Until recently grazing practices, routine in Southwestern United States, have not been used in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. A climatic difference makes our conditions different and years of revolution have greatly retarded technology in Mexican animal husbandry. A definite advancement was not made until the 1950's. My first experience seeking to break the established routine of Hereford ranching with nothing but nature for a background was in 1945, when after reading an American magazine on the use of salt to regulate meal intake, I tried it on 60 selected cows. Simultaneously it was tried by other cattlemen in the State. The one great difference between conditions in Chihuahua and the Southwestern United States lies in the fact that while some spring moisture is general in the Southwest, the normal condition in Chihuahua is to have no spring moisture. This makes a tremendous difference in all the operations. Our grasses as a rule, are very strong from July through October which comprises the period of rain and relatively good moisture in the soil. Our pasture conditions are, therefore, characterized by highly superior grass these 4 months of the year followed by 4 months of gradually diminishing nutritional value. One thing is in our favor, however, compared to the American standard cycle. We by no means have the winter storms that occur in the United States. This lack of storms makes it cheaper to winter our cattle but lack of moisture in the spring gives us a bad taste of drought Mexico


Using data on local, state, and national events in American medicine, this article analyzes the order in which professionalization occurs. A variety of basic "events" in professionalization are investigated: control of work, development of schools and other knowledge institutions, creation of professionally dominated work sites, association, licensing, and scientific transformation. At the local level, the sequence of professionalization seems to be control, practical knowledge, dominated work sites, and scientific transformation, with association coming approximately contemporaneous with practical knowledge. At the state level, control and association begin the process, in that order, with efforts proceeding both at the state level and in a state's major city. Widespread local activity in control and association come only later. Practical knowledge, controlled work sites, and various forms of "tangential" knowledge follow these earlier events. The article argues for a model of professionalization as a multilevel, diffusion process.


The sesquiterpenoid contents of intact and of injured fruit bodies of the pungent species Lactarius necator and L. circellatus (mushrooms) have been investigated. The fruit bodies originally contain fatty acid esters of the sesquiterpene velutinal as the only sesquiterpenoids. When the fruit bodies are injured, by grinding, the esters are enzymatically converted into sesquiterpene furans, mono- and di-aldehydes, and lactones


Based on the continuity of foldbelts and the positions of intermountain continental nuclei and transcontinental megashears, a close Pangea fit is proposed for the central and north Atlantic borderlands. The Variscan arch segment missing between Brittany and Galicia in the Gulf of Gascony (Biscaye) can tentatively be identified with the Flemish Cap block off Newfoundland. At the same time the northwest African-Gondwana border (central Morocco) was located some 800 km farther to the west-northwest, as compared to its present position in southwestern Europe (Iberia). During the opening of the central and northern segments of the Atlantic Ocean (Jurassic and Cretaceous) and during the closure of the western Mediterranean basin, i.e., the thrust of Africa toward southern Europe (Tertiary), the European continental mass underwent deformation in the transtensive and transpressive modes, which reactivated parts of its inherited structural network. The trailing south European continental margin was partially dismembered into loosely bound continental blocks, to be assembled again during the subsequent Alpine orogenic cycle. These events can be compared with processes known in the northernmost and western segments of the North American continent. Mechanisms are proposed for the formation and deformation of inter- and intraplate basins by way of moderate shifts (wrenching)more » and slight rotations, the direction of which changed during the Mesozoic-Tertiary according to the global stress field. The above evolution and mechanisms had multiple and decisive effects on hydrocarbon generation, habitat, and accumulation.« less


In the title compound, C11H14N4OS·H2O, the dihedral angle between the ethoxybenzene group and the triazole ring is 48.20 (8)°. Intermolecular N—H⋯O and O—H⋯N hydrogen bonds involving the water molecules form a chain along the a axis.


The usability of coal-mine safety monitoring system is improved with the application of some new technologies,such as wireless sensor network. But,on the other hand,the complexity of the system is increased. In addition,it is different from other systems that the non-functional properties of coal-mine safety monitoring system such as real time,safety and reliability are crucial to safety of coal-mine. In this paper the application of wireless sensor network in coal-mine safety system is introduced,the model of the system is designed with the model-driven method and is formalized for automatic analysis with the finite state automaton.


Least Significant Bit (LSB) substitution is the most popular information hiding scheme in spatial steganography. Its popularity lies in the fact that it has very little effect on the cover image and secret message can remain largely unidentified by the human eye, hence, making information exchange more secure. LSB substitution can be further optimised by combining it with edge detection techniques. This is because different regions in cover image can store different number of bits. Complex regions or regions having an edge are less sensitive to change and can hide more data than smooth regions. In this research, a steganographic approach is proposed that combines edge detection based steganographic techniques with Optimal Pixel Adjustment Process (OPAP). Through experiments it is demonstrated that proposed method leads to better image quality at high payloads than even some of the state-of-the-art high capacity steganographic methods. It is also shown that proposed method can have embedding rates up to 3.407 bpp at PSNR value of 35dB, which can't be discerned by the Human Visual System (HVS). This is greater than any other method in literature.


Anatomical and electrophysiological models of human atria are of interest in cardiology. The developed 3D anatomical model incorporates different atrial tissue, such as crista terminalis, pectinate muscles and Bachmann s bundle, as well as sinoatrial node. The cellular model of Courtemanche et. al. was adjusted for the underlying cellular electrophysiology. The simulation of 3D excitation propagation in human atria is carried out with the monodomain model using the finite difference method. The results indicate that all incorporated structures are of importance for a realistic description of atrial excitation.


Liver Surgery Review a b s t r a c t Introduction: Hepatic adenomas (HA) are benign tumours which can present serious complications , and hence all were resected in the past. It has now been shown that those smaller


With the further frequent of human living activities, natural meteorological changes will lead to some harmful substances into the atmosphere, the concentration of harmful substances is too high will harm people's health, air quality forecast can make people timely and effective response to bad air conditions In this paper, the concentrations of six common pollutants related to air quality are analyzed and predicted by combining existing air quality forecasting models and known data. The time series model is established and the secondary model is built on the basis of the original primary forecast, which improves the accuracy of air quality forecast.


The paper provides and discusses a life cycle model for agile software development methods like SCRUM. The process model integrates the idea of HumanCentred Design (HCD) into the agile approach. Based on the discussion of existing life cycle models and known process patterns a process model is discussed that combines the advantages of HCD and SCRUM. The SCRUM process model was used in the discussion to be as concrete as possible. However, the suggested approach is applicable to other agile process models as well.


The article proposes a discussion concerning the use of prosthesis in P.P.P (PositionParallele au Plancher) (2008), by Compagnie Non Nova. It considers the appearance of aprosthetic body and its actions between meat and plastic, organic and inorganic in orderto criticizes the processes of prosthetic incorporation and their effects on gendermodulation. In orchestrating a plan of dispossession of masculinity, Phia Menard, at thesame time, director and performer of the play, inscribes an image of gender as abiopolitical mechanism that controls difference, something given in complex network ofrelationships that encompasses economic, political and social aspects.


In Virtual Reality (VR), Steady-State-Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEPs) can be used to interact with the virtual environment using brain signals. However, the design of SSVEP-eliciting stimuli often does not match the virtual environment, and thus, disrupts the virtual experience. In this paper, we investigate stimulus designs with varying suitability to blend in virtual environments. Therefore, we created differently-shaped, virtual butterflies. The shapes vary from rectangular wings, over round wings, to a wing shape of a real butterfly. These butterflies elicit SSVEP responses through different animations – flickering or flapping wings. To evaluate our stimuli, we first extracted suitable frequencies for SSVEP responses from the literature. In a first study, we determined three frequencies yielding the best detection accuracy in VR. We used these frequencies in a second study to analyze detection accuracy and appearance ratings using our stimuli designs. Our work contributes insights into the design of SSVEP stimuli that blend into virtual environments and still elicit SSVEP responses.


An analysis is made which shows that if the pupil plane of a large telescope is relayed into a special achromatic prism interferometer of 180° rotational shear and with point symmetry, the second statistical moment of the pupil irradiance fluctuations reveals information about the source two-dimensional mutual coherence function (MCF) at spatial frequencies that, under ordinary conditions, are severely attenuated by propagation through the atmosphere. To obtain a measure of the MCF at points across the telescope pupil simultaneously, it is necessary to use a two-dimensional photo-electronic array detector, with real-time processing.


In order to meet environmental norms, Indian fuel policy aims at producing ultra low sulphur diesel (ULSD) in near future. A catalyst for meeting such requirements has been developed and kinetics of this catalytic process is being looked into. In the present investigations, effect of mass transfer on kinetics of ultra deep hydrodesulphurization (UDHDS) to produce ULSD has been studied to determine intrinsic kinetics over a pre-sulphided catalyst. Experiments have been carried out in a continuous flow micro reactor operated in the temperature range of 330 to 360 0 C, whsv of 1 hr -1 at a pressure of 35 bar, and its parameters estimated. Based on the derived rate expression and estimated parameters optimum operation range has been determined for this UDHDS catalyst to obtain ULSD product.


Objective To analyze the distribution of cultured bacteria from chronic osteomyelitis patients,and provide a basis for clinical medicine.Methods We retrospectively analyzed the bacterial culture results of the secretions from 91 patients with chronic osteomyelitis treated in our hospital from January 2006 to December 2010.Among them,there were 78 males and 13 females aged from 5 to 78 years averaging at(41.3 ± 8.35) years.The duration of the disease ranged from 47 days to more than 7 months,averaging(68.6 ± 14.57) days.The total course of antibiotic-taking was longer than 7 days for all the patients.Results A total of 113 pathogen strains were isolated from 65 secretion samples,including 72 Gram-negative bacteria accounting for 63.71% and 41 gram-positive bacteria accounting for 36.28%.Drug susceptibility results showed basic resistance of Gram-positive bacteria to conventional penicillin,rare resistance to carbapenem,and no resistance to vancomycin.Gram-negative bacteria were basically resistant to penicillin and cephalosporins,but not resistant to cefoperazone-sulbactam.Conclusion Enhancing the monitoring of pathogens for patients with chronic osteomyelitis is extremely necessary for the rational clinical use of antibiotics.


The defatting technology of whole peanut kernel using the process of physical press and recovering shape with expansion was studied.The peanut kernel and peanut meal were stuffed into oil cylinder of a vertical hydraulic oil press and pressed under the pressure 20-25 MPa and 1 h retention time conditions.The squished peanut kernel was treated to recover shape with expander to get the defatted whole peanut.The percentage of damage was zero and the degree of recovering shape was 109%.The recovered peanut granular contained 13.89% crude fat(wet basis) and 50% crude protein(N×6.25,dry basis).


PIK3CA, encoding the catalytic subunit p110α of phosphatidylinositol 3‐kinase (PI3K), is activated in malignant diseases. However, the role of the PIK3CA gene aberrations for tumourigenesis of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is to date unclear. The present study was designed to determine the genomic aberration of PIK3CA in invasive HNSCC and dysplastic precursor lesions by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with a YAC probe, containing the PIK3CA gene, on isolated interphase nuclei from histomorphologically well‐defined regions of formalin‐fixed tissue sections and to compare these data with protein and mRNA expression of p110α. The mRNA and protein levels of p110α were assessed, respectively, by in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry on consecutive tissue sections. Copy number gains at 3q26 were observed in one of six low‐to‐moderate dysplasias (17%) and in seven of nine high‐grade dysplasias (78%), as well as in 11 carcinomas (100%). In addition, one of seven high‐grade dysplasias (14%) and 6 of 11 carcinomas (55%) had amplifications of 3q26. The majority of cases with copy number gain in more than 50% of the cells and/or amplification in more than 10% of cells showed increased p110α mRNA and protein expression, whereas only two cases (18%) (one high‐grade dysplasia and one carcinoma) with no gain or low‐level gain displayed increased p110α protein expression. These data suggest that 3q26 copy number gain and amplification represent early genomic aberrations in HNSCC carcinogenesis. In addition, p110α mRNA and protein expression in HNSCC may be regulated by these genomic aberrations as well as by epigenetic events. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The need to bring down costs while maintaining a high standard of care has led to the expansion in the role of nurses in recent years. We present results of an audit of patient satisfaction with conventional and nurse‐led telephone follow‐up after nasal septal surgery. Our results indicate that patient satisfaction with nurse‐led telephone follow‐up is significantly higher than conventional follow‐up (p=0.001, two‐tailed). More patients in the conventional follow‐up group felt that a follow‐up appointment with an ENT doctor was essential compared with the patients in the nurse‐led telephone follow‐up group (p<0.001, two‐tailed). We conclude that nurse‐led telephone follow‐up avoids unnecessary outpatient appointments, while identifying patients who require further care. It makes more appointment slots available for patients with pressing clinical problems and has the potential to reduce outpatient access times in the NHS.


Two groups of patients undergoing partial gastrectomy in light halothanenitrous oxide anaesthesia with muscle relaxant and controlled ventilation were studied. One group (R group, 14 patients) received an average of 1700 ml of lactated Ringer's solution during surgery plus 1500 ml glucose/water on the day of operation. The other group (Gl group, 13 patients) received only 2000 ml glucose in water on the day of operation.


Some parameters of the electromyographic power spectrum of the paraspinal muscles were recorded and analyzed with regard to their ability to discriminate between normal controls and patients with back pain classified as "avoiders" or "confronters" by their responses to the Pain Behavior Checklist. In terms of the activity of the multifidus muscle, the avoider group displayed spectral changes towards lower frequencies, reduced variability in the density spectrum, and higher values of estimated initial frequencies. Measures of the activity of the iliocos- talls lumborum did not contribute in any significant way to these group differences. Based on these findings, and on the available literature concerning the histology and physiology of paraspinal muscles, it is proposed that the observed characteristics of the avoider group may be due to a reduced ratio of slow twitch to fast twitch muscle fibers in the multifidus.


In geostatistics it is common practice to assume that the underlying spatial process is stationary and isotropic, that is the spatial distribution is unchanged when the origin of the index set is translated and the process is stationary under rotations about the origin. However in environmental problems, it is not very realistic to make such assumptions since local innuences in the correlation structure of the spatial process may be clearly found in the data. This paper proposes a Bayesian model wherein the main aim is to address the anisotropy problem. Following Sampson and Guttorp (1992), we deene the correlation function of the spatial process by reference to a latent space, denoted by D, where stationarity and isotropy hold. The space where the gauged monitoring sites lie is denoted by G. We adopt a Bayesian approach in which the mapping between G space and D space is represented by an unknown function d(:). A Gaussian process prior distribution is deened for d(:). Unlike the Sampson & Guttorp approach, the mapping of both gauged and ungauged sites is handled in a single framework, and predictive inferences take explicit account of uncertainty in the mapping. Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) methods are used to obtain samples from the posterior distributions. Three examples are discussed, two simulated data sets and the solar radiation data set also analysed by Sampson & Guttorp.


In this paper we examine the effectiveness of a circulant graph proxy-network overlay topology. We select to examine a circulant graph that exhibits several attributes which strengthen the proxy network's resistance to DoS attacks. Proxy networks enable applications to communicate with users without disclosing their IP's. An application's resistance to DoS attacks is improved by hiding it behind a proxy-network based overlay. We evaluate the selected-topology's fault-tolerance and its effectiveness in the resistance of DoS attacks.


The impact of urbanization on a heavy rainfall event that occurred in Beijing on 21 July 2012 was investigated using version 3.6.1 of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model coupled with a multilayer urban canopy model. High‐resolution land use data for Beijing in 2010 with modified urban parameterization were introduced into the model. Evaluation showed that the simulation result generally agreed well with observations. Two sensitivity tests with different urban high‐resolution land use scenarios were employed to analyze the impact of urban expansion on this rainfall event. The simulation results confirmed that urbanization expansion played an important role in the distribution and intensity of precipitation for this extreme event. Urbanization led to total precipitation increasing in upstream and downstream directions. The start time of the precipitation process was advanced by 1 h, and the duration became longer due to the influence of urbanization. Moreover, urbanization caused the spatial distribution of precipitation to become more concentrated. The total precipitation amount above 250 mm and the frequency of precipitation intensity above 40 h−1 mm are both increased. The results of this study show that urbanization plays a significant role in frontal‐type rainfall.


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For a simple graph $ G = (V(G), E(G)) $, the Graovac-Pisanski index of $ G $ is defined as

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where $ {\rm{Aut}}(G) $ is the automorphism group of $ G $ and $ d_G(u, v) $ is the length of a shortest path between the two vertices $ u $ and $ v $ in $ G $. Obviously, $ GP(G) = 0 $ if $ G $ has no nontrivial automorphisms. Let $ B_{n}^{3, 3} $ be the graph consisting of two disjoint 3-cycles with a path of length $ n-5 $ joining them. In this article, we prove that among all those $ n $-vertex bicyclic graphs in which every edge lies on at most one cycle, $ B_{n}^{3, 3} $ has the maximum Graovac-Pisanski index.
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The multiples' approach to equity valuation is not a new topic and many excellent books are available. Basically they tend to be typically normative "how to do" books tackling directly the many details and complexities from a practical perspective of the relative valuation approach. We do not discuss the best practices on equity valuation, we prefer to enhance the current knowledge on the topic asking ourselves what kind of performance we may expect from this equity valuation tool given its widespread use in the business community of equity analysts, investment bankers and portfolio managers. In equity valuation, stock market multiples have become one of the most exploited valuation tools used by both professionals and scholars. Multiples are used in research reports and stock recommendations of both buy-side and sell-side analysts, in fairness opinions of investment bankers, or at road shows of companies pursuing an Initial Public Offerings (IPO). Even in cases where the value of a fi rm is primarily determined using discounted cash fl ow, multiples play the important role of providing a second opinion. Despite their extensive usage among practitioners, studies on how to guide multiples' application in assessing relative valuation performance on equity markets or in building profi table investment strategies based on accuracy performances of those valuation metrics are sporadic. Introduction 2 E. ROSSI AND G. FORTE The relative valuation topic has been widely discussed in specialized literature and hands-on textbooks on business valuation proliferate. It is a classical valuation theme, but basically all published works tend to be very descriptive explaining every technical aspect of an appropriate and effective implementation of this valuation approach and in some cases also considers a fundamental analysis approach. The majority of available literature has rarely been focused on empirical efforts that try to explain how relative valuation effectively works on equity markets and what we can learn observing this piece of evidence. One explanation could be that it is a well-rooted and widespread conviction that valuation is very much an art more than a science, based mainly on analysts' own expertise and know-how, since market participants and equity analysts select comparable fi rms in the multiples approach more carefully and take into account situation-specifi c factors that cannot be adequately considered by researchers or scholars where large datasets are used. On the contrary we are convinced that only an empirical effort testing the informational content of the valuation technique can improve our knowledge on this subject. For these reasons we have observed that there are still very few analyses focused on the empirical evidence of how this valuation approach relates to stock market price movements. We have found some papers, which are published in top-rated academic fi nance or accounting journals, which are largely unknown to a larger practitioners' audience. But even in this case the existing researches are quite limited to stock market multiples accuracy performance. Our research goes further trying to show how and if different levels of multiple valuation errors (or accuracy performances) can predict future price movements and be exploited in stock selection strategies. An added original feature of our research consists in the database employed. Most existing researches are based on evidence and a dataset confi ned to the prefi nancial crisis era (the years before 2007 subprime mortgages collapse). Our dataset instead covers all the more recent years of the global fi nancial crisis until 2014. Accordingly, it captures all the discontinuities that were evident during recent severe and long lasting fi nancial crisis. In our research we have come to some original conclusions that exceed those already available from the existing literature. These fi ndings can provide meaningful insights that practitioners can expect when adopting relative valuation in their everyday work. A second relevant contribution of our original dataset is its focus on the very liquid and highly traded segment of the equity market, which enables


In this paper, we have analyzed the error performance of OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing 16 QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) Signal in a multipath fading environment modeled as frequency selective Rician fading. We have used a three-path model as frequency selective Rician fading used Rician parameter K. A BCH channel coding is used in order to improve the performance. From the result of this analysis, we have known the improvement of the error performance improvement and the error correcting capability by the BCH channel coding. From the results, the error performance, about required in wireless multimedia communications can not be achieved by using only the BCH channel coding technique so that it should be adopted a new technique together.


This chapter will highlight the stories of two student affairs professionals who have some identities and experiences in common, but their differences have marked essential lessons for how they lead. This chapter also proposes being a student-ready educator takes a commitment to examine ourselves, our values, beliefs, and attitudes, and how they play out in our service to students. With this in mind, the authors recommend essential characteristics for being a student-ready educator, which includes (1) self-reflection, (2) empathy and compassion, (3) authenticity, (4) gratitude, (5) advocacy, and (6) personal sense of belonging. This chapter will expand on these characteristics and ways to skillfully engage them in meeting the needs of students from diverse backgrounds in these contested times to become more effective student-ready educators.


Mr. R.L. O'Shields, President and Chief Executive Officer of Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co., has published an excellent statement on the natural gas situation. Excerpts from this statement are published because he gives a clear view of the current situation, with realistic ideas on what to do in the future. According to Mr. O'Shields, we probably will never again experience a surplus of natural gas in this nation. Every available indicator and every projection shows growing needs for this resource, accentuated by environmental considerations because gas is a clean-burning, relatively nonpolluting fuel. There are several steps that can, should, and hopefully will be taken to correct the deteriorating gas supply balance of this country. The most pertinent are (1) increased domestic exploration and drilling; (2) reforming liquid hydrocarbons to gas; (3) importation of liquefied natural gas; (4) gas from the Arctic-Alaska and Canada; (5) conversion of coal to gas; and (6) nuclear stimulation of tight gas-bearing formations.


Religion is often claimed to contribute to social capital, though under certain circumstances; it is widely recognized that movements of religious renewal and revival are mostly commonly observed among low-income, and marginalized populations, and sometimes seem to be the only institution-builders in circumstances of extreme poverty and institutional decay or vacuum; religious movements exhibit numerous undemocratic features: authoritarian hierarchies, strong pressures on followers to make sacrifices, to conform, and to contribute money. This paper explores the theoretical implications and support for these apparently paradoxical observations by adopting a rational choice approach augmented by the concept of power, and a concept of social capital which emphasizes transparency and the building of democratic institutions in society as a whole. The argument is illustrated by examples from Latin American evangelical churches and ultra-Orthodox Judaism, and concludes with the view that while the contribution of religious movements to democratization at large is limited, this is not a sufficient reason for belittling what they can do for their own followers.


We consider one-loop radiative corrections from Lorentz- and CPT-violating extended QED to address the specific problem of finding explicitly an effective action describing the amplitude of photon triple splitting. We show that it is not possible to find a nonzero photon triple splitting effective action, at least by using the derivative expansion method (at zero external momenta), up to leading order in the Lorentz- and CPT- violating parameter.


Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction: Exploring the Dark Side of School Reform Chapter 4 Theschooldayisfastandtheschoolyearisfaster! Chapter 5 Add Duties, Subtract Duties Add Responsibility, Subtract Responsibility Add Rigmarole, Subtract Rigmarole Chapter 6 Teaching as an Everyday Ambiguity: Who Is Doing What, Where, When, Why, and How? Chapter 7 The "Old Guard" versus the "New Way" Chapter 8 Snake Charmers in the Star Chamber Chapter 9 Strangers in a Strange School: Isolated Instructors, Divided Departments, Fractured Faculty Chapter 10 There's No "I" in the Word "School" Chapter 11 Distraction + Disorientation = Disaffection Chapter 12 Leading with Smoke and Mirrors: Of Misty Missions, Vague Values, and Floating Philosophies Chapter 13 Coda or Refrain? Reforming Again and Again and Again and Again... Chapter 14 Teaching in the Space between Reality and Utopia Chapter 15 Methodological Appendix


Human resources (HR) that talented employees are the foundation of an organization in a competitive advantage. A strong foundation for an organization to improve performance is the main one of which comes from the quality of Employment Performance. Basically Human Resources (HR) refers to people in the organization. Without effective people, it seems impossible for the organization to achieve its objectives. Human resources to make the resources with other organizations to run optimally. Quality employees working in an organization can be influenced by the cultures that are in the organization. Organizational culture is a reflection of the behavior of the employees from the application of values prevailing in the organization. Quality performance can likewise sourced from spiritual intelligence and leadership qualities of being a model of supervision that worked by employees. In this study, used the organizational culture Culture and Leadership Tri Hita Karana Astra Brata as variables tested to determine its effect on Employment Performance through Cultural Tri Hita Karana in Badung Regency Village Credit Institutions of Bali. Results showed that that the Spiritual Intelligence and Astra Brata Leadership have an influence on the culture of Tri Hita Karana, but the The Culture of Tri Hita Karana can not be mediating the effect of Spiritual Intelligence and Astra Brata Leadership. Astra Brata proven leadership directly affects the performance displayed by employees at Village Credit Institutions of Bali Badung regency. Total R 2 value of 88.4% indicates that the diversity of data that can be explained by the model is equal to 88.4%. While the remaining 11.6% is explained by other variables (which is not contained in the model) and error.


Gun-Young Lee, You-Suk Lee, Sang Man Koo, and Kee-Jung Lee*Department of Industrial Chemistry, Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, KoreaReceived July 15, 1999Aldehyde and ketone azines 1 (2,3-diazabutadienes) reactwith the olefins to yield perhydropyrazolo[1,2-a]pyrazoles 3,a reaction known as "criss-cross" cycloaddition.


AbstractThis essay examines the role of Hareton Earnshaw as pivotal to the structure of the novel. Through his resemblance to Catherine and his adoption by Heathcliff he symbolically becomes their 'son', and unites the characters at the very end of the book. The network of resemblance and echoing reinforces the impact of the figure of Hareton on the other characters, even though he tends to be overlooked as a minor character.


A definition is given for the spin-tensorial components of a p-electron density matrix for arbitrary p. Certain of these are defined to be standard components, and it is shown that all others can be obtained from them by linear combinations of permutations. When the density matrix is reduced, the standard components either map into standard components of the fewer-electron density matrix or into the origin. One- and two-electron density matrices are treated in greater detail. Reducing bases are given for the spaces in which the spatial coefficients of the spin components are elements. For spin eigenstates traces of all components are determined, and the π = 1 parts of all components are determined in terms of two independent components, which are themselves determined by the two-electron charge density matrix. Geometric consequences are investigated.


ABSTRACT Although social justice is an overarching goal of most every department of teacher education, college of education, and US College or University, it is rarely an identified goal for K–12 schools. We contend that the field of social studies education also substantively focuses on social justice, and as such, this article clarifies the ways in which classrooms can provide a social justice education. In particular, we explore the role of dispositions, reflective thinking, and controversial issues, and the ways in which they position students to understand, confront, and undermine social injustices. Finally, we provide specific curricular ideas and points of departure for middle school and high school social studies teachers to operationalize social justice education within their classes.


Objective: To undertake a census of the healthfulness of food venues providing lunch or dinner meals in a rural Australian setting and compare healthfulness by remoteness, using two measurement tools.


Homogeneous wireless network function is based on the horizontal handover between similar wireless technology. Heterogeneous network is formed amongst differing wireless technologies by using the vertical handover scenario. Coexistence between the different wireless standard are based on the interference reduction, access transfer and packet rate arbitration. The reduction in interference technique allows the coexistence of two diverse wireless standards, based on the deterministic and adaptive interference reduction mechanism. In our paper we implemented Normalized Least Mean Square (NLMS) adaptive filter algorithm for excision of the unwanted wideband Wi-Fi signal from the narrowband Bluetooth signal.


Th e article discusses proposals for the inclusion of an assessment based on the provisions of the national standards of the Russian Federation on the formation of a business continuity management system in order to prevent threats of business termination and their leveling in the methodology of assessing the continuity of an audited entity by an external auditor.


This paper reviews the results of force-on-force simulations regarding the military effectiveness of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs). The simulations include both defensive and offensive uses of unarmed and armed UGVs and other systems in situations ranging from an infantry squad assault to a heavy division minus attack in a variety of terrain. The analysis shows that the UGV's can be expended to directly and indirectly save lives. A UGV's method of employment, physical form and agility matters, with UGVs unable to outpace an approaching enemy shown to be less effective than one that remains stationary. Robotic subsystems, such as, weight bearing exoskeletons and other systems that retain open-loop control are considered to have some potential. Asymmetric countermeasures against fully autonomous robotic weapon systems are likely to render such systems as being operationally irrelevant in the land environment.


Summary Following in vivo treatment of rats with a nonlethal dose of cycloheximide (2 mg/kg body wt), analysis of the newly synthesized liver mitochondrial polypeptides by SDS-PAGE system showed: (i) sublethal levels of cycloheximide did transiently suppress synthesis and/or incorporation of large cytoplasmically synthesized proteins into mitochondria; (ii) synthesis and/or incorporation of this material was stimulated during the recovery phase. The differential labeling patterns of these mitochondrial proteins observed in vivo during cycloheximide treatment substantiate the cooperative nature of the cytoribosomal protein synthetic system to the formation of functional mitochondrion observed with mammalian cells in culture. Fig. 3. Radioactivity profiles of soluble proteins extracted with acidic buffers from control and cycloheximidetreated (2 and 24 hr) mitochondria. For details see the legends to Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4. Radioactivity profiles of soluble proteins extracted with alkaline buffers from control and cycloheximide-treated (2 and 24 hr) mitochondria. For details see the legends to Figs. 1 and 2.


Why did homebuilding recover so slowly after the Great Recession? Burcu Eyigungor examines some unusual supply and demand factors during the boom and bust and explores why home construction is so important to economic recoveries.


Scroll and ink are organic materials, consisting mainly of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. However, in addition to these main elements a variety of contaminants are found. Their kind, type and quantity depend on the details of the preparation process and storage conditions. For example, minerals dissolved in the water used for preparation of the scroll material and inks are a source of a specific contamination that would normally be distributed evenly throughout


There was a great chance in the rise of Weizhou who was help by the special political situation.The special geographical advantage,the political and economic pattern and the opening of the Grand Canal,all the above three had provided a guarantee for its prosperity rapidly.After long-term development,with the change of national political,economic and military situation,Daming inevitably fell into decline.


The relationship between heaven and people is an important question in ancient Chinese political ethical thought.In order to show the validity of Zhou replacing Shang Dynasty,came the notion of "Heaven is partial to no one,but helps those who are virtuous",on which basis Zhou Dan proposed the important idea "Match Heaven with Virtue",initiating the transition from theocracy to virtue politics.With the collapse of slavery during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods,the royal authority lost its former influence.With a rise of humanity,and the idea of "Match Heaven with Virtue",was gradually developed into "people-oriented" systematic political idea by the masters of the period,rendering the Chinese political culture people-oriented.The study of pre-Qin political ethics is undoubtedly significant for the construction of socialist civilization.


A current comparator bridge, suitable for the comparison of four terminal-pair impedance standards in the audio frequency range at 1:1 and 10:1 nominal ratios is here presented. The bridge is digitally-assisted: its accuracy is granted by electromagnetic devices, but voltages and current required to reach principal and auxiliary equilibria are given by a polyphase direct-digital-synthesis generator. The measurement is semi-automated and equilibrium can be achieved in a few minutes. Measurements performed on calculable resistors give a base accuracy of a few parts in 107, with the potential for further improvements.


Research has been carried out on the design of a light intensity regulator with a remote control on incandescent lamps. This study aims to design and manufacture a light intensity controller that can be controlled remotely. This research uses Infrared Light Emitting Diode (LED) as transmitter and phototransistor module as receiver. The results of this study indicate that the tool that has been successfully designed and made can function up to a distance of 300 cm.


My Own Fortune is a popular folktale which is widely observed and documented throughout the Korean Peninsula before the division. The tale continues to be told from generations to generations in South Korea. A resembling tale can be found in The Collection of Chosun Folktales under the title Father and the Three Daughters. This tale's format very closely resembles that of My Own Fortune, hence making it a valuable material when comparing tales in South and North Korea. My Own Fortune and Father and the Three Daughters both begin with a very similar narrative. The father in both tales asks a question "On whose fortune do you live well?" wishing to confirm that his daughters love him and respect his authority as the leader of the family. The two stories begin to differ as his third and the youngest daughter in each story answers his question identically but with different intentions. From this point in the story the two tales diverge. My Own Fortune is a story of an independent woman standing alone from her parents and building her own success, whereas Father and the Three Daughters is about a very filial woman achieving her dream when her father eventually acknowledges her love of the Parent. North Korea's Father and the Three Daughters focus on the value of family and offspring's filial duty. In contrast, My Own Fortune depicts an independent woman. Despite the difference, the two tales follow same story format, as Father and the Three Daughters adopted the format of My Own Fortune, which is one of the * This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (MEST). (NRF–2009–361–A0008) ** email@example.com Received June 30, 2016; Revised version received July 31, 2016; Accepted August 15, 2016 S/N Korean Humanities, Volume 2 Issue 2 (September 2016) pp.37~54∣ISSN 2384-0668 / E-ISSN 2384-0692 http://dx.doi.org/10.17783/IHU.2016.2.2.37 c 2016 IHU Featured Articles: North-South Communication and Integration 38 S/N Korean Humanities, Volume 2 Issue 2 traditional folk tale formats in Korea. North Korea regime probably did adopt the format of My Own Fortune for Father and the Three Daughters because inhabitants in the Korean Peninsula have long enjoyed the stories of the like of My Own Fortune. For the regime to utilize Father and the Three Daughters as means to reform people, the regime would probably have thought that adopting popular and widely accepted stories would be more beneficial. It is probable that Father and the Three Daughters is derived from My Own Fortune, the story generally enjoyed by Koreans before the division. Findings of common folktales culture in South and North Korea, despite the two nations' long separation, suggest that literary communication between the countries, based on common grounds, is possible. But for such communication to happen, understanding of both the common and the different must be preceded. Communication can be defined as the steps of admitting and attempting to understand the difference between the parties. It is because changeability of the relationship based on differences may be the most accurate solution to soften current relationship of two Koreas which is solidifying its exclusivity and hostility. The author wishes that his analysis of My Own Fortune and Father and the Three Daughters to be a humble work to contribute to such communication that embraces both the common and the different.


Realism of a Virtual Reality simulation can be improved by use of physical objects tracked in real time. The paper presents possibility of using low-cost FDM process, realized by MakerBot Replicator 2X machine, in comparison with a professional one to build tooling for a simulation of ultrasound examination procedure. The objects were manufactured on two different machines out of ABS material, 3D scanned for accuracy testing and finally possibilities of their use in a VR system were evaluated.


This paper discusses about rich Internet applications and supporting technology, such as JavaScript and Flash. RIAs can offer an interactive experience closer to that of a desktop application.


In modern conditions, classical approaches to urbanization need to be supplemented. The concept of rural agglomerations based on the development of inter-territorial cooperation of local governments arose. The question about new criteria for the formation of agglomerations was raised. The concept of actual urban settlements, which involves taking into account the modern characteristics of environmental processes is proposed. The territorial base is the southern part of the Republic of Karelia.


Unusually high levels of epidermal and liver cancer have been observed in brown bullhead catfish taken from a river in an industrialized area in Ohio. Four chemical class fractions isolated from a sediment extract in this area were analyzed by capillary column gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and tested for mutagenicity in the Ames assay and for induction of unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS) in primary rat hepatocytes. Significant UDS was detected in two of these fractions, which contained high levels of polycyclic aromatic compounds (PAC). Furthermore, all of the weight-normalized UDS of the total crude extract was found to be in these two fractions. These results indicate that the PAC-containing fractions account for most of the genotoxic activity observed in this polluted river sediment extract. Furthermore, their data indicate that UDS was a more sensitive indicator of genotoxicity than the Ames assay.


Several Lewis acid ionic liquids (LAILs) with different acidic scales were synthesised and used as catalysts for the synthesis of benzofuranol by condensation of pyrocatechol and 3-chloro-2-methylpropene in one pot. The catalytic activity of these ionic liquids was correlated with their Lewis acidity. Low to moderate conversion with excellent selectivity to benzofuranol was obtained in the presence of the appropriate LAILs. Compared to the two-step synthetic method currently used in industry, a higher yield plateau (81.1%) of benzofuranol was achieved in the presence of [BMIm][AlCl4] IL as catalyst at 418 K after 4 h. Furthermore, the catalyst is readily separated from the resultant products via decantation and could be reused after treatment in vacuum.


This technical report provides a specific example of running VenusCAM at the Livermore Computing facility. General information about Livermore Computing may be found at http://computing.llnl.gov.


Purpose: We describe our technique for laparoscopic appendectomy via a single umbilical incision (one-port method). Patients and Methods: One hundred children with acute appendicitis were operated on using this method. Two, both of whom had pelvic abscesses, required conversion to open appendectomy. Results: There were neither immediate nor late complications. The operating time was 15 to 130 minutes, with an average of 45 minutes. The histologic findings were appendicitis of the catarrhal type in 12 cases, of the phlegmonous type in 42, and of the gangrenous type in 46. Twenty-six cases were associated with pelvic abscesses. The patients were discharged within 2 to 17 days. The umbilical incision was invisible at 3 months. Conclusions: The key point of this technique is that the abdominal lift must be released and the abdomen deflated before the appendix is delivered through the umbilical incision, because the abdominal cavity is deep. Without release of the Laparolift, delivery of the appendix is diffic...


Gender differences are ubiquitous in the social psychological literature as there is an intense belief that men and women differ in most behaviour. The assumption is that the difference is either essential (biological differences) or learned (social differences) and can interact to produce the differences we see today. However, even with researchers' interest in revealing gender differences, studies have been conducted rather atheoretically and sometimes produce inconsistent results. The present thesis addresses prejudice an area of social behaviour proposed by some researchers to be gendered in nature but currently lacking in systematic review and empirical studies. The present thesis will examine multiple theories for gender differences in prejudice with a meta-analysis and three lab studies assessing the biological and social components to any effect. At first glance, there appears to be consistent evidence of gender differences. For example, women have reported more favourable attitudes than men on social issues such as desegregated neighbourhoods and funding for public schools (Hughes & Tuch, 2003). In comparison, surveys have found that men reported higher levels of xenophobia, endorsement of White superiority, and racism compared to women (Ekehammar & Sidanius, 1982; Sidanius, Ekehammar, & Ross, 1979). However, meta-analyses have demonstrated that gender effects can vary across different operational definitions of prejudice (Hughes & Tuch, 2003) and that overall there is more evidence for gender similarities than differences (Hyde, 1984). This thesis therefore begins with the report of a meta-analysis (Study 1) that provides a comprehensive review of the literature assessing whether gender differences exist in the psychological literature of prejudice. The meta-analysis covered over 50 years of research and included 772 datasets. Across all studies, a small effect (r = .101) of gender was found, with men demonstrating more prejudice than women. The size of this effect, however, was moderated by several variables, including the measure of prejudice, social category of the outgroup, and gender of the target. My analyses also uncovered no instance where women demonstrated more prejudice than men. The results demonstrate that prejudice is somewhat influenced by gender but the small effect size indicates that other variables may play a larger role. Informed by the results of this meta-analysis, the following studies were designed to understand the underlying mechanisms of this gendered phenomenon. Study 2 investigated whether the effect can be explained from a biological perspective, specifically hormonal differences. The study tested basal levels of testosterone, measured via a saliva sample, and its interaction with cortisol to also assess a dual hormones hypothesis. In addition, I examined the role of prenatal testosterone exposure through the measurement of digit ratio (2D:4D) and facial width to height ratio (fWHR). Results revealed no significant association between gender, testosterone, cortisol, or fWHR to prejudice. I did find that women with higher 2D:4D ratios demonstrated greater negative


Obesity, a chronic disorder, which carries significant health and economic costs, is strongly associated with an adverse dyslipidemic profile and an increased risk of coronary artery disease. Unprocessed plant products which are rich in fibre have been reported to have beneficial physiological roles on energy metabolism. Hence, the influence of some fibre-rich diets on' lipid metabolism was investigated in' Monosodium Glutamate (M G)- induced experimental obesity in rats. Obese rats were fed diets containing 30% of Acha, Carri, Maize and Plantain while monitoring their obesity parameter (Lee index). The rats were sacrificed after five weeks of treatment and the lipid profile of plasma, erythrocytes, brain, kidney, heart and spleen as well as the activity of hepatic 3-hydroxyl-3-meth) Iglutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) reeducates activity were measured using spectrophotometric methods, The final Lee index values were 0.29±0.02, 0.33±0.03, OJO±O.03, OJI±O.03, .31±O.03 and 0.29±O.04 for Normal, MSG, Acha, Carri, Maize and Plantain respectively, indicating that the diets were able to significantly reduce (p<b.05) the MSG-induced obesity in the rats. Obesity associated increase in plasma and erythrocytes lipid levels was reversed by these diets which was indicated by over 50% decrease in Atherogenic Index and Coronary Risk Index in the obese rats. The increased activity of hepatic HMG-CoA reductase associated with obesity was also significantly reduced (p<0.05) by the high fiber diets. HMG-CoA reductase activity of the rats fed these diets was between 1.1 and 4.5 times lower when compared with the obese rats not fed the diets. However, MSG-induced obesity resulted in a significant increase (p<0.05) in bepatic cholesterol level which was reversed by the fibre-rich diets. Among the organs, MSG-obesity was characterized with a significant (p<0.05) increase in cholesterol, triacylglycerol and phospholipids in brain and kidney and this was reversed by the fibre-rich diets except maize which did not reverse the increased cholesterol level, and plantain which did not reverse that of phospholipids in the brain Only Acha reversed the increase (p<0.05) in heart cholesterol and phospholipids characterizing MSGobesity. Thus, the fibre-containing diets were effective in reversing the hyperlipidemia associated with MSG-induced obesity.


Copyright: © 2016 Kolawole AK. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Plants are indispensable components of the ecosystem in which human beings have been living since their origin in the wild. For thousand years, human beings' understanding of plants and usage of plant resources are mainly based on their knowledge of morphological and anatomical features of plants. Managing the knowledge pool of these features and thus organizing plants in a hierarchical system are a major task for plant systematics. However, achieving such a goal is never easy. Like all other organisms, plants and the groups to which they belong to are dynamic and rarely static, and they have their own origins and have been undergoing continuous evolution. The same can be said of their features. To understand plants correctly, the morphological and anatomical features have to be appreciated in certain evolutionary context. At least sometimes correct context has significant influence on feature interpretating. Botanists actually have been reiterating a cycle of research, namely, studying features of plants using these features to construct the system re-evaluating the features again in the refined system. This is how the current status of plant morphology, anatomy, and systematics is reached.


With the promulgation of the Sudanese Civil Transactions Act, 1984, in February, 1984, the Republic of the Sudan joined several other Arab countries (e.g. Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Libya) which have codified major areas of their non-criminal law. The Sudan's previous attempt at such codification was short-lived: the Civil Code, 1971 was repealed in 1973. Although many sectors of the Sudanese legal establishment have been critical of the 1984 legislation, because of questions regarding the quality of the draftsmanship and the absence of its circulation for comment prior to promulgation, it remains the most comprehensive single piece of legislation since the 1971 Civil Code, covering such topics as contract, sales, tort, gift, insurance, bailment and property, both real and personal. This article will survey all current Sudanese legislation affecting real property, including, most importantly, the Civil Transactions Act, 1984. Because there are more than twenty-five separate legislative acts in the Sudan relating to land, comprising more than six hundred relevant sections, the discussion herein must of necessity be to highlight the major divisions of the current land law, pointing out its distinctive features and those areas in which it appears that conflicts exist as between the various pieces of legislation. The Civil Transactions Act, 1984 (hereinafter sometimes referred to as "C.T.A."), was promulgated on 14 February, 1984, and took effect on that date. It comprises some 95 chapters with 819 separate sections, more than one-third of which deal with matters relating to land.


Almost every country in Europe is tackling today with the huge challenges of ageing society and ageing population. Year 2012 European union was launched the theme active ageing and the Program for Active and Healthy Ageing was published as "The European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations 2012" [1]. From the point of view elderly people as senior citizens there is still a need for supporting elderly people ́s health and wellbeing through the development of the new health and wellbeing technology, eHealth and especially through new digital services [2. The digitalization is spreading rapidly reflecting on all levels of the society and especially people ́s everyday life. The elderly people as users, clients or patients in the field of health care and social welfare should be taken actively along when technological products and new digital services are developed. There is a challenge to develop technology and digital services that enhance and make possible to be generated a new ecosystem in health care and social welfare context to respond the needs and expectations of the elderly people living independently at their own homes. Cities or municipalities, companies, academic institutions, and professionals from public and private healthcare and social welfare field and e.g. elderly people as endusers should cooperate for co creating better user-driven and age friendly technology and services. The purpose of the article is to describe how elderly people can be involved as active participants when new health and wellbeing technology are taken in use in health care and social welfare field. The research focus is on action research (AR) as the methodological background. Through the user-driven methods during the cocreation process the elderly people are committed in developing and using the technology, technological products and digital services. The article is based on a case study called the mHealth Booster research, development and innovation (RDI) project as the example. The aim of the mHealth Booster project was to design and produce new development environments as interactive and participative test and demonstration environments for and with the elderly people and professionals from the cities of Espoo and Vantaa in Finland. The development environments are physical spaces where different health and wellbeing technology, products and services were tested and developed together with the elderly people, the professionals, and the companies. In the mHealth booster project elderly people and professionals were in an active role in the cocreation and development process. The voice of the participants is crucial in empowering the eldelry people in their own life and in empowering professionals in developeing their own work. In the presentation the findings of the mHealth Booster project will be described based on the phases of the action research and the role and engagement of the elderly people will be shown thorugh the case study.


Carbon disulphide (CS2) is a contaminant of concern at a significant number of US EPA Superfund sites, and is found at an increasing number of contaminated land and groundwater sites. The risk assessment and remediation Of CS2 therefore requires a wider appreciation for the potential occurrences and what remediation options are available when identified as a contaminant of concern. This paper reviews the sources, risks and remediation options that are currently known for CS2 contaminated soil and groundwater.


Maximal frequent itemsets are one of sevelral condensed representations of frequent itemsets, which store most of the information contained in frequent itemsets using less space. This paper proposes an efficient implementation of maximal frequent itemset mining MG utilizing graphics processing units. Our method employs a single-instruction-multiple-data architecture to accelerate the mining speed with using a bitmap data structure of frequent itemsets. Our experimental results show that our algorithm is effective and efficient.


Abstract Three new species of Atla are described from calcareous rocks in northern Finland based on morphology and ITS sequences. All new species have dark brown spores but have smaller perithecia and spores than previously known brown-spored species of Atla. Atla tibelliorum sp. nov. resembles Sporodictyon arcticum, but has a dark brown exciple and larger spores. Atla oulankaensis sp. nov. and A. vitikainenii sp. nov. differ from A. alpina in the smaller perithecia and spores. Atla vitikainenii has an involucrellum often slightly diverging from the exciple. Atla oulankaensis is similar to A. vitikainenii, differing in slightly narrower spores and in having some involucrella incurving under the exciple or even enveloping the exciple. An unidentified ITS sequence from Canada obtained from GenBank most probably belongs to A. oulankaensis and another unidentified sequence from the USA to A. tibelliorum. The new results strengthen the conclusion that the genera of Atla and Sporodictyon cannot be separated by morphology alone. A key to all known species of Atla and Sporodictyon is provided.


To have effective treatment for shoulder arm pain, we searched the cause, symptom, etiology, classification of the pain areas, acupuncture points, and muscles along the meridians, and acquired the following results. Shoulder-pain is mainly divided into the malfunction of viscera and entrails, damage due to the weakness of essence and qi, abnormal status of muscle function, change of joints, disease in the nerve and vessel, and the internal injury due to seven modes of emotions. Pain of shoulder joints are pain in the local area of shoulder joints, referred pain of shoulder, neck, and shoulder-arm, numbnes and swelling of muscle, and muslce weakness. Shoulder-arm pain is classified as four types of pain: shoulder-joint pain, shoulder-back pain, shoulder-chest pain, and shoulder-arm-elbow pain. And shoulder-arm-elbow pain is again divided into the shoulder-blade pain, shoulder-arm pain, shoulder-elbow pain. The related meridians on shoulder pain are the three yin meridians of hand, Kidney Meridian, Conception Meridian, three yang meridians of hand, Bladder Meridian, Governor Meridian Acupuncture points for shoulder pain are in the acupuncture points of the 10 meridians and a-shi points. Thre related meridian muscles on shoulder-pain are the three yin and yang meridians of hand, and their related muscles are the ones that are connected with the front, back, and chest side muscles of shoulder joints, and the ones that are connected with the front and back side muscles of arm.


To speak about Nineveh from the perspective of the archives of Mari may seem rash: the Middle Euphrates is a long way from the banks of the Tigris. Yet the importance of Nineveh and its shrine was such that several texts found at Mari mention it as what must then have been a religious metropolis. During the period when Mari was under the dominion of Samsî-Addu, his son, Yasmah-Addu, sat on its throne. He was primarily responsible for affairs in the west, but personally participated in the military campaign marked by the fall of Nineveh and received numerous letters informing him of military events related to this event. Even after the conquest of Mari, when Yasmah-Addu had left the area, news of Nineveh and its surroundings went on arriving at the capital of the Middle Euphrates and continued to do so more sporadically in the era of Zimrî-Lîm. I would like first to present the data relevant to the geography and toponymy of the kingdom of Nurrugûm, to which Nineveh belonged at that time, and then to reconstruct the campaign that led to the fall of Nineveh and the complete annexation of the kingdom. I will end with some remarks on the famous commemorative inscription placed by Samsî-Addu in the temple Emenue at Nineveh.


Recent studies have identified unique small ribonucleic acids called microRNAs (miRNAs) in colonic tumour tissue and blood that may accurately diagnose the presence of colorectal cancer and help predict disease recurrence. This review explores the potential role of these biomarkers.


The study of the effects of dam's parity, dam's age, dam's conception weight and
dam's gestation period on litter size was carried out for five months using eighteen
breeding does and two bucks of rabbits respectively. Dam's parity, dam's age, dam's
conception weight and gestation period did not significantly (P>O.05) influence litter size
but variation existed, which revealed that litter size increased with dam's parity and age
up to first parity and eight months respectively before declining. Therefore, it appears
that does with zero and first parity could produce larger litter size.


Cobalt dejiciency and appetite in lambs 23 5 deficiency. Moreover, since a cobalt supplement did not enhance live-weight gains at the level of food intake of the cobalt-deficient lambs, the increase in live weight that occurred when lambs on an unrestricted cobalt-deficient diet received a cobalt supplement must have been due to an increased consumption of food, that is, to an increase in the appetite of the lambs. 4. The bearing of this finding on the physiological role of cobalt in ruminants is briefly discussed.


Various kinds of techniques and know-how for low temperature X-ray experiments are described. Particular emphasis was placed upon a low temperature X-ray photograph apparatus.


5 ES P E Poster presented at: Introduction •Emerging data suggest that ambulatory blood pressure monitoring for 24 hours may be efficient in the diagnosis of hypertension in adults, children and adolescents. Additionally, in adults, it may predict the existence of some early blood pressure abnormalities related to cardiovascular risk: (1) Elevated BP load (>25%) (2) Non-dipping (BP decrease in night-time <10%). EARLY BLOOD PRESSURE ABNORMALITIES RELATED TO CARDIOVASCULAR RISK IN OBESE CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS Authors: G. Herráiz 1, M.P. Samper 1, L. Moreno 2, R. Leis 3, C. Aguilera 4, A. Gil 4, M. Gil-Campos5, J.M. Garagorri 1, M.G. Bueno 1


3.0~6.3 wt% 2.6~10.2 wt% 4.0(Gd rod)+6.5 wt % 4.8~12.2 wt% UO2 MOX This paper summarizes the benchmark activity conducted by "the Working Party (WP) on Reactor Physics for LWR next generation fuels," which was organized in 1999 under the Research Committee on Reactor Physics by Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) as a joint activity with Atomic Energy Society of Japan (AESJ). The next generation fuels mean the ones aiming at further extended burn-up such as 70GWd/t over the current design. To investigate the calculation accuracy of the nuclear characteristics of LWR next generation fuels, the WP has performed the following activities: Proposal of the benchmark problem, Collection of the benchmark problem solutions, Comparisons of the solutions and their analyses. Figure 1. The brief benchmark calculation models The paper describes each part briefly and gives some concluding remarks. The details can be found in the papers or the reports [1-7] published by the WP members, as well as on the WP website served by JAERI [8].


The growth of gold nanoparticles on $\mathrm{Ti}{\mathrm{O}}_{2}(110)$ was investigated in situ by grazing incidence x-ray scattering techniques. The in-plane diffraction showed complex epitaxial relationships with a preferential alignment of dense gold direction along the bridging oxygen rows of $\mathrm{Ti}{\mathrm{O}}_{2}(110)$ $({[1\overline{1}0]}_{\mathrm{Au}}\ensuremath{\Vert}{[001]}_{\mathrm{Ti}{\mathrm{O}}_{2}})$ with a low lattice mismatch. Whatever the growth temperature $(T=300,600\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{K})$, two nearly equiproportional epitaxial planes, i.e., ${(111)}_{\mathrm{Au}}\ensuremath{\Vert}{(110)}_{\mathrm{Ti}{\mathrm{O}}_{2}}$ and ${(11\overline{2})}_{\mathrm{Au}}\ensuremath{\Vert}{(110)}_{\mathrm{Ti}{\mathrm{O}}_{2}}$, were observed. The small angle scattering from the nanoparticles was analyzed using a truncated sphere shape with models [R. Lazzari, F. Leroy, and G. Renaud, Phys. Rev. B 76, 125411 (2007)] that account for (i) multiple scattering effects due to the graded profile of refraction index in the normal direction and (ii) the correlation between the particle spacing and sizes. At the beginning of the growth, gold particles are pinned on defects and grow through a diffusion-limited mechanism. However, coalescence does not occur via a static mechanism. It rather involves surface diffusion of clusters. It proceeds through a self-similar mechanism, not only on the size distribution but also on the spatial ordering. Particle locations, which are no longer controlled by the randomness of nucleation centers, become dominated by the correlation between the particle size and its influence area. A strong link between island height and radius indicates that particles are close to equilibrium. Indeed, the value derived for contact angle (adhesion energy) compares well with tabulated data. In addition, the cluster size before the onset of coalescence compares with that of the gold particles at the maximum of catalytic activity for the oxidation of CO.


In view of problems of large installed capacity,high power consumption and characteristics of stage in freezing construction method,a frequency-conversion energy-saving system based on PLC was designed based on analyzing mechanical properties of screw brine units of freezing system under different working conditions and power consumption in various frozen phases.The system takes PLC as control core,makes information feedback of system condition by use of pressure sensor and liquid level gauge,and uses PID algorithm to control frequency output of frequency converter so as to regulate flow of salt water pump and control amount of cooling.The feasibility and high efficiency of application of the system in shaft construction was proved by experimental data.


Hundreds of papers have investigated how incentives and policies affect hours worked in the market. This paper examines how income taxes affect time allocation in the other two-thirds of the day. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1975 to 2004, we analyze the response of single women's housework, labor supply, and other time to variation in tax and transfer schedules across income levels, number of children, states, and time. We find that when the economic reward to participating in the labor force increases, hours worked increase and housework decreases, with the decrease in housework accounting for roughly three-quarters of the increase in market work. Analysis of repeated cross-sections of time diary data from 1975 to 2004 shows similar results, with various measures of "home production" accounting for at least half of the increase in market hours of work in response to policy changes. Data on expenditures from the Consumer Expenditure Survey from 1980-2003 show some evidence that expenditures on market goods likely to substitute for housework increase in response to an increased incentive to join the labor force. The results are consistent with the classic time allocation model of Becker (1965). * We thank Raj Chetty, David Cutler, Lawrence Katz, Claudia Olivetti, Dan Sacks, Todd Sinai, Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers, and numerous seminar participants for suggestions. We are grateful to Adam Looney, Bruce Meyer, and Mel Stephens for generously sharing data. We are also grateful to Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst for making their data and code available on the web. Dan Sacks provided outstanding research assistance. Gelber acknowledges financial support from the National Institute on Aging, Grant Number T32-AG00186. All errors are our own. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.


Software vulnerability localization is of great importance for vulnerability analysis as the basic step of vulnerability exploitation and vulnerability fix up. By viewing large-scale software as a complex network system, we present a new method of vulnerability localization. The software structure is depicted by system-level features of complex network. In this way, we generate structural signatures of the original and patched software respectively. By comparing the structural signatures and splitting the connexity group recursively, the vulnerability location can be localized. To speed up the comparison, backtracking is taken during the recursion. Results of the experiments show the effective localization capability of this method.


The
 results of measurements of the Henry's law constant near infinite dilution are reported for solutions
 of H2 in H2O and D2 in D2O at high temperatures (170∽300°C). The experimental procedure involved the use
 of a palladium/hydrogen (or deuterium) electrical resistance sensor. Values of KH∞ for H2–H2O solutions agree
 closely with published data. Values of KH∞
 for D2–D2O solutions are lower than those for H2–H2O solutions.
 With increasing concentrations of H2 in H2O and
 D2
 in D2O the Henry's
 law coefficients
 decrease. This is attributed to non-ideality in the gas phase.


It is the purpose of these notes to give an account of some recent work on the structure of local algebras appearing in the algebraic formulation of relativistic quantum physics. (For a review of this subject up to 1980 cf. [I~ .) There has been considerable progress on this problem in the last few years, both from the mathematical and the physical side, and one may say that we have reached now a satisfactory understanding of the properties of these algebras in generic cases. Let me begin by recalling the general postulates of algebraic quantum field theory. The basic input in this setting is the assumption that one is given a mapping (a


Eighteen cultivars and breeding lines of bell (Capsicum annum) and chile (C. frutescens) peppers from Costa Rica and Panama were tested for their reaction to Meloidogyne incognita. Many of these materials already have resistance or tolerance to bacterial wilt caused by Pseudomonas solanacearum and Xanthomonas spp. All materials tested were susceptible to the root-knot nematode. Gall indices and final nematode populations were high in the majority of the cases. However, the breeding lines P-63, P-66, and 10871 developed a significantly larger root mass with extensive ramification and smaller galls than the rest, suggesting that these materials might be tolerant. Additional evaluation under field condition and in bacteria infested soil is required.


This study proposes a method of measuring inter-vehicle relative position indirectly using overlap of sensor information of multi-vehicle. Numerous methods of measuring inter-vehicle relative position are premised on direct measuring of target objects. However, there are numerous dangerous situations such that side-by-side vehicles are unmeasurable at several lanes load, parking area and so on. In this paper, a proposed method of detecting inter-vehicle relative position indirectly using overlap of sensor information of multi-vehicle is explained; Side-by-Side driving control and Side-by-Side collision avoidance control by proposed method are mentioned; and, the validations of experiments using electric light vehicles are reported.


This project implements previously developed techniques for guiding and monitoring thermal HIFU therapy using imaging arrays with a spherically shaped therapeutic array for dual-mode operation. Three-dimensional motion tracking, thermal strain measurement, and radiation force rebound measurement within the HIFU steering volume are performed using only the therapy array. The techniques have typically been studied for conventional ultrasound imaging using linear, curvilinear, or phased arrays which are usually placed coaxially in the center of the HIFU array. While the dual-mode approach does not provide the image quality and wide field of view of an imaging array, the perfect co-registration of the therapy array, and its 3D view of the region of interest present a valuable opportunity for ultrasound-guided focused ultrasound (USgFUS) therapy systems. A family of Sonic Concepts broadband spherically-focused HIFU array transducers, driven with the Verasonics HIFU-configured ultrasound system, is used to assess real-time performance of the dual-mode approach, in simulation and experiment. Simulations using the Verasonics acquisition software with a set of point scatterers produce the RF backscatter data used by the monitoring algorithms. The particles are displaced in time using motions that mimic the true or apparent displacements of tissue-like media either in translation, heated by a HIFU focus, or deformed by a radiation force beam. Preliminary experiments using a 128-element HIFU array and a scattering hydrogel phantom indicate that the simulations are effective for studying a range of tradeoffs in transducer design and therapy monitoring approaches.


Vegetative filter strips ( VFS ) as an effective best management practice for the control of some nonpoint source pollutants were studied. Field experiments, designed to investigate the transport of sediment, nitrogen, and phosphate from areas of confined livestock activity, as influenced by flow characteristics and filter strip length, were conducted. Results indicated that VFS are effective for the removal of sediment and other suspended solids contained in surface runoff from feedlots if runoff is shallow and uniform; effectiveness of VFS for sediment removal decreases with time as sediment accumulates within the filters; total nitrogen and phosphorus are not removed as effectively as sediment; and soluble nitrogen and phosphorus are not removed effectively. J. Water Pollut. Control Fed., 60, 1231 (1988).


We study the resource allocation schemes for device-to-device discovery, which is a key enabler for a wide range of mobile proximity services and safety related applications. The design goals are long-range, high energy efficiency, and resource-efficiency. In particular, we study the performance of device-centric and network-centric resource allocation schemes with different levels of network assistance in single and multi-cell environments by means of system level simulations. We also propose a novel location-based resource allocation scheme that achieves the best performance among all the evaluated schemes. The gain by the location-based scheme is large in single-cell environments, but it is rather limited in multi-cell environments where a simple uniform-random device-centric scheme is shown to perform well requiring only limited network assistance.


We are proposing to allow the users to audit the cloud storage with very lightweight and ease of communication and computation cost. The auditing which we are going through our research paper result not only ensures strong cloud storage accuracy guarantee, but it also simultaneously achieves fast data error localization, i.e., the identification of hacker information. And securely we are introducing an effective TPA, which is a auditing process which results in bringing in no new vulnerabilities towards user data privacy, and can introduce no additional online burden to user. In this paper, we are going to propose a secure cloud storage system which supports privacypreserving public auditing. We will further extend our result to enable the TPA to perform audits for various users certainly and efficiently. This shows the proposed scheme is highly efficient and data modification attack, and useful in even server colluding attacks.


The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of Multilevel Marketing on the sale of Serim Vitamin C Salisa. Cosmetics has become one of the human needs in general. One of the cosmetics companies that saw this opportunity and marketed its products in Indonesia, namely PT. Aura Cantik Indonesia. This type of research is quantitative research. The data validity test results obtained all items in question declared valid. Furthermore, Anova output above is known that the calculated F value = 744,645 with a significance of 0,000 <0.05 then the regression model can be used to predict Multi-Level Marketing (X) variables or in other words, there are the influence of Multi-Level Marketing (X) variables on Sales variables ( Y). Furthermore, the results of the Determination Coefficient Test, R Square of 88.5% which states that the variable Sales of Vitamin C Salisa (Y) Serum Products is influenced by the Multi-Level Marketing (X) influence variable, while the remaining 11.5% is influenced by other variables that are not in this study.


This article reports on a qualitative study of the learners' beliefs about effective foreign language teaching in an Iranian setting. A semi-structured interview covering several fundamental issues in foreign language (FL) pedagogy was conducted with 22 upper-intermediate Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Qualitative content analysis of the transcript data yielded several interesting and informative themes. Among the most prominent results of the study, mention can be made of learners' strong penchant for modern, learner-centered approaches to FL teaching such as communicative language teaching (CLT) and task-based language teaching (TBLT). Among the other notable themes were learners' endorsement of teachers' high proficiency and pedagogical knowledge, positive teacher personality, the integration of culture teaching in the classes, and sustaining learner interest and motivation. The results have implications for knowledge-based teacher education as well as for practicing and prospective FL teachers.


Abstract : The long-term goals of this study are to evaluate the role of high-concentration sediment suspensions (fluid mud) in sediment transport processes along muddy coastlines. This requires an understanding of the formation and dynamic behavior of fluid muds, as well as the effects on attenuation of surface waves as they approach the shoreline.


BACKGROUND
Several investigations have confirmed changes in lipid profiles and other markers (interleukin [IL]-6, C-reactive protein [CRP]) in women with pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH). Although, the cause an effect correlations between these lipid profiles and other markers with the PIH are yet unknown.

AIM
To study the relationship of serum lipid profile, CRP, and IL-6 with PIH.

METHOD
A cross-sectional study was done on 60 pregnant women with PIH treated in the General Salah Alden Hospital in Tikrit city, Iraq, from January 2021 to April 2021. Another group of 60 pregnant women who were normal, at the same period, were selected as the control group. The average age of the participants was (27.1 ± 5.0) years. All the blood samples taken were examined for lipid profile, CRP, and IL-6.

RESULTS
The results statistically showed significant differences in IL-6 level and CRP. Whereas, in the Lipid profile (triglyceride [TG], low density lipoprotein cholesterol [LDL-C], high density lipoprotein [HDL]-C, total cholesterol [TC], and very low density lipoprotein cholesterol [VLDL]) were found. Also, it was found that there were significant differences in PIH patients as compared to the control group.

CONCLUSION
The findings revealed that the lipid profile was aberrant, and the amount of IL-6 protein was positively linked with blood pressure.


We fabricated Ni and Ni-W alloys for use as substrates in YBCO coated conductor applications and evaluated the effects of the W addition on the texture, microstructure, and mechanical and magnetic properties of the substrate. Pure Ni and Ni-W (2, 3, and 5 at.%) alloys were prepared by plasma arc melting and then cold rolled and annealed in the temperature range of 600-1300/spl deg/C. The texture of the substrates was evaluated by pole-figure and orientation distribution function (ODF) analysis. The magnetic properties were also evaluated using the physical property measurement system (PPMS). It was observed that the Ni-W substrates had a stronger cube texture and a wider annealing temperature range in which the cube texture became stable than those of the pure Ni substrate. The full-width at half-maximums (FWHMs) of in-plane texture for the Ni-W substrate were 4.42/spl deg/-5.57/spl deg/ at an annealing temperature of 800/spl deg/C-1300/spl deg/C, while that of pure Ni was 9.5/spl deg/ at 800/spl deg/C. Therefore, it is considered that the addition of W enhances the formation of the cube texture and improves the texture stability at higher annealing temperatures. In addition, the Ni-W substrates had a smaller grain size and higher mechanical strength and hardness, as compared to those of the pure Ni substrate. These improvements are probably due to various strengthening mechanisms, such as solid solution hardening and/or grain size strengthening. PPMS analysis showed that the addition of W effectively reduced the saturation magnetization in an applied magnetic field, as well as the Curie temperature.


Three triangles are featured in recent analyses of the changing diplomacy centered on the Korean Peninsula. While Russia is taking the initiative in trying to shift the northern triangle, and Japan is trying a new approach straining the alliance triangle, China and South Korea are preparing for the long run as each keeps close watch on the United States within the triangle that matters most. The US strategy—misleadingly belittled as strategic patience—endorses South Korea's approach and welcomes China's increasing pressure on North Korea and priority for South Korea, but it is wary of China's primary objectives when a new stage will be reached with the potential to lead toward reunification. The focus has shifted from restarting the Six-Party Talks or deterring provocations by North Korea to maneuvering within triangles to shape the geopolitical environment when the North Korean leadership decides to move in one direction or another. While it appears that China is cooperating with South Korea for that transition, competitive approaches—especially in the role the other two seek for the United States in this process—lurk ominously in the background.


Hot briquetted iron (HBI), as also metallized pellets, undergo oxidation during transportation and storing. To forecast acceptable duration of HBI storing with metallurgical value retention it is important to have scientifically based data on the briquettes secondary oxidation speed. Methods of determining metallized pellets secondary oxidation speed are presented in domestic and foreign practice, but the matter of HBI secondary oxidation in scientific and technicalliterature practically is not covered. To determine HBI secondary oxidation speed two methods elaborated and tested at the Department of metallurgy and metal science of Stary Oskol Technological Institute after A.A. Ugarov (branch of National Research Technological University "MISiS"). The first– weighting method – based on determining of metal iron content change in HBI during a long term storing. During the experiment the mass of each briquette was weighted every 12 h within a month. The result of metal iron content determining by the experiment and by a chemical analysis had a difference of less than 1%. The weighting method enables to obtain the HBI reaction ability values without particular expenses, but requires carrying out long term enough experiments untilcomplete moisture removal out of the studied samples. The other method – determination of oxygen absorption speed bybriquettes in a closed vessel. It enables determining the reaction ability of the reduced iron within a comparatively short period, enables sufficient reliability duringthe briquettes testing. Based on it a methodology elaborated for determining of HBI secondary oxidation speed, meeting the requirements of real production. During loading-unloading operations, briquettes can partially go to ruin. The forming fragments of different sizes undergo a higher degree of oxidation that decreases the HBI metallurgical value. In view of this, studies of HBI oxidation speed continue depending on different sizes content and finalization of the methodology of determination of HBI secondary oxidation speed.


W N 1993, the New Zealand Ministry of Education adopted a 'curriculum frameI work' of seven key learning areas for primary and secondary schools. These jL .are: Science, Mathematics, I.anguages, Social Sciences, Technology, Health and Physical Wellbeing, the Arts. Documents setting out the essential learning in each area have been in preparation since that time. This discussion focuses on the 'core statement' for the Social Sceinces learning area, with special reference to criti cisms raised by the Auckland-based Education Forum. The first draft of the curriculum for Social Studies was published in 1994. Af ter considerable debate, much of it through the national media, a revised draft was issued in 1996. The statement appeared in its final form in 1997 under the title Social Studies in the New Zealand Curriculum. The Executive Committee of the Education Forum has about a dozen members (several from the manufacturing, commercial, and agricultural sectors along with a number of principals of private and state schools). The Forum contributes to de bate on educational policy in New Zealand, and sponsors publications for this pur pose. In relation to the Social Studies curriculum, it published a submission on the first and revised drafts (Education Forum, 1995, 1996), and issued a short media statement on the final version. Dr Geoffrey Partington contributed substantially to the two submissions. Professor Kenneth Minogue wrote a Foreword to the second. In die context of die 'curriculum framework', Social Studies is interpreted as an integrated approach to the social sciences and aspects of the humanities. Its main stated aim is to 'enable students to participate in a changing society as informed, confident, and responsible citizens' (Ministry of Education, 1997:8). To achieve diis aim, die Social Studies curriculum is designed to develop a broad understand ing of people in die New Zealand society and in die wider contexts of its place in die Pacific, Asia, and die world generally.


: Early childhood bilingualism, natural bilingualism, and multilingualism, which occurs more often than ever before, are widely discussed in the secondary literature. Bilingualism entails acquiring a new identity and induces a change in linguistic thinking. This article contributes to the studies concerning the methods and strategies that are undertaken by such families that either raise or aim at raising a bilingual child; moreover, it puts forward a case study of a boy who is 2 years and 9 months old. In the introduction, the essential issues of raising a bilingual child are presented with a special emphasis put on the parents' attitude towards bilingual education and their conviction of its underlying benefits for the boy. The empirical part of this article focuses on language proficiency and communication competences, and their assessment.


Our individualistic, consumeristic medical system pushes women to act as family health managers. As a result, women are generally more likely than men to follow expert medical recommendations for avoiding health risks. In the context of rampant misinformation, however, the pressure women face to control risks may lead them to disproportionately oppose some new efforts to promote public health. We investigate this possibility using a novel mixed-methods study examining gendered opposition to two school-based public health initiatives related to COVID-19. Nationally representative surveys of 1,946 parents reveal that mothers are significantly more likely than other parents to oppose school-required immunizations against COVID-19 and significantly more likely to report planning not to vaccinate their children. This opposition is particularly pronounced among white Republican/Republican-leaning mothers (54% opposed). Simultaneously, however, mothers are significantly less likely than other parents to oppose school mask mandates, with white Democrat/Democrat-leaning fathers being most opposed (45%). In-depth interviews with a socioeconomically, politically, and racially/ethnically diverse group of mothers (N=64) link these patterns to mothers' beliefs that they can control the risks of COVID-19 (including through use of masks) but not the risks of COVID-19 vaccines. Thus, we conclude that, in the context of rampant misinformation, gendered pressures lead mothers to disproportionately support initiatives they perceive as useful for controlling health risks and disproportionately oppose initiatives they perceive as introducing uncontrollable risks. Given high rates of parental opposition to COVID-related public health initiatives, we suggest that a consumeristic model of medicine, coupled with widespread misinformation, may lead to a crisis of confidence that undermines public health.


The remaining-useful-life (RUL) prediction of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is crucial challenge for electric vehicles (EVs) and energy storage systems (ESSs). The health indicator (HI)-based RUL prediction have been investigated with experimental, model-based, and data-driven method. Most of the research have been focused on only one domain such as time or frequency domain. However, LIBs are complex system that operates in time (current and voltage) and frequency (electrochemical process; charge transfer, diffusion) domain. In this paper, incremental capacity analysis (ICA), which can analyze electrochemical properties, was performed to improve the interpretation of the constant current charging voltage curve in the time domain. In addition, discrete wavelet transform (DWT) with 7 mother wavelet functions were performed to extract features for the failure prevision.


A sensor driven algorithm limiting ventricular pacing rate during supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is included in a dual chamber rate modulated pacemaker sensitive to acceleration forces (Relay, 294‐03, Intermedics Inc.). According to the intensity of concomitant exercise, the ventricular pacing rate is limited either to the programmed maximum pacing rate (MPR) or to an interim lower limit, called "conditional ventricular tracking limit" (CVTL). The MPR prevails over the CVTL when the sensor calculated pacing rate exceeds the minimal rate by more than 20 beats/mm. The purpose of the study is to determine the clinical safety and efficacy of this algorithm in patients with intermittent SVT. Method: a Relay was implanted in four patients with a bradycardia/tachycardia syndrome and in four patients with complete atrioventricular block (CAVB). All had episodes of paroxysmal atrial tachycardia. The units were programmed in DDDR: rate responsive parameters were adjusted by simulating the rate response during three levels of exercise to let the MPR override the CVTL only during strenuous exercise. Holter monitors and exercise testings were performed at 3‐month follow‐up. Results: in seven patients, Holter recordings showed Supraventricular arrhythmias at rest with a ventricular pacing rate limited to the CVTL. Appropriate rate increases during exercise testings were also demonstrated. Three devices had to be reprogrammed in DDIR tone patient suffering from nearly permanent atrial flutter and two patients not tolerating the CVTL pacing rate at rest). Conclusion: the CVTL algorithm is effective in protecting against high ventricular pacing rates during Supraventricular arrhythmias. It allows the selection of the DDDR mode even with a high MPR in patients with intermittent SVT.


Relationships outside of work impact employee effectiveness at work. But how do we explain this? Our study focuses on the guanxi relationship in China. This is based on close personal ties between supervisors and subordinates initiated outside the workplace. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, we develop a model that explains how supervisor–subordinate guanxi constitutes a social resource that spills over into the workplace and impacts subordinates' job resources (including autonomy, support and development at work), job crafting (proactive behaviors aimed at increasing resources and reducing demands) and job performance (task performance and organizational citizenship behavior). Our model was tested on a sample of 406 subordinates and their supervisors from seven manufacturing organizations in China. The results of a multilevel path analysis indicate that high-quality guanxi relations with supervisors facilitate subordinates' job resources, job crafting behaviors and organizational citizenship behavior at work. In addition, job resources mediate the relationship between supervisor–subordinate guanxi and job crafting, and job crafting mediates the relationship between supervisor–subordinate guanxi and subordinate task performance and organizational citizenship behavior. Overall, our research highlights the importance of externally-generated guanxi between subordinates and supervisors and the mechanisms that contribute to improving employee performance in the workplace.