The diversity of macroalgae and evaluation of the Algerian coastal waters using EEI-c index were studied. Macroalgae were sampled at seven stations in summer 2019. Coverage data for the macroalgae at each site were analysed at species level. Eleven species have been identified and the results showed the prevalence of Cystoseira compressa and Ulva sp .. The least abundant species were Cladophora sp. and Corallina elongata . Classification of sites based on the cluster analysis shewed an agreement with the water degradation information. Based on the results, the EEI-c values were quite homogeneous over all the studied sites, and generally correspond to undisturbed states except for one site.


The present investigation deals with the hydro-edaphic properties and their mutual interaction in the woodland habitat of NBR - Kerala and the ameliorative role of the elements of genus Ficus and other taxa in the in-situ environment of the area. It is held from the results that edaphic factors contain sufficient energy to hold the vegetation / flora of the region in the present form. However, it is a declined status in comparison to 1982 values. Due to presence of appropriate quantum of energy materials in the soils systems, their other related properties like soil-proteins, cation exchange capacity, exchangeable calcium, water holding capacity, porosity, etc. are excellent and system is quite balanced at present. The equally potent agent i.e. waters of the region are quite bereft of dissolved minerals in their per unit volume but totally free of alkali hazards. However, the soil-water interaction is a matter of concern for the region. The chemically dilute waters eat up the mineral riches of the soils and mineral transfer from edaphic media to aqua media is directly proportional to the degree of dilution and periodic length of submergence. Besides, the interactions further create a phenomenal change in the pH environment of edaphic media and strain the system to salt imbalance in the process. In presence of prevalent biotic and abiotic factors of the region the role of the elements of genus Ficus particularly their root systems and leaf litter on soil conditions along with their chief associates observed to be very positive in keeping the system viable and sustainable.


The loss of transit fare revenue through internal and external theft as well as fare evasion and shortchanging is a matter of increasing concern to the transit industry at the Federal, state and local levels. The Federal Transit Administration's Office of Technical Assistance and Safety sponsored this study to review vulnerabilities of U.S. transit fare revenue accountability and protective practices and policies so that transit officials could be informed of methods that increase the protection of revenue. The study provides countermeasures that off-set losses during transit fare collections, consolidation, counting and depositing activities. In addition, an internal control review process was developed so that transit systems could determine the effectiveness of existing internal revenue protection mechanisms. The conclusions and recommendations contained in this report were developed by Watson Rice & Co. with technical support on transit revenue equipment issues provided by J.W. Leas & Assoc. and Jack Schnell.


A robust and simple method for sub-picosecond timing jitter sub-multiple clock recovery in OTDM applications is analysed numerically and experimentally. We have demonstrated sub-multiple clock recovery by using a small periodic misalignment in the time between adjacent pulses in an OTDM transmission system. A simple and very robust 10 GHz clock recovery circuit with a Q=1800 bandpass filter was used.


According to the research and analysis of regional ore-forming geological background,deposits' geological characteristics of the Huoshaozhai gold and antimony deposit occurred in Leigongshan fold belt of Southeast Guizhou,the study has proposed that the Huoshaozhai deposit is formed by the effect of mantlederived-mixed type underground hot brine,and discussed about the prospecting potential for quartz vein-host(structural altered rocks)gold deposit in this area.


In order to clarify the nutritional significance of metabolism of the carbon skeleton of individual amino acids, the metabolic fates of l-leucine-U-14C and l-alanine-U-14C were investigated in growing rats fed the diets with various protein calories percents (PC%) at 410 kcal of metabolizable energy.The incorporation of 14C into body protein in 12 hr after the injection of leucine-14C was about 73% of the dose in the 0 and 5 PC% groups, though it decreased with increasing the levels of dietary protein from 10 to 30 PC%. The value of 14C recovery in body protein almost agreed with the net protein utilization (NPU) determined for the whole egg protein in a similar experimental condition. The 14C recovery in expired CO2 and body lipid suggested that the carbon skeleton of leucine is well utilized as an energy source when the dietary carbohydrate is extensively replaced by protein.While, the incorporation of 14C into body protein from alanine-14C was less than about 11% of the dose in all the dietary groups, ...


abbey set about acquiring a large enough site for its hospice in London, concealing its interest from the vendors in order not to inflate the price. In this meticulous edition, Ransford has not only provided thoroughly annotated texts, she has also ingeniously manipulated them to extract the utmost information. Sometimes, as in her attempt to use incipits to determine how many charters were produced in the abbey scriptorium, she finds the result disappointing. Other analyses are more fruitful; for example, she estimates that about i o per cent of the deeds were granted by women, not all of whom used seals. A very great deal of work lies behind this collection and it is a sobering thought that it represents only about a quarter of the extant Waltham Abbey archive.


We assessed the impact of conventional delivery system (DS) insertion technique on "Hat‐marker" orientation/commissural alignment in patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in the Evolut Low Risk Trial CT substudy versus a modified technique.


Summary : In all, 115 patients with bacteriologically confirmed active pulmonary tuberculosis cases and 194 matched controls were included in this study. Enumeration of Lymphocytes (total lymphocytic count, Tsubsets and B-cell counts) was done from peripheral blood smear s using APAAP (Alkaline phosphatase anti-alkaline phosphatase) technique. Active tuberculosis was associated with an increase in the absolute count of total lymphocytes and decrease in T4 (helper/inducer) lymphocytes. There was no significant difference in the total T-cells, T-8 (cytotoxic/suppressor) lymphocyte and B-cells. T4 /T8 ratio was less than 1 (Lower limit of the normal range 1.2).The intensity of T 4 lymphopenia was unrelated to the extent of the lesions seen radiologically and the tuberculin test response read after 48 hours.


Objective:To observe the curative effect of restoring the defects of coronas of anterior upper teeth with dovertail-shaped on lingua surface and inclined surface on lip surface.Methods:119 defective teeth in 91 patients were randomly divided into group A taken a new retentive technique of dovertail-shaped on lingua surface and inclined surface on lip surface,and Group B taken the tracitional screw nail retentive technique as control.Three-years follow up,the curative effects of both methods were compared.Results:There was significant difference statistically between the two groups(P0.01).Conclusions:For the restoring the defects of anterior upper teeth,the new retentive technique is better than the traditional methods.


The aging mechanism of mica/epoxy insulations under multiple stresses is investigated with both breakdown tests and a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The result of simultaneous multistress testing shows that thermal and mechanical stresses have a synergistic effect on electric life. Similar results are also obtained for residual electrical breakdown characteristics after sequential application of thermal aging and mechanical stress. It is confirmed with SEM pictures that thermal stress causes isolated delaminations at the mica/epoxy interface. Using a newly developed SEM apparatus with servomechanisms, the development of delamination and cracks are observed during mechanical fatigue tests in realtime. A multistress aging model is proposed with relation to the generation and development of the microscopic defects. >


Me describe a proposed method to funnel Ion beams using a new form of the radio-frequency quadruple (RFQ) structure. This RFQ accepts two bunched Ion beams and combines them Into a single final beam with Interlaced microstructure pulses. It also provides uninterrupted perlodlc transverse focusing to facilitate the funneling of beams wfth high current and low emlttance.


Remaining useful life (RUL) prediction of bearings is important to guarantee their reliability and formulate a maintenance strategy. Recently, deep graph neural networks (GNNs) have been applied to predict the RUL of bearings. However, they usuallylack dynamic features, use manual stage identification, and experience the over-smoothing problem, which will have a negative effect on the prediction accuracy. This paper proposes a new framework for bearing RUL prediction based on spatial-temporal multi-scale graph convolutional neural network (STMSGCN), which can improve the accuracy of prediction by solving the above-mentioned problems. Specifically, different to the most-used static feature of bearings, a dynamic feature that can capture the time-varying change of vibration energy is proposed. A sliding window alarm method is proposed to detect the fault occurrence time (FOT), which can offer an accurate healthy stage rather than human-defined methods. Then, the STMSGCN is proposed to predict the RUL of bearings, which solves the over-smoothing problem of the deep GNN model. The PRONOSTIA platform is adopted to verify the proposed method. The results verify that the sliding window alarm method can detect the FOT faster for slowly degrading bearings, and the proposed STMSGCN structure gives higher prediction accuracy compared to the existing methods.


We present a procedural method for authoring synthetic tectonic planets. Instead of relying on computationally demanding physically‐based simulations, we capture the fundamental phenomena into a procedural method that faithfully reproduces large‐scale planetary features generated by the movement and collision of the tectonic plates. We approximate complex phenomena such as plate subduction or collisions to deform the lithosphere, including the continental and oceanic crusts. The user can control the movement of the plates, which dynamically evolve and generate a variety of landforms such as continents, oceanic ridges, large scale mountain ranges or island arcs. Finally, we amplify the large‐scale planet model with either procedurally‐defined or real‐world elevation data to synthesize coherent detailed reliefs. Our method allows the user to control the evolution of an entire planet interactively, and to trigger specific events such as catastrophic plate rifting.


The rare trichiine crab, T. horiii (Miyake, 1940) (Xanthidae) is recorded for the first time from Singapore waters and the Sunda Shelf. Variations in the degree of granulation on the carapace and sternum, form of the sternum and male abdomen, and structure of the male first pleopod are discussed. This is the second species of Trichia known from Sundaic Southeast Asia, the first being T. sakaii (Balss, 1938). The biology and habits of T. horiii are also described for the first time.


The article deals with methods for assessing the level of corporate social responsibility in the context of resource management of the Pension Fund of Ukraine. The interrelation of social capital and social responsibility. The system of indicators to assess the level of corporate social responsibility. The recommendations on the formation mechanism of stimulation of the social responsibility of enterprises


Through analyzing the grade difference of energy,considering the energy form situation of the petrochemical industry with low temperature hot and heating furnace,propose applying the grade consciousness of energy to energy-conserving technological transformation and management,and enumerate some concrete methods out.


By gradually decreasing the Pd concentration on Au nanoparticles from complete to incomplete surface coverage, in which well-dispersed nanoparticles are eventually obtained on the Au, we have demonstrated that the electrochemical response of hydrogen at Pd is critically dependent on the size and structure of the Pd surface. A gradual increase in the electrochemical signal attributed purely to the oxidation of adsorbed hydrogen atoms can be achieved as the Pd coverage becomes dispersed and the ratio of hydrogen atom adsorption sites compared to the absorption sites rises.


The recognition of a person as the main social value is one of the important trends in the reform and modernization of the modern system of domestic education. It is aimed at creating a new format of education focused on the student's personality, the full realization of his abilities, satisfaction of educational needs, education of self-esteem, freedom, harmonious relations with the natural world and society. The new format of education is designed to reflect the needs of a rapidly developing society in modern educated, moral, enterprising and competent specialists who are able to choose ways of cooperation and independently make responsible decisions in a situation of choice, predicting their possible consequences. Foreign educational systems are quite adapted to such priorities, since they are traditionally multilevel and characterized by a variety of educational programs that are close to the real needs for professional personnel of the appropriate level of training. The domestic education system is more unified, less mobile, despite the permanent reform. Despite its dominance in modern education and ubiquity in a number of countries around the world, this system acquires modern features embodied in alternative education. One of the main features of such education is the promotion of a person as the highest value of society, recognition of his unique nature, respect for his individual life goals, needs and interests.


These two important books come at a transformative time in the ways academics think about immigration. In the current era, immigrants - as labor sojourners, urban migrants, detainees, undocumented workers, transnational wives and mothers, refugees - are both the subjects and agents of profound transnational political and economic change. Studies of immigration, in turn, have slowly moved away from a nation-based paradigm focused predominantly on the arrival of new immigrants, the appeal of the United States as a receiving community, and the processes of assimilation and acculturation so central to both academic studies and immigration and naturalization policies throughout the twentieth century. A more global concept of immigration dictates different questions and approaches. Three central and related shifts represented by these books include: the ascendance of a transnational rather than a national model of migration, the shift from "ethnicity theory" to a racial formation model in understanding the social construction of immigrant identity, and the emergence of gender and sexuality as key categories to the social process of immigration. These trends are currently transforming studies of immigration and the possibilities of such studies for teaching, research, and public intellectual engagement. Transnationalism changes our conceptual map of immigration history. The shift to view immigration in a transnational context has come, in large part, as scholarly attention has moved to consider post- 1965 immigrants, with their often rapid travel and communication between "sending" and "receiving" communities, frequently within the Western hemisphere. But careful studies have


liberated as well as unl iberated theologians. One wonders, for example, how it can be squared with Schubert Ogden's criticism of the residue of "neoclassical" theism which he detects in liberation theology (cf. his recent book, Faith and Freedom Toward a Theology of Liberation [Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1979]). What is remarkable is the extent to which it actually does transform Migliore's theological perspective on liberation. The Migliore difference, in short, not only summons the churches to participate in the struggle but also warns against "misunderstandings" usually encountered in it. For example, in the name of a strictly "evangelical" Trinitarianism "the temptation to identify political programs with the kingdom of God . . . the tendency to fall into a simplistic dualism of oppressed and oppressors . . . [and] the possibility of subtly transforming the Christian message of salvation by grace through faith into a religion of works" (p. 123) all come in for criticism.


Abstract : The ambient wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) derived from three different WBGT kits, namely, (a) Weksler, (b) YSI, (c) Army and (d) the ambient wet globe temperature (WGT) measured by Botsball, were compared with the WBGT given by standard kit given in TB Med 175. At regular intervals (1) visual observations were made on the instruments and (2) an automated data collection system was used to record data from temperature sensors attached to the instruments. Significant differences in WBGT readings were found among the instruments, but the range for a given environment was usually less than 0.5 C. Readings taken by visual observations resulted in WBGT values which differed by less than 0.3 C from those calculated from the automated data collection system. By using an equation obtained for Botsball, it would be possible to modify the Botsball to read WBGY directly and to be a comparable instrument in determining environmental heat stress. (Author)


A new strophalosiid, Megalosia chuluensis n. gen. and sp., from the Nisal Member, Senja Formation, in the Manang district north of Mt. Annapurna, north-central Nepal, is of early Dorashamian or Changhsingian (Late Permian) age. Wyndhamia circularis Chang, from slightly older faunas of south Tibet, might be congeneric.


An advanced exploration probe has been proposed by the Center for Space Nuclear Research (CSNR) to acquire detailed data from the Martian surface and subsurface, 'hop' large distances to multiple sites in short periods of time and perform this task repeatedly. Although several similar flying vehicles have been proposed utilizing various power sources and complex designs, e.g. solar-electric and chemical-based, the CSNR's Mars Hopper is based on a radioisotope thermal rocket (RTR) concept. The Mars Hopper's design relies on the high specific energies [J/kg] of radioisotopes and enhances their low specific power [W/kg] through the use of a thermal capacitance material to store thermal energy over time. During operation, the RTR transfers the stored thermal energy to a flowing gas, which is then expanded through a converging-diverging nozzle, producing thrust. Between flights, the platform will have ample time to perform in-depth science at each location while the propellant tanks and thermal capacitor recharge. Recharging the propellant tanks is accomplished by sublimation freezing of the ambient CO2 atmosphere with a cryocooler, followed by heating and pressurization to yield a liquid storage state. The proposed Mars Hopper will undergo a ballistic flight, consuming the propellant in both ascent and descent, and by more » using multiple hopper platforms, information can be gathered on a global scale, enabling better resource resolution and providing valuable information for a possible Mars sample-return mission. The CSNR, collaborating with the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and three universities (University of Idaho, Utah State University and Oregon State University), has identified key components and sub-systems necessary for the proposed hopper. Current project activities include the development of a lab-scale prototypic Mars Hopper and test facility, along with computational fluid dynamics (CFD)/thermal-hydraulic models to yield a better understanding of the heat transfer process and complex nature of turbulent CO2 flow. Laboratory experimentation will aid design iterations and the development of both tethered and free-flying terrestrial hoppers that utilize an electrically heated core. The knowledge base acquired from these activities will refine the Mars Hopper's future performance and optimize the RTR core components prior to constructing the final design. « less


This thesis discusses the element of the clown in the work of Federico Fellini. It aims at answering the question where, how and why is this element used.


This study investigates short run and long run relationship between growth of agricultural export and economic growth in India using Error Correction Model and Granger causality during 1980–2010. The result shows that the growth of agricultural export and economic growth are cointegrated. So there is a long run relationship between these variables. The result of Granger causality test suggests that the direction of causality is from economic growth to growth of agricultural export since the estimated F is significant at 5% level. But there is no reverse causation from growth of agricultural export to economic growth, since the F value is statistically insignificant. Also shows that the coefficient of ECM term reveals that the adjustment process was very fast; otherwise 95.5% of the previous year's disequilibrium from its equilibrium path will be corrected in the current year.


With the aim of determining the pregnant adolescent's opinion of District 1 "Jose Marti" in Santiago de Cuba municipality on the possible causes of their pre...


Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) have shown benefits regarding progression‐free and overall survival in patients whose tumours show EGFR mutations. Most patients' lung cancer is metastatic when detected. Small tissue samples and cytological materials are widely used in diagnosis. The aim of the present study was to compare the EGFR mutation analysis results between cytology, small biopsies and resections.


The aim of this study was to investigate the consumption of alcoholic beverages, among Croatian combat vereans and to determine the causes of such behavior and the disturbances connected with it. To achieve this aim, we examined a group of 46 male veterans on rehabilitation, aged 20-51 years, and compared their results with those of a control group of matched civilians. The results showed that the veterans consumed alcoholic beverages more frequently compared with the control group, at a level of statistical significance (p<0.01), and that alcohol dependency was more often diagnosed among them. The most frequent reasons for drinking among veterans were anxiety (41.4%) and fear (28.3%) as a consequence of prior more frequent exposure to stressful situations compared with the control group (p<0.01). The results stress the problem of drinking alcoholic beverages among veterans and suggest the need for carrying out systematic preventive and treatment programes.


The MLD (Maximum-likelihood decoding) of a particular random code over an AWGN (additive white Gaussian noise) channel requires an exhaustive search over all the possible code-word, and so the computational complexity of the optimal decoding scheme is exponential in the length of the code-word. A new type of the detection technique called the sphere decoding algorithm is proposed to lower the computational complexity. The principle of the sphere decoding algorithm is to search the closest lattice point to the received signal within a sphere radius, where every codeword is represented by a lattice point in a lattice field.


ABSTRACT In the 1980s and 1990s, a wave of multiculturalism swept across Latin America, following long-standing ideologies of mestizaje which glorified the region's biological and cultural mixture and asserted that such mixture precluded the existence of racism. A decade or so later, countries in the region enacted another set of reforms focused on combatting ethnoracial discrimination and inequality. Whereas many view these changes as indicating the downfall of mestizaje ideologies, others argue that they may not be as distinct from mestizaje as it may appear. I reflect on this question in the context of Mexico, drawing on data from recent government and private surveys to assess the current state of Mexican national ideology, both at the national level and in a local site of blackness. I provide novel findings about the kinds and prevalence of various forms of black identification, the extent of black-indigenous boundary crossing, and the strength of attitudes about mestizaje and racism. Ultimately, I show how ideologies and discourses associated with mestizaje, multiculturalism, and racial equality are absorbed at the popular level in ways that suggest that at least some parts of the ideology of mestizaje are enduring or evolving to accommodate these new ethnoracial projects.


Objective To explore the impact factors on the detection rate of bone scintigraphy for vertebral metastases.Methods Images of bone scintigraphy,CT and MR in 110patients with vertebral metastases confirmed pathologically or clinically were retrospectively analyzed.The number,location and volume of lesions,metastatic patterns and pathologic compression fractures were observed and recorded.Results Totally 356metastatic vertebral bodies in 110patients were detected.The detection rate of medullary,subcortical and transcortical lesions was 2.00%(1 / 50),25.00%(38 / 152) and 58.78%(77 / 131),respectively(χ 2 =63.31,P0.001),of small(volume523 mm 3),mediate(volume 523 — 4186mm 3) and large lesions(volume4186mm 3) was 5.98%(7 / 117),41.76%(71 / 170) and 84.78%(39 / 46),respectively(χ 2 =96.47,P0.001).In the mediate group,the detection rate of osteolytic and osteoblastic metastatic vertebrae was 28.42%(27 / 95) and 51.72%(30 / 58),respectively(χ 2 =8.37,P0.005).The detection rate of fracture vertebrae and non-fracture vertebrae was 95.65%(22 / 23) and 34.83%(116 / 333),respectively(χ 2 =33.52,P0.001).Conclusion The location,volume,metastatic pattern and pathologic compression fracture of the vertebral body metastases appear to be the impact factors on the detection rate of bone scintigraphy for vertebral metastases.


Application of the way for the eco-environmental economy,we have estimated the ecosystem function of the the Hongze lake wetlands in the value of the monetary assessment.The results showed that China's Hongze lake as the fourth largest fresh-water lake and the Huang-Huai Plain and subtropical North middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River within the transitional zone of a typical inland freshwater wetlands,birds,plant products,tourism value,research and cultural value,such as direct use Value of 525.03 million yuan,accounting for 10.07% of the total value;indirect use value(fixed value of CO2 and the release of O2,water conservation and flood storage value,control soil erosion and corrosion of values,values and biological waste treatment haven value) 3.043 077 billion yuan,accounting for 58.38%.The present value of non-use category,choose the value of heritage value and the value of 1.644 67 billion yuan,accounting for 31.55%.Hongze lake reached the eastern part of wetlands each year of service in the human value of up to 5.2 billion yuan.On Hongze lake wetland ecosystem function and structure pending further study,as well as other wetlands and evaluation of the value of ecological restoration and conservation for reference.


Purpose – Application of ratio spectra derivative spectrophotometery to quantitative analyses of bicomponent dye mixtures.Design/methodology/approach – The binary mixtures of five textile dyes including yellow, scarlet, red, blue, and navy blue colors were analysed by ratio spectra derivative spectrophotometry. The absorption spectra of the binary mixtures, prepared in different ratios, were recorded between 400 and 700 nm. The obtained spectra were divided by a standard spectrum of each component of the binary mixtures, and then the derivative spectra were calculated. The amounts of dyes were determined by the measurements in the appropriate wavelengths in the range of 400‐700 nm.Findings – The analysis of obtained results via the proposed derivative and normal methods show higher accuracy of the developed method in determination of dye contents. The proposed derivative technique was found to be easily applicable for the quantitative analysis of dyes with both overlapping and non‐overlapping spectra in t...


NFC (Near Field Communication) technology facilitates mobile phone usage of billions of people throughout the world that offers diverse services ranging from payment and loyalty applications to access keys for offices and houses. NFC technology is one promising technology that have adopted smart card as secure element (SE) to provide a secure area for the execution of multiple applications and storing sensitive data. In this paper, we developed a framework to integrate NFC loyal system onto the cloud. We adapted NFC mobiles together with their SE to the cloud (Infrastructure as a Service - IaaS) using Cloud Computing methodology.


Objective Based on peer-reviewed random-controlled studies,effects of Ambrocol oral liquid on lower respiratory tract infection in children were evaluated.Methods Through Meta-analysis,articles between 2005—2010 were studied to review published data in random-controlled studies related to the effects of Ambrocol oral liquid on lower respiratory tract infection symptoms,such as cough,expectoration,gasp and wet rale in children.Results Forty-eight peer-reviewed papers published during 2005 to 2010 were selected in this study.Homogeneity test showed that fixed effect model should be selected for weighing and pooling data of assessing the efficacy,and random effect model should be selected for weighing and pooling data of duration of cough,expectoration and gasp.The combined odds ratio means of efficacy in children with infectious pneumonia with Ambrocol oral liquid intervention were 3.98(3.31-4.78).The combined means of duration of expectoration and gasp were-1.31(-1.75--0.87) and-1.26(-1.45--1.06),respectively.Conclusion Ambrocol is effective for the lower respiratory tract infection in children.


. The goal of this study was to see how air, sea, and land transportation modes affected simultaneous tourist visits in Bangka Island Province, Jambi Province, Bengkulu Province, Lampung Province, Nangroe Aceh Darussalam Province, North Sumatra Province, and West Sumatra Province. Riau Province, South Sumatra Province, and Riau Islands Province are the three provinces of Riau. Secondary data from the provinces of Sumatra was used in this research. Every year, data from panels from the years 2009 through 2018 is evaluated. Regression analysis techniques were used to examine the study data, which were maintained using Eviews 9 software. The findings revealed that: a) The factors of air transportation method, sea transportation mode, land transportation mode, lodging, and inflation on tourist visits all had a positive and substantial impact at the same time. b.) The form of air transportation has a mixed but considerable influence on tourist visits. c) The method of transportation by sea has a partially positive and major impact on tourist visits; d) the mode of transportation by land has a partially positive and significant impact on tourist visits. e) Tourist visits contribute to the GRDP in a beneficial and meaningful way. In order to enhance tourist visits, it is vital to conduct quantitative evaluation efforts using the appropriate indicators, ensuring that policymaking is on track.


This paper present additional simulation results of gas kicks in high angle and horizontal wells using the advanced kick simulator described in Part I. The authors place emphasis on the removal of gas bubbles from three potential traps in a horizontal well, i.e., (1) upward inclined section, (2) local tops in the trajectory, and (3) washout sections. Operational implications are also discussed based on the simulation results. The critical parameters are noted for operational considerations. Full scale gas kick experiments in horizontal wells have been performed. They will discuss the experimental set up and test parameters. The test data are being analyzed.


Objective To determine human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) mRNA expression and telomerase activity in epithelial ovarian carcinomas(EOC),their relationship to ovarian carcinomas and progression,and to evaluate its value as a tumor marker for EOC diagnosis and prognosis indicator.Methods hTERT mRNA expression and telomerase activity were analyzed in 43 samples of EOC,11 benign ovarian tumors and normal ovarian tissues,as well as 4 borderline ovarian tissues with the use of RT-PCR and telomeric repeat amplification protocol(TRAP).Results The positive rates of hTERT mRNA expression and telomerase activity in EOC were 83.7%(36/43 samples) and 76.7%(33/43) respectively,while in benign tumors were 9%(1/11).There were undetectable hTERT mRNA expression and telomerase activity in normal ovarian tissues and borderline ovarian tumors.There were significant differences among EOC and normal ovarian tissues(P=0.0001) as well as benign ovarian tissues (P=0.0004).But no significant differences were found in some prognostic factors of EOC patients,such as tumor types,histological classification,clinical stage,and tumor metastasis.Conclusion The results demonstrated that hTERT mRNA expression and telomerase activity are common events in ovarian carcinogenesis.As catalytic subunits of telomerase,hTERT gene expression plays an essential role in telomerase activation.These findings suggest that hTERT gene expression and telomerase activity may be valuable tumor maker for EOC early diagnosis but its prognostic value needs to be further studied.


This article provides guidance for analysts and software developers on how to adapt their exist ing simulations to support the High-Level Architecture (HLA). The first section of the article discusses how to plan for HLA by pro viding strategies that can be used in developing an object model for an existing simulation. The second section discusses modular software de sign techniques for adapting a simulation for HLA with the goal of maximizing interoper ability.


THE incidence of adenocarcinoma of the stomach has been falling in recent years, but nevertheless the mortality rate from this malignant disease in New South Wales during 1974 was 11.4 per 100000 population, ranking fourth among cancer deaths.' Surgery has been the mainstay of therapy, but, despite improvements in technique, long-term survival figures remain poor with a five-year survival rate of 13%.2 This reflects the relatively advanced nature of the disease at diagnosis for a high proportion of patients. There is no doubt that, when stomach cancer is surgically unresectable or metastatic disease is present, subsequent survival without further therapy is usually short (median 16 weeks). 3 Limited trials of radiotherapy in this setting have not proven of value in influencing these poor figures. 4 A variety of chemotherapeutic agents has now been studied in advanced gastric cancer, and several agents have demonstrated a degree of activity. The most effective include 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), mitomycin C, the nitrosoureas 1,3 bis 2-chloroethyl-1nitrosourea (BCNU) and 1-(2:chloroethyl)-3-4-methyl-cyclohexyl-1-nitrosourea (methyl CCNU) and more recently doxorubicin (Adriamycin).s-, These agents have achieved major regression of disease in 15% to 25% of patients treated, but complete regression was rare and there were only minor prolongations of survival. Combination chemotherapy is now undergoing systematic evaluation and reported results would indicate some gains are being achieved. Two-drug combinations incorporating 5-FU with a nitrosourea or mitomycin C have obtained major regression of disease in 21% to 47% of patients with median survival times of 17 to 33 weeks and a small proportion of long-term survivors' '0 Controlled randomized trials comparing these two-drug combinations with the individual drugs have confirmed their superior response rates and improved durations of survival.' The most recent generation of studies is now evaluating threedrug combinations incorporating 5-FU and doxorubicin with either a nitrosourea or mitomycin C. One such study from the Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney was recently reported in the British Medical Journal. " The results obtained with the combination of 5FU, doxorubicin and BCNU included a major regression of advanced disease in 52% of patients, with a median survival of 52 weeks for these responding patients and 30% still living at 88 weeks. These rather encouraging results compare favourably with those reported by McDonald et alii who, using a combination of 5-FU, doxorubicin and mitomycin C, achieved a 55% response rate with a median survival of 13 months for responding patients and 25% still living at 24 months.' 2 Further confirmation of the potential of these three-drug combinations has been provided by Moertel et alii, who recently


Maximum thermal transition (Tmax) and denaturation enthalpy (ΔH) of water-washed myofibrils and finely cut chicken breast muscle, treated with 1–4% NaCl and/or 0.25–1% of either pyrophosphate (PP) or tripolyphosphate (TPP), were monitored by differential scanning calorimetry. Increasing the concentration of NaCl destabilized the heat resistance of the proteins in water-washed myofibrils and in meat specimens. Actin showed the greatest reduction of Tmax, a 16°C decline in the presence of 4% NaCl. In a meat system, the addition of 4% NaCl resulted in one Tmax instead of five transitions, as seen in untreated meat. The presence of PP and TPP, especially in concentrations of 0.25 and 0.50%, enhanced the thermal stability of myosin. Changes in denaturation temperatures of proteins were accompanied by corresponding changes in AH.


The extraction technology of Coreopsis tinctoria were determined on the basis of orthogonal experimental by using supercritical CO2 extraction,and the extraction was analyzed by GC-MS method. The yields reached about 11. 59% ± 0. 37% by using the optimed process parameters,which were the extraction temperature 60℃,the extraction pressure 25 Mpa,the CO2 flow rate 45 L /h,and the extraction time 1h. The results of the extraction showed that 50 components were identified by GC-MS,and the highest content was 1-Docosanol,followed by hentriacontane. These two components were the main ingredients of plant waxes. The total content level of each component in order was higher alkanes 28. 59%,alcohols 27. 12%,free fatty acid 18. 98%,aldehydes and ketones 8. 71%,alkenes( including terpenes)7. 74%,esters 4. 97%,and a small amount of terpene oxide 0. 47%.


This thesis examines the politics of Zimbabwe's catastrophic cholera outbreak in 2008/09, which caused an unprecedented 98,000 cases and over 4,000 deaths. Epidemiologically, the outbreak can be explained by the breakdown of the country's water and sanitation systems. Such a reading, however, belies the byzantine political, economic and historical processes that precipitated the dysfunction of the water systems, that delineate the socio-spatial pattern of the outbreak and that account for the fragmented and inadequate response of the national health system. The complex causal factors and the far-reaching consequences of the outbreak indicate that cholera is a unique prism through which to view different political phenomena including the dilemmas and contradictions of political change, bureaucratic order, humanitarianism, crisis and citizenship in Zimbabwe. Drawing on extensive field research, I make three inter-locking arguments in this thesis. First, I argue that Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak was a 'man-made' disaster. It was the final stage of both path-dependent and contingent processes rooted in questions of political economy such as the collapse of public health infrastructure, failing livelihood strategies and violent repression. Second, I argue that cholera reproduced and exacerbated a multiplicity of socio-political crises pertaining to the legitimacy of the Zimbabwean state, the nature of structural inequalities in Zimbabwean society and fundamental flaws in the global humanitarian response to epidemics. Third, I look at the myriad meanings, memories and narratives the epidemic has left in its wake across public institutions and in civic life. I argue that cholera has been committed to historical memory as a health crisis, a political-economic crisis, and a social crisis as well as a crisis of expectations, history and social identity.


As margins from fuel sales become increasingly tight and unreliable, fuel retailers should use IT to efficiently extend their businesses into convenience retailing.


How does an equilibrium arise in a game? For decades, the implicit answer to
this question was that players reasoned their way to an equilibrium, or adapted
and evolved toward it in some unspecified way. Theorists have become
interested in the specific details of how adaptation and evolution work. Much of
this interest revolves around models in which players change their strategies or
learn, and what equilibria might result under various learning rules. Our research
is motivated by a different question: Which learning models describe human
behavior best? This chapter proposes a general experience-weighed attraction
(EWA) model and estimates the model parametrically using a small set of
experimental data.


Ten healthy freshman medical students who had previous extensive experience with marihuana smoking were allowed to inhale the compound in the laboratory until they had reached their usual "high." The observed overall effects were mild or minimal. In the electroencephalogram, there occurred a slight but statistically significant shift toward slower α-frequencies. There were no significant changes in cerebral evoked responses. Results of the neurological examination remained normal. Vibratory sense appreciation improved slightly. Mental status examination showed a slight decrease in intellectual efficiency, some excess jocularity, and a slight loosening of associations. Bender-Gestalt drawings were executed slightly more poorly after drug inhalation than before. It is concluded that the subjective pleasure and relaxation which are experienced as a result of marihuana smoking are accompanied by a very slight decrease in highest cortical functions.


We consider a class of steady-state self-gravitating accretion disks for which efficient cooling mechanisms are as- sumed to operate so that the disk is self-regulated at a condition of approximate marginal Jeans stability. In an earlier paper, this scenario had been shown to lead naturally, in the absence of a central point mass, to a self-similar solution characterized by a flat rotation curve. In this article we investigate the entire param- eter space available for such self-regulated accretion disks and provide two non-trivial extensions of the model. The first exten- sion is that of a bimodal disk, obtained by partially relaxing the self-regulation constraint, so that full matching with an inner "standard" Keplerian accretion disk takes place. The second extension is the construction of self-regulated accretion disks embedded in a diffuse spherical "halo". The analysis is further strengthened by a careful discussion of the vertical structure of the disk, in such a way that the transition from self-gravity dominated to non-gravitating disks is covered uniformly.


Thermography involves the use of an infrared scanning device and can include various types of telethermographic infrared detector images and heat-sensitive cholesteric liquid crystal systems. Infrared radiation from the skin or organ tissue reveals temperature variations by producing brightly colored patterns on a liquid crystal display. Interpretation of the color patterns is thought to assist in the diagnosis of many disorders such as complex regional pain syndrome (previously known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy), breast cancer, Raynaud phenomenon, digital artery vasospasm in hand-arm vibration syndrome, peripheral nerve damage following trauma, impaired spermatogenesis in infertile men, degree of burns, deep vein thrombosis, gastric cancer, tear-film layer stability in dry-eye syndrome, Frey syndrome, headaches, low-back pain, and vertebral subluxation.


Soft reticle defects which print to the wafer are of concern to wafer fabs because of their potential impact on wafer yields. The final mask shop inspection is commonly performed on a laser scattering inspection system. The most common soft defect test reticles in use for evaluating sensitivity of these inspection tools do not represent thin flat transparent contaminates. To address this problem, the Orion test reticles have been designed and built with programmed thin flat transparent soft defects for evaluating sensitivity of inspection systems. The Orion test reticles were inspected with laser scattering and STARlight inspection systems. Results indicate fundamental problems with defect sensitivity and pattern false defects on laser scattering inspection tools. Defect printing experiments demonstrate that the thin flat transparent defect type selected for the Orion reticle design is critical to detect because it prints to the wafer.


Artificial neural networks have been applied to a limited number of environmental engineering problems. This paper investigates the feasibility of utilizing the concept of neural nets in developing networks for predicting the breakthrough curves of fixed-bed adsorbers. Close agreement is observed between the breakthrough curves predicted by the developed neural network and those obtained from the mathematically based adsorption model (HSDM). The advantages of using neural networks in modeling environmental processes over the commonly used traditional methods are addressed. Also, further improvements and generalization of the developed predictive fixed-bed adsorption neural network are discussed.


: Lemongrass oil is one of the essential oil which potential to be used as an antimicrobial agent in active packaging. The aim of this research is to prepare antimicrobial labels and assess their activity. Antimicrobial labels are made from a matrix of chitosan/ascorbic acid and lemongrass oil as active ingredients with various concentrations ranging from 1% to 10%. Lemongrass oil was characterized using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) to determine compounds suspected of having antimicrobial activity. The GCMS chromatograms have shown that lemongrass oil contains 73.21% citral compounds composed of 29% neral (beta-citral) and 44.21% geranial (alpha-citral) as antimicrobial agents. Lemongrass oil was tested on Gram-positive bacteria Staphylococcus aureus and Gram-negative bacteria Escherichia coli using direct method and vapor method. This test has shown that lemongrass oil has antimicrobial activity in both bacteria. The labels provide optimum antimicrobial activity for the lemongrass oil concentration of 10%. These results conclude that the lemongrass oil incorporated with chitosan/ascorbic acid has the potential to be an active packaging. The abstract should summarize the contents of the paper and should contain at least 70 and at most 200 words. It should be set in 9-point font size, justified and should have a hanging indent of 2-centimenter. There should be a space before of 12-point and after of 30-point.


One of the major problem with Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) is the quality of the components used in a system. The reliability of a component-based software system depends on the reliability of the components that is made of. In CBSE, the proper search, selection and evaluation process of components is considered the cornerstone for the development of any effective component-based system. So far the software industry was concentrated on the functional aspects of components, leaving aside the difficult task of assessing their quality. In this way, we propose a component certification process to evaluate the quality of software components in an efficient way.


An equipment for preventing and extinguishing the fire accident in an enclosed space is composed of a nitrogen-enriching unit which can use a gas separating membrane to lower the oxygen concentration and release nitrogen gas to maintain a predefined nitrogen concentration, a unit for circulating the nitrogen-enriched air, an air stirrer, an oxygen sensor, a pressure balancer, an alarm for fire accident, an oxygen concentration controller, and an oxygen-enriched air deluting unit.


AbstractThe existing risk-based approaches for quantifying expected flood damage loss may not be suitable in the changing environment when streamflow becomes nonstationary. Conditional value-at-ris...


Robust time-optimal control is known to feature constant (square) pulses. We analyze fast adiabatic dynamics that preserve robustness by using alternative smooth quasi-square pulses, typically represented by hyper-Gaussian pulses. We consider here the two protocols, robust inverse optimization and time-contracted adiabatic passage, allowing the design of the same pulse shape in both cases. The dynamics and their performance are compared. The superiority of the former protocol is shown.


Autoinflammatory diseases (AIDs) are a heterogeneous group of rare genetically determined, hereditary conditions characterized by unprovoked inflammatory episodes that are manifested by recurrent  fever and clinical symptoms reminiscent of rheumatic manifestations in the absence of autoimmune or infectious causes. The prevalence of hereditary AIDs in the population tends to increase. The list of AIDs is quite wide and includes various groups of diseases, including  those faced by not only a pediatrician, but also by an adult  rheumatology specialist. Practitioners do not know much about  hereditary AIDs, so the latter are often diagnosed late. However, due to the clinical introduction of new diagnostic techniques, primarily  genetic ones, and drug therapy in the detection and treatment of  these diseases, there has been clear progress, which makes it possible to change long-term prognosis in AIDs and to arouse increasing interest in the diseases not only among pediatricians, geneticists, but also among rheumatologists and general practitioners.


Scheibe-aggregates of three cyanine dyes with methyl or ethyl groups instead of long alkyl substituents have been prepared at the air-water interface by spreading a mixture of the cyanine dye and arachidic acid on a water surface and compressing the monolayer. The general features of the reflection spectra of the dye-arachidic acid monolayers at the air-water interface, in particular the presence of a distinct J-band, are in accordance with absorption spectra of monolayers deposited on glass plates by the Langmuir-Blodgett technique. The dichroism observed in polarized absorption spectra of the dye-arachidic acid films indicates that the Scheibe-aggregates of the dyes with a meso phenyl group have a preferential orientation of the long axis of the molecules in the layer plane parallel to the direction of motion in depositing the layer. The brick-stone model of Scheibe-aggregates is adequate for chromophore organization in these monolayers.


The invention discloses a financial service platform system based on a MOT module. The financial service platform system comprises a data acquisition module, a data storage module, a data view access module, a historical transaction data processing module, and an OCRM system module. The data acquisition module is used for acquiring data of a data center, a transaction system, and a real-time quote system. The data storage module is used for processing data by using a data segmentation rule in which a table field and data line numbers are combined and on the basis of a memory table form, and storing processed data. The data view access module is used for researching and analyzing historical massive transaction data of a security company and showing the value reserved in client transaction data to the security company by means of a series of visualized applications. The historical transaction data processing module is used for sharing and mapping the historical transaction data to the OCRM system and processing tasks. The OCRM system module is used for orienting an operation layer in order to manage client relations. The financial service platform system manages the client relations by means of marketing service at key time points, and gives a great impetus to business development, management improvement, talent team construction, service quality improvement, and client stabilization.


The problem of housing in Colombia, especially the structural deficit which affects the most vulnerable population, has been object of State intervention. Although the public policies have influenced the evolution of the problem, their solution is distant due to the political, economic, social and cultural issues associated with it. The article proposes a brief reflection about the ways of understanding and the changes of the State action in this topic. Through the analysis of two social housing projects in Bogota, it is possible to conclude that the discussion about quality in residential urban space has been subordinated to the interest of satisfy de demand under minimun vital standards.


One of the arguably unexpected legal developments during the first decade of this century has been the emergence of new common law jurisdictions in a region with a very different legal heritage – the Arabian Peninsula. These young jurisdictions have been created specifically to foster the growth of new hubs for banking and finance. This article will examine these new adventures of the common law.


Objective To explore peri-operative hidden blood loss following surgery for intertrochanteric femur fracture and the risk factors.Methods We retrospectively analysised 68 cases performed close reduction and internal fixation for intertrochanteric femur fracture from Jan.2 0 0 8 to Dec.2 0 10,including 3 5 males and 3 3 females,aged (76.4±3.4) years(ranging 34~92 years),DHS group 32 cases and PFNA group 36 case,obesity group(BMI30) 38 cases and normal group(BMI≤30) 30 cases,advanced age group(≥80 years) 32 cases and nonadvangced age group(80 years) 36 case.According to Evans-Jensen classification,there were 20 cases of typeⅠb and 12 cases of typeⅡa in DHS group,16 cases of typeⅡb and 20 cases of typeⅢin PFNA group.All the patients were fresh intertrochanteric femur fracture following primary operation,the total infusion volume were less than 2 000 mL.According to Gross formulae,we can calculate the total blood loss with the patients' height,weight and Hct.The perioperative blood loss after surgery including observed blood loss and hidden blood loss were analyzed.Results The mean total blood loss was 871 mL,the mean observed blood loss was 149 mL,the mean hidden blood loss was 722 mL,each accounts for 17.1%and 82.9%in total blood loss,hidden blood loss was much more than observed blood loss.There were no difference between DHS group and PFNA group,male group and female group,obesity and normal group, there were more total blood loss and hidden blood loss in advanced age group.Conclusion Hidden blood loss was the major part of total blood loss after operation for intertrochanteric femur fracture.It is very important to supplement the the blood volume during peri-operative period.The type of operation,gender and obesity are not the risk factors of the hidden blood loss,but advanced age is a risk factor,special attention is in need.


Abstract : The transient behavior of the resistivity and Hall effect voltage in 1 to 100 ohm-cm n- and p-type silicon was studied both during and after exposing the sample to short bursts (0.01 to 4.5 microsec) of 48 MeV electrons. The buildup of excess electrons produced by ionization during the time the electron pulse is irradiating the sample appears to be dependent on the normal excess carrier decay rate. The injection levels induced by the bombarding electrons are high (delta n/n>1/10) and in most cases the excess carrier lifetimes exhibit an increase with higher injection level. The temperature dependence of induced conductivity as a function of injection is consistent with that predicted by theory. The transient Hall voltage response of 100 ohm-cm p-type silicon for high injection levels can be approximately reproduced by calculation assuming mixed hole-electron conduction and equal hole and electron decay times by a single time dependent exponential. A simple model is given which describes fast annealing in 45-50 MeV electron-irradiated silicon.


The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is an important supporting technology for intelligent transportation systems that connects traffic participants, such as vehicles, pedestrians, and roads, through wireless networks and enables information exchange to enhance traffic safety and improve traffic efficiency. The IoV is a unique network that involves many network security risks, which must be controlled through authentication, encryption, and other protective measures. To solve problems, such as high computing overhead and low handover authentication efficiency of the existing vehicle access authentication of the IoV, a compact consensus pre-authentication and handover authentication method was designed based on blockchain features such as decentralization and security. The proposed method is based on ensuring authentication security and reduces the consensus time, saves computing resources, and effectively solves the problems of high computing cost and high communication cost arising from frequent vehicle authentication handovers. A performance and security analysis demonstrates that our approach can reduce the computational overhead by up to 88.14% for a vehicle and by more than 60% for a roadside unit (RSU). The overall communication overhead of the solution is reduced by up to 71.31%. The data illustrate that the proposed method can safely and significantly improve the efficiency of vehicle handover authentication.


A more applicable optimization model for extracting flutter derivatives of bridge decks is presented, which is suitable for time-varying weights for fitting errors and different lengths of vertical bending and torsional free vibration data. A stochastic search technique for searching the optimal solution of optimization problem is developed, which is more convenient in understanding and programming than the alternate iteration technique, and testified to be a valid and efficient method using two numerical examples. On the basis of the section model test of Sutong Bridge deck, the flutter derivatives are extracted by the stochastic search technique, and compared with the identification results using the modified least-square method. The Empirical Mode Decomposition method is employed to eliminate noise, trends and zero excursion of the collected free vibration data of vertical bending and torsional motion, by which the identification precision of flutter derivatives is improved.


Abstract The study determined gender difference in Organizational Commitment (OC), Job Satisfaction (JS) and Job Involvement (JI) of library staff in federal university libraries in South-East, Nigeria. Descriptive survey design was used for the study. Out of the 274 copies of questionnaires administered to respondents, 243 representing (172 females and 71 males) were retrieved and found usable. Three hypotheses were stated and tested. The significance difference between the variables was tested using Z score. The study revealed that both gender were positive in their organizational commitment, job Satisfaction and job involvement. The study concluded that there is no significant mean scores difference between male and female library staff in organizational commitment and job involvement, but differ significantly in job satisfaction.


Structural analysis is based on seeing a literary work as an organic whole. In such analysis a text is not perceived as a mechanical sum of its constituent elements, and the "separateness" of these elements loses its absolute character: each of them is realized only in relation to the other elements and to the structural whole of the entire text. In this sense structural analysis opposes the atomistic-metaphysical scientific tradition of the positivist researches of the nineteenth century and accords with the general spirit of the scientific quests of our century. It is no accident that structural methods of research have won themselves a place in the most varied fields of scientific knowledge: linquistics and geology, paleontology and jurisprudence, chemistry and sociology.


Summary Malnutrition leads to death, illness, and significantly reduced quality of life for hundreds of millions. People have a right to not be malnourished, as a matter of law. The right is articulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and several other international instruments. Since people have the human right to food and nutrition, others have obligations to assure that the right is realized. Nations that are parties to these agreements have made a commitment to assure the realization of the human right to food and nutrition. National governments, not international organizations, are the primary agents for the realization of human rights. It is important to assure that human rights are clearly articulated in national law. Following ratification of international human rights instruments, concretization of human rights in national law reinforces, and is a major sign of, commitment to those rights. National legislation provides highly authoritative articulation of the commitments accepted by the nation-state. It is a means of codifying and legitimizing institutionalized governmental action. Thus, national law can become a major tool through which the realization of human rights is advanced. The motivating idea underlying the nutrition rights vision is that establishing clear entitlements in the law, and assuring the implementation of that law, can help to reduce malnutrition of different kinds. The establishment and effective implementation of such law will not in itself be the solution to the malnutrition problem. Rather, it should be viewed as another tool for addressing the challenge, one that must be used together with other more conventional means such as feeding,


The traditional data model or data stored mode has affected the Yangtze River's study development. Modeling for spatial and temporal scale data will be beneficial to the study on the dynamic process of Yangtze River.The paper analyzes and summarizes the characteristics, contents of data of Yangtze River's according to spatial and temporal scale model, constructs a spatial and temporal scale data model using a simple method, and discusses the practical application of spatial and temporal scale data model.


A robust numerical solution to the pollutant transport phenomenon in an estuary is presented. The fractional step algorithm is employed to split the physical process into convection step and dispersion and decay step. The numerical model has been verified rigorously on simplified rectangular channel problems and also applied to a real estuary in Hong Kong.


This study aims to examine the effect of voluntary disclosure of risk management on firm value in Property, Real Estate, and Building Construction Comspanies Listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2017 period In addition, this study also examines whether the presence of broader disclosures from companies can reduce asymmetry information with users of information that is very necessary for making decisions. On the basis of signal theory, which is about information asymmetry, companies that have more information should have high corporate values.The population in this study are Property, Real Estate, and Building Construction companies that are listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the 2017 period. Finally, there were 51 samples from 69 populations listed on the IDX. The analytical tool used in this study is multiple regression analysis.The test results show that the disclosure of operational risk, strategy risk, and integrity risk has a positive and significant effect on firm value while empowerment risk and information and technology processing risks that do not affect the firm's value. With these results it can be said that more disclosure from a company will increase the value of the company in the eyes of investors, the non-influential disclosure of empowerment risk may be influenced by several other factors.


In Summer 2018, I set out to find the feel of the places I have long studied as a historian, resulting in an expansion of my research process and 'archive'. This article introduces and reflects on key moments and ideas from this research journey through historic strongholds of Finnish settlement in the U.S. Midwest. I discuss how following community leads and engaging with local knowledge-carriers made clear that my search for the past was intimately entangled with the present realities and future implications of demographic and economic change. I reflect on moments of being in place that allowed me to think through the inter-workings of historical memory and sensory imagination. This resulted in the integration of a photographic practice that serves as both a source and a tool for (re-)articulating feelings of particular moments in the field. I conclude by analyzing the fluid and multiple processes at play in the creation of research and archives. As a whole, this exploration aims to further embolden qualitative researchers to engage in sensitive research that makes space for feeling – both through emotions and senses – the productive and powerful pulls of time and place operating within our sites of research.


The goal of this study is to propose design principles which can
 make livable apartment's neighborhood spaces through case study
from the view of segregation of Pedestrian and vehicles.
Therefore, this study is to define co-relation between use patterns
of open spaces and 'SEGREGATION'. The findings of this study
indicate that pedestrian spaces should improve space quality of
 neighborhood and promote people to maintain and to use
 neighborhood spaces.


This study presents the dynamics of hepatic ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase activity levels in bream, Abramis brama L., with an emphasis on between-sex differences, over a year-long sampling period. S...


Objective To produce the standard allelic ladder by using the cloning technique. Methods After the amplification and separation of the STR alleles, they were purified and then connected with T-vectors directly. The combinants were transfected into the component E. coli DH5α cells follwed by cloning and plasmid purification. The allelic ladder were then produced by re-amplifying the recombinant plasmid DNA. Results The allelic ladder made in this way can be produced in a lager amount and can be stored in a relatively long period. Conclusion The results demonstrated that the standard allelic ladder generated in this way is more practical in forensic scienc application. This technique in useful for preparation of domestic STR kits.


Establishing predictors of hospital length of stay (LOS), discharge deposition, and total hospital charges is essential to providing high-quality, value-based care. Though previous research has investigated these outcomes for patients with metastatic brain tumors, there are currently no tools that synthesize such research findings and allow for prediction of these outcomes on a patient-by-patient basis.

 We sought to develop a prediction calculator that uses patient demographic and clinical information to predict extended hospital length of stay, nonroutine discharge disposition, and high total hospital charges for patients with metastatic brain tumors.

 Patients undergoing surgery for metastatic brain tumors at a single academic institution were analyzed (2017-2019). Multivariate logistic regression was used to identify independent predictors of extended LOS (> 8 days), nonroutine discharge, and high total hospital charges (> $45,660.00). p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. C-statistics and the Hosmer-Lemeshow test were used to assess model discrimination and calibration, respectively.

 A total of 222 patients were included in our analysis, with a mean age of 62.2 years. The majority of patients were male (52.7%) and Caucasian (76.6%). Our models predicting extended LOS, nonroutine discharge, and high hospital charges had optimism-corrected c-statistics > 0.7, and all three models demonstrated adequate calibration (p > 0.05). The final models are available as an online calculator (https://neurooncsurgery.shinyapps.io/mets_brain_cancer_calculator/).

 Our models predicting postoperative outcomes allow for individualized risk-estimation for patients following surgery for metastatic brain cancer. Our results may be useful in helping clinicians to provide high-value care and to ensure optimal patient outcomes


Increasing reliance on GNSS for applications that are critical from both human safety and economic points of view implies a need to ensure local GNSS service and performance quality. Quality of service and performance is not only depending on the system quality but also local effects like interference and multipath play a significant role. There is growing awareness of the importance to monitor not only the GNSS system itself, but also the spectrum. At reference station locations, this is already done with the aim to improve the quality of the system (i.e the source of the signal in space). However, today there are only a few initiatives to monitor the GNSS spectrum across broad geographical areas. This paper describes the economic potential and the feasibility of such a monitoring network to detect and localize interference sources on a continuous basis and in realtime.


Evanescent Sublime: the Temptation of Aesthetic Emotion in Perec's Novels ; Perec in 1966, a year after having published Things: a Story of the Sixties, wrote that he was "living in [his] own manner the Flaubertian conflict between romanticism and realism". One of the major points where this conflict appears is in Flaubert's deflationary but wistful treatment of the sublime; this tension can be found again organising Perec's novels into an itinerary from Things to Life: a User's Manual, from showing the impossibility of the sublime except in a degraded form — corresponding to Marcu- se's idea of contemporary "desublimation" in the Freudian sense — to a complex and nuanced admission of the aesthetic sublime as necessary and possible.


—In this paper, we propose a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted secure transmission scheme for a symbiotic radio multicast system, where the RIS not only assists the confidential information multicasting from a primary transmitter (PT) to multiple primary users (PUs) to against the information interception by eavesdroppers, but also delivers its own signal to a secondary user (SU) by passive reflections. We formulate a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) maximization problem for the SU by jointly optimizing the active beamforming at the PT, amplitude reflection coefficients and phase shifts of the RIS. To address the non-convexity of the formulated problem, we propose to decompose the original problem into two sub-problems and solve them independently in an iteratively alternating manner. For the first sub-problem, we adopt the successive convex approximation (SCA) and semidefinite relaxation (SDR) techniques to design the active beamforming by proving the tightness of SDR. For the second sub-problem, the sequential rank-one constraint relaxation (SROCR) technique is adopted to handle the rank-one constraint for reflection coefficients optimization. Numerical results show that compared to the benchmark schemes, the proposed scheme can achieve up to 68.3% performance gain in terms of SNR.


Abstract A brief history of the publication of Musci Alleghanienses, an exsiccata distributed by William Starling Sullivant in 1846, is outlined. An annotated list of 11 new species and one new variety of moss distributed in this exsiccata is presented. It is shown that names of 10 species were effectively published in a review of this exsiccata by Asa Gray in 1846, before 15 January, and only Leucophanes leanum Sull. [ ≡  Brothera leana (Sull.) Müll.Hal.] was validly published on 28 January 1846 on the corrected label of No. 172 in the exsiccata. In addition, the material distributed in No. 60, as an unnamed variety of Leskea polyantha Hedw. [ ≡  Pylaisia polyantha (Hedw.) Schimp.], was described in 1848 by Sullivant as a new species, Leskea tenuirostris Bruch & Schimp. ex Sull. [ ≡  Pylaisiadelpha tenuirostris (Bruch & Schimp. ex Sull.) W.R.Buck]. All these names of moss taxa described from the material distributed in Musci Alleghanienses, except one (Leptodon ohioensis Sull. [ ≡  Forsstroemia ohioensis (Sull.) Lindb.]), are lectotypified in the present paper and their current taxonomic status is indicated. Hypnum paludosum Sull., hom. illeg., distributed in No. 7 of the exsiccata, is discussed in detail and it has been proven that the epithet paludosum was legitimised in 1880 as Thuidium paludosum Rau & Herv. This species now belongs within Helodium Warnst., and it is shown that Elodium (Sull.) Austin, an orthographic variant of this conserved generic name, was invalidly published in 1870 in Musci Appalachiani. The material distributed in No. 50 in this exsiccata was named Hypnum deplanatum Schimp., and this is a nomen nudum, which was validated by Sullivant in 1848 as H. deplanatum Bruch & Schimp. ex Sull., not by Karl Müller Hallensis in 1851 as suggested in Index Muscorum. This name is lectotypified, and it currently refers to the widespread eastern North American species Taxiphyllum deplanatum (Sull.) M.Fleisch.


Pavement evaluation is critical for the decision-making process of pavement preservation and rehabilitation. Roughness is a key airport pavement characteristic that has been linked to impacts such as safety and service life. The Boeing Bump is one of the few roughness evaluation methods that has been developed specifically for runways. Although it is superior to the widely used International Roughness Index (IRI), it does not take into account the superposition effect of continuous runway bumps. Based on the ADAMS/Aircraft virtual prototype platform, this paper establishes and verifies five typical models (B737, B747, B757, B777, and B787) and then analyzes the most unfavorable speed (in terms of aircraft vibration) of each model and the dynamic responses caused by multiple bumps. The original Boeing Bump is improved and optimized by determining dynamic response thresholds for the various aircraft types. The results show that the revised Boeing Bump is more realistic than the original version, especially with regard to medium and long wave bands.


Seismic simulations allow us to study earthquakes in a manner not feasible with the real world. Simulations of earthquakes produce time-dependent vector fields that contain interesting geophysics. Prior visualization strategies focused on slices and volumetric rendering of scalar fields which reduces the observable phenomena. This thesis studies visualization techniques implemented in an interactive glyph visualization application called GlyphSea that allows scientists to explore seismic velocity fields. This work draws from a large body of work in glyph rendering and focuses on time-dependent seismic vector fields and is the result of collaboration between domain experts in visualization and seismology. Through the study of vector visualization, several novel techniques were formed. A novel procedural dipole and cross mark texturing enhancement encodes unambiguous vector orientation on any geometry with volume. A novel lattice method was created to show neighborhood which also enables glyph distinction. Visualization is further enhanced by using screen space ambient occlusion, jitter, halos, and displacement


Monitoring technique and application of reservoir,case and wellsite facilities which oilfield development mainly concerns are introduced.Reservoir monitoring is to know residual oil and reservoir properties.Casing damage and facilities running direct influences oil life,output and injecting effectiveness.Pipes leakage causes resource loss,bodily injury and environment pollution.To know fluid configuration,properties,movement condition of reservoir and to evaluate physical properties of cases,pipes and facilities provide foundation of drawing up,controlling and operating oil field development plan by geophysical geochemistry and engineering.


The rigorous evaluation of new health-care interventions requires potential users of these to participate in trials to assess their effectiveness. Three significant areas of concern relate to this: the ways in which people are recruited to participate in randomized-controlled trials (RCTs); the low acceptance rates among people invited to participate, and the experiences of participants. Inadequate information provision is an persistent feature of these concerns. For example, some people who are invited to participate in RCTs do not think they have enough information or understanding to make a decision to accept. People who agree to participate in trials may nonetheless struggle to make sense of their participation and may identify questions during the course of the trial. Some of these problems could be overcome through development of an information resource about on-going clinical trials, designed for current and potential participants including the general public. This could serve as a source of additional, semiindependent information. In 2003, the National Electronic Library for Health (NeLH) addressed this issue, and commissioned the development of a website for patients and the public in the UK, about clinical trials. This review describes the pilot website that was launched in November 2004 (http:// www.nelh.nhs.uk/clinicaltrials).


Orchids are unmatched in their floristic diversity, wide range of growth habitats, and, most importantly, their unique and highly adapted biology and ecology. With terrestrial orchids now among the world's most threatened plants, the need for conservation is paramount. Conservation Methods for Terrestrial Orchids equips orchid biologists, botanists, conservationists, students, and hobbyists with the necessary methodologies to facilitate the conservation of this endangered group of orchids.


The performance of four mutual funds operated by private sector banks, two each from HDFC and ICICI Prudential Mutual fund are being reported. The period of study being, from the financial year 2002-03 to 2011-12. The funds were compared with S&P CNX Nifty market Index by correlation and standard deviation. The interest offered by State Bank of India on Savings Bank was taken as the risk free return. The statistical Evaluation parameters include, Sharpe's Index, Treynor's Ratio, Jensen's alpha, Fama's Measure and M2.


ABSTRACT Picker to parts order picking (OP) systems are one of the most labour-intensive warehouse operations, accounting for 55% of warehouse expenses in the e-commerce industry. For this reason, the e-commerce industry has invested in fully automated and robotised warehouses. However, these warehouse solutions are very expensive. Furthermore, with the advent of Industry 5.0 with a human-centric focus, the OP system's automation should be designed and implemented in ways to improve the working conditions of the order pickers rather than replacing them completely. A pick and transport robot (PTR) is a solution for OP systems which is compatible with Industry 5.0. An example of such a solution is Grab™ by SOLWR. Previous studies have barely investigated the human factor effects of using PTRs in OP systems while optimising the performance of the systems. This research develops a mathematical model to optimise the performance of a picker to parts OP system using PTRs in terms of productivity, quality, and the well-being of the order pickers. The developed model is tested by using data from a case company. The results of this study support managerial decisions by achieving a better knowledge of how to set up such PTR solutions.


Aim: This research was conducted with the purpose of introducing a model for the prevention of job stress, emotional exhaustion and deviant behaviors through ethical values, leadership and management. Method: method of research was correlation (Covariance Matric) and the population was consisted of 7000 employees of the Iranian Metal Company Ltd. From this statistical population, 385 persons were selected to participate in the study using stratified sampling through employees' list of names. The following questionnaires were used to assess research variables: Job Stress Questionnaire (Kahn et al, 1964), Emotional Exhaustion Scale (Maslach & Jackson, 1981), Organizational Deviant Behaviors Questionnaire (Bennett & Robinson, 2000), Higher Management Support for Ethical Behaviors Scale (Viswesvaran et al, 1998), Moral Leadership Questionnaire (Rowold, 2008) and Corporate Ethical Values Questionnaire (Hunt et al, 1989). Data were analyzed using Pearson's correlation coefficient and structure equation modeling. Results: Results revealed that, in the revised final model of this research, top management support with corporate ethical values correlated significantly with moral based leadership, corporate ethical values with moral based leadership, moral based leadership with job stress, job stress, corporate ethical values and moral based leadership with emotional exhaustion, and emotional exhaustion, top management support for ethical behaviors, job stress and corporate ethical values correlated with deviant behaviors. Conclusions: It is argued that through a series of chain relationships, job stress and emotional exhaustion as well as deviant behaviors may be decreased through top management support for ethical behaviors, along with moral based leadership and involvement in ethical values.


The ingredients and the preparation methods influence biscuit quality and safety. In Iraq, biscuit imports are increasing every year, but no information is available in the scientific literature on their quality and safety features. This work analyzed three types of biscuits (cookies, crackers, and digestives) sampled in the Basrah markets (Iraq) but produced in Spain, Iran, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates. Nine different brands were considered for each country of origin (n = 36), with three replicates per sample. Moisture, ash, fat, proteins, fiber, water activity, peroxide value, 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furfural (HMF), acrylamide, heavy metals, and microbial load were analyzed. All the nutritional parameters were significantly influenced by the variables "Biscuit type" and "Country". Cookies showed significantly higher fat content and lower protein content than crackers and digestives, as well as higher peroxide value (which was below the limit set by the FAO/WHO within the World Wood Program). Spanish samples had more fat and fewer proteins than biscuits made in other countries. Very high variability was observed in HMF (from not detected to 62.08 mg/kg) and AA content (reaching 1421.8 μg/kg). Cadmium was always absent, and lead was considerably below the allowed limit. Yeasts and molds were above the limits in five samples.


Master Data Management (MDM) is an important data management discipline in modern companies. Currently, industrial solutions in this area are actively developing, as evidenced, in particular, by the annual reviews of the consulting company Gartner. However, the problem of effectively customizing standard MDM products for the individual needs of organizations is very acute. The natural solution to this problem is the component architecture of the standard product, as well as its openness. However, in fact, the only industrial open component MDM product today is the Unidata platform, developed by the Russian company Unidata LLC. In this paper, the architecture of this platform is presented, as well as an overview of open component developments in the field of MDM available on the market.


To identify factors that affect teacher attrition, we surveyed random samples of current and former teachers and obtained their assessments of teaching conditions, reasons for leaving or staying in the classroom, and suggestions for policy changes to retain more teachers. We received sufficient numbers of survey responses to be able to project the results to the population of all public K-12 teachers. Please refer to Appendix A for a discussion of our methods and Appendices B and C for complete survey results on teacher satisfaction. Background _____________


ABSTRACT According to Kohlberg, a moral teacher is an independent moral agent capable of addressing moral dilemmas based on general principles of justice. In addition to moral reasoning, teachers require competencies in moral sensitivity, moral motivation, and the implementation of morality. In the current period of global transition, moral sensitivity in teaching is particularly emphasized along with the skills to identify culture-invariant and culture-dependent moral factors. In this lecture, the role of the moral teacher is explored in the context of current global crises and everyday moral dilemmas in teaching. Purposefulness and professional ethics are identified as important assets for a moral teacher during the current global transition.


Purpose – Trust in financial institutions has been eroded through the collapse of mortgage-related securities, with confidence further denuded through well publicized cases of rogue traders and rate fixing cases, such as with the Lehman brothers, the Libor rate-fixing scandals, and the hypo real estate breakdown. In response to these events, governments have introduced a range of distinct policy initiatives designed to restore trust in this sector. Thus, the question arises: are these regulations and control mechanisms sufficient in isolation, or are there other elements that this sector needs to pay attention to in efforts to build and sustain customers' trust? The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – There is a compelling agenda for both financial organizations and academics to understand better organizational trust in this context especially the role and impact of regulatory mechanisms in its development and repair. The paper therefore examines the special facets of the fin...


In this research we explore a terminological database (Termoteca) in order to expand the Portuguese and Galician wordnets (PULO and Galnet) with the addition of new synset variants (word forms for a concept), usage examples for the variants, and synset glosses or definitions. The methodology applied in this experiment is based on the alignment between concepts of WordNet (synsets) and concepts described in Termoteca (terminological records), taking into account the lexical forms in both resources, their morphological category and their knowledge domains, using the information provided by the WordNet Domains Hierarchy and the Termoteca field domains to reduce the incidence of polysemy and homography in the results of the experiment. The results obtained confirm our hypothesis that the combined use of the semantic domain information included in both resources makes it possible to minimise the problem of lexical ambiguity and to obtain a very acceptable index of precision in terminological information extraction tasks, attaining a precision above 89% when there are two or more different languages sharing at least one lexical form between the synset in Galnet and the Termoteca record. 2012 ACM Subject Classification Computing methodologies → Language resources; Computing methodologies → Natural language processing


The kinetics of the oxidation of nitrite to nitrate by peroxynitrous acid at pH 5.2 is best described by the rate law kobs = kiso + k'[NO2-] + k' '[NO2-]2, in which the peroxynitrous acid isomerization rate constant kiso = (1.10 ± 0.05) s-1, k' = (3.2 ± 0.1) M-1 s-1, and k' ' = (4.2 ± 0.3) M-2s-1, at 25 °C. The ternary reaction may involve initial formation of an adduct between nitrite and peroxynitrite, followed by reaction with a second nitrite to form two nitrite and a nitrate. Ab initio calculations indicate that there is only a small intrinsic barrier to the net transfer of HO+ from peroxynitrous acid to the nitrogen atom of nitrite. A similar transfer to either of the two oxygens of nitrite produces the reactants, and would not lead to an increase in the rate of disappearance of peroxynitrous acid, as observed. The low rate constant is most likely due to stringent orientational constraints. Formal transfer of HO+ to 15NO2- results in formation of 15NO3-, as experimentally observed. HO+ transfer is c...


Aims  To highlight the potential value of network analysis for conservation biogeography and to focus attention on some of the challenges that lie ahead in applying it to conservation problems.


OBJECTIVE
To trace the roots of clinical laboratory science by discussing the development of the role of the "laboratory technician", and describing selected early training programs for clinical laboratory personnel.

DESIGN
A survey of literature on the history of clinical laboratory science was conducted. References consulted include various books and professional journals.

CONCLUSION
The first clinical laboratory scientists began working in clinical laboratories shortly before World War I. During the war, and in the years that followed, a critical shortage of trained laboratory personnel developed. To alleviate this shortage, pathologists began to hire young women, training them on the job to perform simple laboratory tests. However, there were no established training standards, and few institutions offered a systematic method for instruction. During this same period, three educational programs were established that did offer high quality training that provided systematic instruction to their students.


After opening up,the Chinese research field has had plenty of studies on Fuxi Shi and Nuwa Shi.Many scholars believe that they are human rather than god or goddess;nor are they symbols of their times.But fewer studies have been conducted on their "father"-Suanren Shi.The main reason is that his deeds are rarely available and his image obscure.He is often believed to be a symbol of the time.We believe,any legendary tribal chief of two or three hundred thousand years ago,however mythological,all reflects in some sense the social conditions of that time.Suiren Shi,a tribal chieftain during the stone age of fifty thousand years ago,is also the case with others.For his fire-making technique,he is regarded as the lead of the "Three Emperors" also called "Sui Huang(Emperor)".


Performing environmental work creates environmental impacts. Assessment and remedial activities consume natural resources, produce waste products, and create exposures. Activities such as subsurface drilling, well installation, sampling, dewatering, excavation, treatment, and disposal require equipment, material, fuel, air, and water. These resources are consumed by the work leaving waste products that must then be dealt with. These include particulate matter, greenhouse gases such as CO2, wastewater discharges, and various soil and material waste streams. Assessment and remedial activities can also create human and ecological exposures that are higher than what existed prior to beginning the work. While it is true that the performance of almost any activity has an associated environmental impact, projects such as building a road, a bridge, or a school are not conducted under the onus of protecting the environment. Prior to the consideration of non-time critical cleanup projects, a resource, risk, and remediation evaluation should be conducted. Such an evaluation would show that certain environmental projects should be limited or not performed. This discussion describes the means for evaluating the impact of conducting environmental work. This includes the calculation of resource consumption and waste streams. The means for comparing exposures is described in the paper "Comparison of Exposures for Conducting Environmental Work". The technical arguments provided by such evaluations and comparisons could assist with expediting and economizing overall environmental liabilities. This discussion also shows the considerable volume of CO2 which is produced by performing environmental work.


Background: Tubercular empyema is one of the commonest chronic diseases in the developing countries of the world including India. As the problem of drug resistant strain of tubercular bacilli is increasing, new modalities of treatment that could act against resistant strain are needed. Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of low- level nitrogen laser therapy (LLLT) as an adjuvant to anti-tubercular treatment in case of tubercular empyema that was not responding to conventional anti-tuberculosis drugs and repeated pus aspiration. Patient: The patient, a 19 year old male was diagnosed with tubercular empyema. He was not improving by conventional treatment and pus aspiration. The patient was administered intralesional nitrogen laser (337 nanometer, average power 5 mW) for 780 seconds at intervals of 72 hours up to 10 weeks. Results: After the fifth laser irradiation session, decrease in chest pain was reported and pus mixed with blood pleural fluid aspirated. After the tenth laser irradiation session, serous pleural fluid was aspirated. After 20 sessions of laser irradiation the empyema was healed completely and the patient also regained almost complete expansion of lung. Conclusion: LLLT was observed to results in the healing of the tubercular empyema and also found to make the empyema free of Mycobacterium tuberculosis . However, further randomized studies with more patients are needed to prove the efficacy of this method. Key words: Mycobacterium tuberculosis ; empyema; laser DOI: 10.3126/saarctb.v7i2.4402 SAARC J. TUBER. LUNG DIS. HIV/AIDS 2010 VII(2) 26-29


Hybridization of peptide nucleic acids probe containing azobenzene (NH2-TNT4, N-PNAs) with DNA was performed by covalently immobilizing of NH2-TNT4 in sequence on the 3-mercaptopropionic acid self-assembled monolayer modified gold electrode with the helps of N-(3-dimethylaminopropy1)- N'-ethylcarbodiimide hydrochloride (EDC) and N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS), and the hybrid was coded as N-PNAs/DNA. Using [Fe(CN)6] 4−/3− (1:1) as the electrochemical indicator, the electrochemical properties of the N-PNAs self-assembled monolayer (N-PNAs-SAMs) and N-PNAs/DNA hybridization system under the conditions of before and after UV light irradiation were characterized with cyclic voltammetry (CV), differential pulse voltammetry (DPV), and electrochemical impedance spectra (EIS). Results showed that the redox currents decreased with the increase of irradiation time, suggesting that the ability of the charge transfer on the electrode surface was weakened and the conformation of hybrid system had been changed, and the control of PNAs/DNA hybridization could be realized by UV light irradiation.


The parenteral injection of hidden chemical ingredients contained in Gardasil and mRNA Covid-19 vaccines are capable of initiating a myriad of toxic biochemical disturbances


Diet and physical activity are considered to be major components of a healthy lifestyle. However, few studies have examined in detail the relationships between specific types of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and diet in adults. The objective of the present study was to assess differential relationships between dietary patterns, leisure-time and occupational physical activities and time spent watching television (TV), as an indicator of sedentary behaviour, in middle-aged French subjects. We performed a cross-sectional analysis using data from 1359 participants in the SUpplémentation en VItamines et Minéraux AntioXydants study, who completed a detailed physical activity questionnaire and at least six 24 h dietary records. Sex-specific dietary patterns were derived using factor analysis; their relationships with leisure-time and occupational physical activities and TV viewing were assessed using ANCOVA, after adjustment for age, educational level and smoking status. Three dietary patterns were identified in each sex. After adjustment for potential confounders, leisure-time physical activity was positively associated with a 'healthy' food pattern in both men (P for trend < 0·01) and women (P for trend < 0·03) and negatively associated with an 'alcohol/meat' pattern in men (P for trend < 0·01). TV viewing was positively associated with a 'convenience' pattern in men and with a 'alcohol-appetiser' pattern in women. In conclusion, identification of relationships between dietary patterns, physical activity and sedentary behaviour can enable identification of different types of lifestyle and should help to target at-risk groups in nutrition prevention programmes.


Abstract The mechanics of the interface between a concrete-face slab and cushion layer gravels plays an essential role in the stability of the concrete face of a concrete-face rockfill (CFR) dam, w...


Heat tolerance of 10 varieties in Rosa chinensi was investigated using physiological and biochemical measurements as well as the statistical analyses with SPSS software.Results indicate that heat tolerance of different varieties in Rosa chinensi could be distinguished effectively under a high temperature stress of 38℃ for one week and could be effectively evaluated using amain component analysis and a cluster analysis from the data of the physiological and biochemical measurements.Varieties of 'Hong Cha' and 'Lan Bi De' had the worst heat tolerance,while varieties of 'Man Hai Mu Gong Dian','Dong Mei' and 'Mei Lang Sui Xiang Qu' had the best heat tolerance.