These results confirm our previous study (Gabriel et al., 2010) by showing normal SRT performance in SLI children with a visual SRT task. Moreover, normal performance is also observed with an auditory SRT task. These results challenge the hypothesis of a general procedural learning deficit in SLI children (Lum et al., 2009; Tomblin et al., 2007). They also rule out the hypothesis of a procedural impairment which would be more specifically related to auditory material.


Objective: Surgical modifications sparing uninvolved structures such as the spinal accessory nerve have been implemented since the advent of the radical neck dissection in 1906. The increased morbidity to the spinal accessory nerve involved with the dissection of level V lymph nodes has led to much controversy. In this study, we examine the incidence of nodal metastasis to all nodal levels involved with upper aerodigestive squamous cell carcinoma and attempt to determine when level V dissection is indicated.


The study was carryout to show the effects of layer age at (30, 34 and 38 weeks), egg storage period (2, 4, and 6 days) and their interactions on egg quality traits of the hy-line layer eggs. The experiment included the measurements of the egg quality characteristics in laboratory. Results from this study were summarizing as: age of layers had significant effect (p ≤ 0.05) on some quality traits of the eggs such as: egg weight, albumin weight, yolk weight, Haugh unit and yolk height; Also, storage period had significant effect (p ≤ 0.05) on egg weight, albumin weight, Haugh unit, yolk height.


The general form of the quasi‐linear equation is derived for plasmas in which there is a finite amplitude pump wave. Electrostatic turbulence is considered and the pump wave is treated in the dipole approximation. Appropriate number, momentum, and energy moment constraints are shown to be computable from the diffusion equation. The derivation of an H theorem indicates that the quasi‐linear diffusion of parametric instabilities always tends to an accessible asymptotic steady state.


Conventional Fourier transform profilometry (FTP) suffers from spectrum overlapping arising from ambient light, surface reflectivity and system nonlinearity. In this paper, we propose a binary coding strategy to address the problem. First, we decompose a grayscale FTP pattern into a serial of binary patterns; second, we project the binary patterns onto a target and image the corresponding patterned scenes; and finally, we reconstruct an FTP image from the captured binary images. Compared with conventional FTP, the proposed strategy is immune to spectrum overlapping and, hence, achieves more accurate 3-D results. Experimental results verify the validity of the proposed method.


Abstract Let G be a group and F be a field of characteristic . In this paper we provide some necessary and sufficient conditions for a twisted group algebra to satisfies a non-matrix identity. This allows us to show that a crossed product is Lie nilpotent if and only if σ is trivial, G is nilpotent and p-abelian, G has a unique normal Sylow p-subgroup P and for some central -subgroup Q and is stably untwisted. Also, is Lie nilpotent if and only if is commutative. Some generalized group identities on the unit group of are also investigated.


Banking sector has a vital role in Indian economy
and a great change came in it after nationalization. Nationwide,
there are a number of branches of banks and financial
institutions have opened. Presently banking sector is facing a
high level competition. Banks or financial Institutions which
have maximum profit are showing maximum growth rate. By
optimization of the resources of banks, cost becomes minimum
and profit becomes maximum. This manuscript is an effort to
make a comparative study between SBI, PNB and OBC for total
income, expenses, net profit, share capital, operating expenses,
share holder funds, total reserves, earning per share, total
liabilities, total assets and total investments from 2014-19. Year
over Year (YOY) and Compound annual growth rate (CAGR)
analytical methods are used. The main parameter of this study
belongs to P&L and Balance-Sheet statement of the selected
banks. This research paper will be very fruitful for banks,
research scholars, investors (public), and society to understand
about the above given parameters.


ABSTRACT The aerial parts of invasive crofton weed (Eupatorium adenophorum) in Southwest China were used as the main material and fermentated by microbial inoculant Bacillus subtilis to produce bio-organic fertilizer. Results showed that the allelochemicals of crofton weed had no significant negative effect on the activity of B. subtilis. No seeds of crofton weed germinated during the composting period and thereafter. Compared with uncomposted crofton weed, the nitrogen and phosphorus contents in composted crofton weed increased. In addition, the main allelochemical of composted crofton weed, i.e., 9-β-hydroxy-ageraphorone, was significantly reduced. The potassium content remained stable. Furthermore, tomatoes cultivated with bio-organic fertilizer grew better in terms of plant height than those cultivated with uncomposted crofton weed and ordinary red soil. Therefore, crofton weed can be used to produce bio-organic fertilizers, thereby controlling crofton weed infestation.


The present study was conducted in Belgaum district, the major vegetable producing district of north Karnataka. Large numbers of farmers practice the organic cultivation of chilli in the district. For the study, 30 farmers each practicing organic and inorganic cultivation of chilli spread over the district of Belgaum were selected randomly. The data collected from respondents was analysed using budgeting technique. The estimated per acre cost of cultivation of organic and inorganic chilli was ` 18337.00 and `19115.00 respectively. The per acre average yield of organic chilli was 4.10 tonnes as against 4.86 tonnes in inorganic chilli. The per tonne market prices for organic and inorganic chilli were ` 9830.00 and ` 6300.00, respectively. The transportation cost including loading and unloading for organic chilli was ` 265.00 per tonne as against ` 285.00 for inorganic chilli. The per tonne commission charges for organic and inorganic chilli were ` 644.00 and ` 432.00, respectively. The total marketing cost per acre for organic chilli was ` 3726.00 as against ` 3485.00 for inorganic chilli. The gross returns of organic chilli were ` 40290.00 per acre as against ` 30583.00 for inorganic chilli. The net returns of organic chilli (` 18227.00) were higher than that of inorganic chilli (` 7984.00). The B:C for organic chilli was 1.83 as against 1.35 for inorganic chilli. Hence it is advisible for the farmers to switch over to organic farming which minimizes the environmental degradation and also brings higher net returns


The microwaves may have frequencies between 900 and 30,000 MHz and preferably between 2000 and 15,000 MHz and use a power of between 10W and 30kW and preferably between 50W and 10kW. The irradiation is preferably also in an inert atmosphere, for a period ranging from 10 seconds to 15 minutes. The fibres may be oxidized for example in an atmosphere of oxygen, ozone or air up to a temperature of between 100 and 250° C. before the preparatory thermal treat ment.


DREVIOUS accounts of the natural history of Triturus torosus have given little information concerning its mating habits. Ritter (1897), Schreitmiuller (1909) and Storer (1925) described the amplectic posture and some of the more general aspects of mating behavior. There is no record of the mode of insemination, nor is there any reference to the function of glandular mechanisms in the courtship pattern. Recent studies on other urodeles enabled Noble (1931a) to develop the thesis that phylogenetic relationships appear in the mating patterns of the several families of the order. It is the purpose of this paper to record the phenomena of mating in Triturus torosus and to interpret them as far as possible in the light of present knowledge and the attendant theories of urodele mating behavior. The procedure employed in the present work has entailed the observation of breeding adults under both natural and laboratory conditions. In studying the glands contributing to the mating act, tissues were fixed in Bouin's or Zenker formol, embedded in nitrocellulose and sectioned to 10 mu. Stains used included Harris' hematoxylin and eosin, Koneff's iron-hematoxylinanilin-blue (Koneff, 1936), and I.H.A.B. with methyl green (Koneff, unpublished). A few slides were stained in Mallory Azan.


One of the most impressive results of recent NLP history is the ability of pre-trained language models to solve new tasks in a zero-shot setting. To achieve this, NLP tasks are framed as natural language prompts, generating a response indicating the predicted output. Nonetheless, the performance in such settings often lags far behind its supervised counterpart, suggesting a large space for potential improvement. In this paper, we explore methods to utilize unlabeled data to improve zero-shot performance. Specifically, we take advantage of the fact that multiple prompts can be used to specify a single task, and propose to regularize prompt consistency, encouraging consistent predictions over this diverse set of prompts. Our method makes it possible to fine-tune the model either with extra unlabeled training data, or directly on test input at inference time in an unsupervised manner. In experiments, our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art zero-shot learner, T0 (Sanh et al., 2022), on 9 out of 11 datasets across 4 NLP tasks by up to 10.6 absolute points in terms of accuracy. The gains are often attained with a small number of unlabeled examples.


An experiential teaching method was used for teaching medical psychology course.By using the methods of the role playing,case teaching,students lectures,film analysis and so on,the abilities of learning and learning enthusiasm of the students have been improved greatly.Their abilities in the public expression have been improved obviously and they can apply the knowledge of medical psychology in their jobs.


The Hayabusa spacecraft arrived at S-type Asteroid 25143 Itokawa in November 2006, and reveal astounding features of the small asteroid (535 x 294 x 209 m). Near-infrared spectral shape indicates that the surface of this body has an olivinerich mineral assemblage potentially similar to that of LL5 or LL6 chondrites with different degrees of space weathering. Based on the surface morphological features observed in high-resolution images of Itokawa s surface, two major types of boulders were distinguished: rounded and angular boulders. Rounded boulders seem to be breccias, while angular boulders seem to have severe impact origin. Although the sample collection did not be made by normal operations, it was considered that some amount of samples, probably small particles of regolith, was collected from MUSES-C regio on the Itokawa s surface. The sample capsule was successfully recovered on the earth on June 13, 2010, and was opened at curation facility of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Sagamihara, Japan. A large number of small particles were found in the sample container. Preliminary analysis with SEM/EDX at the curation facility showed that at least more than 1500 grains were identified as rocky particles, and most of them were judged to be of extraterrestrial origin, and definitely from Asteroid Itokawa. Minerals (olivine, low-Ca pyroxene, high-Ca pyroxene, plagioclase, Fe sulfide, Fe-Ni metal, chromite, Ca phosphate), roughly estimated mode the minerals and rough measurement of the chemical compositions of the silicates show that these particles are roughly similar to LL chondrites. Although their size are mostly less than 10 m, some larger particles of about 100 m or larger were also identified. A part of the sample (probably several tens particles) will be selected by Hayabusa sample curation team and examined preliminary in Japan within one year after the sample recovery in prior to detailed analysis phase. Hayabusa Asteroidal Sample Preliminary Examination Team (HASPET) has been preparing for the preliminary examination with close cooperation with the curation team.


AbstractPrecipitation has a high spatial variability, and thus some modeling applications require high-resolution data (<10 km). Unfortunately, in some cases, such as meteorological forecasts and future regional climate projections, only spatial averages over large areas are available. While some attention has been given to the disaggregation of mean areal precipitation estimates, the computation of a disaggregated field with a realistic spatial structure remains a difficult task. This paper describes the development of a statistical disaggregation model based on Gibbs sampling. The model disaggregates 45.6-km-resolution rainfall fields to grids with pixel sizes ranging from 3.8 to 22.8 km. The model is conceptually simple, as the algorithm is straightforward to compute with only a few parameters to estimate. The rainfall depth at each grid pixel is related to the depths of the neighboring pixels, while the spatial variability is related to the convective available potential energy (CAPE) field. The model...


One-dimensional transport models that predict field-scale averaged solute fluxes are often used to estimate the risk of nonpoint source groundwater contamination by widespread surface-applied chemicals. However, within-field variability of soil hydraulic properties leads to lateral variation in local solute fluxes. When this smaller scale variability is characterized in a geostatistical sense, stochastic threedimensional flow and transport equations can be used to predict fieldscale averaged transport in terms of geostatistical parameters. We discuss the use of stochastic equations for the parameterization of equivalent one-dimensional models predicting averaged solute fluxes. First, we consider the equivalent one-dimensional convection dispersion model and the equivalent dispersivity, which characterizes the spreading of laterally averaged concentrations or solute fluxes. Second, we discuss the parameterization of a stream tube model to predict local transport variables (i.e., distributions of local concentrations and local arrival times) These local transport variables are shown to be important for predicting nonlinear local transport processes and useful for inversely inferring the spatial structure of soil properties. Stochastic flow and transport equations reveal a dependency of equivalent model parameters on transport distance and flow rate, which reflects the importance of smaller scale heterogeneities on field-scale transport. Approximate solutions of stochastic flow and transport equations are obtained for steady-state and uniform flow. The effect of transient flow conditions on transport is discussed. Throughout the paper we refer to experimental and numerical data that confirm or contradict results from stochastic flow and transport equations. TO MANAGE GROUNDWATER QUALITY in response to land use and the widespread application of chemicals, the field scale can be considered the elementary management unit. Lateral variations in solute fluxes between different fields due to differences in management (e.g., land use), climatic conditions, and soil characteristics are important. Several studies have revealed that soil hydraulic properties can vary considerably within a field (Jury, 1985) as well. This leads to an effective redistribution of uniform water and solute fluxes at the soil surface and considerable variation of subsurface water and solute fluxes within a field (Biggar and Nielsen, 1976). Therefore, upscaling procedures are required to derive effective parameters describing the system's behavior and average fluxes at the field scale. Effective parameters are parameters that lump the system subscale heterogeneity and describe its behavior at a larger scale (Grayson and Blöschl, 2000; Harter and Hopmans, 2004). The upscaling problem, which exists at every scale, can be solved in two ways. In the so-called "scale way" approach (Vogel and Roth, 2003), the spatial arrangement of hydrologically relevant structures is explicitly considered in a small-scale process model. The predicted processes and variables at the smaller scale are then averaged, and effective parameters that predict the spatially averaged processes and variables at the larger scale are derived. Depending on the structure of the medium, the model type that is used to describe the process at the larger scale may be different from the smaller scale process model. In another approach, the average system's behavior is monitored at a larger scale and model parameters are derived using inverse modeling. Reviews of transport models, their relation to soil structure, and their conceptualization of the transport process structure can be found in, for example, Feyen et al. (1998) and van Dam et al. (2004). The lateral averaging scale is generally assumed to be much larger than the scale of the heterogeneities, so the laterally averaged water flow process is uniform and predominantly vertical in the vadose zone. Since the scale of the solute application area is generally much larger than the scale of the heterogeneities, the field-scale averaged solute transport process can still be represented by a one-dimensional process. Despite the existence of a variety of other model concepts, the one-dimensional convection–dispersion equation (CDE) is often used to predict field-scale leaching of surface-applied chemicals through the vadose zone toward the groundwater, such as for pesticide registration (FOCUS, 2000; Tiktak et al., 2004). The predicted leachedmass fraction of substances is sensitive to the dispersion parameter of the CDE, which lumps the effect of smaller scale transport velocity variations on solute spreading (Boesten, 2004). Therefore, the relation between smaller scale spatial variability in soil hydraulic properties and the dispersion parameter is important. Such a relation may be derived by characterizing the three-dimensional smaller scale structure of soil properties in a fully deterministic way and modeling three-dimensional flow and transport processes (Kasteel et al., 2000). As an alternative, the spatial variability of soil properties may be characterized in a stochastic or geostatistical sense, and stochastic threedimensional flow and transport equations may be solved to upscale local-scale processes and parameterize a field-scale one-dimensional CDE. Although it is common practice to predict field-scale transport and nonlinear reaction processes using a Agrosphere, ICG-IV, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52425 Jülich, Germany. Received 11 Feb. 2005. *Corresponding author (email@example.com). Published in Vadose Zone Journal 5:184–203 (2006). SpecialSection:FromFieldtoLandscape-ScaleVadoseZoneProcesses doi:10.2136/vzj2005.0024 a Soil Science Society of America 677 S. Segoe Rd., Madison,WI 53711USA Abbreviations: BTC, breakthrough curve; CDE, convection–dispersion equation; pdf, probability density function; STM, stream tube model. R e p ro d u c e d fr o m V a d o s e Z o n e J o u rn a l. P u b lis h e d b y S o il S c ie n c e S o c ie ty o f A m e ri c a . A ll c o p y ri g h ts re s e rv e d . 184 Published online March 8, 2006


I present a novel contract theoretic explanation of the profitability and management of loyalty programs. I study a model where an airline faces uncertain demand, consumers learn how much they are willing to pay for a flight over time, and the frequent flyer program provides the airline with a way to contract with consumers ex ante, before uncertainty is resolved. The firm lacks the ability to commit to future prices and allocations ex ante, and may only commit that it will allocate ex post unsold capacity to members of its points program. I characterize the optimal mechanism in this setting: the airline sells points to all consumers ex ante, it then posts a price for a guaranteed seat at the interim stage, and finally it freely gives away any unsold seats to members of its points program through a lottery. The points program introduces an endogenous type-dependent outside option for consumers at the interim stage, which generates novel pricing incentives in the firm's contracting problem. The optimal mechanism yields larger revenue than the canonical static screening mechanism, and is more efficient; the airline captures all of the resulting gains in total surplus through the sale of points ex ante.


Abettact SPLICE1 is a mixed-mode simulation program for large-scale integrated circuits. It performs concurrent electrical and logic simulation using event-driven selective-trace techniques. The electrical analysis uses a new algorithm , called Iterated Timing Analysis (ITA), which performs accurate electrical waveform analysis much faster than SPICEZ. The logic analysis features a new MOS-oriented state model and a fanout dependent delay model, and handles bidirectional transfer gates in a consistent manner. This report describes the new algorithms and the details of the implementation in SPWCEl.6. Program performance characteristics and a number of simulation results are also included.


Objectives Previous retrospective histological studies have revealed a Helicobacter pylori infection rate of 73–79%. Cross-sectional studies on H. pylori prevalence are still lacking in Estonia. Design A total of 1461 inhabitants between the ages of 15 and 95 years from the village of Karksi-Nuia and 497 between the ages of 50 and 91 years from Abja-Paluoja were examined for IgG antibodies to H. pylori. This study was performed on a quasi-global sample of the general adult rural population in two villages in southern Estonia. Method A cell-surface glycine extract of H. pylori strain NCTC 11637 was used as antigen in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Results IgG antibodies to H. pylori strain NCTC 11637 were detected in 87.0±2.3% of the inhabitants of Karksi-Nuia and in 89.3±3.6% of those from Abja-Paluoja. IgG prevalence rates increased from 69.0±9.5% in the 15− to 19-year-old age group to 83.0±7.1% in the 20− to 29-year-olds (P<0.05). Conclusion We found an extremely high prevalence rate of H. pylori infection in this Estonian adult rural population. H. pylori infection was very prevalent among young people (aged 15–29 years).


This paper explores the stages of speaking skill's online lectures using the Zoom Cloud Meeting media as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the Zoom Cloud Meeting media. This study used a descriptive qualitative approach with three data collection techniques, namely observation, interviews, and documentation. The results showed that there were several stages used by lecturers in the implementation of speaking skill lectures using Zoom Cloud Meeting media, namely: (1) Pre-Lecture, (2), Lecture Implementation, (3) and Class Evaluation. There are several features of the Zoom Cloud Meeting media used by lecturers in the implementation of speaking skill lectures such as Schedule, mute & unmute, record, chat, and whiteboards. Researchers also found several advantages regarding the implementation of speaking skill lectures using Zoom Cloud Meeting media such as flexibility in the lecture process, increasing discipline for lecturers and students, and several additional features that can support the smooth implementation of lectures. However, the implementation of lectures using this media is also inseparable from shortcomings such as a poor internet network and limited duration of the free Zoom Cloud Meeting media which can only be used for 40 minutes. From the results of this study, it is hoped that it can provide alternative solutions for lecturers in dealing with online lectures in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.


Objective To raise a discussion on ART(Assist-Reproduction Technique),get to know the need of pregnancy knowledge of women during their mid-pregnancy and offer them the foundation of the pre-health teaching.Methods Making self-made questionnaire.We took 105 pregnant women who took ART during September,2008 to September,2009 in our Reproduction Centre as sample and compared them with the 110 women who were naturally pregnant and were going to take systematic health-care at our ourpatient.Results The two groups of pregnant women both had strong need for baby-care knowledge during their mid-pregnancy,but the mid-pregnancies who took ART had stronger needs for self-care during pregnancy and abnormal baby selection than those who were naturally pregnant.Conclusion Health teaching during pregnancy should be directed.Different methods should be taken to meet pregnant women's needs,who got pregnant in different ways.Thus,a better "person-centered" care system can be carried out.


Coronary heart disease is one of the most common cardiovascular disease with increasing incidence, including coronary atherosclerotic heart disease, coronary artery spasm, coronary microvascular disease, etc. In the clinical work, part of the patients with chest pain were found to have no obvious stenosis by coronary angiography, but only slow flow, which is called coronary slow flow phenomenon. This article summarizes the definition, etiology, clinical characteristics, risk factors, evaluation methods and treatments of the coronary slow flow phenomenon.


Before describing the strictly estuary deposits which are found at the mouth of the South Esk, it will be necessary to allude shortly to the subjacent covering of boulder clay which generally overlies the rocks of Forfarshire, and in point of chronological order immediately precedes the laminated marine clay. As in other localities, the boulder clay of this district consists chiefly of the debris of rocks which it overlies. Strangers generally remark on the immense number of small boulders, or ‶bouls,″ as they are termed, scattered over the fields in this and the adjoining county of Kincardine. On examination, these are found to be smooth round masses, mostly of quartz and porphyry, evidently identical with the boulders of the Old Red Sandstone conglomerate. They are generally scratched in the direction of their long axes, apparently by ice-action during the glacial era, but the rounding and polishing which gives form to the stones undoubtedly was effected during the formation of the conglomerate. In the denudation of the conglomerate, the great mass of land ice, which is supposed once to have enveloped our island, got these boulders ready made. Transported boulders are however of frequent occurrence in this deposit. Thus on the hill of Sunnyside, near Montrose, pieces of red shale are found, derived from the synclinal axis many miles to the north-west, and at 100 feet lower elevation. Again, large blocks of gneiss are often met with, some of them several tons in weight, which must have come from the Grampians,


The present investigations are directed at a more detailed studying of methods for colour determination aimed at estimation of human teeth whiteness degree, sufficiently handy for common use in clinical practice. In order to be obtained unbiased results of the whitening, specific techniques for the degree of whiteness (coloration) determination had been developed on the basis of common colorimetric and spectral methods and apparatus, including a standard computer processing and accorded to the three-dimensional colour scheme Vita 3D. Comparative experimental investigations with two lasers (Ar+, CuBr) and three experimental whitening compositions for treatment of 6 different groups of samples were carried out. The results of the applied spectral and colorimetric techniques are in a good agreement with those of the standard computer processing of the corresponding digital photographs and comply with the visually estimated degree of the teeth whiteness judged according to the standard reference scale commonly used in the aesthetic dentistry.


Retail therapy refers to the act of going shopping or buying special things for oneself in order to feel better when they are unhappy. In other words, it is the habit of shopping in order to make oneself feel more cheerful and to get rid of negative moods. The article intends to understand the motive and psychology behind the behaviour of obtaining comfort through shopping. Retail therapy describes that purchase behaviour which uplifts one's mood. Shopping has now turned into a stress -relief activity. Successful mood management during the course of shopping might affect perceived quality of life and emotional well -being. The significance of retail therapy was acknowledged in retail businesses and has been utilized in marketing efforts.


Students' passive activities, such as reading and watching activity make learning process can't run well. Only active communication with their colleagues, facilitators, and other learning resources make process run well. In this case, we use gamification to improve student's learning motivation. This study used four scales to obtain consistent and measurable data. Scale 1 and 2 were to analyze the level of knowledge about gamification framework, Scale 3 for concept and effectiveness and Scale 4 for fun learning. In conclusion,  entrepreneurship courses through gamification runs effectively because students are interested in gamification because it is new for them and able to establish good communication patterns as well as makes students more literate on technology.


1;ame Reserve, Tanzania. The estimated recruitment of calves into yearlings for that year was relatively low, i.e. 50%. In the wet season of 1972, I recognized a similar condition in the northern sector of the Reserve (Gainer, 1979, MS. Thesis, Univ. British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 203 pp.). Virtually every herd of wildebeest in this area contained calves that were lame. Two 3-mo-old calves were collected for examination as part of a survey of the parasites, diseases and anomalies of wildlife in the Reserve. One calf was weak and captured by hand, another was shot. The live calf was lethargic and reluctant to move, maintaining a headdown, stiff-legged posture. Its rectal temperature was 36 C, the ambient air temperature. Several limb joints were noticeably enlarged and purulent material drained from the left front mnterdigital space. Despite treatment with procaine penicillin, the animal died 20 hr later. At necropsv, both calves had limb joints full of a dry', caseous material. The intermetacarpals and intermetatarsals were the most severely affected joints, but the most extensive involvement was one of the live calf's coxofemoral joints. The joint capsule was obliterated completel ' and the necrotic femoral head had separated from the femur. In addition, the liver of this calf had a 15-cm region of unwabled necrosis and a 2-cm localization of inflammation in the left posterior-dorsal lung. These lesions are all typical of the fulminating foot abscess form of necrobacillosis in young ruminants (Rosen, 1981, op. cit.). Several samples of the joint material were submitted for bacterial culture and identification. From this material F. necrophorum was isolated and identified according to established criteria (Merchant and Packer, 1971, Veterinary Bacteriology and Virology, Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa, 752 pp.). Despite the fact that this is the first published account of necrobacibbosis in wildebeest, l)iobogists in the area consider this disease to cause significant losses in this species. The recruitment of calves into yearlings in the population near Miombo Center was 80% in 1972 and 1973, approximately 25% higher than in 1969 when the outbreak occurred. Calves that are even mildly affected would have little chance of es-


Alignment of IMO's Goal-Based Standards (GBS) to the second generation intact stability criteria can be achieved two separate ways: one is through direct stability assessment and the other through vulnerability criteria. The alignment of direct stability assessment is straight-forward; it yields probability of failure that is a part of a formal safety assessment. The alignment of the vulnerability criteria can be done through the safety level. It is more challenging because of the limited amount of information available for vulnerability criteria (especially on the first level) and requirements for simplicity of mathematical models. Nevertheless, the use of the wave group theory approach and previous work of one the authors along with upcrossing theory allow formulation of such a method.


The literature on parasites of marine fishes is voluminous, diverse, and scattered. Although a substantial portion of that literature is descriptive (either taxonomic or survey), many surveys are restricted to one taxon (or few taxa), and the parasite fauna of only a small fraction of the marine fishes can be regarded as well-known. Most fishes with well-known faunas are economically important species of north temperate seas; parasites have been studied largely to elucidate their effects on fish populations (Lester, 1984; Sindermann, 1987), their zoonotic potential (Williams and Jones, 1976; Oshima and Kliks, 1987), or (especially recently) their usefulness as biological tags (MacKenzie, 1983, 1987; Sindermann, 1983). Studies on life histories of marine parasites have progressed to the point that basic patterns of the life cycles of most major groups have been determined, but there is relatively little information on the variation in details of those patterns, and specific life cycles are known for only a minute fraction of parasitic species. Knowledge of population dynamics, and especially processes which determine those dynamics, is rudimentary. Despite the imperfections in our knowledge, ecological studies of marine parasites have progressed enough to be the topic of an excellent book (Rohde, 1982). Rohde provides reviews of three subjects particularly important to community ecology: the significance of cleaning symbioses, ecological niches and factors restricting niches, and zoogeographic patterns. This book, along with earlier ones by Dogiel et al. (1961) and Dogiel (1964), should be required reading for anyone working in parasite ecology. One feature is abundantly clear from a perusal of the literature: there are essentially no studies presenting data at the infracommunity level. There are


The subject of this research is the printmaking of C. Roth from the academic edition of J. G. Georgi Georgi "Description of everyone living in Russian state…". The works of the Nuremberg printmaker Christopher Roth, although being an important source, were not given due attention for a long time, being viewed only in the context of studying the academic work of J. G. Georgi. The this article aims to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the historical-ethnographic and visual sources of C. Roth's printmaking on the example of the images of the Ob Ugrians ("Ostyak on the Ob River",  "Ostyak on Ermine Trapping",  "The Face of Ostyachka", and "The Back of "Ostyachka"). Based on the developed visual motifs – costumes, characteristic "postures", attributes, etc., it is possible to reconstruct the list of sources used by C. Roth in his art pieces. The conclusion is made that as the historical-ethnographic and visual sources, C. Roth used drawings (including "plein-air" and expeditionary), " mannequins, and examples of Ostyak traditional dresses from the Siberian collection of the Kunstkamera. However, in creation of such compositions as " Ostyak in Ermine Trapping", "The Face of Ostyachka", and "The Back of "Ostyachka", the list of the aforementioned sources can be complemented by ethnographic descriptions from the academic editions of the second half of the XVIII century, miniatures from chronicles ("Brief Siberian (Kungur) Chronicle"), as well as ethnographic maps ("Ethnographic Map of Siberia of the Great Northern Expedition").


It is shown that in α-copper-aluminium alloys interstitials are able to change sites with the copper and aluminium atoms by diffusion. The activation energy for migration of interstitials could be determined to be 0.82 eV. In a well annealed specimen the interstitials and vacancies annihilate nearly exclusively by pair recombination. The production rate of free interstitials is found to be slightly larger than that of free vacancies during an irradiation with fast neutrons. The excess interstitials, which are supposed to originate from depleted zones, form clusters acting as sinks, at which essentially interstitials anneal out. Due to these sinks another steady state equilibrium ("fixed vacancy case") among point defects and sinks is achieved by repeated irradiations.


Map conflation is approached as two generic geoprocessing problems, feature alignment and feature matching. Techniques for their solution are presented. By taking a general approach, match relationships between maps can be exploited by relational database functions of a geographic information system to create various products. Examples are presented from the Arc/Info implementation.


The specification of OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) Web Processing Service (WPS)[1] puts forward some uniform interfaces to manage, browse, query and perform kinds of Geographic disposal. At present, most of the WPS services implementing the interfaces can be called only based on HTTP GET/POST requests. This situation makes it difficult for us to vastly composite, integrate and reuse these atomic services, through Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)[2] that has been very mature. This paper brings forward a method to better solve the problem, and, at the same time, a composite process is carried out by chaining the atomic services of WPS to implement the complex Geographic data disposal, which proves the effectiveness of the method.


The present study is a cross-cultural investigation of the determinants of occupational affect. Data used were from Osgood et al.'s (1975) occupational category in the Atlas of Affective Meaning. Cross-culturally common concepts were rated on functionally equivalent semantic differential scales by high school students in 30 cultures. Using the Tzeng-Osgood (1976) model for validating componential analyses, standardized ratings of 24 occupational concepts on three affective dimensions (Evaluation, Potency, and Activity) were predicted from cross-cultural denotative components. Results indicated that, for almost all cultures, Skill and Morality components were the most important determinants of occupational affect and Sex displayed high variability. Comparisons of data from black and white American samples are also discussed.


Optimum allocation of inventory level for a system of n warehouses which are interconnected with each other has been studied. The analysis has been conducted for the deterministic demands only. The case of instantaneous delivery as well as lead time delivery has been treated.


Stephen Daldry's film version of Bernard Schlink's The Reader challenges us to consider the complexities inherent in the Holocaust while exploring the question of choice, responsibility and trauma. In this film, eroticism, monstrosity and victimisation collide in order to demand that we re-evaluate our own conceptions of victimhood and perpetratorship through the ambiguous portrayal of a female perpetrator. The Reader succeeds in imaging the Holocaust aesthetically without trivialising it.


Objective To explore the value of duodenoscopy in the diagnosis and treatment of complications after laparoscopic biliary operation.Methods From January 2002 to June 2008,totally 123 patients with laparoscopic biliary postoperative complications were referred for ERCP and received suitable therapies according to the special conditions of complications.The success rate and postoperative results were observed and analyzed.Results All cases were correctly diagnosed by ERCP.Fifty-eight patients had residual stones in the common bile duct,56 cases were successfully treated with endoscopic papillotomy and stone extraction.Of 40 cases with a biliary leak,38 patients were cured aviding of surgical operation.Eleven patients with a stenosis at the inferior of common bile duct were fully recovered.Eight patients with a partial biliary stricture were treated by endoscopic stenting as a primary procedure.Five cases had satisfactory outcome after long term follow-up.After diagnostic ERCP were performed for 2 patients with hepatic portal bile duct stricture and 4 patients with complete transection lesion of biliary duct,they underwent surgical operation.The early complications of endoscopic diagnosis and therapy occurred in six patients(4.88%).There were no serious postoperative complications.Conclusions ERCP is recommended as a safe and efficacious intervention to detect and treat laparoscopic biliary postoperative complications.Duodenoscopy is effective for the treatment of residual stones,bile leakage and stenosis at the end of common bileduct.Endoscopic stenting may be a selective modality for those with partial biliary stricture and avoid unnecessary laparotomy.


– The humoral way of the realization of the cardioprotective effect of remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPre) is demonstrated in various models of ischemia-reper- fusion: upper and lower extremities, liver, occlusion-reperfusion of mesenteric and renal arteries. As humoral factors of RIPre are considered following substances: hydrophobic peptides, opioid peptides, adenosine, prostanoids, endovanilloids, endocannabinoids, cal- citonin gene-related peptide, leukotrienes, adrenomedullin, and microRNA. Norepi-nephrine and adenosine, which also participate in the cardioprotective effect of RIPre, are considered as neurohumoral factors in the protective effect of remote ischemic preconditioning. Knowledge of the humoral factors of cardioprotection can be used to develop methods for increasing myocardial resistance to ischemia-reperfusion injury.


The global warming and the increasing level of pollution and energy poverty in many areas worldwide give research in energy and sustainability a vital role in enhancing people's future. The International Conference on Energy and Sustainable Futures (ICESF 2019) is organised by Nottingham Trent University (NTU) in collaboration with Doctoral Training Alliance for Energy (DTA-Energy) and University Alliance. The conference is attended by experts in energy and sustainability from industry and academia, research students and early career researchers. The proceedings includes multi-disciplinary papers focused on academic research, industrial applications, and energy innovations and comprises a wide range of energy and sustainability themes such as renewable and clean energy, energy storage, energy management, transportation technology, internet of things, sustainable and resilient cities, condition monitoring and artificial intelligence.


Objective To explore and analyze the influence of social factors on cesarean section rate and put forward its preventive measures.Methods Clinical data from 704 puerperae given birth in our hospital were retrospectively analyzed.After being admitted into our hospital,they or their relatives were conducted a communication in order to sum up and induce reasons why they chose cesarean section.Results 528 cases out of 704 puerperae underwent cesarean section,accounted for 75.0%.Among these 528 cases,only 193 puerperae(36.6%) conformed to the indications of cesarean section,and the rest chose cesarean section due to social factors.Methods to reduce cesarean section rate contained bettering health care at perinatal stage,enhancing delivery levels of nurses,improving the responsibilities of obstetricians,and strengthening the self-regulation in medical field.Conclusion The gradual increase of cesarean section rate is not only associated with the progress of technical levels in prenatal medicine,but the more important reason is that it involves numerous social factors.


In this article certain reminiscences from my past professional life and some aspects of the developments in psychiatry will at times be interwoven as I have witnessed many of the developments through personal experience and observation. I must, however, underscore the fact that in this paper, I shall try to discuss briefly some of those changes and developments within the context of the problem of identity of the psychiatrist. It would be beyond my intention and knowledge to try to discuss all aspects of psychiatric development which undoubtedly have been greatly influenced by the scientific, cultural, political and economic incidents and upheavals of our time. Having my M.D. degree from the Istanbul University Medical School, I started my residency training (specialty training) in psychiatry in 1954 in a major southern medical school in the United States where I had an eclectic training which could be considered rather typical of its time. After the completion of my residency training, I had two years of advanced training in psychoanalytical psychotherapy. The first half of the 20th Century has witnessed the great men of psychiatry and psychology who had made enormous theoretical and clinical contributions. It was undoubtedly on the basis of these contributions that during the second half of the 20th Century, psychiatry has achieved great revolutionary changes and has confirmed its universal and unique status among the health sciences. I am one of those lucky people who have witnessed the major turning points as they occurred during the 20th Century. The major changes can be discussed under the following headings:


RIDGE ANALYSIS is of interest when some generalized Ridge regression coefficient vectors are significantly more likely to have Mean Squared Error (MSE) optimality properties than is any uniformly SHRUNKEN version of the ordinary least squares estimator. The normal distribution theory likelihood ratio statistic for the corresponding composite hypothesis is derived, and a small sample F-test is shown to be conservative. The asymptotic distribution of the likelihood ratio provides a large sample test of the RISE optimality of any restricted Ridge FAMILY of solutions. The likelihood approach for solution selection WITHIN a given family is then compared and contrasted with some snggestions of Mallows [8] and Allen [1] and with a new, non-stochastic criterion, SSCBC.


Composite Model Generation-Boundary Element Method (COM-GEN-BEM) computer program significantly reduces time and effort needed to construct boundary-element mathematical models of continuous-fiber composite materials at micro-mechanical (constituent) scale. Generates boundary-element models compatible with BEST-CMS boundary-element code for anlaysis of micromechanics of composite material. Written in PATRAN Command Language (PCL).


PET/PE composite film is widely used in food and drug packaging,but there is heat sealing quality unstable problem in the production process.Influencing factors of heat sealing quality of PET/PE composite film were studied through heat sealing and tensile test.The influences of heat sealing direction,heat sealing temperature,and heat sealing speed on heat sealing quality were compared and analyzed.The optimal heat-seal processing parameters of PET/PE composite film were summarized.


A fiber fed echelle spectrograph designed and constructed at the Paris-Meudon Observatory is described. This instrument is dedicated to the MUSICOS project, whose purpose is to organize multisite continuous spectroscopic observations. The optical scheme is described in some detail, as well as the data reduction software. A review of the spectrograph main performances which were obtained during laboratory tests and in real observational conditions at the 2 m diameter telescope at Pic du Midi (France) is given


The transition to knowledge-based economy presents a range of difficulties to managers as they are forced to deal with knowledge resources besides the human, material, informational resources. BPM and reengineering methodology significantly facilitates their work; so the purpose of this article is to present two alternatives for the managers to bring efficiency and effectiveness to a company. In the first part of the paper we focus on the reengineering methodology, and how it can be implemented in an organization. The second part reveals the features of the BPM methodology, and we will underline the similarities and the differences between this two methodologies. In the last part of the article we will talk about how the two methodologies bring efficiency and effectiveness two a company.


Through hardness test, metallographic observation and fractography, the fracture cause of recycle pump shaft was analyzed. The results showed that fracture mode of recycle pump was muti-crack source fatigue fracture. There was round transition zone and turning marks on machining surface were obvious which form sharp indentation resulting in increasing stress concentration where may be crack source because of ease of crack propagation. Stress concentration region in inner screw was also generating crack location. Microstracture of shaft was F+S,which fatigue resistance was low and crack was easily spreading out. when crack got critical size, shaft cross section can not support the rating load, shaft fractured instantly.


Objective: In this study,mouse skeletal muscle satellite cell(C2C12) was used as the cell model for COCl2 to explore reasonable mode for COCl2-simulated hypoxia in vitro,and the mechanism of protective effect by the pretreatment on H2O2-induced oxidative damage of COCl2 in C2C12 cell,for providing references for the reparation of skeletal muscle.Methods: C2C12 cell was cultivated in vitro.The hypoxia condition was simulated by COCl2.Cell activity of C2C12 cell was determined by MTT method.The content of reactive oxygen species(ROS) in C2C12 cell was examined by DCF method and the protein content of Nrf2 in the nucleus of C2C12 cell by Western blot.Results: 1) After COCl2 treatment,comparing with the control group,the absorbance in all experiment groups decreased in dose dependent when COCl2≥25 μmol/L,and the difference was significance(P0.05).2) After COCl2 treatment,the researcher added H2O2 into C2C12 cell.Comparing with H2O2 group,the cell activity improved significantly in 5 and 10 μmol/L COCl2 groups(P0.05).3) Comparing with the control group,the relative fluorescence intensity upgraded significantly in H2O2 group.But comparing with the H2O2 group,the relative fluorescence intensity decreased significantly in 5 and 10 μmol/L COCl2 groups(P0.05).4) The level of Nrf2 protein in the nucleus of C2C12 was very low in the control group.The content of Nrf2 in the nucleus increased in H2O2 group,and it further increased significantly in 5 and 10 μmol/L COCl2 groups.Conclusion: Simulating hypoxia used COCl2 in C2C12 cell in vitro need to consider the concentration of COCl2.Pretreatment of COCl2 at low level may decrease H2O2-induced C2C12 cell oxidative damage through activating Nrf2.


The results of an analysis of wind-tunnel data for the effect of wave shape on local boundary layer flows and heat transfer are used to assess the feasibility of using corrugated panels on a Single-Stage-To-Orbit (SSTO) vehicle. In the flight assessment, available engineering design procedures are used to compute the inviscid and boundary layer flow for a given flight trajectory. The flight vehicle flow field calculations are then used in conjunction with wind-tunnel corrugated panel heating data correlations to examine the heating penalties associated with using corrugated panels at a number of locations on the vehicle. Severe heating penalties, as a result of the corrugations, were found over large areas of the windward surface. Maximum surface temperature penalties ranged from 100K to 500K and very large structural advantages for the corrugations would be required to override the heating penalties. Computed peak corrugation temperatures were within allowable limits of the equivalent smooth wall material for most leeward and side fuselage locations and corrugated panels will be most likely limited to these locations.


We wish to confirm the opinion of Mr W. K. Roberts (Physics Bulletin February 1969 p. 70) that the opportunities available to well qualified physicists in English Colleges of Further Education are extremely limited. The apparent surfeit of teaching physicists in England of which he complains is because much that we would regard as physics is taught under the guise of one or other engineering discipline.


This is the introductory chapter of the book, which investigates the presence of the Anthropos theme in early paschal theology, namely, in the paschal writings of Melito, Pseudo-Hippolytus, Origen, and Methodius. It offers the background of the Anthropos theme in the Second Temple and Hellenistic speculations about theophanies, Divine Image, Adam, and salvation. In particular, it underlines the emergence most likely in the first century ce of two phenomena of vital significance for the contextual and more appropriate understanding of the noetic paschal Anthropos: the first refers to the Son of Man character as eschatological anthropomorphic figure and eschatological judge, while the second denotes the idea of archetypal, protological Anthropos in Philo and Paul. The book pays special attention to several fundamental titles of the paschal Christ and the salvific theories generated around these titles.Keywords: Adam; Divine Image; early paschal theology; Melito; noetic paschal Anthropos


Influence and expression of modern technological revolution on entomological research were analyzed from biotechnology and information technology. The application and expression of transgenic plants,transgenic insects,recombinant microorganism,insect tissue culture and information technology in entomology were discussed in this study,which showed that modern technological revolution brought about a qualitative leap for entomology with a great pushing effect.


Academic support for first year students is critical for improving engagement, retention and completion rates at one of Australia's smallest but fastest-growing universities. A model of Academic Skills Adviser (ASA) support developed over recent years at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) fosters pre- and first-year experiences and helps build academic confidence and self-efficacy for participating students during the progress of undergraduate degrees. This model, therefore, also supports second, third and fourth year undergraduates as well as postgraduate and higher-degree students in achieving academic progress. The ASA team works in collaboration with academic and administrative staff to develop and deliver information sessions, academic skills workshops, and 'just-in-time' advice for students at drop-in sessions and in individual and group consultations. Academic skills advice is also offered in the form of face-to-face, phone and virtual (email) student support for students at USC learning hubs within an hour of travel from the main campus at Sippy Downs. The team is proactively increasing the level of support provided on-campus and to university learning hubs in response to increasing student numbers. The ASA team advances the student experience by enhancing student access through provision of timely, coordinated and in-demand learning support services.; ;


Analytical models for the study of direction-selective mechanisms believed to be present in biological vision systems are proposed. Excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms are modeled. The interactions between the various model parameters are explicitly represented in the equations and illustrated with examples. A composite model that incorporates both mechanisms is proposed and shown to have promising characteristics


An efficient method for motion detection was presented here.With this method,a stable background can be obtained and kept to cope with variations on environmental changing conditions.At the same time the final moving object can be gained.In the difference image,an adaptive thresholding was used to distinguish background and foreground to improve the level of self-adaptive.Finally,the experiments has been done to prove the method is quick and robust in detecting the moving object even in the outside environment.


We generalize the work by P. Sobociński on relational presheaves and their connection with weak (bi)simulation for labelled transistion systems to a coalgebraic setting. We show that the coalgebraic notion of saturation studied in our previous work can be expressed in the language of lax Kleislivalued presheaves in terms of existence of a certain adjoint situation between presheaf categories. This observation allows us to generalize the notion of the coalgebraic (weak) bisimulation to lax Kleisli-valued presheaves. At this level of generality interesting properties of strong and weak bisimilarity emerge: in the family of p-bisimilarities, which arises naturally in this setting, the former is the finest and the latter is the coarsest relation.


The utility model relates to a mortar pipeline wound by glass reinforced plastics. The mortar pipeline comprises an outer protection layer, a fiber winding layer and a lining layer, wherein a mortar layer is composited and clamped in the fiber winding layer. The outer protection layer, the fiber winding layer, the mortar layer, the fiber winding layer and the lining layer are sequentially arranged from the outside of the pipeline to the inside of the pipeline. The mortar pipeline wound by glass reinforced plastics is light in weight and strong in corrosion resistance, rigidity of the pipeline is enhanced by composting the mortar layer in the fiber winding layer, and manufacture cost is reduced.


Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Small Business Administration to make loans with respect to: (1) disasters resulting from any sewage or sludge deposit on any beach which renders such beach unfit for recreation; (2) any fish kill; or (3) any oil spill.


ABSTRACT My aim in this paper is to present a pluralist thesis about the inferential role of logical constants, which embraces classical, relevant, linear and ordered logic. That is, I defend that a logical constant c has more than one correct inferential role. The thesis depends on a particular interpretation of substructural logics' vocabulary, according to which classical logic captures the literal meaning of logical constants and substructural logics encode a pragmatically enriched sense of those connectives. The paper is divided into four parts: first, I introduce the motivation for the pluralist thesis of the paper; second I introduce the calculus for the different logics endorsed in the pluralist thesis; third, I motivate how the different behaviors of the logical vocabulary of these logics can be pragmatically interpreted, and fourth, I motivate how the different inferential roles that each substructural logic attribute to logical constants can coexist, and how we should reason with a logical constant c given this plurality.


The Foreign Risk Review Modernization Act, a bill introduced to Congress in 2017 that seeks to strengthen the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), has the potential to increase restrictions on Chinese companies investing in the U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) industry. Although the bill addresses legitimate national security concerns related to the military applications of AI, it also has the potential to negatively impact the U.S. AI industry and the U.S. economy as a whole. Currently, the combination of a Chinese government focused on strategic technology acquisitions, the open and diffuse nature of AI systems, the off-the-shelf nature of defense technology procurement, the integrated Chinese and U.S. AI industries, and the connection of Chinese tech companies to the Chinese Communist Party create a pipeline for technology transfer from U.S. companies to Chinese government entities. Given the vague nature of what constitutes a national security threat according to CFIUS, past high profile CFIUS action against Chinese companies investing in the U.S. technology sector and an emerging bipartisan consensus that CFIUS needs to be strengthened, there is a strong potential for new foreign investment restrictions. Restricting Chinese investment in the U.S. AI industry, however, may be counterproductive, because it may negatively impact U.S. economic competitiveness by reducing the venture capital pool for AI, potentially driving away top talent and causing AI research and development centers to relocate elsewhere. Instead of increasing restrictions, a smarter policy would be to continue utilizing CFIUS risk mitigation measures in a non-discriminatory manner, while increasing government funding for AI research and development and increasing visas for science and technology graduate students who are foreign nationals.


The issue of financial instability has been intensely debated over the past few decades both within the academia and by the economy decision-makers. The complexity of the concept and the range of meanings hinder the development of a general, unanimously accepted definition. However, the historical analysis of the episodes of financial instability, which were rather frequent particularly after World War Two, as well as the specific literature, may outline some characteristics of the state if financial instability. Starting from these general aspects, this article aims to identify some traits which define the financial instability in the countries candidate to the Euro zone, taking into account the European integration and all the challenges of this process. The ideas presented in the paper will be used to analyse the actions taken by a national central bank candidate to the Euro zone, to cope with the challenges of the financial instability.


Take-720 central pump house construction of Renlou Coal Mine for example introduces the main step construction,enlarging roof by reverse,bolting and shotcreting temporary support and second times conerete surpport ect.,which ensure safety and smooth construction.


Matthew's narrative of the testing of Jesus fused the cultural phenomenon of status transformation rituals with the Hebrew prophetic tradition to show his audience the process by which Jesus, born Son of God, becomes also the prophet of God.


The highly pictorial nature of contemporary maps and geographic reference sources creates an accessibility barrier for the blind and visually impaired. Without access to rmation, the capacity for independent mobility, spatial perception, and to as the Functionally spatial info geographic communication may be significantly reduced for those who cannot utilize traditional visual maps. At the root of this barrier are limited tactile map publishing technologies, inadequate human/computer interfaces, and tactile content formatting conventions that are ill suited for enabling non-visual access to complex spatial data. The need to transpose visual cartographic content into a format that is perceptible using alternate senses has inspired a wide range of approaches for non-visual cartography, however none have yet achieved more than limited success. This paper describes an investigation assessing the functionality and viability of a novel multi-modal audio-haptic computer interface intended for non-visual geographic information retrieval. This system, referred Separated Multi-Modal Map Rendering System [Fuse-Map], represents a potential advancement for non-visual cartography and human computer interface design. It consists of an infrared hand tracking apparatus; an electromagnetic dynamic tactile 'display'; speech recognition, synthesized speech, and non-speech audio; and static tactile spatial reference features. Infrared finger tracking effectively enables users to explore virtual map content while retaining somatic sensations, such as the ability to feel a tactile reference markings or magnetic textures embedded within the desktop surface. This feature allows an unprecedented ability to superimpose cartographic content without incurring significant sensory confusion. Refreshable magnetic display technology does allow for dynamic object identification and bimanual exploration of spatial variation at a coarse level, but low content density and resolution capacities remain a significant issue to be resolved. Voice recognition features appear very well suited for use in this context and do much to reduce user confusion and frustration in comparison with traditional mouse and keyboard systems, however the voice training required to create a functioning user profile is not easily accomplished with visual impairment. The amount of information that can be accessed using verbal queries is far larger than what can be provided through Braille labeling on a traditional tactile map. variety of data collection methods, including the fit to the magnetic tactile display used in this Interface functionality was tested by ten volunteer participants, with simulated vision impairment, who were asked to identify a number of varied eight point patterns within a six by six grid of points presented using the Fuse-Map system. The participants' ability to correctly identify these patterns in three different interaction conditions was observed in order to demonstrate and analyze the capacity for geographic information etrieval provided by this interface. A r completion of post exploration model recreation tasks, cued sketch completion, video recordings, talk-aloud protocols, and direct observation were used to gather data regarding the interface's usability and functionality. While user testing of the Fuse-map system remains ongoing, initial proof-of-principle trials in a laboratory setting indicate a high potential viability for this platform as a means to enhance universal access to geographic products. The results of this study indicate that at a coarse data level, the Fuse-Map system meets and in some ways surpasses traditional raised line paper and virtual reality/force feedback tactile apping methods. An additional bene m system, which cannot be found in other tactile interfaces, is the ability to place metallic markers on the display surface without obscuring the magnetic features themselves. This provides a form of tactile annotation, akin to highlighting or circling points of interest in ink on a visual map, and allows users to easily track and return to previously explored portions of the map.


This paper provides a detailed description of the recommendation system and collaborative filtering algorithm to optimize the English learning platform through the collaborative filtering algorithm and analyses the algorithmic principles and specific techniques of collaborative filtering. After introducing the recommendation system and collaborative filtering algorithm, this paper elaborates on the theoretical basis and technical principles of the recommendation algorithm based on cognitive ability and difficulty and provides an in-depth analysis of the design and implementation of the recommendation algorithm by combining cognitive diagnosis theory, readability formula, and English knowledge map, which provides a comprehensive and solid theoretical guidance and support for the application development of the online English learning platform. The system is tested by building a Spring Cloud platform, importing actual business data, focusing on the validation of the recommendation model, and connecting the recommendation system to the formal production system to analyse the recommendation effect. Compared with the original recommendation method, the online English learning platform designed and implemented in this paper based on the cognitive ability and difficulty collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm has a better recommendation effect. The system is proved to be well designed and has certain reference and guiding value for the whole web-based online learning platform and has a broader application prospect nowadays and in the future.


A series of polymers containing silyl pendant groups was prepared by free radical polymerization. In the first time, the carboxyl group of 4-hydroxyl benzoic acid (4-HBA) was converted to a vinyl ester (4-HVB) group by reacting HBA and vinyl acetate as an acylating agent in the presence of a catalyst. Then, Me3Si, Et3Si and t-BuMe2Si were covalently linked with 4-HVB under mild conditions. Free radical polymerization of the organosilyl monomers (SiVB) was carried out at 60–70°C. The structure of the organosilyl monomers was characterized and confirmed by FT-IR and 1H-NMR spectroscopy. The polymers were characterized by IR, 1H-NMR, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and gel-permeation chromatography. DSC showed that incorporation of silyl substitute in the side-chains of polymers increases the rigidity of the polymers and, subsequently, their glass transition temperature.


There are several lectins from opportunistic pathogens in the
AAL lectin family. They share the same fold, however they
differ in binding site organization and specificity. We combine
the functional studies with X-ray crystallography in order to
understand the properties of whole lectins as well as their
individual binding sites.


According the author, psychologists involved in social intervention programs are often focused in microsocial assessment and personal or family change. Social psychology has often underlined the importance of contexts. In our present societies the macrocontext has some unique characteristics, which never existed before: we live in an ever-quickening changing society. That raises a set of new challenges to practitioners of the welfare systems, particularly that of taking more into account the new macrosocial dynimics. From that perspective reflections about the need to change social representations of social groups, of their social problems and of the way to cope with such problems are proposed. The importance of non-material dimensions of social life in social change processes are pointed out. The new perspectives and goals involved with the quality of life concept are discussed. Media influence in the processes of social change are also considered. And finally an scheme to reflect and debate some outstanding challenges for social intervention are offered.


Apply Many organizations are still driven by intuition and experience-based decision making. With this type of decisions, problems such as human bias, loss of experienced workers, and the reluctance to use more sophisticated information systems can be a severe problem. With the arrival of the era of data, companies have at their disposal more information than never before, but not many know how to use this resource to its full potential. In this work, we are going to develop a data science pipeline to predict the quality of the sales leads for the EMEA 3D sales department in HP, a project that aims to enhance the transition to a data-driven decision-making organization. In order to solve this problem, the developed pipeline was focused on two tasks. The first, involved developing a web scraping tool to obtain information not previously available on the company database or that was very time consuming to acquire due to the size of the database, of more than 40,000 leads. And second, the training of a machine learning algorithm to predict a score quality together with an explainability of the main features of the decision for every lead. The result of this process greatly impacted the business, all the knowledge was kept always in the company inside the machine learning model, and the explanations of each decision are making gain confidence in the model. Furthermore, the sales team used the score to make more data-driven decisions and save time by prioritizing the best quality leads. The accuracy of the trained Extreme Gradient Boosting algorithm to do the predictions proved to be a 13.45% improvement over the baseline model with a total accuracy of 0.94282 when tested on the test set. Lastly, all these tasks were put together as a pipeline and uploaded to a server inside HP to execute the process automatically every day with minimal human interven-tion. The pipeline developed proved to give very positive results for the organization and further developments are being made to enhance the results.


In the preface, the editor writes that the articles were selected because of their historical importance and because they are considered classics in language and culture studies. The articles are arranged according to publication date and topic. The first section ('Formative stages') includes F. Boas' important Introduction to the Handbook of North American Indians, articles by E. Sapir and B. L. Whorf, and selections from L. Bloomfield and G. H. Mead. The second section ('Language and culture') includes articles by H. Hoijer, C. LeVi-Strauss, E. T. Hall, and W. C. Sturtevant. The third section ('Language in society') includes articles by C. F. Voegelin, D. Hymes, E. Goffman and J. J. Gumperz. The final section ('Current research and new directions') includes articles by S. M. Ervin-Tripp ('Sociolinguistics') and D. Hymes ('Sociolinguistics and the ethnography of speaking'). A general introduction and a list of additional readings are also included. (D.H.)


The aims of this study were to assess the validity and reliability of the constructs in a measurement model of work-related well-being and to test a structural model of workrelated well-being for members of the Local Criminal Record Centre in the South African Police Service. A survey design was used to achieve the research objectives utilising an availability non-randomised sample (N=l 1 1). The Maslach Burnout Inventory General Survey, Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, a Job DemandsResources Scale and Health and Organisational Commitment Scales were used as measuring instruments. The results indicated that job demands (overload) and a lack of job resources (organisational support and growth opportunities) contributed to burnout. Burnout mediated the relationship between job demands and job resources on the one hand, and physical and psychological i l l health on the other hand. Work wellness mediated the relationship between job resources and organisational commitment.


Monitoring of the level of corruption in Russia both by region and by levels of power, by specific government institutions and by certain spheres of social activity is one of the most important components of the Russian national anti-corruption policy, including its research component. In recent decades, there has been a significant increase in empirical studies of the phenomenon of corruption, which is largely due to the ever growing interest of domestic and foreign (national and international) research centers to conduct empirical studies of the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of corruption and to find more effective ways to counteract this phenomenon. Unlike other types of crimes, corruption is deeply latent in connection with what for a long time the only source of information about corruption was criminal statistics. However, comparative study of the phenomenon of corruption both in a single country and on a regional and, even more so, global scale, on the basis of official statistics is practically impossible, since the registration of cases of corruption in official statistics is incomplete, fragmentary. In addition, a large number of statistically recorded misconduct can not always be interpreted as an indicator of high corrupt society. The article analyzes the scientific methods of diagnosing corrupt relations in the modern society, their specificity, advantages and disadvantages in monitoring corruption are examined.


Abstract The preferential solvation of Cm(III) in binary aqueous mixtures of MeOH, tBuOH, DMSO, MeCN and acetone is studied at varied solvent composition. Solvation is investigated by time-resolved laser fluorescence spectroscopy and emission spectra and fluorescence lifetime data are obtained. At high mole fractions of organic solvent, preferential solvation of Cm(III) increases in the order: Me2CO < tBuOH ≈ MeOH < MeCN < H2O < DMSO. Thermodynamic data are derived from the spectroscopic results showing small positive standard Gibbs energies for the transfer of Cm(III) into the various solvent mixtures except for DMSO mixtures where negative values are found. The spectroscopically obtained enthalpies of transfer are fitted to a solvation model using the model parameters Δ Δ Hº12 and (αn+βN)º, rendering valuable information on the interaction of Cm(III) with the solvent molecules. Cm(III)-solvent interaction increases in the order: tBuOH < MeCN < MeOH < DMSO.


Varieties of interference sources involve in UHV partial discharge site test. Their routes have to be carefully studied, so that suppression and shielding techniques can be implemented accordingly. In our UHV site test, corona of neighboring 500kV operating equipment couples in significant special electromagnetic noise signal via large coupling capacitance. As the test limitation is strict, the special noise impedes judgment of test results. In this article, nose signals in partial discharge test have been classified. Characters of spatial electromagnetic noise have been studied, and resultant noise signal capturing and processing techniques have been developed. Success of the partial discharge site test has been guaranteed.


The impact of social class backgrounds on young children's educational experiences has attracted increasing attention in early childhood research. However, few longitudinal studies related to social class and parental involvement in young children's education are available, especially in East Asian contexts. In this longitudinal qualitative study, I examined middle-class and working-class mothers' beliefs related to education and processes through which they support their children's education from preschool to second grade in Japan. Sixteen Japanese mothers were recruited from preschools and four in-depth interviews along with home visits were conducted over 3 years. Findings of this study demonstrated that both middle-class and working-class mothers hoped that their children would do well academically, but their beliefs related to parenting roles and development of the children's learning interest differed. Such distinctive maternal beliefs affected their ways of supporting their children's education in everyday contexts.


Objective: This study aimed to compare the efficacy of arterial infusion chemotherapy with that of intravenous chemotherapy as neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer patients. Methods: A total of 92 patients were recruited and received doxorubicin dominant chemotherapy. Patients were randomized into arterial infusion chemotherapy group (n=44; chemoembolization was performed if necessary; group A) and intravenous chemotherapy group (n=48; group V). After chemotherapy, surgical interventions were employed. The adverse effects were evaluated, and the time interval between chemotherapy and surgery was determined. The therapeutic efficacy and long survival rate were compared between them. Results: The remission rate (complete remission and partial remission) in group A (93.18%) was significantly higher than in group V (62.5%). In group V, the incidence of adverse effects (bone marrow suppression, gastrointestinal reactions and alopecia) was significantly higher than in group A. The mean time interval between chemotherapy and surgery in group A was significantly shorter than in group V (25.00±5.34 days vs 56.00±15.65 days; P<0.05). The survival rate within first 5 years was comparable between groups, but the 10-year survival rate in group A was slightly higher than in group V. Conclusion: Arterial infusion chemotherapy may serve as an effective strategy for the neoadjuvant chemotherapy of breast cancer.


Abstract : A radiative transfer model was developed for characterizing radar backscatter from snow- covered ground at millimeter wave-lengths. The model was used to evaluate the radar response to incidence angle, snow depth, snow surface roughness, and snow liquid water content, for both like- and cross-polarization configurations. The model behavior was compared with experimental observations made at 35, 95, and 140 GHz, including observations over diurnal cycles. The experimental data were acquired during the 1989 and 1990 winter seasons in Michigan using a truck-mounted millimeter-wave scatterometer system capable of observing the ground surface over a wide range of incidence angles for all linear combinations of transmit and receive antenna polarizations. Comparison of the measured data with model calculations revealed excellent agreement for dry snow as well as when the surface layer of the snowpack was wet. However, when the surface layer was dry and lower layers were wet, the model results were inconsistent with the radar observations. To deal with tile general case wherein the liquid water content exhibits a nonlinear profile with depth, a hybrid numerical-first order solution of the radiative transfer model was developed. This hybrid model provided excellent agreement with the diurnal observations of radar backscatter.


We proposes a data-driven approach for voltage sag diagnosis in this paper. Rather than traditional features such as frequency, amplitude and duration, we apply temporal distribution as a new feature to distinguish whether the sag is caused by power system faults or heavy load switching. Sags caused by these two reasons have different distribution pattern, and this work interprets it from a number of perspectives. We also perform voltage sag source location by clustering. This approach don't use any physical level analysis and can find the fault source faster as well as accurately.


ABSTRACT 'Garbage Island'. 'The Pacific Trash Vortex'. 'The Great Pacific Garbage Patch'. Titles abound for the growing build-up of waste, mostly microplastic and non-biodegradable, floating in the North Pacific Ocean. Unfortunately, Garbage Island is just one egregious example of how human activities are exacting an enormous toll on the planet. Considerations of waste should be central to our field, not merely due to the degree to which leisure practices are deeply implicated in its production but because the very provision of leisure opportunities often rests on disposability. The time is ripe to develop a research agenda for understanding waste and disposability in leisure. This research note presents a brief accounting of waste as it has been taken up in our field in an effort to set a path forward for understanding and addressing this issue. Of course, explorations of consumption in leisure studies is well-trod ground and, arguably, critical considerations of how individuals consume through leisure (i.e. conspicuous consumption) form the backbone of our field. Rather surprisingly, however, relatively little, critical attention has been given to the very notion of waste, or the disposability that undergirds the material production and provision of leisure.


The partition function of a system of galaxies in gravitational interaction can be cast in an Ising Model form, and this reformulated via a Hubbard--Stratonovich transformation into a three dimensional stochastic and classical scalar field theory, whose critical exponents are calculable and known. This allows one to {\it compute\/} the galaxy to galaxy correlation function, whose non--integer exponent is predicted to be between 1.530 and 1.862, to be compared with the phenomenological value of 1.6 to 1.8.


OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the association of nutritional factors with symptomatic knee OA.

METHODS
This cross-sectional study was performed face-to-face using a structured interview. Individuals who had a diagnosis of symptomatic knee OA and were aged 50 years or over were included in this study. The frequency of consumption of dairy products, meat/poultry, fish, cereals, vegetables, tea and coffee were also determined. The diagnosis of knee OA was made clinically or clinically and radiologically according to the ACR criteria for knee OA.

RESULTS
A total of 655 subjects was interviewed. The frequency of symptomatic knee OA was significantly lower in daily milk consumers (p < 0.05). Tea consumption was also inversely associated with symptomatic knee OA (p < 0.05), although other nutritional elements showed no significant relationship with OA.

CONCLUSION
Milk consumption may have beneficial effects on symptomatic knee OA.


ABSTRACT In the quest to enhance reinforcement efficiency of graphene in metal matrices, various processing techniques have been devised over recent years. As the advancement in this field nowhere seems to slow down, the processing aspects of graphene-reinforced metal matrix composites are becoming more relevant than ever. In that premise, there lies an imminent need for a critical assessment of existing fabrication routes and their ability to extend a solution for the primary challenges of agglomeration, dispersion, interfacial interaction and structural integrity of graphene in metal matrix composites. This review presents a brief yet a meaningful insight to the processing techniques for graphene-reinforced metal matrix composites, while highlighting the key findings from individual studies, thereby expressing the primitive challenges and strengthens of these techniques. A critical evaluation of state of the art is presented alongside an inclusive review of improvement in mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties of composites fabricated by various processing routes. In the consideration of reviewed literature, it is established that a comprehensive processing strategy with a potential to simultaneously address all of the key processing challenges of graphene, is yet to nurture. Conclusively, future road map and a potential solution encompassing hybrid processing strategies, is opined.


The UK government sees accessibility planning (AP) as a key tool to reducing social exclusion for people who have difficulty in accessing facilities such as health, education and employment. AP will be built into the next round of local transport plans for English local authorities, due for submission in 2005. There are problems in reconciling the 'top-down' needs of the Government to identify accessibility indicators that are comparable across a range of geographical areas and social communities, with the 'bottom-up' methods of identifying individual needs at the local level. The Government intends to give accessibility greater weight in land-use planning decisions. The Department for Transport's Central-Local Working Group on Accessibility Planning will establish pilot projects in Devon, Lincolnshire, Merseyside, Nottinghamshire, Plymouth, Tyne and Wear and Wiltshire, evaluate approaches to AP and share good practice.


This outstanding brochure is issued by the "Council of Architecture, Urbanism and Environment of Haute Savoie (CAUE), with many participants including the"Centre Culturel de Flaine". Here is the link : http://www.caue74.fr/docs/dossiers_...


The aim of this paper is to examine an applying the precautionary principle in fisheries management. Precautionary principle is a principle where the possibility exist of serious or irreversible harm, lack of scientific certainty should not preclude cautions action by decision-makers to prevent or mitigate such harm. This principle has been accepting in widely international environmental law so that with applying this principle in fisheries management, it could be expected to provide an opportunity to progress towards sustainable fisheries development.


There are few saints who exerted such a powerful hold over the artistic imagination of fifteenth-, sixteenth-, and seventeenth-century Europe as St. Sebastian, and the tremendous popularity he enjoyed during the Renaissance must to a very great extent be related to the astonishingly vivid and instantly recognizable iconographical characteristics that were conventionally attributed to him. For although Sebastian was portrayed in a wide variety of different settings and contexts during the Renaissance, he was almost always depicted as a beautiful young man whose near-naked body had been pierced with arrows; a visual trope that recalls not simply his martyrdom but his intense physical vulnerability as well. The martyrdom of St. Sebastian was clearly a religious narrative that very deeply touched the seventeenth-century Flemish artist Anthony Van Dyck (1599–1641) as it is a subject to which he repeatedly returned at the beginning of his career, when he undertook a number of different studies of the episode. Van Dyck's depictions of this subject, however, constitute a radical break with Renaissance tradition, in that the artist dispensed with some of Sebastian's conven-


Estimates of breeding frequencies in wild populations occupy a central place in life-history studies, but they remain hard to obtain in snakes. Capture–recapture procedures were carried out during 27 periods over 3 years in a large population of female asp vipers, Vipera aspis (317 marked individuals). Catchability was greater in reproductive females (2.64 ± 1.74 (SD) captures/year) than in nonreproductive females (1.76 ± 1.02). Three different methods were used to estimate breeding frequency: (i) the proportion of reproductive to nonreproductive females for each period (noncorrected estimates, NC) was measured; (ii) the ratio of the number of reproductive females to the total number of females was estimated using the CAPTURE program (catchability-corrected estimates, CE); (iii) breeding frequencies of marked individuals were observed in the field for 3 years (observed breeding frequency, OF). The results obtained with the three methods were different. The NC procedure indicated that 63% of females breed ...


The Video Browser Showdown (VBS) is a live video browsing competition where international researchers, working in the field of interactive video search, evaluate and demonstrate the efficiency of their tools in presence of the audience. The aim of the VBS is to evaluate video browsing tools for efficiency at known-item search (KIS) tasks with a well-defined data set in direct comparison to other tools.


Outlier detection is challenging for time series with seasonality and trend due to the presence of local outliers. In this paper, we propose an online unsupervised deep learning based algorithm for outlier detection utilizing temporal convolutional neural network (TCN). In the proposed algorithm, firstly, the TCN network is trained using a novel loss function designed to address time series with seasonality and trend. Secondly, instead of a single global threshold for outlier detection for the entire time series, we define a set of thresholds computed based on the output of the TCN network, leading to robust detection of local outliers caused by the seasonality and the trend. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated using synthetic time series. The results show that given 99% Precision, the proposed algorithm achieves at least 70% Recall and 80% F-score, which is much better than 43% Recall and 60% F-score achieved by the statistics-based seasonal extreme studentized deviate test (S-ESD) algorithm. Our algorithm also demonstrates better performance than that of the TCN based detection algorithm trained by the conventional loss function.


The problem of noise reduction in supersonic aircraft design is one of the key problems, the solution of which largely determines the speed of development of supersonic aviation as a whole. The present study examines the noise generation during flights of supersonic civil aircraft. The effect of a thermally stratified energy source (TSS) used to control the supersonic flow past a pointed cylinder aerodynamic model on the near-field and ground pressure signatures, as well as on the perceived loudness in decibels (PLdB) on the ground, is evaluated. The complex conservative difference schemes, Tomas' waveform parameter method, and Stevens' algorithm Mark VII are used for near-field modeling, obtaining the ground pressure signature, and the evaluation of the PLdB on the ground, accordingly. The fields of flow parameters and the dynamics of a drag force are researched at the variation of temperatures in layers of TSS and for different numbers of layers. Simulations showed that changing the surface pressure due to drag reduction does not necessarily imply a change in the PLdB on the ground. In particular, it has been shown that when performing the flow control at freestream Mach numbers 1.5–2 using TSSs with the number of layers from 2.5 to 7.5 and rarefaction parameters in the layers from 0.15 to 0.3, some weakening of the bow shock wave in the near-field pressure signature due to the effect of TSS occurs, and no additional noise impact on the ground is introduced.


This project looks at optimizing nurse schedules at a community health centrein Vancouver, Canada. The centre provides primary care to individuals who areunable to access conventional fee-for-service primary care. Nurses at the Centrehave reported that their schedules do a poor job of matching patient arrival levelsto the walk-in components of the clinic. This paper describes patient flow throughspeci1c components of the centre as a scheduling problem in the form of a MixedInteger Linear Program (MILP). Having collaborated with the centre's management,we built diagrams outlining the flow and used electronic medical record (EMR) dataand staff opinion to estimate the parameters needed in the model. The model iswritten in Python and solved using Gurobi to approximate the optimal schedulefor nurses to maximize the amount of time spent with patients. The centre hasexpressed interest in implementing the generated schedules for nurses.


The research object of this study is the in-depth discourse on the sustainability transfer activities of higher education institutions (HEIs) and their contribution to a regional sustainable transformation. For this purpose, a heuristically-derived concept of sustainability transfer is empirically tested with a mixed-methods approach based on the example of Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE). The empirical findings demonstrate that the realization of sustainability transfer depends mainly on the personal initiative of teachers and researchers. Major barriers are a lack of time and financial resources. The observed concept of sustainability transfer is applicable to all study and research areas of HNEE. Involvement in sustainability transfer can include the whole of society, from politics, enterprises, and civil society to education and research institutions. Overall, the empirical testing of the concept offered by this study illustrates its practical suitability to capturing specifically those sustainability transfer activities that are not tapped by third mission approaches. This opens up a novel dimension for transfer potential at universities and their role in regional sustainability transformation. It also highlights that the interdependencies between HEIs and practitioners need to be more contextualized with quality criteria such as the value of the transfer performance or level of ambition.


We classify real 6-dimensional nilpotent Lie algebras for which the corresponding Lie group has a left-invariant complex structure, and estimate the dimensions of moduli spaces of such structures. AMS: 17B30, 32G05, 53C30.


The application of friction pendulum seismic isolation to three important bridge structures subject to strong earthquake motions is presented. The Benicia-Martinez Bridge is one of three critical lifeline bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area and the seismic design performance criteria was that it should remain functional after a major earthquake. The design earthquake included very strong near-fault ground motions, with near-fault fling and deep soil site effects resulting in ground motion spectral accelerations over 7 g. The I-40 Mississippi River Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, is a vital defense and commerce transportation link in the Memphis area. It is situated at the southeastern edge of the New Madrid Seismic Zone. The seismic performance goal for the seismic retrofit was that the bridge should remain "operational/serviceable" after a maximum probable "Contingency Level Earthquake" (2500 year return period). A viaduct section of the Trans-European Motorway that traverses the active Anatolian fault in northern Turkey was severely damaged in the 1999 Duzce Earthquake. A seismic assessment of the damaged viaduct was carried out and it was concluded that the viaduct could be economically repaired and retrofitted using seismic isolation. The extreme environmental conditions, coupled with the demanding performance requirements for the isolation system, which included accommodating permanent ground displacement at the fault crossing, dictated selection of friction pendulum bearings.


Objective To investigate the effect of different dosages of praziquantel treatment by cerebral cysticercosis.Method Using retrospective analysis method to analyze the treatment effect of 167 cerebral cysticercosis cases which cure by different dosages of praziquantel,praziquantel was divided into 2 groups.Sellecting 54 patients as the first group and taking small dosages,the second group with 93 patients,taking large dose.Results After three courses,the cure rate of the first group was 35.19%,and the effective rate was 98.15%.The cure rate of the second groups was 46.24%,and the effective rate was 98.92%,it was significantly higher than the first group.Conclusions Praziquantel can used for treament cerebral cysticercosis,it was effective and safty.The large dosages was better than the small.