and general.


It is demonstrated that, by using the electronic reconstruction of ultrathin Bi2WO6 (BWO) nanosheets with graphene quantum dots (GQDs) upon a unique process of laser irradiation in liquid (LAL), a kind of GQDs modified BWO nanosheets under metastable state were synthesized, which performed excellent visible‐light piezo‐photocatalytic organics degradation. Furthermore, using commercial cpolyacrylamids (PAM) as the additional materials, a kind of electronic reconstruction GQDs‐BWO nanosheets hydrogel was achieved by dispersed the functionalized powders into a super absorbent polymers (SAPs) system upon in situ polymerization method, which showed that it is a bracing idea to use SAPs for water decontamination reactors to enable full use of vibration energy synergistic with light of nature to driven pollution degradation. First‐principles calculation was also simultanously performed in this study. This study may provide a new enlightenment on fabricating novel 2D nanomaterials hydrogel for efficient effluent purification and potentially other environmental or energy applications.


The population of Europe and the world is constantly growing, and so is its need for more food. This leads to rapid depletion of natural resources, and environmental impacts and related climate change challenges are increasing.It is therefore essential to move to a new way of economic growth that is compatible with the protection of the environment and the sustainable use of scarce natural resources, while guaranteeing a much higher standard of living reducing poverty. The bioeconomy strategy and its action plan become the basis for a more innovative, efficient and competitive society that combines food security, sustainable use of renewable industrial resources and environmental protection.In recent years, the role of business associations has increased significantly, in connection with the rapidly changing business environment of ever-increasing corporate competition.The authors aim to reveal the goals of these business communities and the means to achieve them.The report outlines the specific results of the team's own study of the competitive advantages of industrial enterprises created by business associations.


I have set out to take a very critical look at Technical Drawing in schools , and agreement or disagreement with my views is not so important as that they should generate discussions and debate. There is no doubt that the subject has stagnated for several decades, and little doubt that many teachers are unhappy (to put it mildly) with the present state of it . I have developed a particular point of view over a period of years, spent as an engineering craftsman and a teacher of the subject at all levels, and this view is the basis for this article. I would ask readers to remember that these are not necessarily the views of either my headmaster or my colleagues in the school's Design Department .


We have conducted a beam test of a three-station telescope composed of silicon hybrid pixel detectors developed at UC Davis. Each detector comprises a 6 /spl times/ 90 sensor array of 64 /spl mu/m /spl times/ 256 /spl mu/m pixels bump-bonded to a radiation hard, sparsified readout ASIC with unit cell performance suitable for use in hadron collider experiments. We describe the pixel arrays, the telescope and its data acquisition system, the telescope alignment optimization procedure using tracks and the performance of the system in a 15 GeV electron beam at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).


Basin modeling is the term most often used to describe the modeling of the series of processes that include generation, expulsion, migration, trapping, and preservation of hydrocarbons. This definition includes components of both sedimentary basin modeling and petroleum system modeling. Petroleum system modeling attempts to recreate the history of the hydrocarbons within a specific system. Basin modeling often considers several petroleum systems simultaneously. Maturity modeling forms one part of system modeling, but system models also describe fluid flow, which is omitted in maturity modeling. Because of these differences and because system and basin models are usually two dimensional, simulation times for system and basin models are longer than for maturity models. Care must be taken in the design of such models to maintain a high degree of user interactiveness and permit convenient optimization of input data and performance of sensitivity analysis. Existing models have yet to solve all these problems. Additional problems that remain unsolved include quantification of expulsion and migration loss, scaling problems and resolution of small features, inability to predict tectonic fracturing and fluid flow through fracture permeability, and in bility to handle tectonic complexity. These weaknesses limit applications in some areas and render these models semiquantitative under the best of circumstances. Petroleum system models are useful tools for describing the behavior of hydrocarbon systems. They are potentially even more powerful for stimulating thinking than for providing final answers. System models have a bright future if some major improvements can be made, if they are designed and built with the technical and philosophical needs of explorationists in mind, and if proper training for model users is provided. Sensitivity analysis is essential for proper application of all models in exploration.


The steady-state levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) determined by the balance between their rates of production and rates of clearance by scavenging mechanisms could be called ecological oxidative balance (EOB) in the biological system. A first-line drug with superior efficacy, used in treating Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, is rimifon (isonicotinic acid hydrazide, INH). One of the major obstacles in the use of INH as antitubercular drug is related to its toxic side effects. The aim of the present study was to determine whether rimifon (INH) disrupts the EOB. For this purpose we investigated the concentrations of malondialdehyde (MDA), nitric oxide (NO) and level of the activities of antioxidant defense enzymes SOD and CAT in blood of albino Wistar rats treated with INH p.o. at 75 mg/kg and 150 mg/kg. Our results confirmed that rats treated with INH had a high blood plasma formation of lipid peroxidation products and that INH treatment was accompanied by increased levels of NO compared to controls (p<0.001). The results of the present study showed statistically significant decreased erythrocyte SOD and CAT activities in INH-treated rats as compared to the control healthy untreated ones 30 days after p.o. treatment with INH at doses 75 mg/kg and 150 mg/kg (p<0.05). Our results suggested increased oxidative stress and disruption of EOB in rats treated 30 days with INH p.o. 75 and 150 mg/kg.


Three subspecies of the Canada Goose (Branta canadensis interior, B.c. parvipes and B.c. hutchinsii) have been reported from Greenland, where the species has increased dramatically as a breeding and summering bird in the last 30 years. We report results of catch data, new observations, re-examination of archive photographs and museum specimens that show the subspecies interior is the most common and widespread subspecies, which has been present in West Greenland since at least 1864 (predating the previous earliest record from 1976). Re-measurement of museum skins confirmed that all specimens of parvipes relate to individuals of the interior type, confirming parvipes has yet to be reported from Greenland. Observations and specimens also confirm the presence of the small B.c. hutchinsii as a rare summer visitor mainly between Disko Bay and Thule, with two recent records from East Greenland. Dansk Orn. Foren. Tidsskr. 106 (2012): 87-92 (Med et dansk resume: Status og forekomst af Canadagasens underarter i Gronland) 88 Canada Goose subspecies in Greenland A.D. and in the interior of the Sisimiut/Holsteinsborg District during c. 1200-1300 A.D. (Gotfredsen 2002), indicating that these were present and apparently more frequent in the past. However, the only authenticated record of Cackling Goose in Greenland was of a pair shot in Uummannaq district in 1914 (Salomonsen 1950). DB has also examined and verified a specimen shot in Sisimiut (68°N) before 1999 (in a private collection), and several field observations of Canada Geese both in Northwest Greenland (between Disko and Thule) and Northeast Greenland in recent decades include small Canada Geese (Bennike 1990, Best & Higgs 1990, Meltofte & Dinesen 2010, H. Ettrup in litt., J. Hansen pers. comm.), which were most likely Cackling Geese. The Lesser Canada Goose (subspecies parvipes) was reported in 1863 and 1864 from Qeqertarsuaq on Disko, where a pair stayed and probably bred (Salomonsen 1950). The male was shot and the specimen is now in the Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen (ZMUC No. 65265). Salomonsen subsequently assigned all larger Canada Geese collected in Greenland to subsp. parvipes (3 specimens in ZMUC), and a breeding pair observed on Disko Island in 1979 was also assigned to this subspecies (Pedersen 1984). The subspecies interior was reported for the first time from Greenland in 1976, when a pair was found nesting near Lille Narsaq south of Nuuk (Pedersen 1980). Since then the numbers of Canada Geese breeding and moulting in West Greenland have increased dramatically and breeding now takes place in the region between Paamiut at 62°N and Thule at 76°N (Frimer & Nielsen 1990, GWGS 1993, Boertmann 1994, Fox et al. 1996, Kristiansen et al. 1999, Boertmann & Egevang 2002, Fox & Glahder 2010, Rasmussen 2011). The Canada Geese which have contributed most to this increase have generally been ascribed to subspecies interior; confirmed for birds from around 67°N in central West Greenland by observations, capture, marking and measurement, satellite telemetry studies, genetic analysis and resightings and recoveries of marked individuals (Fox et al. 1996, Kristiansen et al. 1999, Scribner et al. 2003). The interior subspecies breeds from Ontario to northern Quebec and winters along the Atlantic coast of North America in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland (Mowbray et al. 2002). Given that the smaller forms of Canada Geese tend to breed furthest north in North America (Owen 1980, Mowbray et al. 2002), and that few Canada Geese in the northern part of the range in Greenland have been identified to subspecies (Fox et al. 2011, but see Best & Higgs 1990), it is logical to expect that small Canada Geese could make up a substantial amount of the Canada Geese recorded in the northern parts of West Greenland – between Disko Bay (69°N) and Thule (76°N). Recent results from a goose-catching programme and field observations in Northwest Greenland enabled us to gather more support for this hypothesis, which stimulated the re-examination of some old photos and re-measurements of the specimens kept in ZMUC. These investigations threw up some new and surprising interpretations of the Canada Goose subspecies occurring in Greenland, which we now present here. Materials and methods Twenty-four non-breeding Canada Geese were caught on 18 July 2008 in a drive net enclosure by a lake just north of the Thule Air Base, in Northwest Greenland (76.57°N 68.66°W) as part of a larger surveillance programme to screen a range of birds species in Greenland for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) under a cooperative agreement between the Ministry of Fisheries, Hunting and Agriculture (APNN) in Greenland, the Danish Department of Food and Agriculture, and the National Wildlife Disease Program of the United States Department of Agriculture. These geese were swabbed for HPAI and fitted with Copenhagen ZMUC metal rings, and linear measurements were taken of head and tarsus length (after Dzubin & Cooch 1992). These measurements were compared to a set of the same measurements from 99 individuals showing features characteristic of interior birds caught further south in Isunngua (67.08°N, 50.53°W) during 8 different drive net catches on different dates between 12 and 24 July 2008. Tarsus measurements taken during these more southerly catches were of tarsus bone (Dzubin & Cooch 1992) and so these measurements were inflated by an extra 21% to equilibrate to the tarsus length measurement based on calibrations of subsequently caught geese where both measurements were taken. A breeding record of Canada Geese of the subspecies parvipes in 1979 on Disko Island was approved by the Danish Rarity Committee based on photographs taken of the breeding bird and the eggs (Pedersen 1984). These photos were taken by KK and were reexamined by KK, DB and ADF in February 2012. The six specimens of Canada Geese obtained from Greenland that are kept in the ZMUC were also re-measured and examined in February 2012 by DB. 89 Canada Goose subspecies in Greenland


This paper looks at the classic shift in planning culture from technocratic modernism to market-based neo-liberalism evidenced in many western democracies. The case study of the Australian capital Canberra provides particularly clear evidence of the underlying processes because in its formative years – and until the late 1980s – Canberra received political support at the Federal level that enabled professional planners to implement their vision of an ideal New Town and National Capital with exceptional perfectionism. Ironically, the neoliberal turn was conducted with a similar degree of perfectionism, throwing the changes into sharp relief and highlighting the mechanisms with great clarity.  The neoliberal turn has now reached its apotheosis with substantial revisions to the National Capital Plan announced by the Australian Government in 2015. These signal the end of Federal involvement in metropolitan planning leaving overall city-making to local government and local development interests in the Australian Capital Territory. Cabinet Papers from the 1980s and early 1990s released over the past two years by the National Archives reveal that the withdrawal of Federal responsibility was advocated "behind the scenes" by neoliberal wings of government decades ago.  As a consequence, the awkward division of planning responsibilities between Federal and local authorities established in 1990 has led to a quarter century of dysfunctional governance, manifest in proposals such as building on bushfire-prone, flood-prone and ecologically sensitive lands. The ideal concepts of planning of previous decades have been actively disregarded and forgotten. These include the decentralized network city established in the 1960s and 1970s, components of the National Capital Open Space System and 60 years of exemplary neighbourhood planning.  The paper traces the mechanisms behind the neoliberal ethos that since the 1990s has contributed to the abnegation of planning standards and the production of disasters including bushfires which penetrated the city in 2002 and 2003, the latter a catastrophic firestorm.  On the other hand, the reaction of a highly informed segment of the local population to the erosion of planning standards has generated campaigns to make Canberra a more sustainable and resilient city. International recognition along these lines has been sought and partially achieved since the turn of the century, beginning with an OECD study in 2002. The introduction of light rail in a hitherto car-dominated city is the strongest manifestation of the 'Sustainable Canberra' movement. The light rail project now in construction, initiated by a Labor-Greens coalition has emerged from a 25 year struggle for meaningful progress in sustainable development by citizen activists.  There have been some positive outcomes from the neoliberal turn. For example, what was once a bleak city centre produced by rigid top-down planning has been developing fringe areas of vibrant urban culture oozing the seductive appeal of "unregulated space" with popup stores and restaurants providing a strong contrast to the city of modernity. In this latest phase of Canberra's planning history, a new set of ideal concepts has thus emerged from the dialectic between neoliberal urbanism and the capital city planning ethos of the past.


The report is a compilation of three papers. The first deals with the development of the supersonic aircraft in the United States. Although there is confidence that technical problems can be met, questions of economics and sonic boom are far from resolved. The second examines the FAA report on airport capacity. The report was prepared for use by airport designers and operators (1) to aid in determining whether or not existing airports are being used to full capacity, (2) to determine the most effective modifications to the airport, and (3) to plan new airports able to cope with the steadily increasing flow of aircraft traffic. The report is analyzed and annotated. The third paper considers the factors in the airway system pertinent to the airport planner, namely (1) airport location, (2) instrument runway direction, (3) interference between airports, (4) provisions for airway facilities, and (5) airport capacity.


Curcumin, the active, light sensitive agent, found in significant amounts in Curcuma longa L, is a potential therapeutic agent, possessing various pharmaceutical and industrial uses. The present extraction techniques, that are in application for many decades suffer from many economical and environmental demerits. This work is a prospective and noteworthy step towards conquering those disadvantages by means of optimizing the extraction process parameters and developing an energy efficient, environment friendly and economical process. In this study, various organic solvents were tested for their ability of curcumin extraction an concluded that acetone is most efficient. The process parameters like time, temperature and particle size were investigated and the minimum volume and concentration of solvent required were determined. Three potential pre-treatment process were analyzed for their capability to effectively distort the turmeric structure and aid in increasing the overall efficiency of the process. It was found that, employment of a mechanical distortion method by microwave assistance, and further followed by chemical disintegration, by means of enzymatic treatment, resulted in high attainable efficiency.


The sufferer from venereal disease phobia, unfortunately seen so frequently nowadays (Rogerson, 1951), had, according to Richard Wiseman (1676), his predecessor in the second half of the 17th century. Apparently at that time the fear of syphilitic infection was widespread, but unlike today, there was then some justification for such a fear. Wiseman himself, for example, complained in his treatise on gonorrhoea that the treatment of venereal diseases " is the most imployment of our profession, the diseases of these parts being most frequently gotten by the most predominant vice of the age ". Wiseman, after describing the " Degrees and Symptoms " of the lues venerea, says:


Reports have indicated that patients with migraine have abnormalities in platelet function and in the metabolism of vasoactive monoamines. On the basis of these findings, a number of compounds with a stabilizing effect on the level of free vasoactive monoamines in plasma or with anti‐platelet effects have been evaluated with regard to their prophylactic effect in migraine.


ON MAY 13, THE U.S., IN COLlaboration with Argentina, Canada, and Egypt, filed a formal complaint with the "World Trade Organization (WTO) to force the European Union to lift its de facto moratoriu...


A capacitance dilatometer is described which automatically records the height of a mercury column as a function of time. Changes as small as 10−4 ml have been detected, with an instrumental stability allowing experiments of several days' duration. The technique is based on the measurement of the capacitance of an aluminum foil‐covered, precision bore, glass column containing Hg. The dilatometer has been used to measure coefficients of expansion and rates of polymerization and hydrolysis.


Self-compacting concrete (SCC) represents one of the most outstanding advances in concrete technology during the last decade. self compacting concrete is a flowing concrete mixture that is able to consolidate under its own weight. The highly fluid nature of SCC makes its suitable for placing in difficult situation and in sections with congested reinforcement. The aim of the study is to make use of Fly Ash, Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag and Silica Fume as replacements of cement and understand its effect on the fresh properties and hardened properties of concrete. The investigation includes the concept of triple blending of Fly ash, GGBS and Silica Fume, this triple blend exploits the beneficial characteristics of Pozzolanic materials in producing a better concrete.


The 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR) functions as a translational enhancer in monocotyledonous plant cells is necessary to express a foreign gene efficiently. Here, we show that the 5'-UTR of the rice alcohol dehydrogenase gene contributes to efficient translation in not only dicotyledonous plant cells, but also in monocotyledonous rice cells.


Background: Margarine contain trans fatty acids as major sources of dietary free radicals, and oxidative stress. Effect of oral administration of margarine on hepatic enzyme was investigated in Wistar rats. Methods: Thirty six (36) adult Wistar rats were uniformly divided into three groups of control , margarine 15% and 20%, twelve rats in each groups (6males & 6 females). Margarine was added to the second and third groups chow as 15% and 20% (w/w) respectively. After four months, their blood samples were obtained and the serum levels of Aspartate Amino Transferase (AST) and Alanine amino transferase (ALT) were measured. Results: Serum levels of AST and ALT in margarine groups were higher than control groups, but it was not significant. Treatment of rats with margarine were not significantly alter the serum levels of liver enzymes in all groups. Conclusion: This result suggests that consumption of margarine may not be toxic at the doses investigated.


This article presents an attempt to do the historical analysis of the organization and the realization of the general socolsk rallies as well as to find out what is their influence on the socolsk movement's developmtnt. Socolsk gym locomotion for popularization of idea socolsk organized one of the first in Europe mass international gym sports holidays general socolsk meetings. Feature international socolsk locomotions was holding regional meetings. Meetings assisted awakening among sociability of national consciousness, to convergence socolsk with people, mapped a level of development socolsk ideas in the different countries of the world.


This study was conducted to assess productive performances of crossbred (Holstein-Friesian) dairy cows and
factors affecting their performances in Shashogo and Anlemo distinct of Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia. Purposive
sampling techniques were used to select district and kebeles. A total of 196 respondents were randomly selected
and interviewed with semi-structured and structured questionnaire to obtain information on the management
practices of farmers, productive performances of crossbred dairy cows. The data were analyzed using the general
model of SAS version 9.2. Chi-square test was carried out to assess the statistical significance among categorical
variables. Pro LSD test was used to identify a significant difference between districts and seasons mean. Mean herd
size of crossbred (HF) dairy cows for Shashogo and Anlemo per households was 4.74 ± 0.114 TLU and 3.63 ± 0.115
TLU, respectively. The major feed resources were natural pasture, crop residues, and crop-after math, concentrate
feeds, improved forages and non-conventional feeds, whereas zero-grazing/stall feeding, semi-grazing and free
grazing system practiced in both districts. The major sources of water in the study area were river, wells, ponds and
tap water. The overall means ± SE of milk yield per day/cow, lactation length and lactation milk yield was 7.61 ± 0.19
liters, 8.99 ± 0.14 months and 2057.16 litres, respectively. In the study period the main constraints were Shortage of
feeds, diseases, poor management practices, Lack of services, like Seasonal fluctuation are the main factors
hindering dairy productive and reproductive performances in the study areas. Generally, productive performances
obtained in current study were low. Therefore, the Sustainable extension service should be established to improve
feed resources and management practices in the study area.


Introduced the JIT quality management principle,study the contents of the JIT quality management activity.Commence from each detail,don't let pass a small mistake,this is the point of departure that the Toyota pursues the outstanding quality,also is obtain to succeed essential to have of one step,analyzed some methods that the JIT quality management.For studying the JIT quality management to provide the reference.