I use documentary evidence, oral traditions, and archaeological remains to examine a brief period of interaction between the White Mountain Apache and Mormon colonists in the Forestdale Valley. This research yields a holistic understanding of the nature of Apache and Mormon interactions in the Forestdale Valley. Archaeological evidence and oral traditions support the claim that Apache people reoccupied the homes of the Mormon colonists after their expulsion. This may have been a symbolic as well as a practical act. Shortly thereafter the settlement was burned, resulting in the erasure of the physical evidence of a Mormon occupation. The complexities of Forestdale as a symbol to both groups are revealed through the interplay of social memory and silences in the


In the work, we have successfully developed practical surface tracking methods to calculate the erosive volume and the associated burning areas which are the important parameters to solve a nonlinear, pressurization-rate dependent combustion ballistics. Three methodologies, namely the front tracking, the emanating ray and the least distance methods, are proposed. The front tracking method is based on the Lagrangian point of view; while both the emanating ray and the least distance methods are formulated from the Eulerian viewpoint. Two two-dimensional test problems have been examined to compare with the programming complexity, simulation accuracy and required CPU time of the proposed methods. It is found that the least distance method performs superior to the other two methods in numerical respects. The least distance method is implemented with tetrahedron grids to track the outward propagation of a three-dimensional cubic. Comparison between the predicted erosive volume and corresponding theoretical result yields satisfactory agreement.


The present invention relates to an infrared receiver chip for loading into a normalized infrared receiver module lead frame having a plurality of contact surfaces for connection by a bonding wire and lead frame belongs functional position, wherein the at least one contact surface IR receiver chip periphery in such a way that all the compartments have a distance and the contact surfaces are positioned in such a way to one another, such that when the pressure of the infrared receiver is mounted at any chip lead frame wire in a standardized corresponding bonding wire from each direct extension of the contact surface belongs to the path function of the position do not belong respectively intersect with each other.


Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac dysrhythmia,1with over 2.6 million Americans affected. Partly due to the high risk of stroke in these patients, AF is associated with significant morbidity and mortality.2 The number of individuals affected with AF is expected to rise ≈6-fold over the next 40 years. Catheter-based ablation may offer a more effective means of treating AF than conventional medical therapy.3,–,5 Ablation techniques have been adopted after limited clinical trials with a relatively small number of patients.4,–,7 In an effort to guide the best treatment strategies, a registry has been established to follow the increasing numbers of AF patients who are being treated with ablation.8 Although the generally accepted initial ablation strategy is isolation of the pulmonary veins, which are often the source of ectopic beats that initiate AF, animal models have shown that the cardiac ganglionated plexi play a role in inducing and maintaining AF.9 Initial clinical studies indicate that ablation of the ganglionated plexi, in addition to pulmonary vein isolation, may improve ablation outcome.10 Indeed, fortuitous ablation of the ganglionated plexi during pulmonary vein isolation may contribute to procedure success. However, targeting the ganglionated plexi for selective ablation requires their localization, presently achieved by additional mapping to detect sites where high-frequency stimulation elicits heart rate slowing and …


Important aerospace electromagnetics problems include the evaluation of antenna performance on aircraft and the prediction and control of the aircraft's electromagnetic signature. Due to the ever increasing complexity and expense of aircraft design, aerospace engineers have become increasingly dependent on computer solutions. Traditionally, computational electromagnetics (CEM) has relied primarily on four disparate techniques: the method of moments (MoM), the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) technique, the finite element method (FEM), and high frequency asymptotic techniques (HFAT) such as ray tracing. Each of these techniques has distinct advantages and disadvantages, and no single technique is capable of accurately solving all problems of interest on computers that are available now or will be available in the foreseeable future. As a result, new approaches that overcome the deficiencies of traditional techniques are beginning to attract a great deal of interest in the CEM community. Among these new approaches are hybrid methods which combine two or more of these techniques into a coherent model. During the ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program a hybrid FEM/MoM computer code was developed and applied to a geometry containing features found on many modern aircraft.


Maradana faviusalis (Walker, 1859) is found for the first time in Russia on the Furugelm Island located in the Gulf of Peter the Great, the Sea of Japan. Imago of this species and male genitalia are described and illustrated. The data on distribution of M. faviusalis and taxonomic remarks on its generic position are given.


Electricity and natural gas networks are critical infrastructure for society, but the robustness of coupled networks has not been evaluated, even though both systems have strong interactions. This article proposes a novel graph theory-based methodology to assess the structural robustness of the coupled natural gas and electricity transmission networks in Spain while considering their interdependencies. Cascading failures were simulated in 22 case studies with different topologies, and the performance against random failures was evaluated. The results show that the investment programme proposed by both network operators ultimately improves the robustness of the interdependent electricity and natural gas infrastructure in Spain compared to the current system.


Flazz BCA card is a new innovative product of electronic money. This study was conducted to
investigate the itention of Flazz BCA card users. The purpose of this study is to examine the
effects of independent variable such as the effect of promoting attractiveness, product
knowledge, perceived usefulness, and price on intention use of Flazz BCA card in Surabaya
as the dependent variable. In this study, observer take 100 respondents that were taken by
using a Non probabilty sampling technique. Analysis using SPSS 16.0, reliability test,
validity test, linear regression analysis, and hypothesis testing via the F and T test. The
coefficient of determination (adjusted R square) of independent variables in this study were
able to explain 15,6% of intention to use multifunction card Flazz BCA as a means of
payment . While the remaining 84,4% is explained by other variables which is not included
in this study
Key words: The attractiveness effect of promotion, product knowledge, perceived
usefulness, suitability price, intention use.


In-Band enhanced Hybrid Domain Discovery Protocol (ieHDDP) is a novel integral approach for hybrid Software-Defined Networking (SDN) environments that simultaneously provides a topology discovery service and an autonomous control channel configuration in the band. This contribution is particularly relevant since, to the best of our knowledge, it is the first all-in-one proposal for SDN capable of collecting the entire topology information (type of devices, links, etc.) and establishing in-band control channels at once in hybrid SDN environments (composed by SDN/no-SDN, wired/wireless devices), even with isolated SDN devices. ieHDDP facilitates the integration of heterogeneous networks, for example, in 5G/6G scenarios, and the deployment of SDN devices by using a simple exploration mechanism to gather all the required topological information and learn the necessary routes between the control and data planes at the same time. ieHDDP has been implemented in a well-known SDN software switch and evaluated in a comprehensive set of randomized topologies, acknowledging that ieHDDP is scalable in representative scenarios.


Mesoporous TiO 2 film was prepared at low temperatures, <130°C, on a conductive indium-tin oxide (ITO)-coated polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) plastic sheet by doctor-blade coating of a binder-free paste consisting of nanocrystalline TiO 2 and interparticle binding agent. TiO 2 -loaded ITO-PEN electrodes were dye-sensitized with Ru bipyridyl complexes to construct photoanodes of plastic dye-sensitized solar cells using iodide/triiodide-based organic redox electrolytes. A solar cell with optimized TiO 2 particle size and electrolyte composition yielded highest conversion efficiencies of 5.8% and 6.4% for an incident solar energy of 100 and 23 mW/cm 2 , respectively.


Abstract Novel chemically bonded phosphate ceramics are being developed and fabricated for low‐temperature stabilization and solidification of mixed‐waste streams that are not amenable to conventional high‐temperature stabilization processes because volatiles, such as heavy‐metal chlorides and fluorides, and/or pyrophorics are present in the wastes. Phosphates of Mg, Mg‐Na, and Zr are being developed as candidate matrix materials. In this paper, we present the fabrication procedures for phosphate waste forms with surrogate compositions of three typical mixed‐waste streams, namely ash, cement sludges, and salts. This study was focused, but not limited to, magnesium phosphate‐ash wastestream final waste form. The performance of the final waste forms, such as compression strength, leachability of the contaminants, and durability in aqueous environments were conducted. In addition, parametric studies have been conducted to establish the optimal ash waste loading in the magnesium phosphate binder system. Based...


Professor Holt's comments fall into two parts. He begins by raising some objections to the tentative rejection, in my paper, of the distinction between 'hard' and 'soft' facts. He then goes on to offer an argument to show that my defence of the incompatibility of divine foreknowledge and human freedom fails, or is at least seriously questionable. For brevity I shall concentrate on his remarks on foreknowledge as I do not think that his interesting discussion of the distinction between 'hard' and 'soft' facts vitally affects the question about divine foreknowledge, the main point at issue. So I shall deal with Holt's claim that one can have the power to undo the fact of foreknowledge retroactively and argue that one can no more retroactively bring it about that God did not know than one can retroactively bring it about that he did know.


At the Sixteenth National congress of C.P.C,the thought of the "Three Representatives"was established as our Party's long term guiding ideology,was also written in the Party Constitution.It scientificaly generalizes the nature of the Party,brings to light the key question of the Pary's building and puts forward the essential criteria of judging the results of the Party's building.It,therefore,deepens the people's cognition about the Party and raises this cognition to a new and scientific level.


In this work quantity of abdominal fat (weight and portion) was examined in broilers of two genotypes in the fifth, sixth and seventh week of their growth. The examination was carried out in production conditions, in the facility for commercial fattening of broilers chickens, so all technical recommendations related to intensive rearing of chickens were provided. Broilers Cobb 500 and Hubbard Classic which were housed in separate boxes (8 boxes for each genotype) were used as a material. Forty male chickens and forty female chickens at the 5, 6 and 7 weeks of age were selected for slaughtering by random selection, so 240 all together sacrificed chickens were prepared for further treatment. By cutting of the carcasses, abdominal fat was removed and measured, and it was put in proportion to the body mass before slaughtering and in this way the share of abdominal fat was obtained. All data was statistically processed by the subprogram Basic Statistic and Anova. The chickens of the genotype Hubbard had significantly higher share (0,96%) and insignificantly higher weight (19,47g) of abdominal fat than Cobb 500 (0,83% and 17,16g). Female chickens of both genotypes in the examination had significantly higher weight (19,84g) and share (0,96%) of abdominal fat in carcass then male broilers. Chickens at the age of 49 days had statistically significantly higher abdominal fat than the chick at the age of 42 and 35 days in absolute (25,35g) and relative values (1,06%). This confirms the importance of the examined factors on the amount of abdominal fat in carcass of broiler chickens.


The Panicum capillare complex was examined in eastern Canada and New York State, United States. Uniform cultivation indicated distinctive growth habits for the five species. Univariate analysis of various morphological characters indicated some that were useful in species identification, especially when expressed as ratios. Discriminant function analysis of 4 floret characters in 128 samples and 13 morphological characters (including the 4 floret characters) in 48 samples indicated that floret characters, especially those related to overall size and shape (area and perimeter), were most informative. Various ecological and morphological characters useful for identification of the species are discussed. A key to the species is presented. Key words: Panicum capillare, identification, weeds.


We present a case study of antecedent rainfall-induced failure of engineering slope. The impact of pore-water pressure, the increment of pore-water pressure, and water content, the factor of safety are investigated by numerical models for an actual slope in Yunnan, China. The results indicate that antecedent rainfall played an important role in the stability of the slope. The model reasonably explains the time lag between the occurrence of rainfall and landslides. Pore-water pressures have significantly changed at the upper layer of red clay slope, the cracks phenomenon at the upper of the slope agrees with the field observations before landslide. The saturated zone of the slope gradually expands from the top to bottom of the slope, the major reason for landslide is that the surface stagnant water after rainfall gradually infiltrates into the weathered gneiss rock, resulting in the decrease of the strength of weathered gneiss rock, and then the weight of later rainfall caused the landslide of the slope. The factor of safety of the slope was evaluated by the modified limit equilibrium methods, it was shown that the actual failure occurred when the calculated factor of safety approaches its minimum 0.97. The landslide is characterized by shallow landslides.


Objective To investigate the expression of inflammatory cytokines TNF-α in brain tissue of rats with sepsis and the effect of extracellular signal regulated kinase(ERK) inhibitor PD98059 on its expression.Methods Models of neonatal rats with sepsis were established by the cecal ligation and puncture(CLP).Totally 74 cases of 10-day-old neonatal rats were randomly divided into 3 groups:control group(n=6),CLP group(n=34) and PD98059 group(n=34).In CLP group,only CLP was performed in the rats.In PD98059 group,PD98059(0.3 mg·kg-1 body weight) was injected into the rats peritoneal cavity 0.5 hour before CLP.Six rats in CLP group and PD98059 group were killed and their brains were removed at 2 h,4 h,6 h and 8 h after CLP,respectively.Then,reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction was used to detect the TNF-α mRNA expression in rats′ brain tissue.Expression of protein was detected by the enzyme linked immunosorbent assay.Results In control group,there were very low expressions of TNF-α mRNA and protein in rats′ brain tissue.In CLP group,the expressions of TNF-α mRNA and protein started to increase at 2 hours,reached the peak at 6 hours and decreased at 8 hours after CLP,and were up-regulated significantly compared with control group(P0.001,0.05).Expressions of TNF-α mRNA and protein were significantly lower in various time points after CLP in PD98059 group than those in CLP group(Pa0.001,0.05).Additionally,10 cases in the other 20 rats with sepsis died in 10 days,including 8 cases in CLP group(mortality rate,80%) and 2 cases in PD98059 group(mortality rate,20%)(P=0.023).Conclusions In the early stage,sepsis can induce the prominent increased expression of TNF-α in brain tissue of neonatal rats.But ERK inhibitor PD98059 can down-regulate its expression,and alleviate the brain injury as well as reduce septic mortality.


Pectinolytic enzymes are one of the several extracellular enzymes produced by fungi that break down pectin, a polysaccharide substrate that is found in the cell walls of plants. Pectinases are both plant and microbial origin. Pectin lyase extensively used in the clarification of fruit juices and wines. Currently, they are widely used in industry for retting of natural fibers and extraction of oils from vegetable and citrus peels. In the present investigation, several fungi were isolated from dead and decayed organic matter of soil on pectin agar medium. The following fungal organisms Aspergillus fumigatus, A. flavus, A. niger, A. ochraceus, A.oryzae, A. sydowii, Trichothecium sp., Penicillium sp., Trichoderma harzianum and T. viride were screened and tested for pectinolytic activity by plate assay. Zone of clearance observed in plate assay showed the production of pectin lyase by these fungi. The plate Assay method clearly indicated the ability of these fungi to produce pectin lyase enzymes, especially the polygalacturonase enzyme.


Multicore photonic crystal fiber is an important research direction to realize high-power supercontiuum. We report two post processing methods based on air hole collapse technique to generate Gaussian-like mode field in a seven-core photonic crystal fiber (SCPCF) for low loss splicing. By heating and collapsing all air holes in the meantime, the mode field of SCPCF becomes more concentrated and the valleys between separated core modes become much flatter. Another method to generate Gaussian-like mode field is selectively collapsing the central air holes between the seven cores, which can form an integrated larger core. Theoretical simulation results are confirmed by experiment and both methods are used to decrease mode field mismatch between SCPCF and double clad fiber with splicing losses as low as 0.46 and 0.22 dB, respectively.


OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between cardiac function and activities of daily living (ADLs) in an age‐homogenous, community‐dwelling population born in 1920 and 1921.


Yiling Wu Guang Dong Food and Drug Vocational College,510520 Abstract: With the development of my aunt's social economy in a more diversified direction, various industries in the society have higher and higher requirements for art and design talents, and the art and design education in major universities is also facing huge opportunities and challenges. This article analyzes the current actual situation of art design education in detail, proposes some education reform measures in combination with the problems in education and teaching, and thinks about the future direction of art design education, hoping to provide information on the development and innovation of art design education in colleges and universities Some useful suggestions.


This book gives a broad picture of the development of the attachment theory and research related to attachment theory. It presents the links to evolutionary biology, ethology, systems theory as we ...


This study assessed the impact of an alternate ride home for persons who wanted to plan ahead for instances when they may be too impaired to drive, specifically targeting persons between the ages of 29 and 49. First, a series of focus groups was conducted to examine perceptions, opinions, attitudes, and beliefs about impaired driving and to explore attitudes about the importance of family, jobs, and friendships in making decisions about drinking and driving and staying in control. Based on the focus group findings, the researchers chose a workplace program to evaluate because of the connection that exists between drinking and driving and potential negative consequences for workers' careers. Two firms in Dane County, Wisconsin agreed to participate in the program, called CareFare, by promoting this program in their work place. One employer was a bank and the other was a manufacturing company. The appeal of workplace programs designed to prevent drinking and driving is that they are good business. Avoiding a crash is good for everyone, driver and employer alike. From an employer's point of view, lost time due to injury results in reduced productivity regardless of where or when the crash occurs. Some drawbacks were identified. One potential problem is that impaired driving is a sensitive issue when compared to other health concerns that might be addressed at the work place. The two employers in this program expressed concern that providing CareFare coupons might imply that either they condoned heavy drinking or that they believed their employees habitually became too impaired to drive. Surveys conducted after the program found that there was very little awareness of the program among employees of the two participating companies.


This paper presents the development of the morpheme ?mbo in American English. A group of words with the ?mbo ending came into...


As the number of netizens increases, the Internet has become an important platform for public opinion emergence and transmission. In order to reinforce the network management and make timely and correct navigation to public opinion, monitoring and analyzing Internet public opinion has become pretty urgent for governments. In this paper, Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is used to find topics of news stories on Internet. A concept in FCA is used to express a topic and the intent of the concept is used to represent topic content. The experimental result shows that our approach is feasible for topic detection and the degree of users' satisfaction reaches 85.71%.


This study was conducted to investigate the biological role of periostin in gastric cancer (GC) under hypoxia. Western blot analysis revealed that along with an upregulation of hypoxia‐inducible factor‐1alpha, there was a time‐dependent induction of periostin in MKN‐45 cells under hypoxia (2% O2), increasing by eightfold as compared to normoxic cells. Pretreatment with 30 µM PD98059, an inhibitor of ERK1/2, significantly reduced hypoxia‐stimulated periostin expression (P < 0.01). Periostin knockdown in MKN‐45 cells was achieved by specific small interfering RNA (siRNA). The conditioned medium from periostin siRNA‐transfected MKN‐45 cells induced significantly less (P < 0.01) endothelial tube formation than control siRNA‐transfected cells. Additionally, periostin silencing markedly decreased the mRNA expression and secretion of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in hypoxic MKN‐45 cells. Thus, our data suggest that periostin is a hypoxia‐response gene and mediates a cross talk between GC and endothelial cells under hypoxia, partially through regulation of the VEGF expression. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J BiochemMol Toxicol 27:364‐369, 2013; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/jbt.21498


Full wave method FDTD was used to design and analyse wideband planar antennas, in order to acquire the impedance of three kinds of slotlines, Mur's ABCs of the second order and partial absorbing load was taken into account to reduce the reflection on the boundary conditions. Comparison with the MoM and Serenade software as well as experiments verified the accuracy and readiness of this method. Finally, the pattern of Vivaldi antenna (based on the double sided slotline) was obtained.


This paper evaluates the accuracy of shoreline positions obtained from the infrared (IR) bands of Landsat 7, Landsat 8, and Sentinel-2 imagery on natural beaches. A workflow for sub-pixel shoreline extraction, already tested on seawalls, is used. The present work analyzes the behavior of that workflow and resultant shorelines on a micro-tidal (<20 cm) sandy beach and makes a comparison with other more accurate sets of shorelines. These other sets were obtained using differential GNSS surveys and terrestrial photogrammetry techniques through the C-Pro monitoring system. 21 sub-pixel shorelines and their respective high-precision lines served for the evaluation. The results prove that NIR bands can easily confuse the shoreline with whitewater, whereas SWIR bands are more reliable in this respect. Moreover, it verifies that shorelines obtained from bands 11 and 12 of Sentinel-2 are very similar to those obtained with bands 6 and 7 of Landsat 8 (−0.75 ± 2.5 m; negative sign indicates landward bias). The variability of the brightness in the terrestrial zone influences shoreline detection: brighter zones cause a small landward bias. A relation between the swell and shoreline accuracy is found, mainly identified in images obtained from Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2. On natural beaches, the mean shoreline error varies with the type of image used. After analyzing the whole set of shorelines detected from Landsat 7, we conclude that the mean horizontal error is 4.63 m (±6.55 m) and 5.50 m (±4.86 m), respectively, for high and low gain images. For the Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 shorelines, the mean error reaches 3.06 m (±5.79 m).


Thrombin clotting times were performed on 43 umbilical cord blood samples. In 3 cases these were grossly prolonged. The importance of this observation is discussed.


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This invention relates to high safety and performance 2V lithium ion secondary battery, it includes pluggable/pullable lithium ion anode active matter anode and pluggable/pullable lithium ion cathode active matter cathode, membrane that separate anode and cathode and non water electrolysis. The features are that the anode active matter is made by olivine type LiFePO4 material, the cathode active matter is made by spinel structure Li4Ti5O12 material. The anode and cathode active matter mass ratio range is 0.7-1.06. The battery has stable charging and discharging flat at 2V, so its safety is greatly improved, its cycle characteristics is good and no pollution to the environment. The manufacturing cost is reduced, its technique is simple and application is wide.


For Ge layers on Si(111) surfaces the energy of coherent and semicoherent interfaces with misfit dislocations is numerically analyzed by use of the atomistic anharmonic bond charge model and the Stillinger-Weber approach. For the semicoherent interface, three configurations are considered, differing in the dissociation of the misfit dislocations into Shockley partials and in the partial dislocation patterns. The calculations yield a slight energetic preference of the so-called B variant while the literature reports observation of all three configurations. The deduced critical thickness for the coherent interface is in fair accordance with experimental estimates.


personnel, were included, if only to discuss the roles of the prison officers and the working conditions officers faced. A more comprehensive description of the methodology and sampling may have been helpful to better gauge from whom the information was gathered. Although Crawley states that she conducted 40 formal interviews, the comments could have been heavily drawn from a few select individuals or evenly distributed between interviews and off-the-cuff remarks. Although it was indicated that most of the data came from participant observation, a description of the formal interviews would have been helpful. It was not clear how many officers were approached to participate in a formal interview, how many refused to participate, or what the average length of service was for those who did participate. In the author's defense, she does mention that the time spent at each prison varied tremendously and that one of the prisons was visited only twice, whereas another one had more than a dozen extended visits. This book adds to the literature by providing a clear depiction of the daily routines that occur within in a prison. Two reoccurring themes are the domesticity of the prison environment and the wide spectrum of emotions that are encountered by officers daily. Prisons are inherently domestic in the sense that many individuals have to eat, sleep, exercise, and bathe within the same confines on a daily basis. Care is taken to provide various points of view for each theme, and the excerpts from prison officers are woven eloquently into the text.


It introduces the main content of building of the legal system,analyses the defects in government quality supervision,and elaborates some executing points and methods of government quality supervision system.From aspects including construction,design and supervision,it analyses government's doing well in macro-control of project quality.


This paper constructed a moral risk model between the local government and the central government, and designed a incentive contracts that is corresponding for the preferences both of the central government (the client) and the local government (the agent) so as to realize the maximization of the client pays and improve the government agricultural public risk management efficiency.


Learning manipulation skills from observing human demonstration videos is a promising aspect for intelligent robotic systems. Recent advances in video to command provide an end-to-end approach to translate a video into robot plans. However, the general video captioning methods focus more on the understanding of the full frame, while they lack the consideration of the spatio-temporal features in videos. In this paper, we proposed the two-stream 2D/3D residual networks for robots to learn manipulation tasks from human demonstration videos. We integrate spatial features with 2D residual network and temporal features with 3D residual network as inputs for RNN layers. An encoder-decoder architecture is then used to encode the spatio-temporal features and sequentially generate the command words. Experimental results on an extended manipulation dataset show that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art methods. Real-world experiments results on a Baxter robotic arm indicate that our method could produce more accurate commands from video demonstrations.


Taxonomic, geographical and ecological information of 21 especies of Colombian blowfl ies of the subfamilies Chrysomyinae and Toxotarsinae is presented. Keys for taxonomical identifi cation of the genera and species are provided.


The complex derived from Fe(NO3)3 · 9H2O and perchlorate salt of N,N,N',N'-tetrakis- (2-pyridylmethyl)-2-hydroxy-1,3-diaminopropane (abbreviated as H(HPTP)) is formulated as a binuclear species with μ-alkoxo and μ-hydroxo bridges, [Fe2(HPTP)(OH)(NO3)2 ](ClO4)2, on the basis of analytical data, magnetic properties, and conductivity data. This complex reacts with hydrogen peroxide in water to form a violet adduct with new charge transfer bands in the range 520-600 nm. This adduct is very unstable at room temperature, indicating the high catalase-like function of this complex. The complex exhibits a high ability to degradate DNA in the presence of H2O2. The observed high catalase-like and bleomycin-like functions of the complex are discussed in terms of the activation of the peroxide ion by the binuclear iron(III) compound.


SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted by contacting; however, the virus is so active that it can attach to objects and be transmitted from objects to humans via such contacting. The virus, which spreads through some living or inanimate-mediated processes, is more dangerous. On the basis of the routine contact transmission of infectious diseases, this paper further discusses the scope and efficiency of infectious diseases with indirect transmission. Through the study of two different transmission routes, the dynamic models of infectious diseases were constructed. The propagation of these two processes is theoretically studied using a differential equation model and stability analysis theory, and some actual virus propagation processes are simulated by numerical solutions. The prevention and control methods of infectious diseases are given, which lay the theoretical foundation for the discussion of related problems in practical application.


The study aims to explore rate of relatedness between 2007 revised elementary science curriculum and science museum exhibits. The target museums exhibits for this study are ones of Gwacheon National Science Museum and National Institute of Biological Resources. The result of this study indicated the followed. Percentage of exhibits that were connected with new elementary school science curriculum at Gwacheon National Science Museum and National Institute of Biological Resources is 22%. In conclusion, for making exhibits of informal education institutions collaborated with school curriculum of formal education, it is necessary to move forward to increasing dealing with the topics and subjects in school curriculum.


As the father of two teenagers with immunologically confirmed nut allergy, I agree that more clarity is needed in the labelling of food products.1 The problem is not whether labels promote "risk taking" behaviour but whether they are clear and unambiguous, …


The effective in vitro screening tests of three Trichoderma species for antagonism against Pythium species isolated from Lycopersicon esculentum -Mill root rot infection, together with its diffusible and volatile metabolites production capability, which in turn mycoparasitic abilities. This informs its selection as the most promising candidate for the biocontrol of isolated Pythium pathogens. Treatment with the antagonist in variable culture technique resulted in a remarkable reduction in terms of percent inhibition of pathogens. Four species of Pythium causing root in tomato plant were isolated, characterized macro and microscopically. Trichoderma species by using diffusible and volatile metabolites against test pathogen, volatile metabolites gives the most acceptable and significant results as compared to the diffusible metabolites, which can be further exploited can biocontrol tool for seed


"Reality of laws" first time is clear about "the homestead right ofuse" in the legal stratification plane is with a profit real right inindependent right, and to this right legal status, the powerconnotation has carried on the limits, this will certainly to furtherthe standard countryside homestead system the vital role.


The freedoms of expression and of the press are basic pillars of the western democracies. The contemporary theoretical framework which gives support to these rights was generated in the wake of the liberal revolutions which took place in Western Europe and in North America starting from the second half of the 1600s. Our purpose in this text is to present the current scene regarding this topic, focusing whenever pertinent on the Brazilian case, and seeking to question the unconditional defense of the freedoms of expression and of the press made by the thinkers who founded these principles vis-a-vis contemporary issues of the communicational universe. Going beyond theoretical-conceptual refl ections, we present and analyze the results of a content analysis showing how 53 Brazilian newspapers and 4 magazines with nationwide circulation report (or not) topics relating to freedom of expression and of the press.


This paper describes the development of an experimental setup to investigate the performance of heat pipes as capillary pumps. The experimental setup and the research that was performed by LFME was part of an EU funded research project called TRI-GEN EGD that aims in the overall development of a novel Tri-generation Electrogasdynamic converter system. The capillary pump will be used to pump the working fluid of the system using external waste heat. Furthermore, since the capillary pump has no moving parts it will provide the system with greater reliability. The experimental setup designed and constructed by LFME is a Capillary Pumped Loop (CPL). A CPL is a closed loop system that pumps liquid by passive means, based on the operating principles of heat pipes. Specifically capillary forces are generated on a porous structure that exists in the evaporation section and is responsible for pushing the working fluid from a high temperature source to a low temperature sink. In this paper, a brief description of the experimental setup that was constructed and a description of the experimental procedure that was followed will be given together with some results that were obtained for various configurations. Copyright , Manchester University Press.


There exists a multiple address comparison problem in traditional BIRA structure,which seriously affects the repair speed and read /write performance of memory. In order to solve this problem,this paper put forward the BIRA technology based on Bloom filter. New BIRA structure added a Bloom filter on the basis of traditional structure. It could improve the repair and access speed of memory by reducing the number of address comparasions. Experiment results show that the number of comparasions in this method is much less than that in tradional BIRA and address split BIRA with the same fault address number. Thus,the high efficiency of new BIRA structure is verified.


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Anemia is a common occurrence in intensive care unit (ICU) patients and frequently results in allogeneic blood transfusion. In critical illness, patient tolerance to a reduction in the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity may be reduced because of a blunting of the physiologic compensatory response mechanisms to – anemia and/or to an increase in tissue metabolic needs. Anemia has indeed been associated with an increased risk of mortality in critically ill patients, particularly in those with pre-existing cardiovascular disease or in those with significant blood loss. Clinical trials comparing a liberal versus restrictive transfusion strategy defined by a specified hemoglobin (or hematocrit) concentration showed that mortality, morbidity and length of hospital stay seem unaffected by the transfusion strategy, even in hemodynamically stable cardiovascular disease patients. The absence of outcome improvement associated with a more liberal transfusion strategy remains largely to be elucidated. There is, however, some experimental evidence that blood transfusion may have adverse effects on tissue oxygen delivery because of erythrocyte storage-related changes. The decision to transfuse a given patient must also take into account the risks associated with allogeneic blood, in particular those related to its potential immunosuppressive effects. There is no one "optimal" hemoglobin value for ICU patients, and the decision to transfuse should be made on a case-by-case basis, with each patient being assessed according to his or her clinical status, the underlying cause of anemia and the risk of potential complications. In any case, preventive measures should be taken whenever possible to limit the development of anemia in the ICU.


The aim of the dissertation is the development of a data-driven portfolio optimization framework beyond standard assumptions. Investment decisions are either based on the opinion of a human expert, who evaluates information about companies, or on statistical models. The most famous methods based on statistics are the Markowitz portfolio model and utility maximization. All statistical methods assume certain knowledge over the underlying distribution of the returns, either by imposing Gaussianity, by expecting complete knowledge of the distribution or by inferring sufficiently good estimators of parameters. Yet in practice, all methods suffer from incomplete knowledge, small sample sizes and the problem that parameters might be varying over time. A new, model-free approach to the portfolio optimization problem allowing for timevarying dynamics in the price processes is presented. The methods proposed in this work are designed to solve the problem with less a-priori assumptions than standard methods, like assumptions on the distribution of the price processes or assumptions on time-invariant statistical properties. The new approach introduces two new parameters and a method to chose these based on principles of information theory. An analysis of different approaches to incorporate additional information is performed before a straightforward approach to the out-of-sample application is introduced. The structure of the numerical problem is obtained directly from the problem of portfolio optimization, resulting in a system of objective function and constraints known from non-stationary time series analysis. The incorporation of transaction costs allows to naturally obtain regularization that is normally included for numerical reasons. The applicability and the numerical feasibility of the method are demonstrated in a lowdimensional example in-sample and in a high-dimensional example inand out-of-sample in an environment with mixed transaction costs. The performance of both examples is measured and compared to standard methods, as the Markowitz approach and to methods based on techniques to analyse non-stationary data, like Hidden Markov Models.


Purpose: The aim of this�in vitro�study was to compare the accuracy of implant placement among five drilling systems of sCAIS.

Materials and Methods: Twenty-five 3D printed models with two edentulous bilateral premolar spaces were allocated to five different drilling systems: group A: sleeve-in-sleeve, group B: sleeve-in-sleeve with self-locking, group C: mounted sleeve-on-drill, group D: integrated sleeve-on-drill with metal sleeve in the guide, group E: integrated sleeve-on-drill without metal sleeve. All implants were digitally planned and 10 implants placed with sCAIS in each group. Postoperative 3D deviation of actual vs planned position was measured by means of platform, apex and angular deviation. Data was analyzed using Kruskal-Wallis test (P�? .05). Pairwise comparisons were tested with Dunn's test.

Results: The overall platform deviation ranged from 0.42?0.12 mm (group B) to 1.18?0.19 mm (group C). The overall apex deviation ranged from 0.76?0.22 mm (group B) to 1.95?0.48 mm (group D). The overall angular deviation ranged from 2.50?0.89 degrees (group B) to 5.30?1.04 degrees (group E). Group A and B showed significantly less angular deviation than groups D and E (P�< .05). There was no statistically significant differences in all parameters between group A and B, as well as between group D and E (P�> .05).

Conclusions: Significant differences were found with regards to accuracy among the five sCAIS systems tested, suggesting that the drilling protocol, the devices used and the design principles of the guides could influence the accuracy of implant placement.


The marked changes that occur in immune function during pregnancy influence the natural course of all diseases with an autoimmune component. This is especially so for one of the commonest endocrine problems encountered autoimmune thyroid disease. I t may come as a surprise to many people that thyroid disease afflicts over 1.5% of the female population; and the vast majority of these patients are young women suffering from an autoimmune diathesis relating to the tolerance of thyroid antigens.' Hence, since thyroid disease and pregnancy are common occurrences in the population at large, a history of thyroid dysfunction will necessarily be frequently encountered during gestation. There have been significant, but limited, advances in our knowledge of the pathological processes involved in human autoimmune thyroid disease since the discovery of thyroglobulin antibodies by Roitt et al' and thyroid-stimulating antibodies (TSAb) by Adams and P u r v e ~ , ~ both of which occurred in 1956. Studies have indicated that the clinical presentation of many thyroid abnormalities is dependent on the relative preponderance of thyroidstimulating and/or thyroid-destructing antibodies, which results in a spectrum of disease from hyperthyroidism to hypothyroidism. Hence, we now recognize a variety of autoantibodies, which can be readily measured in the laboratory; but we really do not understand the cause of their production. While their presence suggests an acquired disorder of immunoregulation, there are also major genetic components involved that endow susceptibility to disease development. The diseases are often familial but with no known mode of inheritance due to variable penetrance. Needless to say, the forbidden clone theory alone does not account for this genetic predisposition.'


AIM:To study the effects of U50488H(a selective κ-opioid receptor agonist)on the coronary microcirculation and myocardial ultra structure during myocardial ischemia and reperfusion in rats so as to know whether has some direct protective effects.METHODS:Rats were randomly divided into 4 different groups:control group,ischemia-reperfusion group(I/R),U50488H+I/R group,and Nor-BNI+U50488H+I/R group(Nor-BNI,a selective κ-opioid receptor antagonist).The coronary microcirculation and the myocardial ultra structure were determined in rats.RESULTS:The section area of blood capillary in U50488H+I/R group was larger than that in I/R group and Nor-BNI+U50488H+I/R group.The injury of the myocardial ultra structure was significantly more decreased compared with that in I/R group and Nor-BNI+U50488H+I/R group.CONCLUSION:U50488H improves the microcirculation and decreases the injury of myocardial ultra structure through stimulating κ-opioid during myocardial ischemia and reperfusion in rats.U50488H has some direct protective effects during myocardial ischemia and reperfusion in rats,but the effect of U50488H can be abolished by Nor-BNI.


The low cost of vision sensors and the increasing computational power of "off the shelf" computers provide the conditions for the introduction of vision based human computer interaction techniques in the domestic environment. In this paper we are reporting empirical data about the usability of a pointing device based on gesture languages recognized by simple vision techniques. The results show that the users learn quicker to apply the gesture pointing language than the laptop's touchpad device in a multidirectional point selection task. We discuss the implication of this finding for an applied context such as managing common windows based operating system.


and rent-seeking politicians. This is as far as the present volume takes us. A concluding essay by Ray Bush situates the Zambian case succinctly in the global political economy, but somewhat surprisingly grasps at a romantic vision of 'community-based' mining for its strategic blueprint. One should certainly not dismiss radical political innovations out of hand. Still, the two anthropologically slanted case studies in this volume – Patience Mususa's ethnographic sketch of the everyday travails of women mining the mineral waste heaps, and Rohit Negi's discussion of how chiefs have responded to the challenges and opportunities of privatised mining investment within their traditional territories – provide little support to Bush's populist scenario. One hopes that this excellent volume will stimulate further debate and research. Political ecologists in particular have been left a very fruitful lacuna to fill with a complementary analysis of the spatial and environmental dimensions of the copper economy.


Applying the morphological operator,which characterizes the spatial correlative informations of pixels,to endmember extraction of hyperspectral remote sensing image can improve the performance of algorithm effectively.In order to overcome the limitations in sorting rules and replacing criteria of extended-morphological operator,which is commonly used in hyperspectral remote sensing image to extract endmembers,the modified extended-morphological operator is proposed after introducing the concept and presenting the calculating method of reference vector.The cross-replacement phenomena at the junction of different classes can be avoided and the correct coverage direction can be ensured when the modified sorting rules and replacing criteria have been applied in endmember extraction algorithm to enhance the results as key means.The endmember extraction algorithm using the determine profiles,generated after open-close and close-open operations defined by basic dilation and erosion operations of modified extended morphology,is described in detail.The automated modified extended-morphological endmember extraction algorithm is achieved by using both spatial and spectral information in a combined manner,thus,the endmember extraction result is superior to the approachs designed from a spectral information viewpoint only.The alogrithm is implemented in IDL7.0 and testd by using real hyperspectral imagery collected by airborne visible/infrared imaging spectrometer in cuprite area,the experimental results of the similarity on spectral curves,the average similarity and the mineral distribution maps verified the validity of the algorithm.


The purpose of this essay is to examine the logical system and the intrinsic intention of Todorov's theory of narrative. His theory has significance in respect that it is representative of the narratology advocating structural poetics. also gave attention to the discrepancy immanent in his theory of narrative. 'Poetics' of 'narrative' runs after the literariness and the narrativity in literary narratives at the same time. In Todorov's theory, we can find his self contradictions caused by that reason and moreover self~conscious consideration about it. He classifies the fields of poetics from a Jinguistic viewpoint into three; the semantic aspect, the syntactic aspect, and the verbal aspect. The semantic aspect is related to the process of signification, the problem of verisimilitude, and a general literary thematics etc. The syntactic aspect deals with structures of the text and the grammar of narrative. And the third aspect includes time, perspective, mode. and voice in fictional narrative. In this essay, I examined each aspect concretely and considered it's logical validity and practical utility. Todorov's theory of narrative contributed to analysis of narrative structure and penetration into the nature or narrativity. On the other side, it showed the limits to verify distinctive qualities of the literary text. But the two-directional object of poetics of narrative served as incentives to many theories of narrative which have contrary inclinations. His theory is worthy of notice by reason that it laid the foundation of prosperity of narratology.


Recent developments in chip-based column technology, whereby plate heights corresponding to the domain size can be obtained,[1] suggest that it might also be possible to improve the lower minimal plate height limit in packed column HPLC (h≈2dp), down to lower values if feasible improved packing procedures can be developed.
In order to allow enhanced understanding of the order in packed HPLC columns, in this work a methodology for mmobilizing silica particles is developed based on the polymerization of a monomer and a cross-linker in the interstitial pores of HPLC columns. Subsequent mechanical cutting allows scanning electron microscopy (SEM) based imaging of cross sections of the packed bed over the entire length of the column.
In this way the packing efficiency of in-house packed and commercial HPLC columns comprising the same packing material can be compared. The methodology is developed for native silica used in e.g. hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography and the information obtained is cross-referenced with external porosity measurements obtained via inversed size exclusion approach.[2]


The invention relates to a compound plugging agent for oil well water control and a preparation method of the compound plugging agent. The preparation method comprises the following steps: adding water into a reactor, adding one or two of acrylic acid, N, N-methylenebisacrylamide and polyethylene glycol diacrylate while stirring until complete dissolution is achieved, slowly adding micron-sized granular montmorillonite or/and kaolin, after montmorillonite or/and kaolin is uniformly dispersed, dropwise adding ammonium ferrous sulfate and hydrogen peroxide, reacting for 1 hour at room temperature, finally adding sodium hydroxide for neutralizing to be neutral to obtain floccules and carrying out centrifugal drying on the floccules to obtain a nano(micro)-sized water-control compound temporary plugging agent. The temporary plugging agent can be used as a water-control temporary plugging agent in refracturing, plug removal and acidizing measures of old oilfields subjected to waterflooding development, the temporary plugging agent is injected from the oil well of which the moisture content is 20-40% to plug dominant waterflooding channels in medium-moisture-content and high-moisture-content oil wells and thus the purpose of measure water control in the medium-moisture-content and high-moisture-content oil wells is achieved.


......................................................................................................................... ii Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................ vii Vita ............................................................................................................................. viii List of Tables................................................................................................................ xii List of Figures ............................................................................................................. xiii Chapter 1: Introduction ....................................................................................................1 Chapter 2: Covalent YB-1 oligomerization is associated with post-transplant cardiac remodeling and fetal smooth muscle α-actin gene reactivation .........................................5 2.


We propose dual microring-resonators coupled with a Mach-Zehnder interferometer for biosensing. With its simple design and low cost, the detection limit is enhanced as an 8.3×10-7 refractive-index unit through ring-down interferograms in the spatial domain.


: More customers might want to store their information to PCS (open cloud servers) alongside the quick improvement of distributed computing. New security issues must be settled keeping in mind the end goal to help more customers process their information out in the open cloud. At the point when the customer is limited to get to PCS, he will designate its proxy to process his information and transfer them. Then again, remote information honesty checking is likewise an essential security issue out in the open distributed storage. It makes the customers check whether their outsourced information is kept in place without downloading the entire information. From the security issues, we propose a novel proxy arranged information transferring and remote information respectability checking model in personality based open key cryptography: IDPUIC (personality based proxy situated information transferring and remote information respectability checking in broad daylight cloud). We give the formal definition, framework model and security display. At that point, a solid ID-PUIC convention is composed by utilizing the bilinear pairings. The proposed ID-PUIC convention is provably secure in view of the hardness of CDH (computational Diffie-Hellman) issue. Our ID-PUIC convention is likewise proficient and adaptable. In view of the unique customer's approval, the proposed ID-PUIC convention can understand private remote information respectability checking, designated remote information respectability checking and open remote information trustworthiness checking.


Helicobacter pylori predisposes to gastric cancer and lymphoma. Why only a small subset of infected patients develop gastric cancer, and even more rarely gastric lymphoma, challenges scientists around the world to define the bacterial and host genetic alterations that allow these diseases to occur. Simultaneously, clinicians have already introduced H. pylori eradication programmes to cure or suppress gastric lymphoma, and interventional trials are in progress to determine whether H. pylori eradication will alSO prevent gastric Cancer.


The corrosion of steel embedded in concrete is a well-known, world-wide phenomenon. Over the past 30 years, the chloride ion has been identified as the major agent associated with the depassivation, and consequent corrosion, of the embedded steel. One form of mass transfer associated with the movement of chloride ions in concrete is diffusion. In this study, chloride ion diffusion rates in cementitious paste have been determined using a modification to the ``standard`` diffusion cell. Ordinary Portland cement samples of varying water/cement ratios were investigated together with similar materials to which varying amounts of pyrolyzed scrap polymer had been added. The results from the present study are compared with previously published data and their relevance to the chloride-induced corrosion of embedded steel is discussed.


This work presents an improved measurement setup to directly measure the collector low frequency current spectral density SIC of SiGe:C Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (HBTs) when the base is AC short-circuited. A comprehensive analysis of the obtained results is also provided as well as a SPICE based electrical model. The additional white noise observed at high collector biases is due to the contribution of the emitter/base internal resistance. The 1/f noise exhibits a linear evolution with a 1.7 slope versus IC and is proportional to 1/√Ae. No evolution of SIC with emitter periphery Pe was observed. From a comparative study of the different 1/f noise term of SIC we found that SIC is mainly associated with the spontaneous fluctuations of the intrinsic collector current.


The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relative contribution of each component in the ultimate strength and stiffness of the Evolgate (Citieffe), which is presently a widely used fixation device in DGST ACL reconstruction. The three components of the Evolgate were tested using fresh frozen animal tissue stored at −20° Celsius. Common extensor tendons were harvested from 20-month-old bovine forelimbs. Twenty-four tests were performed for each of the following configurations: six tests using Evolgate complete, six tests using screw alone, six tests using screw and washer and six tests using screw and coil. A randomised t-test was used; differences were considered significant when p


Image retrieval is the major innovations in the development of images. Mining of images is used to mine latest information from the general collection of images. CBIR is the latest method in which our target images is to be extracted on the basis of specific features of the specified image. The image can be retrieved in fast if it is clustered in an accurate and structured manner. In this paper, we have the combined the theories of CBIR and analysis of features of CBIR systems.


When I began my career, I had no idea where the road would lead but I knew I wanted to do something that would make a real difference in people's lives. I came to understand that in public health, we do have the opportunity to change lives, sometimes millions at a time.


Banks and Insurance companies have the job of facilitation of economic activities, given their broad interactions, directly or indirectly, to the other sectors of the economy. In this context, the role of these two sectors in the economy is inevitable and unavoidable. This paper aims to investigate the economic importance of insurance and banking sectors by applying the Hypothetical Extraction in two models: Leontief demand-oriented model and Ghosh supply oriented model. The index of linkage between insurance and banking is a comprehensive criterion for Iranian economy. For this, 20-sector input-output table gathered on 2001 is employed Industry technology assumption to producer's price.


Urinary diversion is not a subject for dogmatic or didactic teaching. It requires a wide repertoire of management, ranging from non-operative conservative treatment to aggressive major surgical procedures, in dealing with a common urological problem.


The article discusses the principles of forming a system for assessing the sustainable development of entrepreneurial ecosystems implemented on the basis of platform solutions. Such structures provide the possibility of network interaction between ecosystem actors through the ecosystem organizer and directly among themselves, forming a value proposition to consumers. The presented system of indicators, adopted by the participants of the ecosystem, will allow assessing the dynamics of the ecosystem development processes, taking into account the peculiarities of network structures, and form a community aimed at the balanced development of business entities without harming modern consumers and future generations.


The quality of statistical data is the corw of statistical work,and also the base of three functions of statistic.The quality of the statistical data affects directly not only on the economical information quality,but also on the acceracy of statistical prediction and scientificalness of policy making.On the process of comprehensively constructing well-off society.High-qualitied statistical data i indispensable.The whole society should have a high value at the quality of statistical data.


Angiotensin (Ang)-(1–7) is now recognized as a biologically active component of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS). The discovery of the angiotensin-converting enzyme homologue ACE2 revealed important metabolic pathways involved in the Ang-(1–7) synthesis. This enzyme can form Ang-(1–7) from Ang II or less efficiently through hydrolysis of Ang I to Ang-(1–9) with subsequent Ang-(1–7) formation. Additionally, it is well established that the G protein-coupled receptor Mas is a functional ligand site for Ang-(1–7). The axis formed by ACE2/Ang-(1–7)/Mas represents an endogenous counter regulatory pathway within the RAS whose actions are opposite to the vasoconstrictor/proliferative arm of the RAS constituted by ACE/Ang II/AT1 receptor. In this review we will discuss recent findings concerning the biological role of the ACE2/Ang-(1–7)/Mas arm in the cardiovascular and pulmonary system. Also, we will highlight the initiatives to develop potential therapeutic strategies based on this axis.


Abstract 1354 Primary intraocular lymphoma (PIOL) is a rare form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), accounting for less than 1% of all NHL cases. Because 60–80% of PIOLs develop in the central nervous system (CNS), 25% of CNS lymphomas (CNSL) are accompanied by intraocular lesions, and both are B-cell lymphomas, PIOL has been considered as a subtype of primary CNSL (PCNSL). However, there is little genetic evidence to support this classification. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relevance of the current PIOL classification by genomic profiling of our PIOL series. Intraocular lymphoma (IOL) was diagnosed using the following criteria: (1) typical eye involvement; (2) identifying lymphoma cells in the vitreous fluid; (3) detecting the clonality of infiltrating cells in the vitreous fluid by PCR analysis of the IgH gene or by flow cytometry for the surface light chain expression. Patients who had either (1) and (2) or (3) were diagnosed with IOL. IOL without any other systemic lesion was defined as PIOL. Other IOLs were classified as IOL with a CNS lesion (IOCNSL) and secondary IOL (SIOL) following another systemic lymphoma. Genomic DNA extracted from the vitreous fluid was subjected to SNP-array karyotyping using GeneChip 250K Nsp arrays (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA, USA). Genetic lesions were sensitively detected by a hidden Markov model-based algorithm and were compared with those of PCNSLs examined by array-based CGH (Blood. 2011; 117, 1291–1300). We examined the samples of 53 IOL patients including 31 with PIOL, 14 with IOCNSL, and 8 with SIOL. Among these patients, 30 samples (12 PIOL, 12 IOCNSL, and 6 SIOL) could be analyzed for SNP array. In PIOL, 1q32.1–3 containing MDM4, ELK4, IL10 was the region of the most frequent gain (>75%). Regions of frequent gain, detected in 75% of the patients, were located on 1q25.1–3 (containing ABL2 etc.), 1q23.3 ( RXRG, LMX1A etc.), 1q42.12 ( PARP1 etc.), 1q43 ( RYR2 ), 1q44 ( PGBD2, ZNF692 etc.), 12q13.3,( STAT6, GLI1 etc.), 12q23.2-24.2 ( TBX3,PRKAB1 etc.), 18q21.31-22.1 ( BCL2 etc.), and 19q13.32-13.43 ( BAX etc.). 15p13-q11.2 ( POTE15 etc.) was the region of the most frequent loss (7/12; 58%). In IOCNSL, regions of the most frequent gain included 7q32.3, 7q34, 12 q13.13-q13.2, 12q23.3, 12q24.21, and 12q24.23 (10/12; 83%). Regions that were gained in 75% (9/12) sites included 1q25.1-3, 7q11.22-23, 7q22.1, 12p13.32-p13.31, 12q13.13-q13.2, 12q24.31, and 18q21.1. 6q24.1–2 and 9q21.3 were regions of the most frequent loss (7/12; 58%); the latter contained CDKN2A . In SIOL, 7q34 and 12q13.13–2 were regions of frequent gain; they were gained in 100% of the patients and also in 83% of IOCNSL. Regions of the most frequent loss included 5p15.33, 6q27, 8p23.3, 8q24.3, 9q34.3, and 16q24.2-24.3 (5/6; 83.3%). Next, we compared the findings of PIOL with those of PCNSL, IOCNSL, and SIOL to identify the genetic characteristics of PIOL. In an overview of copy number alterations, a significant difference between PIOL and PCNSL was detected on chromosome 18. In PIOL, this region revealed copy number gain. High frequency was particularly detected in 18q21.32-q22.1 containing BCL2 . In contrast, chromosome 18 generally exhibited copy number loss in PCNSL patients, and it is worth mentioning that no gain of BCL2 was detected in them. In total, among the frequent gain (>75%) regions in PIOL, only 1 region (10%), 19q13.32–33 was identical to the frequent gain (>50%) region in PCNSL. Interestingly, chromosome 18 generally revealed gains in IOCNSL and only 1 of the frequent gain (>75%) regions in IOCNSL overlapped those (>50%) in PCNSL. Deletion of CDKN2A , which was most frequently (66.7%) observed in PCNSL, was not detected in any PIOL patient. In PIOL, among 10 regions of frequent gain (>75%), 2 regions (20%) were identical to the regions of frequent gain (>75%) in IOCNSL. Another 2 regions (20%) were identical to those in SIOL. Among 4 regions of frequent loss in PIOL, 2 regions (50%) were identical to those of IOCNSL. In conclusion, the genomic profile of PIOL, also of IOCNSL, showed a remarkable contrast to that of PCNSL. On the other hand, we could not find significant differences between PIOL and IOCNSL. Thus, PIOL with or without CNS lesions may be a B-cell lymphoma that is genetically distinct from PCNSL. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


'Mark My Words' is an MS Word add-on that makes online resources available to students during the writing process and as part of the feedback on their written assignments. It can significantly reduce instructors' marking time while increasing the quality and quantity of the advice and corrections they provide to their students. It can be customized to support writing and feedback on any subject so that students can be supported in taking an autonomous, discovery-based approach to their own learning, and so that their instructors can give systematic, comprehensive and resource-rich comments as part of their feedback. This presentation will show how the program can specifically be used to promote effective, accurate and fluent composition in English.


The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are incessantly growing problem for Internet users, despite numerous research works on DDoS protection methods that have been already done. This paper presents an opinion on future evolution of anti-DDoS techniques. It gives a short survey of resent ideas and proposed solutions to the DDoS problem. Next it sketches an architectural approach based on Software-Defined Networking paradigm and concludes with some guidance for further works. We expect to provide inspiring ideas for research and development of anti-DDoS systems, such systems which provide better protection against DDoS plague, and raise the cost of attacks deterring perpetrators.


Hemispherical resonator gyroscope (HRG) is a high precision inertial sensor for measurement of rate and attitude angle, and the fused silica hemispherical resonator is key component of HRG which the ultra-low frequency split is required. Therefore, the high-performance synchronous trimming method has been proposed in this paper. At first, the high precision orbital parameter identification algorithm based on nonlinear least square method has been adopted, which shows the identification error of frequency split and stiffness-axis-angle is less than 2.37×10-6 Hz and 0.69° respectively. Then, the hardware of trimming system including vacuum chamber with ion mill and neutralizer, fiber optic interferometer and FPGA control board with the proposed identification algorithm has been implemented. Finally, the focus ion beam (FIB) etching experiment has been carried out to verify the proposed trimming method. The experimental result shows that the proposed method has excellent performance, which can reduce the frequency split of resonator from 0.91720 Hz to 0.000457Hz.


This paper proposes a dynamic channel utilization method enabling to consider the effect of radio interference on software defined multi-channel wireless mesh network (SD-WMN). In our SD-WMN, a set of APs, each of which uses a single and different channel, is connected by Ethernet each other and thus constructs a VAP handling multiple channels. The OpenFlow technology, which enables us to programmably control traffic, is employed to effectively utilize multiple channels in SD-WMN for improvement of the network capacity. Although we already proposed several channel utilization methods, either channel may be saturated even if other channels still have residual capacity. This is because the radio interference inevitably occurs inside WMN due to multi-hop transmission nature. Thus, to avoid the saturation of either channel while utilizing all channels effectively, we propose a new method that can consider the effect of radio interference inside WMN. In the method, all interfered APs can be reliably detected and the network load is balanced in conjunction with the interfered APs by considering the radio interference. From the experimental results, the proposed method can avoid the saturation of either channel successfully, thereby increasing the network capacity drastically.


The central characters and plot lines of Emma are essentially those of Pride and Prejudice, retold from Darcy's point of view with the genders of the characters reversed (men become women, women men). This whimsical antecedent accounts for why Emma may strike contemporary readers as uncommonly modern for an Austen heroine: She takes a lot of male privilege to herself, something that would have made her anomalous in her own day. The works of four writers and the reasons they likely influenced this gendered topsy-turvy are examined: Richardson, Fielding, Shakespeare, and the Reverend Fordyce.


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase the mutual conductance of active devices by using a current flowing from a drain of the 1st active device for a 2nd active device again without increasing the current and increasing noise. SOLUTION: An RF low noise amplifier(LNA) is made up of a 1st stage 10 and a 2nd stage 20 and the two stages act in the similar method. For example, 1st stage devices M1 , M2 are configured so that the mutual conductance gm is to be gm :gm1 +gm2 ) where gm1 , gm2 are mutual conductance of the devices M1 , M2 respectively. Furthermore, a capacitor CB branches a source of the device M1 to earth at a high frequency. The drain current of the device M1 is used again by the device M2 . Thus, the mutual conductance gm is increased without increasing current consumption in contract with a common use source amplifier consisting of the device M1 or M2 only.


The article considers peculiarities of musical pieces of various genres by Siberian composers, the visual imagery in which functions on equal terms along with the musical expressive means. The audio component combined with the visual one results in the formation of an audiovisual text beyond the cinematographic art. Musical pieces of this type have specific features of synthetic genres. Despite the unquestionable originality of the whole, the analyzed pieces demonstrate a connection with the program music. In audiovisual compositions, the verbally expressed literary program is replaced by the visualized program embodied in the visual component. Keywords—music; art; audiovisual text; synthetic genre; composers of Siberia


1 The mammalian brain ventricles are lined with ciliated ependymal cells. As yet little is known about the mechanisms by which neurotransmitters regulate cilia beat frequency (CBF). 2 Application of 5‐HT to ependymal cells in cultured rat brainstem slices caused CBF to increase. 5‐HT had an EC50 of 30 μM and at 100 μM attained a near‐maximal CBF increase of 52.7 ± 4.1 % (mean ± s.d.) (n= 8). 3 Bathing slices in Ca2+‐free solution markedly reduced the 5‐HT‐mediated increase in CBF. Fluorescence measurements revealed that 5‐HT caused a marked transient elevation in cytosolic Ca2+ ([Ca2+]c) that then slowly decreased to a plateau level. Analysis showed that the [Ca2+]c transient was due to release of Ca2+ from inositol 1,4,5‐trisphosphate (IP3)‐sensitive stores; the plateau was probably due to extracellular Ca2+ influx through Ca2+ release‐activated Ca2+ (CRAC) channels. 4 Application of ATP caused a sustained decrease in CBF. ATP had an EC50 of about 50 μM and 100 μM ATP resulted in a maximal 57.5 ± 6.5 % (n= 12) decrease in CBF. The ATP‐induced decrease in CBF was unaffected by lowering extracellular [Ca2+], and no changes in [Ca2+]c were observed. Exposure of ependymal cells to forskolin caused a decrease in CBF. Ciliated ependymal cells loaded with caged cAMP exhibited a 54.3 ± 7.5 % (n= 9) decrease in CBF following uncaging. These results suggest that ATP reduces CBF by a Ca2+‐independent cAMP‐mediated pathway. 5 Application of 5‐HT and adenosine‐5′‐O‐3‐thiotriphosphate (ATP‐γ‐S) to acutely isolated ciliated ependymal cells resulted in CBF responses similar to those of ependymal cells in cultured slices suggesting that these neurotransmitters act directly on these cells. 6 The opposite response of ciliated ependymal cells to 5‐HT and ATP provides a novel mechanism for their active involvement in central nervous system signalling.


This paper studies the blow-up criteria of strong solutions to the 3-dimensional incompressible micropolar fluid equations with partial viscosities. Two blow-up criteria are given to the local-in-time strong solution. The proof is based on energy estimates and harmonic analysis methods.


To understand biological integrity of fish, in spring (May) and in autumn (October) 2015, 25 sampling sites of Jinan Region was investigated. The score of F-IBI all over the Jinan Region showed positive correlations between spring and autumn. The results of F-IBI showed that spring of Jinan Region was of excellent ecological integrity, while the autumn of Jinan Region were in severe impairment.


To the Editor:— In the issue of Medical Economics for September, 1957, Dr. Albert W. Snoke, immediate past-president of the American Hospital Association, is quoted as suggesting that medical service benefits should not be removed from Blue Cross because "one of the main reasons for the phenomenal success of Blue Cross has been its covering of certain medical services in hospitals...." This statement led to a general discussion of medical care and hospitalization insurance by the board of chancellors of the American College of Radiology. As a facet of the discussion, I was requested, as chairman, to convey toThe Journalthe chancellors' opinion. While we applaud Blue Cross plans and hospitals alike for their many real achievements and contributions, we insist that the medical interests of patients are paramount to anyone's desire that Blue Cross remain a "phenomenal success." In lieu of Dr. Snoke's suggestion, we would offer that


The Wingham Assessment and Rehabilitation Unit is part of the Manning Valley Area Health Service in New England, New South Wales. The Unit provides Rehabilitation and Assessment to the Zone 1 area of the New England Health Region. The Therapeutic Activities Centre is part of this Unit and provides an activities programme on a daily basis to both inpatients and day only clients.

The aged population explosion along the Mid-north Coastal fringe (increases of 39% in some areas) has identified a need for some form of programme to address the problems associated with the maintenance of clients diagnosed with dementia in the community for as long as possible.

The area has a deficit of 227 Nursing Home and Hostel places, based on 1988 figures. (Commonwealth Dept. Community Services & Health ratio is to have 40 Nursing Home beds and 60 Hostel beds per 1000 people over the age of 70).


The influence of different water temperatures on temporal behavior of dielectric barrier discharge in argon at atmospheric pressure is studied by using an experimental device with water electrodes. It is found that, as the applied voltage increasing, the evolvement of discharge with different water temperatures shows similar behavior spatially if argon concentrations are same. The corresponding Fourier transformation is obtained by processing patterns images with computer program based on the Matlab software. The discharge duration of the first current pulse in half cycle of different voltage polarity is same in discharge if the two electrodes temperatures are same. But it becomes different if the two electrodes have different temperatures. The discharge moment is always ahead when the low temperature electrode is an instantaneous cathode. The analysis shows that the water temperature affects the accumulation of wall charges, resulting in the differences of temporal behavior of discharge.


The magnetic phase transition and magnetocaloric effect are investigated on epsilon-(Mn0.83Fe0.17)(3.25)Ge compound. A large positive magnetic entropy change Delta S-M is observed, which is accompanied with a field-induced metamagnetic transition from a collinear to a triangular antiferromagnetic configuration in this antiferromagnetic compound. The maximum value of Delta S-M is 11.6 J/kg K at 93 K for a magnetic field change of 7 T. The study on systems with antiferromagnetic phases may open an important field in searching new materials for magnetic refrigeration. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.


The present article outlines the main principles and peculiarities of the result-oriented university management on the basis of the Development strategy of the Kazakh State Women's Pedagogical University for 2013-2020. The relevance of the investigated issue is conditioned by the fact that in the context of a highly competitive market of research and educational services, universities search for new management instruments that help to achieve a competitive strategic management of the modern university. The research is carried out on the basis of records of the structural departments of the university in the relevant areas and objectives set out in the strategy. The main method of the study is the method of a comparative analysis and synthesis. Drawing upon the results received, a SWOT analysis of the financial and economic sustainability of the university is presented. It is proved that the realization of the task to improve the quality level of educational services will increase the competitiveness of the university in the domestic and international markets of research and educational services. This requires the implementation of result-oriented education – the development of a system of professional competence with regard to the labor market requirements, views of students, graduates, teachers and researchers. For this, it is assumed that there will be a full transition to a modular principle of constructing the structure of educational programs, which will enhance the mobility and variability of educational programs. The results and recommendations can be applied in the educational, scientific and economic system development strategies of Kazakhstan and are of significant interest to Kazakh scientific and educational thought. OPEN ACCESS


Strain engineering has been demonstrated to be an effective knob to tune the bandgap in perovskite oxides, which is highly desired for applications in optics, optoelectronics, and ferroelectric photovoltaics. Multiferroic BiFeO3 exhibits great potential in photovoltaic applications and its bandgap engineering is of great interest. However, the mechanism of strain induced bandgap engineering in BiFeO3 remains elusive to date. Here, we perform in situ ellipsometry measurements to investigate the bandgap evolution as a function of uniaxial strain on freestanding BiFeO3 films. Exotic anisotropic bandgap engineering has been observed, where the bandgap increases (decreases) by applying uniaxial tensile strain along the pseudocubic [100]p ([110]p) direction. First-principles calculations indicate that different O6 octahedral rotations under strain are responsible for this phenomenon. Our work demonstrates that the extreme freedom in tuning the strain and symmetry of freestanding films opens a new fertile playground for novel strain-driven phases in transition metal oxides.


Make search over encrypted data with encrypted query, to find those who correspond to a keyword or keywords; is called searchable encryption. Our proposed searchable encryption approach is: precise, fast, secure and support access control. These advantages come from the index structure proposed in addition to multi-multi-cloud used. The goal of this paper is an implementation and simulation of our approach. Results indicate it's efficient in multi-cloudIoT.


A case of paraplegia caused by calcification of the thoracic spinal yellow ligament is presented. A 77-year-old Japanese woman had lumbago, muscle weakness of her lower extremity and hypoesthesia of right lower extremity as incipient symptoms. Radiological examination of the thoracic spine showed scoliosis, spondylotic deformity and abnormal opacity posteriorly in the spinal canal.Myelography, CT scan and MRI demonstrated spinal canal stenosis due to calcification of the yellow ligament in the T10-11 region. Decompression following laminectomy was performed from T9 to T12. Postoperatively, paraplegia gradually improved and she could walk without walking aids three months later.


Fine polishing techniques, such as chemical mechanical polishing (CMP), are important to glass substrate manufacturing. When these techniques involve mechanical interaction in the form of friction between the abrasive and the substrate surface during polishing, latent flaws may form on the product. Fine polishing induced latent flaws in glass substrates may become obvious during a subsequent cleaning process if the glass surface is eroded away by chemical interaction with a cleaning liquid. Thus, latent flaws reduce product yield. A novel technique (the stress-induced light scattering method; SILSM) which was combined with light scattering method and stress effects was proposed for inspecting surface to detect polishing induced latent flaws. This method is able to distinguish between latent flaws and tiny particles on the surface. In this method, an actuator deforms a sample inducing stress effects around the tip of a latent flaw caused by the deformation, which in turn changes the refractive index of the material around the tip of the latent flaw because of the photoelastic effect. A CCD camera detects this changed refractive index as variations in light-scattering intensity. In this study, the changes in reflection coefficients and polarization states after application of stress to a glass substrate were calculated and evaluated qualitatively using Jones matrix-like ellipsometry. As the results, it was shown that change in the polarization states around the tip of latent flaw were evaluated between before and after applied stress, qualitatively.


Background: Hypertension is one of the important factors as a trigger for non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, stroke and others which are currently the number one cause of death in the world. Hypertension is associated with an increase in systolic blood pressure of at least 140 mmHg or diastolic pressure of at least 90 mmHg. Method: research using analytic type with quasi-experimental research design. Results: the mean difference in adherence was (4.30 + 1.081 : 5.20 + 1.005), statistically the influence of Pinkesga media on Compliance with Taking Drugs in Patients with Hypertension (p Value 0.000). Conclusion: Pinkesga media has an influence in efforts to improve compliance behavior of hypertensive patients taking medication regularly
Keywords: Hypertension, Drugs, Pinkesga


Surveillance is a vital problem for harbor protection, border control or the security of other commercial facilities. It is particularly challenging to protect the vast near-coast sea surface and busy harbor areas from intrusions of unauthorized marine vessels, such as trespassing boats and ships. In this paper, we present an innovative solution for ship intrusion detection. Equipped with three-axis accelerometer sensors, we deploy an experimental wireless sensor network on the sea surface to detect ships. Using signal processing techniques and cooperative signal processing, we can detect the passing ships by distinguishing the ship-generated waves and the ocean waves. We design an intrusion detection system in which we propose to exploit spatial and temporal correlations of the intrusion to increase detection reliability. We conduct evaluations with real data collected by our initial experiments, and provide quantitative analysis on the detection system, such as the successful detection ratio and the estimation of the intruding ship velocity.


Abstract This article compares Carl Schmitt's and Walter Benjamin's discussion of the figure of Hamlet. This comparison evaluates Schmitt's response in Hamlet or Hecuba to Benjamin's discussion of the 'exception' in Origins of the German Tragic Drama. 'Deciding upon the exception' is a defining characteristic of sovereignty, so that the comparison between Schmitt and Benjamin is also an evaluation of their respective theories of sovereignty. It will appear that the notion of the aesthetic is crucial in understanding this constellation of ideas.


This paper presents a modeling of IGBTs with a focus on voltage dependency of capacitances between terminals of the IGBT. The proposed model is based on a physics-based IGBT model for circuit simulators to get accurate switching waveforms by taking account of the variable capacitances depending on the voltage between the terminals of the IGBT model. The basic feature is that the simulation accuracy of switching waveforms can be improved by applying the measured capacitances to the capacitors between the terminals. The simulated results by using the proposed IGBT model are in good agreement with experimental results.


Beware of Limbo Dancers: A Correspondent's Adventures with the New York Times. By Roy Reed. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2012. Pp. xv, 261. Acknowledgments, illustrations, index. $34.95.)On June 6, 1966, James Meredith was trying to make history-again. The man who had integrated the University of Mississippi in 1962 had announced he would walk from Memphis into his home state, perhaps as far as Jackson. This bold gesture was met with a shotgun blast in the back from a white man who didn't think the walk was a good idea.As the shot was fired, Roy Reed of the New York Times was just a few hundred yards down the road. He was there to cover Mr. Meredith's jour- ney, but nothing much had seemed to be going on during that scorching day, so he and some other reporters were having a soda water at a country store. They heard about the shooting when they saw people running back from the scene. Meanwhile, 1100 miles away in New York City, Reed's editor, Claude Sitton, was scanning the photos being transmitted over the wire, looking for his reporter."Where's Roy Reed?" he asked (p. 150).It's a funny story, unless you've ever been a reporter-especially one who has ever barely missed being at the right place at the right time. Frankly, it gave me the willies. Reed redeemed himself by getting the first interview with Meredith in the hospital, where he was recovering from injuries that turned out to be minor. But the memory of the miss twanged in him like the sour note of a poorly tuned guitar string.It is the kind of story that makes it such a pleasure to read Beware of Limbo Dancers: A Correspondent's Adventures with the New York Times. Reed, an emeritus professor of journalism at the University of Arkansas, worked as a reporter from 1956 to 1978, moving from the Arkansas Ga- zette to the Times in 1965. It was Sitton who hired him, having gotten to know Reed during his seven-year stint covering the South and the civil rights movement; he had taken a liking to the "hick-talking Arkansawyer" (p. 40). Reed would take over the race beat until the newly named chief southern correspondent, Gene Roberts, could be brought in from the De- troit Free Press. Reed would continue to roam the South for several years after that, and then would serve the paper in Washington, Uondon, and elsewhere.The book comes alive with tales of covering the struggle for civil rights from the perspective of a native southerner in love with the land and its people but appalled by the bigotry and violence of the segregation- ists; he writes, "I have sometimes wondered whether we gave the sons of bitches a fair shake" (p. xii).He witnessed the attack on marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on March 7, 1965, whiffed the tear gas and saw the blood that gave "Bloody Sunday" its name. For the next day's paper, he wrote, "Through the mist I heard coughing, the sound of clubs on flesh and bone, and cries of pain. …


Antioxidant activity of Geranium nepalense subsp. thunbergii extract was evaluated by DPPH free radical scavenging assay. Geranium nepalense subsp. Thunbergii extract contains tannin, (-)epicatechin, kaempferitin, kaep- ferol-7-rhamnoside, brevifolin, corilagin, pyrogallol, ellagitannin, geraniin, gallic acid, succinic acid, quercetin, proto- catechuic acid, etc. Geranium nepalense subsp. Thunbergii showed excellent antioxidant activity compared to positive control, quercetin. Geranium nepalense subsp. thunbergii extract showed a 98.33 % inhibition of DPPH radical at a concentration of 50 µg/mL. Quercetin showed a 78.05 % inhibition of DPPH radical at the same concentration. To investigate reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenging activity, Geranium nepalense subsp. thunbergii extract was treated to human keratinocytes (HaCaT). IC50 value of Geranium nepalense subsp. thunbergii extract was 43.22 µg/mL and IC50 value of quercetin was 102.35 µg/mL. Geranium nepalense subsp. thunbergii extract showed ex- cellent antioxidant activity. Skin irritation test and cytotoxicity test suggested that Geranium nepalense subsp. thun- bergii extract is a safe antioxidant ingredient for cosmetics.


Introduction. The diagnostic period of cancer, the treatment process and the complications caused by the treatments negatively affect the quality of life of the patients and his relatives who support his care. The concept of quality of life has gained more importance in recent years due to reasons such as prolonged life expectancy and increased public awareness.
Aim. Colorectal cancer affects the life quality of individuals negatively. In this study, life quality of colorectal cancer patients and the factors affecting their quality of life were examined.
Materials and method. The sample of the study consisted of 110 patients who applied to the General Surgery Clinic/Service and Chemotherapy Unit in State Hospital and Training and Research Hospital between 01.05.2014 and 01.11.2015. Survey data were collected using the socio-demographic questionnaire, EORTC QLQ-C30 and EORTC QLQ-CR38 (European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Core Questionnaire) and Beck Depression Scale. Number, percentage, mean distribution, variance analysis, Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis test were used with SPSS v.20.0 software in evaluating the data.
Results. The mean age of the patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer was obtained 61.9 ± 10.92 years. It was determined that 61.8% of the patients were male, 87.3% were married, and 20.9% had cancer history in their family. It has been determined that, women suffered more from stoma-related problems than men and the perception of the body image of female patients were worser than men. Patients were found to have a high emotional function and high pain level; and have low constipation scores in the symptom subscale. Patients' scores related to stoma problems were high and sexual enjoyment scores were low. The age, number of children, marital status and educational status of the patients were found to have an influence on the quality of life.
Conclusion.As a result, as the age of colorectal cancer patients progressed and as the number of children increased, the functional status was worse and the incidence of symptoms was higher. It was determined that gender did not affect the quality of life or depression.


Triterpene saponins from the aerial parts of carnation ( Dianthus caryophyllus var. remontant ) Hort. have been studied. Three gypsogenic acid glycosides including 3-O-glucopyranoside, 3,28-O-di-glucopyranoside and 3-O-glucopyranosy1,28-0-[glucopyranosyl(1→6)glucopyranoside] have been identified by means of LSI mass spectrometry and 1H and 13C NMR. Inhibitory activities of isolated compounds against growth of the fungus Trichoderma viride and the growth of the roots of Lepidium sativum and D. caryophyllus seedlings were measured. None of the isolated compounds showed pronounced activity in T. viride test. Seedling root growth was affected severely at the presence of gypsogenic acid 3-O-glucopyranoside. Bidesmosidic form showed marginal stimulatory activity. The obtained data are discussed in relation to the activity of medicagenic acid 3-O-glucopyranoside, the compound differing just with 2-OH substitution from gypsogenic acid glycosides.


Abstract The Fellingsbro granite sensu stricto is a porphyritic coarse-grained rock characterized by red angular microcline megacrysts. A total of 52 samples of the Fellingsbro granite and the Lisjo granite (of the same type and situated 20 km to the northeast) have been analysed for major elements and Ba, Rb, Sr, Cu, Zn, Pb, Ga, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Th and U. Ten samples were analysed for REE, Ta, Hf, Cs and Sc. Both intrusions belong to a belt of ca. 1.78 Ga old granites which coincides with a major negative gravity anomaly, the so-called Central Swedish Gravity Low, We have carried out gravity measurements and obtained a fairly dense regional gravity network from the Fellingsbro area to Vasteras. In addition, an approx. 60 km long profile with gravity stations ca. 200 m apart was measured across the Lisjo granite. The porphyritic Fellingsbro and Lisjo granites were generated in a tensional environment. They rose from a huge granite ridge through structurally controlled root zones, flowed out and formed mushr...


Among odontogenic tumors the ameloblastoma is known as a tumor deriving from the ectoderm, and since it has a variety of forms patho-histologically, it is classified into several types according to its histological pictures. At the level of the electron microscope, however, there are relatively few reports about tumors of this kind. To our knowledge, ameloblastoma have been described only by Kitamura (1958), Moe et al. (1961), Matsuda (1967), and Takaki (1967). Recentry, we had an opportunity to observe, under the electron microscope, part of the tissues, of a tumor developed in the mandible which had been diagnosed clinically as well as histologically as an ameloblastoma, so that the results obtained will be here reported.


Bowers and colleagues' editorial on the administration of end-of-life drugs by family caregivers during the covid-19 pandemic highlights two things.1 The first is the lack of an evidence base and the second the effect of different cultures and healthcare systems on prescribing essential drugs for home use.

The standard practice of our home based palliative care teams is to prescribe anticipatory drugs …


The Inherent Structure Theory of Network is a valuable tool to solve power quality problems. In fact, in the frame of this theory, the direct or inverse sequence impedance matrix at the fundamental frequency or the harmonic impedance matrices can be formulated in terms of their eigenvalues and eigenvectors; these expansions are useful to create a framework in which the power system response to power quality disturbances can be better understood. In this paper, after briefly outlining the theoretical background, the above theory is applied to solve some power quality problems, evidencing when the proposed tool can be more useful and what are the benefits deriving from its application. Numerical applications on a test system are presented and discussed to give evidence of the significance and potentiality of this new tool.