Two wheelers are widely used than any other mode of transportation because of cost efficiency and simplicity.. The major concern of all riders is safety. The safety of delivery boys who works for online business travels across areas using two wheelers, where safety of bike rider counts. Hence to track the activities of such rider and to provide safe riding this project has been proposed. This project aims for avoidance of accidents and develop helmet detection system. The proposed system is an intelligent/safety helmet. A module affixed in the helmet, such that, the module will sync with the module affixed on bike and will also ensure that biker has worn Helmet. Additional feature of accident avoidance detection module will be installed on the bike.


Combined with practical construction works of grave pile in Qinhuangdao-Shenyang special railway line for passenger transportation as well as related construction codes,documents,general engineering situations and engineering practice the construction technology of gravel pile is introduced in detail,at the same time quality accidents frequently encountered in construction are presented as well as countermeasures,in order to ensure construction quality.


While local governments in Germany still have great difficulties in introducing digital services, those responsible are asking themselves which methods can lead to an acceleration. Studies show that digitisation in local entities is progressing only slowly, but must inevitably be driven forward in consideration of legal requirements and the expectations of citizens and companies. One way to accelerate digitisation in German local governments is seen in using process management methods. Applying process management methods can serve to identify, design, document, implement and ultimately control and improve processes in a structured and goal-oriented manner, but can it really be considered an accelerator for digitisation?


The feathers in the train of the peacock serve not for flying but for sexual display. They are long, slender beams loaded in bending by their own weight. An outer circular conical shell, the cortex, is filled by a closed foam of 7.6% relative density, the medulla, both of feather keratin. Outer diameter and thickness of the cortex decrease linearly from the body toward the tip. This self-similar geometry leads to a division of labor. The cortex (longitudinal Young's modulus 3.3 GPa, transverse modulus 1 GPa) provides 96% of the longitudinal strength and bending rigidity of the feather. The medulla (Young's modulus 10 MPa) provides 96% of the transverse compressive rigidity. Fracture stress of the cortex, both longitudinal and transverse, is 120 MPa.


In order to perform engineering design activities aiming at the design of new or redesign of existing products, a number of alternative processes, methods and techniques are available in the litera ...


Annona muricata is grown due to the nutritional and organoleptic quality of the fruit. The recalcitrance of the vegetative buds of this species has hindered the micropropagation of selected material according to its high productivity. This research aimed to evaluate culture medium combined with the technique of serial micrografting to promote in vitro plant growth of Annona muricata. In specific culture media for each plant material, seeds and cuttings were planted for the formation of micrografts. Three micrografting treatments were applied (M1, M2, M3) and a control, where the number indicates the times when a shoot is micrografted onto a rootstock. M1 is a monophasic micrografting or cuttings micrografted in one rootstock. M2 are micrografted cuttings for two times, that is, these remain on two different rootstocks with a lapse of one month between each transfer. M3 are micrografted cuttings three times, that is, these remain in three different rootstocks with a lapse of one month between each transfer. The shoots were separated from the rootstock and planted in culture medium to assess their reinvigoration, ANOVA and Freedman tests were performed for parametric and nonparametric data respectively. The results indicated that the monophasic micrografting is sufficient to stimulate the in vitro development of adult material of Annona muricata; however, none of the treatments was able to develop a root system in the shoots.


Entrepreneurs play a pivotal role in contributing to economic development in many countries. As such, it is within this construct that research within the discourse of entrepreneurship should advocate for the need to explore on Human Resource Management (HRM) initiatives that positively influence entrepreneurship. Therefore, this paper adopts a conceptual analysis of the HRM practices adopted by entrepreneurs' in South Africa. The findings highlight four distinctcategories of entrepreneurship in HRM. The first category reveals the extent to whichHRM practices adopted by entrepreneurs in South Africa are changing. In the second category, the HRM functions are clearly delineated with areas such as training and development, recruitment and selection elaborated. In the third category, the role of government in fostering good HRM practices is highlighted. In the fourth category a diverse and multi-faceted area of HRM practice in entrepreneurship is highlighted. In conclusion and also taking into cognisance the four distinct categories an HRM centric model for entrepreneurship is presented which underscores the need for flexibility and pragmatism in the adoption of HRM policies and procedures.The results of this study will inform policy in terms of strategies, guidelines and tools for effective HRM practices by entreprenuers.


The invention relates to a method for treating the surfaces of solid particles to improve the processability of the solid particles in the electrostatic field and to reduce the dust formation which occurs during the processing of the solid particles.


We address the problem of how to represent or approximate speech lattices to be indexed with existing text indexers. We present a method named time-anchored lattice expansion (TALE), which can be implemented by a standard text indexer (STI). On a 170- hour lecture set, we compare TALE with other lattice indexing methods: confusion networks, position-specific posterior lattices (PSPL), and time-based merging for index (TMI). All methods achieve accuracies comparable to searching raw lattices when the corresponding index structures and phrase matching algorithms are used. However, when implemented with an STI, TALE significantly outperforms all other methods. Compared to indexing linear text, TALE improves accuracy by 30-60% for multi-word phrase searches and by 130% for two-term AND queries.


The present report describes the effects of cold storage (1_??_7 days) on the mechanical response of isolated guinea-pig gallbladder to transmural and chemical stimulation. Results obtained are as follows: in the cumulative dose-response analysis, the maximal contractile response to exogenous ACh was gradually reduced during the 1 to 7-day cold storage, however it was not abolished. The pD2 and pA2 (of atropine) values were not significantly different between on fresh and cold-stored preparations. The monophasic contraction induced by transmural stimulation was reduced more rapidly during the 1 to 4-day storage and abolished during the 4 to 7-day cold storage. Tetrodotoxin (TTX) or atropine prevented the contractile response to transmural stimulation. On the other hand, atropine, but not TTX, blocked the exogenous ACh-induced contraction. The maximal contractions induced by KCl and by BaCl2 were gradually reduced during the 1 to 7-day cold storage, while pD2 and pD2' (of papaverine) values on cold-stored preparations were not remarkably different from those on fresh preparations. Cold storage reduced the maximal contractile response to phenylephrine, but did not affect the maximal relaxation induced by isoprenaline. The pD2 and pA2 (of antagonist) values were not, however, significantly different between fresh and cold-stored preparations. In the K+-free medium, ouabain (10-5M), but not propranolol (3.5×10-5M) abolished the biphasic response of cold-stored preparations induced by treatment with 5.4mM KCl or by replacement of normal Ringer's solution. These results suggest that the ACh release mechanism of postganglionic cholinergic fibers was blocked after a 4-day storage at 2°C and that the specific receptor level as well as the contractile actomyosin system were unaffected by cold storage up to 7 days. The maximal contractile response was, however, gradually reduced during a one-week period of cold storage. Thus, it appears that the cold storage procedure produces a partial depolarization of cell membrane.


Senile coronary heart disease is a a common disease of the elderly,which root is due to weak organs complicated with blood stasis,phlegm and other pathological products.Professor GAO Pu uses the therapeutic principle of tonifying qi,diffusing paralysis,activting blood,resolving stasis in clinic,treating with both eliminating and reinforcing method focusing tonifying while taking diffusing paralysis,activiting blood,resolving phlegm,regulateing qi,warming the meridian,obtained a satisfactory therapeutic effect.


We report a mild, palladium-free synthetic protocol for the cross-coupling reaction of aryl chlorides and thiols under the assistance of Zn complexes of proline and CuI, with K2CO3 as the base, performed at 110 °C in ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([Bmim]BF 4). This protocol is particularly noteworthy given its experimental simplicity, high generality, and the exceptional level of functional group tolerations and low cost of the catalyst system.


Withdrawal syndrome (WS) may be a critical drawback of opioid/benzodiazepine weaning in children. The most effective intervention to reduce WS prevalence is yet to be determined. Dexmedetomidine (DEX) was estimated to be effective in reducing WS‐related symptoms, but no randomized trial has been conducted to prove its efficacy so far.


The Netherlands has long been considered a leader of progressive drug policy, but it is increasingly being left behind by policy innovations outside Europe. Nonetheless Dutch cities are leading the way towards more progressive and locally adapted cannabis policies. Produced as part of a the "New Approaches in Harm Reduction Policies and Practices" project, this Country Report seeks to understand the drivers of Dutch cannabis policy today, and the possibilities for its future. The project is a joint project of the Transnational Institute (TNI), based in the Netherlands ICEERS (Spain), Forum Droghe (Italy) and Diogenis (Greece).


Submission: 03/12/2021 Approved: 06/07/2021 ABSTRACT Objective: to determine the stress level of young people living with HIV undergoing treatment. Method: a descriptive and exploratory study with a quantitative approach, conducted with young people living with HIV undergoing treatment in the Specialized Care Service of a reference hospital for infectious-contagious diseases. Data collection occurred from forms composed of sociodemographic questions and the following stress assessment instrument: the Stress Symptoms Inventory. Results: it was identified that most of the young people living with HIV suffer from stress, of the psychological type in the resistance phase. Discussion: the fact of living with the serology and the antiretroviral therapy can be a predictor for the manifestation of stress. Conclusion: it is recommended to implement actions that go beyond the physical harms in order to prevent mental illness in the course of HIV treatment. DESCRIPTORS: HIV; Young people; Therapy; Psychological stress; Antiretrovirals.


The idea of an exhaustive study of just one case which characterized Luria's idiographic science also underlies another approach which stimulated Vygotsky's methodological reflections. Vygotsky praised Pavlov for his study of just one reflex. This chapter focuses on what precisely Vygotsky meant by 'unit' and a more detailed explanation of his idea of 'unit of analysis ' presently, but to be clear about what Vygotsky is claiming here, it need to clarify the distinction between 'microcosm' and 'unit of analysis' . Vygotsky approached the problem of the concept of a science through the contrast between analysis by elements and analysis by units. The claim that verbal thought is a unique mode of behavior alongside other types of speech and other forms of intelligence, was established experimentally.Keywords: microcosm; unit of analysis; Vygotsky


Summary This research examines the relationship between a traditional Zulu and a modern international psychiatric diagnostic system. Traditional Zulu concepts of illness are based on a natural/supernatural division as found in theories of illness in underdeveloped societies throughout the world. In a retrospective study at King Edward VIII Hospital, Durban, South Africa, the first 100 files (29%) of Black psychiatric patients in 1980, who construed the etiology of their problems in supernatural terms are analyzed. All patients are Zulu-speaking and psychiatrically diagnosed in accordance with the WHO ICD9 diagnostic schema. Indigenous supernatural concepts of illness are categorized as magical (57%), animistic (40%), and mystical (3%). Comparisons across the two diagnostic systems are made. Compatibility between the two systems is found and some treatment implications of a clinical and social nature are advanced.


The University of Washington participated in English Slot Filling for TAC-KBP 2014 with a system that combines its 2013 OPENIE-KBP system (Soderland et al., 2013) with the MULTIR extractor (Hoffmann et al., 2011), which uses distant supervision from Freebase. Since OPENIE-KBP is identical to our KBP 2013 system, this lets us quantify how this year's queries are more difficult than last year's. OPENIE-KBP gives high precision at moderate recall – we analyze the limitations of recall to an extractor based on Open IE. Our MULTIR-KBP extractor added to the recall in a combined system, but lowered the precision. We analyze the reasons for low precision with distant supervision.


The subject of the present paper is the theoretical description of collective electronic excitations, i.e., spin waves, in the Hubbard model. Starting with the widely used random-phase approximation, which combines Hartree-Fock theory with the summation of the two-particle ladder, we extend the theory to a more sophisticated single particle approximation, namely, the spectral-density ansatz. Doing so we have to introduce a "screened" Coulomb interaction rather than the bare Hubbard interaction in order to obtain physically reasonable spinwave dispersions. The discussion following the technical procedure shows that comparison of standard RPA with our new approximation reduces the occurrence of a ferromagnetic phase further with respect to the phase diagrams delivered by the single particle theories.


In this work, we challenge supposedly neutral imaginaries of what walking methodologies consist of, unveiling social and political dimensions and addressing the production of embodied spaces involved in the act of walking. We adopt the concept of intersectionality to construct an analysis that considers the effects of the colonial, racist, and sexist historical scheme on the production of knowledge. We understand that the current globalization project produces a global subject that is not racialized, and therefore White. And it is marked by gender norms, and therefore, masculine and heterosexual. These characteristics give the person the privilege of moving "naturally," without the need to justify physical, social, and political corporealities. In the walking research carried out by subjects who deviate from such global parameters, we identified the interruption of walking as an epistemological event that displaces them from the space they are producing. We also analyzed the idea of risk produced to the researchers when they are identified as someone who "does not belong" to that space. We argue that the interaction among gender, race, and place imposes a local condition to the knowledge produced by Afro-Latin American walking researchers. Finally, we defend the walking methodologies as a political statute in the occupation of simultaneously physical and epistemological spaces because the subject's position and the power relations that are addressed in the act of walking require consideration.


The sprag overrunning clutch is an important functional unit of electro-mechanical transmission system. The defects of the overrunning clutch in traditional cage structure, such as sprag easily to roll over, large wear and poor manufacturing process, etc happened under the condition of high rotate speed. On basis of analyzing the traditional structure of cage, the main parts structure, working principle and characteristics of new-type high-speed cage structure sprag overrunning clutch have been described, and the work performance of the new overrunning clutch has been tested.


Bullying and victimization pose a serious risk for youth optimal development due to numerous negative short- and long-term consequences. One of the models with a focus on adolescents that can serve as a theoretical framework in designing prevention and intervention programmes targeting bullying and victimization is Positive Youth Development Perspective. The Positive Youth Development perspective assumes that with the positive interplay between developmental assets (internal and external youth resources) and the 5Cs (competence, confidence, character, caring, connection) the probability of bullying and victimization lowers. In the present study, we have investigated the predictive power of developmental assets and the 5Cs for bullying (verbal and social bullying) and victimization (verbal and social victimization) on a sample of older adolescents and emerging adults ( N = 434, 80.9% girls, M age = 21.65). We used The Developmental Assets Profile (Benson, 2003), PYD questionnaire (Geldhof et al., 2014) and Adolescent Peer Relations Instrument: Bully/Target (APRI-BT, Marsh et al., 2011). The findings show that gender, age, and Caring are significant predictors of verbal bullying while age, Empowerment, and Caring are significant predictors of social bullying. Furthermore, gender, age, Constructive use of time, Confidence and Connection are significant predictors of verbal victimization and age, Empowerment, Constructive use of time, Confidence, and Connection are significant predictors of social victimization. The implications for practice and future research are discussed.


In various applications, such as high-power RF Free-Electron Lasers, both intense and very brilliant short relativistic electron beam pulses are required. For that, the RF phodnjector presently seems the best source. Electrons of an intense short pulse produced by laser irradiation are submitted, just after their photoemission, to a very strong RF field. The acceleration is so strong that relativistic acceleration and retardation effects have to be taken into account [ll. In this paper, the self-field-limiting current density will be theoretically discussed, as a function of beam parameters and RF field intcnsity. It will be compared to the relativistic Child-Langmuir current density, i.e. the corresponding steady state spacecharge limit.


Predication of landslide is very important in control of landslide disaster. Considering the monotonously increasing character of time series of the landslide displacement, a new intelligent method combining Grey System and Evolutionary Neural Network (ENN) is proposed here. In this method, based on the principles of displacement decomposition, the trend of time series is extracted by Grey System and the deviation is approximated by the new ENN proposed here. In this new ENN, the architecture and algorithm parameters can evolve simultaneously through combining modified BP algorithm and Immunized Evolutionary Programming proposed by author. This new method is applied in the Xintan landslide, and the results show that the generalization of the new method is good and it can predict the landslide very well.


The electroluminescence (EL) of a series of InAs/(Ga,In)(N,As) self-assembled quantum dot light emitting diodes (QDLEDs) with different capping layer composition is analysed. Room temperature EL close to 1.5 μm is demonstrated using 15% In and 2% N in the capping layer. The origin of the different peaks present in the EL spectra of N-containing devices has been studied and the higher energy peaks have been attributed to emission from the quantum well constituted by the wetting and the capping layers. The effect of rapid thermal annealing (RTA) on the EL is analysed. It is found that the EL emission energy blue-shifts after RTA. This blue-shift is smaller for the N-containing devices (∼40 meV) than for a InAs/In0.15Ga0.85As reference QDLED (∼85 meV). In addition, the QDLEDs power slope efficiency is also studied at 14 K. It is readily seen that this efficiency decreases by three orders of magnitude with the addition of 2% N to the InGaAs capping layer. Nevertheless, after RTA, this efficiency recovers partially, increasing by two orders of magnitude and reaching values close to those of the N-free reference QDLEDs. This enhancement can be explained by the reduction of the non-radiative recombination centre density in the capping layer after RTA, which leads to a higher carrier injection efficiency into the QDs. (© 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


In this paper, we investigate the suppression of reverse drain induced barrier lowering (RDIBL) in negative capacitance field effect transistors (NCFETs) with a multi-domain ferroelectric layer (FE) on a fully depleted silicon-on-insulator. We identify the challenges derived from the polarization variation along the channel. Through computer-aided design simulations, the transfer characteristics of the NCFET are analyzed at various drain voltages (V DS). It is found that the threshold voltage is positive-shifted by the increased V DS (RDIBL) and the RDIBL degrades the subthreshold swing (SS) and on-current. Based on the energy band analysis at various V DSs, it is revealed that the local drain-side energy band rising by the V DS–induced polarization variation along the channel causes the RDIBL. To suppress the RDIBL, an NCFET with an oxide trapping layer between the FE and the SiO2 inter-layer is proposed. In the proposed NCFET, electrons are injected into the drain-side trapping layer by hot carrier injection and the trapped electrons compensate the V DS effects on the FE at the drain side. As a result, uniform polarization is obtained along the channel and the SS/on-current degradation caused by the RDIBL is improved.


Since the serendipitous discovery of ferrocene by Pauson and Kealy in 1951, it has become one of the most important structures in Organic Chemistry. Lately, kinetic resolution has emerged as a useful tool for the synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes. This review aims to cover and discuss the development of this topic.


During the totalitarian era (1944–1991), urban space was used as an "arena" in which to demonstrate the absolute power of the communist regime. Some important structures were built; others were destroyed; new names were given to streets or even cities, to create a new identity for the urban areas. Urban locations (the Pyramid of Enver Hoxha, the Dajti hotel, the building of the Central Committee, etc.), became symbols of fear and admiration, because of their strong association with the supreme political power. Contemporary novels such as Ferri i çarë (The Hell is Broken), Në kohën e britmës (In the Time of the Scream) by Visar Zhiti, The Successor, The Daughter of Agamemnon by Ismail Kadare, Loja, shembja e qiellit (The Game, the Fall of the Sky), etc., make urban places the epicenter of a dramatic relationship between man and the totalitarian power. The main goal of this paper is to analyze the correlation between transformations that happened in urban spaces during the communist era (1945–1990) and the implementation of the ideological project of the "New Man". A thorough text analysis of Albanian novels is used to interpret the re-designation of the cities, as part of a political program, by which urban landscapes, literature, and art were transformed into mere ideological means through which the communist new word was proclaimed. These transformations became symbolic signs of a tragic time, where man became God (in the new atheist context), and the urban space became the temple, and where fear and obedience were sowed together with fake narratives related to urban identity.


The development of goat breeding business needs to be done so that the business can compete in the era of industrial 4.0. The study aims to formulate the strategy to increase productivity in goat breeding business on the 4.0 industry era. The study used survey methods. Determination of the sample was done using stratified random sampling that took the region based on high land, moderate and low land. Then, on each level was taken by criteria of number of goats and the dominant species. Number of sample was determined using Nomogram Harry King and the total respondents was 322 farmers. The analysis used was Causal Loop Diagram modeling and Qualitative Descriptive. The results show that to increase the productivity of goat breeders can be done with optimize Information and Communication Technology (ITC) in production factors, utilization management system application and the inovation of feed technology, optimize smartphone as promotion and trading tools, share the information via social media, supply of information service based on website or application and transformation of extension to virtual extension.


Humans naturally integrate signals from the olfactory and intranasal trigeminal systems. A tight interplay has been demonstrated between the two systems, but the underlying neural circuitry that mediate olfactory-trigeminal integration remains unclear. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), this study investigated the neural mechanisms underlying olfactory-trigeminal integration. Fifteen subjects with normal olfactory function performed a localization task with weak or strong air-puff stimuli, phenylethyl alcohol (PEA; rose odor), or a combination. Although the ability to localize PEA to either nostril was at chance, its presence significantly improved the localization accuracy of weak, but not strong, air-puffs, relative to the localization of air-puffs without concomitant PEA, when both stimuli were delivered concurrently to the same nostril. This enhancement in localization accuracy was directly correlated with the magnitude of multisensory activity in the primary olfactory cortex (POC). Changes in orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) multisensory activity alone could not predict task performance, but changes in OFC and POC connectivity could. Similar activity and connectivity patterns were observed in the superior temporal cortex (STC), inferior parietal cortex (IPC) and the cerebellum. Taken together, these results suggest that olfactory-trigeminal integration is occurring across multiple brain regions. These findings can be interpreted as an indication that the POC is part of a distributed brain network that mediate the integration between olfactory and trigeminal systems.


SETTING
Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, where overall drug resistance and multidrug resistance among adult new tuberculosis (TB) cases were respectively 16.4% and 1.1% in 1998.

OBJECTIVE
To determine the prevalence of drug resistance among children with tuberculosis and to compare the epidemiological and clinical features of TB in children with drug-resistant and drug-susceptible TB.

METHODS
All strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis obtained from children aged 0-15 years at Bangui Paediatric Hospital were prospectively collected from April 1998 to June 2000, and susceptibility testing was performed for each specimen. The children's epidemiological and clinical data were recorded.

RESULTS
Susceptibility results were available for 165/190 children with M. tuberculosis. Overall drug resistance and multidrug resistance were 15.2% and 0.6%, respectively. Isoniazid and streptomycin were the only drugs associated with TB monoresistance. No significant difference was found in the epidemiological or clinical data of children infected with a resistant strain and those infected with a susceptible strain.

CONCLUSION
The prevalence of drug resistance in childhood is similar to that observed in adult new TB cases in the same period. Surveillance will continue to be performed in Bangui periodically to assess the trend of true drug resistance among new TB cases.


The role of the background in bosonic quantum statistics is discussed in the frame of a new approach in terms of coherent states. Bose gas is not the only physical situation where bosons are detected. In particle physics bosons are dealt with in a context where the number of observed particles is finite: here the relevant feature are the canonical commutation relations, which we shall show to be related to a Boltzmann-like distribution. A further case is Bose condensate in harmonic traps, where discrete spectrum leads us to predict a new critical temperature. All these cases are analyzed in the unified approach proposed, showing that all differences can be ascribed to the role of the background.


The research reported is funded by the Social Science Korea (SSK) Research Grant of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRFK), and the author would like to thank the NRFK for supporting our research project (SSK Project Number is B00096).


This paper presents AlphaDeltaPhi-groups (ADP-group) as a communication tool for connection level management in distributed CSCW systems. In order to accurately model CSCW communication patterns, an ADP-group is a related set of cooperating processes whose communication is supported by allowing a spectrum of quality-of-service, message delivery reliability, atomicity and causal ordering options to co-exist within the same group. ADP-group communication provides appropriate connection management support and network control within distributed CSCW environments characterized by a heterogeneous mixture of equipment types, network performance and user activity levels. This efficiency is achieved by defining a small set of canonical group communication operations, by automatically making appropriate connections between data sources and sinks, and by using a receiver-based method of connection specification, monitoring and modification.


ABSTRACT By using variational methods we study the existence and multiplicity of solutions for a class of quasilinear problems driven by the -Laplacian operator with Dirichlet boundary conditions and an indefinite potential.


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Heart valve disease occurs when the heart valves do not work the way they work. Heart valve disorders can affect any of the valves in the heart. Heart valves are having flaps that close and open with each heartbeat, allowing blood to flow through the hearts upper and lower chambers and to the rest of your body. The upper chambers of the heart are known as atria, the lower chambers of the heart are known as ventricles.


Background. There is very limited data available on the association between underage drinking and risk of diabetes. The aim of this study is to investigate the association between alcohol use during adolescence and the risk of diabetes while controlling for a wide range of confounders, including parental alcohol use. Methods. This population-based study used data collected from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Participants were initially recruited in 1994-1995 (Wave I), then followed up in 1996 (Wave II) and in 2001-2002 (Wave III), and in 2008-2009 (Wave IV). Analysis included 2,850 participants (46% male) who were successfully followed up at Waves I, III, and IV without a known diagnosis of diabetes at Waves I and III and who provided all necessary information for the analysis. Results. During adolescence, frequent alcohol consumption at levels reaching 5 or more drinks, 3–7 days/week, substantially increased the risk of diabetes in young adulthood, with an odds ratio of 12.57 (95% CI 4.10–38.61) compared to current abstainers. Conclusions. Heavy alcohol use during adolescence may increase the risk of diabetes in young adulthood. The Significant finding of the Study.


The use of nickel as a displacing ion in the determination of exchangeable cations and cation-exchange capacity was evaluated using several British Columbia soils. The values for exchangeable cations and cation-exchange capacity for the soils examined, using 0.25 normal neutral nickel chloride, were higher than those obtained by the ammonium acetate extraction method. For the most part, in samples examined, values were found to be more readily and consistently reproduced with the nickel chloride extractant. Dispersion of soil organic matter and silicate clay minerals was negligible, and the washing step involving ethanol has been eliminated.


Perfectionism is currently believed to be a multidimensional construct. This study focused on the perspective that perfectionism has both positive and negative qualities. Specifically, this study predicted that adaptive perfectionists would perform better on a task and have higher levels of self-esteem and self-efficacy than maladaptive perfectionists. Maladaptive perfectionists, in general, have been found to have lower performance, self-esteem, and self-efficacy. Sixty-five university students completed two trials on the O'Conner Tweezer Dexterity Test and completed questionnaires about perfectionism, self-esteem, and self-efficacy. As predicted, the adaptive perfectionists showed the greatest performance increases on the task as well as reporting higher self-esteem and self-efficacy than the other perfectionist styles. This study supports the perspective that perfectionism can be positive and negative.


Method for controlling recording in a digital recording device, enables users to create improved video recording, also saves memory space of the recording apparatus. According to one exemplary embodiment, the method of the present invention, at the time of recording, and detecting the first user input representing a command to stop the recording, the first predetermined in response to the first user input a method that allows the display of the message, receiving a second user input representing a response to the first predetermined message, in response to a second user input, generates a single program recording and comprises the step of controlling the digital video recorder to generate a single program listing for the single program recording.


The present invention discloses a three large flow Direct-controlled proportional pressure spool valve comprising a valve body, the valve body port extending within the spool valve cone, the valve body of the first cylindrical body and second cylindrical body composed of valve cone an end face of the valve body is fixedly connected with a concentric three differential piston, the differential piston area of the piston of the second stage a and the difference between the first stage piston area a 1 2 is smaller than the cone valve worthy port area A 0 , differential piston area of the piston of the first stage A 1 above, the piston area of the second stage A 2 and above the cone valve port area a 0 the above as well as by the pressure of the same magnitude P S . The present invention uses three differential piston can be well compensated valve opening force, hydraulic pressure acting on the solution spool, friction and hydrodynamic force is too large and too small instruction conflict, in order to achieve a strong negative feedback, improve the control precision, so that direct control pressure proportional valve can not be used for high flow hydraulic system problems solved.


In order to understand the rules of the seismic response and seismic performance of the large complex structure,a three-dimensional structure-pile-soil finite element model of Tianjin transportation junction which include ground and underground structures was established by using the ANSYS software.In the model,an equivalent composite material was used to replace the pile-soil area.The nonlinear time history analysis was adopted to calculate the finite element model.The result shows that the maximum seismic responses of the structure occur under Tianjin wave,and the acceleration responses are evenly distributed,and that the displacement responses are less than the limitation.So the Tianjin transportation junction has favorable integrity and seismic performance.


Introduction Socioeconomic costs of persistent low back pain (LBP) exceed the costs of acute and subacute LBP by far. This makes the early identification of modifiable factors of the progression of acute/subacute LBP essential to the persistent state. Modifiable protective factors could be addressed proactively, for example, in workplace interventions, to limit the associated socioeconomic burden. Aim of our study was to identify modifiable protective factors against the progression of acute/subacute LBP to the persistent state. Materials and Methods Prospective cohort study of patients attending a health practitioner for their first episode of acute/subacute LBP. Patients were assessed at baseline addressing occupational, psychological, biomedical and demographic lifestyle factors and followed up over 12 weeks according to the recommendations from the Multinational Musculoskeletal Inception Cohort Study (MMICS) Statement. We completed Pearson correlations between these baseline factors and the presence of nonpersistent LBP at 12-week follow-up. For those factors found to be significant, multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed. Results The final two predictor model (χ2 = 34.7, df = 7, p < 0.001) included "social support" (OR 1.78; 95% CI, 1.20–2.66) and "mental health" (OR 1.06; 95% CI, 1.02–1.10). All factors and control variables predicted 24% variance in nonpersistent LBP. The accuracy of the model was 72%, with 81% (sensitivity) of nonpersistent and 60% (specificity) of persistent LBP patients correctly identified. Conclusion In this study of patients with acute/subacute LBP from a primary care setting, good "social support" reduced the likelihood of persistent LBP at 12 weeks. Findings from this study confirm the importance of personal and psychosocial resources for preventing the development of persistent LBP. Resources, easily identified with use of widely available screening tools, will facilitate the provision of necessary strategies to reduce the societal and financial burden of persistent LBP. The benefit of including modifiable protective factors such as "social support" in screening tools is that these factors can be addressed in primary and secondary prevention, for example, in workplace intervention. Further research is required to confirm the role of different types of "social support" and "social support at work" regarding their prognostic influence on the development of persistent LBP. I confirm having declared any potential conflict of interest for all authors listed on this abstract Yes Disclosure of Interest None declared


The method of characteristics is employed to obtain solutions to the time dependent free-convection equations of momentum and energy placed in integral form (Karman-Pohlhausen method). Two boundary conditions are considered for a vertical flat plate of infinite width and semi-infinite length which is initially at ambient temperature in quiescent fluid: (a) The plate is suddenly raised to a uniform higher temperature, and (b) the plate suddenly begins to produce a uniform heat flux at its surface. The results yield the time required for steady flow to be established as a function of position along the plate. Heat-transfer coefficients are obtained for the initial stage of motion during which the convective process is one dimensional. The approximate velocity and temperature profiles obtained from the analysis are compared with more precise solutions of the differential equations for the initial stage of motion and for steady state.


The circadian clock plays a fundamental role in gastrointestinal (GI) physiology. Moreover, disruption of key components of the molecular oscillator that generates circadian rhythms, such as Per2 and Bmal1, promotes GI tumorigenesis. Glycogen synthase kinase‐3β (GSK‐3β), a known regulator of epithelial cell proliferation, also regulates PER2. Here we test the hypothesis that Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori)‐induced epithelial cell proliferation is dependent on the inactivation of GSK‐3β leading to the activation of BMAL1. In vivo, H. pylori induced a significant upregulation of BMAL1 expression within the gastric fundus of infected mice C57BL/6 that correlated with a significant increase in epithelial proliferation and the development of metaplasia. Bioluminescent gastric‐derived organoids generated from PER2::LUCIFERASE (PER2::LUC) mice showed robust circadian rhythms. H. pylori infection of PER2::LUC mouse‐derived gastric organoids resulted in decreased PER2::LUC activity. Robust circadian rhythmicity of clock genes BMAL1 and PER2 were observed in human fundic‐derived gastric organoids (hFGOs). Phosphorylation (inactivation) of GSK‐3β showed circadian changes in hFGOs over 52 hours. H. pylori infection of hFGOs resulted in sustained GSK‐3β phosphorylation, increased BMAL1 protein expression and epithelial cell hyperproliferation when compared to uninfected controls. These results indicate that H. pylori alters the expression of circadian clock components during infection in association with epithelial cell hyperproliferation and metaplasia.


Due to competition in plantation and disturbance in ecosystem services, it is necessary to screen oil containing seed species which have capacity to grow in undomesticated and non-fertile lands. Therefore, in present studies, four acacia species (Acacia auriculiformis, Acacia leucopholea, Acacia mangium and Acacia Cyclops) which have ability to grow in different types of ecosystems and wide range of soils were selected. Oil content measured from the seeds of these four species suggested that Acacia mangium, Acacia cyclops and Acacia auriculiformis are high triglycerides containing seeds than that of Acacia leucophloea. Hence, biodiesel production was standardized from these three acacia species using transesterification process. GC-MS analysis of biodiesel samples suggested presence of essential fatty acid methyl esters which contributes in biodiesel formation. Results obtained from analysis of physicochemical parameters using ASTM standard methods suggested that biodiesel samples produced using acacia auriculiformis, acacia mangium and acacia cyclops had iodine value within the range of standard biodiesel. Even the other parameters such as kinematic viscosity, density, sulphated ash deposition, carbon residue deposition remained low in all the three samples. Hence, these oils are suitable source for biodiesel production.


Authors: Jim Lundy, Mike Anderson  Date: November 14, 2012 Topics: Collaboration  Research Note Number: 2012-33 Issue: What are the technologies and architectures that enterprises should leverage?...


The evolution of Sarah Kane's work has frequently been considered as Janus-faced. The first plays are often classed as examples of the "In-Yer-Face theatre", a theatre which shocks through strong language and violent images while the last two plays, Crave and 4.48 Psychosis, tend towards abstraction and put an emphasis on voices in a theatre that has abandoned all conventions. The purpose of this article is to analyse the evolution of Sarah Kane's work through the poetics of things. The plays can be read as a constant search for what the limits of our humanity are, limits that are questioned through the medium of objects as representatives of the outside world. The study of things reveals first a constant retreat from realism through the use of objects as foils: the iconicity between the things on stage and the world is strongly put into question and is finally dispensed with. Secondly, this retreat accompanies the blurring of frontiers on all levels: the limits between the subject and the world, between the human and the non-human are undermined, a phenomenon that is highlighted through the reification of characters and language. Eventually, the transgression of frontiers allows for the juxtaposition of contraries which is analysed through the central figure of the oxymoron. It is the epitome of Sarah Kane's ongoing search for a form expressing both the necessity to communicate through language and the impossibility of doing so.


Spatial pattern is crucial to geoscience. It enables us to compare the observed properties of objects and explain their spatial relationships, correlation and distribution in terms of the geological circumstances and processes that formed them. Digital cartography and the spatial model provide computer support for looking at objects and properties in their spatial context. Transformations enable us to move and shape the objects for better visualization and analysis. Spatial statistics can quantify configuration for analysis of form and structure. The fractal model reminds us of the divergence between our models and reality.


"The social protection regime in Argentina has undergone changes over the past two decades. From the early 1990s until the 2001/02 crisis, privatisation of social security and decentralisation of health care and education in favour of provincial governments prevailed, while actions aimed at reducing poverty proliferated and successive (and failed) attempts were made to form a social authority. Finally, starting in 2001, a new regime began to take shape, whose central features included strengthening the role of the State as the driver of decentralised health care and education systems and unifying initiatives aimed at reducing poverty. In addition, the State has regained control of retirement funds and made advances in the progressive universalisation of social security by linking the contributory and non-contributory pillars. However, Argentina has not managed to strengthen social institutionality to promote integration based on measures that would be both relevant and necessary, like those described."(...)


Simple Summary The current study concerns feline melanoma of the oral cavity, which is rather rarely diagnosed but is usually correlated with poor prognosis. Here we proposed a new treatment modality using CO2 laser surgery with pulsed electric fields with ultra-short pulses in combination with bleomycin. The applied nanoelectrochemotherapy resulted in positive response and satisfactory animal recovery. Thus, nanosecond electroporation seems a reasonable anticancer approach in domestic animals. Abstract Background: The aim of this study was to present the first domestic animal trial of nanosecond electroporation with chemotherapy and CO2 laser surgery. Methods: sixteen-year-old domestic cat with diagnosed melanoma on oral cavity was the case used in the study. Firstly, CO2 laser surgery was used for the removal of most of tumor mass. Then nanoelectrochemotherapy with bleomycin was applied including appropriate margin of healthy tissue. A 15 ± 4 kV/cm × 15 ns pulsing protocol was employed with a total of 800 ± 100 pulses. Only one session of nanoelectrochemotherapy (nanoECT) was performed. Results and conclusions: during the next two weeks areas of focal necrosis were replaced by the granulation tissue. Complete wound healing was observed four weeks after initial treatment. After 15 weeks post treatment, no local recurrence was apparent.


Having robust timestamps for remote patient monitoring is essential to ensure correct context and correlation with other data. However typical devices have no clock or a simple clock that is not synchronized. The gateway will be responsible for translating timestamps to local time and also to an underlying continuous time reference, ideally UTC. However gateways operate in harsh conditions and may not be able to synchronize time. It is necessary to be able to denote operating conditions of the gateway and the translation applied to any timestamp. This short communication discusses the development of a framework for reliable and robust timestamp management and reports on results on use.


The Budd-Chiari Syndrome secondary to a membranous web in the inferior vena cava was successfully treated in a 38-year-old man by Gruntzig—triple balloon dilatation. Follow-up at one year showed near absent ascites.


Consider the data from the painstaking economic analysis of contemporary camel transport in Pakistan done by Alan Heston and several Pakistani associates in 1985 (see Table 1). It shows the typical annual costs and income in rupees of someone earning his livelihood by renting out a pack camel.


This work aimed to study the selectivity of fusel oil and herbicide association in the sugarcane cultivar IAC93-3046, and the efficacy of controlling the species Panicum maximum, Amaranthus deflexus, Ipomoea quamoclit, Brachiaria decumbens and Euphorbia heterophylla. The experiment was set up at the Instituto Agronomico/Centro de Cana in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil, in a randomized block design with 10 treatments and 4 replicates. The plots were composed of six 4 m sugarcane lines, 1.50 m (36 m2) spaced, with half being sown with weeds for control evaluation, and the other half without weeds for selectivity evaluation. The treatments were diuron+hexazinone (1,170+330 g ha 1); diuron+hexazinone (1,170+330 g ha-1) + fusel oil (25.0 L ha-1); diuron+hexazinone (819+231 g ha-1) + fusel oil (25.0 L ha-1); metribuzin (1,920 g ha-1); metribuzin (1,920 g ha-1) + fusel oil (25.0 L ha-1); metribuzin (1,344 g ha-1) + fusel oil (25.0 L ha-1); amicarbazone (1,400 g ha-1); amicarbazone (1,400 g ha-1) + fusel oil (25.0 L ha-1) and amicarbazone (980 g ha-1) + fusel oil (25.0 L ha-1) and no herbicides. The application was performed with pressurized sprayer and 250 L ha-1 volume under post-emergence of the culture (30 cm) and weeds (10-2 cm). The herbicides diuron+hexazinone, metribuzin and amicarbazone were effective in controlling all the species alone, but only I. quamoclit and E. heterophylla did not present a satisfactory control at full dose and 70% of the dose combined with fusel oil. The same treatments were also selective for sugarcane cultivar IACSP 93-3046, when the variables height, stand, diameter and stalk yield, as well as the qualitative attributes were compared to the control. However, diuron + hexazinone and amicarbazone at a full dose associated with fusel oil were not selective for Brix% juice and stalk yield, respectively.


Abstract:  The paper provides a picture of the changes and advances in the field of strain measurement and related topics, as represented by the contents of the journal Strain, from its inception in 1965 to the present day.


A new guidelineless, lay-away flowline subsea completion system has been developed in co-operation with a major oil company. The system has been designed to incorporate the field-proven and simple flexible pipe lay-away flowline first end connection method with state-of-the-art guidelineless orientation and ROV intervention technology. Guidelineless completion equipment is basically configured and installed in the same manner as guidelineless drilling equipment with one important difference, the need for rotational alignment. The subsea completion equipment described in this paper examines the key design points regarding "funnel up" and "funnel down" positional guidance hardware along with fully passive rotational orientation mechanisms utilised to position the tubing hanger, tree and flowline equipment. The flexible pipe lay-away method gives the operator several options for flowline installation and retrieval. The most notable of these allows the flowline bundle (including hydraulic and electrical control lines) to be passed from a pipe lay vessel to the drilling vessel at the surface, connected to subsea hardware and functionally tested while the entire system is still in the moonpool. The first system is currently being built in Brazil and will be installed offshore Brazil in late 1989 - early 1990.


Good progress has been made in the microservice technology in recent years due to the development of docker container technology. Although microservice architecture can adjust the number of containers, there is a new problem. That is according to the current load pressure of services, how to adjust the number of containers accurately and quickly in real time, especially when the load pressure of services suddenly increases or decreases. In order to deal with the problem, a container scheduling strategy based on machine learning is proposed in this paper. The paper uses the data set obtained by our experiments to train random forest regression model in advance to predict the required containers of services in the next time window, according to the current load pressure of services. Large amounts of data has been collected to make the data set for the experiment. Based on the data set, random forest regression model has been trained in advance to predict the number of required containers of services in next time window. When adjusting the number of containers to balance load pressure of services, the proposed algorithm saves 50% of the time compared with traditional algorithms. In addition, the accuracy is 10%~38% higher compared with other machine learning algorithms.


Abstract : The second annual report of progress in the study entitled A holistic quality of life intervention for patients with secondary prostate cancer' is contained. Each of the tasks listed in the approved statement of work' that were applicable to the second year of the study is contained. In particular: Task 1: Patient identification and referral. Task 2: Patient contact, intake of patients into study, patient tracking. Task 3 Review of intervention group meetings and materials. The successful completion of two intervention cycles and the subsequent three-month follow-up data collection procedures is described. Special attention is given to the adapted recruitment strategies that have been developed to remedy the shortfall of study accrual numbers for recruitment into the third intervention cycle that begins in March 2004. Also included are the completed participant intervention manual and accompanying CD. The featuring of this study on the ABC national evening network news broadcast as an example of an innovative approach to cancer treatment is also discussed. Because the intervention period of this study is not yet complete no outcomes are reported.


"internet+" is an inevitable product when knowledge society era develops. It beings new mode and new idea for current economic and social development. In short, "internet+" refers to "internet + each traditional industry". It is not just simple combination, but also further improves knowledge, technology, innovative idea, sharing development and talent respect. In daily teaching and learning of college English, the smartphone plays an important role. It is also widely applied in mobile learning of college English. The research on these applications can not just enrich teaching means, but also mobilize students' English learning interest. The final purpose is to improve students' college English learning efficiency. This paper will study the application of smartphone in mobile learning of college English under "internet+" background, in the hope of gaining some experience and enlightenment about college English learning.


It has been observed that in the urban center of Shanghai, land subsidence has accelerated, and the groundwater level has continued to drop even though the net withdrawn volume (NWV) of groundwater has remained unchanged since 1980. An analysis of monitoring data shows that drawdown of the groundwater level is one of the factors that have influenced land subsidence since 1980. The NWV of groundwater in urban areas, however, is not the critical factor controlling the drawdown of the groundwater level. Since the 1980s, there have been many underground works constructed in the unique strata of Shanghai, which has an interlayered structure known as a multi-aquifer-aquitard system (MAAS). Investigation into land subsidence caused by urban construction is now receiving much attention. Based on the principle of a strategic environmental assessment (SEA) for sustainable urban development, this paper presents a discussion and analysis of the factors which can influence the development of land subsidence during continued urbanization in Shanghai. The main factors include the additional loading caused by the construction of structures, the cut-off effect due to construction in aquifers, the drawdown of groundwater level caused by leakage into underground structures, and the decrease of groundwater recharge from neighboring zones. SEA is recommended for the future development of Shanghai.


In computerized Chinese character printing, it is infeasible to use the fully-formed character approach since there are about 8,000 Chinese characters in common use. Therefore, dot-matrix printing with a large dictionary of binary images of Chinese characters stored in memory is commonly used. To generate these Chinese character patterns in the dot-matrix form by manual operation is tedious. A better approach is to apply image processing techniques to automatically convert the image of a character into its corresponding dot-matrix pattern. We developed a system that can automatically generate a Chinese character multifont. This system includes image processing and CAD subsystems. Each input picture, consisting of about 100 Chinese characters, is scanned by a scanner. The digitized line-scanned image is processed by the image processing subsystem to form the Chinese characters by a dot matrix. The modules of the image processing subsystem include noise reducer, text detector, adaptive threshold, slicer, and size corrector. Due to the effect of quantization error, there are some defects in these digitized Chinese characters. The CAD subsystem is used to trim these characters. The modules of the CAD subsystem include radical extractor, radical classifier , radical generator, radical copier, stroke extractor, and stroke trimmer. This system can automatically generate Chinese characters in a wide range of resolutions ( 24x24 to 240x240 ) and in any specified font, such as Sung style, Ming style, Formal style, Running style, and Script style of Chinese characters. Using the proposed system, we have generated about 160,000 Chinese characters, which consist of five styles in four dif-ferent resolutions. The advantages of this system are time saving, cost saving and high quality.


This letter presents a frequency selective radome that realizes two-sided wideband backscattering reduction by combining two diffusion strategies. The upper layer of the radome is capable of diffusing the incident wave at low frequencies based on copolarized scattering cancellation. A bandpass frequency selective surface integrated with a coding metasurface is adopted as the bottom layer, which acts as a reflecting ground for the upper layer and also diffuses the incident wave at high frequencies by cross-polarized polarization conversion. An equivalent circuit is employed to analyze the frequency-selective radome. A sample with a size of 288 × 288 mm is designed and fabricated for verification. A high transmission window with an insertion loss less than 1 dB in the desired passband from 7.9 to 12.2 GHz and a wide low-backscattering band from 2.3 to 15.6 GHz are achieved simultaneously. Measured and simulated results are in good agreement verifying the validity of the design concept and its effectiveness in reducing backscattering over a wideband.


Software security testing is the process of validating the software securtiy level and identify the potential security flaws,it's a important ways to ensure the security of software,and the fault injection testing of software security is a very important way.Discusses the method of thesimulated fault injection and prototype fault injection.


The use of a poloxamer and a method of administration of poloxamer for the treatment of blood concentration, such as drainage and / or blood concentration resulting from a diuretic for the object is provided. Administration of a poloxamer will reduce the blood concentration, dehydration and / or prevent or treat a side effect of a diuretic, or other methods.


Much of the research on entrepreneurship in the public sector focuses on academic institutions (e.g. Jones-Evans, Steward, Balazs & Todorov, 1998), or government organisations at the local or regional level (Teske & Schneider, 1994). One form of public sector firm that has received little attention, however, is state-owned enterprises (SOEs). While these public sector firms have traditionally provided core services on a national scale with an underlying profit motive, market forces and industry deregulation have increasingly exposed SOEs to competitive and commercial operations in both national and international markets. Hence the importance of entrepreneurial and strategic activity as a means of survival, sustainability, and growth emerges. This paper therefore investigates three SOEs for the existence of strategic entrepreneurship.


A set of audit tools is being prepared for assessing the response capability of a production operation, as part of an EPSRC funded investigation into improving the responsiveness of manufacturing production systems. These tools are based on the idea that the ability to respond is linked to i) the nature of the disturbances or changes requiring a response, ii) their impact on production goals and iii) the decision processes which initiate system responses to disturbances. (6 pages)


For original paper see Guerci (IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol.47, p.977-85, 1999 April). Covariance matrix tapers and derivative constraints in the directions of jammers have been proposed for broadening the null in adaptive processing, thereby improving the algorithms' robustness. In this correspondence, the relationship between these two methods is explored. A reply is given in which Guerci makes some further points.


To treat varicose veins, the greater saphenous vein may be tied off by surgical ligation, or thermal ablation of the greater saphenous vein may be delivered by endovenous laser, or ultrasound-guided sclerotherapy using injected sodium tetradecyl sulfate foam may be employed to injure the vessel wall. Using a series of measures of patient-reported disease-specific quality of life as the primary outcome measures, these authors conducted a randomized, multicenter trial in 798 patients. Secondary outcome …


Ambient air pollution is an important environmental problem that impacts the health and sustainable development of human beings. Many measures have been taken by governments to decrease air pollution. This paper focuses on whether government investment has a positive effect on air quality. Based on China's environmental statistics from 2003 to 2020, the Spatiotemporal Weighted Regression Model is used to observe the spatiotemporal correlation between environmental governance investment and air quality in different provinces in China, finding that there is a negative time-space correlation between environmental governance investment and air quality. In addition, environmental governance investment will not immediately improve air quality, and air pollution has the characteristics of spatial overflow that the pollution between regions affect each other. Then, to further research governments how to deal with environmental protection, configuration analysis has been used, and finds out four high-performance paths for environmental governance of China's provinces. At the end of this research, we put forward four suggestions for air protection. Firstly, government should formulate long-term air governance policies. Secondly, government environmental governance of air pollution should pay attention to the cooperativity of environmental governance between regions. Thirdly, the third sectors, companies and the public should be encouraged in air protection. Fourthly, government should build a whole-process air governance strategy.


Methods of managing a location of a mobile terminal include obtaining a position of the mobile terminal, estimating a distance from the mobile terminal to a destination point, generating an estimated time for the mobile terminal to reach the destination point, and generating an alert if the estimated time for the mobile terminal to reach the destination point reaches a threshold time. Related mobile terminals are also disclosed.


Purpose: Our data was retrospectively reviewed to assess the efficacy, safety and costs of endoscopic subureteral polydimethylsiloxane (PDS, Macroplastique) injection treatment for children with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR). Materials and Methods: Between December 1997 and May 2006, a total of 24 (29 renal units) VUR patients, whose parents showed reluctance toward open surgery, underwent subureteral PDS injection treatment. All of the patients were postoperatively assessed by voiding cystourethrography (VCUG) and ultrasound to evaluate any complications and reflux. The medical costs of the injection treatment were compared with those of open surgery for VUR over the same period. Results: The mean follow-up was 15 months (range 2-72). Of the 29 renal units treated, 24 (82.8%) were cured. Hydronephrosis, which postoperatively developed in three renal units, was spontaneously improved or resolved after minimal endourological procedures. Temporary gross hematuria and voiding difficulty occurred in one patient each, but were also improved. The total medical costs of the injection treatment were cheaper than those of open surgery (p<0.05). Conclusions: An endoscopic subureteral PDS injection is an effective and safe procedure; in addition, compared to open surgery, is an economic treatment for children with VUR. (Korean J Urol 2007;48:82-86) ꠏꠏꠏꠏꠏꠏꠏꠏꠏꠏꠏꠏꠏꠏꠏꠏꠏꠏꠏꠏ


The invention relates to a material increase manufacturing method of functionally graded parts based on three-dimensional heterogeneous powder laying. The method comprises the following steps: (1) designing three-dimensional structures of parts; (2) determining the powder laying parameters and sintering or melting process parameters; (3) pre-storing different raw powder materials in different parallel powder reservoirs; (4) preparing powder with the corresponding components for a powder supplying system in real time; (5) finishing laying powder materials on a current slice layer to be processed when a powder laying nozzle finishes scanning a current powder laying path; (6) scanning the powder forming the top surface of a cylinder along the corresponding scanning path, and sintering or melting and solidifying the powder of scanned region; (7) reading the parameter information of the next layer of slices by a computer, and repeating steps (3) to (6), so as to obtain the complete three-dimensional parts. Compared with the prior art, the method can control the material components of each point in the parts and realize the material increase manufacturing of complex parts with three-dimensional function gradients.


122 Volume 44, Number 1 most treasured and most popular. Her husband Joseph, meanwhile, remained prominent among elite literary and artistic scenes in England and the United States throughout the turn of the century. Where Joseph has long been recognized by art historians and English scholars as one of the era's great illustrators, collaborating with such figures as William dean Howells, oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, George Bernard Shaw, Henry James, and Washington Irving, Joseph's bicycling pursuits (and the importance bicycling had to his artistic craft in general) remains underappreciated. Joseph and Elizabeth also shared many close friendships, including one with James McNeill Whistler, about whom the Pennells produced a coauthored biography in 1908. Buchanan helps remind us that these relationships and works ought to be thought of as entangled with the Pennell's love affair for bicycling, a sport central to both their social circle and their creative and intellectual output. Timely and compelling, Buchanan's edited volume arrives as historians in the United States are once again rediscovering the bicycle's significance. It is a welcome addition to a conversation long overdue. —Jesse Gant University of Wisconsin, Madison


The optimal treatment strategy for patients with clinical stage I (CS‐1) seminoma is controversial. The objective of the current study was to evaluate the outcomes for patients considered to be at high risk of disease recurrence with a tumor size ≥6 cm. Patients were treated with either adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) or followed with surveillance.


An analysis of the archaeological data available in recent years indicates the development of local maritime networks both in peninsular Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent by the middle of the first millennium B.C. By the second-first centuries B.C. these networks formed a part of the larger regional sailing circuit in the Bay of Bengal. Tangible indicators of this are carnelian and glass beads and bronze bowls with a high tin content. A demarcation of these networks is essential, before questions like the organization of trade or the channels through which religious ideology spread, can be explained.


In this paper we review the progress and current status of thermal forming activities at SAO, highlighting the most relevant technical problems and the way to solve them. These activities are devoted to the realization of mirror substrates for the X-ray surveyor mission concept, an observatory with Chandra-like angular resolution and 30 times more effective area or larger. The technology under development at SAO is based on the deposition of piezoelectric material on the back of the substrates. About 8000 mirror segments, with initial quality of 10 arcseconds or better are required for the telescope.


Risk has become a key and much-publicized concept in modern Western societies. The hazards that preoccupy us are myriad indeed, and among the most commonly talked about are hazards to human health. In this regard humans seek to moderate or eliminate many human health hazards through scientific and medical advancement; however, the pursuit of human health safety has cost nonhuman animals dearly. Annually over one hundred million nonhuman animals are used in experiments worldwide, and human health benefits are offered as a major rationale. Although there is considerable determined opposition to nonhuman animal experiments even some of those associated with such movements argue that, in the case of human health, if there is no alternative nonhuman animals can, or indeed must, be used. How have humans sought to justify this position? In this paper, I contend that such justifications are rooted in acceptance of humans as having essential primacy over nonhuman animals and lies in the power relations associated with human primacy identity claims. To challenge essentialist notions of human identity and human primacy I utilise a performative conceptualisation of identity. By exploring discourses associated with the justification of nonhuman animal experimentation, I argue that discourses extolling scientific advancements that minimize health hazards to humans, made on the basis of experiments on nonhuman animals, reiterate an immoral human primacy identity that exploits power relations to privilege the human.


Hot electron cooling rate P, due to acoustic phonons, is investigated in three‐dimensional Dirac fermion systems at low temperature taking account of the screening of electron–acoustic phonon interaction. P is studied as a function of electron temperature Te and electron concentration ne. Screening is found to suppress P very significantly for about Te < 0.5 K and its effect reduces considerably for about Te > 1 K in Cd3As2. In Bloch–Grüneisen (BG) regime, for screened (unscreened) case the Te dependence is P ∼ Te9(Te5) and the ne dependence gives P ∼ ne–5/3 (ne–1/3). The Te dependence is characteristic of 3D phonons and ne dependence is characteristics of 3D Dirac fermions. The plot of P /Te4 vs. Te shows a maximum at temperature Tem which shifts to higher values for larger ne. Interestingly, the maximum is nearly same for different ne and Tem/ne1/3 being nearly constant. More importantly, we propose, the ne dependent measurements of P would provide a clearer signature to identify 3D Dirac semimetal phase. (© 2016 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH &Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


The utility model belongs to inner fixing devices for orthopedic surgery, and particularly relates to an anterior submandibular approach resetting and fixing titanium-plate through joint atlas and dentata. The anterior submandibular approach fixing titanium-plate resetting through joint atlas and dentata is characterized in that the outer contour of a resetting and fixing titanium-plate body takes the shape of a butterfly, and the cross section of the plate body is arc-shaped; two corners at the upper part of the plate body are respectively provided with a symmetrically fixing hole, and the fixing hole is used for twisting a screw which enters a lateral atlas block to be fixed through an atlantoaxial joint; two fixing holes which are symmetrical with each other and are used for fixing the plate body on the dentata are arranged below the plate body; and a resetting fixing hole is arranged in the middle part of the plate body. The anterior submandibular approach resetting and fixing titanium-plate is used for treatment of fracture dislocation of throat anterior submandibular approach, and has the functions of immediate resetting and locking.


This paper presents a drowsiness detection method for drivers. The drowsiness is detected by monitoring the eye state (open or close). Firstly, the detection of human face and eye regions is performed using the Haar cascade method. We then locate a dark circular object (i.e. the pupil) using two vectors within the eye regions: one is distance vectors and the other gradient vectors. The cross-correlation between these two vectors should be maximized at the center of the dark circle. Experimental results show that the proposed method works well in bright, dim, and dark situations. For the dark situation, we use infrared LEDs to make a face visible. The computation speed of the proposed method is fast enough to perform at video rate.


We study the dynamic threshold buffer management scheme applied to a hierarchical shared memory ATM switch which consists of three modules:multiplexer, switching fabric and demultiplexer. Traffic flow between neighboring modules are controlled by the dynamic threshold scheme which is based on a backpressure mechanism. With multiple loss priority traffic within the system, we focus on the usage of controllable parameters, so-called sharing factors, towards prioritized loss control. We show the superiority of the backpressure mechanism enabled system in view of system throughput and prioritized loss control capability. We reach a conclusion that the prioritized buffer management capability is achievable by imposing traffic flow restriction at the entrance of the system, and restrictions within the system have no effect other than degrading the system throughput. Additionally, we realize that the backpressure mechanism enhances buffer utilization as well. Comparing with the delayed pushout scheme which allows full occupancy of buffer space, we observe that the dynamic threshold scheme is more flexible in loss control capability and has a simple process for implementation.


We present a study of the expected precision for the measurement of the top Yukawa coupling, yt, in e+e− collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1 TeV. Independent analyses of ttH final states containing at least six hadronic jets are performed, based on detailed simulations of SiD and ILD, the two candidate detector concepts for the ILC. We estimate that a statistical precision on yt of 4.5% can be obtained with an integrated luminosity of 1 ab−1 that is split equally between two configurations for the beam polarization P(e−,e+), (−80%,+20%) and (+80%,−20%). This estimate improves to 4% if the 1 ab−1 sample is assumed to be fully in the P(e−,e+) = (−80%,+20%) configuration.


355 A 56-year-old man presented with an enlarging painless mass in the soft tissue around his right knee. The patient initially noticed the lesion 2 to 3 years before presentation. It began as a small nodule in the soft tissue anterior to the patella. The patient denied any antecedent trauma. He had no activity-related pain, nocturnal pain, weight loss, or any restriction of motion. His medical history was significant for insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and coronary artery disease. His surgical history was remarkable for a kidney transplant in 1995 and a coronary artery bypass in 1999. On physical examination the patient was afebrile. There was a 4 3 cm scaly, firm, freely mobile mass over the prepatellar region of his right knee (Fig 1). The mass was nontender to palpation and without drainage. The skin overlying the lesion was hyperpigmented. Active and passive knee ROM was full, symmetric, and painless. There was no knee effusion and the distal neurovascular examination was normal. There was no inguinal adenopathy. Admission laboratory data including complete blood count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and metabolic panel were normal. Imaging studies included plain radiographs and MRI scans (Figs 2–5). Based on the history, physical examination, and imaging studies, what is the differential diagnosis? Orthopaedic • Radiology • Pathology Conference


but of the effects on roads, buildings and other infrastructure. Diminishing of sea ice extent will allow polar shipping routes to be opened up and will make mineral exploitation more feasible. The north will, indeed, be a very different place and the lack of cold will matter. Sandford deals well with explaining a major change in the thinking of hydrologists – from the concept of a "stationary" world in which, over a period of some decades or centuries, there is little deviation from long-term average situations, to an acceptance that we are now in an age when there is a persistent trend towards a warmer world and that, in looking to the future, we must take this trend into account. He makes the case very strongly that, especially in the higher latitudes and higher altitudes, we lack consistent, long-term data – we need far more monitoring of our water resources, both solid and liquid, in order to better understand the science of ice and water and in order to make more informed predictions of future situations. If this book is to be criticized at all it might be that perhaps too much emphasis has been placed on the research findings of the IP3 and WCN networks. Clearly, the scientists working within these networks have accomplished a great deal and deserve praise, but their work has built upon and refined the results from many previous researchers and many previous programs hardly mentioned in the book. For example it can be argued that the International Hydrological Decade 1965–1974 was very influential in establishing a series of research basins, many of which are still in existence, and in influencing the work of many cryospheric and hydrologic scientists. However, this is a very minor criticism of a book that is exceptionally well written and highly informative. This book is a very important addition to the many books on water authored by Sandford. It is eminently readable and highly educational, and should be on the reading list of decision-makers, members of the public and students wishing for a fast but comprehensive overview of the effects of climate change on the water resource situation in Canada. After reading the book, one cannot help being convinced that cold really does matter, particularly for a northern and mountainous country such as Canada.


On the base of the distinctions of typical tourist areas in our country,this paper analyzed the quantity of transfer,the density of transfer and the status of transfer of inbound tourism flows to the west of China in Changjing River Delta to find out the western dynamic transfer laws.Then the essay came to some conclusions,the Changjing River Delta was the important second-hand tourist market,whose tourism flowed to the western distributions appears divergent and convergent models,and at the same time,these models presented the disequilibria in time sequence and space.According to the consequences of the quantity,density and the status of transfer,the sequence was as follows,extensive Xi'an was the most one,then Chengyu area was more than Yungui area,which appeared the feathers of approach to height and abundance.


A new numerical scheme for solving incompressible Bingham flows with variable density, plastic viscosity and yield stress is proposed. The mathematical and computational difficulties due to the non-differentiable definition of the stress tensor in the plug regions, i.e. where the strain-rate tensor vanishes, is overcome by using a projection formulation as in the Uzawa-like method for viscoplastic flows. This projection definition of the plastic tensor is coupled with a fractional time-stepping scheme designed for Newtonian incompressible flows with variable density. The plastic tensor is treated implicitly in the first sub-step of the fractional time-stepping scheme and a fixed-point iterative procedure is used for its computation. A pseudo-time relaxation term is added into the Bingham projection whose effect is to ensure a geometric convergence of the fixed-point algorithm. This is a key feature of the bi-projection scheme which provides a fast and accurate computation of the plastic tensor. Stability and error analyses of the bi-projection scheme are provided. The use of the discrete divergence-free velocity to convect the density in the mass conservation equation allows us to derive lower and upper bounds for the discrete density. The error induced by the pseudo-time relaxation term is controlled by a prescribed numerical parameter so that a first-order estimate of the time error is derived for the velocity field and the density, as well as the dependent parameters that are the plastic viscosity and the yield stress.


Background  Sarcoidosis is a chronic granulomatous disease of unknown etiology. Cutaneous disease is common and includes two clinicopathologic categories: granulomatous infiltration or a reactive phenomenon. In the granulomatous infiltrative group, clinical manifestations can be variable. Ulcers in sarcoidosis are uncommonly recognized and have been categorized previously under the rubric of atrophic, necrobiosis‐like, or ulcerative sarcoidosis.


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Persimmon (Diospyros kaki Thunb.) trees, with fasciation symptoms (PF), were observed in an orchard located in suburban Tai'an, Shandong Province, China. A specific fragment of the phytoplasma 16S rRNA gene, approximately 1.2 kb in length, was amplified from two symptomatic plants via nested polymerase chain reaction, while no fragment was obtained from healthy controls. The two samples (PF1 and PF2) resulted with 99.5% nucleotide sequence identity. Phylogenetic and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that PF1 was a member of ribosomal subgroup B of the elm yellows group (16SrV), and PF2 may represent a novel subgroup within the 16SrV group, designed as 16SrV-I. This is the first report of phytoplasmas of the 16SrV group associated with persimmon fasciation disease.


Interlocking directorates (that is, the links created by a director who is on board of more than one company or organization) are compared between two countries, Australia and New Zealand, and within countries by ownership. This article takes the top thirty companies of both countries to look at differences between their patterns of interlocking in 1998. The key finding is that the interlocks reveal a secondary productive capital political power layer but underneath this is a first tier of power, belonging to finance capital. The ownership of top companies in Australia and particularly in New Zealand is primarily in the hands of nominee companies owned by finance capital.


Somatotropins increase nitrogen reten tion, decrease carcass fat and increase lean/fat ratio in growing ruminants and swine. However, responses are much more variable in growing ruminants. Maintenance requirements in both ruminants and swine are increased slightly with somatotropin treatment in conjunction with increased lean mass. This is associated with in creases in partial efficiency of protein accretion, re sulting in increased efficiency of growth. Additional in formation is required to accurately assess effects of somatotropin on nutrient requirements for growing ru minants and swine. Future studies should target de- gradable and nondegradable protein requirements for growing ruminants and the impact of somatotropin on these requirements; definition of dose, pattern and for mulation of somatotropin for both ruminants and swine and interaction of somatotropin with other factors af fecting feed intake in swine and ruminants. J. Nutr. 122: 855-860, 1992.


We demonstrate the creation of high-density plasma in a pulsed magnetron discharge. A 2.4 MW pulse, 100 μs wide, with a repetition frequency of 50 Hz is applied to a planar magnetron discharge to study the temporal behavior of the plasma parameters: the electron energy distribution function, the electron density, and the average electron energy. The electron density in the vicinity of the substrate, 20 cm below the cathode target, peaks at 8×1017 m−3, 127 μs after initiating the pulse. Towards the end of the pulse two energy groups of electrons are present with a corresponding peak in average electron energy. With the disapperance of the high-energy electron group, the electron density peaks, and the electron energy distribution appears to be Maxwellian like. Following the electron density peak, the plasma becomes more Druyvesteyn like with a higher average electron energy.


tural heritages is limited to the monuments. Many landscapes and the neighbourhood of the monuments thus fall outside the purview of the governments' responsibility and, as such, are increasingly vulnerable to misuse, damage, encroachments of commercial activities, and even extinction in the face of modernization, leading to unrecoverable cultural, social, and environmental, loss. At a time when awareness of the need for architectural conservation is taking root more firmly than hitherto quite widely in the world, the relevance of landscaping around historical sites seems destined to gain in importance. The undersigned proposes to study the different steps taken by governments and private agencies in India as well as in other countries regarding this subject. Useful critical analysis of those steps, and comments on specific guidelines, should result from this study.


Abstract: To estimate the influence of N. elongatum on bark beetle (Pityogenes chalcographus), regulation information about the biology of this species is necessary. In the laboratory, embryonic development depended on temperature and averaged 12 days at alternating temperatures (25/15°C), mean duration of the postembryonic period was 58 days at this temperature. Prey consumption of the N. elongatum larvae (three instars) was ≅ 30 bark beetles (larvae, respectively, pupae) per individual. The adult longevity averaged 3–5 months and mean fecundity was 63.6 eggs per female at alternating temperature (20/10°C) and 58.4 eggs at constant temperature (22°C). The prey consumption of the N. elongatum imagines also depended on temperature. At alternating temperatures (20/10°C) the mean prey consumption was approximately one bark beetle adult per day and N. elongatum individual. Due to these data this predator species must be considered as an important and effective antagonist of Pityogenes chalcographus.


Approaches based on Petri nets are very promising for modelling and simulating biological systems. This paper presents a new modelling proposal for biological processes based on a differential predicate transition Petri net. The main idea consists on merging within a single model both discrete and continuous aspects of biological systems. For the obtained hybrid model, continuous processes arise as differential equations (specifying how the concentration levels of biological substances evolve over time) and a Petri net model is used to specify the discrete configurations of the system (which monitored the sets of differential equations) . An example of differential predicate transition Petri net is used to model and simulate the glucose and insulin concentration levels of diabetic patients during theirs daily activities.


The problems existing in both the old process and the old oxidation tower of oxidation procedure in hydrogen peroxide production were investigated and analysed.A new process and an oxidation tower with new structure were put forward.After technological transforming,the following remarkable


Abstract In this paper, we examine the obstructions to the solvability of certain embedding problems with the generalized quaternion group over arbitrary fields of characteristic not 2. First we consider the Galois embedding problem with abelian kernel in cohomological terms. Then we proceed with a number of examples in order to illustrate the role of the properties of the base field on the solvability of the embedding problem.


We describe an SDP relaxation based method for the position estimation problem in wireless sensor networks. The optimization problem is set up so as to minimize the error in sensor positions to fit distance measures. Observable gauges are developed to check the quality of the point estimation of sensors or to detect erroneous sensors. The performance of this technique is highly satisfactory compared to other techniques. Very few anchor nodes are required to accurately estimate the position of all the unknown nodes in a network. Also the estimation errors are minimal even when the anchor nodes are not suitably placed within the network or the distance measurements are noisy.


In today's era of technology and the institutions which take advantage of it, there are many solutions to everyday problems yet many more problems arise. One such example is the onset of cloud computing, which grants the ability to transfer and store large amounts of data without any of the hassles of a physical server. When a large institution such as a hospital utilizes the cloud they take on the inherent risk of that cloud connection being interrupted. If or when this connection is disrupted it can oftentimes lead to an institution to come to a halt. Often times, these institutions either don't have any way to backup their data or have an inadequate solution. The solution being proposed in this paper, Cloud Reliability and Independence Standard (CRIS), is to implement a standard for information storage and backups to be used by all institutions. This leads to the adaptation of a three tiered system that rates how much and how expansive the organization's backup should be. Our solution works to mitigate the issue of connection loss by keeping companies profitable and functional.


1 Depertment of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Palli Siksha Bhavana, (Institute of Agriculture) Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan 731236, West Bengal, India 2 Depertment of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Birsa Agricultural University, Kanke, Ranchi 834006 Jharkhand, India 3 Department of Soil Science, NRM Division, ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Umiam – 793103, Meghalaya, India


Aim. Assessment of the reperfusion arrhythmias, parameters of myocardial electrical instability in patients at first day of ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) after pharmacoinvasive reperfusion, and analysis of the arrhythmias according to the timing of revascularization and localization of infarction. Material and methods. Totally, 130 patients studied, at the 1st day of STEMI, after pharmacoinvasive reperfusion. Patients underwent 24-hour telemetric registration of ECG in 12 leads with the complex "Astrocard-Telemetry" (ZAO "Meditek", Russia). The analysis of ventricular arrhythmias was done, of the heart rhythm turbulence (HRT), of delayed ventricular potentials (DVP), dispersion, standard deviation of dispersion and duration of QT by the end of T wave and by its peak. Results. The more benign absolute values of independent turbulence onset (TO) are revealed (p<0,001) and turbulence slope (TS) (p<0,05), as lower number of patients with pathological HRT in the group of inferior STEMI. Among patients after anterior STEMI there was more often DVP (p<0,05), as higher values of QTе disp, QTa disp, sd QTе, sd QТa (р<0,001). It is found that delayed revascularization is associated with worse TO values (p<0,05) and TS (p<0,001). A tendency revealed towards the increase of Qte by all time intervals (p<0,05) in patients with earlier performed reperfusion. Conclusion. Delayed restoring of coronary flow makes it to register pathological HRT which represents the disordered vegetative regulation of cardiac function and points on electrical heterogeneity of myocardium. Anterior STEMI due to its size determines the disorders of electrical processes in cardiac muscle, which presents itself as DVP, adverse DVP values and increase of QTe disp, QTa disp, sd QTе and sd QТa.


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The editor of this unusual volume is director of the Linacre Centre, a national Catholic bioethics centre established in 1977 by the Roman Catholic archbishops of England and Wales, who are its trustees. I say unusual because the book effectively consists of two separate books, if not three. Tdhe first, of just over 100 pages, is a restatement of a working party report first published in 1982, entitled Euthanasia and Clinical Practice: Trends, Principles and Alternatives. Book two embraces a 56 page submission from the centre submitted in 1993 to the House of Lords Select Committee on Medical …


Author's summary.— Language teachers stand on much firmer ground when they argue the value of the subject they teach because of its social aspects rather than for its cultural values. In a changing world, with distances shrinking, the need for an ability to talk with and understand our neighbors looms large.


Integral Relativity, as an extension of General Relativity, Special Relativity and Advanced Relativity, has four proposed Tenets: (1) The Equation of Energy with Awareness; (2) The Conservation of Awareness; (3) The Continuum of Energy, Consciousness, Mind and Matter via the Kosmic Constant; (4) The Integral Relativity between Observers and the Observed in Hilbert Spaces as specified Frequency Domains. It is corroborated by the Observer Effect in all the related double slit and interferometer experiments, most notably those of Dean Radin's Sigma 5.7 rated results (2016); by the Unified Spacememory Network, modeled by Nassim Haramein and William Brown (2016); by Elizabeth Rauscher's Complex Eight Dimensional Model of Minkowsky Space; and is modeled by an extension of Ken Wilber's All Quadrants, All Levels (AQAL) Integral model called the "AQAL Cube" (Neale, 2011), which correlates non- physical existence with physical existence. Integral Relativity predicts that the Observer and observed are a mutually inclusive Consciousness/Mind/Energy/Matter continuum. We propose that the terms Consciousness and Mind be no longer used synonymously in the scientific community, but differentiated as an integral Awareness/Energy continuum between Hilbert Spaces, where Consciousness is non-local or Subtle awareness, and Mind is its correlated local or Concrete awareness and means of en-action.