The invention discloses an automatic idling control method for a hybrid excavator, and relates to hybrid engineering machinery with a coaxially-connected engine and generator/motor structure. The method includes setting a pilot pressure threshold, deceleration time, conditions for shutting down an engine and an idle speed of the engine; detecting the pilot handle pressure and downtime of the engine, when the pilot handle pressure is lower than the set pilot pressure threshold and the downtime of the engine exceeds the set deceleration time, decelerating the engine into the idle speed; when the engine is in the idle speed, detecting the state of charge of a capacitor, and setting a torque value corresponding to a generator/motor so as to charge the capacitor according to the detected state of charge of the capacitor; when the conditions for shutting down the engine are met, shutting down the engine; when the pilot handle pressure is detected being higher than the set pilot pressure threshold, setting the speed of the engine to be the operating speed corresponding to the current accelerator position.


ABSTRACT Recent development of next-generation DNA sequencing platforms has dramatically increased the efficiency of sequencing genomes or targeted regions of interest within genomes. Identification of genetic variants is an important downstream application of such platforms. In this paper, we present a novel framework for processing short reads generated by next-generation sequencing platforms, and apply it to the problem of detecting single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the target genome. The framework relies on a bipartite graphical model and message-passing techniques to unify the quality score recalibration and variant calling steps in the downstream data processing pipeline. This technique computes posteriori probabilities of the bases in the reconstructed sequence. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed technique can improve the variant calling accuracy compared to broadly used alternative method.


The experiment was carried out to evaluate total and partial digestibility of nutrients, the efficiency of microbial protein synthesis, in situ degradability and ruminal parameters in cattle fed diets with rehydrated corn grain silages, okara or soybean grain. Three Holstein steers were distributed in a 3 x 3 Latin square design. The treatments evaluated were: SO (corn grain silage + 30% okara), SSG (corn grain silage + 20% soybean grain) and CG (dry corn grains). The ruminal digestibility of non-fiber carbohydrates (NFC) increased in SO (88.34%) and SSG treatments (87.87%), compared to the CG treatment (63.48%). The minimum ruminal pH value was 6.01, observed 4.13 hours after feeding a diet with SO. The highest ammonia-N contents were 15.25 and 15.07 mg dL observed in SSG and SO, respectively, 2.45 and 2.61 hours after feeding. Treatments SO and SSG showed higher fraction A content (readily degradable fraction) and C (constant rate of degradability of fraction B). The effective degradability (ED) of dry matter (DM) was higher for the diets SO and DE of CP was higher for treatments SO and SSG. SSG and SO result in better utilization of nutrients by animals.


This review summarises the pharmaceutical applications of cyclodextrins (CDs), particularly including the patent literature 1996 - 1999. To place these developments in context there is an introduction to the previously reported molecular and supramolecular (complex formation) properties of CDs and their biological properties, and clinical applications, which mainly involve drug (re)formulation. The growing utility of CDs as pharmaceutical excipients is discussed in three main categories. Firstly, complexes formed between CDs and previously known drugs wherein the new conjugate confers improved efficacy or reduced side effects. Secondly, conjugates conferring improved aqueous solubility and thirdly, a miscellaneous category including conjugates with new compounds. In addition, the emerging areas of covalently bound CD-drug complexes and potential applications of CDs acting directly as medicinal agents in their own right are reviewed. In some of these applications chemically modified CDs are found to augmen...


Effective dissemination of knowledge published by eminent authors in reputed journals and ensuring that the referred work is cited properly is the need of the hour. Citation analysis is about the similarity measures of articles or journals which are put forward to scaling as well as clustering procedures. A proper citation relevancy check (CRC) is required to avoid the missing links in the citation networks. Both similar and dissimilar references in the articles have important article citations. The purpose of this work is devise a method to find the most significant articles which can provide useful information to the journal editors and writers. The strategy presented in this paper can assist an author to incorporate most important articles and can help the editor in evaluating the quality of the references. The main benefit in detecting the missing articles is improvement in quality of research along with increased citation count.


. Patient empowerment frameworks, including personal health records (PHR), actively engage technology empowered citizens in their healthcare. Particularly today, with the current increase of chronic diseases, the high growth rate of the elderly and disabled populations and at the same time the much higher cross-border patient mobility, such systems may prove to be lifesaving, cost effective and time saving. Currently, there are many different online applications promoted as being functional, user-friendly and detailed enough to provide a complete and accurate summary of an individual's medical history. However, it seems that most of the Web services available do not fully adhere to well known accessibility standards, such as those promoted by the W3C, thus turning them away from people with disability and elderly people, who most probably need them most. Additionally, mobile devices support introduces additional obstacles to users with disability when trying to operate such services. This paper presents fundamental ( design for all ) guidelines for the successful implementation of an accessible ePHR service that can be operated by any patient including people with disabilities no matter what device they use to access this service.


In distancing himself from Western brutality in its religious and nationalistic forms, Joyce also registered his exasperation with Irish nationalism. Resentful nationalistic impotence structures the narrative core of the "Cyclops" episode in Joyce's Ulysses. The impotence underlying the resentment stems from the inability to create an independent subject through any other terms than those of the master, given that postcolonial revivalist movements emulate the imperial subject. This essay dwells on the connection between impotent, resentful nationalism and its manifest violence. On one hand, I consider the stereotype of the "fighting Irish" as emblematic of instinctual, yet rationalized, violence. On the other hand, I emphasize the ultimate impotence of the realization of this instinct in its primitive, despotic form, as well as its sublimation in nationalist movements. The second essay from Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality provides the theoretical tool with which I examine the parallels between the emerging narratives of rationalization and nationalism. Assuming that nationalism sublimates instinctual aggression, it also succeeds in perpetuating its aim—that of exercising the primal aggression upon which it is premised. Moreover, assuming that nationalism purports to advance the aims of the social contract between community and individual—viz., protecting the individual from aggression—it fails by the very mechanism by which it is supposed to function. [


Blind Face Restoration (BFR) aims to construct a high-quality (HQ) face image from its corresponding low-quality (LQ) input. Recently, many BFR methods have been proposed and they have achieved remarkable success. However, these methods are trained or evaluated on privately synthesized datasets, which makes it infeasible for the subsequent approaches to fairly compare with them. To address this problem, we first synthesize two blind face restoration benchmark datasets called EDFace-Celeb-1M (BFR128) and EDFace-Celeb-150K (BFR512). State-of-the-art methods are benchmarked on them under five settings including blur, noise, low resolution, JPEG compression artifacts, and the combination of them (full degradation). To make the comparison more comprehensive, five widely-used quantitative metrics and two task-driven metrics including Average Face Landmark Distance (AFLD) and Average Face ID Cosine Similarity (AFICS) are applied. Furthermore, we develop an effective baseline model called Swin Transformer U-Net (STUNet). The STUNet with U-net architecture applies an attention mechanism and a shifted windowing scheme to capture long-range pixel interactions and focus more on significant features while still being trained efficiently. Experimental results show that the proposed baseline method performs favourably against the SOTA methods on various BFR tasks.


Having become aware of the financial status of underdeveloped countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) and the potential role of institutional factors in the effectiveness of financial development policies, this study proposes an analysis of the impact of institutional quality on the success of their financial development policy. The results of the study show that institutions have a decisive impact on the finance effect on economic growth and development. The study explains that since independence (1960) to the present, various financial development policies have not paid off. The author, therefore, assigns a cause for these, institutional deficiencies, and inconsistencies in the choice of economical and financial policies and shortcomings in the quality of governance. This study emphasizes the role of institutions and a favorable legal and institutional environment for the formation of a foundation for healthy financial development.


Abstract : We are providing this final report for your information and use. This report is one of a series of reports that discusses the review of the Joint Cross-Service Groups (JCSGs), developed by the 1995 Defense Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Steering Groups' (the Steering Group) implementation of the internal control plan for managing the identification of DoD cross-Service opportunities. Six JCSGs implemented the internal control plan to ensure the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of the information upon which the Secretary of Defense recommendations for closures and realignments to the 1995 Commission on Defense Base Realignment and Closure are based. The Inspector General, DoD, was directed by the Deputy Secretary of Defense to review the adequacy and implementation of the internal control plan over this process. This report focuses on the adequacy of the JCSG for Test and Evaluation' 5 implementation of the internal control plan.


At the risk of sounding clichéd, I will be indulging in more than one foodrelated metaphor in this review of Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation. This book is a strong addition to the growing field of film-and-food studies, and a rewarding study of the cultural and ideological implications of how food is represented on-screen. Having previously contributed to Anne Bower's 2004 anthology Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film, I was excited when asked to review a new book in the same area of study. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the political contexts surrounding the use of food in cinema. With three authors (and no delineation of who wrote particular chapters), the book is remarkably even and consistently accessible in its writing style, and could easily be assigned to students in both undergraduate and graduate courses. Appetites and Anxieties uses films as a way of helping us to understand the various ideological contexts that surround food production and consumption. This is very much a food studies book as much as it is a film studies book, bridging the methods of the two fields. The focus of the book is regularly political in nature, with its subtitle stressing how cinematic representations betray ideological meanings. Instead of focusing on examples of lavish cinematic feasts, such as Eat Drink Man Woman (Dir. Ang Lee, 1994), Tortilla Soup (Dir. Maria Ripoll, 2001), Big Night (Dir. Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci, 1996) and other examples of what we might term "food porn," this book's core focus has more to do with the larger consequences of how viewers engage with food on screen. Rather than analyzing how films represent the pleasures of food consumption, Appetites and Anxieties is more concerned with various socio-political consequences of such representations. Additionally, the authors are concerned with what is not represented in typical cinematic meals. For example, the authors describe how food cleanup scenes are typically absent from films (48), with directors more interested in the passionate consumption of sumptuous food items than the unpleasant task of removing and washing empty plates. They rightly note how the labor involved in the various steps leading up to a meal's consumption, as well as that necessitated afterwards, are not part of most cinematic food scenes. The authors' focus, as their introduction tells us: [is] on the steak and burger that Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) consume at the 1950s-retro restaurant Jack Rabbit Slim's in Pulp Fiction. But one could ask: Where did the meat come from? From cattle housed at feedlots and fed antibiotic ingredients for months? Who labored to transport and prepare the food? Does the restaurant use undocumented workers to keep food costs low? Does the table get cleaned up after Vincent and Mia win the dance contest? What happens to the leftovers? Are they taken to a local landfill? (14) While these are valid questions, they are not on many viewers' minds (those who enjoy hot dogs rarely pause to consider how they're made, either). As such, the authors argue that "films often only show the pleasures of food consumption... [and] generally ignore the actual labor and the troubled cultural dynamics behind food procurement, preparation and cleanup" (10). This tenet is representative of the larger approach found throughout the rest of the book—those who are intrigued by such questions will enjoy Appetites and Anxieties. The authors use a "foodways" perspective throughout the book, which focuses on "the identity politics surrounding food in film as well as the economic factors that make certain aspects of the food system untenable subjects for most narrative films" (9). A foodways approach, in other words, looks at "where food comes from and where it ultimately ends up" (10). Many chapters apply a political-economy approach to the ways that films represent food, and there is a wide international focus in many of the examples. Additionally, there are several recurrent themes in the case studies used in Appetites and Anxieties, the first being the role of documentaries in how viewers understand cinematic representations of food. The authors argue that films critiquing the dominant ways in which food is produced and consumed are often marginalized, and that such documentaries are a difficult sell within the mainstream cinematic marketplace. "Can films prompt mainstream consumers to see that the apparent variety in the movies that people see most of the time is like the illusion of choice offered at the supermarket and fastfood outlets? How could films that identify problems in the food system have any appeal in today's reception context?" the authors ask (221). They cite the idea that food documentaries are often thought of as an "eat your peas" kind of cinema (181), as if such films are good for us yet somehow unpleasant to digest. So, too, is Appetites and Anxieties often an eat-your-peas approach to film-and-foodstudies. Many of the cinematic examples are preceded in the book by lengthy, contextual accounts that are used to establish the cultural and/or socio-political frameworks of the films in question. The authors are often less interested in the visceral pleasures of food consumption, as depicted on screen, than they are with the larger socio-political implications of how viewers engage with such scenes, which will be of appeal to many readers while, perhaps, alienating others. In turn, another thematic parallel was a surprising one, although ultimately in keeping with the above objectives. Cannibalism is a running focus of exploration in many of the book's chapters, in such films as Bagdad Café (Dir. Percy Adlon, 1987), 301/302 (Dir. Cheol-su Park, 1995) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Dir. Tobe Hooper, 1974). The authors argue that "Films in which humans are the food product often comment on the symbolic but systemic cannibalism of imperial and economic values" (130). One particularly "meaty" chapter (the sixth, "Food as Threat and Promise: Genre and Auteur Analysis") offers a compelling look at how various auteur directors have used food in their films, such as John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, and Steven Spielberg. It also examines how certain genres have regularly presented patterns of food imagery, such as how gangster films "make food's threatening connotations explicit" (155). This chapter is perhaps the most purely film-studies-oriented, and to me the most enjoyable given the ways in which it shows how food can offer new critical approaches to familiar films. Also noteworthy is an appendix featuring an interview with food stylist Ann Schultz, who worked on such films as Hook (Dir. Steven Spielberg, 1991), Bugsy (Dir. Barry Levinson, 1991), and Chaplin (Dir. Richard Attenborough, 1992). It is an interesting finish to the book, perhaps even serving as a palate cleanser, but its connection to the rest of the book might have been more clearly defined. On the whole, Appetites and Anxieties is akin to a well-rounded meal (peas and all), and a significant addition to our understanding of how food is represented in cinema.


In this paper we have introduced the notion of αSkew Strong McCoy Rings. Hong et al.[4] extended the McCoys theorem to non commutative rings through the concept of strongly right McCoyness. The paper discusses and extends the scope of these results to αskew strong McCoy Rings. Subject Classification: 16S36, 16S50, 16U80.


What are practical and logistical constraints in developing science performance assessments (SPAs)? What are key components in a framework for conceptualizing the process? What are the major steps in SPA development?


In the practice of daily life financial institutions that are not known by the public is a foreign bank. In order to channel the funding requirements needed society, it appears that an alternative financing institutions raised funds more flexible and moderate than banks in certain cases even higher level of risk. Financial institutions that offer models of new formulations in terms of channeling funds to those who need it as consumer financing, arranged by Presidential Decree No. 9 of 2009 on Financing Agency, PT. Centeral Santosa Finance Pekanbaru as a financial institution that has a product to accommodate the consumer in helping to vehicle financing.In this case relates to the implementation of the Precautionary Principle in consumer financing agreement by PT. Centeral Santosa Finance Pekanbaru. The purpose of this thesis, namely: First, This type of research can be classified into types soiologis juridical research, because this research author directly conduct research on location or a place to study provide complete and clear picture of the issues examined. This research was conducted at PT. Centeral Santosa Finance Pekanbaru, while the sample population is a whole party with regard to the problems examined, the data source used, primary data, secondary data, data collection techniques in this study with questionnaires, interviews and review of the literature.From the research problem there are two main things that can be inferred. First, the implementation of the Precautionary Principle by PT. Centeral Santosa Finance Pekanbaru in consumer financing agreement has not been run in accordance with applicable regulations. So the PT. Centeral Santosa Finance Pekanbaru do not pay attention to the precautionary principle as a risk management in credit financing. Due to the implementation of the precautionary principle as a formality without regard to legal aspects. Suggestions Writer, first, to the government, the government should make the legislation more specific. In terms of the application of the precautionary principle in consumer financing agreement, PT. Centeral Santosa Finance Pekanbaru branch does not run properly, it should in completing the requirements of consumer financing agreement, PT. Centeral Santosa Finance Pekanbaru branch reinforce any prospective customers to complete the requirements in accordance with the procedure.


Molecular and solid forms of boron nitride, based on stoichiometric and nonstoichiometric fullerenes, are predicted by means of first-principles calculations. Our study of the energetics of dimer formation indicates that the reactivity of boron nitride fullerenes depends strongly on the stoichiometry. The stoichiometric fullerenes form strong covalent bonds between the tips of neighboring cages, while the tips of nitrogen-rich fullerenes ``repel'' each other, and the latter do not bind at the tips. This is reflected in the nature of bonding in the possible fullerene-based crystalline structures: our calculations predict that stoichiometric fullerenes should form covalent-bound low-density solids with large interstitial channels (5\char21{}8 \AA{}), but with hardnesses comparable to those of hard metals. In contrast, nitrogen-rich units (with the exception of ${\mathrm{B}}_{12}{\mathrm{N}}_{16})$ should form loosely bound molecular solids like the standard carbon fullerenes.


Objective:To elucidate the effect of ischemic preconditioning(IPC) on apoptosis of myocardial cells under ischemia/reperfusion during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB).Methods:Fifty four felines were randomized into 3 groups:Group 1 ( n =18),CPB was conducted without aortic cross clamping (ACC); Group 2 ( n =18),with 60 min ACC followed by 90 min reperfusion,and cardioplegia was used during period of ACC; Group 3 ( n =18),with protocol similar to that of group 2 except for three round 15 min IPC applied before ACC.Apoptosis of myocytes was detected 45,105 and 195 min after CPB in all groups by flow cytometry with Annexin Ⅴ and propidium iodiode (PI) staining.Results:In both group 2 and 3,necrosis was found during either ischemia or reperfusion periods,but myocyte apoptosis was only detected during the period of reperfusion.IPC significantly decreased the ratio of necrosis myocytes both in ischemic and reperfusion periods during CPB ,being (2.675± 0.424)% in group 2 vs (1.317±0.292)% in group 3 after 60 min ACC; (5.327±0.513)% in group 2 vs (3.112±0.328)% in group 3 after 90 min reperfusion.Moreover,IPC markedly attenuated the ratio of apoptosis of myocardial cells caused by reperfusion from (2.327±0.673)% in group 2 to (0.943±0.146)% in group 3( P 0.01).Conclusion:IPC may protect myocardial cells from ischemia and reperfusion injury by inhibiting both necrosis and apoptosis during CPB.


To observe the effects of "Caihu Zhixue Fluid" on uterine C-type natriuretis peptide (CNP) in rabbits with Cu Intra-uterine Device (Cu-IUD), and to compare its effects with "Guipi Decoction" and anti-inflammatory agents. Results: The Fluid could reduce the content of CNP, especially the large dose of the Fluid, with better effects than model group; next come to indomethacin and "Guipi Decoction". It is indicated that the Fluid can reduce the content of CNP to promote uterine contraction, hence to stanch bleeding due to IUD.


Background: Plant protection has always been an interesting area of research for scientists for sustenance of quality agriculture. Several effective synthetic insecticides, fungicides and other microcidal chemical have been in practices for long now. However, this overzealous and indiscriminate use of these chemicals is harmful to the animals, field grown food, non-target flora and fauna and humans as well. Due to increasing awareness of the ill effects of these synthetic compounds on human and animal health as well as to the agro-ecosystem, efforts are being made to develop alternative and more environment-friendly methods of pathogen and pest management. Scope: Recently, in different parts of the world, attention has been paid towards exploitation of higher plant products as novel chemotherapeutants in plant protection. Neem (Azadirachta indica) is one such plant with almost every part of it viz. seeds, leaves, roots, bark, trunk and branches having multiple antimicrobial potency. Some constituents of the neem plant that effect disease control demonstrate systematic action in inducing resistance in certain plant species. Conclusion: Several tests have indicated considerable promise for use of neem plant in diseases management. In this review, we have tried to discuss about the researchers conducted all over the world during past few decades in order to testify and validate the applicability of neem extracts and products as cost-efficient and eco-favoring biocide.


Firms increasingly use external vendors to provide training for their employees. And because trust has been found to be essential in successful interfirm relationships, this study identified a number of factors thought to be associated with both self-interested trust and socially oriented trust between firms and their training suppliers. Using data obtained from 323 organizations, regression analysis suggests that idiosyncratic training, program uncertainty, vendor dependency, contractual specificity, and communication accuracy and frequency were significantly related to higher levels of trust in outsourcing relationships.


Colleagues in Hong Kong hosted the Seventh International Conference of Human Services Information Technology Applications (HUSITA7) in the summer of 2004. After one year of hard work by the contributors and the editors, this volume, incorporating several important contributions to the conference, was at last completed. Information technology, being the crux of the Information Society, helps to keep information and knowledge flowing among individuals and organizations. Applications of information technology are efforts to actualize this connectivity among entities aiming at the enhancement of human welfare. HUSITA serves as the catalyst to this process and the efforts made by the contributors to this collection are supports to this mission. This volume focuses on papers and applications relating to:


Propagation of the electromagnetic wave through a system with complex permittivity is investigated. The system consists of two media, one is passive and surrounds the two barrier slabs made out of the second material with complex dielectric constant. Expression for transmission probability is obtained along with equation which allows calculation of the resonant frequency. Analytical expressions for reflection and absorption probabilities are acquired as well. It will be shown, if the frequency is given, that the transmission probability (along with reflection and absorption probabilities) approaches infinity for one particular value of the dielectric constant with negative imaginary part, which is used to describe active media. Furthermore, conditions for appearance of these transmission singularities are obtained.


MATERIALS AND METHODS A primary determinant of wheat yield is matured tillers per plant. Tiller production and survival are influenced by the N supply. In this study, -wheat plants were grown with optimum N (12 mM) until specific growth sages in a controlled environment. The limited N supply (2 mM) was established at Zadok's scale GS 21, GS 31, GS 37, and GS 49. By the 45th day of sowing when plants were, at GS 49, limited N supply established at GS 21 and GS 31 resulted 60 and 30% less number of tillers per plant respectively relative to control. At maturity, tillers per plant in GS 21 and GS 31 were 70 and 46% less respectively relative to control. Tiller abortion process was initiated about a week after main stem visible stage and supply of limited N at GS 37 did not show a significant difference in matured tillers per plant compared to control.


We describe an experimental comparison of gain dynamics in quantum well lasers and optical amplifiers. We demonstrate an approximately 30% increase in the time constant describing the gain recovery on the ∼1 ps time scale in a laser above threshold. The increase is due to the high rate of stimulated emission which modifies the relative significance of the various mechanisms contributing to the gain recovery. We suggest an explanation based on the coupling of two processes: Carrier capture and carrier cooling. We conclude that laser gain dynamics contain details that cannot be revealed in experiments on optical amplifiers due to the vast differences in operating conditions between a laser and an optical amplifier.


Introduction: Treatment of comminuted intra-articular fractures around the knee in the elderly population could be challenging. Factors such as pre-existing comorbidities, osteoporosis, cartilage damage and deformity could make fracture reduction difficult. Patients outcome is guarded due to risk of delayed or non-union, delayed weight bearing and prolonged rehabilitation phase. Methods: We present a retrospective study on 12 patients who underwent early primary total knee replacement after sustaining intra-articular fracture around the knee from 2017 to 2019. Legacy Constrained Condylar Knee (LCCK) were used and patients were follow-up at 3, 6 and 12 months. Results: Mean follow-up period is 14 months. All except one patient received Posterior Stabilized insert while other patients had LCCK. Two patients were complicated with prosthetic joint infection requiring debridement and revision surgery. The remaining patients achieved full knee extension and average flexion of 100 degrees. Conclusion: Early knee arthroplasty is able to achieve excellent short-term outcome in treatment of comminuted intra-articular fractures around the knee in elderly patients


This paper investigates the impact of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) on sustainable economic development in Nigeria using time series data. Annual time series data collected from the statistical bulletin of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Bureau of Statistics (BOS) from 1986 to 2016 are fitted into the regression equation using appropriate econometric techniques such as the VECM and VEC based causality test among others. Results from the empirical analysis shows that a positive and significant relationship exists between small and medium enterprises investment and Nigeria's economic growth. It is recommended that to achieve the desired socio-economic development, more investments should be directed towards Small and Medium Enterprises while not eroding the role of enabling environment through the provision of needed infrastructures and a stable political environment.


Background. Assessment of opinions and behaviors related to cardio-vascular diseases (CVD) prevention is needed in order to develop appropriate interventions for CVD prophylaxis. Aims. The study aims to assess the opinions and behaviors related to a healthy lifestyle and CVD prevention among Romanian adults who have relatives with cardiovascular diseases. Methods. The study was performed in 2 hospital settings from Cluj-Napoca, Romania and involved 180 adults (90 men and 90 women) who had relatives with diagnoses of CVD. Data were collected through anonymous questionnaires, and height and weight were measured. Results. The results show that a percentage of 58.3% of the adults had a body mass index higher than 24.9 and one quarter of the subjects declared that they do not perform at least 30 minutes of physical activity each day. With respect to alimentary habits, 78.3% of the study sample declared eating less than 3 portions of fruits and vegetables/day, while only 8.3% fulfilled the recommendations to eat at least 5 portions of fruits and vegetables per day. Nevertheless, 46.1% intend to eat more fruits and vegetables in the next month. 26.1% of the subjects were smokers (smoked in the last week), while 31.9% of the smokers declared that they would like to quit smoking in the next 6 months. The majority of the participants declared that they would like to receive more information and education regarding healthy lifestyle promotion and CVD prevention. Conclusions. The results underline the need for appropriate screening, assessment, education and counseling of adults which have CVD patients in their family in order to detect and correct CVD risk factors.


Background: Public health discussions of physical activity have tended to focus on physical health benefits rather than mental health benefits. Aim: This article provides a commentary on the potential benefits of physical activity on mental health. Method: This article reviews the documented association between mental disorders and lack of regular physical activity. Results and conclusion: While highlighting the need to build a much stronger evidence basis, the article summarizes key literature that describes physical activity as an intervention that may be helpful for the promotion of mental health and wellbeing, the prevention and treatment of common mental disorders, and as a strategy in psychosocial rehabilitation for persons with severe mental disorders. The article discusses various interventions and settings for promoting physical activity and highlights that mental health professionals are an underused resource for the promotion of physical activity. Declaration of interest: None.


Mustard oil and ghee are the only two fats which enter as such into the dietary of the people of Bengal. Mustard oil is taken throughout the province, in towns as well as in villages, by the rich as much as by the poor. Ghee is much more used in the towns than in the villages and by the richer and the more well-to-do than by the mass. Both are used for culinary purposes, ghee particularly for cooking sweets. Occasionally they are taken by mixing with boiled vegetables, and ghee also with, cooked rice, the latter always in such cases being first brought to the boil. Though of such dietetic importance, no study has been made, so far as I know, on the vitamine contents of mustard


OF THE THESIS WORRY, ANXIETY, AND THEIR RELATION IN A CLINICAL SAMPLE OF CHILDREN WITH ANXIETY DISORDERS by Steven Kent Cumbo Florida International University, 1995 Miami, Florida Professor Wendy K. Silverman, Major Professor Worry is the hallmark feature of the anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. Little information, however, is available on childhood worry, and when worry may lead to functional impairment. The number, frequency, intensity, and areas of worry were examined in a clinic sample of children with anxiety disorders (n=59) using a structured data gathering procedure. Findings revealed that number of worry increased with age; severity decreased with age. An interaction between age and gender was also found. No differences were found for frequency or intensity. The most common areas of worry were School, Health, and Personal Harm. A link between worry and anxiety was also established as children with Overanxious Disorder (which is characterized by excessive worry) scored higher on all worry parameters relative to children with other types of anxiety disorders. The theoretical and clinical implication of these finding are discussed.


Image fusion involves merging two or more images in such a way as to retain the most desirable characteristics of each. When a color visible image is fused with infrared image, the desired result is a color image with natural color appearance and full information. In this paper, an introduction to Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) theory and the results from three image fusion schemes based on EMD- Complex EMD(CEMD) and Bidimensional EMD(BEMD) are compared. The experimental results demonstrate that the new BEMD-based fusion method,  proposed by this paper,  can effectively produce a color fused image with the similar natural characteristics as the original color visible image and the quality of the fused image is the best.


This study was conducted using plastic pots of 15 kg pot capacity for the 2019 agricultural season in a private nursery in Ramadi city / Al-Anbar governorate, with the aim of studying the effect of nano-organic fertilizer and proline acid on some vegetative growth characteristics of Neem trees (Azadirachta indica). Field experiment included three proline concentrations were (0, 50 and 100) mg.L−1 and three concentrations levels of Mycorrhizae were 0, 2 and 4 g per pot contains 15 kg of soil. Data averages were compared by using the Lowest Significant Difference (L.S.D) at a probability level of 0.05. The overlap between the study factors led to a clear increase in all the studied traits and the trees that were treated with the study factors outperformed them.


The main question of this study is to what extent Islamic subject students in the faculty of education at Umm Al-Qura University use mobile learning in their educational preparation program. The following sub questions originate from the main question: 1- To what extent do Islamic subject students in the faculty of education at Umm Al-Qura University use mobile learning during the study of educational preparation program courses? 2-To what extent do Islamic subject students in the faculty of education at Umm Al-Qura University use mobile learning in their teacher training courses? The study sample consisted of all Islamic subject students in the educational preparation program in the faculty of education at Umm Al-Qura University in the second semester of the 2014-2015 academic year. A descriptive method was used to answer the questions of the study. After verifying its reliability and validity, a questionnaire was used to assess students' use of mobile learning in the educational preparation program. The results of the study revealed that the overall degree of Islamic subject students' use of mobile learning was medium with an arithmetic mean of (2.748). However, in terms of students' use of mobile learning during the study of educational preparation program courses, the results indicated that the degree of use was medium also with an arithmetic mean of (2.746). With regards to students' use of mobile learning in the teacher training course at schools, the results show that the degree of use was medium with an arithmetic mean of (2.752). However, based on these results, the researcher has managed to put forward a number of recommendations and suggestions.


Imaging and detection of objects at optical wavelengths offers better resolution than at microwave or millimeter wavelengths. However, the imaging is severely affected by scattering from fog and clouds. This paper presents a study of optical imaging through clouds by using the point-source vector radiative transfer theory. The point-spread function including complete polarization characteristics is presented with numerical examples at 1 /spl mu/m wavelength showing the effects of aperture size and optical depth on the shower curtain effects.


Objectives The Tourette syndrome is one of the behavior disorders of infants,in which curative effect is hard to consolidate with western medicine.So it is necessary to find some simple and effective natural therapies.Methods Make a bleeding on the top of the ears and press the ear points on Shenmen,kidney,liver,spleen,heart,eye and eye 2 on one side.Treat once every three to five days and then change to the other side,seven to eight times as one treatment course.Results After two treatment courses for 30 cases,there were 17 cases of healing,8 cases of obvious effect,4 cases of effect and 1 case of no effect.The total curative effect was 96 7%.Conclusions There is no specific medicine for the Tourette syndrome.In recent years,Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture were applied to it with some curative effect.However,many diseased infants didnt like it.In treatment of this disorder with ear points,there are the advantages of better curative effect,quicker effect,simple operation,no side effect.The troubled infants seem to accept it easily.Though its mechanism needs to be studied further,it is worth popularizing. [


Lufs Telxeira (*) (+) (*) INESCLargo Mompilhet 22, 4000 Porto Portugal (+) Universidade Cat61ica Portnguesa, Rua Dingo Botelho 1327, 4150 Porto, Portugal Abstract: The efficiency of a rate control mechanism depends on the knowledge about the video complexity. The high number of different occurrences that can exist in a given video sequence makes it very difficult to encode at a constant bit rate while maintaining constant the picture quality. This paper presents a 'feed forward bit rate control' to improve the perceptual quality of a video sequence,, The algorithm also produces indexing information that allows detecting and classifying scene cuts.


The magnetic valve thyristor controlled reactor (MVTCR) is presented and its configuration and working principle are described in this paper. It is set up for the mathematical models based on equivalent electrical circuit and magnetic circuit by using an analytical method to calculate steady-state characteristics. The characteristics of the reactor are shown by numerical simulations. Some interesting features of MVTCR are revealed in the paper. As an example, model tests of a prototype of 1 kVA, 0.4 kV reactor are performed to support the theoretical results.


Radiological analysis of the limb deformities of thalidomide children reveals evidence of a sensory neuropathic process. Based on this, a hypothesis of neural crest injury is suggested as the underlying pathogenetic mechanism of many congenital malformations. Using a simple concept of four different modes of growth in the embryo, the hypothesis appears to explain both skeletal and visceral deformities. Experimental and pathological evidence is presented in its support, and a rational approach to congenital defect syndromes is suggested.


In this Paper we report on the discovery of the optical counterpart to the neutron star soft X–ray transient (SXT) XTE J1709–267 at an R–band magnitude of R=20.5±0.1 and 22.24±0.03, in outburst and quiescence, respectively. We further report the detection of type I X–ray bursts in RXTE data obtained during an outburst of the source in 2002. These bursts show a precursor before the onset of the main burst event, reminiscent of photospheric radius expansion bursts. Sifting through the archival RXTE data for the burster 4U 1636–53 we found a nearly identical burst with precursor in 4U 1636–53. A comparison of this burst to true photospheric radius expansion bursts in 4U 1636–53 leads us to conclude that these bursts–with–precursor do not reach the Eddington limit. Nevertheless, from the burst properties we can derive that the distance to XTE J1709–267 is consistent with the distance of the Globular Cluster NGC 6293. We further report on the analysis of a 22.7 ksec observation of XTE J1709– 267 obtained with the Chandra satellite when the source was in quiescence. We found that the source has a soft quiescent spectrum which can be fit well by an absorbed black body or neutron star atmosphere model. A power law contributes less than ∼20 per cent to the 0.5–10 keV unabsorbed flux of (1.0± 0.3)× 10 erg cm s. This flux is only slightly lower than the flux measured right after the outburst in 2002. This is in contrast to the recent findings for MXB 1659–29, where the quiescent source flux decreased gradually by a factor of ∼7–9 over a period of 18 months. Finally, we compared the fractional power–law contribution to the unabsorbed 0.5–10 keV luminosity for neutron star SXTs in quiescence for which the distance is well–known. We find that the power–law contribution is low only when the source quiescent luminosity is close to ∼ 1−2×10 erg s. Both at higher and lower values the power–law contribution to the 0.5–10 keV luminosity increases. We discuss how models for the quiescent X–ray emission can explain these trends.


Abstract: About 120 specimens of magnetite from various localities are examined by an electron microprobe analyzer. Magnetites containing more than one weight percent of silica but lack of any other components than ferrous and ferric iron, called silician magnetites in the present paper, are recognized in 23 skarn, one vein and one thermally metamorphosed massive sulfide deposits. Thus it is confirmed that this mineral occurs in nature much more frequently than so far expected. Besides silician magnetites, magnetites with appreciable amounts of Al2O3, CaO, MgO and other components along with silica, are also recognized in some skarn deposits. Magnetites with such unusual compositions are found only in hydrothermal environments, and it is suggested that precipitation mechanisms seem to be responsible for their formation.


Intimal dendritic-like cells (DCs) reside in regions of the aorta predisposed to atherosclerosis. LPS and interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β) injections into C57BL/6 mice result in decreased numbers of intimal DCs due to their exit into the blood via reverse transendothelial migration (RTM). This study evaluated the role of IL-1b in RTM induced by intravenous LPS injection. IL-1β mRNA expression was rapidly upregulated in the intima by LPS. Experiments using genetic approaches (Il1b, Casp1 and Il1r1 mice) and function-blocking antibodies demonstrated a critical role for IL-1b production and signalling in LPS-induced RTM. Reciprocal bone marrow transplantation experiments revealed that IL-1β production and signalling only in the nonhematopoietic compartment, likely endothelium, was critical. Ex vivo studies showed that IL-1b could rescue RTM in the Il1b aorta, implicating sustained intimal IL-1b signalling. These data suggest that intimal IL-1β production and signalling in endothelial cells is required for LPSinduced RTM of intimal DCs.


Abstract : Performances of semiconductor lasers have been remarkably improved by the demand of the optical communications industry. Recently, a single longitudinal mode, CW oscillation at room temperature has been realized. The price of each laser has been reduced as low as $250. These lasers are mostly oscillated in the near-infrared, and the coherent lights of 0.83 micrometers and 1.3-1.6 micrometers in wavelengths are obtained by AlGaAs lasers and InGaAsP lasers, respectively. Since few number of other kind of lasers oscillates in these wavelength regions, these semiconductor lasers could be conveniently used not only in optical communications but in many fields of application, e.g., laser spectroscopy, optical pumping, frequency and length standards, laser radar, air-borne gyroscope, etc.


A kiln is provided with oxidant injection location a few, which are located upstream of the air blower blowing air kiln. The oxygen is added to the kiln increases the cooling capacity of the clinker cooler, and enhances combustion in the kiln.


The law on wrongful conception is rather confused. Currently, judges appear to decide claims on the basis of their own values, presenting their decision as one which the ordinary person would reach. This approach has allowed policy considerations to motivate decisions without a full discussion of the relevance or importance of that policy. Furthermore, this situation has resulted in inconsistency and uncertainty. This paper argues that one of the merits of the conventional award, adopted recently by a majority of the House of Lords in relation to wrongful conception claims, is that it has the ability to restore a judicial approach which fosters certainty and consistency and does not allow weak policy justifications to prevent the recovery of some compensation by genuine victims of medical negligence.


A design technique of a high-voltage pulsed power source for the technological installations of electron-beam weld-ing is proposed. Recommendations on the choice of source circuitry based on a resonant converter with a voltage mul-tiplier being given. A calculation algorithm is presented using the example of a 6 kW source with a choice of element base, computer simulation of its main operating modes in the LTspice software package being performed. The simula-tion results confirm the possibility and effectiveness of the proposed design technique.


Nationally and religiously diverse immigrant communities were an important component of social and daily life within Dalmatian cities during the Venetian government over the Eastern Adriatic coast. Good example is city of Zadar, the centre of economy, cultural life and administration of Venetian Dalmatia, were lived many different immigrant communities from the entire Venetian dominion (from Furlania to Crete) during the early modern period. Topic of this article is Marco Delvesi, a cleric, who was born in the bishopric of Sappa in Albania but who immigrated to Zadar probably during the 30s of the eighteenth century, i.e. during the Venetian authorities planned settlement of Albanians in the surroundings of Zadar. Author analyses Delvesi's connections with Vicko Zmajevic bishop of Zadar and clergyman Ivan Campsi. Moreover, author investigates Delvesi s testament, which was written in 1775 in Zadar. At the end of this article author delivers transcription of this testament that is presently kept in State Archives in Zadar.


The reaction mechanisms of solvolysis and photolysis of arylvinyl halides have been studied in terms of ab initio molecular orbital calculations and experiments. The frontier orbital of the p-methoxyphenylvinyl cation requires that nucleophiles attack not only the vinylic carbon but also the ipso position of the p-methoxy group. The experimental results also show the possibility of a mechanism proceeding via the ipso intermediate. The solvolysis affords exclusively the vinyl type products because of the instability of the ipso intermediate. On the other hand, some of the ipso intermediate does not decompose to produce the vinyl cation under the mild conditions of photolysis. Substitution of the p-methoxy group in the anisyl fragment occurs in cases where the nucleophile has the ability to form a bond comparable with or stronger than the original C–O bond.


This paper introduces and compares the currently most important approaches to frames: the FrameNet project pursued at the 'International Computer Science Institute' in Berkeley and Barsalou's cognitive frame theory supplemented by Löbner's concept type theory. On the basis of empirical Vndings of a case study on associative anaphora, it is argued that both approaches complement each other in several respects. While, for example, Barsalou's theory concentrates on sortal concepts, disregarding semantic and syntactic valences of each word in each of its senses, FrameNet focuses on relational concepts, particularly verbs and deverbal nouns. In contrast to frames as described in terms of valency patterns within FrameNet, linguistic approaches drawing on Barsalou's theory emphasize that frames are embedded structures having a rich internal structure. By comparison, serious shortcomings and drawbacks of each approach become apparent.


In this study, absorption of hydrocortisone from aqueous solution on PET fibers was analyzed. The influence of two experimental parameters (initial concentration and contact time) on the adsorption efficiency was examined in batch systems, at room temperature (23 ± 1 °C) and neutral pH (6.8-7.1). The experimental data were modeled using two isotherm and two kinetic models. The maximum adsorption capacity was 7.30 mg/g, while the minimum contact time was 100 min. Modeling of the experimental data showed that hydrocortisone is retained on PET fibers in multiple layers, predominantly through physical interactions. All these results highlight the potential applications of this adsorption process both in environmental engineering and in medicine.


Integrated broadcast-broadband services allow viewers to simultaneously receive broadcast content over the airwaves and additional information related to the content over the Internet. This integration provides opportunities for new services to be tailored and offered to individual viewers. Viewing histories provide a rich variety of data for service providers to learn the preferences of individual viewers and fine-tune their offerings. Each person's viewing history, however, is privacy-sensitive data and may reveal information that the viewer does not want revealed. In this paper, we propose a system that allows viewers to specify a policy that they would like to be applied to their viewing history, when shared with service providers, by using attribute-based encryption (ABE). A ciphertext is associated with a policy, and it can be decrypted only by service providers who conform to the policy. To reduce the computations of the user terminal, we develop a system with provable security that allows the encryption to be outsourced to a cloud server, without the need to trust the cloud server. Although our solution is described for integrated broadcast-broadband services, the architecture and results could also be used for sharing viewing histories of services such as Netflix. We implemented our scheme and showed that it significantly reduces the computation cost of a user terminal.


[Objective]To explore the accuracy of rapid detection of vegetable pesticide residues. [Method]Enzyme inhibition rate method was used to detect trichlorfon,carbofuran,chlorpyrifos,omethoate residue in greenhouse and common vegetables in Shengli Farm and south Chinese chive. Heating treatment was carried out on Chinese chive and ginger,inhibition rate above 35% vegetables were verified with chromatography method. [Result]The results showed that the pesticide residue of local summer Chinese cabbage and south Chinese chive in winter in supermarket exceed the standard,chlorpyrifos residue in Chinese chive exceeds nearly 6 times. When inhibition rate is 20%,the minimum concentration of omethoate buffer solution is 3 mg / kg,while concentration of trichlorfon,carbofuran,chlorpyrifos buffer solution are 0. 001 mg / kg,0. 001 mg / kg,0. 030 mg / kg. [Conclusion]Enzyme inhibition rate method has low sensitivity for detecting omethoate,high sensitivity for trichlorfon, carbofuran,chlorpyrifos.


People who grew up in a completely different cultural environment will have difficulty in deciding what kind of verbal reaction they are expected to show; this is due to the cultural differences they have in their life style, attitude and way of thinking.


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This work is aimed at showing that the "band structure" of the energy distribution in solids which is a well-known model for electronic engineers and solid-state physics scientists is an efficacious description also for phenomena not tied to energy neither related to microcosm. In particular, it is displayed that how the elements of the consolidated physical theories, arranged together using the "band structure", lead to a model for the distribution of speed in the universe that is essentially analogous to the distribution of energy in solids. The description is accompanied by references to the experimental data that sustain it, together with an overview of the possible development opportunities.


The present article intends to show how the bi-partite structure of Henry James's The Golden Bowl makes it possible for the author to recycle its discourse through a strategy of revisionism. With the emergence of new theories and critical perspectives in the humanities of the 1970s and after, it seems that this strategy of creative writing has been considerably theorized also. A hypothesis behind the insertion of theory and practice here is that revising the previous literatures has come to be strategic for modernizing experience and creating new knowledge. For example, mainly based on Foucault's contributions to literature, new historicism takes history and literature as interconnected, while it takes their interconnection as implying that the revisionism of the bygone periods' literatures is a way for revivifying the historical situations of their production. In a literary work, the author-text-reader connections on one side, and the relation between power and literature on other side are features on which a new historicist focuses for historicizing the work. The present study also attempts to provide James's reader with some theories and examples of revisionism in his novel for restructuring its discourse and making it applicable to the present time conditions.


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Sixty women currently or formerly married to alcoholics were interviewed in order to assess the stressfulness of their marriage, stressfulness of their childhoods, and their closeness to divorce. In support of sociological predictions, the more stressful the marriage the closer the wife was to divorce. Contrary to psychoanalytic predictions, personality disturbance, indexed by stressfulness of childhood, did not correlate with closeness to divorce. Factor analytically derived subscales of marital and childhood stressors showed a significant psychosocial interaction; wives shy as children were more likely than their more outgoing counterparts to endure their husbands' verbal abuse of them and their children. In addition, influence by others to separate, positive attitudes toward divorce, fear of violence, and little or no good period early in marriage all correlated positively with closeness to divorce. Possible alternative explanations for the present results and needed future research are discussed.


Summary Adenoviruses were shown to stimulate the reduction of NBT-dye by human neutrophils in vitro. This factor was associated with naturally occurring, but not attenuated vaccine strains of adenovirus, types 4 and 7. The stimulatory factor was inactivated by heat and trypsin and neutralized by homotypic and heterotypic hyperimmune rabbit antisera against wild virus, but not by antisera to vaccine viruses. Some of the characteristics of the stimulatory factor are similar to those previously described for adenoviral toxins associated with penton bases of the virion. The implications of these phenomena in the differentiation of vaccine from wild type viruses and in pathogenesis of adenovirus disease are discussed. The authors wish to express their appreciation for the excellent assistance rendered by the following individuals: Enzymatic procedures—Mr. Ralph Lytle, Chief, Biochemistry Division; tissue culture and virus isolation—Mr. James Schoen, Virology Division; manuscript preparation—Mrs. Lula M. Duggan, Editorial Assistant, Publications Division; and to the various blood donors for their generous support.


THE OPERATIVE TREATMENT OF CLEFT PALATE. By EDMUND OWEN, F.R.C.S., Surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital, and to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London. THE observations which I am about to make in connection with the operative treatment of cleft palate arrange themselves under three headings: (i) Before the operation; (2) the operation, and(3) after the operation. i. Before the Operation.-The operation not being one of immediate urgency the surgeon can choose his time for it, making such preparations as will, if efficiently carried out, add greatly to the prospects of securing a completely successful result. Thus, if the child is brought looking ill or poor; if it is found on inquiry to be liable to severe attacks of diarrhoea, or to cough or vomiting, the operation must be put off and attention be directed towards procuring the general and particular improvement of the child. If the tongue be foul and coated, a change of air and of diet should be ordered, and the child put upon a course of rhubarb and soda mixture, which, in my experience, has a most beneficial effect in the treatment of chronic dyspepsia in children. Particular attention should always be paid to the condition of the teeth. Every carious tooth should be extracted, or cleaned and filled, and to diminish to the utmost the risk of the line of suture in the palate becoming infected from pathogenic micro-organisms the mouth and gums should be for some days washed over with a saturated lotion of boracic acid with glycerine. No one would propose the performance of a plastic operation upon the hand, for instance, until the area of operation and its neighbourhood had been rendered aseptic,and although it is not practicable to effect as much in regard to the mouth, still the surgeon should do his utmost in that direction. I usually find that there is something for the dental surgeon to do before the mouth is in a condition to invite theperformance of a staphylorrhaphy. With regard to the important matter of the presence of pharyngeal adenoids and of enlarged tonsils, I have seen it advised that the operation upon the palate should precede that upon the tonsils and adenoids, but I do not regard such advice as sound. The child has hitherto been in the habit of breathing through a wide palatine cleft, and if this is suddenly closed by operation provision should surely have been made for securing a passage for the air as free as possible; and we know how seriously the airway may be blocked by tonsillar and adenoid disease. I think that the surgeon should amputate enlarged tonsils at least ten days before dealing with the palate, and if, on doing so, he cuts across a septic or tuberculous focus, as often happens, he had better wait a little longer still before dealing with the palate, and when adenoids are conspicuous through the cleft, it is surely better that they should be scraped away before operating on the palate. Just before the operation on the palate the nurse should give .a beef-tea enema with a little brandy.


The article explores the 1918 painting "Halifax Harbour at sunset," which was completed by the British artist Harold Gilman. Particular focus is given to how the artwork was commissioned by the Canadian government in an effort to document the harbor in Halifax, Nova Scotia, during wartime. Additional topics discussed include insights on Gilman's artistic process, how the artwork was inspired by his travels to Canada and details on the Canadian War Records organization.


Operating characteristics of a three-phase to single-phase matrix converter applied to a gas engine cogeneration system is investigated in this paper. Application of the matrix converter can enhance efficiency of a synchronous generator and converter because it improves total power factor of the generator and reduce losses in the converter. This matrix converter has no dc link but a small capacitor to compensate single-phase power pulsation, however the capacitor size is still required to be smaller. To reduce its size further, a novel power control scheme has been proposed. According to this control scheme, instantaneous three-phase power is modulated and power pulsation is partially absorbed by rotor inertia of the generator and gas engine. Primary results of experiment of small output power operation have been reported. In this paper, results of experiment of rated output power of 1 kW are described and efficiency measurement of the matrix converter is newly conducted.


Power system islanding operation support by wind power plants during an underfrequency, undervoltage event is studied. Influence of inertia control and active power control is analyzed in the presence and absence of voltage control by WPP. Effects of variation in wind speed on the frequency and voltage support is observed.


In the "Sala de Reliquias" of the Discalced Convent of Santa Teresa in Avila there is one cabinet dedicated specifically to Saint Teresa's autograph letters. Amongst the objects displayed are two amulets that her devotees would wear in contact with their body: one is an apotropaic amulet containing only Teresa's signature; the other, meant to be sewn into clothing, contains both her signature and fragments of her autograph letters. In the same way as her bodily relics, which were dispersed after her death, these objects evoke the presence of the saint. There are specific aspects of Teresa's doctrine as well as her written persona that make these letters such a powerful material embodiment of her and her thought. The lengthy descriptions of her body in pain and her unadorned epistolary style encourage her devotees to recognize the real Teresa as present in her writing. More than just an intellectual encounter, the act of reading Teresa means coming into contact with her physical body, a body that she has transmuted into language. The power of her handwritten letters becomes doubly significant as they invoke both Teresa's deferred presence and her incarnation into words. In this way, her letters function as the perfect synthesis of material and textual relic. During the process of canonization at the turn of the seventeenth century, the interest in Teresa's handwritten letters grew in parallel to her physical relics.1 We can see an example of their perceived value in the "exchange" that took place between Juliana de la Madre de Dios and María de San José, the prioresses of Seville and Consuegra respectively. Juliana had recently received Teresa's little finger, which Jerónimo Gracián, Teresa's closest collaborator, had personally removed and used to carry around his neck. But she also wanted to bring to Seville part of Gracián's collection of Teresa's letters, which at the time was kept in Consuegra. In a letter dated April 17, 1610 María de San José, unimpressed by all these demands, denied having any of Teresa's letters and reminded Juliana that she should already be thankful for possessing the finger: "Conténtese, norabuena, zorrica, con esto y con habernos defraudado del dedo de n.S. Madre . . . y que no nos enoje ahora más


We report the growth of vanadium dioxide (VO2) films on metal electrode with a thin SiO2 buffer and the fabrication of nanoscale metal-oxide-metal junction. The thermal-induced metal-insulator transition with a change of resistance of 2 orders of magnitude is observed and the threshold voltage is as low as 1.6V.


The purpose of the project is to attempt to create agents, who have differing strengths and weaknesses, that can take advantage of terrain features to improve their effectiveness in accomplishing a given goal. More specifically we intend to create a terrain in which two agents, one with a long range weapon and one with a short range weapon, can attempt to kill each other. The agent will gather information such as elevation and shadows from it's surrounding area and use this information to tailor it's behavior. It is therefore also necessary to have a method of generating such terrains and rendering them. Finally we will devise a method of testing the effectiveness of these agents against similar agents that do not take this information into account.


Observations with the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory/Max-Planck-Institut crossed-fan solar wind ion experiment on ISEE 1 reveal that the solar wind is decelerated and deflected away from the direction of the earth's bow shock as it enters that portion of the upstream region populated by 'diffuse' bow shock ions and long-period (10--60 s) waves. Typically, the average directed velocity vector changes by 7--10 km s/sup -1/ as it enters the wave region. At times, average speed changes as large as 25--40 km s/sup -1/ are observed. Superposed upon these changes in average flow speed are large amplitude (approx. +- 15 km s/sup -1/) fluctuations in flow speed associated with the waves themselves. The observations suggest that the solar wind deceleration is the result of momentum transfer from 'reflected' bow shock ions to the wind via the long-period waves as the reflected ion beams go unstable. The broad angular distributions of the diffuse ions thus appear to be produced as a consequence of the disruption of reflected ion beams.


The total momentum and transverse momentum spectra of electrons in e+ g annihilation at 29 GeV have been measured. The inclusive cross section is determined to be 14. 4+ 1. 6+ 5. 2 pb for momenta greater than 2 GeV/c. The average semielectronic branching ratios of charm and bottom quarks are measured to be (6. 3 +


We proposed an iterative holographic reconstruction method with data interpolation based on grating illumination with improved resolution. Using the U.S. air force target as the sample, simulation and experiments prove the feasibility of this method.


Employing Pd(OAc) 2 immobilized on amorphous N, N-diethylaminopropyl alumina, Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of aryl halide with arylboronic acid was realized in 50% aqueous ethanol at room temperature, which enabled repeated use up to four times in 96% average yield and achieved a turnover number of 15 000.


Lymphangiogenesis is recognized as an important event in inflammation/resolution. Lymphangiogenesis is known to be regulated by the VEGFR‐3/Flt‐4 receptor, which binds VEGF‐C and VEGF‐D. Changes in the expression of VEGFR‐3/Flt‐4 might have a considerable effect on ability of cells like lymphatic endothelial cell's (LECs) to respond to these growth factors. Currently, it is not known how inflammatory cytokines affect the expression of VEGFR‐3/Flt‐4. We investigated the effects of TNF‐α, IL‐1β, and IFN‐γ on VEGFR‐3/Flt‐4 expression in LECs in vitro. Our data suggest that IL‐1β downregulated VEGFR‐3/Flt‐4 expression, IFN‐γ upregulated VEGFR‐3/Flt‐4 expression, while TNF‐α had a minor effect. Compared to the controls without inflammatory cytokine stimulation, TNF‐α (20ng/ml) had no effect on VEGR‐3/Flt‐4 expression (89 ± 10 % of control, not sig.), however, IL‐1β (10ng/ml) appeared to downregulate VEGFR‐3/Flt‐4 expression (65 ± 12% of control, **p<0.01), while IFN‐γ (1000 U/ml) appeared to upregulate VEGFR‐3/Flt‐4 expression (157 ± 8.1 % of control, ***p<0.001). These data indicate that inflammatory cytokines produced by immune cells can regulate receptors involved in the control of lymphangiogenesis.


One of the measuring tools to determine the level of progress of a country is the level of consumption per capita of its population. The level of consumption is the main indicator of purchasing power that shows the level of welfare of the population of a country. Increased purchasing power and welfare can be created through various policies, one of which is reducing production costs. One component of production costs that can be eliminated is taxes, so it is necessary to initiate a state revenue budget without taxes. This study aims to calculate the potential of natural resources in Indonesia that can be explored and exploited as the main source of income in the State Revenue and Expenditure Budget. This research uses a literature study approach from reliable sources. Data and documents are processed to be evaluated economically and classified into three categories, namely energy sources or mining products, forest products, and marine products. The budgeting analysis is carried out with a study of muamalah fiqh which will produce a formulation or proposal for the state budget of revenue and expenditure in an Islamic perspective. The findings in this study indicate that the economic value of natural resources produced in Indonesia is capable of generating real wealth that is relevant to be used as the main source of income, in addition to sources of zakat, infaq, waqf, and grants which are also sources of state income in an Islamic perspective. Through this paper, it is hoped that it will create understanding and awareness among state leaders and managers to optimize natural resources in the policy of state revenue sources, so that taxes which are production costs can be minimized or even abolished. Thus the ideals of creating people's welfare can be realized immediately.


T HE objectives of this paper are: (1) to discuss briefly the justification for stemming or reversing the out-migration flow from rural areas through development of new cities: (2) to relate some basic concepts of growth pole theory to the development of a new city; (3) to establish the assumptions for development of a new city and select nine industries as its initial development base; and (4) to utilize an inputoutput model to analyze the impact of this new base on final demand, output, employment, population, and income. The study area was the 54-county area of southern Kansas in the Arkansas River Drainage Basin. With the likelihood that sometime in the future navigation will be extended into Kansas, a hypothetical city, Port Fabs, was selected as a new growth center. This city actually would be developed around or near one of three existing small towns-Winfield, Arkansas City, or Coffeyville. All three of these cities qualify as a growth pole or center as defined by Perroux, Fox, Berry, and others. Both federal and state inducements


WHAT DOES THE JOURNAL MEAN TO YOU? J.S.: The journal has been a part of my life since 1996. I was proud to have an article printed in Volume 1 Issue 2. Shortly after that I became a reviewer for the journal and in 2004 became the Co-Editor with John. Since then, I have been thinking, sorting, writing, and crafting it. The journal has influenced my career. It has stretched my awareness, broadened my horizons, and deepened my understanding of critical care nursing, of critical care nurses and the needs of patients and their families. The journal has been a constant presence and a space where I could exercise some influence. It has been a source of great pride and joy. Like the front cover, it has been a shining reminder of the diversity of critical care practice, but also of the significance of nursing to enhance the quality of care and chances of recovery for patients and their families. J.A.: Soon after the journal's inception in 1995, I became a reviewer. In 2000, I became an editor and was very honoured to have had the privilege to work with Kim Manley and succeed her, a task I did not underestimate. For me too, the journal has played a major role in my development as an author, reviewer, editor. Dealing with colleagues across the globe has also developed my understanding of the common language that exists among critical care nurses who strive daily, in individual contexts, to improve and advance the care they give which is respectful and compassionate. I have also learned from reviewing many manuscripts, that the issues and dilemmas we face in promoting patient safety, minimizing risk, and advancing quality nursing care are not unique to our individual settings or intensive care unit environments. In summary, the journal and working with Jools, has helped enrich and enhance my role and understanding of editorial functions. However, the content has been a source of inspiration, maintaining my on-going enthusiasm and passion of our discipline and how fellow nurses around the world continue their quest to do better for patients.


OBJECTIVE:To initially analyze the relationship between the clinical pathological factors and prognosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). METHODS:Seventy patients with NHL were reviewed and every patient's gender,age,ECOG performance status,pathological type,clinical staging,maximum diameter of tumor,number of tumor site excluding lymphoid nodule,with B symptom or not,LDH level,β2-MG level,response to chemotherapy,and time of tumor progression (TTP) were recorded.The relationship between the clinical pathological factors and prognosis was analyzed by SAS 8.2. RESULTS:Univariate analysis found that age (P=0.040),ECOG performance status (P=0.032),clinical staging (P=0.033),maximum diameter of tumor (P=0.028),number of tumor site excluding lymphoid nodule (P=0.000),LDH level (P=0.041),and response to chemotherapy (P=0.000)were prognostic factors that could influence TTP. Multivariate analysis confirmed ECOG performance status (P=0.046),clinical staging (P=0.035),maximum diameter of tumor (P=0.021),number of tumor site excluding lymphoid nodule (P=0.007),and response to chemotherapy (P=0.000) were independent prognostic factors related to TTP. CONCLUSION:Many clinical pathological factors,such as ECOG performance status,clinical staging,maximum diameter of tumor,number of tumor site excluding lymphoid nodule,and response to chemotherapy,influenced the prognosis of NHL.


Background: Post-cardiac arrest syndrome (PCAS) is characterized by systemic inflammation and endothelial dysfunction, which may exacerbate organ failure and may be related to adverse outcome. We sought to investigate the associations between trombomodulin (TM), a marker of endothelial cell injury, and severity of PCAS and the possible prognostic importance in comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest treated with targeted temperature management (TTM). Methods: We included 163 patients, randomly assigned to TTM at 33°C or 36°C for 24 h in the TTM-trial at a single center. Serum TM was analyzed at 0, 24, 48 and 72 hours after cardiac arrest and stratified in median value of TM for outcome analysis at each time point to a high or low TM group. Severity of PCAS was assessed daily by the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score. Survival status was recorded at 180 days. Results: Corresponding values of TM and severity of PCAS correlated at each time point, baseline (r=0.31, p=0.0001), 24 h (r=0.52...


DNA in eukaryotes is packed into hierarchical layers of loops resulting in the 3D structure of the genome. 3D genome organization plays vital roles in many biological processes of the cell such as gene regulation, cell division and stem cell differentiation and its disruption can lead to gene dysregulation and diseases, including cancer. We developed a deep learning model to predict the impact of single nucleotide variants, indels and structural variants on 3D chromatin loop structures of the genome. We first built a deep convolutional neural network to learn DNA sequence patterns of boundaries of 3D chromatin loops. The learned patterns of boundaries are then used to train another neural network to learn if two boundaries are likely boundaries of a chromatin loop given their DNA sequences. The model produces a probability indicating the likelihood of the two boundaries to form a chromatin loop (loop probability). It is trained with DNA sequence only, and therefore, it can detect effects of DNA variants on 3D chromatin loops as changes in loop probabilities. We trained our model with 80% of 3D chromatin loop from the cell line GM12878. Our model to predict boundaries of loops can distinguish DNA sequences of boundaries from random sequences with AUC of 0.96 on a balanced test-set from the cell line GM12878 and also performs well on data from the K562 cells with AUC of 0.93. Our result shows that variants in lymphoblastoid cells GM12878 do not change loop probabilities as much as variants in leukemia cells K562 do, consistent with the greater disruptive role of tumorigenic variants in the cancer cells. We next applied our model on whole-genome sequences of 240 malignant lymphoma patients to identify loop-disrupting variants that may act as drivers of cancer. We find that genes in predicted altered loops show more differential expression in tumor samples compared to genes in unchanged loops. Our method can be applied on large cohorts of patients with whole-genome sequences to analyze the chromatin conformation changes caused by somatic variants. Citation Format: Tuan Trieu, Ekta Khurana. Predicting the impact of somatic mutations on chromatin conformation using deep learning [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2019; 2019 Mar 29-Apr 3; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 2443.


Purpose: To identify the association if any, of inflammatory markers (IL-6 and hsCRP) with adiponectin in obese diabetic, non-obese diabetic, obese non-diabetic and healthy (control) people in North Indian population.
Materials and Methods: Total 88 volunteers were distributed in 4 groups: obese diabetic, non-obese diabetic, obese non-diabetic and healthy controls. The blood chemistry parameters were analyzed and serum adiponectin, IL-6 and hsCRP levels were measured by ELISA.
Result: Significant reduction was observed in serum adiponectin levels in obese and diabetic group as compared with healthy population. Similarly, significant increase was observed in IL-6 and hs CRP levels in obese and diabetic groups compared with healthy control group.
Conclusion: From our data it can be summarized that there is a significant change in both adiponectin (reduction) and IL-6 and hsCRP (increase) levels in obese diabetic, non-obese diabetic and obese non-diabetic people in Indian population. The result of our study showed that adiponectin levels are reduced in obesity and type-2 diabetes, and there is a reciprocal association of hsCRP and IL-6 in the above conditions.


A geometric metalens is presented that can achieve a three‐dimensional focusing curve embedded with on‐trajectory tailored phase distribution. The proposed design strategy is highlighted by flexible modulations on both the focusing trajectory and the on‐trajectory gradient phase and by the independent designability between them. The coexisting intensity gradient force and phase gradient force are numerically investigated, which can jointly provide the versatile abilities to push particles along the curve in the direction of phase increasing. This design strategy offers more controllability degrees of freedom on a complex optical field and is promising to miniaturize the contactless system of multifunctional optical manipulation on tiny particles.


When eating poisoned baits based on 0.1–1.0 % pyriproxyfen, within 6 weeks killed up to 50 % of German cockroaches of the S-NIID strain, and 12 % of cockroaches of the OBN strain. The resulting oothecae turned out to be defective and the second generation of cockroaches did not hatch. Morphological changes consisted were in the deformation of the wings (rudimentary, curved, twisted) and in the inability of the larvae to transform into adults. In experiments with an alternative food, similar results were obtained, females formed more oothecae, but the emergence of new generation larvae was not recorded. The consumption of pyriproxyfen-based baits by Pharaoh ant led to the elimination of colonies. A significant decrease in brood number was recorded at 3–6 weeks, and complete death of brood was observed at 6–8 weeks in all treated colonies. The absence of brood can be explained by both mortality as a result of developmental disorders and the cessation of egg laying by queens. Keywords: insect growth regulators, German cockroach, Pharaoh ant, pyriproxifen, hydroprene.


INTRODUCTION Professionalism for those in health care can be understood as the code of conduct for promoting the best interest of our patients. This ethos can be strained by the daily realities of long work hours, emerging technologies, documentation burden, and malpractice risk. There has also been a shift toward more patientcentered decision-making and the need for greater transparency amidst high-stress situations such as serious adverse events (AE). Although endoscopy is a safe and low-risk procedure, all procedures have risks of AE (1,2). While endoscopists are trained in the medical and technical aspects surrounding endoscopy, the standards of professionalism after an AE are less well established. Our goal is to discuss professional aspects of managing AE, including suggested consenting practice, communication with the patient and family, coping mechanisms for physicians, legal considerations, and involvement of the endoscopic team.


Recognising and exchanging coins is the focus for this article by Elizabeth Sharkey, deputy head of Charles Dickens Primary School, London, and consultant editor to Five to Eleven.


Adaptive relaying concepts as applicable to generator protection are presented in this paper. Adaptive relaying deploys changes in relaying settings and/or change in relay characteristics or even a change in relaying modus operandi as and when the system configuration or oprating conditions change. This type of adaptive relaying improves system response and performance. Adaptive relaying principles presented tacitly assumes that the system id equipped with digital relays that work via minicomputer based facility.


The gamma heat generations in selected positions of the ETR were measured with aluminum calorimeters and graphite- CO/sub 2/, ion chambers. Midplane gamma heat generation maps are presented for two fuel loadings along with vertical traverses for selected positions. Descriptions of the measuring instruments are also included. (auth)


Simple Summary Novel therapies have become available in the routine care of metastatic melanoma in recent years. We conducted a retrospective cohort study based on SHI data from Germany (2010–2020) to investigate overall mortality between patients that received different substance classes. We included 463 patients with distant metastases in the main analysis. Classical chemotherapeutics (CTx) as well as targeted therapeutics (TT) and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) showed protective effects after treatment initiation, which decreased over time. Predicted survival of an average patient over five years since first metastasis was best by sequential treatment with ICI and TT. The worst survival was seen in patients treated with TT alone. However, it is conceivable that the observed high survival differences were overestimated due to bias, such as confounding by indication. It is likely that patients treated exclusively with TT were in an extremely serious condition and died before they could have received an ICI. Abstract (1) Background: Targeted (TT) and immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapies have become available in the routine care of metastatic melanoma in recent years. (2) Objective: We compared mortality in patients with metastatic melanoma and different systemic therapies. (3) Methods: A retrospective cohort study, based on pseudonymized health insurance data of about two million individuals from Saxony, Germany, was conducted for the years 2010 to 2020. Only patients with an advanced stage, i.e., distant metastases were considered for the main analysis. Relative survival since metastasis and predicted survivor curves derived from a Cox model were used to assess potential differences in mortality. (4) Results: Relative survival was highest in the subgroup with sequential use of ICI and TT. All treatments except interferon had significant hazard ratios (HR) in the Cox model with time-dependent effects indicating a protective effect after treatment initiation (HR 0.01–0.146) but decreasing over time (HR 1.351–2.310). The predicted survivor curves revealed best survival under ICI-TT treatment and worst survival under TT treatment alone. (5) Conclusions: We found real-world evidence for survival benefits of patients with metastatic melanoma who received sequential ICI and TT treatment. It is conceivable that the observed high survival differences were overestimated due to bias, such as confounding by indication.


If C is a Jordan curve on the plane and P, Q ∈ C, then the segment PQ is called a chord of the curve C. A point inside the curve is called equichordal if every two chords through this point have the same length. Fujiwara in 1916 and independently Blaschke, Rothe and Weitzenböck in 1917 asked whether there exists a curve with two distinct equichordal points O1 and O2. This problem has been fully solved in the negative by the author of this announcement just recently. The proof (published elsewhere) reduces the question to that of existence of heteroclinic connections for multi-valued, algebraic mappings. In the current paper we outline the methods used in the course of the proof, discuss their further applications and formulate new problems.


Background:  Controlled hypotension (CH) is used to limit intraoperative blood loss and decrease the need for homologous transfusions. Despite the efficacy of the technique, hypotension has the potential to affect cerebral perfusion and oxygen delivery. There are no data providing a direct measurement of cerebral oxygenation during this technique.


This article analyzes the relationship between language and thought, speech and the expression of proposition in it. Thoughts on the role of the relational predicate in the expression of the proposition are stated.


Simpli…ed models for the turbulent diusion are studied in order to test a new statistical approach, the decorrelation trajectory method. The results are in good agreement with the analytical solutions obtained by other methods.


Antisheep antileukocyte serum (ALS) was produced in rabbits, purified, and adsorbed against erythrocytes and platelets. The ALS was infused intra‐arterially over a 3‐hour period into anesthetized sheep (n = 6) prepared with lung lymph fistulas. Pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) and pulmonary lymph flow (Qlym) increased two‐ to threefold while the lymph‐to‐plasma protein concentration ratio (L/P) did not change from baseline, suggesting an increase in pulmonary vascular permeability to proteins. The arterial leukocyte count decreased from 4,935 ± 840 to 1,385 ± 325 cells/μl, the neutrophil count decreased from 1,045 ± 265 to 340 ± 130 cells/μl, and the platelet count decreased from 2.8 × 105 ± 0.2 × 105 to 0.65 × 105 ± 0.12 × 105 cells/μl. ALS induced neutrophil aggregation in vitro, but not platelet aggregation. In the present study, we also examined the effects of ALS‐induced leukopenia on the increase in pulmonary vascular permeability after intravenous α‐thrombin challenge to assess the role of leukocytes in mediating the increased permeability response. Sheep (n = 5) were made leukopenic by an intramuscular injection of ALS; Qlym was in the normal range 4 to 5 hours after the ALS administration. In the leukopenic group, thrombin challenge caused an increase in Qlym from 7.8 ± 0.7 to 12.9 ± 1.9 ml/hr (a 64% increase) while L/P decreased from 0.86 ± 0.04 to 0.70 ± 0.05 (a 19% decrease). In contrast, thrombin‐induced intravascular coagulation in control sheep (n = 5) produced a 250% increase in Qlym with an increase in L/P. The results indicate that leukocytes are required for the increase in lung vascular permeability after thrombin‐induced intravascular coagulation.


A spate of complaints about the smoking-cessation drug varenicline (Champix) prompted bans on its use by pilots and commercial drivers in the United States last year, but reports of adverse reactions have not resulted in such dramatic consequences for Canadian users.

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Paros Bio is developing an AAV gene therapy for the treatment of Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer's Disease (ADAD), an early onset form of AD (onset at <65 years of age). ADAD is mainly caused by mutations in the presenilin 1 (PSEN1) gene, which encodes the catalytic subunit of γ‐secretase complex and is responsible for the cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP). This cleavage produces Aβ of varying lengths, with longer peptides like Aβ42 being more prone to aggregation than shorter peptides such as Aβ40. Of the >150 distinct, 100% penetrant PSEN1 mutations associated with ADAD, most lead to a partial or nearly complete loss of g‐secretase function, resulting in decreased production of Aβ40 and an increase in the ratio of Aβ42:Aβ40. Aggregation of Aβ peptides into amyloid plaques in the brain is a hallmark of ADAD.


Low infrastructural development coupled with high population growth has made the lives of many poor people very difficult. The population growth to the southern plain area is remarkably higher, due primarily to the internal migration from the high land. The study relates the consumption patterns with income and employment of the people of the targeted area (study area) at different topographical situation. The country Nepal has been purposively selected for conducting the study due to incumbent's nativeness to the country. Similarly Arghakhanchi district under the Zone of Lumbini has been also purposively selected. In the third phase, Argha, Village Development Committee (VDC), has been selected purposively to conduct the study. Wide range of variation on educational expenditure has been observed in different income groups of farm households. Thus, it could be said that benefits of knowledge and education goes to higher income group of rural households. It could be said that benefits of knowledge and education goes to higher income group of rural households. Similar, trends have been observed in case of medical expenses. Other expenditure also shows direct relationship with level of income. The income elasticity of demand for food overall is 0.40 which means that the 0.41 percent change in demand for food, if 1 percent change in the income.


In recent years, new developments in reconnection theory have challenged classical nonlinear reconnection models. One of these developments is the so-called plasmoid instability of thin current sheets that grows at super-Alfvenic growth rates. Within the resistive MHD model, this instability alters qualitatively the predictions of the Sweet-Parker model, leading to a new nonlinear regime of fast reconnection in which the reconnection rate itself becomes independent of S. This regime has also been seen in Hall MHD as well as fully kinetic simulations, and thus appears to be a universal feature of thin current sheet dynamics, including applications to reconnection forced by the solar wind in the heliosphere and spontaneously unstable sawtooth oscillations in tokamaks. Plasmoids, which can grow by coalescence to large sizes, provide a powerful mechanism for coupling between global and kinetic scales as well as an efficient accelerator of particles to high energies. In two dimensions, the plasmoids are characterized by power-law distribution functions followed by exponential tails. In three dimensions, the instability produces self-generated and strongly anisotropic turbulence in which the reconnection rate for the mean-fields remain approximately at the two-dimensional value, but the energy spectra deviate significantly from anisotropic strong MHD turbulence phenomenology. A new phase diagram of fast reconnection has been proposed, guiding the design of future experiments in magnetically confined and high-energy-density plasmas, and have important implications for explorations of the reconnection layer in the recently launched Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission.


The likelihood of periprosthetic infection in high-risk patients (obesity and diabetes mellitus) after revisional
arthroplasty is extremely high. The authors conducted a pilot prospective comparative study of clinical and
economical efficacy of interactive absorbing dressings based on carboxymethyl cellulose impregnated with silver ions and single-use vacuum assisted dressings in prevention of surface surgical site infections in high-risk patients.


Application of superphosphate in a dosage of 25 lbs. of phosphoric acid
(P2O5), per acre, either alone or with green manure (Cajanus indicus) produced
grain of low average protein content, viz., 9.3%, but higher ash content.
Supplementation of the superphosphatic treatments with ammonium
sulphate at the rate of 60 lbs. nitrogen per acre increased considerably the
protein content of the grain which averaged 10.5%. Animal experiments
showed that there was no noticeable effect of the variations in the protein
content of samples as a result of fertilization on the biological value of the
protein determined by the "balance sheet method". However, the amount of
available or "net protein" was comparatively more in the grain characterized
by higher protein content as a result of fertilization. The results of thiamine
and nicptinic acid assays did not reveal any striking differential effect of
fertilization on these constituents.


The goal of this ongoing work is to optimize experimental variables for a guided wave scanning method to obtain the most revealing and accurate images of defect conditions in composite materials. This study focuses on signal processing effects involved in forming guided wave scan images. Signal processing is involved at two basic levels for deriving ultrasonic guided wave scan images. At the primary level, NASA GRC has developed algorithms to extract over 30 parameters from the multimode signal and its power spectral density. At the secondary level, there are many variables for which values must be chosen that affect actual computation of these parameters. In this study, a ceramic matrix composite sample having a delamination is characterized using the ultrasonic guided wave scan method. Energy balance and decay rate parameters of the guided wave at each scan location are calculated to form images. These images are compared with ultrasonic c‐scan and thermography images. The effect of the time portion of ...


Introduction- Jaundice in pregnancy is an important medical disorder, more commonly seen in developing countries than developed ones. It has multi-factorial etiology. All liver diseases occurring during pregnancy can lead to increased maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. Objective- To study the maternal and fetal outcome in pregnant patients with jaundice Method- It was a hospital based clinical study. It was a cross sectional study. 170 cases were studied. Patients were followed till delivery to study the maternal, fetal and neonatal outcome. Result- Incidence of jaundice was 0.68% per year. Both maternal and fetal complications are very high with jaundice in pregnancy. Conclusion- Jaundice in pregnancy is a grave combination. It affects both fetal and maternal outcome. The most common cause of jaundice was viral hepatitis. Viral hepatitis due to HEV has grave prognosis. There is a high risk of preterm delivery, fetal distress and IUFD. Early diagnosis and timely management of pregnancy at tertiary care center helps in reducing maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality.