Education plays a very important and significant ro le in the protection of rights not only the child rights but also the basic human rights which are universal in nature. A safe childhood is a human right. Across the world, children are denied their human rights. Childhood forms the foundation of human life. Children are particularly vulnerable and so they also have particular rights that recognize their special needs for prote ction. Child rights are considered to be one of those issue, in a world full of conflict and econom ic, social, intellectual and violent confrontations, on which we have achieved some cons ensus. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) firmly sets the focus on the whole chil d. Despite the existence of rights, children suffer from poverty, homelessness, abuse, neglect, preventable diseases and unequal access to education and justice systems that do not recognize their special needs. The main purpose of this paper is to throw light on the rights of children a nd discusses how the child rights are being violated irrespective of schools and homes both by educators and parents. Teachers and parents are becoming more conscious about education of thei r children. Almost all schools inflict corporal punishment on students for various reasons and most parents beat their children. In the name of discipline, children are physically ill-tre ated and humiliated. The present paper discusses the harms of corporal punishment to a chi ld and how it takes the shape of hatred, terror and fear in the nascent minds. Examination s tress, rising expectations from our children and students has led to increasing depression among students. This paper also focuses on the role of a teacher and parents as a leader, a torchb earer, a mentor or a guide with love, care and understanding of the child to provide best protecti on, opportunities and assistance in order to ensure them the best future.


Satellite edge computing has become a promising way to provide computing services for Internet of Things (IoT) users in remote areas, which are out of the coverage of terrestrial networks. Nevertheless, it is not suitable for large-scale IoT users due to the resource limitation of satellites. Cloud computing can provide sufficient available resources for IoT users, but it does not meet delay-sensitive services as high network latency. Satellite edge clouds can facilitate flexible service provisioning for numerous IoT users by incorporating the advantages of edge computing and cloud computing. In this paper, we investigate the dynamic resource allocation problem for virtual network function (VNF) placement in satellite edge clouds. The aim is to minimize the network bandwidth cost and the service end-to-end delay jointly. We formulate the VNF placement problem as an integer non-linear programming problem and then propose a distributed VNF placement (D-VNFP) algorithm to address it. The experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed D-VNFP algorithm, where Viterbi and Game theory are considered as the baseline algorithms. The results show that the proposed D-VNFP algorithm is effective and efficient for solving the VNF placement problem in satellite edge clouds.


By combining with the latest theoretical results of distribution voltage control for distribution network, a voltage control simulation system based on. NET platform of distribution network containing a large number of photovoltaic power sources is designed and developed, which provides supplementary analysis for planning decision-making of voltage control. The system is developed in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 platform integrated with the GIS plug-in component MapX. In the end, a modified IEEE33-69case is used to validate the feasibility of the proposed simulation system.


This paper investigates the hydroelastic responses of offshore floating solar photovoltaic farms (OFPVs). OFPVs usually occupy a large sea space in the order of hectares and structural deformation under wave action has to be taken into consideration due to their huge structural length-to-thickness ratio. The flexible deformation of the structure under hydrodynamic loading is termed the hydroelastic response. In the hydroelastic analysis of an OFPV, the diffraction and radiation of waves have to be taken into account to accurately represent the hydrodynamic loadings on the floating platform. In this study, the numerical model is first validated by comparing the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of an OFPV, obtained from the proposed numerical scheme, with their counterparts obtained from an established finite element software. This is followed by an investigation of the hydroelastic responses of various OFPVs designed in varying layout configurations. The various layout configurations are obtained by altering the floating modular units' dimensions as well as the spacing of the OFPVs when deployed adjacent to each other. The optimal configuration that gives the best performance in terms of the overall smallest response, known as compliance, is then suggested. The results suggest that a long-ish OFPV layout has a lower hydroelastic response and that the motion could be further reduced by rearranging the layout arrangement to increase the global flexural stiffness.


In spite of research over the past decades, robust, replicable, and clinically translatable markers to objectively diagnose psychiatric disorders are yet to be ascertained. Several factors such as biological heterogeneity (partly due to the complex genetic basis that is further compounded by environmental interactions), the potential mismatch between contemporary diagnostic criteria / clinical symptom scores and findings that emanate from cutting-edge neuroscience observations, and similar others have made the identification of biomarkers a daunting challenge. This challenge becomes much harder to solve in the context of disorders of childhood onset such as, autism spectrum disorders (ASD) especially because of the additional complexity of examining the developing brain.


Embodiments of the present invention provide the ability for a software provider to distribute software updates to several different recipients utilizing a peer-to-peer environment. The invention described herein may be used to update any type of software, including, but not limited to, operating software, programming software, anti-virus software, database software, etc. The use of a peer-to-peer environment with added security provides the ability to minimize download time for each peer and also reduce the amount of egress bandwidth that must be provided by the software provider to enable recipients (peers) to obtain the update.


Mother liquor compositions during the solar evaporation of marine bitterns have been compared with corresponding isothermal equilibria in the NaCl-KCl-MgCl2-MgSO4-H2O system. The compositions indicate that on solar evaporation of bitterns, potassium is deposited solely in the form of kainite, and that co-deposition of free sylvite and epsomite does not take place. It is also shown that during solar evaporation, the concentration of potassium is relatively low and that of magnesium relatively high, resulting in a more efficient precipitation of potassium in solar evaporation than in the forced or isothermal evaporation of sea water or of pure salts.


The optimization of maintenance schedules by predicting machine-health-information is a very obvious application domain for Machine Learning techniques. As part of an ongoing research project, we investigate the ability of Machine Learning to contribute to error prediction in noisy measurements using various preprocessing methods. We focus our efforts on drift-based error patterns and chose several well-established approaches from quality-assurance literature as potential preprocessors for three different Machine Learning methods. We compare the performance of these methods in predicting machine failures, using data based on realistic measurements taken from a supply line in an automotive factory. We further expose the tested methods to different levels of noise and evaluate the performance in detail for drift patterns of varying severity.


A pressure microsensing catheter for neonatal care has been developed to measure intravascular blood pressure. The design uses polymer flip-chip bonding on a flexible Kapton film for mounting silicon pressure microsensors into the 5 French dual lumen neonatal catheters (1.67 mm o.d.). While other groups have mounted MEMS sensors on guide wires, our dual-lumen approach permits one lumen of the catheter to contain a packaged pressure sensor while the other lumen retains the catheter functionality. The packaged sensors were characterized in nitrogen and water environments, both statically and dynamically.


The main purpose of this paper is to explore the intermediary role of policy incentives and marine technological innovation in marine high-end human capital promoting marine knowledge innovation. Previous studies on the impact of marine high-end human capital on marine knowledge innovation mainly focused on the direct impact of marine high-end human capital on marine knowledge innovation, while ignoring the role of intermediary variables. Based on 512 sample survey data from 138 organizations in 16 coastal cities of China, this paper uses structural equation model to examine the relationship between high-end human capital and policy incentives, technological innovation and marine knowledge innovation. The research shows that marine high-end human capital has an impact on marine knowledge innovation through policy incentives and marine technology innovation. Policy incentives and marine technology innovation play a full intermediary role in the relationship between marine high-end human capital and marine knowledge innovation.


This paper considers mismeasurement of the dependent variable in a general linear index model, which includes qualitative choice models, proportional and additive hazard models, and censored models as special cases. The monotone rank estimator of Cavanagh and Sherman [1998] is shown to be consistent in the presence of any mismeasurement process that obeys a simple stochastic-dominance condition. The emphasis is on measurement error which is independent of the covariates, but extensions to covariate-dependent measurement error are also discussed. We consider the proportional hazard duration model in detail and apply the estimator to mismeasured unemployment duration data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).


Abstract Objectives: To clarify the effect of combining medial capsule interposition with modified scarf osteotomy for hallux valgus. Methods: A multicenter, retrospective study included 64 cases [59 osteoarthritis patients (excluding rheumatoid arthritis); age 68.8 years, range 40–93 years] of modified scarf osteotomy which were performed from 2013 to 2017 and followed for 26.6 (range, 13–50) months. Patients were treated by either (1) without medial capsule interposition (33 cases) or (2) combined with interposition (31 cases) at each senior surgeon's discretion. The Japanese Society for Surgery of the Foot (JSSF) hallux metatarsophalangeal (MTP)-interphalangeal scale was evaluated along with radiographic parameters (hallux valgus angle [HVA], first and second metatarsals intermetatarsal angles, and Hardy grade). Results: All JSSF scale and radiographic parameters were similar at baseline and significantly improved at final follow-up in both groups (pre-operation vs. final follow-up: p < .001). However, compared to without interposition group, interposition group showed significantly higher improvement in the JSSF scale (pre-operation to final follow-up: p value between the two groups at final follow-up) for pain (without interposition: 19.4–34.2, interposition: 18.4–37.1; p = .02), function (without interposition: 20.8–33.6, interposition: 18.3–36.6; p = .005), total score (without interposition: 41.5–81.8, interposition: 38.5–88.5; p < .001), and the MTP joint space (without interposition: 1.4–1.5 mm, interposition: 1.6–2.6 mm; p < .001) with significant correlation between the total JSSF score (r = .40; p = .001). Conclusion: Combining medial capsule interposition with modified scarf osteotomy significantly improved mid-term clinical outcomes.


In this work, we propose a mismatch-tolerant CMOS oscillator and excitatory synapse for bioinspired image segmentation circuits using a modified LEGION algorithm. As a result of the combination of excitatory synapses (to synchronize coupled oscillators) and global inhibition (to separate unconnected objects) the oscillator array can segment the image objects by phase-encoding. However, the synchronizing mechanism is sensitive to frequency dispersion, and hence a mismatch-tolerant oscillator architecture is a key point for correct operation. With a feedback scheme based on switched capacitors and a large time constant low-pass filter, frequency variations are significantly reduced. The excitatory synapse circuit enables oscillator synchronization and is implemented by a quasi floating-gate MOS transistor. Transistor-level simulation results for CMOS 0.35 /spl mu/m technology are presented to validate the functionality of the mismatch-tolerant oscillator and synapse.


One of the most important tools for the development of the smart grid is simulation. Therefore, analyzing, designing, modeling, and simulating the smart grid will allow to explore future scenarios and support decision making for the grid's development. In this paper, we compare two open source simulation tools for the smart grid, GridLAB-Distribution (GridLAB-D) and Renewable Alternative Power systems Simulation (RAPSim). The comparison is based on the implementation of two case studies related to a power flow problem and the integration of renewable energy resources to the grid. Results show that even for very simple case studies, specific properties such as weather simulation or load modeling are influencing the results in a way that they are not reproducible with a different simulator.


According to proponents of doxastic deontologism, what is responsible belief? In this paper, we consider two proposals. Firstly, that responsible belief is blameless belief (a position we call DDB) and, secondly, that responsible belief is praiseworthy belief (a position we call DDP). We begin by offering some considerations in favour of DDB over DDP and then show that recent arguments in favour of DDP (offered mostly by Weatherson 2008) do not go through. We thus conclude that the deontologist should maintain that doxastic responsibility is a concept about freedom from appropriate blame.


We analyze alternative currency risk management strategies for a sample of international bond portfolios. In all cases, fully hedged or dynamically hedged portfolios dominate their unhedged counterparts under a mean-variance criterion. In addition, we present strong evidence that common foreign exchange technical trading rules do not enhance the performance of currency risk management strategies. To summarize, simple passive risk management techniques appear to be more efficient in improving the performance of international bond portfolios than complex strategies that depend upon the forecasting of foreign exchange. Given the poor showing of common currency risk management methods, the main benefits of international bond investment comes from the simple diversification of bond risk. JEL Classification: G13; G15


It has been 10 years since the seminal paper by Morrison and colleagues reporting the association of alleles of the vitamin D receptor and bone density [1], a paper which arguably kick-started the study of osteoporosis genetics. Since that report there have been literally thousands of osteoporosis genetic studies published, and large numbers of genes have been reported to be associated with the condition [2]. Although some of these reported associations are undoubtedly true, this snow-storm of papers and abstracts has clouded the field to such a great extent that it is very difficult to be certain of the veracity of most genetic associations reported hereto. The field needs to take stock and reconsider the best way forward, taking into account the biology of skeletal development and technological and statistical advances in human genetics, before more effort and money is wasted on continuing a process in which the primary achievement could be said to be a massive paper mountain. I propose in this review that the primary reasons for the paucity of success in osteoporosis genetics has been:
•the absence of a major gene effect on bone mineral density (BMD), the most commonly studied bone phenotype;
•failure to consider issues such as genetic heterogeneity, gene–environment interaction, and gene–gene interaction;
•small sample sizes and over-optimistic data interpretation; and
•incomplete assessment of the genetic variation in candidate genes studied.


The excited state dynamics of gold(I) complexes containing monomeric phenyleneethynylene (PE) or oligo (p- or m-PE) ligand, namely PhCCAu(PCy3) (1a) and PhCC(C6H4-1,m-CC)2Au(PCy3) (m = 4, 2a; m = 3, 3a) were investigated by combined methods of femtosecond transient absorption (fs-TA), fs time-resolved fluorescence (fs-TRF) and nanosecond time-resolved emission (ns-TRE). Comparative study was also performed on the corresponding metal free p- and m-PE oligomers (2b and 3b) to allow for evaluating the effect of ligand π-conjugation and the effect of gold(I) on the overall dynamics and emission pathways of the gold(I)-PE complexes. The results reveal that, although the incorporation of heavy gold(I) into PE ligand is effective in promoting the spin-forbidden ligand centered S11ππ* to T13ππ* intersystem crossing (ISC), the exact ISC rate constant (kISC) is largely controlled by π-conjugation of the PE ligand in the S1 states of 1a–3a. Upon increasing π-conjugation as from 1a to 3a and to 2a, the kISC decreases consecutively by ∼2 orders of magnitude from ∼1.2 × 1012 s−1 in 1a to ∼2.6 × 1010 and ∼1.6 × 108 s−1 in 3a and 2a, respectively. As a result, the prompt fluorescence (PF) from the initial S11ππ* state is quenched to markedly different extent, with the lifetime (τPF) ranging from ∼0.7 ps in 1a to ∼450 ps in 2a. Aside from PF, long-lived delayed fluorescence (DF, lifetime on microsecond timescale) formed due to triplet–triplet annihilation (TTA) has also been identified to contribute to the fluorescence of 2a and 3a but not 1a. The ligand dependent behavior of both the kISC and DF provides a rationale to the varied efficiency and unusual composition of the emissions of 1a–3a. The findings present a compelling case that impacts the conventional scenario of ISC due to the heavy-atom effect in the excited state decay of transition-metal complexes; the photophysical parameters and the deactivation pattern derived in this work are useful information for understanding the structure–property relationship of transition-metal-PE complexes.


The anticorrosive performances of various kinds of conversion films including hexavalent and trivalent chromium passivation were studied on galvanized steel. The hexavalent and trivalent passivations showed similar protection tendency in the corrosion tests, but the hexavalent passivation had slightly better results than trivalent one. It was found the difference in the corrosion resistance given by the two films was attributed to the difference of their morphology and thickness by SEM test, for the hexavalent film was denser, smoother and thicker. Using EDS and XRD experiments, it was found that the hexavalent and trivalent passive films had the same chemical element but different components. Considering the environmental protection, the trivalent passivation will have better developing prospect in the near future.


The invention relates to a high-strength HEPA filter comprising two bottom frames and two side frames, wherein the bottom frames and the side frames form a square framework; one face of the framework is provided with an air outlet and the other face of the framework is provided with an air inlet; the air outlet and the air inlet are both provided with face protecting nets; a filter element is arranged between the two face protecting nets; the filter element is divided into a plurality of blocks by parting lines; and the filter element and the face protecting nets are divided by strengthening ribs. By utilizing the high-strength HEPA filter, the strength of the filter element is reinforced, and the problems of bending, breakage and leakage of the filter element of the filter after long-time running can be solved after the strengthening ribs are additionally arranged on the air outlet face. The high-strength HEPA filter is used under 1.5-2 times nominal air delivery and the filter element can not deform. The strengthening ribs are additionally arranged on the large-size air outlet face and the manufacture cost is only increased by 3-5%. The high-strength HEPA filter is wide in application range, compact in structure, and ultrathin in design and the storage space and the installation space are saved. The high-strength HEPA filter is widely applied to a clean room and fileds having exact demands on air cleanliness, the working temperature and humidity ranges are large, the highest working temperature is 63 DEG C, and the maximum humidity is 80%RH.


Earthquakes throughout the world in recent years seem to have made the earth in a vibration mode.As a major natural disaster,earthquake always brings people great damage,both physical and mental.The strong shock incurred from earthquake remains in people's mind as a collective memory,provoking their infinite thinking and exploring: How does the disaster occur? Why does it take place? People try to explain the causes for earthquake on the bases of their geographical surroundings,historical background and traditional culture that are related to them.Traditional Chinese folklore culture believes that earthquake is caused by evil doings of gods,divine animal carrying the earth,and the imbalance of yin-yang and five elements.


Abstract The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of a workplace-based HIV and AIDS training programme on employees. The study compared the health scores of employees who went through a workplace-based HIV and AIDS training programme and those who did not. The sample was made up of 68 employees drawn from two companies in Johannesburg. The study assessed employees' levels of HIV and AIDS risk with particular reference to attitude to condom use, sexual risk cognition, HIV and AIDS risk-taking behaviour, stigma and disclosure. Data collected from the questionnaires administered were analysed using t tests run on statistical analysis software (SAS). The results showed a significant difference in HIV and AIDS risk between the two groups. The training intervention reduced HIV and AIDS risk among employees. Directions for future research could focus on the relationship between organisational involvement and HIV and AIDS risk reduction among employees.


Arnis (2020). Analysis of Implementation of Problem Based Learning Model in Effort Mathematical Literacy One of the mathematical skills that needs to be improved in the learning process is the ability of mathematical literacy of students. There are many learning models that can be used as alternative models by teachers in an effort to improve students' mathematical literacy skills, one of which is with problem based learning (PBL) learning models or problem-based learning models. This research aims to: (1) analyze how the concept of mathematical literacy capabilities; (2) analyze how problem based learning model concepts; (3) analyze how problem based learning models are implemented in improving mathematical literacy skills. The method used in this analysis is a qualitative method with a type of literature research commonly called literature studies. The retrieved data sources come from primary and secondary data sources. The research technique in this analysis is to use the steps of Editing, Organizing, and Finding. Analysis of the data used in the form of deductive, inductive and historical thinking. Based on the results of the studies that have been analyzed, it can be concluded that: (1) the implementation of problem based learning models has a positive influence on improving students' mathematical literacy skills; (2) the application of problem based learning model at junior high school level is able to significantly improve students' mathematical literacy skills; (3) The mathematical literacy skills of students who obtain problem based learning models are better than students who obtain the usual learning model in mathematics learning at the vocational school level.


How does migration influence and shape human biology? This was the central question posed to the participants of the 57th SSHB Symposium held in December 2016 at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. This special issue of the Annals of Human Biology contains papers by some of those participants and several specially selected papers that help to reflect the themes and questions explored during the meeting. The papers draw from methods and approaches across the spectrum of human biology and reflect the complex and interlinked processes that not only influence human migration, but also the signals and patterns it leaves in our biological make-up. In this introduction we give a broad overview of the arguments set out in those papers. We also unpack and discuss the main ideas underlying assumptions about what migration is, how it interacts with our biology, and what this process looks like. We end by exploring how migration across time and space has shaped modern human biology and continues to influence our daily lives. Migration at its simplest is the permanent or semi-permanent movement of people to a new location. It may be permanent, temporary, recurrent or seasonal and can take place in a single generation or across several. Underlying this simple concept is a complex series of processes that interact to influence multiple levels of human biology. Migration has a deep time frame in human development and is something of a common practice by our genus (Houldcroft & Underdown, 2016; Maslin et al., 2014). Hominin dispersal within Africa was well established at least 3 million years ago with the dispersal of Australopithecus species from East Africa to Southern Africa (Clarke, 2008). Subsequently, the trend started by Homo erectus around 1.8 MYA was the first of series of migration events that saw Homo antecessor colonise the Atapeurcan mountains in southern Spain around 1.2 MYA and Homo heidelbergensis extend its range from Africa to southern Britain and the Mediterranean from around 600 KYA (Ferring et al., 2011; L opez et al., 2016; Mounier & Miraz on Lahr, 2016). Similarly, the discovery of Homo floresiensis and the Denisovans reveals a complex mosaic movement and colonisation by the genus Homo during the Pleistocene (Brown et al., 2004). While it is arguable that this movement of early human species was more akin to dispersal, the impact of human global colonisation that began around 100,000 years ago is not (L opez et al., 2016). The unparalleled expansion of the human species, in terms of both numbers and range, has created a number of unique challenges to human biology. The impact of human movement can leave a widely diverse range of biological signals ranging from eco-morphological adaption to climate, adaptive changes, genetic markers and patterns of disease resistance or susceptibility. This special issue explores patterns of past and present migration on human biology and ends with an eye to what we might expect in future.


Health care as one of the main parts in Indonesia healthy program dealing with the challenge to include the policy of globalization with the sophistication of its information because of technological advance. One of the health service places is the Community Health Center, abbreviated as the Community Health Center. Based on the Regulation of the Minister of Health Number 43 of 2019 concerning Community Health Centers, it is stated that the Community Health Center is a health service facility that organizes public health efforts and first-level ABSTRACT


Menarche is the first bleeding of women's uterine wall which occurs in
puberty time. Girls in Indonesia get menarche at a fairly young age. The factors
that influence the age of menarche are genetic, nutritional, socioeconomic, and
general health status. Nutritional status can be interpreted from the person's body
mass index (BMI). BMI is determined by weight and height. Weight greatly affects
nutritional status in relation to menarche age. This is caused by the presence of
leptin hormone derived from body fat that affect early puberty. This study to
determine the relationship between body mass index and age of menarche at
SMPN 2 Widang.
The design of the research was cross sectional study. Data retrieval was
done by interviewing with data collection sheets, measuring height and weight of
50 respondents in SMPN 2 Widang Tuban. The sample was taken by consecutive
sampling. The data was analyzed by Spearman.
Analysis on 50 respondents with Spearman correlation body mass index
with age of menarche was p = 0,433.
Conclusion in this research that is no relationship between body mass
index with menarche age.


Currently, there is no agreed understanding of the prospects for
the development of education and the place and role of the teacher in the
future. Scientifi c and educational communities, as well as the public, are divided
in opinion on what will be the basis for the school of the future: digital
technologies, competencies, achievements of sciences, personal orientation.
With different grounds for the prospects of education development, they can
mutually complement each other and be combined within the framework
of a systematic personality development approach. The purpose is to study
the personal and professional (including digital technologies) resources for
personal and professional development of a teacher, providing a set of conditions
for the development, upbringing, and training of students at the future
school. The study was conducted with a specially developed program,
including  methods, on a sample of teachers (n=) of Moscow schools.
Statistical methods included discriminant, regression, factor analysis. The results
of multiple regression analysis (MRA) showed that the main factors determining
the high level of personal and professional development in teachers
are personal resources: refl exive design, constructive coping, emotional
involvement. The technological components are identifi ed as additional. In
the new era of continuing education, the emphasis must inevitably shift from
the technological component to the personal one, including the values. The
teacher's value system will include traditional cultural and educational values
(personality, interaction, creativity) as well as individual values, personal
and professional characteristics. At the same time, technological processes,
including digitalization, will expand and complement the teacher's resource
capabilities for the development of students at the school of the future.


Purpose – The purpose of this work is to examine the influence that gender and different emotional stimuli exert on people's online sharing intentions. Precisely, we take a closer look at whether (1) people share more positive or negative content; (2) men or women react more strongly to these emotional stimuli; and (3) emotional valence has a heterogeneous effect across genders. Design/Methodology This dissertation employs an experimental study: 2 (emotional valence: positive vs. negative) x 2 (gender: male vs. female) between-subjects design. Findings – Results show that emotional valence does indeed influence sharing intentions, and more importantly, that negative emotions lead to a higher willingness to share. Further, results demonstrated that women share more content online when compared to men but no heterogeneous effects of emotional valence were observed. Research limitations The main limitation of this research is that it is based on self-reported answers to hypothetical scenarios, since we intend to measure potential behavior of sharing. Meaning that, although an individual's intention to commit to a certain behavior is the most adequate predictor of one's behavior, it is beyond the scope of this study to measure actual sharing behavior. Practical implications This research produced valuable insights by providing relevant information on how to create content that will probably be highly shared, on the opposite to the regular content that most agencies and marketer use to promote their products.


RESPECT THE INVENTION MEDIA FOR RECORDING INK JET. HOLDER INCLUDES SUBSTRATE WHICH IS FORMED LAYER INK ABSORPTION. THIS FILM CONTAINS MATERIAL CONDENSING OF D-SORBITOL AND BENZALDEHYDE SO THAT SUPPORT PROVIDES EXCELLENT ABSORPTION INK AND ALLOW THE IMAGE RECORDING NET SCOPE.: PRINTING INK JET.


Despite their widespread occurrence and often deadly nature, it remains difficult to predict when and where landslides are likely to occur.


This paper reviews some of the literature on the philosophy of quantum mechanics. The publications involved tend to follow similar patterns of first identifying the mysteries, puzzles or paradoxes of the quantum world, and then discussing the existing interpretations of these matters, before the authors produce their own interpretations, or side with one of the existing views. The paper will show that all interpretations of quantum mechanics involve elements of apparent weirdness. They suggest that the quantum world, and possibly our macro world, exists or behaves in a way quite contrary to the way we normally imagine they should. The paper will also show how many of the writers on quantum mechanics misunderstand idealism in the macro world as proposed by philosophers such as George Berkeley, David Hume, Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill and misunderstand the concept of the observer dependent universe. The paper concludes by examining the similarities between the idealist view of the macro world and the Copenhagen Interpretation of the quantum world and suggests that as the Copenhagen Interpretation provides a view of the quantum world that is consistent with the macro world then the Copenhagen Interpretation should be the preferred view of the quantum world.


The signal propagation delay and the maximum percentage of overshoot or undershoot are specified for an interconnection of length l along with the driver resistance, R/sub D/, and the loading capacitance, C/sub L/. A computer efficient algorithm is described for studying the trade-offs of various pairs of parameters (i.e., C/sub L/, L, and C), such that the desired output signal performance (i.e., predictable and controlled digital signal noise) can be achieved. >


I constructed a genomic DNA library of Aspergillus niger , and determined that it contained 50 000 independent clones of an average size of 14 kb. This library contained approximately twenty genome equivalents. I also constructed an expression vector using the plasmid pGEX-2T to express the fusion protein GST:CREA. This construct contained the full coding sequence of the creA gene of A. niger . The GST affinity tag is located as an amino-terminal fusion with respect to CREA. Induction of the fusion protein was performed under various conditions, and it was concluded that a construct containing a carboxy-terminal affinity tag would ameliorate the yield of full length protein, along with the expression of the construct in the Rosetta © strain of cells produced by Novagen. The protein was purified over a Glutathione Sepharose 4B column from Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, and used for electrophoretic mobility shift assays with oligonucleotides containing the CREA consensus binding sequence, and mutated segments of the glaA promoter of A. niger . Shifted bands were observed in the presence of the purified protein, and competition between labeled and unlabeled DNA indicated clearly that the protein was binding to the CREA consensus binding sequence.


In order to investigate the role of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the onset of acute cerebral infarction and the relationship between VEGF and the volume, condition of cerebral infarction, the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to dynamiclly measure the content of serum VEGF at the first, the third, the seventh and the fourteenth day after the onset of cerebral infarction in 42 patients. Results showed that the content of serum VEGF in patients with cerebral infarction at each time point were obviously higher than those in the control group, it reached the peak volume at the seventh day. The level of peak volume had closely correlation with the size of infarction focus and the Clinical Scandinavian Stroke Scale. It could be concluded that VEGF was closely related with the pathophysiologic course of infarction, and the measurement of the level of serum VEGF played an important role in the judgement of the severity of the cerebral infarction and it could be valuable to guide the clinical work.


Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) was formalised in 1984 by Anthony Ryle. It facilitated the clinical integration of psychodynamic therapy and personal construct/cognitive psychology. It is a brief, user-friendly relational therapy, applicable to the wide range of psychological problems typically seen in public mental health settings. It has recently been included in national guidelines for the treatment of personality disorder in the National Health Service. CAT provides a coherent model of development and psychopathology, which centrally views the self as both socially formed and embedded. Owing to its core relational grounding, CAT is being increasingly applied to team contexts/systems, enabling a 'common language' for team formulation/practice. It is also being successfully delivered as a group therapy. This article describes the development and unique features of the CAT model, analyses the current evidence base and identifies potential future directions for the model.


THE DEVICE IS INTENDED TO LIFT THE ABDOMINAL WALL 10 PATIENT, WITHOUT RESORT TO INSUFFLATION INTERNAL GAS, LABORIOUS PERFORMED AND WITH AFTERMATH PAINFUL. A SHELL 1, THE EDGE 2 MAY BE APPLIED ON THE ABDOMINAL WALL 10, INVOLVES ITS UPPER PASSAGE 3, WHICH MAY BE TEMPORARILY closed, HAND OR WITH LID; THE PASSAGE IS CONNECTED A PROJECTION 3 RING 4 PREPARED TO WITHIN THE SHELL 1 WHICH THE MARGIN IS ADAPTED TO RECEIVE 5 TO SUPPORT TIGHT ABDOMINAL WALL 10 RAISED BY THE DEPRESSION PRODUCED IN THE SHELL 1 THANKS TO END VACUUM 8 CONNECTED TO A SOURCE OF EMPTY.


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THE acronym PEST aims to make us look at political, economic, social and technological pressures for change when assessing the business environment. Here, Harvey Carruthers discusses some of the factors that might need to be considered when applying the PEST model to veterinary practice.


The first space VLBI satellite, HALCA, was launched on 1997 February 12. We report the characteristics of HALCA as an orbiting VLBI station with 8-m deployment antenna. It is required the high system gain, low system noise, and high stability of phase transfer. And the stabilities of system gain and system noise are needed for imaging of VLBI. HALCA achieved the requirement as a VLBI stations and has made almost 3 times longer baselines than ground global VLBI networks. It means observations with 3 times higher angular resolution have been carried out. We have measured aperture efficiencies of the deployment antenna, system noise temperatures, stability of onboard local oscillators, and stability of phase link. HALCA's onboard radio astronomy system has 1.60-1.73 GHz, 4.7-5.0 GHz, and 21.9-22.3 GHz receivers and two-channel high-rate samplers. Typical values of system noise temperature in orbit are 70 K and 90 K at 1.6 and 5 GHz respectively. At 22 GHz, the apparent system noise temperature is 400 K; however, this is mostly due to attenuation between the main antenna and the 22 GHz low noise amplifier. A reference tone signal is transmitted from a ground tracking station which is locked on a ground hydrogen maser oscillator. The internal phase stability of local oscillators is around 5° r.m.s. at 5 GHz. The total gain of the receiving system and the bit distribution of the high-rate samplers have also been checked. With the exception of the 22 GHz attenuation, the in-orbit performance of the VLBI observing system matches the ground-test results very well.


This article contributes to our understanding of the power of communities of practice (CoPs) to move innovation forward in organisations illustrating how managers, armed with the benefits of collaborating and sharing ideas on practices of innovation management, can renegotiate the power relations in their organisations to achieve mobilisation for and social acceptance of their innovation initiatives. Based on our research, which involved analysing data from interviews with and qualitative diaries of 21 senior managers working in different health sector organisations across the South West of England, we found that health sector managers experience a tension between the rhetoric around innovation, change, systems leadership, whole system thinking and so on and the everyday lived experience of managing innovation and making change to skills, capabilities and outcomes across the whole system. The way they balance (not resolve) the tension is the 'extramural' communities of practice they form which offer not only opportunities in terms of learning (Wenger, 2000) and building relations to cope with challenging problems (Wenger and Snyder, 2000) but it also allow them to find voice and develop social and self-centred identities in addition to their workplace identity.


Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a family of asymmetric anytime aheuristic game tree search algorithms which have advanced the state-of-the-art in several challenging domains. MCTS learns a playout policy, iteratively building a partial tree to store and further refine the learned portion of the policy. When the playout leaves the existing tree, it falls back to a default simulation policy, which for many variants of MCTS chooses actions uniformly at random. This paper investigates how a simulation policy can be learned during the search, helping the playout policy remain plausible from root to terminal state without the injection of prior knowledge. Since the simulation policy visits states that are previously unseen, its decisions cannot be as context sensitive as those in the tree policy. We consider the well-known Move-Average Sampling Technique (MAST), which learns a value for each move which is independent of context. We also introduce a generalisation of MAST, called N-gram-Average-Sampling-Technique (NAST), which uses as context a fixed-lengthsequence (or N-tuple) of recent moves. We compare several policies for selecting moves during simulation, including the UCB1 policy for multi-armed bandits (as used in the tree policy for the popular UCT variant of MCTS). In addition to the elegance of treating the entire playout as a series of multi-armed bandit problems, we find that UCB1 gives consistently strong performance. We present empirical results for three games of imperfect information, namely the card games Dou Di Zhu and Hearts and the board game Lord Of The Rings: The Confrontation, each of which has its own unique challenges for search-based AI.


ALTHOUGH it has been generally agreed that an early loss of delayed hypersensitivity is commonly found in Hodgkin's disease1 2 3 4 5 6 7 there has been argument about the antibody-forming ability of these patients. The majority of investigators have found that, in contrast to the cutaneous anergy, antibody formation is intact in Hodgkin's disease,4 , 5 , 8 , 9 but several workers, employing varying technics,3 , 9 , 10 have reported a defect in antibody synthesis. We decided that the antibody-forming ability of patients with Hodgkin's disease was of sufficient interest to merit reinvestigation, particularly of the ability of the patient with known cutaneous anergy to form antibody. We have recently studied delayed . . .


The E Minor machine at AWE Aldermaston was originally designed and built as a test-bed for the Marx generator of the 10MV, 80ns Mogul E Flash X-Ray machine. For this purpose it had a short (40ns) oil insulated Blumlein, which originally fed a resistive load. After Mogul E was completed, E Minor was converted into a flash X-Ray machine using an existing, surplus insulator stack from another machine on site (EROS). Unfortunately this insulator stack is only capable of holding off 5.5MV, well below the maximum possible output of the E-Minor Marx. To continue the X-ray diode development work required for the proposed Hydrodynamics Research Facility (HRF), E Minor needs to be upgraded so that it can deliver a 10MV pulse. E Minor will be upgraded to full voltage operation by fitting a Mogul-E-style insulator stack, requiring modifications to the front end of the machine and to the building in which it is housed. 2d electrostatic modelling software has been used to design the new front end the machine. The pre-pulse switch has been enlarged for the higher voltage operation, the toroid on the intermediate cylinder of the Blumlein will increase in radius for the same reason and the field shapers that flatten the electric field across the insulator stack have been optimised.


Abstract Using recent experimental data on radiation induced surface segregation in non-homogeneous dilute metallic alloys at liquid nitrogen temperature, low temperature mechanisms of radiation induced segregation are discussed. The vacancy mechanism is ruled out at low temperature and the atomic solute transport which is controlled by interstitial diffusion is analyzed in its relationship to the solute/solvent size misfit. The analysis points to octahedral single solute interstitials as the entities responsible for solute transport and segregation in the case of oversized solutes. For undersized solutes the solute transport and segregation are probably due to "divacancy +solute atom"-point defects which are formed by reaction of substitutional solute atoms with neighboring vacancies. Solute/solvent chemical coupling which suppresses the radiation induced atomic transport is discussed and a criterion for its evaluation (solute/solvent bonding-enthalpy per solute atom) is proposed.


THE phenomenon of continuing heavy unemployment is a new one in the United States; yet it is one to which we are already becoming accustomed. In fact, we seem to be becoming resigned to it. Many leaders of public thought and political action seem to have accepted the philosophy that chronic unemployment is tion has been increased by 52.2 per cent. With this increase in output, and substantially unchanged working week, the number of men at work in factories increased 39.7 per cent, while the number of persons unemployed declined roughly from 15 million to 12 million. As compared to the previous peak year, 1929, we have re-


The World Health Organization calls for better use of evidence and information from COVID-19 surveillance systems to optimize the only approach at our disposal to minimize transmission: to identify, isolate, test and treat each case of the disease. Track and quarantine each contact. Digital technologies play a leading role in contact tracking. Digital technology and artificial intelligence are well established in the fight against the pandemic. In many countries, telemedicine is used alongside traditional care, especially in rural areas, and is now actively used in the context of COVID-19. Telemedicine has proved to be a very effective tool for combating telemedicine to counter the virus. We have not yet realized the full potential of telemedicine. It should open up opportunities for all people to develop an international culture of health and neutralize the pandemic. COVID-19 Various technologies are used to identify COVID-19. Researchers from George Washington University have created a miniature device that allows you to almost instantly detect the presence of COVID-19 (MedicalXpress) in human blood. The operation of the device is based on the color spectroscopy method, and the analysis results can be obtained using a mobile application. The author of the article proposes to use resonant technology for detecting COVID-19. Resonance technology is implemented by a micro-device, designed in the form of a pendant, which is convenient to wear to everyone. The micro-device for detecting COVID-19 is connected to the telemedicine center, which promptly fixes the morbid patient and provides him with the necessary services. Telemedicine centres of various countries are connected to the international medical network for the prompt registration of coronavirus, the exchange of information, decision-making and the provision of services to foreign citizens.


Objective:To investigate the region neonatal blood infection type and the drug resistance to provide clinical guidance of antibiotic usage.Methods:From January 2006 to December 2009,3390 cases of blood cultures and in vitro antibiotic susceptibility test results were analyzed retrospectively.Blood cultures were detected by Bact/where 3D(120) automatic blood culture system and the related culture flask.The pathogens identification and the susceptibility test were performed through France Biomerieux company API bacteria identification system and its supporting the reagent bar.Results:In the 3390 neonatal blood cultures,there were 416 cases of germiculture positive(12.3%),among which 402 strains were Gram-positive with the rate of 96.6%,and 14 strains were gram-negative with the rate of 3.4%.The coagulase-negative staphylococcus aureus(CNS) was the most in the pathogens detected,the second was enterococcus,staphylococcus aureus,escherichia coli,however the group B hemolytic streptococcus(GBS) had not found.There were 247 strains of methicillin resistant coagulase negative staphylococcus(MRCNS) with the rate of 85.7%(247/308),21 strains of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureu(MRSA) with the rate of 72.4%(21/29),but the two had no statistically significant differences(χ2=0.363,P=0.547).MRCNS drug-resistance was more serious than MRSA.Vancomycin resistance of staphylococcus and enterococcus were not found.The escherichia coli and pneumonia crayresearch strains were sensitive to imipenem.Conclusion:CNS was the main pathogen causing neonatal septicemia in our region,and to further strengthen the neonatal blood culture detection and drug resistance analysis was an important clinical means of neonatal sepsis diagnosis and treatment.


Objective To investigate injury effects of blood cadmium on cytokines of young children.Methods The blood cadmium levels in venous blood specimens of 45 young children were measured by using atomic absorption spectromentry method.And the concentration of IL-1βwas detected by using double antibody sandwich ELISA method.The children were divided into three groups:normal group,low cadmium level group,and high cadmium level group,according to their blood cadmium level.Results The concentration of IL-1βof children in the normal group was 22.18±8.70 pg/mL,those in low cadmium level group and high cadmium level group were 11.59±7.92μmol/L and 15.45±7.32μmol/L,respectively.Compared with the normal group,the concentration of IL-1βin low cadmium level group was lower,but there was no significant difference(P>0.05).The concentration of IL-1βin high cadmium level group was significantly lower,there was significant difference as compared with normal group(P<0.01),and the concentration of IL-1βwas correlated to the blood cadmium level negatively(r=0.42,P<0.01).Conclusion The concentration of IL-1βin blood can be regarded as one of the important index of cadmium damage in young childhood.


Some high intensity ion sources, applicable for particle accelerators, are evaluated in terms of extracted beam emittance and source "brightness". Specifically recent results obtained with the duoplasmatron ion source, with and without large plasma expansion cup, are given. It is indicated that a high intensity "rectilinear" ion beam may be obtained from an expanded plasma with a high gradient accelerator structure. Recent approaches to air insulated columns are given, mainly related to the BNL preaccelerator design.


Drip fertigation is an effective way in splitting soluble fertilizer application to simultaneously meet water and nutrient demands of multi-harvested green pepper (Capsicum annuum L.). However, fruit yield and the profitability of green pepper can be constrained, if nutrients are either insufficiently or excessively supplied. A 3-yr experiment was conducted to assess both agronomic and economic effects of fertilizer N and P addition for green pepper grown under drip fertigation. Both fruit yields, including total and marketable, and net economic return responded quadratically to fertilizer N rate. The 3-yr average maximum marketable yield of 38 Mg ha ―1 was achieved at the N rate of 227 kg N ha ―1 . The economic optimum N rate was identical to the one required for the production of maximum marketable yield, due to the large price ratio of green pepper to fertilizer N. Nitrogen use efficiency and N agronomic efficiency decreased as N rate increased. The amount of fertilizer N required for production of each megagram of marketable fruit yield increased with the level of yield, with an average of 6.0 kg N Mg ―1 fruit across the 3 yr at the maximum marketable yield. Fertilizer P did not affect selected variables, except for both total and marketable fruit yields that increased linearly with increases in P rate in one of the 3 yr. The results suggested that an increase in the optimum N rate to 227 kg N ha ―1 is needed to maximize the profitability of green pepper production with drip fertigation.


Excerpt About 5% of the cases of fatal recent myocardial infarction terminate in rupture of the heart wall. Ventricular aneurysm following myocardial infarction develops in about 10% of cases. Howe...


Objective:To ascertain the status of inpatients' nosocomial infection,and to provide basic data for carrying out the prospective work of monitoring nosocomial infection.Method:To adopt the descriptive method and to make a retrospective analysis of the monitoring results of the cases of inpatients' nosocomial infection in consecutive five years in one hospital.Results:Altogether 59275 cases were monitored and 1746 cases of nosocomial infection were found.The rate of nosocomial infection was 2.95%.The departments which had a high rate of nosocomial infection were the Department of Geriatrics,Department of Neurology and Department of Hematology.The body parts of nosocomial infection were frequently found on the respiratory tract,the gastrointestinal tract and the urinary tract.Of the pathogenic microorganisms which caused nosocomial infection,fungi account for 45.9%,G-bacteria 38.0%,and G+ bacteria 16.1%.The major pathogenic microorganisms are Pseudomonas alcaligenes,Staphylococcus aureus,Escherichia coli,Acinetobacter baumannii and Klebsiella pneumoniae. Conclusions:The rate of nosocomial infection in a monitored hospital was 2.95%.The infected body parts were frequently found on the respiratory tract.And the major pathogenic microorganisms include Pseudomonas alcaligenes,Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli.


Background: Stillbirths often are not seen as a major public health problem, for despite increasing attention and investment on maternal, neonatal, and child health, stillbirths remain invisible. Aim: The objective of this study was to determine the stillbirth rate at the Imo State University Teaching Hospital, Orlu. Subjects and Methods: Analysis of the case records of stillbirths that occurred in the institution over a 5-year period from 1st July 2005 to 30th June 2010 was made. Data retrieved was analyzed for age of the women, parity, presumptive risk factor for the stillbirth, and booking status of the women. Also, the total births during the period of study were obtained. A P-value of <0.05 is said to be significant at confidence level of 95% (95/100). Results: There were a total of 1,142 deliveries within the study period, out of which 206 resulted in stillbirths. This gave an institutional stillbirth rate of 18% (180/1000 deliveries). One-hundred and fifty-five 75.2% (155/206) of the stillbirths were macerated stillbirth. The age range of the women was 15-44 years. The modal age was 31 years. The age group of 26-30 years had the highest prevalence rate of stillbirths of 79 (38.3%, 79/206), while age group of more than 40 years contributed the least with four stillbirths 4 (1.9%, 4/206). Conclusion: The stillbirth rate at the institution is too high and efforts must be made to reduce it.


In this article, I discuss an architecture and set of standards for enabling Internet identity that mirrors the decentralized way that people have used credentials in the physical world for centuries. This identity architecture, called "multisource identity," enables flexible, ad hoc workflows to be realized on the fly without costly and time-consuming integrations. What's more, it can put people at the center of their online data interactions, creating an ethical system for data sharing that respects human dignity.


The world of Islamic art has suffered a calamitous loss with the sudden death in Tehran, from Covid-19, of Abdullah Ghouchani on 7 August 2020. He was a truly towering figure, the greatest epigraph...


The present invention aims to provide a high solids content and excellent storage stability, having excellent wet strength enhancing effect of wet strength agent and wet strength paper containing the enhancer. Aspect of a wet paper strength enhancer, comprising (A) polyamide polyamine epihalohydrin resin, or (B) a polyamine polyurea polyamide epihalohydrin resin, wherein, (A) polyamide poly amine-epihalohydrin resin is a polyamide-polyamine and an epihalohydrin by reacting polyalkylene polyamines and dicarboxylic acids obtained by reaction of the resulting resin, (B) a polyamide polyamine polyurea ring oxygen-epihalohydrin resin is a polyamide-polyamine polyurea by reacting an epihalohydrin and polyalkylene polyamines, dibasic acids and ureas obtained by reacting the resin obtained, having a specific intrinsic viscosity, specific Huggins constant, the degree of specific cation, a specific weight average molecular weight and a specific proportion of at least 05,000 average molecular weight of the component.


In this study has been shown in infected synovial fluid (SF) of virus Epstein-Barr (VEB) by patients of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) relative indicators CD8+, CD16+ and CD20+ are increase with comparison in similar indicators not infected SF of VEB and control indicators. In not infected SF of VEB by patients of RA relative indications CD25


A composition comprising: a) at least one lipophilic compound and b) a structured glyceride component characterized in that it contains some triglyceride species and at least 40% of the species triglyceride have: (i) 33 to 70% by weight of portions acyl having 4 to 12 carbon atoms; (Ii) 30 to 67 wt% of acyl moieties having more than 12 carbon atoms; and (iii) an equivalent carbon number greater than 30 and less than 48.


When traditional electro-hydraulic proportional valve or servo valve controlled systems are used to drive unbalanced external load, the hydraulic valve itself exists throttling losses. At the same time, the excess kinetic or potential energy of external load is consumed in the form of heat. In order to reduce energy loss and recycle external load energy, this paper puts forward a kind of electro-hydraulic control equipment which can recycle energy. It consists of directional valve, hydraulic motor, generator, power transformation device. In details, the directional valve is used to control the fluid direction of hydraulic actuator, hydraulic motor is connected to the fluid return channel of the directional valve. A generator is connected to hydraulic motor so that the back pressure of the actuator can be controlled by adjusting the torque applied on the hydraulic motor. In this way, the trajectory of the actuator is controlled. The mechanical energy applied on the hydraulic motor can be converted to electricity via the power conversion device, and then transmitted back to the grid. The simulation and experiment results prove that the proposed scheme is feasible.


New series of Bis N'-(1H-benzimidazol-2-yl)-N-alkyl amidine derivatives 2a-e were synthesized starting from (1H-benzimidazol-2-yl) iminoester 1 with two equivalents of ethane-1,2-diamine. The structures of compounds were elucidated by spectroscopic methods including IR, 1 H NMR, 13 C NMR, and 13 C NMR Dept 135° of 2b , elemental analyses and mass spectral analysis. In the next step, the above mentioned compounds were screened for antioxidant activity. Their antioxidant activity was assessed using, the rapid and the most appropriate method, 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging assay. The results indicated that bis amidines 2a-e tested possess good antioxidant activity. Compounds 2c and 2e showed excellent antioxidant activity, while compounds 2a , 2d and 2b showed the lowest one. Keywords: Benzimidazole, Bis amidines, DPPH method, ethane-1,2-diamine , Iminoesters.


The purpose of the current research is to investigate the impact of social interactivity (the presence of virtual agents in a commercial web site) on the approach behavior. The experimental study was deemed to be the most relevant for collecting data. The study revealed that indeed the presence of virtual agents in a commercial web site has a positive impact on the perceived interactivity which in itself helps increasing the state of flow.


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In situ  high-temperature powder X-ray diffraction (HTPXRD) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of three natural borosilicates have been performed in the temperature range of 25—1200 °С. Axinite-(Mn) melts incongruently at 900 °С forming anorthite and bustamite. Leucosphenite decomposes at 850 °С to fresnoite and cristobalite. According to DSC data, kornerupine decomposes at 1177 °С and sapphirine, indialite, and spinel were observed as the products of kornerupine heating. The calculation and orientation of thermal expansion tensor have been performed using HTPXRD data. The study showed that the borosilicates expand weakly and almost isotropically. The average volumetric thermal expansion coefficients are 21.3, 22.7, and 32.9 ∙ 10 –6  °C –1  for axinite-(Mn), kornerupine, and leucosphenite, respectively. Leucosphenite has a maximum volumetric expansion most likely due to the pronounced layered character of the crystal structure. The least symmetric structure of axinite-(Mn) has the maximal anisotropy of thermal expansion in the temperature range of 600—900 °C.


This study is an attempt to look awry at the Confucian tradition, by examining the popular stories—such as the filial piety stories collected in the Ershisi xiao (Twenty-Four Exemplars of Filial Piety)—which were promoted by the Confucian orthodox discourse and have been regarded for centuries as extraordinary examples of moral perfection. Through a Lacanian perspective, the present study aims at reconstructing the fundamental fantasy as suggested by those narratives. By examining the relationship between the Confucian fantasy and the Confucian ideology, we will gain a new insight into Confucianism and its long-lasting influence on Chinese culture(s).


The present study discusses about the influence of operational parameters on response in reverse osmosis membrane separation process. The performance in the design of reverse osmosis depends on various operating parameters like feed pressure, feed flow rate, feed water quality etc. Regression analysis can be applied for correlating independent input variables and the dependent variable response. The most frequently applied statistical methods in regression analysis is multiple regression if the factor for analysis is more than one and significance of the model was justified by analysis of variance (ANOVA) . It was found at optimum feed pressure 9 kg/cm 2 , improvement of permeate flux was seen. Salt rejection depends on feed TDS and permeate TDS. Salt rejection was found to be 97.3%. Water recovery ratio was around 67% for feed pressure 11 kg/cm2. Multiple regression model was performed for the input parameters like feed pressure, feed flow rate on the response water recovery ratio. Residual error shows deviation of 1% of predicted value with the observed experimental response. Experimental data was fed to statistical tool MINITAB release 17, developed by Minitab Inc.,USA. Multiple regression model equation was validated by ANOVA estimates. ANOVA estimates the model to be highly significant confirming by R 2 = 0.98, for regression feed pressure coefficient- 9.56, P-Value- 0.013 , F-


The present study examined how subjects respond to personal space encroachments in a laboratory (N = 108) or shopping centre (N = 120) setting. Male or female confederates, with or without a question, intruded upon the personal space of male or female subjects. Two different questions were asked in two different settings to create the same condition. In the laboratory, subjects waited for a shorter time when they were intruded upon with a question (of saliency invasion) than in any other condition. When invaded with a question, subjects showed higher anxiety than when invaded without a question (standard invasion). Significant interaction effect of sex of the subject and approach with a question was noted on O-factor. Subjects scored higher on the Q4 and the Q3 factors in the saliency invasion than in the standard invasion condition. In the shopping centre, subjects walked faster in the invasion saliency condition than in any other condition. Subjects asked a question walked faster than when approached without a question. Significant interaction of the sex of the subject and approach with a question was noted on the speed of walking.


Abstract Reactions of 1, 3-dibromotetrabutyldistannoxane with the sodium or ammonium salts of dialkyl or alkylene dithiophosphates in equimolar ratio yield products of the type (RO)2PS2Bu2SnOSnBu2Br. R. = Me, Et, Pr-n, Pr-i, Bu-i, Ph, and POGOS2Bu, SnOSnBu2Br, G. -CMe2CMe2-. CH2CMe2CH2, -C(Me)2CH2CH(Me)- and CH2CEt2CH2-, as viscous liquids or semisolids, soluble in common organic solvents and dimeric in nature The new compounds have been charactarized by elemental analyses as well as spectoscopic (IR. 1H, 13C, 31P and 119Sn NMR) studies. On the basis of these data chelate structures with monodentate dialkyl and alkylene dithiophosphate groups have been proposed.


This research studies the perceptions of individuals concerning reused drinking water. Individuals' visceral responses may stigmatize reused water as the water's immediate origin is too clear. In this context, we show how individuals grow more accepting of reused water when their decisions consider others, as opposed to just themselves. First, differences between private and public decision making are quantified using willingness to accept (WTA) data collected in economic experiments. Adult participants first made decisions in a second‐price auction (private rounds) followed by majority‐rule voting (public rounds) on the median price collected in the private rounds. Our results show that participants in the public rounds significantly reduce their WTA. Moreover, a communication treatment using chat boxes further reduced participants' WTA. The recorded chat indicated that particularly messages related to humor and persuasion were powerful influences on participants' voting decisions. The results have applications for sustainable, cost‐effective recycled water projects.


Abu Obeida's book "The Miracle of the Qur'an" became a fertile material for linguistic and religious research. I chose the rhetorical side to study the book and the methodology of its author. The research is entitled: Abi Ubaydah's rhetorical research in his book "Majaz al-Qur'aan". The nature of the study necessitated dividing it into three sections, preceded by prefabricating and sealing it with recommendations, and finally a list of sources and references adopted by the research. In his book, Abu Obeida deposited his linguistic knowledge in a manner of eloquence, eloquence, and the totality of his theoretical views, in order to serve the Qur'anic text in an analysis and understanding of the meaning through the eloquence of the Qur'an.


The management level of the logistics has become key factor which decides existence and development of catena retail business enterprise, the logistics benefits of whole business enterprise is decided by the management of distribution center,but in the management of distribution center,the transport management has a more impact on distribution cost.This paper is to take a business enterprise as an example,the Saving Method is adapted to the optimal design of current distribution route.The result is satisfying.


*Park, S A; **Han, I H; *Kim I A; *Kim Y J; *Lee Y J; ***Hur, S; **Baik, H K; +*Shin, J W +*Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Inje University, Gimhae, Gyeongnam, Korea email@example.com INTRODUCTION The injured adult human anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) has a poor healing response. In this study, nanofibrous polyuretheane (PU) scaffold was fabricated by the electrospinning system for the development of a ligament substitute. For this, the objective of this study was set to characterize PU scaffold by investigating cell proliferation and extracelluar matrix (ECM) production of ligament fibroblasts according to morphology and surface treatment.


Our objectives were to determine the separation characteristics and blood product quality of a gravity‐driven microfiltration blood separation system (HemoClear, The Netherlands).


Conventional one-to-one matching decision algorithms are no longer applicable when the observations to be matched come from sensors of different resolution.To solve this problem,a new algorithm namely many-to-one matching decision algorithm based on correction of perturbation for matching measure matrix is proposed.A perturbation model is established for matching measure matrix. Matching decision is got by perturbation correction and its quality is estimated.Considering the difficulty to get a priori knowledge about perturbation parameters a sequence of matching thresholds are utilized for matching decision.The matching solution with the highest quality is chosen as the final matching decision.Simulation experiments validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.


opular culture is uniquely compelling in that it represents a reflective exaggeration of the dissonance between consumption and reception. The culture consumer is often characterized as highly invested in how popular art is portrayed while reacting with simultaneous fickleness about a product's legacy. The stream of cultural information is disseminated at such a rapid rate that one's attention to a particular representation of popular art rarely lasts more than one musical album, television season, or project. Fan culture reflects an anomaly to this tendency, but the average individual does not embrace popular culture as a whole. The "fan" often picks a few products at a time over which to obsess, while literally thousands of other cultural products pass by unnoticed. Horkheimer and Adorno worried that such a perpetual stream of information had the ability to relativize one's judgment by providing a magnitude of fundamentally similar products. They argue that culture industries serve to limit alternative possibilities for thought by creating ubiquitous media that propagate the division of labor. If one finds glorified representations of one's fundamental experience throughout the day—even in recreation—one is no longer provided with the tools to question possibilities for change. The culture industries provide an expanse of the division of labor to the point where social conditions appear natural, even ideal. When patterns of resistance may arise, the culture industries reappropriate those modalities into the fold of capitalist consciousness. Such pockets of resistance are thus neutralized and relativized by not seeming like resistance at all; instead, they P The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture


The 2014 floods in Malaysia is considered the worst so far in the country history of floods: millions of people were affected, many were evacuated, lives were lost, properties damaged, and facilities and utilities became unusable during this ordeal. The objectives of the study are: (1) to determine the information behavior of the flood victims, (2) to classify the types of social support groups formed during the floods, (i) to determine the characteristics of flood victims who faced losses and received gains from the floods, and (4) to develop a typology for the types of social support groups for various outcomes of the floods. A total of 507 respondents were gathered for the study using a cross-sectional survey method. Three types of social support groups were farmed during the floods: volunteer, kinship, and the public. The victims shared information on losses with the volunteer group the most, followed by kinship and the public. However spiritual gains were shared the most with the victims' kin. Married respondents, with secondary education and those involved in agricultural work gained the most aid from various agencies.


Treatment of an ulcerated diabetic foot was documented photographically. We adapted the ultrasonographic tissue characterization (USTC or CATUS) technique to develop a photographic image tissue characterization (p-IMTC or CATIM) method. Five photographs, taken during medical treatment of an ulcerated diabetic foot following digital amputation, were quantified using imaging software designed to determine brightness intensity in grey scale images. The grey scale median (GSM) changed from 127 to 98; 86; 76; and 83 (out of 255) during follow-up. The area of lesion was estimated by number of pixels and reduced from 17.85 cm² to 12.44; 3.68; 2.11; and 0.15 cm². The percentage of total number of pixels showing granulation tissue increased from 11% to 34%; 56%; 62%; and 75%. p-IMTC quantified treatment progress. GSM quantified generalized changes in tissues, while the area of lesion and granulation tissue were documented quantitatively. Lesions, ulcers, wounds or other tissues can be analyzed using p-IMTC, allowing quantification, characterization and control of the progression of a condition or treatment.


Sentiment analysis mines social media networks like Twitter for views, attitudes, and sentiments. It is presently a popular study subject. The traditional sentiment analysis approach emphasises textual data the most. Twitter is the most well-known microblogging social networking service, where users transmit updates on numerous topics as tweets. This research uses a publicly available labelled dataset on Kaggle. A comprehensive series of data cleaning and preparation techniques are organised to progressively make the tweets more comprehensible to typical language handling algorithms. Because each dataset sample consists of a pair of tweets and a sentiment, the Supervised machine learning concept was used in this work. Additionally, Nave Bayes-based sentiment analysis model is presented. The primary purpose is to discover tweet analysis more efficiently. Twitter sentiment analysis divides tweets into positive and negative attitudes. Using training data, machine learning algorithms correctly categorise the tweets. As a result, this strategy eliminates the requirement for a word database, making machine-learning approaches more effective and faster for sentiment analysis.


Objective By determining CSH - Px livingness of the rat whole blood and tissue, and make use of the illness section outer conditions, put up the animals simulation test, look for endemic disease pathogeny. Methods GSH - Px livingness is determined by DTNB direct way in blood and tissue. Results By the simulation animal test, discovering GSH - Px activity of animal economy descent can be caused because of lacking selenium or high fluoride water in the illness section outer conditions. Conclusions The selenium content of the animals economy over a limited range assume positive correlation to GSH - Px activity, By improving the factors of outer condition, the antioxidation ability can be increased. This is helpful to the study of Ke-shan disease pathogeny.


Frequency doubling of mode-locked frequency-tunable CO laser emission in high quality 17-mm long ZnGeP2 nonlinear optical crystal was studied. The internal efficiency of frequency doubling exceeded 25%, which was obtained by stabilization of mode-locking regime and increasing peak power of pump radiation in the scheme ``master oscillator – power amplifier''. A feasibility of difference frequency conversion of both fundamental and first overtone CO laser lines to cover ∼ 4.0 – 5.0 μm spectral range and a possibility of getting spectral range of ∼ 1.25 – 10 μm by mixing of all CO laser lines were estimated.


The respiratory related dosimetric uncertainties in the 4DCT based lung stereotactic body radiotherapy(SBRT)treatment planning and treatment delivery are evaluated by performing density assignment correction (DAC) in the ITV. Siemens 40‐slice CT scanner was used to acquire 8 phases of 4DCT images and a free breathing CT scan using a CIRS Dynamic Thorax Phantom. The ITV was created from 4DCT scan and treatment planning was done in free breathing CT scan. The ITV dose coverage was measured by CIRS phantom with ionization chamber moving together with the tumor during the beam delivery under free breathing treatment, which considers the time and positional averaged distribution of tissue heterogeneities within the ITV. The measured results are compared with the treatment planning with and without DAC in the ITV. The ITV dose coverage from the measurement is 1.9% higher than the planned ITV mean dose. The ITV received adequate dose due to the presence of effective density of the tumor within the ITV when the treatment is delivered under free breathing. The plan accounting for respiratory motion by assigning an average tumor density into the treatment planning had better uniform dose than the plan without DAC. By incorporating the ITV tumor density override into treatment planningdose calculation, the ITV dose coverage becomes more uniform and the mean dose of ITV increases and more closely matches the measured values than the plan without DAC in the ITV.


Fastmarkets identified seven main takeaways from its 11th Lithium Supply and Markets Conference in Santiago in June.New investments are key A scarcity of capital in the lithium sector is a concern for many market participants, given the expected growth of downstream demand.Although consumption of lithium carbonate equivalent is on track to grow to 1 million tonnes by 2025 from just below 300,000 tonnes in 2018, supply from new projects may fall short of this increased demand, depending on the pace of growth in the electric vehicle (EV) market. Flexibility is essential for survival Lithium carbonate is set to remain the most widely used lithium compound in lithium-ion batteries in the coming years.This is despite market participants anticipating lithium hydroxide overtaking lithium carbonate usage once production and adoption of nickel-rich cathodes, such as nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) 622 and 811, which typically use hydroxide, ramp up.Producers Albemarle, SQM and Tianqi agreed that flexibility remains vital for addressing diverse industrial and technological challenges. Nickel-rich batteries to dominate in the next few years Delegates agreed that lithium-ion batteries with higher nickel content will dominate the market in the foreseeable future.Despite increasing short-term use of lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) and lithium-manganese-oxide (LMO) batteries in China, production and consumption of more advanced nickel-rich NCM 622 and 811 batteries are set to increase.


Abstract:Well-known Trinidadian-American novelist Robert Antoni, author of Blessed is the Fruit (1997) and As Flies to Whatless Boys (2013), draws on an essay that Caryl Phillips wrote about the lost tribes of Israel, as well as personal memories, to provide an idiosyncratic reading of Phillips' plural sense of home.


Objective: Flux balance analysis is one method to analyse genome-scale models for metabolism and transcriptional regulation. Her we use the apoptotic pathway, the most widely used FBA to perform a mathematical model also analyses the flux balance to study the relationship between the flux and the genes involved in the extrinsic pathway. Methods: KEGG was used to obtain information of pathways and related ligands and genes. Biocyc was considered for its intricacy in explanation of the mechanisms of pathways. A specific wing of Biocyc called humancyc was used for human related pathways. SBML was used to sort the several pathways. Results: The pathway was modelled using SBML version 2 level 1 specifications which are the most commonly used version making FBA one of the best methods for studying this process. Based on FBA, the genes like bid and cyc were classified as essential and non-essential. All these details suggest that our model is sensible scientifically. This technique can satisfy researchers to uncover several biologically complex pathways computationally. This is a more efficient and less time consuming process. Conclusion: With the availability of experimental biochemical data, like the concentration or the ratio of these caspases in a cell, the accuracy of this method can be improved. In our method, the entire model is considered to be present in a single compartment. Separate compartments for the inclusion of inhibitors and activators can be added to represent the pathway more effectively. A more complex model including the entire apoptotic pathway can be modelled to determine all possible ways of inhibiting apoptosis.


Landscape heterogeneity, as measured by the spectral diversity of satellite imagery, has the potential to provide information on the resources available within the movement capacity range of arthropod vectors, and to help predict vector abundance. The Spectral Variation Hypothesis states that higher spectral diversity is positively related to a higher number of ecological niches present in the landscape, allowing more species to coexist regardless of the taxonomic group considered. Investigating the landscape heterogeneity as a proxy of the resources available to vectors may be relevant for complex and continuous agro-forest mosaics of small farmlands and degraded forests, where land cover classification is often imprecise. In this study, we hypothesized that larger spectral diversity would be associated with higher tick abundance due to the potentially higher number of hosts in heterogeneous landscapes. Specifically, we tested whether spectral diversity indices could represent heterogeneous landscapes, and if so, whether they explain Amblyomma and Hyalomma tick abundance in Benin and inform on their habitat preferences. Benin is a West-African country characterized by a mosaic landscape of farmland and degraded forests. Our results showed that both NDVI-derived and spectral predictors are highly collinear, with NDVI-derived predictors related to vegetated land cover classes and spectral predictors correlated to mosaic landscapes. Amblyomma abundance was not related to the predictors considered. Hyalomma abundance showed positive relationships to spectral diversity indices and negative relationships to NDVI-derived-ones. Though taxa dependent, our approach showed moderate performance in terms of goodness of fit (ca. 13–20% R2), which is a promising result considering the sampling and scale limitations. Spectral diversity indices coupled with classical SRS vegetation indices could be a complementary approach for providing further ecological aspects in the field of disease biogeography.


We investigate the geometric, electronic, and magnetic properties of ${\mathrm{TM}}_{2}(\mathrm{PAH})$ complexes [transition metal (TM) = Fe, Co, Ni; $\text{polycyclic-aromatic}\phantom{\rule{4.pt}{0ex}}\text{hydrocarbon}\phantom{\rule{4.pt}{0ex}}\text{(PAH)}={\mathrm{C}}_{10}{\mathrm{H}}_{8}, {\mathrm{C}}_{16}{\mathrm{H}}_{10}, {\mathrm{C}}_{24}{\mathrm{H}}_{12}, {\mathrm{C}}_{32}{\mathrm{H}}_{14}]$ as well as the optically induced ultrafast spin dynamics from a first-principles study. Geometrically, the magnetic dimer of each of the complexes [except for ${\mathrm{Ni}}_{2}({\mathrm{C}}_{16}{\mathrm{H}}_{10}$)] turns out to prefer to adsorb above the hollow site of the outer carbon ring of the PAH molecule. The PAH-size effect and TM-element effect on the energy levels and spin localizations are analyzed. It is found that for the structures with the same PAH molecules, the level bands generally get wider from Fe via Co to Ni, while the number of spin-localized states overall decreases in the same order. For the structures with the same TM species [except for the two complexes ${\mathrm{Ni}}_{2}({\mathrm{C}}_{16}{\mathrm{H}}_{10}$) and ${\mathrm{Fe}}_{2}({\mathrm{C}}_{32}{\mathrm{H}}_{14}$)], the low-lying levels are hardly affected by the size of the PAH molecules. Among all the calculated levels for each complex [except for ${\mathrm{Ni}}_{2}({\mathrm{C}}_{16}{\mathrm{H}}_{10}$)], there are always more states with spin localized on the remote magnetic center than those localized on the near center. Driven by nonchirped subpicosecond laser pulses, a series of ultrafast spin-flip and spin-transfer scenarios on these structures are predicted and analyzed, based on which the laser chirp effect is further explored and some rules of thumb about the chirp tolerance and sensitivity are obtained. The results demonstrated in this paper are believed to enrich our understanding of the size- and structure-dependent electronic and magnetic properties of the carbon-based magnetic molecular structures, and further to promote the relevant experimental realization of the spin dynamics and their potential applications in future molecular spin devices.


Diesel engine emissions (DEE) consist essentially of elemental carbon (EC) and adsorbed organic carbon (OC), mainly hydrocarbons with a small portion of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). This paper demonstrates the dependence of the concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in diesel engine exhaust on the concentration of EC. For the analysis samples were used from DEE measurements at workplaces of the German Armed Forces. A good correlation was found between the concentration of EC and the PAH content; a correlation between the portion of OC and the amount of PAH is not visible. The assessment of the diesel engine emissions on the basis of elemental carbon can thus also provide information on the PAH exposure at workplaces.


............................................................................................ II DEDICATION.......................................................................................... IV ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................................................ V TABLE OF CONTENTS...............................................................................VI LIST OF FIGURES..................................................................................... IX LIST OF TABLES..................................................................................... XII I . INTRODUCTION ................................................................................. 1 1.1 Background and Motivation ................................................................ 1 1.2 Research Objectives .......................................................................... 2 1.3 Research Significance ........................................................................ 2 1.4 Organization of the Dissertation Proposal ................................................ 2 II . LITERATURE REVIEW ........................................................................ 4 2.1 Watershed Management ..................................................................... 4 2.2 Flow Control Studies ........................................................................ 5 2.3 Sediment Control Studies ................................................................... 6 2.4 Simulation Models ........................................................................... 6 2.5 Optimization Methods ...................................................................... 9


The research object is a process of ferromagnetic steel details induction heating. The subject of research is an induction heating of the square plate made of 45 steel with covering oval inductor. To plot the temperature curves a number of heating models were used: 1-D analytic model, quasi-3D and 3D numerical models with harmonic and transient methods of electromagnetic field calculation. These curves were compared to each other and to the experimental data. The applicability of each model to different types of heat treatment was discussed, the computational effort of each model was also been taken into account.t.


In recent years, Hardware Trojans (HT)have become an increasing concern due to outsourcing the manufacturing of Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs). Power Analysis based Side-Channel Attack (SCA)is one of the main methods of detecting HT in IMDs. However, using SCA in detecting trojans is limited by the large process variation effects in IC technology which has reduced detection sensitivity of ultra-small trojans. Along with the safety of IMDs against HTs, the need for power management has also risen in parallel with the increasing complexity of IMDs. In this paper, we are analyzing the usefulness of Differential Power Analysis (DPA)resistant adiabatic logic gates to detect smaller trojans. DPA resistant adiabatic logic gates consume uniform power irrespective of input data transition and also consume lower power compared to conventional CMOS logic gates. When the HT is triggered in the DPA resistant circuits, the circuit will have non-uniform power consumption which will help us to easily identify HTs. In order to validate our proposed methodology, we have implemented a C17 and a carry save adder using a recently proposed DPA resistant adiabatic logic family called Energy-Efficient Secure Positive Feedback Adiabatic Logic Family (EE-SPFAL). Further, in order to calculate the true energy-efficiency of the EE-SPFAL logic, we have proposed a four phase Power Clock Generator (PCG)and integrated with the EE-SPFAL logic circuits. Simulations are performed in Cadence Spectre using 180nm CMOS technology. From our simulations, we have observed the non-uniform power consumption, during the activation of HT, in EE-SPFAL based C17 and carry save adder circuit. Further, EE-SPFAL based C17 and carry save adder along with its PCG consume 25.8% and 31.4% of less power as compared to the conventional CMOS based C17 and carry save adder respectively.


The invention relates to packet data transmissions from network servers to wireless communication stations via wireless communication networks. A network server 30 about to transmit packet data to a wireless communication station 20 first requests the wireless station 20 to provide its radio transferring capabilities to the server 30. Based on these radio transferring capabilities, the information content to be transferred from the server 30 to the wireless station 20, via a wireless communication network 10 and any network operatively connecting the server with the wireless network 10, is adapted so that the resulting packet data transmission is suitable for the radio transferring capabilities of the wireless station 20. This results in a reasonable transmission time and in elimination of any annoying transmission delays due to bandwidth capacity problems.


A 19-year-old college quarterback fell onto his throwing shoulder and developed chronic shoulder popping during the throwing motion. He was unable to throw because of pain during the acceleration and release phases of throwing. He subsequently underwent arthroscopic resection of a torn anterior labrum. Three months after surgery, following completion of shoulder rehabilitation, he returned to throwing. He developed pain during the acceleration phase 1 week after the resumption of throwing. Examination demonstrated abduction weakness and positive supraspinatus, flexion-elevation, and internal-rotation stress tests. At this time he discontinued all attempts at throwing and underwent another thorough deltoid and rotator cuff rehabilitation program. Four months later, he had a completely normal examination for motion, strength, and stability. A closely supervised throwing program was instituted. Shoulder pain returned during the acceleration phase of throwing, and he


An investigation on fruit descriptors and yield in twelve mango varieties was conducted under South Gujarat conditions. Maximum fruit length was recorded in cv. Totapuri (16.23cm). Vanraj showed the highest values for fruit width (11.67cm), fruit circumference (37.37cm), fruit weight (729g), fruit volume (575.59cm3) and fruit pulp (78.93%). Maximum TSS (21.20%), acidity (0.42%) and fruit firmness (7.00 rating) was observed in cvs. Deshi-1, Deshi-3 and Makaram, respectively. 'Totapuri' had maximum total shelf-life (21.33 days), number of fruits per tree (383.00) and fruit yield (236.80kg/tree). The varieties had green to yellow ground-colour of peel. All the varieties had red-blush peel colour, excepting cvs. Dadamio, Makaram and Swarnarekha which were purplish-red. Similarly, pulp colour ranged from light yellow to light orange. Based on overall performance, cvs. Alphonso, Deshi-1, Deshi-2, Kesar, Khandesi Borasio, Totapuri and Vanraj proved to be superior to the other varieties.


We developed an efficient hybrid mode expansion method to study the maximum tunneling current as a function of the external magnetic field for a 2D large area lateral window junction. We consider the inhomogeneity in the critical current density, which is taken a piecewise constant. The natural modes of the expansion in y, are the linearized eigen-modes around a static solution which satisfies the 1D sine-Gordon equation with the critical current variation in y, and the boundary conditions determined by the overlap component of the bias current, which can be inline or overlap like. The magnetic field along with the inline component of the bias current enters as a boundary condition on the modal amplitudes. We obtain fast convergent results and for a ratio of idle to window widths of w0/w = 4 (in units of λJ), only two modes are needed. A simple scaling is obtained for the maximum tunneling current as we vary the idle region width. We also present the linear electromagnetic waveguide modes taking into acco...


Background HSPCs are targets for benzene-induced hematotoxicity and leukemogenesis. However, benzene toxicity targeting microRNAs (miRNAs) and transcription factors (TF) that are involve in regulating self-renewing and differentiation of HSPCs comprising of different hematopoietic lineages remains poorly understood. In this study, the effect of a benzene metabolite, 1,4-benzoquinone (1,4-BQ) exposure, in HSPCs focusing on the self-renewing (miRNAs: miR-196b and miR-29a; TF: HoxB4, Bmi-1) and differentiation (miRNAs: miR-181a, TF: GATA3) pathways were investigated. Methods Freshly isolated mouse BM cells were initially exposed to 1,4-BQ at 1.25 to 5 µM for 24 h, followed by miRNAs and TF studies in BM cells. Then, the miRNAs expression was further evaluated in HSPCs of different lineages comprised of myeloid, erythroid and pre-B lymphoid progenitors following 7–14 days of colony forming unit (CFU) assay. Results Exposure to 1,4-BQ in BM cells significantly (p < 0.05) reduced the miR-196b (2.5 and 5 µM), miR-181a (1.25, 2.5 and 5 µM) and miR-29a (1.25 µM) along with upregulation of miR-29a at 2.5 µM. Meanwhile, 1,4-BQ exposure in HSPCs significantly increased the miR-196b expression level (p < 0.05) only in myeloid and pre-B lymphoid progenitors at 2.5 and 5 µM. Significant (p < 0.05) reduction in expression of miR-181a in myeloid (1.25 µM), erythroid (5 µM) progenitors along with miR-29a in myeloid (1.25 µM) and pre-B lymphoid (5 µM) progenitors were noted following exposure to 1,4-BQ. Meanwhile, increased expression of miR-181a was observed in pre-B lymphoid progenitor upon exposure to 1,4-BQ, but only at 5 µM. As for TF studies, expression of HoxB4 protein was significantly increased (p < 0.05) at all 1,4-BQ concentrations as compared to Bmi-1 and GATA3, which were significantly (p < 0.05) elevated starting at 2.5 µM of 1,4-BQ. Conclusion 1,4-BQ induces aberration of miRNAs and transcription factors protein expression that are involved in regulating self-renewing and differentiation pathways of HSPCs. Moreover, epigenetic toxicity as evidenced from the miRNAs expression was found to be mediated by a lineage-driven mechanism. The role of cell lineage in governing the toxicity of 1,4-BQ in HSPCs lineages deserves further investigation.


Since March 2020, Italy has been in lockdown due to COVID-19, and individuals have missed all kinds of networking opportunities. Already in the 1st weeks of March, Italian cities' silence was broken by singing. The use of singing as a coping strategy as well as to improve the sense of cohesion is evident. Greater attention should be paid to the development of social cohesion and to social support in terms of social networks and the development of social capital. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).