This paper discussed the increasing economic and health costs of air pollution which are being borne by US industries. The author stressed that Industry has been responsible for only half of the pollution problems in the United States, but they get most of the blame. As a result, industry has sought cheaper and more efficient control equipment, less needless, drastic or hysterical regulations, and better local public relations.


Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders, or neuromyelitis optica(NMO), is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system that must be distinguished from multiple sclerosis. Therapeutic approaches to relapse prevention in NMO include immunosuppressants and monoclonal antibodies. Rituximab, a monoclonal antibody that targets CD20 antigen expressed on the surface of pre-B, mature B-lymphocytes and a small subset of T-lymphocytes, has been widely used for the treatment of NMO. In this review, we aim to summarize global experience with rituximab in NMO. We identified 13 observational studies that involved a total of 209 NMO patients treated with rituximab. Majority of rituximab-treated patients evidenced stabilization or improvements in their disability scores compared to pre-treatment period and 66% of patients remained relapse-free during treatment period. Monitoring rituximab treatment response with CD19+ or CD27+ cell counts appears to improve treatment outcomes. We offer clinical pointers on rituximab use for NMO based on the literature and authors' experience, and pose questions that would need to be addressed in future studies.


Measurements of the kinetic isotope effect (KIE) for the reactions of light n-alkanes as well as for several unsaturated hydrocarbons, including alkenes, dienes, benzene, and ethyne with OH-radicals are presented. All measured KIEs are positive; that is, molecules containing only C- 12 react faster than the C-13 labeled molecules. However, the KIEs for n-alkanes are quite small; between one and four permil. They can be explained mainly by the mass dependence of the colli- sion frequency between the n-alkanes and OH-radicals. KIEs for the reaction of alkenes with OH- radicals are considerably higher. They can be explained by a fractionation of 24.5 + 1.1%o for the addition of an OH-radical to a double bond. Inverse dependence on number of carbon atoms and mass dependence of the collision frequencies explain our observations. For benzene the KIE is slightly higher; for ethyne it is somewhat lower than expected from this simple model. For the re- action of many light nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHC), especially of unsaturated hydrocarbons, with OH-radicals the KIEs are sufficiently large to have significant impact on the isotopic compo- sition of atmospheric NMHC. A small series of stable carbon isotope ratio measurements of at- mospheric NMHC were made in the greater Toronto area. Traffic related NMHC emissions were also studied for their stable carbon isotope ratios. From these data it is possible to quantitatively determine the extent of photochemical processing due to OH-radical reactions that the individual NMHC has experienced. Thus such measurements allow quantitative evaluation of the extent of chemical processing the different NMHC have gone through. This also includes the possibility to differentiate between the impact of local sources and regional or large scale transport. It is shown that in combination with concentration measurements isotope ratio measurements are extremely valuable to study the complex interaction between chemical removal mechanisms, mixing, and dilution processes.


Based on the concept of standard materials f lo w diagram (SMFD) of alumina manufacturing process, the SMFD of alumina manufact uring process by Bayer method was constructed. A comparative benchmark for analy zing the influence of material flow on energy intensity was provided. On the bas is of the data of an alumina manufacturing plant by Bayer method, the real mate rial flow diagram of this plant was drawn and the SMFD was constructed according ly. The influence of the change of the unit process energy intensity and the alu mina-process product-ratios on the overall energy intensity and the influences of material flow in a manufacturing process on its energy intensity were analyz ed quantitatively as an example.


Thestooped posture with'propensity tolean forward' socharacteristic ofParkinson's disease hasbeenwellrecognized fromthetimeofits earliest clinical description. JamesParkinson specifically commented uponitinhisEssay onthe Shaking Palsy (1817) andithassince beenamply documented in theextensive literature of Parkinsonism. Instriking contrast, little attentionhasbeenpaidtothefrequent tendency of persons affected withParkinson's disease or post-encephalitic Parkinsonism toleantoone side inascoliotic posture. Yet,considering that Parkinson's disease isusually unilateral or'hemiplegic' inpattern atitsonset, postural asymmetries should beofparticular interest, forthey provide anopportunity tocorrelate postural abnormalities withthelaterality ofother manifestations ofthedisease.


Objective: The aim of this study is to examine the contraception choices of men, aged between 18-60 and living in the center of a province in the Gumushane. Methods: The study is of a descriptive type. As a data collection form, an Individual Information Form consisting of a total of 32 questions was used. This form questions the demographic-physical-biological-social-health histories of the participants and their knowledge, attitudes, behaviors about contraception methods. Averages were given together with standard deviations. Results: 20.8 % of the participants are aged between 26-33. It was seen that 25.3% of the participants had knowledge about contraception methods and 64.7% did not use any methods. When the variables of the age and the marital status are approached in terms of having sufficient knowledge about contraception and still using contraception methods, there is a statistical significance between the variable of 'is the use of contraception methods harmful to health?' with the status of still using contraception methods. A statistical significance is also found between the variable of being sexually active with the status of having sufficient knowledge about contraception and still using contraception methods (p>0.05). Conclusion: In this study, It has been determined that men who had sufficient information about contraceptions had higher age and higher education levels, were sexually active and married. It has been seen that the age, the marital status, the perception of contraception as harmful to health, the status of being sexually active did not affect receiving any training about contraception.


Parys, Jodie. Writing Aids: (Re)Conceptualizing the Individual and Social Body in Spanish American Literature. Columbus: The Ohio State UP, 2012. 199 pp. While the intersection of disease and literature is both a fecund and well-mined field of research, until the last decade there was a paucity of critical material dealing with the treatment and import of HIV and AIDS in Latin American literature. In 2012, two books entered this void: Lina Meruane's Viajes virales, which gives a theoretical and historical context to the appearance of the disease in society and then in literature in the 1980s; and Jodie Parys's Writing AIDS: (Re)Conceptualizing the Individual and Social Body in Spanish American Literature. The latter, through close readings of a number of short works, engages with literature's power to change social perception. It does so by analyzing facets of the relationship between AIDS and literature which move from a personal level to a societal one: from violence and eroticism, to dynamics of isolation and community. Its theoretical basis is grounded in the presentation of disease as a military attack or an apocalypse, and of carriers of a disease as inherently dangerous, which are drawn from Susan Sontag's AIDS and its Metaphors (1988). Parys's first chapter, "The Body as Weapon: HIV as Revenge," examines three short stories: "Luna negra de noviembre" (1992) by Ana Solari, "El secreto de Berlin" (1988) by Ramon Griffero, and "El vuelo de la reina" (2002) by Tomas Eloy Martinez. These works are described in terms of their usage of sexually transmitted disease as the (biological) weapon used to exact revenge in two different trajectories: a jilted lover seeking reparations for emotional trauma, and a diseased protagonist taking revenge on a healthy population in an attempt to reclaim control of his body. The treatment of both the disease and the diseased in these works suggests a temporal progression that would have given the chapter a cohesive narrative, if the stories included were referenced by date or presented in chronological order, which was not the case. Additionally, Parys critiques the authors that she studies for failing to affect cultural change by resorting to "stigma-laden metaphorical language that refuses to challenge cultural stigmas" (55), and for the perpetuation of negative social perceptions through the depiction of disease as a weapon of revenge, even though that is the thematic thrust of the chapter. Departing from the previous chapter's depictions of the negative interactions of an HIV positive protagonist and a lover, the second chapter, "Eroticism and Aids: The Confluence of Desire, Death, and Writing," discusses works that vindicate the sexuality of similar protagonists. The two texts discussed are the poetry collection "Invitacion al polvo" (1991) by Manuel Ramos Otero, and the short story "Adios, Ten-Ying" (1993) by Andrea Blanque. The discussion of the first of these works lauds the poet for openly expressing eroticism without focusing on the incipient doom that physical or sexual contact could incur, though it simultaneously questions the efficacy of literary representations that ignore that darkness. Through this contradiction, the poetic voice's ownership of his sexuality, in spite of or because of the disease that he is afflicted by, is at least tentatively presented as a positive. …


We introduce the design of a system for scanning copper wires irradiated in the RP-10 reactor, which allows to measure the rate of radiation at several points of the wire, through a suitable nuclear instrumentation chain, allowing to obtain the profile of the mentioned parameter. The system is controlled by a program developed in LabVIEW that allows the setting of scanning conditions, store irradiation rate measurements at each point of the wire and plots the measured profile. This system is able to work with copper wires of high irradiation rate minimizing the exposure time of the investigator, with very good accuracy at equally spaced measurements, with an error less than 0.01 mm and storing data for later analysis.


© 2016 Ilana R. Stonebraker, Ebony Magnus, and Mark A. Puente As part of Association of Research Libraries' (ARL) Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW) recruitment program, Diversity Scholars visit an ARL library to observe, firsthand, the realities of academic librarianship. This article presents three perspectives on more than a decade of site visits, which bring together library school students from traditionally underrepresented groups and research library professionals. First, ARL Program Director Mark A. Puente provides a history of these visits. Next, a committee chair at a site location reflects upon ten years of Purdue University visits from 2005 to 2014. Lastly, an IRDW Diversity Scholar describes her experience participating in two visits, first as a student and then as a member of the site visit planning committee at Michigan State University, which hosted the visit in 2015 and 2016.


Background: The rate of re-epithelialization is the primary determinant of the morbidity and mortality in patients with severe burn injuries. Laminin ⍺5β1γ1 (LM511) is an extracellular structural protein that can support epithelial cell adhesion and migration. LM511-E8 is a functionally minimal form of LM511 with an efficacy similar to that of the full-length protein. To investigate whether treatment of burn wounds with the LM511-E8 fragment improves wound closure in a rat second-degree burn wound model. Methods: Second-degree burn wounds were produced in vivo on the backs of rats. The rats were separated into saline-treated control and LM511-E8-treated groups (n=9 per group),


Abstract: The traditional water quality monitoring methods are time-consuming and laborious, which can only reflect the water quality status of single point scale, and have some problems such as irregular sampling time and limited sample size. Remote sensing technology provides a new idea for water quality monitoring, and the temporal resolution of MODIS is one day, which is suitable for long-term, continuous real-time large-scale monitoring of lakes. In this study, Lake Simcoe (located in Ontario, Canada) was selected as the research area. The long-term spatiotemporal changes of chlorophyll-a, transparency, total phosphorus and dissolved oxygen were analyzed by comparing the empirical method, multiple linear regression, random forest and neural network with MODIS data. Finally, the water quality condition of Lake Simcoe is evaluated. The results show that the overall retrieval results of two machine learning models are better than that of the empirical method. The optimal retrieval accuracy R² for four water quality parameters are 0.976, 0.988, 0.943, 0.995, and RMSE are 0.13μg/L, 0.3m, 0.002mg/L and 0.14mg/L, respectively. On the annual scale, the annual mean values of the four water quality parameters during the 10-year period from 2009 to 2018 were 1.37μg/L, 6.9m, 0.0112mg/L and 10.17mg/L, respectively. On the monthly scale, chlorophyll a, total phosphorus and dissolved oxygen first decreased and then increased at the time of year. The higher concentrations of chlorophyll a and total phosphorus in the south and east of Lake Simcoe are related to the input of nutrients from the surrounding residents and farmland.

Key words: water quality monitoring; MODIS; empirical method; machine learning


The large-scale topology and strength of the Galactic Center magnetic field have been inferred from radio imaging of the nonthermal filaments (NTFs). These objects, which seem to be unique to the Galactic center, are defined by extreme aspect ratios and a high degree of polarization. Recent high resolution, wide-field VLA imaging of the GC at 90 cm has revealed new candidate NTFs with a wide range of orientations relative to the Galactic plane. We present follow up 6 cm polarization observations of 6 of these candidates and confirm 4 as new NTFs. Together the new 90 and 6 cm results complicate the previous picture of largely perpendicular filaments that trace a globally ordered magnetic field. NTF observations in general do not rule out any particular models for the origin of the NTFs. Hence we explore the idea that the NTFs are local, individual structures: magnetic wakes generated through the interaction of molecular clouds with a Galactic Center wind. Numerical simulations of the evolution of a magnetized wake will be discussed and compared with NTF observations.


News organizations increasingly use techniques like data mining, Web scraping, and data visualization to uncover information that would be impossible to identify and present manually.


The sub-mount for the micro component comprises a semiconductor substrate having a cavity formed on the front side of the substrate to mount the micro-component. Also, the submount comprising: a thick frame adjacent to the thin silicon membrane portion and side wall of the cavity at the cavity bottom. The substrate includes an electrically conductive feedthrough connection portion extending from the rear side of the substrate, at least in part, through the thick silicon frame. The feed-through connections and electrical contact between the conductive layer on the cavity surface is made at least in part through the side wall of the cavity.


Free-standing electrode materials have shown important application in supercapacitors. In this paper, a low cost and large scale producible carbon paper (CP) was prepared by the carbonization of cellulose paper. Self-supported conducting polymer composites were fabricated by in situ polymerization of aniline on the resulting CP substrate. The morphology and structure of the as-prepared polyaniline/carbon paper (PANI/CP) composites were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and an automatic N2 adsorption instrument. PANI/CP hybrids could be directly built into electrodes without adding polymer binders and conductive agents. The capacitance performance of PANI/CP electrodes was systematically studied with cyclic voltammetry, galvanostatic charge/discharge and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. PANI/CP hybrids showed a high specific capacitance of 1090.8 F g−1 along with low resistance and good stability. All the results indicated the prepared PANI/CP hybrids were promising electrode materials for supercapacitors.


The present paper investigates the dissimilar joining of Incoloy 800 HT and P91 steel using gas tungsten arc welding process. Welding was carried out using two filler materials, namely, Inconel 82 and 9CrMoV-Nb. Welding speed, current and voltage were considered as input parameters. Microhardness, tensile strength and impact strength were measured as performance characteristics. Metallurgical aspects of dissimilar welds were analyzed on the basis of microstructure obtained by using optical microscope, high-resolution field emission scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. The ferrite content was measured by using feritscope, and the elemental analysis was carried out with the help of X-ray energy dispersive spectrometer. It was found that the 9CrMoV-Nb filler material produced dissimilar weld with better mechanical properties than the dissimilar weld produced using Inconel 82 filler material.


The nonlinear dynamic model of unsymmetrical flexible rotor-bearing system of 8-DOFs with the effect of gyroscopic moment is formulated in this paper. The active lubrication action, which is based on injecting pressurized oil into the bearing gap through orifices machined in the bearing sliding surface, is utilized to suppress the shaft vibrations. A PI controller is designed for the active lubrication to change the rotor-bearing equilibrium position. The finite difference method is applied to solve the pressure distribution on each titling pad surface of the actively lubricated system. Numerical results show that the actively lubricated system presents effective vibration reduction of unbalance response of a flexible rotor and the PI controller exhibits better performance. The feasibility of eliminating rotor-bearing instabilities (phenomena of whirl) by using active lubrication is also investigated, which illustrates clearly one of its most promising applications.


How Sonography Contributed towards Diagnosing an Unusual Tumour of the Spleen The authors report on an unusual cystic giant tumour of the spleen (a necrotically disintegrating non -Hodqkin Ivrn phorna] which was examined via sonography, scintigraphy and angiography. The information obtained by means of the individual examination methods was compared with each other, taking the findings of anatomic pathology as basis. In the case under discussion sonography supplied the best possible information on the morphology of the tumour. The importance of sonography in arriving at the differential diagnosis of cystic (or pseudocystic) space-occupying growths is discussed.


When the New York Times profiled newsman Morley Safer some 20 years ago, they did so by visiting him in the kitchen of his weekend home in Connecticut. There, whilst puffing away on a cigarette, Safer made the following observation: "You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic you can eat the New York Times." Whether or not Safer, a legendary correspondent on CBS's " 60 Minutes," ever dined on such a delicacy is unclear. But if he did, we at Newscripts feel confident his breath would have been pretty stinky. "Garlic breath is unpleasant," says Sheryl Barringer, a professor in Ohio State University's department of food science and technology. Now Barringer, along with her student Ryan Munch, has found a solution to garlic's smelliness through science. Using selected-ion flow-tube mass spectrometry, or SIFT-MS, the researchers tracked the concentration of four known malodorous garlic volatiles—allyl methyl disulfide, diallyl disulfide, ...


Data mining is one of the main activities in bioinformatics, specifically to extract knowledge from massive data sets related with gene expression measurement, CNV, DNA strings, and others. A long array of methods are used to perform such task, ranging from the more established parametric statistical analysis to non parametric techniques, to classification methods that have been developed in knowledge engineering and artificial intelligence. In this paper, we consider a method for extracting logic formulas from data that relies on a large body of literature in integer and logic optimization, originally presented in [1], that has been largely and successfully applied to different problems in bioinformatics ([2], [3], [4], [5], [6]). Such method is based on the iterative solution of Minimum Cost SAT Problems and is able to extract logic formulas in DNF form that possess interesting features for their interpretation. While leaving the discussion of the main features and motivations of this approach to the related literature, in this talk we focus on the problem of solving efficiently very large scale instances of this well known logic programming problem and propose a new GRASP approach that, being able to exploit the specific structure of the problem, largely outperforms other established solvers for the same problem.


This paper reports a practical experience of software testing accomplished by the Software Quality Laboratory of Tecnopolis Csata Novus Ortus in cooperation with Datamat S.p.A. The objective of the joint project was twofold: the definition and development of a formal test suite, the functional testing of a transaction processing software in the stock exchange application area . With respect to the first goal we had the need of define a method for building a complete test suite in terms of: specification of test environment, test process, test documentation, criteria for test derivation. The main result of such experimentation was to allow the replication of the whole test suite in a different target site. The VALID toolkit was chosen as the kernel for the test environment. This tool allows the validation of systems utilising a GUI based on the X window environment, against its specifications using a black box testing method (Jason, Ritter [4]). For the test process definition and test documentation we have taken as reference the IEEE standard 1012 (Software verification and VALEDation plans), IEEE standard 829 (Software test documentation). In relation to the second goal we have built a library of test procedures formally described with the VALID test language and reaching the full coverage of the functionalities of the application under test. The experience in applying the method developed during this project together with the technology used, has shown that this approach is valuable in reducing testing time and costs especially during regression testing in the software maintenance phase.


With the purpose of using recycled glass in concrete mixtures as a partial substitute for sand and cement in Cuba, researches are carried out. This article shows the result at a laboratory scale in substituting fine aggregate and cement with ground glass in dosages of 25%, 50% and 100% for the first one and 10%, 20% and 30% for the second one. The mixtures obtained were compared to a standard for consistency and compressive strength. In the fresh mixes, a directly proportional increase in consistency was obtained with the percentage of replacement of the sand but it was different for cement, however all of them maintained a consistency suitable for use. Compressive strength gradually increased in an interval from 7 to 28 days of mixing's age obtaining values exceeding the standard sample in M1, M4 and M5 samples. The results support at a laboratory scale, the feasibility of replacing 25% of the sand and up to 20% of cement with ground glass, without affecting the standard compressive strength (25-35 MPa) for traditional concrete.


The relationship between the Bern Sex Role Inventory scales (BSRI), the Attitudes to Women Scale (AWS-B) and the Hypermasculinity Inventory (HMI) was investigated in 149 male subjects. Three methods were used to analyse the data: intercorrelations, stepwise multiple regression of the AWS-B and HMI on the BSRI, and comparison of the four BSRI gender-trait categories, divided according to the median split method. The AWS-B was strongly and negatively related to the HMI, particularly to one of its three subscales, which was attitudinal. The BSRI-M was also strongly related to the HMI, but not in this case to the attitudinal subscale. A smaller relationship was found between the BSRI-F and the HMI. Differences between the BSRI categories on the HMI were explicable in terms of the additive combination of the M and F scales. The AWS-B showed a low but significant correlation with both the BSRI scales, negative with the M-scale and positive with the F-scale. This was confirmed by the multiple regression, which also revealed an interaction between the two scales acting in the reverse direction to that predicted by androgyny theory.


To those who have read previous volumes of the UCLA Archaeological Survey Annual Report and have come to regard this publication as a primary source for southern Californian archaeology, volume nine will undoubtedly prove disappointing in both quantity and quality. In contrast to previous volumes in which a total of 103 articles have appeared, averaging just less than thirteen articles per volume, the present Report contains only three articles and is half the size of the preceding issue. Serious budgetary difficulties appear to be a major factor that has affected not only the Archaeological Survey Annual Report but the size of the staff and their activities. One can only hope that the financial picture will have improved before the appearance of the next volume.


The equations of the restricted three-body problem describe the motion of a massless particle under the influence of two primaries of masses 1− μ and μ, 0 ≤ μ ≤ 1/2, that circle each other with period equal to 2π. When μ = 0, the problem admits orbits for the massless particle that are ellipses of eccentricity e with the primary of mass 1 located at one of the focii. If the period is a rational multiple of 2π, denoted 2πp/q, some of these orbits perturb to periodic motions for μ > 0. For typical values of e and p/q, two resonant periodic motions are obtained for μ > 0. We show that the characteristic multipliers of both these motions are given by expressions of the form 1 ± √ C(e, p, q)μ + O(μ) in the limit μ → 0. The coefficient C(e, p, q) is analytic in e at e = 0 and C(e, p, q) = O(e). The coefficients in front of e, obtained when C(e, p, q) is expanded in powers of e for the two resonant periodic motions, sum to zero. Typically, if one of the two resonant periodic motions is of elliptic type the other is of hyperbolic type. We give similar results for retrograde periodic motions and discuss periodic motions that nearly collide with the primary of mass 1− μ.


A series of new phosphoramides with general formula RP(O)X2, where R = amino/p-methylphenoxy and X = amine, were synthesized and characterized by 1H, 13C, 31P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and infrared (IR) spectroscopy and elemental analysis. The 31P{1H} NMR spectra show that among compounds 7–9 containing 2-, 3-, and 4-aminopyridinyl moieties, respectively, the shielding order of the P atom decreases as 7 > 9 > 8. Also, the structure of compound 7 was determined by X-ray crystallography. In this structure, repeated noncentrosymmetric dimers are formed by two strong intermolecular N(1)-H(1N)…N(2) and N(3)-H(3N)…O(1) hydrogen bonds. Taking into account weak intermolecular C(17)-H(17C)…N(4), C(17)-H(17E)…N(4), C(2)-H(2A)…O(2), and also weak aromatic C—H…C interactions, a three-dimensional polymeric chain is created in the crystalline network. The density functional theory calculations at B3LYP, B3PW91, and M06 levels using the 6–31+G** basis set were in good agreement with the X-ray crystallography data.


The disturbance by outside noise penetrating into buildings is ever-increasing. Few practical data are available on the sound insulation of the several types of glasswork for facades, etc. For a large number of practically glassed windows, the Technical Physics Department TNO and TH has determined the sound insulation. Accordingly, efficient designs of sound-insulating windows can be based on the practical knowledge thus gained.


(Phenacetin)4·2I4·2H2O is triclinic, a = 13.641 (7), b = 12.807 (6), c = 7.201 (3) A, α = 99.8 (4), b = 86.5 (4), γ = 104.0 (5)°, P1, Z = 1. The ordered crystal structure has been refined to RF = 0.050, using 4173 independent reflections measured on a four-circle diffractometer with MoKa (graphite monochromator) radiation. The crystals are composed of alternating positively and negatively charged slices; each positive slice contains a double layer of stacks of hemi-protonated phenacetin molecules which are H-bonded through their carbonyl groups (d(O - - - O) = 2.432 (4) A) while each negative slice contains a single layer of I2−4-ions linked in chains along [100] through H-bonds to pairs of water molecules. The axes of the phenacetin stacks are parallel to the planes of the (I2−4·2H2O)-layers. The I2−4-ion is centro-symmetric and can be approximately represented as I−- - - I–I- - - I− (d(I− - - - I) = 3.404 (1) A; d(I–I) = 2.774 (1) A). The compound is a pseudo-type A basic salt.


The article investigates in performance data governance and management (PDGM) of learning and teaching in higher education institutions. The analysis is based on an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership spreading out over nine European countries. An intensive case study is carried out including generic results about basic elements and desiderata of PDGM. Among other things, this case study is based on focus group interviews and strategic SWOT analyses. The study makes clear that two basic elements of PDGM are its systematic policy and a comprehensive performance indicator set. The main desiderata of PDGM emerging from the case study are: the ex-ante clarification of success prospects of PDGM; the leadership engagement; a reflected understanding and practice of PD(G)M; a reflected PDGM ethics; and an adequate financial climate.


Objective To explore the effect of low dose hydroquinone(HQ) pretreatment on the cell viability and the expression of NQO1,HSP10 and 2-Cys Prxs in umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells(UCBMC).Methods Mononuclear cell from cord blood were isolated and Annexin V/PI staining assay was applied to evaluate the effect of low level HQ on human hematopoietic system cells.Real time PCR was performed to determine the expression of NQO1,HSP10 and 2-Cys Prxs.Results The results of Annexin V/PI staining assay showed that the UCBMC were more tolerable to 250 μnol/L HQ after pretreated with 10 μmol/L HQ at cell survival level(44.92±25.10 vs 39.37±20.98).The results of real-time PCR showed that compared with the control group,the expression of HSP10,Prx3 and Prx4 significantly increased by 2.22±1.03,3.44±1.07 and 2.97±0.79-folds,respectively,in high dose group.The Prx1 was increased by 1.08±0.29-folds in adaptive group.The expression of NQO1 was increased by 3.44±1.07 and 3.57±1.31-folds,respectively,in high and adaptive group.The expression of Prx4 in high dose group was significantly increased by 2.41±0.31-folds compared with that of the control and with a significant difference from that of in adaptive group.Conclusion Prx1,Prx3,prx4,and Hsp10 may take part in the adaptive response of UCBMC induced by hydroquinone.


Modeling of Tm-doped fiber lasers pumped with 793 nm, 1.6 μm and 1.9 μm is presented and compared. Output performance of three different pump schemes with active fiber length, pump power and output reflectivity is investigated. Numerical simulation shows that, with 793 nm pump, the cross relaxation process is of vital importance for high efficient operation of Tm-doped fiber laser. And, 1.9 μm pump scheme is more likely to offer even higher output compared with 793 nm pump and 1.6 μm pump.


We present in this work a dual channel heterostructure strained structure, introduce the high carrier mobility Awaited in heterostructure devices while using several models which are: CVT, SHIRAHATA and WATT, we present a two dimensional simulation of dual strained channel heterostructure P-MOSFETs. This study is accomplished using SILVACO-TCAD simulation software, the comparison of the effect of using strain technique on P-MOSFET transistors will demonstrate the importance of using strain technique especially in dual channel heterostructure MOSFET. The simulation of fabrication steps and the extraction of the electronic proprieties in terms of transfer and output characteristics, transconductance, and the quasi-static capacitance allow understanding and interpreting these enhancements.


A passage provided under the roads to pass flood, rain, water and animals through it safely without disturbing traffic on road and providing safe passage to user, generally box culverts are used. Box under goes various loads by water, traffic, cushions and soil.In this paper we have tried to reduce the Bending Moment values and displacement values in order to make structure more safe and reliable to construct and use.


Ti O2( B) nanobelts had been synthesized in highly yield and middle conditions via a simple route including tetrabutyl titanate hydrolysis in an alkali solution → hydrothermal → proton-exchange → roasting. Morphological evolution and crystalline structure transmission were also achieved by just controlling the experiment parameters.HRTEM,FESEM,XRD,UV-vis,BET and photo-stimulated surface reaction technology were used to investigate the surface structure,photo absorption property and photocatalytic performance of Ti O2( B). The photocatalytic properties for H2 production were systematically tested. The results were shown that the photocatalytic activity followed the sequence: NaxH2-xTi3O7·n H2 nanowires Ti O2( B) Ti O2( anatase) Na2Ti6O13. The obtained Ti2O( B) displayed relative excellent photocatalytic properties for H2 production. It was revealed that the morphology and crystalline structure phase played important roles in the photocatalytic reaction. In addition,a possible growth mechanism of Ti O2( B) involving Na2Ti3O7→ H2Ti3O7→ H2Ti6O13→ H2Ti12O25→ Ti O2( B) was proposed based on the structure examination.


In the western Himalaya, the Nanga ParbatHaramosh massif (NPHM; Indian continental crust) has been differentially exhumed relative to the adjacent Kohistan island arc terrane (Zeitler 1985). This study aims to constrain the detailed cooling history of the region by using both Rb-Sr and laser probe 4~ dating of muscovite and biotite from closely-spaced samples. Such a study should also help to evaluate the resolution of mineral ages in determining cooling rates in regions of rapid exhumation. Samples dated include granite sheets and their metamorphic country rocks, and come from the NPHM, the Kohistan arc, and from the intervening steeplydipping, high-grade shear zone.


To the Editor.— We were interested in the recent report of Nutt et al in theArchives(35:810-811, 1978) describing the failure of naltrexone to affect the conditions of patients with Parkinson's disease. We also found that naloxone hydrochloride, another potent opiate antagonist, has no obvious effect on the major manifestations of Parkinson's disease, on the therapeutic benefit of levodopa, or on levodopainduced dyskinesias. Four patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease were given 0.8 mg of intravenous (IV) naloxone hydrochloride and a fifth patient was given 2 mg of IV naloxone hydrochloride. There was no subsequent change in tremor (evident in three patients), rigidity, akinesia, or posture. All patients had taken levodopa, usually with carbidopa (Sinemet), two to three hours earlier, but the manifestations of their Parkinson's disease were only partially reversed; there was neither an improvement nor a deterioration after administration of naloxone hydrochloride. Freezing episodes continued in two patients in


The purpose of this study was to describe the symbolic, the microscopic, and the macroscopic levels of multi representation skills on Reaction Rate class among Science students of the eleventh grade of SMA Muhammadiyah Ketapang. The subjects of this study were 30 eleventh grade Science students of SMA Muhammadiyah ketapang. The data collection techniques were interview and test. The study reveals a number of findings. First, the symbolic level of multi representation skills of the first question was 86,5% (excellent), the second question was 59,22% (average), and the third question was 66% ( good). In other words, the students' skill on symbolic level of multi representation is considered good by 70,57%. Second, the students' skill on macroscopic level of multi representation on question number four is considered excellent by 83,86%, question number five is considered average by 68,57%, and question number six is considered very good by 77,14%. Overall, the students' skill on macroscopic level of multi representation is very good by 76,52%. Last, the students' skill on microscopic level of multi representation on question number seven is considered average by 52,86%, question number eight is considered poor by 36,14%, and question number nine is considered poor by 34,71%. In conclusion, the students' skill on microscopic level of multi representation is below average by 41,25%. Keywords: Description, Multi Representation Skills, Reaction Rate


The issue whether the Portuguese Public Procurement Code which results from the entry into force of Decree-Law no. 111-B/2017 of 31 August – as driven by Directive no. 2014/24/EU – is an amended version of the text of 2008 or a wholly new code is not a minor one. In fact, systematic interpretation of several provisions arising out of the 2017 version is, to a certain extent, conditioned by understanding whether the legislative policy that endowed the 1. Professor Catedrático Jubilado da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa. Investigador Principal do Centro de Investigação de Direito Público (Instituto de Ciências Jurídico Políticas da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa). Diretor da Revista e-Pública: Revista Eletrónica de Direito Público. Advogado. Sócio Fundador da Sérvulo & Associados. e-Pública Vol. 4 No. 2, Novembro 2017 (004-020) 6 e-Pública Code with its own essence in 2008 remains untouched. The present paper aims solely – for the purpose of exemplification – at considering the amendments foreseen in one among many complex structuring sets of norms with which one is immediately confronted when one undertakes a sequential reading of the Code: the general provisions on the scope of application (articles 1 to 6-B). The purpose of the paper is to assess if, in what concerns Title I ("General provisions") of Part I ("Scope of application"), a mere "revision" of the Code took place or whether, quite differently, the Decree-Law no. 111B/2017 of 31 August brought about a true substitutive version of the text of 2008. The conclusions, necessarily produced in a perfunctory and precarious fashion – given the minimum time elapsed since the passing of the statute –, seem to point towards the first alternative.


After developing several workbenches for reverse engineering various assembly languages, we developed a portable assembly language reverse engineering environment (PARE). The individual workbenches and the portable version are described. The Language Independent Method (LIM) of programming used to develop the portable workbench is discussed, and issues specific to processing assembly languages as opposed to a third generation language are addressed.


Fluid shear stress has been known to activate platelet reaction such as aggregation, but the exact mechanism of shear‐induced platelet aggregation (SIPA) has not been fully understood. Calpain, an intracellular calcium‐activated cysteine protease, is abundant in platelets and is considered to be activated and involved in the proteolytic processes during platelet activation. A possible activation of calpain in SIPA was investigated, employing a newly developed aggregometer and specific monoclonal antibodies to detect activation of calpain. When a shear stress gradient varying between 6 and 108 dyn/cm2 was applied to platelets, activation of μ‐calpain was observed only in high‐shear‐stressed platelets, resulting in the proteolysis of talin. At 1 min after the onset of constant high shear stress of 108 dyn/cm2, μ‐calpain activation and proteolysis of talin were detected and increased in a time‐dependent manner. Constant shear stress more than 50 dyn/cm2, applied for 5 min, caused μ‐calpain activation and proteolysis of talin, which were increased in a shear‐force‐dependent manner. Calpeptin, a calpain‐specific peptide antagonist, caused the complete inhibition of both μ‐calpain activation and proteolysis of talin, while SIPA profiles with calpeptin showed almost no change compared to those without calpeptin. These results suggest the possibility of calpain involvement in late phases of shear‐induced platelet activation such as cytoskeletal reorganization. J. Cell. Biochem. 66:54–64, 1997. © 1997 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


How people have classified things is one of the defining aspects of cognitive archaeology. Here we have been looking at the most obvious physical manifestations of protection, namely large enclosure walls.


Purpose
This paper aims to investigate the relationship between employer branding (EB) and talent retention. The paper also analyses the mediating role of employee engagement in the association between EB and talent retention.

Design/methodology/approach
Partial least square structural equation modelling has been applied to carry out the analysis. The findings are based on the perceptions of IT professionals (n = 397) to assess the interrelationship between EB, employee engagement and talent retention.

Findings
The paper gives empirical insights on how employee engagement helps promote employer value offerings to the employee, which helps in the successful retention of employees. The results indicate that employee engagement partially mediates the association between EB and talent retention.

Practical implications
This study provides a clear direction to a diversity of practitioners working in IT firms. Building and maintaining sympathetic and emotional connections with co-workers, team leaders and higher managerial employees can help increase employee engagement. The findings can help business planners and managers focus their efforts on employer brand elements for successfully involving their workforce.

Originality/value
Authors believe this study is one of its kind to test the association between EB and talent retention mediated by the engagement level of employees. The present research study will help future academia delve into how EB can significantly impact the engagement and retention of existing employees.


Use of magnesium-bearing green basic pellet can improve quality of oxidized pellet and operation of blast furnace.The metallurgical properties of basic pellet were analyzed theoretically and reasonable BF burden design at Baogang was studied.Results show that the reasonable MgO content of magnesium-bearing basic pellet and sinter is 1.8% and basicity of sinter is 1.7.Under current conditions of Baogang,it is feasibile to produce magnesium-bearing basic pellet by adding ground lightly burnt dolomite.


In this thesis, we provide solutions to several longstanding problems concerning information processings in the visual cortex. Recent evidence suggests that striate cortical simple cells' receptive fields are best modeled by a family of self-similar Gabor-wavelets. We derive a continuous family of Gabor-wavelets and show that with the cortical sampling density of 12 orientations and 3 scales per octave, the Gabor wavelets form a tight frame that allows complete and stable reconstruction of visual imagery in a simple manner.
We propose a mathematical model, motivated by work in computer vision, to explain how the brain could infer object surfaces and boundaries in a visual scene based on the Gabor wavelet representation. The model is constructed using the Bayesian approach, with knowledge about the basic properties of surfaces in the world encoded in conditional probability distributions or priors. The model suggests that the brain constructs inferences about the world by combining observations with these priors and using these elements in maximizing the a posterior estimate or minimizing an equivalent energy functional.
We analyze the energy functional and experiment with various stochastic and deterministic algorithms for minimizing the energy functional. The system we implemented arrives at perceptually reasonable interpretations for a certain class of natural and synthetic visual images. We elucidate the strengths and limitations of the system and find that the different algorithms that minimize the energy functional are characterized by the same dynamical behavior: a gradual sharpening of the boundary signals and a simultaneous propagation of the surface signals in a locally connected network.
The model provides a computational framework to interpret in a new light a bewildering variety of nonlinear and context-sensitive responses in the complex and hypercomplex cells in the cortex. It also provides a functional explanation for a range of anatomical and psychological findings. We conclude by making some qualitative biological and psychological predictions and speculate on the biological mechanisms needed for the realization of the model.


In this paper, the expression of polarization structure for superlattice materials with phase mismatch and relative coefficient is established. Based on this method, a MgO:APLN crystal with two reciprocal lattice vectors is designed to generate 1.47μm, 3.84μm and 1.57μm, 3.3μm parametric light pumped by 1064 nm fundamental frequency light. Comparing the Fourier coefficients of MgO:APLN crystals with different structures, it is found that the Fourier coefficients of the two reciprocal lattice vectors are equal when the relative coefficient is 1:1. Based on this crystal, the experiment of external cavity MgO:APLN-MOPO is carried out to optimize the output transmittance of parametric optical coupling. With 20kHz high repetition rate 1064nm laser pumping, 1.57μm and 3.84 μm are achieved and the average power are 4.1W and 3.7W, respectively. The corresponding light-to-light conversion efficiency are 17.1% and 15.4%.


Until recently, the nurture paradigm was dominant in educational thought. Parental attitudes were considered to be the major causes for character development in their offspring, as well as for different kinds of mental illnesses. During most of the twentieth century, medical doctors and other professionals tried their best to convince educators of the seriousness of their tasks in raising children. This article discusses the ideas of one of these doctors, Wilhelm Stekel (1868‐ 1940), on the obsessive‐compulsive disorder. This pioneer psychoanalyst explained obsessive‐ compulsive disorder as caused by a traumatic experience in childhood: the shattering of parental authority. Persons suffering from this type of neurosis proved rather difficult to cure, which led Stekel to the idea that education should provide the solution. Among the depth‐ psychologists of the twentieth century, be stands out as "the educator of the parents", because of his numerous publications devoted to the prevention of neuroses through the illumination of popular pedagogical thought.


Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the ability of the Islamic gold dinar to hedge against two well-established foreign exchange (FX) risk factors namely, the dollar risk factor and global FX volatility innovations.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper uses a combination of the Markowitz (1952) portfolio optimization, visual data representations and the classic Fama-Macbeth (1973) two-pass procedure regressions.

Findings
The findings show that the Islamic gold dinar can serve as a hedge against market volatility, outperforms a diversified currency portfolio, and through its inclusions into the diversified currency portfolio, improve said portfolio's ability to hedge against market volatility.

Research limitations/implications
Due to the spread of the sample, country-specific factors could not be taken into account.

Practical implications
The Islamic gold dinar is a cost-efficient, cost-effective, and Shariah-compliant instrument that provides a solid hedge for investors and/or firms that have financial positions denominated in foreign currencies. Should these investors or firms find it costly to maintain a dinar-only portfolio, including the dinar into their currency portfolios also provides the same benefit, albeit at a lower magnitude.

Originality/value
This study is timely as the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions has recently for the first time recognized gold as a Shariah-compliant investment. The findings of this study provide the first look as to how investors and firms can benefit through the use of the Islamic gold dinar in their risk management practices.


The settlement of Gornji Stoliv is an abandoned rural ensemble located on the northern hillside of Mount Vrmac, in the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro. Including around six dozen residential, commercial and religious buildings, the village is a rare testimony to a social and architectural tradition that was developed throughout the Adriatic coast within the borders of the Republic of Venice from 1420 to 1797. A research conducted between December 2018 and May 2019 was the first wide-scale research into the historical, social, urban, and architectural characteristics and cultural landscape of the village since the 1950s. This paper presents the results of a comprehensive set of analyses carried out on the current state of conservation of the village and demonstrates the methodologies required to analyse a historical built environment of this kind in the absence of sufficient written and archival material.


A computer control system for industrial crystallization process of xylitol is designed.Turbidity instrument is used to precisely measure the time when crystals occur.Self-tuning fuzzy controller is developed to control the liquid temperature loop which lags too much.Multi-parameter correlated control strategy is carried out for operation under optimum schedule.Industrial application proves that the control system is highly automated and stable and can satisfy the process demand.


&NA; This article investigates the shadow value of resilience in complex natural lands acting as wild pollinator habitats. We capture the linkage between pollination services in crop production and habitat conditions in the surrounding natural land with a bioeconomic model. Our case study is buckwheat, which is produced in the hilly and mountainous region of central Japan and is greatly dependent on diverse fauna for pollination services. We model the mechanism of regime shifts in ecosystems consisting of buckwheat fields and the surrounding natural land with a threshold estimation model. We then find that the forest around the crop fields, which serves as a habitat for wild pollinators, is a determinant of an ecological threshold that causes regime shifts. We calculate the shadow value of resilience provided by forest habitat around a unit of buckwheat field to be $9,796, implying that the total value of resilience in complex natural land amounts to half of the stock price of buckwheat land. This overlooked value gives us useful insights on the sustainable use of ecosystems, including both pollinator‐mediated crop fields and habitats for pollinators.


Rotor stability of axial and piston hydraulic machine has been analyzed and main influencing factors have been determined in the paper. Calculated dependences, estimating criteria and also constructive methods for increasing stability are proposed in the paper.


The infrared theodolite is unable to realize the practical problems of star school, put forward a set of indirect detection method for measuring accuracy of photoelectric theodolite, This method not only solves the infrared theodolite test precision,but also can be convenient for full visual field and a full range of accuracy evaluation of equipment.


Trash-talking, or sledging, is almost universally condemned as unsportsmanlike behavior in the philosophy of sport. This condemnation results from the conception of sports as tests of purely athletic skills and from perceived incompatibility with the notion of sportsmanship. I want to show that this idealization of sports is actually a very narrow conception and hardly applicable to many modern sports. I will then attempt to broaden the understanding of what abilities sports test and show that, under this broader understanding, sledging may well be an acceptable practice in certain circumstances.


Argentine society underwent one of its most traumatic periods when a new Military Dictatorship took over power between 1976 and 1983. The military groups claimed that they would end a crisis that resulted from a society that ran out of control. The instruments to correct and discipline the population were part of a political project based on the state of siege, generalized repression, power abuse, the submission of judicial power and State terrorism. Of course, the educational field was not exempted from these movements. This paper analyzes the impact of its political tenets on school textbooks. In particular, it deals with two aspects: the censorship on books and other writings that could be used in schools, and the methods for teaching literacy in the first grades of elementary schools. It concludes by linking these policies to the formation of political cultures.


Summary It has been shown recently that the freeCa2+ content of human red cells rises during ageing in vivo. With the aim of determining the mechanisms involved in such a change, we have investigated some aspects of Ca2+homeostasis. Both the initial rate ofCa2+ influx and some kinetic parameters of the Caz+ pump of human red cells were studied in light and dense sub-populations obtained through stringent, self-formed Percoll gradients. At 37°C andpH 7.4, no differences inCa*+ entry were found. By contrast, either at pH 7.0 or 7.4, the maximal Ca*+ extrusion rate of theapproximately 10% heaviest cells was one-half of the corresponding lighter ones. The results demonstrate that theelevated freeCa*+ concentration distinctive of senescent cells, arises from a reduction in Ca*+ extrusion capacity during ageing. The possible physiological significance of this finding is discussed. INTRODUCTION Recent evidence has shown that non pathological celldeath and presumably cell ageing, are under genetic con-trol in nucleated cells


This report summarises and presents the Risk Indicator, a tool designed to identify and support investment in 'Life Line' freight routes. 'Life Line' freight routes are roads that may not deliver highly positive outcomes in traditional upgrade project priority assessments based on AADT measures, but have high value to the communities and regions they support. The Risk Indicator considers factors relevant to determining priority for road upgrade investment including the: 1. size and needs of the communities serviced; 2. availability of alternative routes; 3. length and convenience of any alternative routes; 4. historic incidence of events that have closed the route; 5. assessment of responses to previous events, including cost and impacts in the regions serviced. The report includes instructions for using the Risk Indicator tool. The tool has been developed for use by road managers to establish: 1. whether a route is a 'Life Line'; 2. which routes have the greatest claim for project funding based on'Life Line' needs. The tool is available to download from the Austroads publications website.


Among other modern imaging techniques, stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) requires an extremely quiet, widely wavelength tunable laser, which, up to now, is unheard of in fiber laser systems. We present a compact all-fiber laser system, which features an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) based on degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) in an endlessly single-mode photonic-crystal fiber. We employ an all-fiber frequency and repetition rate tunable laser in order to enable wideband conversion in the linear OPO cavity arrangement, the signal and idler radiation can be tuned between 764 and 960 nm and 1164 and 1552 nm at 9.5 MHz. Thus, all biochemically relevant Raman shifts between 922 and 3322 cm-1 may be addressed in combination with a secondary output, which is tunable between 1024 and 1052 nm. This ultra-low noise output emits synchronized pulses with twice the repetition rate to enable SRS imaging. We measure the relative intensity noise of this output beam at 9.5 MHz to be between -145 and -148 dBc, which is low enough to enable high-speed SRS imaging with a good signal-to-noise ratio. The laser system is computer controlled to access a certain energy differences within one second. Combining FWM based conversion, with all-fiber Yb-based fiber lasers enables the construction of the first automated, turn-key and widely tunable fiber laser. This laser concept could be the missing piece to establish CRS imaging as a reliable guiding tool for clinical diagnostics and surgical guidance.


The ability to harvest energy from the environment represents an important technology area that promises to eliminate wires and battery maintenance for many important applications and permits deploying self powered devices. This paper suggests the Application of Charging Mobile Phone by solar energy. In the beginning, a comprehensive overview to the energy harvesting concept and technologies is presented. Then the Application of Charging Mobile Phone by solar energy its efficiency to charge the aimed batteries under sunlight or an indoor artificial light.


This invention relates to novel N-acyl derivatives for 2,3--BENZODIAZEPINA of general formula (I), stereoisomers and acid addition salts, pharmaceutical compounds CONTAINING THEM AND PROCESS FOR THEIR PREPARATION. In the general formula (I) R represents an optionally substituted aliphatic ACID BY methoxy, cyano, carboxyl, amino, C 1-4 SUB, DI GROUP (ALKYL SUB C 1-4) amino, pyrrolidino, TALIMIDO or phenyl, O by one or more halogen; OR is a group of benzoyl, cyclopropanecarbonyl, ALQUILOCARBAMOIL O FENILOCARBAMOIL; OR IS ABSENT WHEN a double bond between the atoms of N (3) YC (4); R 1 represents hydrogen HIGH; HIGH OR 1 is absent when a double bond between the atoms of N (3) YC (4); R (squared) means an alkyl group C SUB 1-4; OR HIGH 1 YR (squared) together represent a methylene group AND NOT PRESENT ANY double bond between the N atoms (C) YC (4); R 3 is HIDROGENOY RAISED OR GROUP SUB C 1-4 aliphatic acyl; R 4 represents hydrogen HIGH; A SUB aliphatic acyl group C 1-4 optionally substituted by a set methoxy, cyano, carboxyl, amino, C 1-4 SUB, di (C 1-4 SUB) amino, pyrrolidino, TALIMIDO or phenyl or by one or more halogens; And a benzoyl group, palmitoyl cyclopropanecarbonyl, C ALQUILOCARBAMOIL SUB 1-5 O FENILOCARBAMOIL and dotted lines represent bonds ARE THESE valence Optionally, provided that there is no double bond between the atoms of N (3) YC (4) when R 3 YR HIGH HIGH 4 represent hydrogen. THE GENERAL compounds of formula (I) have valuable EFFECTS ON CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, ESPECIALLY relaxing action on muscles, anticonvulsant and neuroprotective. So, this may be useful for treatment of various diseases originating CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM.


The occurrence of formulae in Attic inscriptions is, of course, universally recognized, although it has perhaps become clear that an over-rigid approach towards them, particularly in fifth- and early fourth-century examples, is unwise. The usefulness of such formulae for restoration also depends to a certain extent on the volume and the spread of dated, or approximately dated, material available. In the case of citizenship grants the situation is particularly good since there not only exists a reasonably large and widespread set of more or less closely dated documents but the decrees themselves contain a peculiar feature which renders them especially susceptible to restoration. Indeed, there are some grounds for regarding decrees that record grants of citizenship as forming a special category among honorific decrees. The reason is that the full formula for recording the grant always consists of more than one distinct clause or element. There are always at least two clauses involved, each of which (apart from the simple statement of the grant) refers to a specific and necessary point of procedure; and each of these elements of the full formula has its own individual formula in the sense of having a distinct method of expression. Thus, in citizenship decrees, even when the form of expression within the individual elements is open to variation, the general, or over-all, formula for the grant remains the same in a given period, in that the individual elements themselves remain. For instance, in the earliest grants the total granting formula embraced two separate elements, namely the statement of the grant, and the enrolment of the recipient into a deme and tribe and phratry. Both of these elements could be (and were) expressed in slightly different ways, but the two points themselves are always present in the record. So the over-all granting formula is the same.


This paper describes a program called ASSIST-V which is designed to provide students and other researchers with an environment in which they may write and analyze operating systems for the IBM 360/370 series of machines. ASSIST-V is an extended version of a student-oriented assembler/interpreter called ASSIST. A user of ASSIST-V is presented with a machine which simulates the full set of S/360 machine instructions (including privileged instructions): the standard 360/370 interrupt structure, I/0 channels, and I/0 devices. Since the machine environment is simulated, ASSIST-V can provide debugging and statistics-gathering features not available on an actual "bare" machine.


We analyze the symmetry realized asymptotically on the two dimensional boundary of AdS3 geometry in topologically massive gravity, which consists of the gravitational Chern-Simons term as well as the usual Einstein-Hilbert and negative cosmological constant terms. Our analysis is based on the conventional canonical method and proceeds along the line completely parallel to the original Brown and Henneaux's. In spite of the presence of the gravitational Chern-Simons term, it is confirmed by the canonical method that the boundary theory actually has the conformal symmetry satisfying the left and right moving Virasoro algebras. The central charges of the Virasoro algebras are computed explicitly and are shown to be left-right asymmetric due to the gravitational Chern-Simons term. It is also argued that the Cardy's formula for the BTZ black hole entropy capturing all higher derivative corrections agrees with the extended version of the Wald's entropy formula. The M5-brane system is illustrated as an application of the present calculation.


Questions of land improvement soil Nonchemozem zone are investigated at use Sinapis alba and Carthamus tinctorius. Prospects of use for Carthamus tinctorius improvement of parameters of soil fertility are shown. Questions of microbiological activity soil microflorae an arable layer are investigated. The ambassador Carthamus tinctorius activity microflorae an arable layer corresponds estimations strong.


The SPM goes forward one of important instruments measuring in the nano-scale. Following applied in the industrial measurement,the calibration,traceability and measuring uncertainty of SPM played an important role as one kind of metrological instrument. The paper described the structure,calibration and application in international comparison of one metrological atomic force microscope. Keyword:Atomic Force Microscope for Nanometer 3D Surface Shape and Micro Size Measuring$$$$GAO Sitian,YE Xiaoyou,SHAO Hongwei,DU Hua,JIN Qihai,YANG Ziben,CHEN Yunchang (National Institute of Metrology P.R.China,Beijing 100013,CHN) Abstract:The SPM goes forward one of important instruments measuring in the nano-scale. Following applied in the industrial measurement,the calibration,traceability and measuring uncertainty of SPM played an important role as one kind of metrological instrument. The paper described the structure,calibration and application in international comparison of one metrological atomic force microscope.


Thomas Arnold, second son of Dr Arnold of Rugby, left England in search of a new life, first in New Zealand and then in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) in 1850. There he became an inspector of schools and married the beautiful Julia Sorrell. The record covered in this second volume of his letters begins at this point and continues with a generous selection of his letters to the end of his life in 1900. The earlier letters give a vivid impression of life in Van Diemen's Land and of his own home life. Arnold holds an interesting, if minor, place in literary and educational history. However, the great strength and fascination of these letters probably lies in their record of the man himself, caught up, sometimes tempestuously, in the movements of his time, particularly in his religious unsettlement and wrestling with Roman Catholicism; and of a marriage in which agonising disagreements on the deepest issues threatened but never overwhelmed the mutual love of both.


Conducting feasibility demonstration of massive sand fracturing is very important.Through analysing the geologic setting and engineering condition of Well Jiao-55,corresponding sand fracturing measures and technical suggestion are proposed.They are helpful to accelerate technical exchange and improve demonstration level.


Designing security protocols is a challenging and deceptive exercise. Even small protocols providing straightforward security goals, such as authentication, have been hard to design correctly, leading to the presence of many subtle attacks. Over the years various formal approaches have emerged to analyse security protocols making use of different formalisms. Schneider has developed a formal approach to modelling security protocols using the process algebra CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes). He introduces the notion of rank functions to analyse the protocols. We demonstrate an application of this approach to the Woo-Lam protocol. We describe the protocol in detail along with an established attack on its goals. We then describe Schneider's rank function theorem and use it to analyse the protocol. ACM Classification: C.2.2 (Communication/Networking and Information Technology – Network Protocols – Protocol Verification), D.2.4 (Software Engineering – Software/Program Verification – Formal Methods), D.4.6 (Operating Systems – Security and Privacy Protection – Authentication)


It is shown that most of the models for analyzing meson-baryon reactions in the nucleon resonance region can be derived from a Hamiltonian formulation of the problem. An extension of the coupled-channel approach to include $\pi\pi N$ channel is briefly described and some preliminary results for the $N^*(1535)$ excitation are presented.


According to the development of tool Microsoft Visual Studio.NET2003 and the C# computer language ,the core module structure of the.NET,this paper discusses an budget management system-the design principle ,total structure and the function of Constructing sub-unit price. It uses technology related Web and database of SQL,which gather the technique combining together ,like ASP.NET and ADO.NET etc.. The system has already solved the problems which are about dynamic state of Web releasing and adjusting effectively in Constructing sub-unit price,and can visit database by using various module like ADO.NET etc..


It is shown theoretically that alternating external fields, electric or elastic, can induce a nonuniform time‐dependent electron magnetization of the conductor placed in a constant magnetic field — in addition to equilibrium magnetism described by Pauli and Landau.


0. Introduction. The Yue âã branch of Chinese is a set of dialects closely related to "Standard Cantonese" (henceforth Cantonese), the prestige form in Canton City and Hong Kong. Some Yue varieties spoken in the south-eastern part of Guangxi •L•1⁄4 Province, China, show murmured initials (cf. sec. 1) forming, at least on the phonetic level: 1) threeway contrasts of plosives (stops and affricates), i. e. murmured vs. aspirated vs. unaspirated; and 2) binary contrasts of fricatives, i. e. murmured vs. voiceless. Since these murmured initials correspond historically to the Ancient Chinese quan-zhuo'S'÷ initials (voiced obstruents), they provide comparative evidence for reconstructing voiced obstruent series on the Proto-Yue stage. These Yue varieties are, namely, Cenxi—èŒk Rongxian —eŒ§, Yulin‹Ê—Ñ (formerly ‰T—Ñ), Shinan •Î"ì (formerly äo‹Æ) and Binyang •o—z, and they are henceforth referred to as the "Guangxi dialects"" in this study. The aim of the present study is two-fold: 1) to describe a rough outline of the Cenxi" phonemic structure as an example of the five Guangxi dialects mentioned above ; and 2) to revise, on the basis of the Cenxi data, the Proto-Yue initial system as proposed in McCoy 1966.


"Since [the] late nineteen-eighties, two important trends in demographic and social urbanisation have been visible. The first is diminution of [the] influence of demographic influences which originate outside the voivodship, the second is a stabilisation (regress in some cases) of some urban centres. The latter is due to a nation-wide demographic transformation as well as to a growth in emigration from traditional urban centres of Katowice conurbation....[The] latest [official] surveys indicate that the named trends are characteristic for a majority of Polish cities over 100,000 since 1990." (EXCERPT)


The electrochemical research of asenopyrite in the presence and absence of thiobacillus ferrooxidans in acidic growth media was investigated.The results show that asenopyrite is firstly oxidized to AS2S2,which covers the electrode and the dissolution of arsenopyrite is retarded. As2S2 is oxidized to H3AsO3, H3AsO3 to H3AsO4,and Fe2+ is oxidized to Fe3+ with the increase of potential.The reactive nature of arsenopyrite is enhanced and the initial oxidation potential decreases when thiobacillus ferrooxidans are in the solution.The tendency of being oxidized and the corrosion rate increase compared to that in absence of thiobacillus ferrooxidans,but the reaction mechanism of arsenopyrite of anode process is not changed.The resistance in the presence of thiobacillus ferrooxidans is obviously lower than that in the absence of thiobacillus ferrooxidans.The proposed reaction mechanism confirms the results obtained in liner polarization satisfactorily.


Literature, as an important part of culture in terms of ideology, is the most convenient material to study the characteristics of different cultures. This paper selects the masterpieces "Peony Pavilion" and "Romeo and Juliet" of the two great Chinese and Western dramatists, Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare, and compares and analyzes them in four aspects, namely, the background of the creation, plot design, main characters' image, and the ending of the love, so as to analyze the differences between the two works in the spirit of the Chinese and Western cultures, the way of thinking, the concepts of human beings, and the understanding of tragedy.


We present an automated procedure that derives simultaneously the effective temperature $T_{eff}$, the surface gravity logg, the metallicity [Fe/H], and the equatorial projected rotational velocity vsini for "normal" A and Am stars. The procedure is based on the principal component analysis inversion method of Paletou et al. (2015a). A sample of 322 high resolution spectra of F0-B9 stars, retrieved from the Polarbase, SOPHIE, and ELODIE databases, were used to test this technique with real data. We have selected the spectral region from 4400-5000\AA\ as it contains many metallic lines and the Balmer H$\beta$ line. Using 3 datasets at resolving powers of R=42000, 65000 and 76000, about 6.6x$10^6$ synthetic spectra were calculated to build a large learning database. The Online Power Iteration algorithm was applied to these learning datasets to estimate the principal components (PC). The projection of spectra onto the few PCs offered an efficient comparison metric in a low dimensional space. The spectra of the well known A0- and A1-type stars, Vega and Sirius A, were used as control spectra in the three databases. Spectra of other well known A-type stars were also employed in order to characterize the accuracy of the inversion technique. All observational spectra were inverted and atmospheric parameters derived. After removal of a few outliers, the PCA-inversion method appears to be very efficient in determining $T_{eff}$, [Fe/H], and vsini for A/Am stars. The derived parameters agree very well with previous determinations. Using a statistical approach, deviations of around 150 K, 0.35 dex, 0.15 dex, and 2 km/s were found for $T_{eff}$, logg, [Fe/H], and vsini with respect to literature values for A-type stars. The PCA-inversion proves to be a very fast, practical, and reliable tool for estimating stellar parameters of FGK and A stars, and deriving effective temperatures of M stars.


'steps shall be taken in... territories which have not yet attained independence to transfer all powers to the peoples of those territories, without any conditions or reservations'. The old imperial mindset that had undermined the principles of the mandate system during the time of the League was, under the UN, increasingly pushed to the edge (a periphery occupied by the 1970s solely by Portugal and South Africa). This transformation in global political culture had many causes, but part of the process at least surely began with the startling new norms of thought and conduct towards non-self-governing territories and peoples first asserted, with limited initial success, in the League's mandate system.


Vibrational properties of anatase titanium dioxide single crystal are thoroughly investigated by means both of experimental and theoretical approaches. Polarized Raman-scattering experiments were carried out at room temperature in backscattering geometry on a microcrystalline anatase sample under different crystal orientations set by a micromanipulator. All the independent components of the polarizability tensor were separately obtained. In particular, it was possible to evidence, in turn, the different components of the A1g mode, thus unambiguously determining its peak wave number, and then, definitively resolve and identify the A1g and B1g modes of anatase. Moreover, ab initio calculations based on density-functional perturbation theory within the generalized gradient approximation have been performed to evaluate infrared IR and Raman modes, dielectric tensors, Born effective charges and TO-LO splitting of the IR modes. The agreement between computational and experimental results is much better than the one achieved in previous computational works.


In this paper we present a method for multi-lead ECG signal compression using Predictive Coding combined with Set Partitioning In Hierarchical Trees (SPIHT). We utilize linear prediction between the beats to exploit the high correlation among those beats. This method can optimize the redundancy between adjacent samples and adjacent beats. Predictive coding is the next step after beat reordering step. The purpose of using predictive coding is to minimize amplitude variance of 2D ECG array so the compression error can be minimize. The experiments from selected records from MIT-BIH arrhythmia database shows that the proposed method is more efficient for ECG signal compression compared with original SPIHT and relatively have lower distortion with the same compression ratios compared to the other wavelet transformation techniques.


Video indexing technique is crucial in multimedia applications. In the case of HD (High Definition) Video, the principle of scalability is of great importance. The wavelet decomposition used in the JPEG2000 standard provides this property. In this paper, we propose a scalable descriptor based on objects. First, a scalable moving object extraction method is constructed. Using the wavelet data, it relies on the combination of a robust global motion estimation with a morphological color segmentation at a low spatial resolution. It is then refined using the scalable order of data. Second, a descriptor is built only on the objects found at the previous step. This descriptor is based on multiscale histograms of wavelet coe cients of moving objects.


A general dispersion relation is derived for parametric instabilities caused by a large amplitude pump wave which couples high and low frequency modes of a magnetized plasma. The nonlinear effects coupling the high and low frequency waves are: (1) the low‐frequency pondermotive force due to the coupling of the pump with the high frequency perturbations, and (2) the high frequency nonlinear source current density produced by coupling of the pump with the low frequency perturbations. The dispersion relation contains decay instabilities, purely growing instabilities, modulational instabilities, self‐focusing and nonlinear Landau damping. As examples the dispersion relation is applied to self‐focusing, magnetosonic decay and purely growing instabilities, whistler decay and nonlinear Landau dumping of electron plasma waves and transverse electromagnetic waves.


Sensitivity analysis of pavement thickness design software for local roads in Iowa." MS (Master of Science) thesis, Figure 10. Impacts of traffic level and reliability on concrete pavement thickness given low and high subgrade strength for 20 years of Figure 15. Impacts of traffic level and reliability on concrete pavement thickness given low and high subgrade strength and design life of 20


The Fourier Transform-Raman and Fourier Transform-Infrared spectra of 5-bromo-2-nitropyridine have been recorded. The observed frequencies were assigned to various modes of vibrations on the basis of normal coordinate calculations, assuming C S point group symmetry. The potential energy distribution associated with normal modes is also reported here. The assignment of fundamental vibrations agrees well with the calculated frequencies.


This paper addresses the problem of target detection in adaptive arrays in situations where only a small number of training samples is available. Within the framework of two-stage adaptive detection paradigm, we propose a new two-stage (TS) joint loaded persymmetric- Toeplitz adaptive matched filter (JLPT -AMF) detector. This new detector combines, using a joint detection strategy, individual scalar CFAR decisions from two rapidly adaptive detectors: a TS TAMF detector and a TS LPAMF detector. The former is based on a TMI filter, which is an adaptive array filter employing a Toeplitz covariance matrix estimator introduced in [1]. The latter is based on an adaptive LPMI filter that uses diagonally loaded persymmetric covariance matrix (CM) estimate inversion. The TS JLPT -AMF detector ensures the constant false alarm rate (CFAR) property independently of the antenna array dimension M, the interference CM, and the number of training samples NCME to be used for estimating this CM. This new detector exhibits highly reliable detection performance, which is robust to the angular separation between the sources, even when NCME is about m/2 ~ m, m is the number of interference sources. The robustness of the proposed adaptive detector to the angular separation is analytically proven and verified with statistical simulation.


The logistics network design is one of the important phases of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and it is a problem that should be optimized for long-term promotion of efficiency of the whole supply chain. Usually a plant produces different types of products. Even if it is a factory of the same company, delivery differs according to the kind of produced product. The restrictions which this model has are deeply concerned with TP in the real world. In this paper, we consider the logistics network design problems with multiple products and constraints for delivery course. To solve the problem, we used a hybrid priority-based genetic algorithm (h-priGA), and we tried comparison experiments with priority-based genetic algorithm (priGA) and h-priGA, and show the effectiveness of h-priGA. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electron Comm Jpn, 92(8): 18–24, 2009; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/ecj.10102


In March 1935, a few months before his death in an airplane crash, Will Rogers (1879–1935) wrote to his first cousin Lizzie Tripplett. At the time Lizzie was a patient at the Indian Hospital in Claremore, Oklahoma, the first Indian hospital in the country. In fact, the building of the facility itself was due to Rogers's celebrity lobbying efforts; he mentioned the hospital several times in print and on the air and likely spoke privately to influential senators about the idea. As was typical of Rogers, he tried to boost Lizzie's spirits through humor. In reference to his most recent film he wrote, "I think we gotta pretty funny one coming out next called 'Life Begins at Forty.' Course, life don't really begin 'till you start to swim in the Verdigris," a reference to the river that runs through the northwestern part of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. In his subsequent paragraph Rogers took a more serious tone. "I bet you don't have a radio down in them sticks," he wrote.


The purpose of this paper is to characterize the performance measurement system by identifying its cornerstone peculiarities in municipalities. Analysis revealed that performance measurement is an inevitable tool for municipalities to improve public services. However, due to its complexity, the biggest attention should be paid to the organizational structure, actors who perform their roles, different objectives, their versatility and the environment. In addition, this system is inconceivable without engaged leadership, learning and culture. Interpretations of these results highlighted the peculiarities to be considered when creating, developing and implementing performance measurement in municipalities.


Despite the widespread use of income as a measure of household welfare, there is much to recommend the use of consumption. Indeed, standard economic arguments suggest that consumption expenditure will better reflect expected lifetime resources and many economists have been unequivocal in advocating its use. Slesnick (1993), for example, suggests that 'From a theoretical perspective it is more appropriate to evaluate poverty using a consumption based measure of household welfare'. Cutler and Katz (1992) state that 'Economic theory suggests that permanent income or consumption is a more accurate measure of the distribution of resources than is current income'. Poterba (1989) argues that `If households base their spending plans on their expected lifetime income, then consumption provides a more accurate measure of resources than does annual income'.


DOCUMENT RESUME SE 006 767 Busch, Phyllis S. Seven Steps fcr Developing an Outdoor Schocl Area for Teaching Science-Ccnservaticn. Ulster Ccunty Board cf Cooperative Educaticn Services, New Platz, N.Y. Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, D.C. Bureau of Elementary and Seccndary Education. 69 30p. EDES Price MF-$0.25 HC-$1.60 *Ccnservation Educaticn, Educaticnal Programs, *Elementary School Science, Instructicn, *Outdoor Educaticn, Program Descriptions, *Program Guides, Program Planning, Science Activities Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III Presented are "Seven Steps" which can be utilized in develcping an educational program fccused on the outdocr envircnment. A map of an area likely to be found outside almost any school in any community is provided. On the Asap 19 teaching staticns are indicated alcng with a descripticn cf each station. The descriptive material is followed by suggested teaching pcssibilities for the mapped cutdoor area, A section is included for each grade level frcm K-8. The material for each level consists cf (1) prcblems to be investigated, (2) science and conservaticn ccncepts, and (3) discussion questicns. Samples of Discovery Guides as techniques for cutdccr investigation are alsc presented, followed by a list of selected references. This work was prepared under an ESEA Title III ccntract. (ES)


Ferromagnetic materials occur in single or multi-phase state and furthermore can undergo phase changes during processing or over time during service exposure. These phase changes can be attributed to physical processes or chemical reactions. In this paper, we examine the hysteresis and Barkhausen emission profiles of two-phase magnetic materials. Besides the shape of magnetic hysteresis curves that can reveal the presence of more than one phase, we demonstrate that the Barkhausen noise signatures for two-phase materials form two-peaks in their Barkhausen voltage profile. This can be used as a tool for non-destructive evaluation of ferromagnetic materials in industrial applications.


An experimental study on optical injection locking of X‐band silicon IMPATT oscillators was carried out. The locking process was achieved by modulating a cw GaAlAs laser at subharmonics of the IMPATT oscillation frequency and optically injected into the IMPATT diode. A locking range of several megahertz can be obtained at frequency ratios ranging from 4:1 to 8:1.


This paper presents a study investigating the differences between what designers and design managers say about designing and what designers do. Five datasets are analysed, labelled Samsung, Philips, Design Centre Pharmaceutical, Design Seminar, (interview designers and managers when they talk about designing) and DTRS7 (design session about designers designing). Differences between describing designing and designing are identified using a combined method of protocol analysis, word frequency count and sentiment analysis. There is significantly more Function (F) and less Structure (S) issues mentioned during describing designing than when designing. Sentiment is more positive when describing designing than when designing. Results also show that protocol analysis methods and the FBS ontologybased coding scheme can be applied to design management and descriptions of the design process as well as to designing.


Small and Micro Business Resources in the Post-Pandemic Period: A Perspective from Local Bridal Boutique Businesses in West Virginia Ishtehar Sharif Swazan In widely dispersed small communities, local and regional businesses dominate West Virginia, an eastern state of the United States in the Appalachian Mountains where small and micro businesses constitute 98.9% of all businesses and contributes 49.1% of the state's total employment. These businesses create jobs, help build a strong financial position for the state, and promote communitybuilding and social activities. These businesses are unique as they sustain themselves while competing with national and regional retail chains and carving out a customer for themselves. However, the damage caused by the spread of Covid-19 is having a devastating effect on the small and micro businesses in the United States and the impact is much more severe in rural regions of the country. As small and micro businesses have a significant contribution to the socio-economic infrastructure of the rural state of West Virginia, it was necessary to identify the firm resources possessed by these businesses in the post-pandemic period. To achieve this objective, a content analysis of web-based self-description of the small and micro bridal boutique businesses in West Virginia and semi-structured qualitative interviews with owners/managers of those businesses were conducted. The results of this study identified the claimed and actual resources of these businesses. The findings also analyzed how the firm resources helped the local bridal boutiques in this post-pandemic period. The findings of this study might inform the federal and state decisionmakers to make productive and worthwhile decisions to support the small and micro businesses in West Virginia.


Abstract Artificial intelligence algorithms have been applied on computer board games since 1953. Among all computer board games, because of its low branching property, Othello can easily defeat humans by designing with min-max search and alpha-beta pruning. Nowadays, the goal of compute Othello is no longer to challenge people but to compete against other computer programs. This paper improves the computer Othello's opening strategy, mid-game strategy, and end-game strategy. The opening strategy is enhanced by improving self-learning efficiency using pattern recognition. The evaluation function is designed by combining the Line-pattern evaluation with other evaluation functions and by using an improved genetic algorithm to optimize the parameters. Then implement dynamic programming in min-max search and alpha-beta pruning to make the searching engine more efficient and to improve the depth of perfect-searching. Keywords : Genetic Algorithm, Self-Learning, Computer Othello 1. Introduction


The displacements of optical path components in WDM laser packages produced by temperature changes have been simulated by FEA thermo-mechanical modelling and evaluated on existing packaged components with qualitative agreement. This approach enables alternative package designs, materials and mounting schemes to be investigated in advance of assembling and characterising actual devices


The prospects for realization of all-fiber gas sensors with hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers and tapered micro/nano optical fibers are investigated. Issues such as high background level and slow response time are discussed. OCIS codes: (060.2370) Fiber optics sensors; (060.4005) Microstructured fibers.


In the late Qing period, Chongqing was an import area of activity of Guangdong business people. When investigating the activities of Guangdong businessmen, historians didn't pay enough attention to this. In fact, around the time when Chongqing was open to trade, Guangdong businessmen were very active in this area. For special reasons, Hong Kong was the transfer stafion in the trade between Guangdong and Chongqing. Therefore, investigating the conditions of trade between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Chongqing can provide an important complement to the research on the group of Guangdong businessmen.


Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) is the smallest microorganisms which can survive independently in the world. It is a pathogen between the bacteria and the virus, mainly violates the respiratory system. Nasopharyngeal aspirates were collected from children with respiratory infection from April 2013 to November 2016 in a hospital in Jiangxi, China. A total of 4350 children were enrolled and nine viruses and eight bacteria, including MP, were tested by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and culture. The total positivity rate of any viruses and bacteria was 73.6%; bacteria-positive detection rate was 34.5%; virus-positive detection rate was 49.1%; and mixed-positive detection rate was 45.4%. A total of 596 cases were identified as MP-positive, among which 274 cases were MP-positive only. MP was detected throughout the year and across all age groups. When compared with those of the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)-positive only group, the MP-positive only group was consisted of older children and presented a higher percentage of fever, a longer duration of fever, and a lower percentage of wheezing. High load of MP-positive only group was detected mainly in preschool and school-aged children. Longer fever duration and severe cough symptoms were observed in the high load of MP-positive only group with high levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), and D-dimer. The MP-positive only group with high load could be an etiological agent of severe respiratory tract infections.


Key Takeaways • Scholars wishing to be seen as thought leaders in their discipline need to be intentional about how, when, and what shows up when someone uses a search engine like Google to search on their name or area(s) of research. • If Google cannot find a scholar's work or the work of the scholar's colleagues, department, or institution, then it is essentially irrelevant — even nonexistent — because people will not find, read, apply, or build on the work if they cannot locate it via a quick Google search. • Building a web presence is more than simply having a website and can make the difference in a scholar's visibility to the desired audience and opportunities for new projects and collaborations. Consider an exchange between colleagues: Professor G: "Remember that article I was waiting to come out? It was finally published. In a top-‐tier journal, but — after all that time — I don't think very many people will read it as it is already a bit passé. So frustrating... All I wanted to do was get the word out about my research project!" Professor M: "'Get the word out'? Hmmm... I've been blogging about my research for the last few years, since starting the new project. Good thing I have been because it's led to a number of presentation and collaboration opportunities, and I was recently asked to consult with faculty at another institution. All of my social networking activity is really paying off for me... I think we should talk more about this." A little over a year ago The Chronicle of Higher Education published a piece titled "Creating Your Web Presence: A Primer for Academics."1 We were excited to see some of the strategies Miriam Posner recommended for academics wanting to create and maintain a web presence. We had been doing many of the things Posner recommended, as well as a number of others. Thus, in many ways this article builds on Posner's piece but argues that faculty should be taking even more steps to build, maintain, and ensure that others can find their presence on the web. The first step in building a web presence is pretty simple — faculty put their content on the web.2 However, there is more to it than that. Faculty (and academics in general) should think about what they put on the web, where they put it, how they name and structure their content, and finally how they encourage others to read, use, link to, apply, and cite Preprint: To appear in EDUCAUSE Review Online.


Worden, Foreword. When Our Personal Selves Influence Our Professional Work. Suffering and the Caring Professional. Caregiving of the Soul: Spirituality at the End of Life. The Seduction of Autonomy: Countertransference and Assisted Suicide. Futility and Beneficence: Where Ethics and Countertransference Intersect. Client, Clinician and Supervisor: The Dance of Parallel Process at the End of Life. The Influence of Culture and Ethnicity on End-of-Life Care. Torture, Execution and Abandonment: The Hospitalized Terminally Ill. Surviving the Holocaust Only to Face Death Again. The Horror and Helplessness of Violent Death. Professionalism and Our Humanity: Working with Children at the End of Life. When the Face Across the Room Reflects My Own. Before and After My Fiancee's Death. Complex Bonds: A Personal-professional Narrative. The Respectful Death Model: Difficult Conversations at the End of Life. Emotional Barriers to Discussing Advanced Directives. A Group Intervention to Process and Examine Countertransference at the End of Life. The Journey Inside: Countertransference and its Implications for Practice in End-of-Life Care.


Planning and scheduling (P&S) is an important area of artificial intelligence (AI). In the late decade, application-oriented research receives much more attention in AI planning community. Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) is an effective AI planning approach and has been applied in many realistic domains. However, current modeling mechanisms of HTN planning are mainly based on logical and/or functional mechanism and not efficient for large and complex system modeling. In this paper, an object-oriented mechanism known as Model-based Integrated Planning Language (MIPL) is proposed, which can describe physical systems with hierarchical, logical and numerical relations, and can also describe HTN planning domain such as operator, method and task. Based on MIPL, planning process is provided concerning compiling schemes and integration of reasoning and computing. Transportation and logistics (T&L) is an attractive application domain of AI planning. A T&L system model is built by this mechanism with hierarchical structure and hybrid component attributes, and has been used in HTN planning effectively.


Abstract Developing countries commonly must deal not only with issues of economic development, but also with the problems associated with a multi‐ethnic population. Most analyses of ethnic programs, however, focus on the domestic political economy and fail to appreciate the importance of international factors. In this essay, I note that Malaysia's New Economic Policy (NEP) and its successors have been affected not only by the domestic ethnic situation but also by the global economy. Furthermore, I argue that current international pressures and constraints have forced a re‐evaluation of the NEP in the past decade. While a concern for ethnic factors is by no means absent from the policy‐making process today, ethnic concerns are now overshadowed by the realities of the international economic order and the government's realization that ethnic accommodation can only be successful within the confines of an outward‐looking, expanding economy.