In this paper, a resilience assessment framework for microencapsulated self-healing cementitious composites is proposed based on a micromechanical damage-healing model. A 3D micromechanical analytical model is constructed to analyze the performance evolution during the damage-healing process of self-healing concrete. The resilience assessment of microencapsulated self-healing concrete is defined by virtue of the residual stiffness, self-healing effect on stiffness and damage cumulative on stiffness, which corresponds to three main features of resilience; namely, the robustness, recoverability and adaptability. The assessment results indicate that the release of healing agents within microcapsules and healing process of extended microcracks allows the microencapsulated self-healing concrete to have higher resilience than conventional concrete. Moreover, a parameter sensitivity analysis is conducted to investigate the influence of the healing efficiency, the applied initial damage and the fracture toughness of the repaired microcrack on resilience of microencapsulated self-healing concrete. The results indicate that higher healing efficiency and applied initial damage leads to high resilience, and fracture toughness of the repaired microcrack makes less difference to the results. The findings of this paper lay a theoretical foundation for the resilience design of self-healing material layer of underground structures.


1. Hand power tool which performs a predetermined operation by the translational motion of the working tool body in the axial direction of the tool, comprising: a power tool body having a front end region to which the working body is attached tool! main handle placed in the back end of the power tool body opposite to the working tool body! auxiliary handle! a mounting member for the auxiliary handle which is attached to the auxiliary handle, and! longitudinally elastic element is disposed between the power tool body and the mounting member for the auxiliary handle in the axial direction of the tool, wherein the longitudinally elastic element is elastically deformed in the axial direction, wherein: a mounting member for the auxiliary handle is movable relative to the power tool body in the axial direction of the tool bit by elastic deformation of the elastic member, thereby reducing the transmission of vibration from the power tool body on the mounting member to the auxiliary handle in the axial direction. ! 2. A tool according to claim 1, further comprising an elastic element in the circumferential direction, which is disposed between the power tool body and the mounting member for the auxiliary handle in the circumferential direction of the working tool body and can be elastically deformed in the circumferential direction, wherein the mounting element for the auxiliary handle is movable relative to housing pref


In this work, a virtual instrument in the LabView™ programming language is presented, which allows handling a linear three-phase power amplifier that drives an induction machine in a wide range of voltages and frequencies. In addition, this work shows the mainfeatures of virtual instruments commonly employed in research or experimental activities that involves signal generation, acquisition data and Matlab interaction. A Matlab™ script program, integrated into the virtual instrument, is used to compute reactive power, active power, apparent power and factor power from acquired voltage and current signals and the implementation of zero phase filter. Finally the instrument was tested in a 0.5 HP, 220V, 60 Hz induction machine.


A two-level algorithm for the two dimensional unsteady Navier-Stokes equations based on a new projection is proposed and investigated. The approximate solution is solved as a sum of a large eddy component and a small eddy component, which are in the sense of the new projection, constructed in this paper. These two terms advance in time explicitly. Actually, the new algorithm proposed here can be regarded as a sort of postprocessing algorithm for the standard Galerkin method (SGM). The large eddy part is solved by SGM in the usual L 2 based large eddy subspace while the small eddy part (the correction part) is obtained in its complement subspace in the sense of the new projection. The stability analysis indicates the improvement of the stability comparing with SGM of the same scale, and the L 2 error estimate shows that the scheme can improve the accuracy of SGM approximation for half order. We also propose a numerical implementation based on Lagrange multiplier for this two-level algorithm.


Abstract Turtle assemblages in Oklahoma are potentially interesting because the species pool is a mixture of eastern and western species, several of which are approaching their longitudinal geographic range boundaries in Oklahoma. From 1996 to 2002, we captured 1,940 turtles in 12 assemblages in central Oklahoma. Pond area ranged from 0.04 to 26.1 ha. Species composition was a mixture of 2 ubiquitous and 3 rare species. Trachemys scripta and Chelydra serpentina occurred in 11 and 10 assemblages, respectively. The rare species included Pseudemys concinna (4 assemblages), Kinosternon flavescens (3), and Apalone spinifera (1). In ponds with multiple species, T. scripta was always the most abundant species (mean ± SD percentage of individuals captured = 80.0 ± 27.4%) and C. serpentina was always the second most abundant (18.5 ± 27.7%). Population density and biomass of T. scripta and C. serpentina varied an order of magnitude and approached maximum published values.


Buchanania lanzan (chironji) is a tree species which belongs to the family Anacardiaceae and is commercially very useful. This is found throughout India, Burma, and Nepal. The plant grows on yellow sandy-loam soil and is commonly found in the dry forests of Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Varanasi and Mirzapur districts of Uttar Pradesh Chironji is an almost evergreen, moderate sized tree, with straight, cylindrical trunk, up to 10-15 m height and tormentors branches. Bark is rough, dark grey or black, fissured into prominent squares, 1.25-1.75 cm thick, and is reddish inside. The fruits of chironji mature in 4 to 5 months and are harvested manually in the month of May and June. The green colored skins of harvested chironji fruits turn black on storage which has to be removed before shelling. In order to remove the skin, fruits are usually soaked overnight in plain water and rubbed between palms or with a jute sack. The water containing fine skin are decanted and International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Special Issue-7 pp. 4680-4684 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com


The invention relates to a method for treating arsenic-containing wastewater by a process of preoxidation-composite coagulation deposition-filtering, and belongs to the technical field of wastewater treatment. The method comprises the steps of adding a certain amount of an oxidizing agent in a reaction tank for preoxidation in a condition that the wastewater contains trivalent arsenic so as to transform the trivalent arsenic into pentavalent arsenic completely, while for the wastewater only contains the pentavalent arsenic, the preoxidation process is not needed; adding a certain amount of a ferrous salt water solution; controlling a molar ration of Fe to As being 5-50; adding acid or alkali to adjust a pH value being 6-8; stirring for 0.1-1 min rapidly, so that a ferric arsenate precipitate is formed, at the same time, the ferrous salt is hydrolyzed into ferrous carbonyl to promote coagulation deposition of the ferric arsenate; adding a solution of 0.1-10 mg/L organic polymer flocculant; stirring for 0.1-1 min rapidly; stirring for 5-10 min slowly, precipitating for 10-30 min, discharging sludge from the bottom, introducing supernatant into a sand filter tank, a filter film or a filter bag, filtering and discharging the effluent. Arsenic content in water after treatment is lower than that of a drinking water standard (less than 10 [mu]g/L) regulated by the world health organization. The method has low sludge production and low cost, and can be used for advanced treatment of the arsenic-containing industrial wastewater and treatment of arsenic polluted underground water and drinking water.


The democratic changes that occurred in the early 90s marked a fundamental turn in the history of the Albanian State and its institutions. The democratic orientation of the state involved the commission of a deep institutional reform, which should open the way for democratic transformations to set up the rule of law and respect for The Human Rights. The Constitutional Court, as one of the most important institutions guaranteeing new constitutional order that was stationed in Albania. Since the beginning this institution was considered, by the Legislature, as the highest authority that guarantees respect for the Constitution and makes final interpretations of it. The Constitutional Court is recognized that it exercises control over judicial decisions and is limited in operation to protect the constitutional rights of every individual to a fair trial. The right to a fair trial is affirmed in Article 42 of the Constitution of the Republic of Albania and has the character of a right-constitutional guarantee. According to the Constitution Constitutional Court guarantees respect for the Constitution and makes its final interpretation, but the Constitutional Court also examines individual complaints of violation of their constitutional rights to a fair trial even after being exhausted all legal remedies to protect their. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n2p231


This paper designed a smart protocol analysis system based on CANopen protocols which has been applied to monitoring and alarm system for marine automation engine room successfully.Tests in practice have proved that embedded CAN-bus listening and capturing device discussed in this paper can achieve high acquirement rate of heavy hitters.It also possesses functions such as listening multi-channel CAN-bus independently and analyzing package information with real-time protocol analysis algorithm with high performance for CANopen application layers.


Education equity is an ultimate goal of education.In recent years,the issue of education equity has been approached from different angles and numerous ways have been proposed to achieve that goal.This paper evaluates the 2007 MOE Free Education for Students of Education(FEFSE) program,and in response to the education equity problems identified in the policy text itself,proposes ways to achieve education equity.It is hoped that this study will provide some useful insight into the issue of sustainable development of education programs.


The electrical resistance versus temperature behaviour of the manganites La 1 - x Ba x MnO 3 (x=0.3,04,05); La 1 - x Pb x MnO 3 (x = 0.2,0.3,0.33) and La 1 - x Sr x MnO 3 (x = 0.1,0.2,0.4) has been investigated. The temperaturesat which the substances have maximum resistance have been found to be much lower than their Curie temperatures. The variation of resistance with temperature is not smooth, but the graphs show different slopes. The electron paramagnetic resonance of these substances shows a new signal in the spectra on a little increase of microwave field from the usual values. It has been interpreted as phase separations in the materials with Mn 3 + and Mn 4 + spins aligned in opposite directions. Based on this idea, magnetic order and electrical resistance of the materials are shown to be directly correlated.


PURPOSE: The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the variance in predicted VO2peak from previously published Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run (PACER) equations in children. The secondary goal was to develop an equation to reduce the variability in the prediction of VO2peak from the PACER. METHODS: Forty-four participants (19 females, 25 males) aged 7-14 years completed a maximal treadmill test and the PACER on non-consecutive days. A portable indirect calorimeter was used to assess VO2 continuously during both exercise bouts. T-tests were used to identify differences between biometric variables and exercise outcomes (VO2peak, heart rate, rating of perceived exertion, PACER laps, and maximal shuttle run speed). Repeated measures ANOVA, Bland-Altman plots, and folded empirical cumulative distribution plots were used to compare treadmill VO2peak and VO2peak predicted from PACER equations. The SDState Junior Jacks Equation was created to predict VO2peak from the PACER using backwards stepwise linear regression. RESULTS: PACER VO2peak prediction equations including a weight-related variable provided a high degree of variability evidenced in mean bias (-0.8 1.1), wide range of limits of agreement (16.8 22.9 ml·kg -1 ·min -1 ), and typical error of estimate (4.2 6.0). The SDState Junior Jacks Equation [VO2peak = -4.34(wc) 3.982(sex) + 0.234(max laps) + 70.544] includes sex (0=males, 1=females), maximum PACER laps, and waist circumference (centimeters) to predict VO2peak from the PACER and provides the lowest typical error of estimate (3.7), small mean difference (-0.6), narrowest range of agreement (15.9 ml·kg -1 ·min -1 ), and most favorable Bland-Altman and mountain plots compared to other PACER equations containing a weight-related variable. CONCLUSIONS: Comparison of predicted VO2peak from PACER equations including a weight-related variable indicates VO2peak prediction can be improved. The SDState Junior Jacks PACER equation is the first PACER equation to evaluate and include waist circumference as a significant predictor of VO2peak. The SDState Junior Jacks PACER equation utilizes sex, PACER laps, and waist circumference to provide a valid, less variable prediction of VO2peak in children.


This article examined what happened at the state party primaries when political parties elected their delegates and candidates to vie for state Houses of Assembly seats for the 2023 general elections in Nigeria. Successful aspirants to state Houses of Assembly are expected in the next four years to make laws on matters that are closest to the grass root. The article however limited its examination of state Assembly primaries to the two dominant political parties – the APC (All Progressive Congress) and the PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) because as of January 2022, these two parties, of the currently registered 18 political parties in Nigeria, controlled 92.8% of the entire state Assembly seats in the 36 states of the Federation. It was established from findings that the problems of imposition of candidates and sponsorship by godfathers characterized the conduct and outcome of party primaries at this level, the extant legal instruments that supposedly ruled against such infractions notwithstanding. This article, by providing a background to this study, established with examples that these problems have existed within the Nigerian political space and in party primaries in particular, during the first second, and third Republics respectively. This creates challenges of accountability when aspirants emerging through this process are elected into office. The article concluded with recommendations on what should be done to limit or eliminate the control of governors, money bags, and godfathers, especially at the level of state Assembly primaries. The emphasis in the recommendations was placed amongst others on the rank-and-file card-carrying members being attracted and retained, as strong financial members of their parties, committed to the party's ideology and programs, and being made therefore to own the party and its structures.


The idea that firms have some market power in wage-setting has been slow to gain acceptance in economics. Indeed, until relatively recently, the textbooks viewed monopsony power as either a theoretical curiosum, or a concept limited to a handful of company towns in the past. This view has been changing rapidly, driven by a combination of theoretical innovations, empirical findings, dramatic legal cases, and new data sets that make it possible to measure the degree of market power in different ways. A search of the EconLit database shows that the number of published journal articles mentioning "monopsony" rose from only two in the 1980s to 20 in the 1990s, 32 in the 2000s, and to 64 in the 2010s. This volume contains a set of 11 papers originally presented at the Sundance Conference onMonopsony in LaborMarkets, organized by three of us (Ashenfelter, Farber and Ransom). Together the papers offer a rich perspective on the current state of research on market power in the labor market. Four of the papers use the framework pioneered by Manning (2003) to estimate the elasticity of labor supply to individual firms. A related paper looks at mobility frictions between cities. Three other papers, building on the "structure–conduct–performance" paradigm of industrial organization, relate the level of wages for specific subgroups of workers to measures of the local concentration


The problem of improvement of postgraduate vocational preparation quality to activity on a joint of
sciences is considered. Interuniversity cooperation, as the mechanism of purposeful transformation of the
educational environment, provides new resource opportunities and additional conditions of improvement of
the scientific staff's education quality. The presented criterion model of the scientific staff's postgraduate
education includes complex criteria and indicators of quality of components of scientifically-educational
process, resource maintenance and results of postgraduate students education. The offered complex system of
an estimation of postgraduate preparations quality can be used for carrying out of a self-estimation and the
comparative analysis of efficiency of activity of postgraduate studies.


The objective of investigations for buried river beds and alluvial fans might primarily be water or raw material prospecting but it might be of archaeological importance, too. Ancient settlements can frequently be found close to a water supply, e.g. a river, thus, delineation of river beds could help in finding ancient or historical settlements. Analyzis of aerial photographs and topographic maps of proper scale is the best means for this purpose.


Scientific and technological cooperation and construction of innovation system have very important strategic meanings in promoting the coordinated development of Northeast Asian ST and economy.This paper proposes the countermeasure and suggestion of the construction of Northeast Asian innovation system on basis of discussing the intension of Northeast Asian scientific and technological cooperation,relation of scientific and technological cooperation and construction of innovation system.


Since testing for COVID-19 infections is not at all randomized over the general population, most epidemiological model forecasts of deaths are subject to 'selec


Internet of Things (IoT) is a common thing (object) in today's world, which serves as part of our routine life activities. Although it benefits the residential district in several ways, various challenges such as data confidentiality and privacy are created.Cryptography and Steganography are the two major techniques for secret communicationIn this paper we propose a lightweight encryption algorithm named as Secure internet of things (SIT). It is a 64-bit block cipher and requires 64-bit key to encrypt the data. Now this encrypted image is embedded with stego image by using LSB Approach of Steganography. Our proposed model gives two layers of security for secret data, which fully satisfy the basic key factors of information security system that includes: Confidentiality, Authenticity, Integrity and Non – Repudiation.


: The need for biomass as an alternative source for energy purposes points toward oil palm fruit residues ( Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) as an attractive solution. Oil palm industry residue, such as oil palm empty fruit bunch (EFB) composites and mesocarp fiber (PMF), have a high gross calorific value and could help countries meet their energy demands. However, information concerning physical, mechanical, and energy characteristics of agro-pellets made from mixtures of oil palm residue with pine sawdust, is not available. In this research, oil palm residues were mixed at ratios of 100:0, 80:20, 60:40, 40:60, 20:80, and 0:100 with pine sawdust, and were chemically analyzed. Agro-pellets from mixtures were tested on their physical and mechanical properties, and the relationship of these properties with the chemical composition of oil palm residue mixtures was determined. Normality distribution tests of the variables were performed using the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test. Normal variables were analyzed through one-way ANOVA tests. When di ff erences were found, they were validated using the Tukey's honestly significant di ff erence (HSD) test and were considered statistically significant at p ≤ 0.05. Data not normally distributed were analyzed by the Kruskal–Wallis test. Bulk density, particle density, and gross calorific value of agro-pellets (from mixing 80:20 oil palm residues with pine sawdust) were statistically higher ( p < 0.05) to agro-pellets of 100% oil palm residues. Adding pine sawdust to oil palm residues increases some mechanical agro-pellet properties. Addition of pine sawdust oil palm residues some mechanical properties of agro-pellets.


We study a single-period optimal transport problem on $\mathbb{R}^2$ with a covariance-type cost function $c(x,y) = (x_1-y_1)(x_2-y_2)$ and a backward martingale constraint. We show that a transport plan $\gamma$ is optimal if and only if there is a maximal monotone set $G$ that supports the $x$-marginal of $\gamma$ and such that $c(x,y) = \min_{z\in G}c(z,y)$ for every $(x,y)$ in the support of $\gamma$. We obtain sharp regularity conditions for the uniqueness of an optimal plan and for its representation in terms of a map. Our study is motivated by a variant of the classical Kyle model of insider trading from Rochet and Vila (1994).


Erdos develop the new industry mainly,especially construct the equipment manufacturing industry quickly.It is necessary to make great efforts to induction and construction for the corporate champion,perform the advantage of the corporate champion,mating lateral,extending longitudinal,then forming a scope.At the same times,the government applicant the preferential policy and draft the strategy behave about the technique,talentierte person and the funds.All this measure provide the strong indemnity to the casting for the district economic.


According to the basic principle of light ray propagation, the collimating characteristic, the intensity distribution, the transfer efficiency of light energy and the transport coefficient for the laser diode ray in the fast axis direction passing through a cylindrical lens are analytically calculated and discussed. Based on analyzing a few of adjustable parameters, such as the radius of cylindrical lens, media index, media loss, lens location, and interface reflection, some conclusions are deduced that the location of cylindric lens directly influence the collimating effect of diode rays; lens radius, media index, and media loss not only influence spot size, intensity distribution, and energy transport, but also newly polarization distribution. That is to say, the cylindrical lens must be set out of focus slightly and the every parameter including the optical coating of transform system must be optimized. Above consequences are usefull to design a collimating system with micro cylindrical lens that can considerably decrease the diverging angle of laser diode in fast axis and improve beam quality.


An increase in the concentration of extracellular potassium from 3.6 to 8.4 mmol/1 had only a small delayed effect on the uptake of radioactive calcium by isolated adrenal glomerulosa cells. However, the same stimulus had a rapid and highly significant effect on the efflux of radioactive calcium from glomerulosa cells preloaded with 45Ca2+. Cells incubated in medium containing 8.4 mmol potassium/1 had retained approximately 15% more radioactivity than conrol cells after 2.5 min and this difference was maintained for up to 90 min. There was an increase in the production of steroids by the glomerulosa cells in the presence of 8.4 mM-potassium. No effect on calcium efflux was observed in similar experiments with isolated fasciculata cells; it has been established that this concentration of potassium does not affect steroidogenesis in fasciculata cells, indicating that the effect on glomerulosa cells may be causally linked to steroidogenesis. There was no significant change in the total calcium content of glomerulosa cells in the presence of 8.4 mM-potassium. Exchangeable calcium in these cells was found to be 60% of the total calcium content.


Thirty Bhot jolokia (Capsicum chinense Jacq) accessions from three different states of north east region were evaluated in a thorough field exploration with enough geographical representation to assess genotypic coefficient of variation (GCV), phenotypic coefficient of variation (PCV), heritability (h2%) and genetic advance (GA). Higher GCV and PCV were observed for plant height, fruits per plant, fruit weight, fruit length, fruit width and number of seeds per fruit. High heritability coupled with high genetic advance observed for these characters imply the potential for crop improvement through selection. Using the SPSS (version 13.0) software, cluster analysis was performed based on maximum and minimum Euclidian dissimilarity distances which separate the thirty accessions of C. chinense into six distinct clusters with distinct morphological variation between the clusters.


Military regulations are a set of guidelines and constraints to guide and regulate military behavior. They contain many contents and have complex relationship with each other. This paper studies the knowledge modeling method of military regulations based on knowledge graphs, analyzes the element composition of military regulations, constructs the knowledge ontology of military regulations, gives the construction process of military regulations knowledge graph and the similarity analysis method of graph based on knowledge graph network, and analyzes the application of knowledge graph construction, it provides support for the overall grasp of military regulations and the construction and implementation of military regulations.


Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH) have been successful in many fields such as economy, ecology, medical diagnostics, signal processing, and control systems but given a little attention in hydrology field especially for flood estimation at ungauged sites.  Ungauged site basically mean the site of interest is no flood peak data available. This paper presented application of GMDH model at ungauged site to predict flood quantile for T=10 year and T=100 year. There five catchment characteristics implement in this study that are catchment area, elevation, longest drainage path, slope of the catchment and mean maximum annual rainfall. The total number of catchment used for this study is 70 catchments in Peninsular Malaysia. Four quantitative standard statistical indices such as mean absolute error (MAE), root mean square error (RMSE) and Nash-Sutcliffe coefficient of efficiency (CE) are employed. Based on these results, it was found that the GMDH model outperforms the prediction ability of the traditional LR model.


Methods of complementary medicine formerly used mainly by lay practitioners are increasingly being applied by the general practitioner. Although this may appear surprising, one of the main reasons why this is so lies in the great progress of medical science and even greater advances in medical technology. These are bound to fascinate medical students: but as young doctors leave the hospital with its impressive and expensive laboratories to set up in general practice, they soon find that what they have learned there is of limited use without all the sophisticated apparatus. They are called upon to deal with another type of patient, one in whom technology produces few results. Whereas patients seen in hospital usually present a pathological condition which can be identified by laboratory methods, many patients seen in general practice offer negative findings. Yet they genuinely suffer from the symptoms for which they seek help. This is particularly so if the patient suffers pain arising from the locomotor system.


Compared with input-to-state (ISS) stability in global version, the concept of locally input-to-state (LISS) stability is more relevant and meaningful in practice. However, the local property raises difficulties in estimating the local region, which is seldom seen in literature. It is the aim of this paper is to investigate local regions of initial states and external inputs for the given system. We first present that a system is LISS if it admits a LISS-Lyapunov function. Then incorporating the result of Damidovich, a theorem by virtue of quadratic form LISS-Lyapunov functions to identify LISS properties is established. An example serves as a demonstration.


Video encoders are an important IP block in mobile multimedia systems. In this paper, we describe a low-cost low-power multi-standard (MPEG4, JPEG, and H.263) video/image encoder. The low-cost and low-power aspects are achieved by the right choice of algorithms and architectures. In the algorithm front, an embedded compression technique for reducing the size of loop memory has enabled a single-chip low-cost realization of the encoder. Further, the hardware components that accelerate the kernels of encoding are implemented as application specific instruction-set processors (ASIPs) thereby providing flexibility to address multi-standard encoding. The power and area estimates for the encoder for QCIF@15fps in 0.18 /spl mu/m CMOS technology are 30 mW and 20 mm/sup 2/ respectively including the loop memory.


Chemical properties experiment plays a great role in cultivating students experimental qualities.This article discussed how to emphasize it in the teaching such as teacher's qualities,teaching method,teaching material choosing to use,and teachers ideas.


In this paper, we present a new method to compute the differential characteristics of isointensity surfaces from three-dimensional images. We show applications where those differentials properties are used to extract characteristic lines from 3D images, called crest lines. The crest lines extracted from different images of the same object are then registered to demonstrate the precision and robustness of our computation. Those experiments also show the direct correspondence between geometrical and anatomical features, for medical images. To compute the differential characteristics of surfaces, such as the principal curvatures, and directions, a traditional approach is to fit a parametric surface model to the 3D image and then to compute the differential characteristics of the surface in the local coordinate system. On the contrary, our method is based on the implicit representation of the surface, and the differential values of the isointensity surfaces are directly computed from the voxel image, without extracting any surface first. In our method, the principal curvatures and directions equations have been derived from the implicit functions theorem, leading to entirely new formulas, which make use of only the differentials of the 3D image, and which allow us to get rid of the problem of parametrizing the surfaces.


1. During the second World War, when he was just setting out to build Faulkner's reputation into the national monument it has since become, Malcolm Cowley placed Absalom, Absalom! "in the realm of Gothic romances, with Sutpen's Hundred taking the place of the haunted castle on the Rhine, with Colonel Sutpen as Faust and Charles Bon as Manfred." (1) By now one is aware of so many louder literary echoes, so many prototypes and conventions Faulker assimilated into his most ambitious novel, that one hesitates to single out the Gothic vein once again. What if Leslie Fiedler does call it "the most gothic of Faulkner's books"? He has found a Goth hiding under the bed of practically every virgin in American literature, and I cannot agree with him that it is the Gothic form "that has been most fruitful in the hands of our best writers." (2) Rather I tend to share Cleanth Brooks's annoyance when he calls this Faulkner's greatest work and insists it is a great deal more than "Gothic sauce to spice up our preconceptions about the history of American society." He cites as a typical misreading one preface that starts off, "It is a terrible Gothic sequence of events, a brooding tragic fable...." (3) Undaunted by these strictures critics nevertheless go on using the epithet without defining it or explaining why it seems to them important. Thus Michael Millgate, considering Absalom more like Jane Eyre than Moby-Dick, finds that Faulkner has resumed the Gothic tradition from "European sources," without saying what these are, what they signify, or how Faulkner came by them. (4) As Millgate observes, both Faulkner's and Charlotte Bronte's plots are set in great houses which harbor secret inmates and are set on fire by desperate females, who go up in flames. The Pequod and the House of Usher also harbor secret inmates and go down in water, though the Pequod is without desperate females. Are these significant likenesses--or distinctions? The question might rather be whether these are stately tragic endings or just melodramatic and contrived. Insofar as they may be "Gothic," is it a virtue or a flaw? Concluding his essay "Revaluation of the Gothic Novel" with an unusually warped summary of the "diseased and disgusting" world depicted in Sanctuary, Robert D. Hume decides it is indeed Gothic, hence "offers no conclusions." "It emphasizes psychological reaction to evil," he writes, "and leads into a tangle of moral ambiguity for which no meaningful answers can be found." (5) To counter such a self-defeating and pointless conclusion one must both redefine the Gothic and give some regard to the corpus of Faulkner's work. For this purpose I think Absalom a more promising starting point than Sanctuary if only because the segment of Faulkner's world it transects is more comprehensive with respect to human and literary history than Sanctuary taken by itself. Here I propose to test Brooks's conclusion and some others against my own reading and to give the Gothic element no more than its due in accounting for the book's triumphs and its shortcomings. 2. Any examination of a book with such a singular title must pause to consider the relevance of that title to the author's intention. Faulkner could have picked one alluding to the house of Sutpen or even the house of Compson. Just as the title of the favorite earlier work which introduced Quentin recalls the disintegration and despair of Macbeth, so the title of this sequel evokes the anguish of David in his Pyrrhic victory over his rebellious son. In each case the hero's soliloquy summarizes the despair that comes over him as his ambitious career passes in review before his eyes and he sees himself diminished by the punishment it has invited. What distinguishes Sutpen from David is that he founds no line and has no prophet like Nathan to point out the enormity of his transgressions. Starting from humble, country-bred obscurity, both do achieve epic renown. …


Constrained by the number of transmitted data streams, this paper proposes sub-carrier allocation (SA) and hybrid precoding (HP) designs for sum-rate maximization in mm-wave OFDMA systems. The optimization is first formulated as a computation sparsity-constrained HP design problem, which is non-convex and challenging to solve. Two two-stage solution approaches are proposed. In the first approach, a fully digital precoder (FDP) is optimized considering the computation sparsity constraint in the first stage. In the second approach, the sparsity constraint is only imposed in the second stage. To find the FDP, we employ the minimization of the weighted mean-squared error and the  $\ell 1$ -reweighted methods to tackle the non-convex objective function and sparsity constraints, respectively. In the second stage of each approach, we exploit an alternating weighted mean-squared error minimization algorithm to reconstruct HP's based on the FDP found in the first stage. Two novel analog precoding designs, namely semi-definite-relaxation-based and projected-gradient-descent-based, are then proposed to optimize the analog part of the obtained HP's. We also study the impacts of various system parameters on the system sum-rate and provide resource provisioning insights for HP systems. Numerical results show the superior performances of the proposed designs over joint SA and HP benchmark algorithms.


Orostachys japonicus is traditionally used as anti‐inflammatory, anti‐febrile, hemostatic, anti‐dote, and anti‐cancer agent in Korea. The soluble faction of ethyl acetate (EtOAc) showed the highest anti‐cancer activity on AGS human gastric cancer cells. Further factions of EtOAc extracts were performed by HPLC. The aim of the present study was to investigate the apoptotic activity of further fraction of EtOAc fraction of O. japonicus in AGS cells. ASG cells were cultured in several concentration of further fraction of EtOAc fraction. The apoptotic effect of further fractions of EtOAc fraction was measured using MTS assay, annexin V‐FITC, PI‐labeling, and western blotting. In MTS assay, the survival rates were decreased in dose‐dependent manner. O. japonicus‐induced apoptosis was confirmed by assays with annexin V‐FITC, PI‐labeling. The increase in apoptosis level induced was associated with down‐regulation of Bcl‐2 and activation of Bax, caspase ‐3, ‐8 and ‐9.


Antenna structure is the typical method that monitors plasma damage during semiconductor manufacture process.Generally,this structure is used for monitoring MOS transistor gate oxide damage in plasma process.In this paper,the structure is used to monitor the process damage to LPNP transistor emitter junction.Experiment shows that the output IV curve of LPNP transistor with antenna appears kink effect.It is not considered as a result of emitter junction damage and the process does no damage to the emitter junction.The kink effect will disappear with the guard ring connected with low voltage potential.The guard ring voltage potential varies in wide range,but the output IV curve shows no difference.The current with guard ring connected with low potential is bigger than that with guard ring floating.With the collector voltage increasing,the current is equal to each other.


Sports news is a type of discourse that is characterized by a specific vocabulary, style, and tone, and it is typically focused on conveying information about sporting events, athletes, and teams. Thematic context-based deep learning is a powerful approach that can be used to analyze and interpret various forms of natural language, including the discourse expression of sports news. An application model of sign language and lip language recognition based on deep learning is proposed to facilitate people with hearing impairment to easily obtain sports news content. First, the lip language recognition system is constructed; next, MobileNet lightweight network combined with Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) is used to extract lip reading features. ResNet-50 residual network structure isadopted to extract the features of sign language; finally, the convergence, accuracy, precision and recall of the model are verified respectively. The results show that the loss of training set and test set converges gradually with the increase of iteration times; the lip language recognition model and the sign language recognition model basically tend to be stable after 14 iterations and 12 iterations, respectively, suggesting a better convergence effect of sign language recognition. The accuracy of sign language recognition and lip language recognition is 98.9% and 87.7%, respectively. In sign language recognition, the recognition accuracy of numbers 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8 can reach 100%. In lip language recognition, the recognition accuracy of numbers 2, 3 and 9 is relatively higher. This exploration can facilitate hearing-impaired people to quickly obtain the relevant content in sports news videos, and also provide help for their communication.


The article analyses the problem of admissibility and legal grounds for the payer to claim from the insured the return of a part of the premium paid from the payer's own resources, which according to the Act is financed by the insured. The study attempts to assess whether there is a gap in social insurance law in this case, or whether it can be based on another basis — by applying the provisions of the Civil Code on unjust enrichment or third party performance — to formulate an appropriate recourse claim of the contribution payer against the insured. Assumptions about the legislator's linguistic and axiological rationality were made as a reference point for the considerations and in-terpretations of legal provisions.


Frequently oral cancer affects men, in the fifth decade of life and exposed to risk factors such as smoking and chronic alcoholism mainly. In recent years, an increased incidence of oral cancer has been observed in young female patients without exposure to the most common risk factors cited in the literature. This study deals with a review of national and international literature covering original articles, consensus and meta-analyzes. Due to the difficulty of finding articles related to the theme, the search date was not limited. The etiology and pathogenesis of oral cancer in women is not well established. For young women, many authors state the multifactorial cause and the association of factors such as: viral agents (human papilloma virus), type of diet, work environment, immunosuppressive drugs, Fanconi syndrome, anemia, genetic background and hormonal factors. However, further studies are needed to investigate the causes of oral cavity tumors in young female patients, as the literature shows a 40% increase in the incidence of new cases in patients who are not associated with commonly known risks.


This study focuses on developing a global/local three-dimensional (3D) finite element model of a Kevlar KM2® plain woven fabric applicable for examining ballistic impact from a spherical projectile. The impact event is modeled in LS-DYNA® including friction between the individual yarns as well as the projectile and fabric. When compared with the predictive capabilities of a 3D finite element model that includes the detailed undulating representation of the fabric architecture over the entire solution domain, the savings in computational effort afforded by the global/local model become especially attractive. The agreement with fully detailed 3D finite element simulations and ballistic experiments is also demonstrated.


The invention discloses an NURBS interpolator pulse uniform output device and equipment thereof. The NURBS interpolator pulse uniform output device comprises an interconnection module and a user logic module, wherein the interconnection module is connected with a processor used for outputting a pulse period number and an interpolation period set value and is used for receiving the pulse period number and the interpolation period set value which are output by the processor; and the user logic module is connected with a motor and is used for controlling the level and the direction of pulse signals output to the motor according to the pulse period number and the interpolation period set value received by the interconnection module. The interconnection module is connected with the processor used for outputting the pulse period number and the interpolation period set value, so that the user logic module connected with the motor is capable of controlling the level and the direction of the pulse signals output to the motor according to the pulse period number and the interpolation period set value received by the interconnection module, division calculation and rounding calculation are not needed, and the technical problem of an existing NURBS interpolator that errors are generated by the division calculation and the rounding calculation is solved.


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 A description is provided for Thecotheus crustaceus, which has been recorded on dung. Some information on its habitat, dispersal and transmission, and conservation status is given, along with details of its geographical distribution (North America (Canada (Ontario, Yukon), USA (California, Michigan, New York, North Dakota, Tennessee)), South America (Argentina), Asia (Azerbaijan, Japan, Taiwan), Atlantic Ocean (Portugal (Azores), Spain (Canary Islands)), Australasia (New Zealand), Europe (Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Sweden, UK)). No evaluation has been made of any possible positive economic impact of this fungus (e.g. as a recycler, as a source of useful products, as a provider of checks and balances within its ecosystem, etc.). Also, no reports of negative economic impacts have been found.


A hybrid approach, combining the method of lines (MoL) and transverse resonance technique (TRT), is presented for the analysis of microstrip step discontinuities that are printed on uniaxial or biaxial bi-anisotropic substrates. The method of lines, formulated in terms of Kronecker products, is used to determine the characteristic equation for the resonant length. The transverse resonance technique is applied to obtain the S-parameters of the junction by casting the discontinuity problem as a microwave equivalent network. Good agreement is found between results of the MoL/TRT approach and those obtained by other methods. Effects of individual tensor elements of the substrate on the scattering parameters of the discontinuity are investigated at selected frequencies. The proposed MoL/TRT approach is found to converge very fast and does not require excessive computer memory, with all computations performed on a 486DX-50 MHz PC. >


This study aims to explore the relationship between corporate governance and financial performance of publicly listed family and non-family firms in the Japanese manufacturing industry. The study obtains data from Bloomberg over the period 2014–2018 and covers 1412 firms comprising of 861 non-family and 551 family firms. Our results show that family firms outperform non-family counterparts in terms of return on assets (ROA) and Tobin's Q when a univariate analysis is invoked. On multivariate analysis, family firms show superior performance to non-family firms with Tobin's Q. However, family ownership negates firm performance when ROA is taken into account. Regarding the impact of governance elements on Tobin's Q, institutional shareholding appears to be a significant and positive factor for promoting the performance of both family and non-family firms. Furthermore, board size encourages the performance of non-family firms, while such influence is not observed for family firms. In terms of ROA, foreign ownership inspires the performance of both family and non-family firms. Moreover, government ownership stimulates the performance of family firms, while board independence significantly negates the same. Besides, we find that the performance of family firms run by the founder's descendants is superior to that of family firms run by the founder. These findings have critical policy implications for family firms in Japan.


The MM and MB isoenzymes of creatine kinase exist in serum as a collectionof at least three major MM and two major MB isoforms.Each of these are derived from single tissue MM and MB isoforms, which are converted to these other forms by carboxypeptidase N after their release from necroticskeletal and myocardialtissue.Measurementof the MM isoforms in ischemic heart disease is useful for early diagnosisof acute myocardialinfarctionand for the noninvasive determinationof coronaryartery reperfusionfor infarction patientsreceivingthrombolytictherapy. Because MM is also released in acute skeletal-muscledisease, MB isoform measurements may have the highest clinical sensitivity. These determinationsare importantfor providingobjective informationto cardiologistswho need to make criticaldecisionsconcerningthe managementof these patients.I review the proceduresfor treating patientswith myocardialinfarction, the potential role of CK isoforms, and the methods currentlyavailableforisoformanalysis,includinghigh-resolution electrophoresis,isoelectricand chromatofocusing,and liquid chromatography. Rapid and highly sensitive methods are needed for implementation of CK-MM and MB isoforms for prospective emergency determinations for patients with acute myocardialinfarction.


This study evaluated the antioxidant capacity and vitamin "E" content in strawberries fortified with synthetic vitamin E (dl-α-tocopherol acetate) by vacuum impregnation technique. The vitamin is quantified by HPLC and their levels are recorded per 100 g fresh fruit. The antioxidant capacity was determined during storage in samples packaged with and without vacuum, by the methods DPPH, FRAP and Folin-Cicalteau. The impregnation process can achieve levels in strawberry of 19.12 ± 3.01 mg of vitamin E dl-α-tocopherol acetate/100 g in fresh fruit, with no significant effect over time of storage or the type of packaging. These results were consistent to increased antioxidant capacity as values DPPH, FRAP and Folin-Cicalteau in the order of 14.7%, 82.2% and 56.8% respectively. In general, the results reflect a strengthening of the antioxidant capacity of strawberries, by the effect of vitamin E incorporated by the vacuum impregnation process.


Global and regional‐scale estimates of biomass burning emissions rely on satellite data products with varying spatial resolution. In heterogeneous landscapes, moderate‐resolution fire location data may not capture fine‐scale variation in fuel type, leading to both random and systematic error in emissions. Using 120‐meter land cover data for the Amazon basin, we estimate the probability of accurate classification of individual fires at 88% for MODIS and 74% for GOES. Classification error limits the ability of emission models to reproduce patterns of emissions, and can only be reduced by innovative use of current satellite data or ancillary data. Emissions biases caused by spatial error vary with regional distribution of fire types. For regional‐scale studies in the Amazon Basin, we estimate emissions biases of +3% to +19% for MODIS and +6% to +39% for GOES. The difference between these two systems is an important consideration for multi‐sensor fire applications.


We studied one kind of second-order multi-point boundary value problem under given conditions and found that the problem had a nonnegative symmetric solution.Furthermore,we could give the solution a limitation.


The people and objects of Dickens' world seem caught by sutprise in the midst of a universal metamorphosis. Objects behave like people; people verge on the inanimate; or they resemble animals, birds, ftsh, and other inhuman forms of life. Charming or fearsome, the vision is more than idiosyncrasy: it has the power and consistency of myth. Of the ftrst two phenonerna, animism suggests a moral world instinct with power and feeling sutrounding the characters, while the reverse effect, de-animation, suggests imaginative and sympathetic atrophy, death in life, in characters like Scrooge, the Murdstones, the Smallweeds, and Mrs. CleImam. Some of the principles of this "gruesome spiritual transformation" have been generally stated in an original exploratory essay by Dorothy Van Ghent,' but the characters resembling animals, a more miscellaneous gathering than the petrifted characters, have received less attention, though they form no less a part of the symbolic pattern. Hugh, hostler of the Maypole in Barnaby Rudge, though not the ftrst such character, affords the best starting point. In the words of John Willet:


Nowadays, Indonesia shopping patterns have significantly changed. E-commerce continues to grow rapidly as online shopping has become increasingly attractive. Online shopping saves time and offers convenience. This study was conducted in order to assess the impact of utilitarian and hedonic values on purchasing from online stores in Indonesia. The focus of the assessment was on five dimensions of hedonism and utilitarianism, which are: usefulness, enjoyment, ease of use, trustworthiness, and distribution channel (settlement). A total of 484 respondents were randomly asked to be participants. A questionnaire was the research instrument used to survey the participants for data gathering. The data was then analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Among the indicators tested, it was found that usefulness, enjoyment, ease of use, and distribution channel impacted hedonic values and utilitarian values significantly. Trustworthiness was the dimension that was not significant. For this study, the hypothesis was made that usefulness and enjoyment positively impacted impulsiveness. It can be concluded that whether due to utilitarian, hedonic, or impulsive motives, it will not be a problem. Indonesian shoppers will make purchases thru online shopping even if they have different motivations and purposes.


Aiming at the difficulty of single-phase grounding fault line selection in a small current grounding system, a distribution network fault line selection method based on modified CEEMDAN and convolutional neural network is proposed. Firstly, the random forest and multiscale permutation entropy are used to modify the Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition Adaptive Noise algorithm (CEEMDAN), and the zero-sequence current of each line is decomposed into a series of intrinsic mode functions through the modified CEEMDAN (MCEEMDAN) algorithm. Secondly, the intrinsic mode function is transformed into the image formation by using the signal-image conversion method, and the generated image is upgraded to a three-dimensional color image by combining pseudo-color coding technology. Finally, the color images converted from the signals of each line are fused as the input of the GoogLeNet network, and the fault line selection of the distribution network is realized in the form of probability output by the Softmax function. The experimental results show that the proposed method has not only strong feature extraction ability and high recognition accuracy but also has good anti-noise and robustness.


This presentation gives an overview of semi-presidential studies since the early 1990s. It identifies three areas in which the study of semi-presidentialism has advanced, but also identifies challenges for the future study of semi-presidentialism.


In the proceedings of CASCON'2003 we published an article entitled "A Paradigm Shift: Alternative Interaction Techniques for Use with Mobile & Wearable Devices" and were honoured to receive the Best Paper Award for that year's conference. A decade on, we are equally honoured to have the same paper recognised as the Most Influential Paper of the 2003 conference. To this end, we have been asked to provide a brief overview of our intervening research in relation to that original publication, and so that is the purpose of this extended abstract.


SCIENCE POLICYA group of scientists met last week in Washington, D.C., at a "Biosummit," part of a new campaign to focus public attention on the importance of the life sciences.


The paper analyses the role of publicly accessible single phase charging infrastructure with charging currents of 7 A, 10 A and 16 A in the low voltage grid for an economically viable transformation of the informal transport market of three-wheeler motorcycles in Dar es Salaam from fossil propulsion to battery electric drives. An intensive stakeholder process is conducted to analyse the socioeconomic boundary conditions for this transformation. GPS track data of 65 vehicles in four driver groups is collected for 8 days apiece. The data is analysed to study the driving demand of the informal transport market in Dar es Salaam.Our results show that the increased weight of lead acid batteries cannot be easily compensated for by installing additional charging opportunities. Coincidence factor analysis reveals, that sharing of opportunity charging infrastructure is possible without reduction of the service level. Li-ion batteries plus publically accessible charging infrastructure shows the potential for the transformation within the next 10-15 years.


To investigate the preventing effects and possible mechanism of angiotensin AT-1 receptor blocker (ARB), losartan on renal protein kinase C(PKC) in diabetic rats. Experiment diabetic rats were induced by peritoneal injection of streptozotocin. The rats were randomly divided into following groups: normal control (group C), streptozotocin diabetic rats (group D) and diabetic rats treated with losartan (group DL). After twenty-four weeks, glomeruli were isolated. ①Subcellular fraction prepared and partially purified. Subcellular distribution of PKC was detected by using ATP as the phosphorus donor; ②The concentration of serum and urine creatinine or the creatinine clearance rate was also determined. After 24 weeks, diabetic rats had obvious renal hypertrophy. The activity of PKC in cytosolic fraction was found significantly decreased in glomeruli from diabetic rats as compared to the control. Total cellular PKC activity was not significantly changed. The PKC in membrane fraction and the percentage of PKC activity associated with the membrane fraction of glomeruli from diabetic rats were found significantly increased, meanwhile, losartan can prevent the increases of PKC activity in glomeruli of diabetic rats. Creatinine clearance rate or 24-h urine protein of group DL was lower than that of group D. [Conclusion] Losartan possesses a renal protective effect on diabetic rats, whose mechanism may be associated partly with a down-regulation of PKC activity.


The concept of a particular atom, compound or group of compounds being transformed by geochemical, anthropogenic and biological processes on a global scale is not new: the cycling of water and carbon and nitrogen have been recognised in biology and geography. A similar cycle can be constructed for sulphur, which at the most basic level is much like that of carbon. The primary difference is that unlike carbon dioxide (C02) and photosynthesis, biological agents do not play as great a part in the removal of sulphur compounds from the atmosphere to a terrestrial form.


Any delay introduced in healthcare applications could critically affect the health of patients. Edge computing paradigm has been introduced recently as an alternative to develop such applications, where a rapid response is necessary to ensure the immediate assistance of patients when they need help. In this chapter, the authors propose an edge-of-things computing-based architecture, which illustrates the benefits of the realization of IoT under edge computing approach. The proposed architecture offers significant advantages: 1) it reduces the latency time in the data transmission for processing and analysis; 2) it improves the response time of the delivery of notifications or emergency alerts; 3) it provides real-time processing and big data analysis in the proximity of data sources; 4) it enables interoperability between heterogeneous devices; and 5) it provides security and QoS in the data transmission. The usefulness and relevance of the proposed architecture is evaluated through the implementation of a smart healthcare system applied to a medical case study.


Our study is the follow up and spatial analysis of a number of physico-chemical parameters of water wells located at different distances from the city dump Kenitra. The absence of a source of drinking water in the region pushes the population to feed by groundwater sinks. The results show that the majority of the analysed parameters exceed drinking water standards for the discharge of three wells (P1, P2, P3) at said source of water, it is found that the pH (7.8) EC (3.3ms/cm), Ca+ Mg (7.6ms/cm), Ca2+ (186.4mg/L) Mg2 + (80.6 mg/l) , Na+ (43.7 mg/l), K+ (6.6 mg/l) NH4+ (2.7mg/l), Cl (94.5 mg/l), HCO3(287.7mg /l), CO3 (797.5 mg / l), SO4 (26.0 mg / l). Far exceed the WHO drinking water standards and water standards and Moroccan waters twenty wells in the area Mnasra physicochemical results Ph (7.4) EC (0.8ms/cm), Ca Mg+(3.1ms/cm), Ca2+(106.8mg/l), Mg2+ (11.3 mg/l), Na+(68.5 mg / l), K+(7.4 mg/l) NH4+ (2 mg/l), Cl (94.5mg/l), HCO3(236.4 mg/l), CO3(95.8 mg/l), SO4(86.3 mg/l), Thus, the diagnosis revealed the presence of a very important pollution by leachate wells discharge is compared with the well Mnasra region. As well as the phenomenon of the increase of the water can be generated by processes of erosion, leaching and infiltration of land in the region (phosphate layers, marl and limestone intercalated) caused by the acidity due this pollution.


At present, the Half Bridge Modular Multilevel Converter (HBMMC) has been studied and applied most frequently because of low cost and simple control. However, due to the topological structure, the half-bridge sub-module carried by HBMMC does not have the ability of DC short circuit fault clearing. Therefore, this paper takes Full Bridge Modular Multilevel Converter (FBMMC) with DC short-circuit fault ride through capability as the research object, and carries out the research around the topology, equivalent mathematical model, operation characteristics and system control framework of FBMMC under grid voltage unbalance. Finally, the correctness of the analysis and the effectiveness of the proposed method are verified in Matlab/Simulink simulation and the experimental platform.


Combining with GB 50011-2001 Architectural Seismic Design Regulation,the paper,aiming at the cracks which are easily occur on the cast-in-situ reinforced concrete floor,analyzes all kinds of factors of the cracks,and points out the suggestions and methods for the crack control from the design,the construction,the materials etc.,so as to direct the practice.


There are several well-known methods that one can use to construct Hadamard matrices from base sequences BS(m,n). In view of the recent classification of base sequences BS(n+1,n) for n <= 30, it may be of interest to show on an example how prolific these methods are. For that purpose we have selected the Hadamard matrices of order 60. By using these methods and the transposition map we have constructed 1759 nonequivalent Hadamard matrices of order 60.


Modern surveillance requirements in large thermal recovery oil fields overwhelm manual efforts at collection, retrieval, and reporting of operations and production data. The introduction of a customized data base management and reporting system for this purpose can benefit Operations and Engineering through increased production from timelier awareness of field operating conditions, reduced operating expenses, better steam utilization, and significant manpower productivity increases.


The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in smart homes has significantly improved the quality of life, offering enhanced convenience, automation, and energy efficiency. However, this proliferation of connected devices raises critical concerns regarding security and privacy of the user data. In this paper, we propose a differential privacy-based system to ensure comprehensive security for data generated by smart homes. We employ the randomized response technique for the data and utilize Local Differential Privacy (LDP) to achieve data privacy. The data is then transmitted to an aggregator, where an obfuscation method is applied to ensure individual anonymity. Furthermore, we implement the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) technique at the aggregator level and apply differential privacy to the private data received from smart homes. Consequently, our approach achieves a dual layer of privacy protection, addressing the security concerns associated with IoT devices in smart cities.


The single factor experiment was used to determine the impact of temperature, pH, C/N, carbon source and ammonium concentration on ammonium removal of the strain wsw-1001 at low temperature. Results showed that no significant difference was found at lower temperature ranges from 8 ℃ to15 ℃. The highest ammonium removal efficiency was found at20 ℃. The pH range from 7.0 to 9.0 was helpful for the ammonium removal. C/N ratio affected the ammonium removal. Ammonium removal efficiency was lower at C/N5, was higher at C/N5. At C/N=10, ammonium removal rate was the highest.Different carbon sources did not affect ammonium removal. The ammonium removal rate were similar using sodium citrate,sodium acetate, glucose, sodium carbonate and glycerol as carbon sources. Initial ammonium concentration affected the ammonium removal rate. It was higher when initial ammonium concentration were less than 200 mg/L.


This article presents a discussion on reading in classroom. It is taken into consideration that reading is a practice beyond the materiality of writing. From the scope of Discourse Analysis of French inspiration, the reinforced perspective is that reading is interacting. For such, it is necessary to know how to read the world, interpret it and, finally, rewrite it. Therefore, it is proposed the reading of films of Turma da Monica as instrumentalisation for other reading processes of the present world, which is permeated with picture and sound. The focus of this article is on the formation of critical readers who are able to go through discursive plots that take a text to make sense.


With the shortage of fossil energy and the worrying about environmental problems, renewable energy and electric-vehicle get rapid development. Against this background, an overview of power characteristic of electric vehicles is presented. Monte Carlo method is used to simulate the charging and discharging behavior of electric-vehicles, and the load curve of EVs of different scale is presented. It analyses the charging load characteristic in the uncoordinated charging mode and the discharging capacity curve in the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) mode in this paper. Under the software package of Visual C++ 6.0, it verifies the availability and feasibility through comparison and analysis, which lays a foundation for the large-scale development of electric vehicles.


Given the loss of traditional structures, people now face the sublime, defined as feeling of imminent and frightening contact with the boundless and unpredictable. Using convergent qualitative sources, this article suggests that certain consumption strategies can provide some feeling of protection formerly offered by traditional social structures. The article then explores the possibility that more consumption may be sacred than secular, perhaps more than acknowledged previously. Everything goes past like a river and the changing tastes and the various shapes of men make the whole game uncertain and delusive. Where do I find fixed points in nature, which cannot be moved by man, and where I can indicate the markers by the shore to which we ought to adhere? [A handwritten note by Kant in his copy of Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime, noted in Schillp (1938).]


Multi-robot cooperation is an active research field where researchers have proposed different cooperation strategies. However, most of them have not considered fault tolerance, which will be critical when one or more robots fail during cooperation. In this paper we propose a self regulated fault tolerant multi-robot cooperation system based on the principles of artificial immune systems. The proposed approach relies on broadcasting of the capability and cost function of a robot that is required for cooperation while also taking care of partial and full failure of a robot during the communication for cooperation. In our system, a robot is regarded as an antibody and its environment as an antigen. The communication and cooperation strategies are inspired by Jernpsilas idiotypic network theory and the structure of the antibody. The developed methodology is verified by simulation.


The management and housing of goats can be a problem. Unlike sheep and cattle the thin coat of the goat affords little protection from wet weather and goats should always have access to shelter, summer and winter. The choice of construction materials should be considered as goats will test everything with their teeth. They tend to chew electrified netting as well. The goat is a browsing ruminant which only supplements its food by grazing. Hay is the staple diet but greengrocers' trimmings make good forage and proprietary dairy cattle concentrate cubes are satisfactory for feeding to goats for growth and production. Branches, fruit tree prunings, brambles and such like are valuable food supplies and keep the goat from satisfying its craving for wood by chewing wooden doors and fixtures. Monthly hoof trimming is essential to keep the animal walking on the weight bearing wall of the hoof.


Laparoscopic cholecyctectomy became gold standard for treatment of symptomatic gall stone disease. Analysis of the first hundred patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy to study the learning curve and complications. The highest number of patients underwent completed laparoscopic cholecystectomy 54 (90%) and the lowest conversion rate 10% (6/60) with high percentage 22% of patients with complicated gall stone disease during year of 2004. Biliary injury 2%, occurred mainly in the early years. Total conversion rate was 21%. These results were improved with increasing experience, resulting in safe laparoscopic cholecystetomy and minimal complications. Introduction ince the introduction of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (L.C.) by Philippe Mouret, French surgeon in 1987, laparoscopic cholecystectomy became gold standard for treatment of symptomatic cholecystolithiasis. But the publicity about the laparoscopic biliary injuries has threatened the acceptance of this procedure. This is because of wide use of this procedure without training has grown rapidly with increasing complications by less experienced surgeons who are in their early learning curve. The aim of this study is to analyze the first hundred patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy to study the learning curve and complications. S Patients and methods Prospective study of first hundred patients who underwent L.C. from February 2002 to November 2004 was carried out. Data regarding age, sex, clinical presentation, investigations, operative technique, postoperative complications, were reported. All patients received prophylactic antibiotics, cefataxime 1g preoperatively, no prophylactic anticoagulant was given to any patient. Results Age: Females mean age was 42 years, ranging between 20-70 years. Males mean age was 49 years, ranging between 25-60 years. Sex: Seventy seven females 77 (77%) and 23 males (23%). Table I shows the number of patients treated laparoscopically, 15 patients, 25 patients, 60 patients, were increasing each year 2002, 2003, 2004, respectively. Percentage of completed laparoscapic cholecystectomy was increasing 46.6% (7/15), 72% (18/25), 90% (54/60) each year 2002, 2003, 2004, while conversion rate was decreasing 53% (8/15), 28% (7/25), 10% (6/60), each year, with total conversion rate 21% (21/100) and total percentage of completed laparoscopic cholecystectomy 79% (79/100). Figure 1, shows average of patients with laparoscopic cholecystectomy per month each year is increasing 1(15/12), Bas J Surg, 16, September, 2010 16 The learning curve of first one hundred laparoscopic cholecystectomy Jassim H Salim & Hashim S AL-Khayat 2(25/12), 5(60/12) through years 2002, 2003, 2004. Table II shows total number of patients with completed laparoscopic cholecystectomy through year of 2002, 2003, 2004, were 47%(7/15), 72%(18/25), 90%(54/60). Conversion rate dropping progressively 47% (7/15), 24% (6/25) and 7% (4/60) each year. Patients with complicated gall stone disease with completed laparoscopic cholecystectomy 13% (13/100). Patients with complicated gall stone disease one, Patient with mucocele and one patient with acute cholecystitis both during year 2002, 2003 were converted to open cholecystectomy, while during year 2004 ten patients with acute cholecystitis 17% (10/60), two patients with mucocele and one patient with cholecystostomy all were completed laparoscopically. During first year we adopt closed technique for creation of pneumoperitoneum while later years 2003, 2004, we shifted to open technique. Figure 2 shows percentage of thick wall gall bladder more than three millimeter measured by ultrasound and percentage of conversion each year which shows a drop in percentage of conversion to open cholecystectomy with increasing wall thickness each year, Percentage of patients with thick wall gall bladder during year 2002 was 40% (6/15) and conversion rate 27% (4/15), those with thick wall during 2003 were 24% (6/25), and conversion rate 16% (4/25), during year 2004 percentage of patients with thick wall gall bladder was 37% (22/60), conversion rate was 5%(3/60). Intraoperative complications Table III shows, during 2002 three patients developed bleeding from cystic artery and the others from injury to posterior branch of the cystic artery. All of them converted to open cholecystectomy, During 2003 bleeding occurred in two patients from cystic artery, one of them managed immediately and underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy, the second converted to open cholecystectomy. During 2004 just three patients had intraoperative bleeding one of them converted to open cholecystectomy, the others were managed intraoperatively and laparoscopic cholecystectomy completed. Two patients had common bile duct injury, both converted, one of them repaired by end to end anastomosis, the other one had lateral injury of common bile duct and was repaired. Liver injury was recorded in 2002 caused by port insertion. Postoperative complications During 2002 and 2003, two patients presented with biliary fistula. One patient leaked from port site fourth post operative day and stopped draining on the tenth postoperative day. Other patient had sub-hepatic tube drain continued draining bile for seven days and ceased spontaneously. Port site infection in one patient. No hernia occurred at port sites. Discussion The adoption of open technique in creation of pneumo-peritoneum as it is safe, result more patients with previous abdominal surgery or umbilical hernia pneumo-peritoneum underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy safely. The highest number of patients underwent completed laparoscopic cholecystectomy 54 (90%) and the lowest conversion rate was 10% (12) (6/60) was during year of 2004 Also more patients with complicated gall bladder stone disease 22% (13/60) and those with thickened gall bladder wall more than three millimeter underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy safely, with lower conversion rate 5% (3/60). This because as the experience grew up the learning curve will improve. The learing curve results in more patients with complicated gall bladder stone disease underwent laparoscopic choleBas J Surg, 16, September, 2010 17 The learning curve of first one hundred laparoscopic cholecystectomy Jassim H Salim & Hashim S AL-Khayat cystectomy safely with lower conversion rate. The incidence of biliary injury was 2% two patients only were discovered intraoperatively, one with friable cystic duct with excessive traction, the cystic duct avulsed near the junction with the common hepatic duct, while the other with a common bile duct transection, these injuries occurred during early years, while no biliary injury occurred during 2004. The total conversion rate was 21%, this is high because more patients with laparoscopic cholecystectomy converted to open technique during early experience, with conversion rate 53%, 28% during 2002, 2003. These figures reflect ascendancy of the learning curve and should improve as surgeon develops greater expertise in laparoscopic cholecystectomy. We conclude that increasing experience and proper selection of patients result in an increase in number of laparoscopic cholecystectomy with minimal complications and conversions. Table I: Patients underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy and the conversion rate Table II: Patients with gall stone disease treated laparoscopically and their conversion rate 2002 2003 2004 Total Total 15 L.C conversion 25 L.C conversion 60 L.C conversion 100 L.C conversion Symtomatic cholecystolithiasis 7 47% 7 47% 18 72% 6 24% 41 68% 4 7% 66 66% 17 17% Acute cholecystitis 1 4% 10 17% 2 3% 10 10% 3 3% Mucocele 1 6% 2 3% 2 2% 1 1% Cholecystostomy 1 2% 1 1% Bas J Surg, 16, September, 2010 Years 2002 2003 2004 Total Total 15 25 60 100 Completed Lap.chole(LC) [ % ] 7


This updated and revised edition of Hamers and Blanc's successful textbook presents state-of-the-art knowledge about languages in contact from individual bilinguality to societal bilingualism. The book is both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary in approach, and analyses bilingualism at individual, interpersonal and societal levels. Linguistic, cognitive and sociocultural aspects of bilingual development are explored, as are problems such as bilingual memory and polyglot aphasia. Hamers and Blanc analyse the relationship between culture, identity and language behaviour in multicultural settings, as well as the communication strategies in interpersonal and intergroup relations. They also propose theoretical models of language processing and development, which are then applied to bilingual behaviour. Other topics reviewed include language shift, pidgins and creoles, language planning and bilingual education. This new edition reflects the changes in the theoretical approaches to bilingualism since the late 1980s and includes sections on language attrition, languages in contact and neuropsychological aspects of bilinguality. The book will be invaluable to students, teachers and scholars interested in bilingualism in a rangeof disciplines includingpsycholinguistics, linguistics, the social sciences, education and language planning.


ABSTRACT Researchers and lay people alike have tended to focus on social benefits of expressing positive emotion and, as a result, tend to overlook potential social costs. In this paper, we consider limits to the idea that expressing positive emotion is universally beneficial and review literature demonstrating that, in some contexts, expressing positive emotion can have social costs. Building on our own and others' work in this space, we outline three sociocontextual factors that influence the social success of positive emotion expression: To avoid potential costs, we suggest that positive emotion should generally be expressed in the right situation, by (and to) the right person, and in the right way. Where positive emotion expression may incur social costs, we propose people can effectively down-regulate positive emotion through use of expressive suppression, and review literature demonstrating that there can be social benefits to down-regulating positive emotion. This review advances theorising on the importance of considering context when seeking to understand socially successful emotion expression and regulation.


Introduction: Complex aberrant karyotypes (CK, ≥3 cytogenetic aberrations, CA) are associated with an unfavorable prognosis and an increased AML transformation rate in MDS. However, even MDS with CK (CK-MDS) are heterogeneous in terms of genetic profile and prognosis. Recently, we demonstrated that a high number of CA as well as mutations in TP53 (TP53mut) are associated with increased risk in CK-MDS (Haase et al, 2019). However, as there is a strong association between CK-MDS and TP53mut, it is still a matter of debate whether the karyotype and TP53mut are prognostically independent genetic markers. Furthermore, loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of 17p13 (TP53LOH), due to loss of genetic material or to copy number neutral LOH (CN-LOH), is also associated with a poor prognosis. We here aimed to characterize TP53mut andTP53LOH in CK-MDS and to elucidate the impact of cytogenetics, TP53mut and TP53LOH on the outcome of CK-MDS.
 Methods: We included 178 pts with MDS (N=138), CMML (N=5) and secondary AML after MDS (AML with myelodysplasia-related changes, N=35), all with CK. The median precentage of bone marrow (bm) blasts was 11% (range: 0-90%). The median age was 72 yrs (range: 30-95 yrs). The male:female ratio was 1.23:1. The number of CA was determined by banding analysis in all cases. The karyotype was confirmed by multicolor FISH in 134 cases. TP53LOH was verified by FISH analysis of the TP53 locus in 17p13 (146 analyses) and/or molecular karyotyping (MK, 41 analyses). In 144 cases further FISH probes in addition to TP53 were used. TP53mut was identified by NGS (54 cases) or Sanger sequencing (124 cases). Follow-up data for survival analyses were available for 127 pts with MDS and oligoblastic AML with less than 30% bm blasts.
 Results: The median number of CA was 7 (range: 3-46), 98/178 pts (55%) showed a TP53mut (median VAF: 34%, range: 8-93%) and 64/178 (36%) a TP53LOH (median FISH clone size: 65%, range: 6-99%), including 9 pts with a CN-LOH in 17p13. The CN-LOH was either identified by MK (5/41 pts (12%) where MK was available showed a CN-LOH, 4/5 with TP53mut) or by NGS (4/54 pts (7%) where NGS was available showed a VAF >70% and normal TP53-FISH). In total, a TP53mut and/or a TP53LOH was identified in 116/178 pts (65%).
 Overall survival (OS) did not significantly differ between CK-MDS with TP53mut only, TP53LOH only, and TP53mut+TP53LOH (Fig.1). Therefore, we merged TP53mut and TP53LOH to TP53altered in all further analyses. Regarding the cytogenetic characterization of pts with TP53altered, the number of CA was significantly higher in pts with TP53altered than in pts with normal TP53 (median 9 CA (range: 3-46) vs 5 CA (range: 3-24), P<0.001). Also notable was that the founder clone of pts with TP53altered included significantly more cases with del(5q) (determined by FISH, 69/92 cases, 75%) compared to pts with normal TP53 (22/52 cases, 42%, P<0.001).
 The number of CA as well as the TP53 status contributed significantly to OS (Fig.2). The presence of anemia (Hb <10 g/dl) at first diagnosis of the CK had the greatest impact on OS (HR: 3.95) in the multivariate model (Cox regression), followed by an altered TP53 gene (TP53mut and/or TP53LOH; HR: 3.53) and the presence of ≥5 CA (HR: 2.33). Based on these three parameters with the greatest impact on OS, we created a simple provisional prognostic system. One scoring point each was assigned to anemia (Hb <10 g/dl), TP53altered, and ≥5 CA. Regarding OS, the resulting four risk groups separated very well (Fig.4).
 Conclusions: The presence of ≥5 CA is associated with reduced OS in CK-MDS. A TP53mut as well as a TP53LOH both further segregate outcome. The impact of the clone size of TP53mut and TP53LOH on survival is currently being evaluated. Our data imply that the TP53 status (TP53mut and/or TP53LOH) and the complexity of the karyotype are independent prognostic markers. Based on the presence of anemia, the TP53 status (TP53mut and/or TP53LOH), and the number of CA, the individual risk of CK-MDS can be estimated more accurately. This will allow to better tailor treatment decisions for individual pts with CA.
 Funding (FS): 2017 SGR 288-GRC

 Germing: Jazz Pharmaceuticals: Honoraria; Novartis: Honoraria, Research Funding; Amgen: Honoraria; Celgene: Honoraria, Research Funding. Kaivers:Jazz Pharmaceuticals: Other: Travel Support. Kröger:Celgene: Honoraria, Research Funding; DKMS: Research Funding; JAZZ: Honoraria; Medac: Honoraria; Neovii: Honoraria, Research Funding; Novartis: Honoraria, Research Funding; Riemser: Research Funding; Sanofi-Aventis: Research Funding. Hertenstein:RS Media: Research Funding. Döhner:Daiichi: Honoraria; Jazz: Honoraria; Novartis: Honoraria; Celgene: Honoraria; Janssen: Honoraria; CTI Biopharma: Consultancy, Honoraria. Bug:Hexal: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Celgene Neovii: Other: travel grant; Novartis: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Gilead Sciences: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel grants; Sanofi: Other: travel grants; Celgene: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: travel grants; Jazz Pharmaceuticals: Honoraria; Pfizer: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees. Nickelsen:Roche Pharma AG: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel Grants; Celgene: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel Grant; Janssen: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees. Platzbecker:Celgene: Consultancy, Honoraria; Abbvie: Consultancy, Honoraria; Novartis: Consultancy, Honoraria.


Android platform is not implemented Tibetan localization currently. Tibetan glyphs superimposed incorrect. This paper researched Android system source code and Tibetan text features, elaborated Tibetan localized operating on Android system. The main contents include downloaded and compiled Android4.1 source, added the Tibetan language settings options, modified the ICU4C module, added Tibetan font, translated into Tibetan language, solved the problem of Tibetan superposition display, added Tibetan input method, etc. The implementation of the Android platform Tibetan localization is the foundation for Tibetan Localization on Android devices.


Introduction: Antibiotics are a class of natural and synthetic compounds that inhibit the growth of or kill other microorganisms. Overuse of antibiotic is one of the most important factors for the development and spread of resistance in the hospital, as well as in the community. Present study was designed to describe antibiotic use in children and to assess the impact of an educational intervention on antibiotic prescription. Methods: The present study was conducted in pediatric ward of a tertiary care institute. The study population included two groups of children – each having 250 children. The first group consisted of 250 consecutive children admitted in one unit of the pediatric ward and they were analyzed for antibiotic use without any prior priming of the members of the unit regarding rationality of antibiotic use. This was followed by an intervention in the form of a 3hour workshop for all members of the unit. The second group included another 250 children consecutively admitted in the wards after this intervention. Results: In Pre intervention group 55 (44%) children received antibiotics in rational way, while in Post intervention group 90(60.40%) children received antibiotic in rational way. One hundred and thirty-six children (49.4%) received antibiotics for respiratory tract infections, this being the commonest disease for which antibiotics were received. As seen in the table, unindicated use of antibiotic was significantly reduced in Post intervention group (p = 0.03). Conclusion: The present study included 500 children. There were 285 (57%) males and 215 (43%) females. Amongst these 500 patients, 178 (35.6%) were below 1 year of age. This group had the highest number of patients. In the Pre intervention group, 55 (44%) children received antibiotics rationally, while in Post intervention group 90(60.40%) children received antibiotic rationally.


Telecommunications networks based on synchronous 64 kbit/s channels are too restrictive for the future realisation of integrated broadband networks. New switching and transmission techniques, particularly those based on asynchronous transfer modes (ATM), are required. Roke Manor Research Ltd. and Plessey Research Caswell Ltd. are actively developing these new techniques at a system and technology level under the auspices of the European Commission's RACE programme. The paper introduces the issues pertinent to ATM, highlighting the system and technology aspects of the work being carried out within a RACE project entitled 'Broadband Local Network Technology' (BLNT) and also describes previous ATM work relevant to the current research activities.


When initially asked to prepare this paper on an international perspective of New Information Technologies in education I was, at that time, heavily involved in editing an international journal for the use of microelectronics for the handicapped learner. At the same time I was preparing to carry out the role of Chairman for the Fifth International Conference on Technology and Education to be held in Edinburgh; all in all, one would say, a reasonable workload! Nevertheless, I accepted this task happily and to some extent allowed the task to create a diversion from administrative organisational matters. I have restricted this paper to those perspectives of a sample set of countries with whom I have a personal involvement either through my links in Europe through Euryclee or through the Ministries of Education of other countries. This is not, therefore, a scientific analysis of what is happening worldwide; rather, it is a series of cameos of those countries of which I may appear to have just enough knowledge to sound intelligent. It would be wrong just to allow myself the freedom to indulge in reminiscing and nostalgia without presenting the case for international co-operation to help educators use technology in a caring and responsible way. The cameos presented here are not complete. Instead, I have tried to put forward statements of unique perceptions or applications with


Zaynab al-Ghazālī (1917-2005) was an activist of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, the founder of the Muslim Women's Association, a religious preacher and a prolific writer. The article seeks to trace the evolution of al-Ghazālī's activism and her political ideas, starting from the formative years (1917-48) until her imprisonment under the regime of ʿAbd al-Nāṣir (1964). The article is expected to make an original contribution to the existing literature by presenting al-Ghazālī's thinking beyond her conception of women and by relying on the analysis of a group of articles written on the Magazine of the Muslim Women (Maǧallat al-Sayyidāt al-Muslimāt) between 1951 and 1957, which has remained so far unexplored.


This paper discusses the teaching evaluation system,evaluation method and evaluation index of e-commerce entrepreneurship course,and provides feasible plans for the opening of e-commerce professional entrepreneurship course,so that students
can realize the cultivation of e-commerce professional knowledge and skills in online shop operation,and achieve direct docking
with employment.


The present invention provides a new structure of virtual shaft numerical control machine tool, which comprises machine frame, fixed platform, movable platform for mounting cutting tool, working table which can drive workpiece to be cut and make it bidirectional move, and between fixed platform and movable platform they are connected by means of three legs, in which one leg is rigid-fixedly connected with fixed platform and is connected with movable platform by means of Hooke's joint, and other two legs are connected with fixed platform by means of Hooke's joint and are connected with movableplatform by means of ball-and-socket attachment.


Slavonic Succession – Border Issues The main research goal of the article was to determine whether there are disputes between the Yugoslavian countries over the borders that divide them, and which of them are active disputes, and which of them have been referred to the International Arbitration Tribunal in The Hague and have suspended status. As the facts prove, despite the passage of time, there are still many unregulated disputes over boundaries run by the states separated from the Yugoslav Federation. Active disputes include for example the dispute led by the Republic of Croatia against the Republic of Serbia over the Danube bend and the dispute over the islands of Vukovar and Šarengra. The Republic of Croatia is in the dispute with Bosnia and Herzegovina over the islands of Mali and Veliki Školj and the island of Klek. Bosnia and Herzegovina is also involved with another dispute with the Republic of Serbia, which is not able to reach a consensus on the right to have the exclave Sastavci and the Lim River. Some examples of the suspended border disputes in the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague are the dispute between the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Slovenia over the Bay of Pirae and the boundaries on the Dragunja river, the dispute between the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Montenegro over the Privlaka peninsula, and the dispute between the Republic of Slovenia and the Republic of Croatia over Sveta Gara and the Mura River.


A chromosomal survey was done in 42 cases of the handicapped children, who were admitted in Hiroshima Prefectural Handicapped Children's Hospital, Wakaba-Ryoikuen. This is a product of the direct combination-work undertaken among cytogeneticists, psychiatrists and pediatrician. During a period from June 1984 to the end of May 1985, 42 cases were collected for chromosomal researches. The chromosome slides were prepared following the standard blood culture procedures. Karyotype analyses were made with the application of the conventional Giemsa staining, and Gand C-banding differential staining. Results and remarks. Table I showed the results of the clinical examinations and chromosomal findings. All patients had mental retardation; idiot, dyskinesia, difficulty or inability in walking, muscular atrophy, palasis or hemiplegia of extremities, and speech disorders. Then the above mentioned symptomes were excluded from Table I. Most of the patients suffered from cerebral palsy, postencephalitic-, or postmeningitic symptomes as the result of pen-, and postnatal abnormalities. Thirty nine cases among them were found to possess the normal karyotypes, but the remaining three cases had abnormal karyotypes, being 7.1% in incidence. The abnormalities occurred at a relatively low level in incidence to those of the former survey (Kadotani et al. 1980a; Kadotani et al. 1980b; Kadotani et al. 1982;


Objective:Toinvestigate the effectiveness of prenatal screening in First and second trimester.Methods: Serum(PAPP-A and free-β-hCG) level of 4297 pregnant women in First trimester and Serum(free-β-hCG and AFP and uE3) level of 28490 pregnant women in second trimester were detected.The risk value was calculated with Lifecycle 3.0 software.The pregnant women who were in high risk need to receive fetal karyotype analysis.Results: In First trimester underwent prenatal screening,157 of them were in high risk,3 cases of Down′s syndrome were determined,while in second trimester underwent prenatal screening,1978 of them were in high risk,15 cases of Down′s syndrome,8 cases of trisome18 and one case of trisome13 were determined.There was significant difference in the false positive rate in the two groups(First trimester and second trimester groups)(3.34% and 6.74%,P0.01).Conclusion: The prenatal screening in first second trimester is superior to in second trimester.The amount of unnecessary fetal karyotype analysis reduced remarkably because of the prenatal screening in first second trimester,which can avoid unnecessary fetal loss.


Vehicle (10) having at least one energy absorbing device (202, 204, 206, 208, 210, 212, 214, 216) for absorption of impact energy, wherein the at least one energy absorbing device (202, 204, 206, 208, 210, 212, 214, 216) has a (along a wall structure axis 35) extending wall structure (34) comprising a first wall (38) and a relative (to the first wall 38) inside of the vehicle disposed second wall (40), wherein between the walls (38, 40) at least one additional structure (36) is arranged, and wherein at least parts of the additional structure (36) in mutually orthogonal spatial directions different deformation resistance when subjected to pressure, so that an impact energy (by expansion of the second wall 40) of the wall structure (34) is absorbable, characterized in that the auxiliary structure (36) with the first wall (38) and the second wall (40) by means of an adhesive connection, a welded connection and / or by positive locking and / or by frictional engagement and / or integrally connected, and that the auxiliary structure (36) in such a way between the walls (38, 40) of the wall structure (34) is arranged, ...


The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. The phenomenon of mass incarceration largely confines minorities and people living in poverty. More than 600,000 prisoners are released yearly to face barriers of reentering society. Struggles of finding employment, housing, and being denied social services, due to their criminal record, generate a system where former inmates become second-class citizens. Participant observation was conducted at a reentry center in the Washington, D.C. area to shed light on the process of assisting prisoners with reintegrating into society. Through the lens of governmentality, tactics and procedures are carried out with the intention of minimizing risky behavior and creating an acceptable, law-abiding citizen. Operating within an arena that is hindered by a criminal record, the staff members play on the strings of individual agency, self-governing, and determination for inmates to restore a livelihood and achieve social and economic mobility. However, structural violence is a key feature that explains the ways in which structures in society constrain former prisoners and place them in compromised positions that foster continued social inequality and recidivism. (Less)


The invention relates to a damped type revolving table of an excavator, belonging to revolving tables, and comprising a lower chassis, an annular gear, a revolving support, a reduction gear mechanism, a revolving table and a revolving motor; and the damped type revolving table is characterized by also comprising a surge absorber fixed on the revolving table, and the oil way of the surge absorber is communicated with the oil way of the revolving motor. The invention has the advantage that: through the self setting damping function of the surge absorber, energy carried by high-pressure oil is converted into heat energy instantaneously, and the revolving table instantaneously stops, thereby solving the problems of vibration arising therefrom and damage of a system, and filling up the blank in the technical field.