Patient transport means 10 has at least one set of wheels 60, the or each set of wheels 60 comprising at least two wheels 62 which may rotate about their own respective axes as well as about a common axis of the set of wheels 60, and which is connected to the transport means 10, the transport means 10 having at least one further set of wheels 200, the or each further set of wheels 200 comprising at least two wheels 202 which may rotate about their own respective axes as well as about a common axis of further set of wheels 200, the or each further set of wheels 200 being selectively attachable to, and detachable from, the transport means 10. The further set of wheels 200 may be attached to an existing set of wheels 60 preferably with their respective axes aligned.


Abstract : This document, IBM Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL) Sequence Number 1240, describes the final definition of a Software-First Life Cycle (SFLC), developed under the Q and R increments of the STARS (Software Technology for Adaptable Reliable Systems) program. The SFLC provides a dramatically different approach to systems development by integrating the use of rapid prototyping, reusable components, concurrent engineering, and other new and emerging technologies. This approach, which takes advantage of the benefits of each of the included technologies, has the potential for a substantial improvement in productivity, while increasing the quality and reusability of the developed system. The SFLC consists of 5 phases: Preliminary System Analysis, System Architecture, Software Growing, Productization and Production, and System Operation and Support. Each of these phases are formally defined using the ETVX (Entry Criteria, Task, Validation, and Exit Criteria) model. The major input, output and intermediate work products are also identified and defined. (KR)


With the rapid development of non-agricultural economy,the reduction of cultivated land plays a growing role in restraining its development. With large population and less land,the cultivated land per person in Wenzhou takes up only one-fifth of the average number of our country. The great profit derived from non-agricultural economy created "siphonage",that is,to take up the cultivated land for other use by skirting round the country's relevant policy. As the non-agricultural development in Wenzhou has not brought about the expected urbanization,the reduction of cultivated land is intensified. This leads to the decline of agricultural industry and the lowering of its fundamental position,which affects the urbanization and farmers' welfare and gives rise to other problems. To solve this problem,active measures should be taken to protect the cultivated land and in addition to this,the urbanization of non-agricultural industry and farmers should be pushed forward.


As a three-dimensional CAD software, SolidWorks has no standard part library and cannot meet the design requirement of different fields. Further development method based on VB is introduced in this paper and an actual example is provided. The method is proved viably and the library developed meets the national standard.


Estimation of a smooth function is considered when observations on this function added with Gaussian errors are observed. The problem is formulated as a general linear model, and a hierarchical Bayesian approach is then used to study it. Credible bands are also developed for the function. Sensitivity analysis is conducted to determine the influence of the choice of priors on hyperparameters. Finally, the methodology is illustrated using real and simulated examples where it is compared with classical cubic splines. It is also shown that our approach provides a Bayesian solution to some problems in discrete time series.

Nous etudierons le lissage d'une fonction lorsque les observations de cette fonction sont sujettes a des erreurs gaussiennes. Le probleme sera formule a l'aide d'un modele lineaire et nous utiliserons l'approche bayesienne hierarchique pour l'etudier. De plus nous developperons des bandes de credibilite pour le lissage. Une analyse de sensibilite sera faite pour determiner l'influence sur le lissage de la densite a priori sur les hyperparametres. Pour conclure, nous illustrerons cette nouvelle methodologie a l'aide de donnees reelles et d'une simulation; nous comparerons les resultats obtenus avec ceux fournis par les splines cubiques. Il sera aussi montre que cette approche foumit une solution bayesienne a quelques problemes en series chronologiques.


The effect of welding residual stress on the fatique strength of welded joints was analyzed through the testing.In order to guarantee the reliability of weld structure,some measures should be taken to improve the fatigue strength of the welded joints.


Restoring the text of a Mahāyoga tantra witnessed in Early Tibet: an early version of the 'Phags pa thabs kyi zhags pa pad ma 'phreng gi don bsdud pa 1 Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer Since the advent of the New Translation Schools in Tibet from the eleventh century CE, there have been uncertainties and controversies over the texts of the Buddhist traditions which had been established earlier, stemming from the translations begun during the Imperial period. Apart from polemical attacks on the Ancient or Rnying ma texts as inauthentic or degenerate transmissions, there have also been problems of generations of scribal corruption, rendering some texts within the Rnying ma tantra corpus almost unreadable, even by erudite scholarly lamas. The Rnying ma tantras did not generally receive the editorial attention which the commonly shared collection of tantric scriptures, the Kanjur (bka' 'gyur), received, and there was only one printed version of the Ancient Tantra Collection (Rnying ma'i rgyud 'bum or NGB), the Sde dge xylograph edition, for which the blockprints were made in the late eighteenth century. Moreover, the dominance of the Gter ma or Revelatory traditions from the twelfth century meant that the root tantras themselves perhaps received rather less attention than they might otherwise have done, and that many of these tantras retained only their ritual transmissions, and not their explanatory teachings.


Despite the fact that suicide among young people is becoming a social problem, there are little empirical studies on the issue. In this study, latent profile analysis was used to classify current youth into latent profiles based on their level of anomie and social support, and logistic regression analysis was used to look at the differences in suicidal ideation between groups.'High anomie/low support'(10.7%) was classed as having high anomie items and low social support components, 'Moderate Anomie/support'(61.5%) was identified as having similarly moderate level of anomie and social support, and 'Low Anomie/high Support'(27.8%) was categorised as having low anomie and high social support. The 'High anomie/low support' group had statistically higher suicidal ideation than the reference group, the 'Low anomie/high support' group. Based on the findings, suggestions were made on the need for social structural change and and the formation of social networks of the youths.


The chapter conceptualizes acting as a profession for Armenian women against the background of the existing job market for women, on the one hand, and contemporary perceptions of gender norms, on the other. It focuses on the unique position of Armenian women as actresses on both Ottoman Armenian and Ottoman Turkish stages made acting a conceivable choice for women at a time when women's work outside the home was still a controversial issue. Armenians are considered the founders of the modern Ottoman theater, having organized the first Turkish language theater in the 1850s. In 1869, the state granted a ten-year monopoly to the Ottoman Theater founded by Hakob Vardovian. Theater served as a channel for charity when income from the performances was donated to poor and orphan relief societies. The scarcity of women willing to act made actresses the most materially favored among other working women, compared to male actors. Keywords:Armenian Women; Ottoman Theater; Ottoman Turkish


Serotonins were found to produce 3,4,5,6-tetrahydro-7-hydroxy-1H-azepino[5,4,3-cd]indoles by simple heating with amines under an oxygen atmosphere. Serotonins also reacted with various aldehydes to provide 3,4,5,6-tetrahydro-7-hydroxy-1H-azepino[5,4,3-cd]indoles rather than beta-carbolines under basic conditions. In these novel reactions, the presence of the 5-hydroxy group on the indole nucleus was suggested to be essential. Possible mechanisms are discussed.


In order to avoid the influence of environmental factors on the accuracy of abnormal monitoring of transmission tower (TT) and improve the applicability of health monitoring of TT, the health monitoring method of TT based on association rule algorithm is studied. The sensors of temperature, wind speed, wind direction and wind deflection angle are selected as the health monitoring nodes of TTs. The fusion values of abnormal monitoring points of TTs are obtained by batch estimation algorithm. The fused data of TTs are used as the candidate item set of association rule algorithm. According to the minimum support and confidence, the candidate item set of abnormal mode records of TTs is scanned, The frequent itemsets of abnormal patterns of TTs are found, and the association rules between abnormal patterns and abnormal causes in frequent itemsets are generated to realize the health monitoring of TTs. The test results show that the data fusion method can effectively avoid the impact of the instability of data acquisition of each monitoring node. When the minimum confidence and support are 0.6 and 0.7 respectively, the monitoring accuracy of this method is better, almost close to 1. In different environments, the monitoring accuracy of TT is higher than 0.9, which has strong applicability and high monitoring accuracy.


Insect societies – colonies of ants, bees, wasps and termites – vary enormously in their social complexity. Social complexity is a broadly used term that encompasses many individual and colony‐level traits and characteristics such as colony size, polymorphism and foraging strategy. A number of earlier studies have considered the relationships among various correlates of social complexity in insect societies; in this review, we build upon those studies by proposing additional correlates and show how all correlates can be integrated in a common explanatory framework. The various correlates are divided among four broad categories (sections). Under 'polyphenism' we consider the differences among individuals, in particular focusing upon 'caste' and specialization of individuals. This is followed by a section on 'totipotency' in which we consider the autonomy and subjugation of individuals. Under this heading we consider various aspects such as intracolony conflict, worker reproductive potential and physiological or morphological restrictions which limit individuals' capacities to perform a range of tasks or functions. A section entitled 'organization of work' considers a variety of aspects, e.g. the ability to tackle group, team or partitioned tasks, foraging strategies and colony reliability and efficiency. A final section,'communication and functional integration', considers how individual activity is coordinated to produce an integrated and adaptive colony. Within each section we use illustrative examples drawn from the social insect literature (mostly from ants, for which there is the best data) to illustrate concepts or trends and make a number of predictions concerning how a particular trait is expected to correlate with other aspects of social complexity. Within each section we also expand the scope of the arguments to consider these relationships in a much broader sense of'sociality' by drawing parallels with other 'social' entities such as multicellular individuals, which can be understood as 'societies' of cells. The aim is to draw out any parallels and common causal relationships among the correlates. Two themes run through the study. The first is the role of colony size as an important factor affecting social complexity. The second is the complexity of individual workers in relation to the complexity of the colony. Consequently, this is an ideal opportunity to test a previously proposed hypothesis that 'individuals of highly social ant species are less complex than individuals from simple ant species' in light of numerous social correlates. Our findings support this hypothesis. In summary, we conclude that, in general, complex societies are characterized by large colony size, worker polymorphism, strong behavioural specialization and loss of totipotency in its workers, low individual complexity, decentralized colony control and high system redundancy, low individual competence, a high degree of worker cooperation when tackling tasks, group foraging strategies, high tempo, multi‐chambered tailor‐made nests, high functional integration, relatively greater use of cues and modulatory signals to coordinate individuals and heterogeneous patterns of worker‐worker interaction. Key words: Ants, insect societies, individual complexity, social complexity, polyphenism, totitpotency, work organization, functional integration, sociality.


Objective:To apply the open and comparison method to probe into the effect of BFP in strengthening the immune function of patients with bronchial asthma.Methods:We divided 40 patients with asthma at remission stage into the treated group and contrast group at random.In the acute emergent period,both groups were treated with anti-inflammation and given a correct diagnosis.In the alleviating period,the treated group was added three to five pills of BFP three times a day for 4~6 months a year which lasted for three years,while the contrast group was not given any special medical treatment.Results:Comparing the immune function of cell and body fluid,there are obvious differences in the treated group before treatment and after treatment,while the contrast group never changes.Conclusion:BFP has the effect of strengthening the immune function of patients with bronchial asthma.


An outdoor experiment was conducted for the inhibitory effect of Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae various in population density and growth stage on growth of water hyacinth,Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms. Results show that growth of water hyacinth was significantly inhibited by adult aphids,which was demonstrated in reduction of fresh plant weight,number of leaves and sprouts,and increase in the number of wizened leaves. R. nymphaeae feed on water hyacinth,thus affecting their growth. However the effect is positively related to their density,i.e. if the density is higher than 20 aphids per plant,the effect is significant and will become more and more significant as time goes by. But it should also be noted that R. nymphaeae have a relatively broad range of hosts and may endanger other aquatic plants in the neighborhood. Thus,the applicability of R. nymphaeae as natural enemy to control water hyacinth needs to be further studied.


Statistics courses prove to be a common difficulty to many social sciences students. To address this problem, we developed a tool in the R programming language (R Core Team, 2018) that can be used to easily and quickly generate data to be analysed. The Generator of Random Data or GRD, allows the user to build datasets according to any design type, both within and between, with or without statistical effects and/or correlations. By default, GRD creates normally distributed data, but any type of distribution defined in R can be specified. With GRD, it is possible to generate samples of any size and see the benefit of larger sample sizes on the precision of statisticalmeasures. The students of statistics can acquire better skills in analyzing custom-made datasets, skipping long data-acquisition processes. They can also experience first-hand concepts such as statistical power and type-I and type-II errors. Each sample being different, students can appreciate randomness at the tips of their fingers.


The increasing inequality observed in recent years between the income of 1% of the population with respect to the rest, a new interest arose in the study of the distribution of wealth and income, questioning the effectiveness of traditional economic models even provoking economists to consider other approaches to study this problem. In present paper a revision of some of these approaches is made, from the statistical part, going over Pareto ́s work, and the later works of Gibrat, Piketty, among others, and how complexity sciences have contributed through the econophysics and Agents-Based Models, from a Bottom-Up and Top-Down perspective, until the emergence of complex networks. Getting with it a contribution to find a more robust view of the problem.


The basal (swelling-induced) and receptor-stimulated effluxes of 125I- and taurine have been monitored to determine whether these two osmolytes are released from human SH-SY5Y cells under hypotonic conditions via common or distinct mechanisms. Under basal conditions, both 125I- (used as a tracer for Cl-) and taurine were released from the cells in a volume-dependent manner. The addition of thrombin, mediated via the proteinase-activated receptor-1 (PAR-1) subtype, significantly enhanced the release of both 125I- and taurine (3–6-fold) and also increased the threshold osmolarity for efflux of these osmolytes ("set-point") from 200 to 290 mOsM. Inclusion of a variety of broad-spectrum anion channel blockers and of 4-[(2-butyl-6,7-dichloro-2-cyclopentyl-2,3-dihydro-1-oxo-1H-inden-5-yl)oxy]butanoic acid attenuated the release of both 125I- and taurine under basal and receptor-stimulated conditions. Basal release of 125I- and taurine was independent of Ca2+ or the activity of protein kinase C (PKC). However, although PAR-1-stimulated taurine efflux was attenuated by either a depletion of intracellular Ca2+ or inhibition of PKC by chelerythrine, the enhanced release of 125I- was independent of both parameters. Stimulated efflux of 125I- after activation of muscarinic cholinergic receptors was also markedly less dependent on Ca2+ availability and PKC activity than that observed for taurine release. These results indicate that, although the osmosensitive release of these two osmolytes from SH-SY5Y cells may occur via pharmacologically similar membrane channels, the receptor-mediated release of 125I- and taurine is differentially regulated by PKC activity and Ca2+ availability.


For many years, lipids were considered to be intractable and uninteresting oily materials with two main functions – to serve as a source of energy and as the building blocks of membranes. They were certainly not considered to be appropriate candidates for such important molecular tasks as intracellular signalling or local hormonal regulation. In 1929, George and Mildred Burr demonstrated that linoleic acid was an essential dietary constituent, but it was many years before the importance of this finding was recognized by biochemists in general. With the discovery by Bergström, Samuelsson and others in 1964 that the essential fatty acid arachidonate was the biosynthetic precursor of the prostaglandins with their effects on inflammation and other disease states, the scientific world in general began to realize that lipids were much more interesting than they had previously thought.


Objective To investigate the prevalence of dental caries in Tongmei group for providing a guide for oral health care and making some measures for the prevention and treatment of dental cares.Methods The diagnostic criteria of dental caries recommended by the World Health Organization were used in this study.The children aged 4-6,7-13 years were examined from nursery,primary schools of Tongmei group in 2005,2007 and 2009.In 2009,children aged 7-13 years from the near mining areas of Tongmei group were also examined to compare with that from Tongmei group.Results In 2005,2007 and 2009,the caries rates in Tongmei group were 82.62%,79.81%,70.74% respectively for children aged 4-6 years(χ2=42.293,P0.01),and 77.02%,71.02%,64.54% respectively for children aged 7-13 years(χ2=24.241,P0.01).In 2005,2007 and 2009,the mean numbers of dental caries in Tongmei group were 4.35±1.98,4.09±2.01,3.25±1.18 respectively for children aged 4-6 years,and 3.39±1.23,2.71±1.08,2.08±0.98 respectively for children aged 7-13 years,and the mean numbers were significantly lower in 2007,2009 than that in 2005,and also lower in 2009 than that in 2007(P0.01).In 2009,the caries rate of children aged 7-13 years in the near mining areas was 75.09% and significantly higher than that in Tongmei group(64.54%,P0.01).Conclusion The prevalence and mean numbers of dental caries of children aged 4-6 and 7-13 years in Tongmei group decrease from 2005 to 2009,but the prevalence of dental caries in near mining areas is higher than that in Tongmei group.It is necessary to strengthen the prevention and treatment of dental caries in the near mining areas.


We investigated the outage performance of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in satellite-terrestrial systems which contain hardware impairments. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was implemented to forward signals from a satellite to users on the ground. A two-user model was applied to achieve spectral efficiency. In practical, real-life scenarios, the UAV and ground users encounter issues with imperfect hardware. We examined the performance gap between two users experiencing practical problems such as hardware impairment and imperfect successive interference cancellation (SIC). To implement a practical scenario, Shadow-Rician fading was adopted in the satellite links, and Rician fading was employed in the terrestrial links for ground users. In the main results, we derived the closed-form expression of the outage probability, and to evaluate the system performance of two NOMA users, we obtained the approximate expressions for high signal-to-noise ratios (SNR). Finally, we produced Monte-Carlo simulations to verify the analytical expressions and demonstrate the effect of the main system parameters, such as the number of transmit antennas on the satellite, transmit SNR, and level of hardware impairment on the system performance metric.


Telluronium ylides are versatile reagents for cyclopropanation reaction and wittig-type olefination. This review outlines the recent development in stereoselectivity of ylide cyclopropanation and catalytic olefination in our group.


The invention relates to a quick braking warning apparatus and method. Through communication technology among vehicles, warning information for the fact of quick braking of a vehicle is transmitted to vehicles on the periphery and further safe driving of the vehicles running on the periphery of the vehicle under quick braking can be achieved. Under certain conditions, the vehicles receiving the quick braking warning information output the quick braking warning information to drivers for preventing unnecessary warning and providing substantially helpful information for the safe driving of the drivers.


Hunger and malnutrition are intricately bound up with ill-health, poverty and underdevelopment. Freedom from hunger and malnutrition is a basic human right, and their alleviation is a prerequisite for human and national development. Dietary deficiencies of vitamins and minerals are still responsible for massive mortality and morbidity in developing countries, especially amongst pregnant women and young children: • Poor nutrition contributes to 1 out of 2 deaths (53%) associated with infectious diseases among children aged under five in developing countries (see graph) • 1 out of 2 children in Africa with severe malnutrition dies during hospital treatment due to inappropriate care • 1 out of 4 preschool children suffers from under-nutrition, which can severely affect a child's mental and physical development • Under-nutrition among pregnant women in developing countries leads to 1 out of 6 infants being born with low birth weight. This is not only a risk factor for neonatal deaths, but also causes learning disabilities, mental retardation, poor health, blindness and premature death. • Inappropriate feeding of infants and young children is responsible for one third of the cases of malnutrition • 1 out of 3 people in developing countries is affected by vitamin and mineral deficiencies and therefore more subject to infection, birth defects and impaired physical and psycho-intellectual development Percentage distribution of global child deaths by cause (rounded):


An important technology for copyright protection is digital watermarking, which generally embeds copyright infor-mation into the carrier invisibly. In the case of various attacks, the identity of the watermark can also be extracted to prove its copyright from the carrier of the watermark. Most of the existing watermarking technologies use natural images as carriers. Unlike natural images, document images are not rich in color and texture, and thus carry less redundant information for watermarks. This paper proposes a adaptive positioning document watermarking algorithm based on Discrete Wavelet Transform(DWT) and Discrete Cosine Transform(DCT). The method integrates adaptive positioning algorithm, discrete wavelet transform, discrete cosine transform and other algorithms. In our case, we first scan the document image to adaptively embed the keypoints information, so that even if a part of the document is recorded, the complete watermark area can be accurately located. Secondly, we construct the watermark embedding regions centered at keypoints. Third, the DWT and DCT algorithms are used to embed the watermark, which achieve strong robustness to the capture process attack. Finally, the watermark can be extracted from at least one region in the extraction stage. Compared with the previous watermarking algorithms, the proposed approach not only ensures the independence of embedded content, but also is robust to various noise attacks. In addition, the method can meet the extraction accuracy requirements even when the document image is incomplete.


Since proclaiming its independence, the Republic of Moldova began facing a set of political, economic and social problems, which it had to resolve alone, relying on its own potential and resources. The process of state building and self-determination was going in a context of social and economic crisis, and radical transformation of the economic system. Lack of experience in resisting external "shocks", crises in the economy and social sector, as well as insufficient experience in implementing system reforms, unstable internal political situation, territorial disintegration of the country – all these predetermined the considerable "mistakes and costs" of the transition period. The young people have been the most vulnerable group in such a difficult period.


In satellite remote sensing, cloud blocks surface or near surface information. The aim of this study is to investigate the spectral properties of cloud and to carry out cloud detection and masking over Malaysia based on spectral analysis. A cloud detection and masking method tuned to tropical conditions have been developed based on spectral of MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) data. Thresholds were applied to three sets of spectral measurements, i.e. reflective bands, thermal bands and brightness temperature difference of thermal bands. The results show that the method was able to detect clouds over Malaysia effectively.


The strategic objective of Indian policy makers at the outset of independence was the creation of a self-reliant economy and the reduction of the high levels of poverty that existed, all within a democratic political framework. In order to achieve these objectives, the authorities steadfastly pursued a Socialist strategy of state-directed, heavy industry based industrialisation complemented by an across-the-board import substitution policy, financial repression and complex industrial requirements. Notwithstanding some notable successes, the highly statist and interventionist development policies adhered to during this period of insulation led to a severely distorted production structure. While growth did pick up in the latter half of the 1970s, the Indian economy was generally mired in a vicious circle of low productivity/product obsolescence and slow growth. Not only was the performance of the Indian economy well below the targets set by the planning authorities, the country was left lagging in terms of economic growth and development relative to its East Asian neighbours such as China and Korea, which had broadly similar levels of per capita income at the time of India's independence (Kelkar, 2001). Although some tentative steps were taken in 1985 to liberalise and unshackle the economy by delicensing a few industries, these partial and rather ad hoc measures contributed to the creation of severe and unsustainable macroeconomic imbalances in the Indian economy, particularly with regard to escalating fiscal deficits. The imbalances corresponded to a


Well-established in the food and beverage industries, depth filtration is gaining greater penetration in the pharmaceutical sector, as Mike Sidebottom * explains.


The Organized Body Technologies of Embodiment Subjective Empiricism and Organization Organization and Becoming Organization and Affirmation Organization as Joyful Practice Conclusion


With the purified DNA extracted from the grafting cocoa tea as template,1 800 bp target fragment was amplified by PCR using FS and RX primer combination.The homology between the cloned DNA and the PPO DNA of other tea trees reached to 98%,while that in amino acid sequence was 91%.So it was confirmed to be the tea PPO gene.


Based on specimens collected in historical times and stored in the insect collections of the Natural History Museum London and the Zoological Museum Hamburg two new subgenera are established Robustaccasubgen. nov. of the genus Peracca Griffini, 1897 and Indoliarasubgen. nov. of the genus Liara Redtenbacher, 1891. Five new species are described: Peracca (Robustacca) nigrifronssp. nov. from Sumatra, Liara (Acanthocoryphus) duratasp. nov. from Hongkong, Liara (Indoliara) dividatasp. nov. from South India, Pseudosubria assamensissp. nov. from Assam and Depressacca kinabalusp. nov. from Sabah. The species Odontoconus robustus Karny, 1923 is newly combined as Peracca (Robustacca) robustus (Karny, 1923) comb. nov. An extended and updated key to the subgenera of the genus Peracca Griffini, 1897 is provided. All specimens are deposited in the original collections.


This study aims to see the Effectiveness of the Application of Pondok Rules in Formation of Akhlakul Karimah Santri at the Darul Istiqamah Bongki Islamic Boarding School, Kec. North Sinjai Kab. Sinjai. This research is included in the type of evaluation research using a quantitative approach. The subjects of this study were students of MTs and MA Pondok Pesantren Putri Darul Istiqamah Bongki. The data collection method is by distributing questionnaires (questionnaires), making observations, and collecting information from sources or available documents. The results showed that the effectiveness of the application of the rules of the boarding school had a significant effect on the formation of the morality of the santri of the Putri Darul Istiqamah Bongki Islamic Boarding School where the effectiveness level was 81.5%. In the application of the rules at the Darul Istiqamah Bongki Islamic Boarding School, there is a reciprocal process and dynamic interaction between students, teachers, and the pesantren environment in general. The teacher is a role model and the environment is the shaper of conditions and comfort, as well as the climate of the boarding school to develop good morality for the students. The synergy of all these elements will certainly return to the students as individuals who are in a very dynamic environment.


This chapter reviews ways that researchers have presented variously narrow and broad groupings of special student success programs over the course of decades. Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) is proposed as a way to conceptualize various kinds of community college student success programs as instances of a more general type of program.


33 yaks at the age of 3.5 years in puberty were treated with reproduction hormone and 166 similar yaks were as control.The estrus rate and reproductive rate of the yaks in hormone treatment group were 69.70% and 57.58%.The ones of the yaks in the control group were 63.86% and 22.89%,respectively.The estrus rate and reproductive rate of hormone treatment group increased 5.84 and 34.69 percents points than those in control group,respectively.The estrus rate of PG-CL+FSH treatment group was more than that of PG-CL+LHRH-A3 treatment group,the reproductive rate were similar for both treatment groups in the response of two programmers treated with PG-CL+FSH and PG-CL+LHRH-A3 hormones.


TPS7583Background: High risk for relapse is observed in cHL patients (pts) with SER to initial chemotherapy and the burden of late organ toxicities may be higher following dose intensification. Met...


Route choice model algorithm is one of the core technologies for traveler dynamic navigation and traffic simulation model. This article puts forward an urban dynamic multipath selection algorithm with optimal aggregate utility based on trunk network hierarchy. Using utility optimization algorithm, the traveler's preferences for high-grade roads and other behavioral characteristics like driving turn evasion are included in the model algorithm, so as to reflect, as accurately as possible, the driver's judgment of travel routes in real-word and more reliable route planning. Finally, a verification test is made with Beijing's central areas as target areas. The results are found to be satisfactory.


This work aims to analyze the evolution of the lot structure of eight verticalized neighborhoods in the Santiago Metropolitan Area (SMA), in order to understand how the verticalization process transforms the geometry and structure of parceling. Residential high-rise developments require parceling adjustments that result in new land use and ownership distribution patterns, reconfiguring the public-private interface. The posed questions are descriptive, as they seek to uncover observable characteristics and processes in the SMA, which may have a more general validity. The sample is composed of eight polygons in which vertical residential developments are concentrated. Maps of lot area and depth-to-frontage ratio before and after the verticalization process were created. Four lot structure transformation typologies are proposed: (1) Homogeneous verticalization and regular transformation of lots, (2) Incomplete verticalization and diversification of lot combination operations, (3) Scattered and intense verticalization, with partial reconfiguration of the lot structure, (4) Scattered verticalization with significant changes in the lot structure. Intensive residential densification developments unleash hugely significant scale changes in the urban fabric that reconfigure the border between public and private, with greater degrees of enclosure between the lot and street.


Abstract A TRACE/PARCS model has been developed to analyze anticipated transient without scram (ATWS) events for a boiling water reactor (BWR) operating in the maximum extended load line limit analysis-plus (MELLLA+) expanded operating domain. The MELLLA+ domain expands the allowable operation in the power/flow map of a BWR to low flow rates at high-power conditions. Such operation exacerbates the likelihood of large-amplitude power/flow oscillations during certain ATWS scenarios. The analysis shows that large-amplitude power/flow oscillations, both core-wide and out-of-phase, arise following the establishment of natural-circulation flow in the reactor pressure vessel after the trip of the recirculation pumps and an increase in core inlet subcooling. The analysis also indicates a mechanism by which the fuel may experience heatup that could result in localized fuel damage. TRACE predicts that heatup will occur when the cladding surface temperature exceeds the minimum stable film boiling temperature after periodic cycles of dryout and rewet, and the fuel becomes locked into a boiling-film regime. Further, the analysis demonstrates the effectiveness of the simulated manual operator actions to suppress the instability.


Uniform measurement procedures are proposed for determining the relative effectiveness of room-size high-performance shielding enclosures. Test procedures are designated to measure the effectiveness of a rectangular parallelepiped with edge dimensions ranging from 1.5 to 15 meters. They are formulated to enable use of commercially available equipment for conducting tests under nonideal conditions. The standard does not, however, specify construction details for shielding enclosures nor does it suggest methods for calculating their effectiveness.


Over recent decades, increased anthropogenic nitrogen and reduced land-based loading of silica in many coastal waters have asymmetrically changed the nitrogen:silica ratios. These changes have contributed to shifts in phytoplankton assemblages from diatoms to nondiatoms, as well as increases in the frequency and magnitude of non-diatom harmful algal blooms. Here we show a subtle and counterintuitive change in diatom assemblage, i.e. heavily silicified diatoms significantly increased in winter after nitrogen enrichment, based on paleoecological and contemporary seasonal water column data from 2 eutrophic bays in the Yellow Sea. The heavily silicified diatom Paralia sulcata showed an increasing trend over time in parallel with nitrogen enrichment, which was associated with low temperature, and low dissolved inorganic nitrogen: phosphorus, high dissolved nitrogen:silica, and low ammonium:nitrate ratios on a seasonal basis. Applying recent insights regarding diatom nitrogen metabolism and its putative urea cycle, a physiological mechanism linking nitrogen, carbon, and silica metabolism is suggested to explain the phenomenon of increased silicification under winter conditions at the cellular level. Winter sequestration of silica in P. sulcata valves also has biogeochemical consequences, including a weakening of the silica pump and a slowing of biogenic silica dissolution, thereby reducing the availability of silica for further diatom growth in subsequent seasons and increasing the window of opportunity for summer growth of non-diatom harmful algal bloom species.


Electrical tomography techniques have been investigated extensively in the last decade, for both industrial and medical applications. There are three modalities: electrical resistance tomography (ERT), electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) and electromagnetic tomography (EMT), which provide conductivity, permittivity and permeability distributions, respectively. Electrical tomography has several advantages over other tomographic techniques, e.g. low-cost, rapid response, portability, no radiation hazard and robustness. In the industrial area, electrical tomography has found many applications, e.g. measurement of gas/liquid and gas/solids flows in pipelines, analysis of dynamic processes in fluidized beds, monitoring of mixing and separation processes, visualization of combustion flames in engine cylinders and detection of leakage from buried water pipes. In the medical area, it has been used to image swallowing, stomach emptying, lung ventilation and perfusion, pulmonary oedema, brain function and breast tumours. Compared with `hard-field' tomographic techniques, such as x-ray, the main difficulty with electrical tomography is that the relationship between the electrical measurements and the material properties is highly nonlinear, as the sensing field is distorted by objects in the imaging area. Therefore, the `soft field' nature presents particular difficulties in image reconstruction. Currently, linear back-projection (LBP) algorithms are commonly used in electrical tomography systems. They are simple and fast, but can only produce qualitative images and hence are unsuitable for quantitative analysis. In recent years, iterative image reconstruction algorithms have been developed to address the nonlinearity and ill-posed challenges. Although there exist many different iterative algorithms, their basic principles are the same. In essence, resistance, capacitance or inductance is calculated from the current image using a forward problem solver. The difference between the calculated values and the real measurements is used to correct the image, aiming to reduce the error. In general, iterative algorithms produce improved images, but they can only be used off-line because they are slow. However, with ever-increasing computer speed, real-time iterative image reconstruction should be feasible in the near future. There are many similarities between ERT, ECT and EMT systems. In terms of physics, the three sensing fields are governed by the same Laplace equation. In hardware, most systems are based on low-frequency (<1 MHz) sinusoidal excitation and phase-sensitive demodulation, although ERT and EMT systems often employ current injection excitation and ECT systems apply voltage excitation. In software, all three types face the same difficulties, i.e. nonlinearity and ill-posed problems, and all of them use finite element or finite difference methods to solve the Laplace equation. Considering the above common aspects, it is possible to develop a universal electrical tomography system, which can perform ERT, ECT and EMT. By integrating the three modalities onto a single platform, the common problems may be solved together. In addition, such a system may find wide applications, such as measuring three-component flows. Some differences do exist between the two application areas. In industrial applications, the geometry is fixed and regular, electrical properties are often known and the dynamic range can be large. In medical applications, however, the geometry is irregular and may be changing, electrical properties are not well documented and the dynamic range is small. Although safety issues are equally important to both application areas, they have received more attention for medical applications than industrial applications so far. In 1996, a Special Issue on Process Tomography was published by Measurement Science and Technology, and it was well received by researchers working on industrial tomography. This Special Feature focuses on electrical tomography. The main aim is to bring the industrial and medical issues together and to provide readers with a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art of electrical tomography technology. The papers come from 12 countries and cover a wide range of applications. Accordingly, most papers are concerned with application-specific research rather than general principles. This may indicate that electrical tomography is close to its real application stage. The papers have been arranged in four categories: ERT, ECT, EMT and multi-modality. As Guest Editor of this Special Feature, I would like to thank the journal Editors Dr Sharon D'Souza, Mr James Dimond and Professor Richard Dewhurst for their help and efficient work. I would also thank all the authors and the referees for their effort to make this Special Feature possible.


Kazakhstan's nonproliferation initiatives are recognized worldwide. Kazakhstan is a party to almost all major nuclear treaties, a key driver in the creation of a Central Asian nuclear-weapon-free zone, initiated the Universal Declaration on Building a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, established a low-enriched uranium bank under the auspices of the IAEA in Ust-Kamenogorsk to be used for peaceful purposes in the event of a disruption in the supply of fuel for nuclear power plants.While the foreign policy acts of Kazakhstan in non-proliferation are well known and internationally appreciated, the transfer of Kazakh experience in the governance of the nuclear sector is lesser known asset. For example, the experience of the Committee for Atomic and Energy Supervision and Control and KAZATOMPROM in uranium mining and transport was shared with countries from the Southern African Development Community, under an EU project, implemented by the International Science and Technology Center. This example reveals the great potential this themes have for the further input of Kazakhstan in international development cooperation.


Special education is under attack from outside the profession and is experiencing considerable dissention from inside as well. The challenges from outside are concerned with costs and accountability. Cost comparisons with other education services have led some to argue that the social benefits do not justify the costs of special education services (Dillon, 1994; Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, 1997). Dissention inside the profession involves longstanding differences in perspective regarding fully integrated versus pull-out service delivery models (Fuchs & Fuchs, 1995; Shanker, 1994) and, increasingly, differences among researchers about the nature and representation of knowledge. Ethical issues lurk sometimes subtly behind and sometimes boldly in front of professional challenges in special education interventions, policies, research, and teacher education. Special educators rely on a complex foundation of justifying reasons for what they do, and how they do it. Everything from how disability is defined to the educational objectives and the knowledge privileged as foundational for practice reflects a priori considerations saturated with values and cultural meaning. It is surprising that a field so replete with such complexities of interests has devoted so little attention to the study and development of applied ethics. In a survey of doctoral programs in special education in 1995 only one required a course in ethics, although most said that ethics content was embedded in the content of different seminars (Paul, Kane, and Kane, 1996). A few respondents suggested that content in ethics was not needed in a Ph.D. program in special education. We believe that lessons learned in professional psychology with respect to the study of ethics are instructive for special educators. Increasingly, over the past three decades, doctoral programs in psychology have required courses in ethics because the approach of embedding ethics content lacked a foundational perspective, lacked continuity, and, for teaching purposes, relied too much on ethical issues emerging randomly in class discussions and internships. Special education teachers, researchers, teacher educators, and policy-makers need more education and training in ethics to be able to address current moral dilemmas in assessment, instruction, curriculum, work with families, instructional competence, philosophy of service delivery, funding, and research. The articulation and application of ethical theory needed to support practice and policy development are critical to the future of special education.


This paper studies the teaching system design and mode of specialty of HIT electrical engineering, highlighting the "research based, individualism, superior and international" engineering leadership training. We combine the theory of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude and promotion of skill development based on the project study, internship, international cooperative laboratory and innovative practical platform by the Ruth reggae's training mode. It can be the reference for constructing Gordon training model of specialty of electrical engineering of HIT.


The world has changed a lot during this millennium and it still keeps changing. For this reason it sounds logical, that together with these changes marketing faces a lot of challenges which need to be overcome. That is why the second purpose of this paper is to define the challenges for marketing in the new millennium. Both theoretical considerations will be applied to the selected practical cases from international and Lithuanian markets.


The bad effect of sea sand to durability of a concrete structure is investigated,on the basis of the main ingredient and features of sea sand and its application status,by the analysis of the corrosion mechanism of steels.Based on the potential danger of durable life of houses with sea sand,and combined with the engineering experiences and lessons of reinforcing bar corrosion caused by sea salt,the paper focuses on the critical technique about reinforcing bar corrosion protection of sand concrete and puts forward a key method to prevent it by contrasting the principle and application of a cathode protection system and chlorine exclusion by electrochemistry.According to the actual demands about the durability of a concrete structure in the "Chinese Code for design of concrete structures",the paper points out the prescribed limits in chlorate of sea sand and puts up some preventive measures on damage to the durability of the concrete structure caused by sea sand.


The author describes the method and results of a global and automated approach for seismic interpretation (Pauget et al, 2009), applied to a pre-salt gas field of the Dutch Cleaver Bank High platform, offshore Netherlands. A sequence stratigraphic framework called 'Relative Geological Time (RGT) model' is built from the seismic data to emphasize structural and stratigraphic features. Basin and reservoir characterizations are thus enabled by RGT-derived advanced attributes, rock physics modelling, Wheeler diagrams and sub-sample stratal slicing. Several fault networks related to different tectonic phases are emphasized, key stratigraphic surfaces are delineated, and major facies trends of the pre-salt reservoir level are discriminated. Those outputs are finally used to assess the impact of fault networks and subsequent subsidence on the eustasy-controlled thin beds succession. The author ultimately demonstrates the potential of the global RGT modelling method to revise hydrocarbon fields and identify pre-salt siliciclastic carbon storage sites.


In the course of pulsed eddy current nondestructive testing(NDT),in order to study the disciplinarian of testing results influenced by the variation of sensor space position,induction voltage of the detecting coil and distributions of electromagnetic fields near defect,influenced by the level and upright variations of sensor space position,are analyzed using ANSYS finite element simulation method.Simulating results proved that when the sensor lies in different level or upright detecting positions,the edge of defects can be detected through the detecting positions at the peaks of induction voltage in the first situation,and the signals of induction voltage intersect at a point in the other.Simulating results provide theoretical guidance for studying testing results influenced by variations of sensor space position on experimentation.


The CL-20 was recrystallized by solvent-non-solvent method.The influence of surfactants on crystal morphology of the CL-20 was studied.The laser light scattering,optical microscope,and IR was adopted to characterize the CL-20 particle size distribution,morphology,and crystalline phase.The results show that the type and amount of surfactant seriously affect the CL-20 crystal-type appearance.In the transition crystal system of ethyl acetate as solvent,chloroform as non-solvent,temperature 20℃, non-solvent dilution rate 0.2mL/min-0.25mL/min,stirring speed 100r/min,adding span60 makes the growth of CL-20 crystal pieces close to spherical shape,smooth surface,particle size uniformity.


Abstract Dismembered late Mesozoic ophiolites occur in two parallel belts along the eastern margin of the Indian Plate. The Eastern Belt, closely following the magmatic arc of the Central Burma Basin, coincides with a zone of high gravity. It is considered to mark a zone of steeply dipping mafic–ultramafic rocks and continental metamorphic rocks, which are the locus of two closely juxtaposed sutures. In contrast, the Western Belt, which follows the eastern margin of the Indo-Burma Range and the Andaman outer-island-arc, broadly follows a zone of negative gravity anomalies. Here the ophiolites occur mainly as rootless subhorizontal bodies overlying Eocene–Oligocene flyschoid sediments. Two sets of ophiolites that were accreted during the Early Cretaceous and mid-Eocene are juxtaposed in this belt. These are inferred to be westward propagated nappes from the Eastern Belt, emplaced during the late Oligocene collision between the Burmese and Indo-Burma-Andaman microcontinents. Ophiolite occurrences in the Andaman Islands belong to the Western Belt and are generally interpreted as upthrust oceanic crust, accreted due to prolonged subduction activity to the west of the island arc. This phase of subduction began only in the late Miocene and thus could not have produced the ophiolitic rocks, which were accreted in the late Early Eocene.


The formation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is formulated as an inverse problem, a flexible approach suitable for a variety of acquisition systems and signal models. This paper focuses on increasing robustness to data saturation, specifically by optimizing a one-sided quadratic cost function to promote consistency with the received data. We model the SAR acquisition process using a linear function and we present an efficient implementation of this function and its adjoint for use in iterative optimization algorithms. Improved image quality and robustness to saturation are observed in experiments on synthetic images. Preliminary work on controlling azimuth ambiguities and incorporating image models enables saturation-robust reconstruction from satellite SAR data as well.


Marxism is the fundamental guiding principle and develops with the times. When Marxism combines with the actual situation of Chinese revolution and construction, it gave birth to Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory which have ushered Chinese from victory to victory. The third generation of leadership group with Comrade Jiang Zeming as the core inherits and develops Marxism and sublimates it into the important thinking "Three Represents" with Chinese characteristics, which has the same scientific system with Marxism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory.


We report the successful operation of a pigtailed eight-wavelength planar integrated amplifying combiner. This device can be used in a splitter or in a combiner configuration. It consists in an 8/spl times/1 combiner and a 5.5-cm-long Er-Yb doped waveguide amplifier. The module provides net gain simultaneously to the eight combined wavelengths in the 1531-1546-nm optical bandwidth. This module has been incorporated in an 8/spl times/2.5 Gb/s wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) system. The central wavelength was 1535 nm and the channel spacing was 1 nm. Negative penalty for bit-error-rate performances (BER<10/sup -10/) has been measured for each wavelength. The results of the system performance demonstrate the potential of the ion-exchange technology in providing cost effective integrated optic solutions for WDM networks applications.


This paper is concerned with the analysis and the simulation of a heat-driven absorption-diffusion cooling machine which can operate with low-grade heat sources. The simplified configuration of the heat-powered absorption-diffusion refrigerating machine considered in this study is based on the Platen-Munters single pressure refrigerators principle [Platen B.C.V. and Munters C.G. (1928) Refrigerator, US Patent 1, 685-764J. Three working fluids are used, nonane as an absorbent, propane as a refrigerant and hydrogen as the inert auxiliary gas. The designed cooling capacity of the machine is 1 kW which is suitable for a domestic use for refrigeration purposes. We restricted the maximum temperature of the driving heat supplied to the generator to 130 °C, a temperature achievable with evacuated-tube solar collectors. The simulations are carried out using a commercially available flow sheeting software with the PengRobinson equation of state as property prediction method. In this paper, we analyze the heat and mass transfer characteristics in all relevant machine components (absorber, condenser, generator and solution heat exchangers). The simulations results allow determining the values of different parameters of the systems such as the refrigerant and the solvent temperatures in various points of the machine, the liquid and the vapor flow rates and compositions. The system performances were parametrically analyzed using the flow sheeting software. Performance characteristics were determined for a wide range of operating conditions allowing investigating and evaluating the effect of various design parameters.


We thank our colleague Dr Patoulias for pointing out that sodium glucose transporter (SGLT)2 inhibition (SGLT2i) could mediate nephroprotection in patients with lupus nephritis (LN) and ANCAassociated vasculitis (AAV) via specific mechanisms within the tubular cell compartment independent of the presence of diabetes mellitus. As discussed by Dr Patoulias, kidney injury molecule1 (KIM1) is affected by SGLT2i correlating with improvements in albuminuria, a hallmark of chronic kidney damage. KIM1, however, is not only a mere marker of tubular injury, but it is actively involved in diverse pathogenic actions. Hence, its expression, for example, in diabetic kidney disease accelerates kidney injury via fatty acid uptake coupled with tubular glucose reabsorption in renal proximal tubular cells, resulting in various detrimental stress responses. Upregulation of KIM1 and the ensuing tubular cell responses illustrate the close relationship between diseased glomeruli and subsequent tubulointerstitial fibrosis in response to increased tubular workload, thereby diseases traditionally considered primarily of glomerular origin such as diabetic kidney disease, and also inflammatory diseases such as LN and AAV, illustrate the therapeutic potential of innovative therapies such as SGLT2i by limiting permanent and progressive damage especially to the tubulointerstitial tissue. The concept of nephron overload has been very recently proposed to be the final result of various and diverse pathogenic insults in most forms of chronic kidney disease. Since SGLT2i substantially reduce tubular workload, they belong to the most efficient therapeutic interventions impacting nephron overload, suggesting also significant nephroprotective effects in LN and AAV.


Measuring the Impacts of the HIV Epidemic on Household Structure and Gender Relations Patrick Heuveline CCPR-040-08 December 2008 Latest Revised: July 2008 California Center for Population Research On-Line Working Paper Series


We compare three popular techniques of rating content: the ubiquitous five star rating, the less used pairwise comparison, and the recently introduced (in crowdsourcing) magnitude estimation approach. Each system has specific advantages and disadvantages, in terms of required user effort, achievable user preference prediction accuracy and number of ratings required.
We design an experiment where the three techniques are compared in an unbiased way. We collected 39'000 ratings on a popular crowdsourcing platform, allowing us to release a dataset that will be useful for many related studies on user rating techniques.


Disclosure. Dr. Casey reports that he serves on the speaker's bureau for Pfizer. Dr. Antimisiaris and Dr. O'Brien report that they have no financial or commercial relationships in regard to this article.


Severe vibration was observed at a scrubber system connected to a reciprocating compressor during commissioning stage. Field measurements including vibration, pressure pulsation, and modal experiment were conducted to determine the causes of vibration, which showed that the excessive vibration was caused by pressure pulsation-induced mechanical resonance. Vibration reduction treatment for mechanical resonance avoidance via the installation of support on scrubber was proposed and then validated by resonance analysis and one-way fluid structure interaction (FSI) analysis. Resonance analysis showed both the dominant frequencies of pressure pulsation and rotational frequencies of compressor were beyond resonance regions, and FSI analysis indicated that the vibration levels of the scrubber system at its design conditions were within the allowable limit. Installation of two braces with a band clamp on the scrubber was implemented. The effectiveness of the treatment was verified by comparison of measured data before and after scrubber modification; the peak amplitudes occurring at the dominant excitation frequencies in both vibration and pulsation spectra declined greatly after modification, which guaranteed the long-term stable operation of the scrubber.


This article attempts to define the work of federal parliamentarians' staffers so that their position, responsibilities, and ultimately their role can be better understood by parliamentary observers and the public at large. The author first discusses the role of an MP's staff member in order to build a job description of common tasks and responsibilities. Then he explores and defines some possible organizational structures of Members of Parliament's offices based on his own observations.


This chapter traces the history of the transmission of the material which is contained in Mark 13 if possible even back to its origin in the teaching of Jesus. All discussion of the gospel tradition is rendered especially complicated by the necessity of moving simultaneously on several levels: that of the meaning of the gospel text as it stands in context, that of the teaching of Jesus as it is more or less accurately therein reflected, and that of the transformations of the tradition in the intervening period. The chapter begins with an examination of the present text of Mark 13, to be followed by form-critical considerations and a reconstruction of the earlier history of the material. The traditional solution to the problem of Mark 13 is to postulate a Jewish apocalypse with Christian additions. The framework of Mark 13 is provided by an eschatological paraclesis.Keywords: Christian; eschatological paraclesis; Jesus; Jewish apocalypse; Mark 13


Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 78:805–817 doi:10.2136/sssaj2013.05.0157 Received 1 May 2013. *Corresponding author (email@example.com). © Soil Science Society of America, 5585 Guilford Rd., Madison WI 53711 USA All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Permission for printing and for reprinting the material contained herein has been obtained by the publisher. Greenhouse Gas Accumulation in the Soil Profile is not Always Related to Surface Emissions in a Prairie Pothole Agricultural Landscape Soil Biology & Biochemistry


Theme This analytical study demonstrates the feasibility of the photographic reconnaissance of Mars satellites, Phobos and Deimos, by defining favorable trajectory and lighting conditions. Content If high-resoluti on photographs of the Martian satellites could be obtained at relatively close distances, valuable information could be gained concerning the actual size, shape, and geological histories of the satellites. Thus, it is the purpose of the present study to determine the trajectory feasibility of photographic reconnaissance of the Martian satellites during the planned 1971 Mariner mission and the 1973 Viking mission (recently postponed to 1975). The geometry of the problem is illustrated in Fig. 1 where the location of the orbit


A 61‐year‐old man was referred to us with linear and indurated erythemas and severe tenderness on the scalp, neck, tongue, and scrotum which had gradually spread over the previous six months. He had a history of an intracranial bypass operation for cerebral infarction. Histologic and ultrastructural examinations revealed giant‐cell arteries in the skin as well as inflammatory cells infiltrating into nerves. Carotid angiograms indicated stenosis of cranial arteries.


we provide sufficient conditions based on crossings of absolute or generalized Lorenz curves and on crossings of cumulative distribution functions. Necessary and sufficient conditions based on crossings of rotated absolute Lorenz curves are also provided. The conditions are related to but not equivalent to those used for checking whether income distribution is more unequal in one population than another. When populations cannot be ordered by uniform hardship, their rankings cannot be made without the introduction of social judgements. An altternative to using poverty indexes to impose judgements is to report two (or more) numbers that summarize all of the information needed for choosing a ranking. One of the numbers represents social judgments, and the other represents the rankings of the populations according to that particular set of social judgements. Two variants on this approach, including one developed by Atkinson, are discussed.


. In this paper, we establish error estimates of finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods for the Klein-Gordon-Dirac (KGD) system in the nonrelativistic limit regime, involving a small dimensionless parameter 0 <ε (cid:2) 1 inversely proportional to the speed of light. In this limit regime, the solution of the KGD system propagates waves with O ( ε 2 ) and O (1)-wavelength in time and space respectively. The high oscillation and the nonlinear coupling between the real scalar Klein-Gordon field and the complex Dirac vector field bring great challenges to the analysis of the numerical methods for the KGD system in the nonrelativistic limit regime. Four implicit/semi-implicit/explicit FDTD methods are rigorously analyzed. By applying the energy method and cut-off technique, we obtain the error bounds for the FDTD methods at O ( τ 2 /ε 6 + h 2 /ε ) with time step τ and mesh size h . Thus, in order to compute 'correct' solutions when 0 <ε (cid:2) 1, the estimates suggest that the meshing strategy requirement of the FDTD methods is τ = O ( ε 3 ) and h = O ( √ ε ). In addition, numerical results are reported to support our conclusions. Our approach is valid in one, two and three dimensions.


The toponymic sign, which main characteristic is the identification of a certain location that establishes meaning, in some contexts, may emphasize some referred location features, bringing to light a kind of toponymic iconicity (DICK, 1990). The present case study explores, on these aspects, toponyms from Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, on the theoretical and methodological models presented by Dick in Atlas Toponímico do Brasil (ATB). By taking the regional context into consideration, 108 toponyms designating tour sites have been chosen from the Diamond Circuit area, where the main late 19th Century cities of Andaraí, Lençóis, Mucugê, and Palmeiras, that emerged due to mining and nowadays are important historic cities in the regional touristic circuit, are located. Having toponym as a cultural trace, physical and social environments description is performed, presenting geographic and historical cycles information, since these people settlement. The toponyms cataloging using lexigraphictoponymic forms (DICK, 2004) defines the linguistic treatment of the corpus and adds extralinguistic data, which help the understanding of naming motivation mechanisms. Toponymic signs are analyzed by their semantic categories and iconic properties.


The invention discloses an oil-resistant non-skid sole material which is prepared from butadiene-nitrile rubber, cis-1,4-polybutadiene rubber, white carbon black, diethylene glycol, white oil, zinc oxide, stearic acid, dispersing agent, accelerator, anti-aging agent, RX-80 and polyvinyl chloride resin. The preparation method of the oil-resistant non-skid sole material comprises the following steps: evenly mixing the materials, adding into a Banbury mixer, banburying, adding the banburying mixture into a screw extruder, carrying out melt blending, granulating, mixing the granules in an open mill, and carrying out mold pressing to obtain the oil-resistant non-skid sole material. The oil-resistant non-skid sole material disclosed by the invention has the advantages of excellent oil resistance, solvent resistance, non-skid property and bending resistance; the combination of the polyvinyl chloride resin and butadiene-nitrile rubber improves the luster surface of the product, keeps no defogging for a long time, and enhances the aesthetic degree of the product.


Introduction: Chronic low level exposure and sensitization to in door allergens plays a major role in asthma pathoge nesis and subsequent provocation of symptoms. Asthma severity is proportional to degree of aeroallergen expo sure and sensitization. This study was conducted to determin e the prevalence of sensitization to common aeroall ergens and its association with asthma severity. Material and methods: Cross sectional observational study that evaluated 70 asthmatic patients from 5 - 18 years of age attending pediatr ic allergy asthma clinic at a tertiary care teachin g hospital from January to December 2014. Skin prick test was performed on all these patients. Pattern of aeroallergen sensiti zation and its impact on asthma severity was studied. Results: Skin prick testing (SPT) was performed on 70 child ren above 5 years of age, with a mean (SD) age of 8.8 (2.99) years. 52 childr en (74%) were sensitized to at least one aeroallerg en, suggesting atopy; 27(38.5%) were sensitized to more than one allergen . 65.3% children were sensitized to house dust mite ; 46.1% to alternaria, 38.4% to cynodon and 19.2% to cockroach antigens. Frequency of aeroallergen sensitization correlated with increasing age. Asthma severity was associated with sensitization to house dust mite and cockroach. Conclusion: Approximately three fourth of asthmatic children in our study were sensitized to at least one aeroallergen showing that these children had atopic/ aeroallergen induced ast hma. Sensitization was most commonly seen to dust mite, alternaria and cynodon. Children sensitized to dust mite and c ockroach had more severe asthma.


Objective To compare the clinical efficacy between percutaneous poking fixation with kirschner wire(PPFK) and open reduction internal fixation with plate(ORIF) in the treatment of calcaneal fracture,in order to explore the effective method for calcaneal fracture treatment.Methods A total of 92 patients with calcaneal fracture were divided into PPFK group and ORIF group randomly,each group had 46 patients.The patients of the two groups underwent PPFK or ORIF treatment respectively.X-ray was done to determine Bohler angle,Gissane angle,height and width of calcaneus before surgery and 1 week,1 year after surgery of the two groups,Maryland score was done to evaluate clinical efficacy,then the complications of two groups were also observed.Results Compared with before surgery,1 week and 1 year after surgery,the Bohler angle and Gissane angle of the two groups increased(P 0.05),height of calcaneus also increased(P 0.05),and the width decreased(P 0.05),and the ORIF group showed better recovery in all indexes than the PPFK group(P 0.05).Compared with 1 week after surgery,the Bohler angle,Gissane angle and height of calcaneus of PPFK group decreased than 1 year after surgery(P 0.05),the width of calcaneus increased(P 0.05).But no obvious change was observed in the ORIF group.The good rate of the ORIF group was higher than that of the PPFK group(P 0.05),but the incidence of complications(13.04%,6/46) was higher than that of the PPFK group(0,0/46)(P 0.05).Conclusion ORIF can better recover the Bohler angle,Gissane angle,height and width of calcaneus of patients with calcaneal fracture and has better clinical effect,it can become the applicable surgery for treating calcaneal fracture if related complications are prevented effectively.


Hydatid cysts most commonly present in the liver and the lungs; however, they can appear more rarely in other locations, such as the mesentery, with a rather unclear mechanism of manifestation. Herein, a case of the simultaneous presence of hydatid cysts in the mesentery and multiple splenic calcified granulomas in a 62-year-old elderly man has been presented that was managed surgically by pelvic mesenteric cyst deroofing and subtotal cystectomy.


One of the problems faced by silk production in Indonesia is low productivity of mulberry that is currently planted by the farmers. Therefore, it is necessary to develop new hybrid of mulberries that have a higher leaves production. Before the new hybrid of mulberry can be cultivated by farmers, the new hybrid plant should be tested first. Adaptation test is required to view genetic response of the plant with the environment in which mulberry grows. The purpose of this study is conducting adaptation test of mulberry's five types new hybrid to measure the growth and the productivity of plants. Adaptation test research of mulberry's five new hybrids has been conducted from 2012 until 2014 in Cipeuteuy Village, Sub District Kabandungan, District of Sukabumi. This research used randomized block design method with six treatments and three replications. The results showed that two types of hybrid mulberry showed high percentage growth on average 99%. The use of hybrid mulberry Morus cathayana x Morus amakusaguwa IV.12 in natural silk production can increase 59,60 % of productivity, while Morus cathayana x Morus amakusaguwa IV.10 can increase 47,83% of productivity. Two types of hybrid mulberry, Morus cathayana x Morus amakusaguwa IV.12 and Morus cathayana x Morus amakusaguwa IV.10 have excellent potential in silkworm feed productivity development.


In EAS experiments, the space-time information of the secondary particles is used to reconstruct the primary direction, which is greatly affected by the hit time offset. Usually absolute manual calibration is used, which takes time and man power and is dependant on the environment. A new term named Characteristic Plane is introduced to analyze the hit time offset effects such as the quasi-sinusoidal modulation on azimuth angle distribution, with the results checked by Toy MC. The Characteristic Plane method is developed to off-line calibrate the time offset of the detector units in an EAS array. Taking ARGO experiment as an example, a MC simulation was done to verify the above mentioned method, which shows the Characteristic Plane method is sufficient enough to calibrate an EAS array time by time (under different environment) just using the run data without disturbing the normal run.


Submillimeter remote sensing of planetary and cometary atmospheres have been proposed for Venus and Mars while MIRO on Rosetta will observe the coma of Comet 67P/Churyumov - Cierasimenko in December 2015, UARS and AURA MLS have observed millimeter and submillimeter molecule emissions in the Earth's stratosphere for many decades, Observations of submillimeter wave molecular emissions provide a wealth of information not obtainable by alternative techniques. Submillimeter line emissions exhibit linear temperature dependence, insensitivity to aerosol scattering, extinction, and have separated transitions with well determined line-shapes. These observations have high sensitivities to trace chemical species and can; 1) Fully resolve the line profiles of molecules with high resolution, 2) Provide deterministic retrievals of species abundance, temperature, and pressure, and 3) Measure Doppler shifts of detected molecules for wind velocities.


The present study examines in detail and presents data on the chronological evolution of the institutional framework and the purposes of preschool centers in Greece. The traditional conceptions of preschool teachers and the state from the provision of exclusive care to the education and training of infants are revealed. Using music education as a main tool, the opinions of preschool teachers today on the contribution of music to the development and education of early childhood children are explored. A Mixed Method Research (M.M.R.) was preferred to conduct the study, combining quantitative and qualitative data. Regarding the contribution of music to child all-round development, preschool teachers claimed that music enhances children's motor development by 76.3%, emotional by 73.5%, and aesthetic development by 71.2%. This was followed by the development of children's creativity through music education by 65.1%, language development by 59.6%, then social development by 56.2% and finally children's cognitive development by 48.9%.  Article visualizations:


Grass silage was offered ad libitum to twelve 4-month-old British Friesian steers in an incomplete Latin-square experiment. The silage was given either alone or supplemented isonitrogenously with 50 g fish meal or 63 g groundnut meal per kg silage dry matter. Both protein supplements significantly increased the intakes of dry matter and organic matter by an amount about equivalent to the (calculated) contribution of the supplement ( P P The digestibility coefficients of dry matter and of organic matter were significantly increased by supplementation ( P P P


The economic and social catastrophe caused by the depression during the 1930s seemed to challenge the very basic structures of American society. It occasioned a sense of anguish and perplexity in American intellectual and social life which was especially pronounced in education. Responding to the fears, the uncertainty, the disillusionment, the anger and the hope caused by this national trauma, educators claimed a special role for the nation's schools. As in earlier days, they saw the schools as a vehicle to alleviate social problems. Once again the schools were to protect democracy from its particular


From Paris in June 1928, Edmond Rabbath (1901–91) sent to Saעdallah al-Jabiri (1893–1947) his recently published L'évolution politique de la Syrie sous mandat. While the book is an early exploration of the legal underpinnings of the French Mandate, it is also the first nationalist history of Syria. Adopting a now familiar historiographical trope that the Ottoman past was a period of decadence and unjust alien rule, Rabbath organized recent episodes from the turbulent history of the Eastern Mediterranean since World War I, including Faysal's Arab kingdom, the Syrian Arab Congress, the rebellions of Salih al-עAlawi and Ibrahim Hananu, and the Great Syrian Revolt, into a linear narrative of an unfolding modern national consciousness.1 With a Preface by a prominent figure from pre-war Ottoman politics in the Levant, Shakib al-Arslan, the book outlined the logic in which much of inter-war Syrian opposition to French colonialism would be phrased:2 France must adhere to the letter and spirit of the League of Nations' mandate and emancipate the Syrians upon their achievement of national maturity. With some reservations, Rabbath argued that this maturity had already been attained.3


Universities are faced with many challenges associated with their mission in the societies in which they are found. In recent decades, the Society of Jesus has renovated and updated its mission with a new reformulation. It owns nearly two hundred institutions of higher education and there has been a reintegration of these institutions in the mission of the Society of Jesus. The concept of Ignatian leadership has emerged in recent years as a means of renewing individuals and institutions. For Jesuit universities this may, also, provide an opportunity to deepen their identity and improve their apostolic service.


For an object being rigidly grasped and manipulated by multiple robotic mechanisms, the internal loading characteristics at a common coordinate set within the object are considered. It is demonstrated that representation of internal forces and moments in these common coordinates give insight into force and load distribution schemes developed previously. In particular, it is shown how internal loads may be created in some end-effector force distribution schemes even when no component in the null-space of the grasp matrix is included. It is further shown that a particular pseudoinverse of the grasp matrix, which can be shown to be consistent with the kinematic constraints, may be used to eliminate this situation. The case of a two-arm system is used to illustrate the concepts introduced.<<ETX>>


Boggy soils occupy 23% of the Southern Forestry in the Central Forest State Biospheric Reserve but contain 44% of the total carbon stock in this territory, with 75-90% of the carbon accumulated in the organic horizons. Soil bogging reduces the rate of peat decomposition, which results in nutrient accumulation in the organic horizons. Under laboratory conditions, the rate of decomposition (mineralization) of peat horizons was significantly lower than that of organic horizons taken from nonswamped soils. At the same time, the rates of mineralization of straw added to peat and organic horizons were relatively similar. These data and results of field experiments on the decomposition of needle fall suggest that potential biological activity in the boggy soils is rather high, in spite of the low actual decomposition rate in the peat layers.


In this paper, we introduced the concept of weak compatible of type (?) and
 asymptotically regular defined on intuitionistic fuzzy 3-metric space and
 proved the uniqueness and existence the fixed point theorem for five
 mappings from a complete intuitionistic fuzzy 3-metric space into itself
 under weak compatible of type (?) and asymptotically regular. The used
 definitions and theorem show the practice of our main idea.


The proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons is a serious problem for international security. Consequently the U.S. government has established an array of programs to fund activities that will inhibit this activity. The problem of proliferation and defense conversion, in general, is quite complicated. The most immediate concern is the actual diversion of weapons materials. In the long term; however, weapons of mass destruction must be destroyed in a safe and environmentally sound manner. Ultimately the solution of the proliferation problem lies in the redirection of the intellectual skills of weapons scientists and engineers to peaceful commercial activities. At the present time the economic conditions in the New Independent States create severe pressure on people with critical weapons knowledge to sell their skills to political entities that are dangerous. There are four programs to be discussed in this paper. The first is the {open_quotes}Nunn-Lugar{close_quotes} program which is the largest and is administered by the Department of Defense. Between FY92 and FY94 Congress authorized $1.2B for this activity which is aimed at weapons destruction, storage, and safeguards. The second is the International Science and Technology Center in Moscow and the Science Center about to open in Ukraine. These are jointmore » efforts involving the U.S., the European Community, and Japan to fund projects to prevent proliferation and foster commercial technological activity in Russia, Georgia, and Ukraine. The New Independent States - Industrial Partnering Program is a $35M (FY94) program jointly administered by the Department of Energy and the Department of State.« less


Which social norms and networks maximize cooperation in bilateral relationships? We study a network of players in which each link is a repeated bilateral partnership with two-sided moral hazard. The obstacle to community enforcement is that each player observes the behavior of her partners in their partnerships with her, but not how they behave in other partnerships. We introduce a new metric for the rate at which information diffuses in a network, which we call viscosity, and show that it provides an operational measure for how conducive a network is to cooperation. We prove that clique networks have the lowest viscosity and that the optimal equilibrium of the clique generates more cooperation and higher average utility than any other equilibrium of any other network. This result offers a strategic foundation for the perspective that tightly knit groups foster the most cooperation.


Exhibition is an activity that is involved a number of intelligence and information.The profile of industry technology development,the strategies between the peers and the relations of related industries could be attained,according to exhibitions.Utilizing them to promote the activities of intelligence and information would do more with less effort,which is also an inevitable means to collect competitive intelligence and information.It is meaningful for enterprises in Guangxi,especially for those small and medium-sized enterprises to strengthen the pre-exhibition training for enterprises in Guangxi, unearth the intelligent resources during exhibitions,and improve the enterprises' competitive strength.


A thermal treatment was employed to improve the DC performances of npn graded-base AlGaN/GaN heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs). Such HBTs without the thermal treatment exhibit a higher turn-on voltage of 6.45 V, a lower current gain of 0.84, and a lower collector current of 3.18 × 10 −4 mA at <path id="x42" d="M372 352v-2q176 -27 176 -159q0 -99 -95 -151q-73 -40 -196 -40h-221v28q65 5 78.5 19t13.5 76v404q0 63 -12 77t-72 18v28h257q102 0 150 -34q26 -18 41 -48.5t15 -65.5q0 -111 -135 -150zM213 362h47q80 0 117.5 32t37.5 96q0 56 -33 92t-100 36q-41 0 -56 -10
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Objective
To explore the effects of silver alginate dressing for wounds of diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) .

Methods
From April 2017 to April 2018, we selected 120 DFU patients of Peking Union Medical College Hospital as subjects by convenience sampling. All of the patients were divided into control group and observation group with the random number table, 60 cases in each group. Observation group received the treatment of silver alginate dressing, while control group was treated with alginate dressing. After treatment, we compared the score of visual analogue scale (VAS) before and after treatment, times of changing dressing, time of wound healing and the healing rate of ulcer of patients after treatment between two groups.

Results
After treatment, the score of VAS, time of wound healing and times of changing dressing was (2.5±0.6) , (42±3.9) d and (14.3±1.9) respectively of observation group lower than those of control group with significant differences (t=13.964, 22.241, 21.122; P<0.01) . The healing rate of ulcer of observation group and control group was 93.3% and 75.0% respectively with a significant difference (χ2=23.564, P<0.01) .

Conclusions
The silver alginate dressing can promote the wound healing of DFU, shorten the time of healing, reduce the times of changing dressing and ease patients' pain.

Key words:
Diabetic foot; Silver ion; Alginate; Pain; Wound healing


For avocational nonprofit organisations, 'marketing' means attracting and retaining members. Avocational organisations experiencing membership difficulties may offer a variety of explanations, the most frequent one being a purported shrinkage of leisure time for the average American. The 68 largest avocational nonprofit organisations in the USA were studied in an attempt to identify common factors associated with membership success, and to confirm or disprove commonly offered explanations for membership distress. Very few general attributes could be found; in most cases, an organisation's success or distress seem to stem from factors that are specific to that organisation. Copyright © 1999 Henry Stewart Publications


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Bruxism, forceful grinding of one's teeth together, can produce destructive outcomes such as wear on the teeth and damaged gums and bone structures. The current study implemented a multicomponent intervention that consisted of vocal and physical cues to decrease rates of bruxism. A partial component analysis suggested that the vocal cue was only effective at decreasing levels of bruxism when paired with a simultaneous physical cue.


The academic potential of the Web helped to generate the WebQuest as a particular format of instructional design, which is claimed to promote the technological literacy of learners. This paper concentrates on the description of the relation between WebQuests and the promotion of technological literacy. It is based on the research into the nature of technological literacy, particularly that related to WebQuests. Data collection instruments are designed and analysis of classroom WebQuest integration will be conducted as support. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of WebQuest as an instructional design on the improvement of technological literacy with K-12 students. The research methodology and part of the resulting implications will be discussed.


Diarrhea is a condition in which a person defecates with a soft or liquid consistency, which can evenbe water. Diarrhea can be treated with drugs derived from plants, one of which is white pomegranate skin. Theskin of white pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) is thought to have anti-diarrheal activity because it has fl avonoidsand tannins. This study aims to determine the activity and optimal dose of pomegranate skin infusion.Mice were grouped into 5 groups: negative control (Na CMC 0.5%), positive control (Loperamid HCl), andpomegranate peel infusion test group with a dose of 8 mg / 20 g mice BW, 16 mg / 20 g weight mice and 32 mg./ 20 gr BB mouse. Mice induced diarrhea with Oleum ricini, 30 minutes later the mice were given a test preparation.The onset of diarrhea, stool consistency, diarrhea frequency, duration of diarrhea and stool weight weremeasured every 30 minutes for 6 hours. The results showed that the fi rst dose (8 mg / 20 gr BW of mice) wasthe optimal dose for the initial parameters of diarrhea and fecal weight, which means that there was a signifi cantdiff erence with negative control and positive control (<0.05). The parameters of stool consistency, frequency ofdiarrhea and duration of occurrence of diarrhea showed no signifi cant diff erence between groups of 8 mg / 20 gmice BW, 16 mg / 20 g mice BW and 32 mg / 20 g mice BW, negative control and positive control (p> 0, 05).


1. Effect of high octane oxygen additive to gasoline on fuel efficiency and environmental performance of cars / A.M. Rezyuk, V.S. Ustimenko, O.A. Klymenko, Yu.F. Gutarevich // The car of Ukraine. Specific issue of Bulletin of the Northern Scientific Center of TAU. – 2003. – 6. – P. 34–35.
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This is a report on a survey of 2,213 households and their potential for entering the camping market in 1973. One out of every two households was found to be in one of three stages of the camping-involvement cycle. Active campers included 21 percent of the sample, up by 2 percent since 1971; inactive campers, 20 percent, up by 6 percent; and potential campers, 9 percent, down by 2 percent. Reasons for the increased numbers of inactive campers, and possible barriers between potential and active participation, are examined in detail. Twelve separate components of the popular image of camping - environments, conditions, and attractions - are examined for each stage of the camping-involvement cycle.


One of the accusations levelled at paediatric nurses on a regular basis over the years is that 'they don't think anyone else can look after children'. A variation on this theme has been that 'being a paediatric nurse does not automatically make someone a good A&E nurse'. While the criticisms have been quite unfair on a group who have shown commendable dedication to improving the care of children in A&E departments, perception matters. One statistic everyone can recite ad nauseum is that 25 per cent of an average emergency department's attendances are children. Children have a high political, professional and personal impact on health care and those who deliver it. Those who are elderly or mentally ill do not.


Nationwide dove population indexes in the 1967 Mourning Dove Status Report were obtained by essentially the same data gathering and analyzing procedures as in 1966. A refinement was made in th,~ base year index, using the mean of the 1966 and 1967 readings as the base for all States. There was a slight adjustment in physiographic region boundaries. Changes in mourning dove breeding density indexes, obtained from call-count surveys throughout the United States, are summarized by management unit as follows: Management Unit Percent Change 1966:1967 la-yr. mean:1967


4. The authors use rhoadmine dextran to measure intestinal transit. Although the authors state that it is a "nondigestible, nonabsorbable tracer", dextran is fermented by colonic flora into butyrate (Olano-Martin E, Mountzouris KC, Gibson GR, Rastall RA. In vitro fermentability of dextran, oligodextran and maltodextrin by human gut bacteria. Br J Nutr. 2000 83:247-55). Given the marked differences of intestinal bacterial colonization between the groups, would the use of this marker add artifact to the measurements?


We report a 33-year-old pregnant patient (first pregnancy; 32nd week) who presented with telangiectasias distributed in a linear and unilateral pattern involving her left scapular region, which had appeared a week before (figure 1A). Pregnancy had been unremarkable and the results of laboratory investigations were within normal limits or compatible with the gestation period. A punch biopsy was obtained from lesional skin and the histopathological examination showed dilatated capillary vessels in [...]


Contingent valuation (CV) and choice experiments (CE) are both widely applied stated preference valuation techniques.  One advantage of applying CE is the ability to estimate preferences for marginal changes in a number of attributes used to describe the good being valued.  However, in some cases it might be more appropriate to value a discrete good with a single level of provision, using CV.  There are potential advantages of applying both the valuation techniques in the same survey to estimate different aspects of a valuation scenario and provide a richer valuation output.   A number of studies have combined the use of both methods in the same valuation exercise, but typically this has been to value the same good and used to test for convergence validity.  Relatively few studies have reported the application of both methods to provide different types of value estimate.  However, if both methods are applied in the same survey, framing effects may influence the value estimated in the secondary exercise.  To the authors knowledge only one study (Metcalfe et al. 2012) has explored the influence of CV/CE sequencing and their results only explored the impact on CV value estimates and not the CE estimates.  In this study three separate surveys were conducted to explore the social and economic impacts of coal and gas mining in southeast Queensland, Australia.  Each survey included a CE that focused on the impacts of mining as well as a CV question that related to a specific management policy option.  In each survey the CV question was randomly allocated to respondents either before or after the choice tasks in the CE experiment and the sequencing effects on both the CV and CE estimates were examined.