To bridge the gap between what is known and what is done, quality improvement collaboratives (QICs) enable health programs to rapidly address quality challenges at scale. Two QICs in Cameroon and Zambia improved coverage of early infant HIV testing and initiating antiretroviral therapy in HIV-exposed infants. The QIC approach empowers health care workers to design solutions tailored for their specific settings. Key Findings Although the designs of the QICs varied to fit local contexts in Cameroon and Zambia, they used similar indicators and methods, and each resulted in improvement of testing coverage and timely return of test results for HIV-exposed infants. The social dynamics of the QIC approach enhanced the sense of shared purpose and community, fostered teamwork and friendly competition, and built leadership support while creating an internal enabling environment at the facility level. The quarterly learning sessions, monthly data collection, and ongoing mentoring for quality improvement led to significant improvements that were sustained for the life of the intervention. Key Implications The use of QIC methodology empowered health care workers to design solutions tailored to their specific settings, and each QIC resulted in a "change package" of successful initiatives that were disseminated within each country. Health sector policy makers should consider institutionalizing the QIC approach and fostering its targeted implementation to address refractory quality challenges, including the inclusion of QIC methods in national policies, guidelines, training, and monitoring systems. ABSTRACT Introduction: Early infant diagnosis (EID) and rapid antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation are lifesaving interventions for HIV-infected infants. In Cameroon and Zambia, EID coverage for HIV-exposed infants (HEIs) is suboptimal and the time to ART initiation for infants infected with HIV often exceeds national standards despite numerous policy and training initiatives. Methods: ICAP at Columbia University supported the Cameroon and Zambia Ministries of Health (MOHs) and local partners to implement quality improvement collaboratives (QICs) to improve EID coverage and ART initiation at 17 health facilities (HFs) in Cameroon (March 2016 to June 2017) and 15 HFs in Zambia (March 2017 to June 2018). In each country, MOH led project design and site selection. MOH and ICAP provided quality improvement training and monthly supportive supervision, which enabled HF teams to conduct root cause analyses, design and implement contextually appropriate interventions, conduct rapid tests of change, analyze monthly progress, and convene at quarterly learning sessions to compare performance and share best practices. Results: In Cameroon, EID testing coverage improved from 57% (113/197 HEIs tested) during the 5-month baseline period to 80% (165/207) in the 5-month endline period. In Zambia, EID testing coverage improved from 77% (4,773/6,197) during the 12-month baseline period to 89% (2,144/2,420) during the 3-month endline period. In a comparison of the same baseline and endline periods, the return of positive test results to caregivers improved from 18% (36/196 caregivers notified) to 86% (182/211) in Cameroon and from 44% (94/214) to 79% (44/56) in Zambia. ART initiation improved from 44% (94/214 HIV-infected infants) to 80% (45/56) in Zambia; the numbers of HIV-infected infants in Cameroon were too small to detect meaningful differences. Conclusions: QICs improved coverage of timely EID and ART initiation in both countries. In addition to building quality improvement capacity and improving outcomes, the QICs resulted in a "change package" of successful initiatives that were disseminated within each country.


Territorial differences of the electoral preferences are rather stable in contemporary Russia. This phenomenon is confirmed by the method of correlation analysis. The territorial differences of electoral preferences are the most stable towards to LDPR and liberal parties. There are six main social factors that have influence on differences in electoral geography: 1) a share of urban population; 2) proximity to the center of a region; 3) ethnic factor; 4) a share of youth population; 5) predominant trades of the population; 6) structure of social communications. Electoral behavior in Russia is less individual than in western countries. Objective social factors have a larger significance. Ethnic factor is one of the most important. Territories with large share of non-Russian population have the following peculiarities of electoral preferences: 1) low level of support of LDPR; 2) low level of support of "new left" parties (as "Rodina", The Pensioners Party, etc.); 3) a small share of votes "against all".


This article deals with a strategy of advanced extreme-optimal high-output energy-saving uniform exploratory control for the heating of concast slabs under the broad hot-rolling mill working modes with unsteady outputs to achieve guaranteed metal heating. The implemented advanced extreme-optimal exploratory control development strategy for production processes is analyzed using the specific example of efficient guaranteed optimum control of the heating parameters in through-feed furnaces. We review the best variational and exploratory extreme control methods for three interrelated heating processes: the distribution of fuel along the length of the furnace body and over time; the optimal control of fuel-burning to obtain the best calorific effect possible; the optimum heat-saving control for combustion product ejection through the reduced heat losses due to suction and knocking out. The operability and feasibility of the suggested extreme-optimal control are achieved using the simplified dynamic heat exchange model along the "fuel consumption" - "billet center temperature" channel with the surface temperature of the heated billets used as the main monitoring and control parameter. We analyzed the efficient method of automated autonomous positive control for the real thermal condition of each of the billets before they are ejected from the furnace to prevent the possibility of feeding underheated billets to the rolling mill, as well as emergencies in the mill. This system provides a forecast for the expected breakdown temperature for each of the billets before they are ejected from the furnace under the energy-saving operational mode. We present the results of the practical implementation of the extreme-optimal control for metal heating at four Russian high-output rolling mills that have a significant economic effect with minimum costs of software (digital) implementation of the suggested control concept.


Instant messaging is a big boon to users who want to communicate in real-time. Instant Messaging applications are beginning to play an important role in various aspects of our lives, including education, business, healthcare, publishing and entertainment. Recent advances in computing and networking technologies have made these applications requiring real-time processing and high bandwidth feasible. In order for these applications to be truly useful and effective, they must be able to operate in a distributed fashion, covering users possibly located in geographically distant locations. Mercury Instant Messenger (MIM) is a Java Application, intended to collaborate a group of people not located in the same geographical location but working on the same project. MIM allows users to collaborate by using communications tools like, text based chat and whiteboard. MIM is developed using a platform independent programming language, Java AWT and socket programming. Java was chosen as programming language to implement this project with the assumption that users might be using different operating systems on their computers.


Work Environment and Work Motivation can affect performance in an institution, institution or company. For that, a leader needs to think about it. The purpose of this study was to determine: (1) the influence of the work environment with the performance of Non-formal Educators on the Development Center for Early Childhood Education and Gorontalo Community Education, (2) the effect of work motivation on the performance of Non-Formal Educators at the Center for Early Childhood Education Development and Gorontalo Society Education. (3) the influence of the work environment and work motivation together with the performance of Nonformal Educators for the Development of Early Childhood Education and Gorontalo Community Education. The method used in this research is to use quantitative through remorse techniques to express one variable to another. The population in this study were non-formal educators at the Gorontalo Center for Early Childhood Education and Community Education, which collected 80 people while the sample was a population sample. Data collected through questionnaire distribution. The conclusions of this study are (1) Providing a positive influence on the performance of Non-formal Educators for the Development of Early Childhood Education and Gorontalo Society Education, providing improved environmental performance with the performance of non-formal educators. (2) Providing positive motivation for the performance of Non-formal Educators for the Development of Early Childhood Education and Gorontalo Community Education, providing good motivation for improving the performance of Non-Formal Educators. (3) Making a positive contribution to the work environment and work motivation together to the performance of Non-formal Educators for the Development of Early Childhood Education and Gorontalo Community Education, this means improving the work environment and encouraging work and then improving the performance of Non-formal Educators. The novelty of the research is the performance of Non-formal Educators will be more effective if a leader always provides work motivation regularly and makes a conducive work environment. This research provides knowledge to leaders in improving the performance of Non-formal Educators or teachers, needing to pay attention to motivation and work environment within an institution or company.


Abstract : The U.S. Army Engineer District, New Orleans, is in the process of determining the correct sizing for sail-through structures to be constructed along the new proposed Morganza to the Gulf levee system in southern Louisiana. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, numerous new levees are being constructed to reduce the risk of storm-induced flooding. In addition to the economic and loss of life impact of such flooding, there is also a significant negative impact on the local ecosystem. At the request of the New Orleans District, the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) performed a number of engineering studies in support of efforts to determine the proper sizes of six proposed structures (Bush Canal, Bayou Terrebonne, Lapeyrouse Canal, Placid Canal, Bayou Petit Caillou, and Humble Canal). The Adaptive Hydraulics model, AdH, was used to investigate the circulation tendencies in and around the proposed structure locations for the Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico project utilizing its two-dimensional shallow-water module. This study characterizes existing water levels and currents in the vicinity of the six proposed structures and predicts any potential impacts that may result. Comparing model-generated currents and water-surface elevations between pre- and postconstruction conditions provides insight into whether a particular alternative will adversely impact velocity conditions. AdH was used to develop time varying current fields for the base and plan conditions.


Summary Lecitase ® Ultra lipase is an acidic lipase which exhibits maximal activity at pH=5.0. It takes part in the activity towards both phospholipid and triglyceride structures. When the temperature is over 40 °C, the phospholipase activity predominates, and the lipase activity is partly suppressed. It could be applied for the degumming of vegetable oil, and the phosphatides in the oil were easily converted by enzymatic catalyzed hydrolysis to less than 10 mg/kg withi n5ha t 50°C.


We introduce non-stationary Mat\'ern field priors with stochastic partial differential equations, and construct correlation length-scaling with hyperpriors. We model both the hyperprior and the Mat\'ern prior as continuous-parameter random fields. As hypermodels, we use Cauchy and Gaussian random fields, which we map suitably to a desired correlation length-scaling range. For computations, we discretise the models with finite difference methods. We consider the convergence of the discretised prior and posterior to the discretisation limit. We apply the developed methodology to certain interpolation and numerical differentiation problems, and show numerically that we can make Bayesian inversion which promotes competing constraints of smoothness and edge-preservation. For computing the conditional mean estimator of the posterior distribution, we use a combination of Gibbs and Metropolis-within-Gibbs sampling algorithms.


Existing gaps in teacher education programs impact programs' ability to provide teachers with effective teaching practices for use in diverse classrooms. Higher education institutions attempting to address culturally relevant pedagogy through online courses struggle to create meaningful learning opportunities for students especially when they do not have opportunities to work with diverse populations outside of class. This chapter discusses the challenges a higher education faculty member and her doctoral assistant faced when teaching an accelerated 10-week online course titled Educating Diverse Populations. The asynchronous nature of the online course and the optionality of the online group chats disrupted the process of class dialogue and interactions normally found in traditional face-to-face courses. However, reflecting on a variety of autobiographical resources and participating in weekly discussion posts assisted students to better incorporate culturally relevant pedagogy into their teaching practices.


We analyze the effect of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)-based take-back legislation on a durable good producer's secondary market strategy. We show that the effect of EPR and its associated environmental implications depend on product durability. In the absence of EPR, a producer chooses not to interfere with the secondary market for products with high durability. In this case, EPR provides producers with an incentive to interfere with the secondary market by recovering and prematurely recycling used products to meet EPR obligations. For low durability products, a producer readily interferes with the secondary market even in the absence of EPR, and the effect of EPR depends on its implementation parameters. We find that EPR increases the producer's secondary market interference when it imposes a high collection target and a low recycling standard. In contrast, EPR reduces secondary market interference when it imposes a low collection target or a sufficiently stringent recycling standard. These results, in turn, imply that EPR-based take-back legislation may have unintended consequences in a durable goods setting: It may diminish environmental goals such as reducing new production and increasing reuse levels, two key environmental goals with higher priority than increasing recycling. Our results offer insights for how the environmental benefits of EPR for durable products can be improved or the potential adverse effects can be overcome by appropriately choosing the implementation parameters.


Body mass index (BMI) has proven as one of the risk factors for musculoskeletal disorders.  overweight and obesity cause in several musculoskeletal disorders. Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease and obesity is a risk factor of it. Regarding osteoarthritis (OA), overweight accelerates damage to the structure of the joint cartilage. overweight causes inflammation of the plantar fascia, called plantar fasciitis. Obesity causes lower back pain due to mechanical and inflammatory factors. Underweight causes bone mineral density disturbance so it is more susceptible to osteoporosis.


The application of membrane technology in ED coating process includes many different types of membranes such as microfiltration,ultrafiltration,reverse osmosis and ion exchange membranes. This article introduces and discusses the material,structure and function for many commercial membranes and membrane elements. The application of membranes technologies in ED coating process primarily include the degrease by UF in the pretreatment process;recycle of pure water by UF and RO for washing the coated objects and recovery of the ED paint;the use of Ion Exchange Membranes for maintaining composition balance of fluid in ED tank.


To accommodate the new Argos 500 MEG instrument [1] a general upgrade of the existing 2+1layer magnetically shielded room at the neurological department was necessary. Due to the innovative technology and the ambitious goal more stringent requirements where set for shielding performances and shielding anisotropy. The upgrade process of the existing MSR was carried out in cooperation with Advanced Technologies Biomagnetics and consisted in:


This research aimed to analyz e the implementation race of achievement BP3K in Lampung Province, scores and aspects of the North Raman BP3K in 2015, and  the income of farmers assisted by The North Raman BP3K East Lampung Regency.  This research was conducted in North Raman Subdistrict East Lampung District. Respondents of this research  were 53 peoples, that consist of 10 agricultural extension workers who were selected by purposive sampling method and 43 farmers who were selected by simple random sampling. Implementation race of achievement BP3K in Lampung Province was analyzed descriptively. The result of this research showed that achievement BP3K votes in Lampung Province in 2015 conducted by the method of selection requirements, administrative, and field observations. Aspects of assessment were analyzed descriptively using tabulation.  Aspects of assesment  includes: facility, infrastructure, human resources, operational management, and activities.  The five aspects were scored between 2 to 861.  The result of research on The North Raman BP3K provisionally got a score of 783 points, and include the category successfully.  Assisted farmers income increased by 3.9 percent a  year before and after The North Raman being achivement BP3K. Key words: assisted, achievements, BP3K


We propose a novel computing runtime that exposes remote compute devices via the cross-vendor open heterogeneous computing standard OpenCL and can execute compute tasks on the MEC cluster side across multiple servers in a scalable manner. Intermittent UE connection loss is handled gracefully even if the device's IP address changes on the way. Network-induced latency is minimized by transferring data and signaling command completions between remote devices in a peer-to-peer fashion directly to the target server with a streamlined TCP-based protocol that yields a command latency of only 60 microseconds on top of network round-trip latency in synthetic benchmarks. The runtime can utilize RDMA to speed up inter-server data transfers by an additional 60% compared to the TCP-based solution. The benefits of the proposed runtime in MEC applications are demonstrated with a smartphone-based augmented reality rendering case study. Measurements show up to 19x improvements to frame rate and 17x improvements to local energy consumption when using the proposed runtime to offload AR rendering from a smartphone. Scalability to multiple GPU servers in real-world applications is shown in a computational fluid dynamics simulation, which scales with the number of servers at roughly 80% efficiency which is comparable to an MPI port of the same simulation.


Patient 'engagement' or 'involvement' in health research refers to including people with lived experience (i.e. individuals with personal experience of a health issue and their friends, family and caregivers) in the research process – not as study subjects, but as collaborators in planning, conducting and communicating research. Patient engagement is being advanced by researchers, funding organisations, advocacy groups and others on both moral and methodological grounds. Although patient engagement in research on dementia is not new, it is becoming more common. Still, there are unresolved questions of how to incorporate, evaluate and adapt engagement activities for different types of research.


Huge number of researches suggest many differentiations between men and women' language features. Most studies proclaim men to be more aggressive, verbal, and have higher self-esteem while women tend to be milder and soft-spoken. However, how about the transgenders? This study aims to see what language features used by the transgenders and how the transgenders represented in the digital media which in this case, YouTube. The study will be conducted using the qualitative data analysis. Starting with collecting the data from four videos taken from Jimmy Kimmel, Allure, About Ethan, and Netflix's YouTube channels. These data then analyzed using the theory of women's language features by Robin Lakoff, men's language features by Jennifer Coates, and the theory of gender presentation in digital media by LaFrance and Vial. The result of this study shows that transgender women use six out of ten female language features, while maintaining two of men language features. Meanwhile, transmen maintain three women's language features, while using four men language features. The study's results implies that gender need to be considered as a multidimensional construct and more studies about language and gender must be expanded for multidimensional identity to be recognized in this vast digital world.


In keeping with the flourish of the commercial parole and the decline of the illuminative thought, Chinese literature at the turn of the century assumes pluralistic framework. The moralist came back to the agricultural civilization to cure the moral crisis. The secularist drove Chinese literature to the show business. And furthermore, the aesthetic idealist would bring hope and energy to the Chinese literature in the 21st century.


We experimentally investigate the terahertz (THz) response of conductively coupled asymmetric split ring resonator-based meta-molecules in the layout of reflection and rotational symmetry. In the reflectional symmetry case, the horizontally polarized THz excites a couple of trapped modes: the low-order one is a coupled Fano-resonance, and the high-order one is a decoupled dipole oscillator. The vertically polarized THz excites an inductive-capacitor resonance as a low-order trapped mode below the frequency of a high-order intrinsic mode. The quality factors (Q factors) of trapped modes decrease with the displacement of top-and-bottom gap increasing. In the rotational symmetry case, the horizontally polarized THz excites a single trapped mode owing to coupled Fano-resonance. The vertically polarized THz excites a high-order trapped mode of coupled multiple dipole oscillations beyond the frequency of intrinsic low-order dipole oscillation. The Q factors of trapped modes increase with the displacement of the top-and-bottom gap increase. For the first time, our results reveal the trapped modes' evolution owing to the interaction of Fano-resonators conductively coupled under different symmetry.


The sensory properties of wine made from the Vitis ssp. cultivar Vidal blanc were found to change significantly after aging in glass for more than two years. The most intense odor-active compounds were identified from their retention index and odor descriptor using gas chromatography-olfactometry (GCO) and from their mass spectra. The young wine was found to have a characteristic fruity odor, whereas the aged wine was found to have developed a vegetative aroma resembling either asparagus or straw. The sensory data reported by a tasting panel found the vegetative aromas dominated the aged wine, while the GCO data showed no intense vegetative odors. The sensory data obtained for the young wine by the tasting panel and from GCO determinations showed fruity aromas to dominate in both cases.


Entrepreneurial behaviour is informed by high degree of creativity and intuition, yet these capacities have remained a scientific enigma. Recent research has identified a distinct bodily state psychophysiological coherence that appears to facilitate creativity and receptivity to intuitive insight. This article describes how psychophysiological coherence is activated by sustained positive emotions, which cause a global shift toward increased synchronisation and harmony in an individual's physiological and psychological processes. Learning how to self-activate the coherence state facilitates the processes underlying creativity and intuition. Creativity and intuition are viewed as whole-body functions emerging from important interactions between the heart and brain. Also described is a scientific system of coherence-building techniques which enable individuals to systematically increase intuitive receptivity and creativity at will. These techniques facilitate a body-wide shift to an optimal psychophysiological 'zone' for enhancing creativity and intuition. Coherence-building techniques and technologies have important applications in both entrepreneurial research and practice.


It is an exciting time for stroke research. Over the last couple of years with the use of tPA, and now at the most recent International Stroke and Cerebral Circulation Conference meeting, the announcement of 2 promising new thrombolytic agents (Ancrod and Pro-urokinase) for acute stroke treatment, it is an exciting time indeed. Neuroprotective agents are still being investigated, and while an effective neuroprotective agent has not yet been identified in humans, almost assuredly one will come to light soon. The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) is making significant efforts to provide dollars for stroke research for both clinical and basic science areas. The AHA/ASA for 1997–98 provided some $6 million for stroke-specific research, with a projection for the year 2001 of $11.3 million. Another $33.7 million was provided for research that was related in some way to stroke. In addition, there is a very exciting new commitment …


An interview, conducted by e‐mail, with one of LHTN's regional editors, Esharenana E. Adomi, who is on the staff of the Delta State University in Abraka, Nigeria. Gives an insight into his thoughts on the development of libraries and the library profession in Africa.


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Abstract Bandwidth-hungry services, such as higher speed Internet, voice over IP (VoIP), and IPTV, allow people to exchange and store huge amounts of data among worldwide locations. In the age of global communications, domestic users, companies, and organizations around the world generate new contents making bandwidth needs grow exponentially, along with the need for new services. These bandwidth and connectivity demands represent a concern for operators who require innovative technologies to be ready for scaling. To respond efficiently to these demands, Alcatel-Lucent is fast moving toward photonic integration circuits technologies as the key to address best performances at the lowest "bit per second" cost. This article describes Alcatel-Lucent's contribution in strategic directions or achievements, as well as possible new developments.


An adaptive controller is proposed using a novel interval type-2 fuzzy cerebellar model articulation controller (T2FCMAC). The T2FCMAC realizes an interval type-2 fuzzy logic system based on the structure of the cerebellar model articulation controller (CMAC). Due to the better ability of handling uncertainties provided by type-2 fuzzy sets, it can solve some complicated problems with outstanding effectiveness than type-1 fuzzy sets. In addition, an intelligent control system is proposed; this control system is comprised of a T2FCMAC and an auxiliary compensation controller. The T2FCMAC is utilized to approximate a perfect controller and the parameters of T2FCMAC are on-line tuned by the derived adaptive laws based on a Lyapunov function. The auxiliary compensation controller is designed to suppress the influence of residual approximation error between the perfect controller and the T2FCMAC. Finally, a Chua's chaotic circuit is performed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme. The simulation results confirm that the proposed intelligent adaptive control system can achieve favorable tracking performance.


Iris lacteal seeds were treated by four different treatments to study effects on seed germination,seedling increment,tillering and dividing plant for probing the optimum treatment method to improve its germination rate.The results showed that the germination of Iris lacteal seeds treated by four methods was lower in the first year but the alkaline degreasing treatment could raise seed germination in the second year and improve seedling growth,tillering and dividing plant.


The reforming of personnel allocation system is the focus of the internal reform of universities.It affects sustainable development and stability of universities.In this paper,the status and characteritics of personnel allocation system reform in universities were summarized.Then the problems in allocation of universities from examination system,allocation mechanism and distribution method were analyzed.The countermeasures for improve effectiveness of allocation system reform of university were put foward at last.


rotary device (100) of gas flow having a flow chamber (15) of a gas-ring spiral with a continuous reduction in the passage section (30) of gas from a tangential section (31) to a section end (32), said chamber surrounding a rotatable arm (12) rotatable about its axis X and carrying radial blades 14 touching a peripheral wall (20) of the end section (32), characterized in that that said device comprises conformations (22, 23) for changing the frequency of the whistling when gas passage in said flow chamber.


In the cosmetic field, the technology at the nanometric scale is attractive for designing novel and functional products. In the case of lipid nanoparticles, the ability of these carriers for increasing the stability of active molecules and modifying their release has been demonstrated. As a contribution in the research of innovative alternatives for preparing these particles, this work proposes the use of the propolis waxes as starting material. In this way, lipid nanoparticles containing tea tree oil were prepared having particle sizes close to 200 nm with polydispersity indexes less than 0.1. The zeta potential values near to zero suggest the stabilization of the lipid nanoparticles via steric mechanisms. The incorporation of the active into the nanoparticle structure is confirmed by DSC. As a whole, the results are appealing in order to give added value to beehive product, recognized in Latin America for its biological properties. Furthermore, these results offer a new alternative of lipid material which is interesting for developing pioneering cosmetic products containing active molecules.


In this work, the designed and developed process of a fall detection system using a NodeMCU microcontroller is described. A 3-axis acceleration sensor is used to obtain the data of the movement of humans and changes in acceleration are used to determine trends in falling. The ESP8266 microcontroller is used to the receive the data in real time and alert the family through the LINE application. Experimental results show that the system is capable of precisely producing alarms for falling actions and has a high detection precision and effectiveness.


Another author's memoirs of Pavel Yegorovich Tadiyev. March 6 is the 80th anniversary of his birth. He remained in people's memories as a remarkable man, who was an outstanding scholar and a teacher, a party worker, and a true friend.


Notched plates of various shapes find its applications in steel structural and machine elements. Failure of the notched element occurs under the loading condition in the region where the stress distribution is disturbed. The proper study of effect of shapes and orientations of notches is imperative. The prediction of maximum stress developed at notches avoids such failures that ensure safe design of elements. The present work is to envisage the maximum stress developed at three different types of notches in steel plates namely; semi-circular, U-shaped and V-shaped notches and the obtained analytical solutions for maximum stresses are found to be 150.88 MPa, 167.35 MPa and 201.09 MPa respectively. The analytical results have been compared with finite element method using SolidWorks Simulation Software. The static analysis shows that the percentage of error between analytical and finite element solutions has been found to be less than 2%.


objective To study the effect and mechanism of evodiamine on invasion and proliferation in human gastric cancer cell.Methods Human gastric cancer SGC7901 cell were treated with different doses of evodiamine,and the growth of anchorage independence of cancer cell was studied by colony formation in soft agar,and invasion ability were determined by Boyden chamber,and the level of midkine gene mRNA and protein were detected by real time RT-PCR and Western blot assay,respectively.Results Evodiamine could significantly inhibit both invasion ability and anchorage independence growth in dose-dependent manners.The level of mRNA and protein of midkine of cancer cells treated with evodiamine reduced in time-and dose-dependent manners.Conclusion Evodiamine can inhibit invasion of gastric carcinoma cell through down-regulating of midkine expression.


Millisecond scale radio spikes associated with nonthermal coherent emission are closely related to particle acceleration and energy release in flares. In this paper we describe the various characteristics of these phenomena as well as their relation to other solar emissions. We also outline a theoretical framework of the spike emission process and some efforts made in Mexico City to observe solar microwave burst at 4 cm wavelength with a time resolution of milliseconds.


Due to exponential growth in solar photovoltaic technology and power generation, it is common to see solar PV modules mounted on structures subjected to dynamic loading. These dynamic loads such as wind, rain, snow, base excitation, transportation and much more causes vibrations in the PV modules and deteriorate their performance. Among the various dynamic loads, Base Excitation is one of the major cause for induced vibration in PV modules. Vibration amplitude and frequency were preciously recorded at the base/mounting of PV module in the vicinity of Metro Rail. From the vibration reading it was observed that the peak frequency levels fall in 30-80 Hz range. Therefore, for harmonic response analysis of PV module it was necessary to build a shaker table which will provide the required base excitation for analysis. This paper deals with design, modelling, assembly and finite element modal and harmonic analysis of shaker table. Shaker table is divided in basic four parts, 1) base, 2) spring support, 3) electric motor with unbalanced mass and 4) mounting structure for PV module mounting. Variable speed electric motor is attached with a disc with different holes at varying distance from the center of the shaft, so as to provide multiple types of harmonic forces and frequencies. Before manufacturing, modal and harmonic analysis is performed on the shaker table plus PV module assembly in ANSYS to check whether the systems natural frequency comes near to only PV modules modal frequency range. It was observed that the shaker table natural frequencies were not in the range of PV module's natural frequencies. This study will be useful to provide a basis for designing the clamping and mounting arrangements for the PV modules to retard its performance deterioration due to the induced vibrations.


Dr. HARRY E. ALDERSON (San Francisco), said that in California many cases of granuloma annulare were seen. Most of those he had seen had not presented mnuch inflamimation; the process had developed very slowly, and never at'any time had there been an,acute reaction. There were some varieties, such as that just mentioned by Dr. Stokes, in which the occurrence of the lesions might be preceded by acute inflammation.


The environmental protection type tinplate bath is a new type electrolyte,it has some advantages such as high environmal-protection and wide productive scope and good electrolic ability.The performance,which consisted of conductance,covering,dispersion and cathodic polarizing abilities and depositing velocity had been studied by Hull cell text and Electrochemistry performance text.The results show that electrolyte's conductance is 176 mS/cm at 45℃,covering and dispersion of electrolyte is 97.8% 82.4%.cathodic polarizing abilities of electrolyte had improved and crystal potential of Sn2+ had increased by append additive.


Despite the tractability of G protein‐coupled receptors (GPCRs) as drug targets, there are substantial challenges in understanding the mechanisms of drug action at these receptors. Since more than 800 GPCRs and 16 Gα subunits are identified in human genome and are capable to generate enormous array of GPCR‐G protein combinations, G protein‐coupling profiles of GPCRs are a critical missing piece of the GPCR‐signaling puzzle. Here, we have undertaken an attempt to comprehensively characterize G protein‐coupling selectivity and its modulation by agonists and intracellular regulatory proteins. We employed a single‐platform BRET assay to evaluate GPCR responses via 14 different Gα subunits using dynamic association/dissociation of Venus‐tagged Gβγ with NanoLuc‐tagged GRK3‐derived sensor in living cells. Distinct G protein‐coupling profiles for different receptors in both maximal amplitudes and kinetics of responses were observed and used as a basis for modeling "fingerprints" for each of the examined receptors. These fingerprints in many cases differed between physiological agonists and synthetic ligands. We further found that members of Regulators of G protein Signaling (RGS) family shape GPCR fingerprints. These results reveal underappreciated complexity of GPCR coupling to different G protein substrates and suggest a new avenue for designing signaling pathway‐specific therapeutics.


Objective To investigate the early diagnosis and operative timing of strangulating intestinal obstruction.Methods The clinical data of 108 patients with strangulating intestinal obstruction treated in our hospital from January 2000 to October 2008 were analyzed retrospectively.Results Only 69 patients(63.9 %) were diagnosed with strangulating intestinal obstruction before operation,and the other 22 patients(20.4%) were diagnosed at laparotomy.101 patients were cured(93.5%),and 7 dead(6.5%).Conclusion Early and seasonable operation is the most effective treatment of strangulating intestinal obstruction.Perioperative management and treatment of postoperative complications are both the key to decreasing mortality.


or simply its availability in the sources. Still, I found the discussion of the actual value of the attestations provided by emigre educational and scholarly institutions (exams, doctoral defenses), in a situation where emigre life became increasingly permanent, to be illuminating. The accounts of the disbanding of the emigre institutions are also welcome, since this has not always been sufficiently treated by Kovalev's predecessors. However, the most rewarding part of this book is chapter 3, titled "The Metamorphoses of Historical Memory." It discusses the uses of Russian history by emigre scholars and their preference for specific topics (Eurasia, Muscovy, Peter the Great, the Decembrists) as a response to their exilic experience. Referring to Clifford Geertz, Kovalev defines their history writing as bordering on ideology in that it sought to be of practical relevance for post-Bolshevik Russia. It often tended to idealize Russian history, in particular Muscovy, and here the impact of the religious awakening among emigres is clearly felt, as the emigre study of the past often assumed a Utopian character. And while the historians were also concerned with detecting the roots of the Russian revolution, they avoided Russia's most recent history, whose upheaval, it is argued, they were unable to actually explain. Nevertheless, Kovalev emphasizes that the new situation led to several novel interpretations of the Russian past. Being "oriented toward the prerevolutionary cultural code,... the innovations were the result of a reinterpretation of Russia's historical path under the impact of the revolution" (241). By invoking the theories of memory developed by Maurice Halbwachs, Jan Assmann, and others, the author convincingly shows that collective, cultural, and social memory is not something that groups have but rather create in specific situations. At the same time, this collective memory—"our past"—is constantly disputed. Thus, this book demonstrates the relevance of these theories to our understanding of the Russian emigration, at least as long as we focus on memory as being contested. It will therefore be of high relevance to future scholarship on Russian emigre culture and texts.


The government has announced the first round of projects that will be supported by the Regional Growth Fund. We are told that: "The government will invest £450m RGF support in 50 successful bids to lever in £2.5bn in private sector investment that will create or safeguard over 27,000 direct jobs and close to a further 100,000 indirect jobs."


Steady-state and transient measurements have been made at a rotating gold disk electrode in lithium carbonate at 800 C for simultaneously determining the diffusion coefficient and bulk concentration of peroxide ions. At high O[sub 2]/CO[sub 2] ratios where these measurements were made the diffusion coefficient is found to be essentially independent of concentration with a mean value of 3.1[center dot]10[sup [minus]6] cm[sup 2]/s. The bulk concentration of peroxide is two order of magnitude higher than estimates based on thermodynamic calculations, but in agreement with values derived from oxygen solubility measurements in the literature.


An analysis of the response of a V-shaped hot wire to velocity component fluctuations is presented. A V-shaped hot wire works in the same manner as a conventional inclined straight wire. The great differences are : the V-shaped wire is much less sensitive to the w component of velocity ; the V-shaped wire can be supported just like a cantilever, and thus the wire may be brought closer to the wall until it touches the wall surface, whereas an inclined straight wire is kept away from the wall by the its supports, and a probe body distorts the flow field.


Left ventricular mass (LVM) was significantly related to both the leg blood flow (r = -0.31, P < 0.05) and a Doppler-derived index of femoral arterial stiffness (r = 0.35, P < 0.05) in a sample of elderly men. Together with blood pressure, these two characteristics of peripheral blood flow explained 42% of the variation in LVM.


This paper proposes a new kind of hierarchical DHT dubbed StratoNet,which can isolate the effect of dynamic nodes within small groups for better scalability and stability,and shows improved performance with partial queries.


Abstract Neisseria gonorrhoeae was isolated on selective medium from the pharynx of 150 patients, including 125 examined during a nine-month prospective study. The prevalence of neisseria species in 2,224 patients at a venereal-disease clinic was N. meningitidis, 17.2 per cent, N. gonorrhoeae, 5.6 per cent, and N. lactamicus, 1.9 per cent. Among patients with gonorrhea, gonococcal pharyngeal infection was found in 20.9 per cent of homosexual men, 10.3 per cent of women, and only 3.2 per cent of heterosexual men. Gonococcal pharyngeal infection was correlated with the practice of fellatio (p less than 0.001), and 4.2 per cent of patients who practiced fellatio had infection of the pharynx alone. Symptoms of pharyngitis were also correlated with practice of fellatio (p less than 0.0001), but not with gonococcal pharyngeal infection. However, N. gonorrhoeae did appear responsible for pharyngitis in selected patients, and pharyngeal gonococcal infection was the only apparent source of disseminated gonococcal ...


ABSTRACT Bismuth subsalicylate (BSS), the active ingredient of Pepto-Bismol, has been used for many years to treat various disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. Using mass spectrometry and the agar dilution method, we determined that insoluble BSS interacts with certain dietary components and organic substrates to produce water-soluble products with activity against Clostridium difficile.


ABSTRACT Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex experienced failures of two mercury targets, which were Target #5 and #7, in 2015 when the facility was operating with a proton beam power of 500 kW. The failures involved coolant water leak from the water shroud. In this paper, we investigate the root cause of the Target #5 failure. The results of the visual inspections, mockup tests, and analytical evaluations suggested that the water leak was caused by the possible combination of two incidents. One was the diffusion bonding failure due to the large thermal stress induced by welding of the bolt head during the fabrication process, and the other was the thermal fatigue failure of the seal weld due to the repetitive beam shutdown during beam operation. Though the investigation into the root cause of the Target #7 failure is still going on, these target failures point to the importance of eliminating initial defects and the need to secure the rigidity and stability of welded structures. The next mercury target, Target #8, was fabricated with an improved design and fabrication process to reduce the possibility of similar failures. The beam operation of this mercury target is planned to be started in October 2017.


The review analyses the state of the art of cross-linked ionic polysaccharides as components of drug delivery systems which can regulate drug release as a function of changes in pH, ion nature and concentration, electric and magnetic field intensity, light wavelength, temperature, redox potential, and certain molecules. Polysaccharides are gaining increasing attention as components of stimuli-responsive drug delivery systems particularly since they can be obtained in a well characterized and reproducible way from the natural sources. Ionic polysaccharides can be readily cross-linked to render hydrogel networks sensitive to a variety of internal and external variables, and thus suitable for switching drug release on-off through diverse mechanisms. Hybrids, composites and grafted polymers can reinforce the responsiveness and widen the range of stimuli to which polysaccharide-based systems can respond.


Accurate knowledge of water splitting kinetics is essential for the design and optimization of high-temperature thermochemical cycles for solar-driven fuel production, but such crucial data are unavailable for virtually all redox materials of potential practical value. We describe an investigation of the redox activity and oxidation kinetics of cobalt ferrite, a promising material for this application that is representative of a broader class of metal-substituted ferrites. To enable repetitive cycling, ferrites must be supported on another oxide to avoid sintering and deactivation. Consequently, we synthesized a composite material using atomic layer deposition of cobalt and iron oxides on zirconia, a commonly used ferrite "support", to create a well-controlled, uniformly distributed composition. Our results show that the support is not an innocent bystander and that dissolved iron within it reacts by a different mechanism than embedded iron oxide particles in the matrix. Samples were thermally reduced at 1450 °C under helium and oxidized with steam at realistic process temperatures ranging from 900 °C to 1400 °C. Experiments within a fluid-dynamically well-behaved stagnation-flow reactor, coupled with detailed numerical modelling of the transient H2 production rates, allow us to effectively deconvolve experimental artefacts from intrinsic material behaviour over the entire time domain of the oxidation reaction. We find that second-order reaction and diffusion-limited mechanisms occur simultaneously at different oxidation rates and involve iron in two separate phases: (1) reduced Fe dissolved in the ZrO2 support and (2) iron oxide located at the interface between embedded ferrite particles and the zirconia matrix. Surprisingly, we also identified a catalytic mechanism occurring at the highest temperatures by which steady-state production of H2 and O2 occurs. The results reported here, which include Arrhenius rate constants for both oxidation mechanisms, will enable high-fidelity computational simulation of this complex, but promising approach to renewable fuel production.


The microagglutination technique without centrifugation was more effective than centrifugation of the standard tube test for increasing Brucella agglutinin titers of specimens with a titer greater than or equal to 160 but was less effective than centrifugation of the standard tube test for specimens with a titer less than 160.


Attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy was used to detect DNA hybridization on a polystyrene conjugated gold nanoparticle thin film. The gold nanoparticles were synthesized on the surface of poly(ethylenimine) coated polystyrene particles by citrate reduction. Single-stranded DNA was then immobilized on the nanoparticle surface via thiol bonding. Ultraviolet-visible spectrometry was used to monitor the conjugation of the nanoparticles on polystyrene particles and the immobilization of a single-stranded DNA probe. The morphology of the polystyrene-gold nanoparticle thin film was characterized using scanning electron microscopy and showed successful conjugation and immobilization. The infrared spectra obtained from the hybridization showed features of DNA structure and peak shifts at 1657 cm−1 compared to the non-complementary DNA due to changes in hydrogen bonding between N-H and C˭O of complimentary bases pairs. The peaks at 1067, 975, 920, and 859 cm−1, which were shifted to lower wavenumbers in the polystyrene-gold nanoparticle probe and target DNA, indicated hydrogen bonding formation between N-H and N of complimentary base pairs. ATR-FTIR spectroscopy provided simple, fast, and portable label-free detection of target DNA sequence on the polystyrene-gold nanoparticle thin film.


Subject
 Russian Arctic update.

 Significance
 Russia has identified two key national interests in the Arctic, hydrocarbons development and control over sea routes, and has worked consistently to advance them. Often seen as aggressive by NATO states, Russian efforts to rebuild military capabilities after decades of underfunding are in large part designed to consolidate Moscow's claim to exercise jurisdiction over its Arctic waterway and increase exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), oil and coal along it.

 Impacts
 Russia's new floating nuclear power plant is the first in a series designed to assist remote communities and extractive projects.
 Warships are being used to stop and inspect small boats in a sign of Moscow's assertion of its claim to control its waters.
 Russia is part of the MOSAiC project to study the central Arctic and gain insights on climate change.


TechSoup, a leading provider of technology solutions for nonprofit organizations globally, has launched the COVID‐19 Response Fund to help grassroots nonprofits make necessary technology investments—even while continuing to serve their constituents in the midst of a global pandemic.


A patient with hematochezia and a false negative Meckel's scan is presented. A Meckel's diverticulum was subsequently diagnosed on barium small bowel follow-through. Meckel's diverticulum is discussed with emphasis on the relationship of barium and radionuclide studies.


The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for presenting targeted advertisements to the user's DVR. After the completion of DVR playback recorded TV programs, or in response to other specific events, DVR presentation contains "save or delete" menu screen. In addition to "save" and "delete" option, the menu also includes one or more other options. Each of these options can correspond to a separate promotional merchandise. For example, users can choose such an option to display the DVR or playing ads on the user's television. Additionally or alternatively, when these other options selected by the user, DVR can display a user interface, via the user interface the user can actually purchase a product or service. Advertise or provide the product or service may be displayed or mentioned in the program the user is watching TV in a product or service.


A model to simulate traffic streams, including electric powered vehicles, for any flow level in microscopic fashion is reported. It is shown that phenomena on shock wave movement are replicated in microscopic fashion. Simulation results are reasonably consistent with observed traffic behavior. The model is useful in practice. It is proposed that simulation of congestion buildup and/or dissipation phenomena in microscopic fashion is useful to know how is the desirable interval to place vehicle detectors for optimal controlling of traffic stream in macroscopic fashion. Simulation results can be effectively used in more macroscopic models to test and to refine them. (A*) For the covering abstract see ITRD E110327.


Granitic pegmatite deposits, which are usually products of orogenic processes during plate convergence, can be used to demonstrate regional tectonic evolution processes. In the eastern Tibetan Plateau in China, the Jiajika, Dahongliutan, Xuebaoding, Zhawulong, and Ke'eryin rare metal pegmatite deposits are located in the southern, western, northern, midwestern, and central areas of the Songpan–Ganzê orogenic belt, respectively. In this study, we dated two muscovite Ar–Ar ages of 189.4 ± 1.1 Ma and 187.0 ± 1.1 Ma from spodumene pegmatites of the Dahongliutan deposit. We also dated one zircon U-Pb age of 211.6 ± 5.2 Ma from muscovite granite, two muscovite Ar–Ar ages of 179.6 ± 1.0 Ma and 174.3 ± 0.9 Ma, and one columbite–tantalite U-Pb age of 204.5 ± 1.8 Ma from spodumene pegmatites of the Zhawulong deposit. In addition, we dated one muscovite Ar–Ar age of 159.0 ± 1.4 Ma from spodumene pegmatite of the Ke'eryin deposit. Combining these ages and previous studies in chronology, we concluded that the granitic magma in the Jiajika, Xuebaoding, Dahongliutan, Zhawulong, and Ke'eryin deposits intruded into Triassic metaturbidites at approximately 223, 221, 220–217, 212, and 207–205 Ma, respectively, and that the crystallization of the corresponding pegmatite ceased at approximately 199–196, 195–190, 189–187, 180–174, and 159 Ma, respectively. In this study, we demonstrated that the peak in magmatic activity and the final crystallization age of the pegmatite lagged behind one another from the outer areas of the orogeny belt to the inner areas. The pegmatite–parented granitic magmas were sourced from Triassic metaturbidites that were melted by shear heating along the large-scale decollement resulting from Indosinian collisions along the North China block, Qiangtang–Changdu block, and Yangtze block. As a result, the above temporal and spatial regularities indicated that the tectonic–thermal stress resulting from the collisions of three blocks was transferred from the outer areas of the orogenic belt to the inner areas. A large amount of heat and a slow cooling rate at the convergent center of thermal stress in two directions will lead to crystallization and differentiation of magma in the Songpan–Ganzê orogenic belt, forming additional rare metal deposits.


On the example of the Republic of Bashkortostan, an analysis of the socio-economic development of municipalities at various stages of their life cycle is carried out. The article sets out the principles for selecting indicators characterizing various areas of functioning and socio-economic development of territories, which are divided into three blocks: economic, social, and environmental.
The financial management of multilevel territorial entities, in contrast to the previously completed developments, is considered taking into account the factor of stage development, which allows us to formulate a theoretical basis for creating a model of financial management of territories specialized in stages and phases of their life cycle and makes it possible to take into account the patterns and features of their stage development.
A system of indicators was selected based on statistical information from Rosstat and Bashkortostanstat on the development dynamics and socio-economic situation of municipal districts and urban districts of the Republic of Bashkortostan, each of which reflects certain aspects that identify the stages of the life cycle of territories. The generated set of indicators is tested for multicollinearity, as a result indicators with a close relationship are excluded.
A pilot test was conducted to identify the stages of the life cycle of municipalities of the Republic of Bashkortostan (54 municipal districts and 8 urban districts), which allowed to identify specific features of the development of territories at different stages of their life cycle. Based on the unified system of indicators, the municipalities are classified by stages and phases of the life cycle: development (phase II), maturity (phase I and II), decline (phase I and II). The relationship between the resource and financial base and the stage-by-stage belonging of this territory is established.
The development of the theory of the life cycle will contribute to improving management efficiency both at the level of the municipality and at the level of the region, which will make it possible to quickly make decisions on the further development of this territory (at the development stage or phase I of maturity) or provide for measures to change the status of the territory for its transition into a new progressive state (in the II phase of maturity or phases of decline).


Having offered in the past various suggestions for reform of the American system of military justice, I the authors now submit what they believe to be a comprehensive revision of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) which goes to the heart of the problem, as they see it, rather than merely the symptoms. It should be explained at the outset that the authors do not agree on all aspects of military justice. Colonel Schiesser is of the opinion that the present system under the UCMJ, 2 as administered by the various armed forces, represents an enlightened system of military criminal law which is generally satisfactory for its stated purposes, and which should encompass jurisdiction over all offenses described in the UCMJ, wherever committed.3 It is his view that the reform now proposed


The speech command has, lately, increased its applicability fields. The continuous
speech command systems for Romanian language are, unfortunately, still very rare systems. This
is caused by the difficulty of design a continuous speech recognition engine specific to Romanian
language. The present paper proposes an adaptation, for Romanian language, of a continuous
speech recognition engine, designed for American English and an application of this new speech
recognition engine for a hand prosthesis.


Joint angle analysis facilitates research into injury prevention, rehabilitation, and activity monitoring. Sensors used in such analysis must be unobtrusive, accurate, and if used for motion, capable of monitoring fast-paced, dynamic motions. To effectively contribute to these applications, we created a body-mounted electromagnet-based sensing system for joint angle analysis called Magneto. Our system is wireless, features a high sampling rate, is not subject to drift, and is unaffected by outside magnetic noise. Magnetic field readings are influenced by noise due to magnetic interference from the Earth's magnetic field, the environment, and nearby ferrous objects. Magneto uses the combination of an electromagnet and magnetometer to remove environmental interference from a magnetic field reading. We evaluated this sensing method to show its performance when removing the interference in three-movement dimensions, in six environments, and with six different cycling rates. Then, we localized the electromagnet with respect to the magnetic field reader in any direction within a 13.8 cm range with a relative error of 2.3% for the distance and an average error of 3.43° for the orientation angle. We applied Magneto in a pilot study: calculating elbow flexion angles. In this study, we calculated elbow flexion angles to the nearest 15° with 93.8% accuracy.


Objective To analyze the characteristics of site 275 in NA protein of pandemic influenza H1N1 virus in Jiangxi province in 2013. Methods The specimens of nasopharyngeal swabs were collected from influenza like cases of influenza monitor hospitals and isolated for influenza virus with MDCK. All 31 strains of pandemic influenza A( H1N1) 2009 virus were selected for detection and virus RNA were extracted. The specific gene fragment of NA genes were amplified by one-step RT-PCR and then were analyzed by restriction fragment length polymorphism( RFLP) assay. Results All strains of pandemic H1N1 influenza virus had no mutation in position 275 of NA gene. Conclusion 31 strains were sensitive to Oseltamivir. The One-step RT-PCR-RFLP assay is simple and feasible for screening oseltamivir resistant pandemic influenza A( H1N1)2009 virus.


Abstract Capillary blood sampling via a heel puncture is a common procedure performed on hospitalized neonates. If not performed properly, a heelstick can lead to complications. The clinical and financial impact of complications blood can be significant.Also in some situations, the procedure could be complicated with skin infections, hematomes, soft tissue infections, arthritis and osteomyelitis. We report an infant complicated with arthitis and soft tissue infection secondary to heel puncture and we want to emphesize the importance of neonatal procedures.


Crop residue left after sugarcane harvesting was recovered using a forage harvester and a large round baler. The quantity, bulk density and moisture content of the crop residue was determined in four fields. Crop residue from 7 ha was burned in boilers at a sugar mill. Samples of this residue were tested by a laboratory and compared to sugarcane bagasse.


PT XYZ has an Enterprise Resource Planning application that is used by the Planning Department to view stocks and plan production materials. Currently calculation of production materials takes more than 30 seconds just to export to Excel then a few minutes to adjust the data format to the planning form and the data used is not real-time. Each item needs to be calculated one by one per period, then the size of the Excel file used varies according to the time period and requires more storage. To support real-time integration and process efficiency planning and storage reduction, an integration between Enterprise Resource Planning application and web applications has been made using a Service Oriented Architecture approach. The Web service uses RESTful and has been tested using Quality of Service and the Vulnerability Test. Based on the test results using the Jmeter simulation with 10 users, it is obtained Latency 1.2 seconds and Load Time 1.2 seconds with an average amount of data sent 1280.73 bytes. The test results using OWASP ZAP show vulnerability to the web service header made from the web server version used by PHP version 5.6.40. With the results of these tests, the web service is able to replace the export and import process as well as create real-time data connectivity and replace storage media with databases, thereby reducing the time needed for planning activities.


From the present flood prevention problem of the Wuquwan Reservoir,the different transformation methods are calculated and analyzed to the present flood-control installations in the article.Then,the proposal schemes of the project design are put forward,which can meet the flood control standard.The result can give reference for the next danger-eliminating and reinforcing project design of the reservoir,at the same,it would have certain application value to other small reservoir.


In recent years, "high temperature" ceramics as materials with strength and high melting point are drawing the attention for ceramists. These ceramic materials are expected to be used as a fireplace for nuclear fusion, aircraft engine, rocket nozzle and fireplace materials for high temperature incinerator. High-temperature oxidation behavior of sintered SiB6 body was studied in air at 573-1273K for 5min to 25h by measuring mass gain and X-ray diffraction. In spite of increasing temperature and time, weight gain by oxidation of sintered SiB6 body was not approved at 1273K. However, the oxidation was confirmed by X-ray diffraction analysis at higher then 873K.


We describe a Gabor feature selection technique that allows us to develop a fast and robust Gabor-feature based biometric system. Existing Gabor based methods use a huge number of Gabor features to represent the patterns. Our experiments on different biometric characteristics show that by using only few (∼10) Gabor features, it is possible to achieve a very low Equal Error Rate (EER). Only a low number of Gabor filters and sub-images, selected by running the Sequential Forward Floating Selection (SFFS), are exploited in the fusion step. The system has been tested on two biometric traits: ear authentication and finger authentication.


More than 2000 wheat collection samples were studied for seedling resistance to 4 diseases. Noncoincidence of results obtained after inoculation of leaf segments placed on water solution of benzimidazole (60 ppm) and intact plants was found for 3 foliar diseases (leaf rust – Puccinia recondita, dark brown leaf spot blotch – Bipolaris sorokiniana and septoria glume blotch – Septoria nodorum). Sixty-three entries were resistant to leaf rust; 26 of them have gene for resistance Lr26 (non-effective under field condition), 25 – gene Lr24, 4 – gene Lr19, 8 – gene Lr9 and 2 – gene Lr41. Samples 181-5, Fielder, Butte 66, Raj 1972 and Soisson were moderately resistant to spot blotch; 181-5 – to common root rot and Moking and MN 81330 – to glume blotch. Very high level of partial resistance to 3 diseases was found in late generations of somaclonal lines of weakly and moderately resistant initial genotypes: to leaf rust in lines of cv. Spica, to leaf spot blotch – in lines of 181-5, to common root rot – in that of 181-5 and cv. Vera; moderate resistance to glume blotch was identified in lines of cv. Spica.


We demonstrate a high-repetition-rate, high-peak-power diode-pumped passively Q-switched ceramic Nd:YAG quasi-three-level laser at 946 nm. The maximum peak power reaches 12.4 kW with a pulse width of 13.0 ns at 3.3 kHz.


The author examines the effect of fiscal adjustment on the real exchange rate. The argument is made that the direction and extent of that effect depends on the way fiscal adjustment is carried out. If a fiscal deficit is reduced mainly by reducing total government spending, the effect on the real exchange rate depends on whether the adjustment is achieved through proportionate cuts in both capital and current spending or through disproportionately greater cuts in capital spending. A disproportionately high cut in capital spending affects the composition of government spending between tradables and nontradables. Econometric estimates of the model for Bangladesh show that the propensity to spend on nontradables is greater for government spending than for private, and greater for the government's current spending than for its capital spending. The author emphasizes two important implications of fiscal adjustment for developing countries like Bangladesh : a) when fiscal adjustment involves unsustainably heavy cuts in capital spending, appreciation of the real exchange rate misaligns that rate, causing misallocation of resources and b) when disproportionate cuts in capital spending occur at the same time as trade liberalization, appreciation of the real exchange rate undermines the effectiveness of trade.


A Community Service activity entitled "Diffusion of Innovations of Indonesian Realistic Mathematics Education to Mathematics Teachers of Junior High School (SMP) in Sleman Regency through Lesson Study" aims at diffusing Innovations of Indonesian Realistic Mathematics Education (Pendidikan Matematika Realistik Indonesia: PMRI) to Mathematics Teachers of SMP in Sleman Regency who are actively participating in Subject Based Teachers Group (Musyawarah Guru Mata Pelajaran: MGMP) of Mathematics. The diffusion is conducted through Lesson Study. Specifically, this PPM activity aims at improving understanding of mathematics teachers as participants on excellences of PMRI and Lesson Study and increasing teachers' willingness to implement PMRI in the Lesson Study format. Objects of the study were 25 mathematics teachers of SMP in Sleman Regency actively participating in MGMP. The first activity was socialization on PMRI and Lesson Study. It was conducted on July 12, 2012 in the Mathematics Education Laboratory and was joined by 25 participants. The second activity was in a workshop on Development of Learning Tools and the implementation of the plan phase which was conducted on July 26, 2012 in the Mathematics Education Laboratory with 25 participants. Meanwhile, the third activity was the implementation of the do and see phase conducted on August 9, 2012 at SMP Muhammadiyah III Depok Sleman with 25 participants. In the beginning and the end of the activity, all participants were given written questions to reveal their understanding on PMRI and Lesson Study. In the end of the activity, questions were added about advantages of PMRI and Lesson Study. All participants of the activity stated that PMRI and Lesson Study are very advantageous for students and teachers. All of them also committed to implement PMRI in the Lesson Study format. Considering the results above, it can be concluded that this PPM activity is successful to improve the understanding of mathematics teachers as participants on excellences of PMRI and Lesson Study and also works to  increase their willingness to implement PMRI in the Lesson study format. In addition, all participants also hope on the follow-up of this activity. Therefore, Department of Education, Youth and Sport of Sleman Regency and UNY (Yogyakarta State University) need to establish cooperation to facilitate the implementation of PMRI in the Lesson Study format for mathematics teachers of SMP in Sleman Regency. Keywords : realistic mathematics education, and mathematics lesson study


This thesis seeks an elucidation of Merleau-Ponty's conception of 'operative' intentionality (l'intentionnalite operante). This concept is central to Merleau-Ponty's discussions of meaning and understanding throughout his career. I argue that Merleau-Ponty's early work, in which he articulates the nature and place of operative intentionality in agency and perception, makes available a general thesis concerning meaning and understanding. Merleau-Ponty's central claim here is that meaning should not be conceived of as the outcome of acts of interpretation or judgement. I argue that this general thesis is unsatisfactorily represented in some of the most prominent secondary literature on Merleau-Ponty's work. Nonetheless, there is a tension at the heart of Phenomenology of Perception that compromises the clarity and coherence of Merleau-Ponty's conception of operative intentionality. The difficulty lies in the way Merleau-Ponty conceives the relationship between perception and language in the early work. It is this problematic that provides the key to appreciating the developments that Merleau-Ponty instigates through his attempts to formulate a phenomenology of language and expression in the 1950s. Tracing the developments of the middle period work on language in this way allows us to see how Merleau-Ponty's introduction of a new philosophical lexicon of 'the flesh' (la chair) in his final writings is motivated by the attempt to accommodate the general thesis concerning meaning and understanding that originally emerged with Phenomenology of Perception's conception of operative intentionality.


Positioned at the crossroads of three continents, geographic Palestine is a tiny piece of land rich with biodiversity, fertile agricultural fields, and varied ecological systems. The preservation of this unique environmental interplay is a responsibility which lies equally upon the people of Palestine, as well as its occupiers. In recent years, however, attention has focused far more on conflicting political claims to the land than to its preservation and sustainable development. Throughout history, as well as in the current Middle East peace process, narrow political agendas have proven to be the leading contributor to the destruction of the Palestinian environment. Although in the current peace process there may be mention of environmental protection, measures are developed almost exclusively along security lines.


Growth of cork-oak (Quercus suber L.) in Iberian stands may depend not only on climate but also on recurrent cork harves- ting and stand management. In this work, trees from sites with different managements were studied for 3-6 years. Radial increments were enhanced following harvesting (4.0-8.2 mm yr -1 ), and decreased afterwards (< 4.3 mm yr -1 ). Time after harvesting was the primary factor affecting radial growth of Q. suber, but trunk growth also correlated negatively with Autumn-Winter precipitations and minimum temperatures, and positively with Spring rainfall. Spring radial increment varied significantly between sites.


It Introduces briefly the plasma cutting process,work flow and servo system positioning process.Combining with PLC,EM253 and servo drive connected graph and I/O distribution list,it the software control flow process of the software,proposes the key program example,shows the simulation results of the plasma cutting machine control system.The experiments illustrates that the control system can realize circle,circle or long term period of the complex graphic high precision automatic cutting,small errors.


Each year the set of texts dealing with Western influences on Eastern art becomes bigger and bigger, owing to the contributions of both European and Asian scholars. Unfortunately, the considerable outgrowth of these writings is rarely accompanied by methodological considerations of how to research into the visual similarities between Western and non-Western artworks. In an attempt to fill this gap, this paper examines the main theoretical aspects and challenges of studying Asian art which seem to be based on European architecture, sculpture and painting. The first part of this paper examines how contemporary art historians determine the very existence of 'influences' between artworks. Later on, it is explained how intertextual and post-colonial studies have changed the way art history views the impact of one artwork on another. Having discussed these revisions to our discipline, I ask the question how to pinpoint references of Asian artworks to Western ones, if there is no data about their authors (their education, travels, personal contacts with foreign artists etc.) or the reproductions and replicas of European pictures. Additionally, I raise the issue of the artist's intention (i.e. if quotations from, and allusions to Western artworks are always conscious and intended). Another issue, which recurs throughout the whole paper, is whether conceptual schemata from Western academia allow art historians to understand and explain Asian art better or whether they just lead to interpretive abuse. The final paragraphs offer some concluding remarks.


Integrated semiconductor device includes a substrate layer, and formed on the substrate layer a buffer layer, and the buffer layer of gallium nitride layer formed on the, and a barrier layer formed on a gallium nitride layer including. Further, an ohmic contact for a plurality of transistor devices are formed on the barrier layer. Specifically, a plurality of first ohmic contact for the first transistor device is formed on a first portion of the surface of the barrier layer, a plurality of second ohmic contacts for the second transistor device It is formed in the second portion of the surface of the barrier layer.


Ab initio molecular orbital calculations have been performed in an effort to determine which types of chemical interactions play essential roles for the system, , and . The most important contribution to the interaction energy in controlling reaction path is the exchange repulsion energy, EX, which is largely responsible for the shape of the total interaction energy curve. In the ion-molecule reaction, prior protonation of thioformaldehyde or prior deprotonation of water leads to formation of the corresponding ionic adducts ( and ), with no barrier to reaction, simulating specific acid and base catalysis, respectively, as in the case of formaldehyde. Otherwise, approach of water to thioformaldehyde gives rise to a completely repulsive interaction.


This study aims to determine the effect of human resource information systems and competencies on employee performance and to determine the effect of human resource information systems and competencies on employee performance with job satisfaction as a moderating variable at PT. Manohara Asri Sidoarjo. Research Line includes the type of Quantitative Research, analysis tools used in the form of questionnaires. The population in this study was 334 employees of PT. Manohara Asri Krian. The sample in this study was 182 respondents. Data analysis was performed by path analysis using AMOS software. Research results show that the human resource information system has no significant effect on employee performance; competence has a significant effect on employee performance. In addition, the results show that the human resource information system and competence significantly influence employee performance with job satisfaction as a moderating variable.


Speech technology has been used in communication systems for the speech and hearing impaired but with only limited success. The lessons which have been learned are very valuable, not only for improving current systems, but also in commercial and non-disabled applications


CT numbers can be directly computed from the linear attenuation coefficients in the reconstructed CT images and are correlated to the electron densities of the chemical elements with specific atomic numbers. However, the computed CT numbers can be varied when different imaging parameters are used. Phantoms composed of clinically relevant and tissue-equivalent materials (lung, bone, muscle, and adipose) were scanned with a commercial circular-scanning micro CT imager. This imaging system is composed with a micro-focused x-ray tube and charged-coupled device (CCD) camera as the detector. The mean CT numbers and the corresponding standard deviations in terms of Hounsfield units were then computed from a pre-defined region of interest located within the reconstructed volumetric images. The variations of CT number were then identified from a series of imaging parameters. Those parameters include imaging acquisition modes (e.g., the metal filter used in the x-ray tube), reconstruction methods (e.g., Feldkamp and iterative algorithm), and post-image processing techniques (e.g., ring artifact, beam-hardening artifact, and smoothing processing). These variations of CT numbers are useful and important in tissue characterization, quantitative bone structure analysis, bone marrow density evaluation, and Monte Carlo dose calculations for the pilot small animal study when micro CT imaging systems are employed. Also these variations can be used as the quantification for the performance of the micro CT imaging systems.


Against attempts to characterize Marx as a dogmatic and deterministic thinker, it is precisely the open-endedness of his criticism that accounts for historical materialism's staying power. This openness has allowed Marxism to continually reinvent itself, expanding its empirical and theoretical content and embracing ever larger aspects of historical reality.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.


Kopertis Religion I in the North of Sumaterais a work unit in the Ministry of Research and Higher Education. Its main tasks are supervision, control and coaching all private universities in North of Sumatera. Kopertis encounters the problems related to work performance in carrying out its tasks. This research is an effort to describe and these problems, particularly those related to the employees' performance. It is studied to discover whether every employee has carried out their tasks well meeting the expectation of the organization. In this case, the employees' performance is taken as a dependent variable that is influenced by three other independent variables. Firstly, leadership behavior; a leader is demanded to organize and coordinate all employees, so that this behavior is considered to have an important influence on the employees' performance. Secondly, communication is defined as a process of sending and receiving messages among employees either directly or indirectly, in oral or written form, or even in nonverbal language. Finally, motivation; it is a desire to perform a task with the best effort in accordance with the vision and mission determined by the organization. The samples were 67 people taken from the whole population by a census (100% of the population). The data were collected through research questionnaires. The data were analyzed by employing the multiple linear regression analysis. The results of the research concluded that: 1) Leadership Behavior had positive and significant influence on the employees' performance, because it was effective to create a good relationship between the leader and the employees in order to improve their performance; 2) Communication had appositive and significant influence on the employees' performance; it was effective to create a two way communication that can facilitate their work and improve their performance; 3) Work Motivation had positive and significant influence on the employees' performance; it is sourced from both themselves (intrinsically) and the outside as an individual (extrinsically), that could influence the employees' performance; 4) Leadership Behavior, Communication and Work Motivation simultaneously had positive and significant influence on the Employees' Performance.


In order to study the characteristics of humoral immunity on E.tenella, specific vitelline antibody of E.tenella was prepared. The metabolic pattern of vitelline antibody in cecum was determined. With the internal and external restraining and killing experiment of E.tenella, effects of specific high immunized vitelline antibody on E.tenella were examined. The results showed: (1) The vitelline antibody in alimentary tract is steady. (2) Anticoccidial index(ACI)increased by 73.50, rate of weight increased by 39.19 %, mortality decreased by 33.4 % in chickens inoculated with E.tenella by administering vitelline antibody. (3) Vitelline antibody has significant dissolving and weakening effect on sparozoite, but it has no effect on the speed of sporation of E.tenella, and pathogenicity of sporulated oocysts.


Hämostaseologie 2016; 36: 159–160 The human genome consists of about three billion nucleotides or DNA "letters", forming three-letter codes or "words" and expressing nucleotide sequences or "sentences". In either way, we are facing a giant number of letters, words, or sentences in genetics and molecular biology. This reminds me of an anecdote of W. A. Mozart's life. When Emperor Joseph II first listened to The Abduction from the Seraglio, he reportedly said: "My dear Mozart, that is too fine for my ears; there are too many notes."


The present invention relates to a resist composition and pattern forming method using the same, comprising a solvent, consisting of parts of the second coupling possible pyrolysis and possible central optical portion made of a curing agent capable of reacting the first coupling, and a low-molecular resin and a photo-reaction. Thermal cracking, light response, the resist composition


Recent years,more and more people's photos about face,hands,legs,chest are often illegal cut and jointed.Combined with the domestic and overseas judicial practice,it is particularly necessary to introduce the concept of local portrait.Local portrait including features and appearance of nature person,which can confirm the object they reflect should be affirmed as the legal sense of local portrait.Concerning the legal orientation of local portrait,currently it has two doctrines : image rights and portrait rights.According to the protection interests of portrait rights,introducing image rights does not correspond to the existing classification and system of rights.Besides,It also conflicts with the traditional personality right theory of China.So it needs to apply the portrait rights to protect the local portrait.


PURPOSE
To determine the optimal time window for scanning the liver with computed tomography (CT) during arterial portography (CTAP).

MATERIALS AND METHODS
After vasodilation and contrast medium injection into the superior mesenteric artery (80 mL at 5 mL/sec), 25 repeated scans were obtained at a single level within 83 seconds in 13 patients. Attenuation was measured on every scan, and time-attenuation curves were created. Enhancement characteristics of the portal vein, liver parenchyma, aorta, and tumors were evaluated.

RESULTS
Parenchymal enhancement of more than 60 HU was achieved between 18 seconds +/- 4 (standard deviation) and 67 seconds +/- 15, and high parenchyma-to-tumor contrast of more than 50 HU occurred between 18 seconds +/- 3 and 62 seconds +/- 14.

CONCLUSION
To scan the liver within such a narrow time window, a spiral CT technique is necessary. When the above injection parameters are used in CTAP, the spiral CT sequence should be started 20 seconds after the beginning of the injection.


Increase in DNA and Protein Syntheses in Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells Treated with Asbestos: Yuji Karasaki, et al. School of Health Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health—When human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) were treated with crocidolíte asbestos, HUVECs phagocytized the fibers; no cytotoxic effect was observed when treated at concentrations lower than 10 μg/ml for 24 h, 48 h and 72 h. The time‐dependent effect of crocidolite asbestos on DNA synthesis and protein synthesis in HUVECs was studied. The DNA synthesis of the cells exhibited the maximum augmentation (150%) at 24 h, and the protein synthesis increased to the maximal value (140%) at 36 h. The dose‐dependent effect of crocidolite asbestos on DNA synthesis and protein synthesis in HUVECs was also studied. The maximum increases in DNA synthesis and protein synthesis were observed at 5 μg/ml and at 10 μglml of the fibers, respectively. An apparent increase in DNA synthesis may be mainly due to the repair of DNA damage induced by asbestos under our present experimental conditions, but also in part due to the mitogenic effect of asbestos. Cell injury and DNA damage will remain for a while in the cells, and asbestos fibers phagocytized into cells may induce not only specific but also nonspecific gene transcriptions, which might promote mutations in HUVECs and asbestosis.


Abstract : The transformation of the U.S. military and the Department of Defense represents a complex process which has been evolving since the end of the Cold War. Successful transformation will require a cultural change that focuses on producing forces that when integrated with all elements of national power will achieve desired effects to defeat any enemy's capabilities. It is the human dimension of transformation -- the educated well-trained values oriented service member-- that will have the greatest impact on the transformation process. Technology is an enabler and a catalyst for change but it is the practitioner of war that will determine how the technology will be employed to achieve desired effects. Transformation is an intellectual process and must begin with the mind of the leader. The leader must understand the changing environment be able to rapidly adapt and employ innovative approaches to produce the desired effects on potentially changing enemy capabilities. Transformation is a strategic process that should be based on sound strategic theory and principles. Its concepts should be derived from historical lessons learned. The intent of this paper is to examine transformation in terms of the human dimension provide some recent examples of how the transformation concepts have evolved and offer recommendations to insure the transformation effort proceeds on a logical path. The human dimension is the decisive factor in transformation. It will take service members training and operating as a joint force with a focused effort in developing innovative solutions encouraged by a military with a learning culture that will make this process successful.


Jin Shengtan (1608-1661) was one of the most significant critics in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. His commentaries on literary works were widely read. He elevated both the genre of novels and Chinese opera scripts into the literary realm, and made a profound and everlasting impact on them. Jin thought that there must be some rigorous method to an ingenious essay, regarding the finished work as a perfect form, and thus proceeded on an accurate and meticulous analysis of the structure of these essays. Quite a few scholars have pointed out that Jin was the leading critic of traditional novels. In 1920, Hu Shih stated that when Jin analyzed novels, he did so in "the anthological style of the eight-legged essay". However, one hundred years that have since passed, there has been much focus on Jin's commentaries on drama and novels, but no further discussion on what "the anthological style of the eight-legged essay" really consisted of. The 1889 version of "A Collection of Exquisite Xiaoti Essays" was lost until 1990. It contains 169 examples of "eight-legged essays". This thesis aims to analyze his commentaries and discuss the characteristics of this anthology.


This paper outlines correlation of the most disti nctive features of intrusive rocks from Polumir (granite from Polumir, Polumir granite) and from Že ljin (Željin granitoid). Although these two intrusi ons are notable similar in space (10-12 km) and time (beginning of Miocene), they are very different, even contrasting concerning their petrography, genesis a nd geotectonic. Mineralogy, petrology and chemistry of Polumir granite (P≈2.5 km ), and of Željin quartz diorite and tonalite, as we ll as of granodiorite and granite (P≈56 km ), i.e. properties that directly reflect on their g enesis and geotectonic setting, are presented in th is paper. Chemistry of biotite, the only mineral obser ved in both plutons, as the direct evidence of diff erent physical-chemical conditions during consolidation a nd proof for their genetic contrast, is contributed .


The design process of optical systems requires to obtain residual aberrations of designed optical systems as small as possible. By analysis of the dependence of aberrations on the numerical aperture and field of view, it is possible to find such values of numerical aperture and field of view, where the residual aberration is zero. Such values of numerical aperture and field of view are called correction zones. The work theoretically analyses the described problem and equations are derived for expression of wave aberration coefficients using correction zones for aberrations of the third and fifth order. Finally, there was done an analysis of optimal values of correction zones and optimal position of the centre of reference sphere using derived equations. This analysis was performed for the case when it is required the maximal value of wave aberration to be minimized.


The purpose of this research is to analysis the contents of "the report of Health and Physical Education Council", introduced by Ministry of Education in Japan in 2000. The research is based on an examination of the report of Health and Physical Education Council", introduced by Ministry of Education in Japan in 1972, 1989, and 2000. The data sources include the reports of Health and Physical Education Council in association to sports literature and government publications. Through examination of these sources, the following was concluded: The distinctness of "the report of Health and Physical Education Council", introduced by Ministry of Education in Japan 2000 was to: (1) beef up a lifelong sports society in which all people can enjoy sports anytime and anywhere and create a sports environment in local communities; (2) improve Japan`s international competitiveness in sports so that Japanese athletes can play an even greater role in the Olympics and other international athletic competitions; and(3) take steps to enhance physical education at school to further promote physical education and sports activities for children in conjunction with the supports of school and local governments. Furthermore, several problems of "the report of Health and Physical Education Council", introduced by Ministry of Education in Japan in 2000 are proposed


Background: Immobility induced hypercalcemia has been reported in few studies in pediatric population. Although not a common presentation, children are in a state of high bone turnover, and are considered prone to the imbalance of osteoblastic and osteoclastic activity that occurs with prolonged immobility, which lead to hypercalcemia. Case Report: Here in we are reporting a case of a 10 years old child with prolonged immobilization secondary to motor vehicle accident, who suffered from traumatic pancreatitis, and nephrolithiasis. Conclusion: This case study highlights the importance of following patients with risk factors for hypercalcemia including immobilization.


In mechanistic-empirical asphalt pavement design, a huge number of pavement responses due to a spectrum of traffic loads must be predicted. Although a multi-layered system model offers quick computation speeds, the oversimplifications built in the model may make the calculations inaccurate. One major assumption frequently associated with the multi-layer model is the uniform tire-pavement contact stress distributed over a circular contact area with the contact stress simply equal to the tire inflation pressure. Recent studies have proved however this assumption is far from the reality. In this study, measured non-uniform tire-pavement contact stress data for different tire load and inflation pressure conditions were input to the finite element program ANSYS to compute immediate pavement responses for various asphalt pavement structures. Finite element models for three popular half-axle tire configurations, single tire, dual tires and tandem axles of dual tires were developed. Pavement response data were generated by running the finite element models for a factorial experiment design of different tire loads, tire pressures, pavement structures, and tire configurations. Typical computation results from the finite element model were compared with the results of the multilayer model. Critical pavement responses responsible for pavement distresses in bottom-up cracking and rutting were determined. A quick solution method for the prediction of critical pavement responses was developed using regression models that relate critical pavement responses to tire loading conditions and pavement structures. The computed pavement responses showed that the multilayer model using the traditional tire model tended to overestimate the horizontal tensile strains at the bottom of the asphalt concrete layer and underestimate the vertical compressive strains at the top of the subgrade. The established regression models suggested fairly good prediction models for quick solutions of pavement responses from known loading conditions and pavement structure parameters.