This research is aimed to find out types of error analysis of using simple present tense in descriptive text written by the eighth grade students of SMP Bina Satria Medan. This research used the qualitative research design. The sample of this research was the eighth grade students of SMP Bina Satria Medan which consisted of 20 students. The result of the data analysis showed that there were the types of errors made by the students on writing descriptive text based on surface strategy taxonomy which are classified into omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. The types of errors made by the students on writing descriptive text were 25% in errors of omission, 22,4% in errors of Addition, 49,2% in errors of Misformation, 3,4 % in errors of Ordering. From this data, it can be said that the misformation error was the highest number of errors made by the students in 49,2%.There were some causes of errors made by students in misformation. Firstly, the students felt confused with tense formula, they still could not distinguish regular and irregular verbs, which are present tense and past tense. Secondly, the students made mistakes in arranging word or confused to select the word sequence in sentence which important to formation writing that meanwhile to arrange the word and group of words in English and Indonesia are different. Thirdly, The students made errors because they didn't know grammar rule, they were lazy to learn about tense, they couldn't interpret sentences or paragraph directly and many other reasons. Therefore, it can be stated that source of the errors made by students influenced by interlingual and intralingual transfer(Corder, 2000). Interlingual transfer is errors that are influenced by the interference of users' mother tongue. The users still apply Indonesian pattern into English when they translate the sentences. Then Intralingual transfer occurs when students get difficulty learn the second language. Three causes of errors in intralingual transfer, namely; errors caused by over-generalization, errors caused by ignorance of rule restriction, and errors caused by incomplete application of rules.


To investigate the best N fertilizer application regime for the environment and the economy. Therefore, a field experiment was conducted for one year (2020–2021) under the rain-fed condition at two locations in the Sulaimani region; Qlyasan research field of the College of Agriculture Engineering University of Sulaimani and the Kanipanka research station in the Sharazoor valley to determine the effect of the application of 120 kg ha-1 N in four split doses (T6) at four growing stages, sowing, tillering, booting, and spiking, respectively. Were T1 (60 kg ha-1 N at sowing, 60 kg ha-1 N at tillering) used as a control, T2 (60 kg ha-1 N at sowing, 30 kg ha-1 N at tillering, 30 kg ha-1 N at booting), T3 (60 kg ha-1 N at sowing, 30 kg ha-1 N at tillering, 30 kg ha-1 N at spiking), T4 (60 kg ha-1 N at sowing, 20 kg ha-1 N at tillering, 20 kg ha-1 N booting, 20 kg ha-1 N at spiking), T5 (40 kg ha-1 N at sowing,30 kg ha-1 N at tillering, 30 kg ha-1 N at booting, 20 kg N ha-1 N at spiking) and T6 (40 kg ha-1 N at sowing, 40 kg ha-1 N at tillering, 40 kg ha-1 N at booting) and their effect on grain yield and it's components of bread wheat cultivars (Adana-99, Hawler-4, and Sulaimani-2). A split plot arrangement within Randomimized Complete Block Design with three replicates was used. The possible comparison among the means was calculated following the Duncan test at a significant level of 0.05. As part of grain yield, no. of spikes m-2, no. of grains.spike, thousand-grain weight (g) (TGW), grain yield ton ha-1 (GY), biological yield ton ha-1 (BY), and Harvest Index (H.I) were all calculated. As the average of both locations of the results showed that the impact of Cultivars on agronomic traits was significant, Sulaimani-2 produced the maximum values for all characters, with the exception of (TGW) and (H.I), which were provided by Hawler-4. All the bread wheat characters were significantly influenced by the time of application of nitrogen, where T5 produced the maximum value for all characters with the exception no. of spike m-2, where T6 had the ultimate value. The no. of spikes m-2 had a significant effect on the T4, and T5 study characters. Based on what we've found, the best combination is Sulaimani-2 with T6 and T5 except in Qlyasan location with T6 only  when rain is guaranteed. This increases both the yield and its components.


As engineering education and practice develop over the next decade under the influence of various current trends, databases that track that development are assuming a growing importance for the engineering community—engineers, their employers, and the institutions educating and training them. How responsive current personnel databases are to policy questions that arise is a matter being addressed by the National Science Foundation. As an aid to NSF, the National Research Council has taken a look at the issues involved through a new NRC report, "Engineering Personnel Data Needs for the 1990s." The report is based mainly on a workshop convened at the end of March by the NRC Office of Scientific & Engineering Personnel's Committee on Data Needs for Monitoring Labor-Market Conditions for Engineers. With funding from NSF, the workshop aimed at deciding how best to make existing databases on engineers more complete, accurate, and compatible to help NSF with its analytic efforts in the 1990s. ...


Introduction to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Etiology and Associated Features of ADHD: A Transactional Neurodevelopmental Model. Developmental Challenges of the Toddler/Preschool Stage: The Impact of ADHD on Normal Development. Intervention Strategies and Techniques for the Toddler/Preschool Stage. Developmental Challenges of the Middle Childhood Stage: The Impact of ADHD in Normal Development for the Middle Childhood Stage. Developmental Challenges of the Adolescent Stage: The Impact of ADHD on Normal Development. Intervention Strategies and Techniques for the Adolescent Stage. Developmental Challenges of Adulthood: The Impact of ADHD on Normal Development and Interventions Options. Future Research Trends.


This position paper aims to trigger a technical discussion by proposing a conceptual architecture for big data streaming integrated with complex event processing (BiDCEP). BiDCEP expands the Lambda and Kappa (LK) architectures for big data streaming to fit the complex event processing (CEP) and event management domains of enterprise IT. BiDCEP links CEP components as defined in previous work of Events Collections, Purifications and Enrichments with the big data LK batch and speed layers, and wraps the LK service layer with integration interfaces for expandable grid of interlinked BiDCEP units. The BiDCEP architecture can enable the LK big data quality attributes of scale, availability and latency to be maintained, while accounting for CEP enterprise IT requirements of load and content shedding, basic and derived enrichment, semantics transformation, and security enforcement. As such, open source big data streaming strengths can be employed within the context of an enterprisegrade IT with monitored service levels.


Born in Salzwedel, East Germany, Matthias Nahrendorf entered adulthood just as the Iron Curtain was lifting in Eastern Europe. He earned his medical degree and PhD in cardiovascular biology at Heidelberg University, and completed his residency plus fellowships in internal medicine and cardiovascular imaging at University of Wuerzburg.

In 2004, a postdoctoral position at Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Molecular Imaging Research brought Nahrendorf to Boston. He is now a principal investigator at MGH's Center for Systems Biology and director of the hospital's Mouse Imaging Program.

Nahrendorf, 45, is pursuing a deeper understanding of the consequences of ischemic injury, especially regarding how monocytes/macrophages impact acute healing and scar development,1–3 and how an imbalance in the process fuels prolonged inflammation and then heart failure. An associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School, Nahrendorf and his collaborators are also developing molecular imaging tools to noninvasively study regulators of heart failure biology and infarct healing processes.4–6 A long-term goal of the work is to devise new therapies for ischemic injury that reduce the action of inflammatory cells to what is necessary only to promote healthy healing, Nahrendorf says. If that could be achieved, "Ideally we wouldn't have heart failure anymore."

I have one brother, he's younger, and my parents. It was a pretty sheltered childhood. I grew up in Magdeburg, and the (Berlin) Wall came down when I was 18. Army service was compulsory in East Germany. So I spent one year in the army and then Germany reunited, so I was free to go wherever I wanted.

My parents are both doctors. My dad is a cardiologist, my mom a pediatrician. I had a happy childhood.

They were never telling me what to do. But I was obviously influenced by their jobs. They talked about …


This paper describes the different steps for the development of a remote laboratory for teaching analog electronics. The course was developed to support the face to face teaching and will upgrade the knowledge of engineers and technicians for the socioeconomic sector. In this paper, after describing the steps of design and scriptwriting of teaching materials, the operational amplifier is then studied for online lab work.


Methods of specimen preparation for the x-ray fluorescence analysis of water are described. For direct determination of impurities in waste water samples, quasi-solid specimens based on gelatin (agar) are proposed. Such specimens may also be used after extractive enrichment of impurities and their re-extraction into the aqueous phase. For organic specimens, those in the form of organogels or thin polymer films can be obtained directly. For group impurity concentration it is proposed to use low-temperature directed crystallization of water with subsequent obtaining of glassy saccharose-based specimens from aqueous concentrates. The techniques developed were applied to determine Ag, As, Bi, Cd, Co, Cu, Fe, Ga, Ni, Pb, Se and Zn impurities in waste waters. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Investment solicitation is an important way to accelerate the central area's county economy.Their investment solicitation during the period of "The Eleventh-Five-Year Plan" had a few problems;meanwhile it will be faced with new opportunities for development and new challenges during the period of "The Twenty-Five-Year Plan".Therefore,their investment solicitation should be more specific to make bad behaviors impossible,and should be also more scientific and rational to promote sustainable development of county economy.


Purpose. To compare the use of a blood salvage and reinfusion system with standard allogeneic blood transfusion after total knee arthroplasty—a procedure associated with significant postoperative blood loss. Methods. Between June 2002 and May 2004, 60 patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty were randomly allocated into a reinfusion group (n=26) or a control group (n=34). Patients in the reinfusion group had their blood reinfused from drains within 6 hours of surgery. Both groups received allogeneic blood transfusions according to specified transfusion criteria if the haemoglobin level fell below 90 g/l, or in the presence of severe anaemic symptoms. Haemoglobin levels and drain output were recorded daily for 3 consecutive days after surgery. Results. There was no significant difference between the 2 groups in demographic data, drain output, total blood loss, and mean postoperative haemoglobin levels. Significantly more allogeneic blood was required by the control group than by the reinfusion group (p=0.022). Conclusion. Postoperative reinfusion of drained blood reduced the need for blood transfusion after total knee arthroplasty, while having an effect on postoperative haemoglobin level equivalent to standard allogeneic blood transfusion.


A major roadblock for ultra-low power (ULP) circuits lies in increased sensitivity to process variations at near- and sub-VT. Additionally, temperature variations can be detrimental to circuit functionality for energy harvesting applications operating in outdoor environments. This vulnerability to variations at the device level is exacerbated by imbalances between pull-up (PUN) and pull-down (PDN) networks at the circuit level. In this paper, we propose Symm Top, a symmetric circuit topology in conjunction with a biasing scheme that maintains symmetrically robust operation of ULP energy harvesting systems in a variety of climates, including extreme temperatures. Through noise-analysis and Monte Carlo (MC) simulations performed in a commercial 28nm Fully Depleted Silicon On Insulator (FDSOI) technology, we demonstrate the robustness to variations and extreme temperature ranges of the proposed symmetric 2-to-1 multiplexer design (mirror mux) with bias compared to conventional 2-input NAND and NOR-based circuits. The linearity between temperature and bias makes this scheme easily applicable for programmable sensors in a variety of applications requiring environmental adaptability.


Taiwanese Opera (Ge Zi Xi), born in Taiwan, is one of traditional dramas known to have originated in Taiwan, and has been around for hundreds of years ever since. Derived from Minnan (southern Fujian) countryside ballads, popular tunes, and Che Gu Zhen (literally, "cart drum"opera), Taiwanese Opera is a composite of local customs, thoughts and cultures. Singing "ge zi (songs)" is the major way to perform Taiwanese opera, and those songs (ge zi) sung by performers serve as history books that lead us into the years of Taiwanese opera development. The genre of those songs (ge zi) came in a wide variety of tunes, such as za nian tunes, begging tunes (qi shi diao), duma tunes and among which "seven-word tune (qi zi diao)" is one of the most important basic tunes in the early days of Taiwanese opera. "Seven-word tune"was called"qi zi zi"in its early days, and was sung upon dialectic ballads. A line was composed of seven words, and four lines form a"pa"(a piece) of song, which is the"qi zi diao". The syllabus of each line is 2 2 2 1. Two lines make a complete sentence, the former of which charges the oblique tones, while the latter charges even tones. It's very common that every line rhymes, which belongs to the standard form. However, since folk singers/performers at that time had not cultivated to strictly follow the rules and forms of classical poetic composition, some lyrics did not rhyme at all, or either the first or third line did not rhyme, which were called the variation. Therefore, lyrics of qi zi diao only met a few standards of the eight rules for the tunes to which songs are composed. And since they are not so strictly composed, the music became less exquisite. In qi zi diao, ci qing (lyric affection) and sheng qing (sound affection) should work together to bring out the best in each other. With that in mind, composers first compose the music by catering for "sheng qing", in return, the music should manifest "ci qing", and then musical instrument heighten the lyrics overall. At last, performers express the songs through singing by integrating their own personal tone color, tones, acquired skills, and comprehension to the lyrics and prospect, That is their music for voices in Taiwanese opera (chang qiang). Accordingly, if qi zi diao was sung by the same singer with different lyrics, there would be different chang qiang due to different sheng qing; while if one song sung by different singers, there would be different chang qiang as well. Therefore, singers have plenty of space for freely exercising and singing qi zi diao. As everyone's qi zi diao is different from one another's, the quantity of qi zi diao is big. As mentioned above, qi zi diao is not so exquisite; on the contrary, it's more flexible and free, which is actually the characteristic of all the folk ballads. As a result, field collectors should not use the single sample as the research subject, because that would lead to bias and incorrect research consequence. This study will explain to you the phenomenon for drama and music circle's reference.


IVF was performed in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, and monozygotic twins were established in one case, but were indicated in two more cases. In further two cases one sexlike twin had died from caudal regression. This malformation complex, which has been noted very occasionally in monozygotic twins, is considered to be related to the twinning process. The question is raised, as to whether after IVF monozygotic twins are expected more frequently. Furthermore the importance of this question is discussed with reference to recent observations in twin research.


The invention discloses a circuit board testing system and belongs to the field of electronic measurement. The circuit board testing system comprises a slot-0 controller, a PXI bus, a PXI testing module, a testing interface and a tested circuit board; the slot-0 controller is for control, signal interaction and data processing of a measurement test stand; the PXI testing module is used for testing according to function characteristic indexes of the tested circuit board; the PXI bus is used for signal transmitting between the slot-0 controller and the PXI testing module; the testing interface is used for placing the tested circuit board; the slot-0 controller controls the PXI testing module to perform fault diagnosis and performance testing on the tested circuit board which is fixed on the testing interface. The circuit board testing system can achieve automatic testing of integral functions and performance of a PCB (Printed Circuit Board), can provide a measurement report for measure workers and is short in testing period and accurate in testing result.


Objective:To explore the relationship between PIH and coagulation and fibrinolysis systeme by studying the changes of platelet count,platelet activation,coagulation and fibrinolysis.Methods:The PLT,MPV,PDW,GMP-140 AT-Ⅲ,TAT,Fib and D-dimer were tested and analyzed in 95 cases of PIH,30 cases of normal late pregnancy women and 30 cases of normal non-pregnancy women.Results:The result showed that PLT,AT-Ⅲ were obviously lower and MPV,PDW,Fib,TAT and D-dimer was obviously raiser in the PIH group than in the normal late pregnancy women group and the normal non-pregnancy women.There was a statistically significant difference in the three groups.Conclusion:The change of coagulation and fibrinolysis in the PIH is a pre-DIC process from hypercoagulation state to a balance of hypercoagulation and high fibrinolysis,then to high fibrinolysis.The detection of above indexes can better reflect PIH.


Abstract This paper addresses the scheduling of robotic cells with two and three machines with fuzzy methodology. Some of the scheduling problems of these categories are transferred into a solvable traveling salesman problem that can be solved in a polynomial time. For generating the optimal part sequencing in the cells, the Gilmore and Gomory algorithm is modified and instead, a fuzzy Gilmore and Gomory algorithm is developed. Then, the proposed algorithm is tested and verified in a supplier company that produces part for an automobile industry. In any case, we compare the results of the proposed fuzzy method with those of crisp ones. The results show the superiority of the proposed algorithm in terms of flexibility, robustness, and reduction of cycle times.


ABSTRACT Although biomass gasification is well recognized as a practical method for producing syngas, the generated gas cannot be used in a variety of applications because of technological issues like tar formation. In this research, coal bottom ash (CBA) was used as an in-bed material for the experimental examination of biomass (wood chips) gasification in a fluidized bed system. All tests were conducted at reaction temperatures between 750 and 900 C, steam to biomass ratios between 0.24 and 0.96, CBA particle sizes between 0.22 and 1.2 mm, and biomass particle sizes between 0.5 and 3.0 mm. The primary objective of this research is to use an experimental set-up to assess the effectiveness of steam gasification of biomass using CBA with various particle sizes. The findings showed that using steam as a gasification agent and raising the temperature improved tar cracking and H2 generation. The findings also demonstrated that the catalyst particle size is efficient for H2 production and that CBA can be used as an in-bed material for the production of H2-rich syngas. Under an 850°C reaction temperature, a S/B of 0.96, a CBA size of 0.2–0.4 mm (Case I), and a biomass particle size of 0.5–1.2 mm, the H2 concentration achieved a maximum of 65.7 vol%. (Case I).


line in-plane swing angle and the platform pitch angle are calculated to be cxeq = 0eq = 0.0372 rad. Figures 2 and 3 show variations of the real part of the least-damped oscillatory mode for both subsystems, with the Q and R matrices. Only by trial and error can one arrive at suitable values for Q and R that result in the desired closed-loop system response. The crosses show the optimal design point, arrived at after a series of parametric studies. Figures 4 and 5 show the transient response of the differential length, the platform pitch, and the tether line inplane swing angle, as well as platform yaw, roll, and tether line out-of-plane swing angle for initial conditions of 105 m in tether length, length rate 5.5 x 10~ m/s and 0.05 rad in all the variational angles and angular rates of 5.5 x 10~ rad/s. It is seen that it takes much more time for the out-of-plane subsystem to reach equilibrium than for the in-plane subsystem.


Intuitive ontology visualization is a key for their learning, exchange, as well as their usage in conceptual modeling. OWLGrEd is a visual tool for compact graphical UML-style rendering and editing of OWL 2.0 ontologies. Here we introduce into OWLGrEd visualization annotations that allow defining custom visual presentations of ontology entities on the basis of annotations attached to these entities. The introduced mechanism of attaching visual annotations to annotation properties used in the ontology, besides being convenient for attaching graphical shape to user-defined annotations, appears to be powerful enough to cover visualization of e.g. UML stereotypes and other UML constructs that do not have direct counterpart in the "logic" part of OWL.


An 18-year-old male presented with pain and swelling in his left leg that he noted after playing football. An x-ray of the affected leg showed a destructive lesion that prompted a concern for malignancy. Subsequent tests, including magnetic resonance imaging, a bone scan, and a needle biopsy of the lesion, confirmed nonmetastatic osteosarcoma in the left proximal tibia. The patient was started on a standard regimen of chemotherapy. He received 4 cycles of high-dose methotrexate (HDMTX)3 with leucovorin rescue and 2 cycles of cisplatin and doxorubicin, which he tolerated well. Each HDMTX course involved the intravenous administration of 20 g methotrexate (MTX) over 4 h. The patient experienced delayed MTX clearance after the first cycle but showed typical clearance after the subsequent 3 cycles. He then underwent a planned radical resection of the tumor with allograft placement. After the patient recovered from surgery, chemotherapy resumed, and the patient received 2 additional cycles of cisplatin and doxorubicin and 1 additional cycle of HDMTX. His treatment was interrupted when he had to undergo surgery for a wound infection in the affected leg. After recovery from the second surgery, the patient received a sixth HDMTX cycle. After this cycle, the patient developed acute nephrotoxicity, which was manifested by marked renal dysfunction and delayed MTX clearance. His plasma creatinine concentration increased from 0.8 mg/dL (8 mg/L) at the start of the cycle to 6.8 mg/dL (68 mg/L) after he received HDMTX. Plasma MTX concentrations were 1700 μmol/L at 24 h after infusion, 450 μmol/L at 48 h, and 350 μmol/L at 72 h. The patient was treated with aggressive hydration, diuresis, and 1500 mg leucovorin intravenously every 6 h for several days. These measures did not reduce MTX below the toxic concentration, however, and the decision was made to give the patient glucarpidase …


This paper describes experimental results of NO removal using barrier discharges produced by a reciprocal pulse generator. When a coaxial cable is charged and then grounded at one end of the cable without any resistance, a reciprocal traveling voltage pulse is repeatedly applied to a barrier-type reactor at the opposite end with a change in its polarity. 50% streamer initiation voltage for the reciprocal pulse generator was much smaller than that with the self-matched pulse generator having a matching resistance. The reason for the low initiation voltage in the reciprocal pulse was that space charges which accumulated on the barrier surface during cable charging had an effect on field enhancement in the reactor after the first polarity reversal. High speed photographs of discharge light produced by the reciprocal pulse showed that the voltage oscillation caused by one switching induced alternate propagation of positive and negative streamers with a very high frequency. In measurements of NO concentration, the reciprocal pulse generator gave a better performance for NO removal ratio than the self-matched pulse generator even though the stored energy in the recipocal pulse generator was very low.


In many organizations, the quality of the individual requirement statements and sets of requirements is often poor, not having the characteristics of well‐formed requirement statements and sets of requirements. Correctness, completeness, consistency, ambiguity, feasibility, implementation, leveling, etc. are common issues. This puts a heavy burden on the design team to address and correct these issues. Given these issues, it is common for modern systems engineers to even question the need for text‐based requirements. This paper discusses why text‐based requirements are still important, their role in the overall systems engineering lifecycle activities, and identifies key issues in the current approach many organizations practice concerning requirement development and management (RDM) – especially how RDM relates to current model‐based design and systems engineering approaches.


The problem of the use of labour resources and remuneration of labour is actual enough for today. The ques-tion of economic essence and value of "salary" and "remuneration of labour" is investigational in the article, the legislative adjusting and normatively-legal providing is considered in Ukraine of remuneration of labour, registration-analytical providing of calculations with workers from a salary in control system of communal enterprises, organization of account of calculations is investigational from a salary, forms and systems of remuneration of labour are reasonable, directions of improvement offer.
On results undertaken a study it is set that a salary is a money term of cost and cost of commodity, she serves as payment of services of labour of workers, represents socio-economic position in a national economy and stand-ard of living in society. Theoretical and practical consideration of questions about calculations from the remuneration of labour has an actual value, as a remuneration of labour is the important enough link of the system of sociallabour relations and most thorny in a decision socio-economic problem. The questions of salary are regulated by the wide enough circle of legislative and normative documents, that every workplace of accountant, accountable for a certain area account of calculations must be provided from a salary.
The major constituents of organization of remuneration of labour are setting of norms of labour, tariff setting of norms of salary, development of forms and systems of remuneration of labour.
Order of extra charge and payment of salary on communal enterprises envisaged by the Collective agreement and Statutes about the remuneration of labour. A salary depends on complication and terms of implementation of work, quality of her implementation workers, results of financially-economic activity of communal enterprises and select leaders (by proprietors) principles of the system of material stimulation of workers.
For the increase of wage level in Ukraine, to our opinion, it is necessary: to decrease the shadow sector of na-tional economy, decrease the rate of inflation, increase production (works, services) volumes, increase prices on labour force, to perfect a legislatively-normative base in Ukraine.
Keywords: a salary, remuneration of labour, organization of account, record-keeping, forms and systems of remuneration of labour, fund of remuneration of labour, is registration-analytical providing, communal enterprise


The luminescence and threshold characteristics of InGaAsP/InP heterostructures with a wide range of compositions of the active region were investigated for the first time under optical excitation conditions. Weakening of the Auger recombination process on going over from structures emitting at lambda = 1.51 ..mu.. to ''wide-gap'' structures emitting at lambda = 1.1 ..mu.. increased the value of the parameter T/sub 02/ representing the temperature dependence of the lasing threshold at T>250 K: the parameter T/sub 02/ increased from 60 K to 90--95 K. For the same reason, a reduction in the wavelength lambda in the range 1.1


The verb "Zhu" and "Zhuo" contained the semantic features "contact" and "continuance". Although the meanings of "Zhu" and "Zhuo" overlapped, they still had some differences. The pronunciation of many words and phrases that contained "Zhuo" had a strong Buddhist flavor, while "ZhiZhuo" gradually became a common word in today's vocabulary. During the course of this study, it was discovered that the meanings of "Zhu" and "Zhuo" had suffered semantic bleaching through the process of metaphori. The image-schematic structure of "Zhu" are the "source-path-goal schema" and "container schema." and of "Zhuo" is the "container schema." "Zhu" and "Zhuo" were not only influenced by both image schema and semantic features, but also by Buddhist dharma and pronunciation as well. Many words and phrases that contained "Zhuo" had negative meanings and were often collocated with the morphemes that had negative meanings.


Anisomeles malabarica an aromatic Medicinal Plant,was analysed for itsPriliminary Pharmacognostic features it showed presence of bioactive compounds likeAlkaloids,Phenols,Saponins,Tanninsetc.Detailsofdermatologicaland
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The quantum correction to the Vlasov equation is considered using the Wigner transform of the time-dependent Hartree-Fock equation without truncation in {h bar} order. Decomposing the Wigner function in terms of test particles with the form factor in a phase space, quantum extension of the Vlasov equation determines the equation of motion of the test particle which follows classical dynamics. The discrimination between the quantum and classical limits is related to a density matrix condition which constrains the distribution of test particles.


Abstract In this paper, we survey, extend and improve several bounds for the distribution function and the tail probabilities of portfolios, where the dependence structure within the portfolio is completely unknown or only partially known. We present various methods for obtaining bounds based on rearrangements, duality theory, conditional moments and reduction techniques. In particular, we consider the case where only the simple marginal distributions are known, the general overlapping marginals case where certain joint distributions are known and the case of additional restrictions on the dependence structure, as, for example, the restriction to positive dependence. Some of the bounds pose a considerable numerical challenge. We discuss the quality of the bounds and numerical aspects in some examples.


Research Connections conducted a comprehensive search of its collection for resources focused on supporting children 0 to 6 years experiencing homelessness through early childhood education programs. Key words used in the search were homeless children and families, homeless children, housing instability, homeless preschool children, children experiencing homelessness, and trauma. This Research-to-Policy Resource List includes an overview and listing of selected resources from the literature from the years 2000-2014. Resources of various types --reports, research articles, and reviews -- are included. Based on the search results, resources are grouped into the following categories: obtain topic use of in risk factors, and state-by-state and planning are noted. These strategies include: quality preschool care, therapeutic practices that empower the entire family, case management schemes that provide support to homeless children and families, and societal changes that empower the family. Critical roles that early childhood education professionals can carry out in this empowerment process are delineated and discussed. (author abstract) Access to Early Care and Education for Children Experiencing Homelessness This brief presented the results of a national survey focused on understanding the barriers and facilitators of access to early childhood services among young children and families experiencing homelessness, as well as identifying strategies for addressing barriers and increasing access. Notably, transportation and variants of cross-systems collaboration were cited as the most successful strategies for increasing access to early childhood services. (author abstract) This report investigates the differences in child care use patterns among groups of poor and employed single mothers experiencing three levels of housing stability: homeless/doubled up, at risk of homelessness, or stably housed. Comparisons are provided for types of child care arrangements used, reliability of child care arrangements, and use of child care subsidies. Analysis is based on longitudinal data for 1,836 low income families from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a nationally representative study tracking almost 5,000 mostly poor and urban families with young children born between 1998 and 2000. families with no countable income. Only 11 states have higher reimbursement rates for providers offering child care during nontraditional hours, such as nights and weekends. Twenty-seven states will provide subsidized care for 12 months before reevaluating a family's eligibility, offering families continuity of care, and 14 states extend eligibility while children are in Head Start. Overall, only 18 plans mention homeless families or services specific to them. No state listed programs serving homeless children as having been consulted in the drafting of the CCDF plan. abstract) Promising practices experiencing homelessness: A look two This brief will provide an overview of the effects of homelessness on young children; federal initiatives that have expanded access to early care and learning for young children experiencing homelessness including Head Start and Early Head Start, the Child Care and Development Fund, Early Childhood State Advisory Councils, the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education programs, and the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge; and how two states--Massachusetts and Oregon--have implemented innovative policies to improve early childhood outcomes for young children experiencing homelessness. Lastly, this brief will present recommendations for how states can learn from the policies established in Massachusetts and Oregon to develop their own interventions. (author abstract) McKinney-Vento Under law, states are required to ensure that homeless children have equal access to the same free, appropriate public education, including a public preschool education, as provided to other children and youths. This policy brief provides an overview of the law and its limitations and describes policies that can help increase the number of homeless children included in pre-k programs. This promising practice resource focuses on the way Head Start and Early Head Start grantees are effectively using partnerships to serve homeless children and how other service providers can build relationships with their local Head Start and Early Head Start programs. Evidence from partnerships around the country has shown that these reciprocal relationships help foster an environment of healthy development for young children experiencing homelessness and help move families out of homelessness. This resource will: -Provide background information on Head Start and Early Head Start programs; -Share highlights of how strong partnerships have addressed family homelessness; -Offer resources to encourage Head Start grantees and housing service providers to work together to expand services for children experiencing or at-risk of experiencing homelessness; and -Present resources to help providers connect families to other services they may need. provides information and suggests best practices to facilitate collaboration between schools, service provider agencies, and early childhood programs, and to increase the enrollment of and provision of services to families with young children experiencing homelessness. DaCosta M., Harris, S. (2011). Head Start's positive impact on homeless families . New York: Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness. This brief provides state-by-state and national figures related to homeless families' enrollment in Head Start. Data are for: 1) The percentage of Head Start families in 2010 who are homeless, 2) the percentage change of homeless families served by Head Start from 2008 to 2010, and 3) the percentage of homeless families served by Head Start in 2010 who acquired housing. Also included is a graph displaying the nationwide percentage of homeless young children enrolled in Head Start programs for each year from 2007-2010. National Center on Family Homelessness. This brief provides a rationale and recommendations for extending the benefits of established home visiting programs to children in families experiencing or at risk of homelessness. It recommends two strategies for reaching this population: intentional outreach to homeless families and coupling home visiting programs with other supports such as housing assistance. Examples of programs and initiatives in Philadelphia, New York City, and San Francisco are highlighted. The brief also features discussions of the potential for both legislative support and public funding for programs. We briefly summarize what is known about the impact of trauma on infants and toddlers, and the intervention strategies that could potentially protect them from the adverse consequences of traumatic experiences. We focus on interventions that support parents in providing the stable and nurturing caregiving that is responsive to the child's general developmental needs and that promotes children's sense of safety and security. Such interventions may reduce or provide a buffer against infants' traumatic experiences. Finally, we consider how child care, Early Head Start, home visitation, and child welfare can become trauma-informed infant/toddler service delivery systems. (author abstract)


Polarization-independent all-optical demultiplexing of 160-Gb/s optical time-division-multiplexed data based on cross-phase-modulation-induced wavelength shifting in highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF) has been experimentally demonstrated with a maximum power penalty of 0.8 dB due to signal polarization variations. The method uses a simple and easy-to-implement single-path polarization-diversity scheme by placing a short piece of polarization-maintaining fiber before the HNLF.


At this year's annual summit of the African Union, attending leaders declared 2015 the Year of Women's Empowerment in acknowledgement of the increasing role women are playing in Africa's development. The declaration comes as the continent prepares to kickstart the implementation of its 50-year development plan that was launched in 2013. Dubbed Agenda 2063, the plan is a pan-African vision that is expected to steer the continent towards "an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in the global arena".


From the research actuality of SAR-image processing and application,it is recognized that the pattern of SAR-image integrated with visible light-image,but this pattern is not perfect.In this paper,we explored a new method that SAR-image is enhanced and fused without visible light-image data,we brought forward a new arithmetic that SAR-image enhancement and fusion was based on improved IHS.It was proved that the improved method had better contrast and definition.


This letter proposes a low‐power current‐steering digital‐to‐analog converter (DAC). The proposed DAC reduces the clock power by cutting the clock signal to the current‐source cells in which the data will not be changed. The 10‐bit DAC is implemented using a 0.13‐μm CMOS process with VDD=1.2 V. Its area is 0.21 mm2. It consumes 4.46 mW at a 1‐MHz signal frequency and 200‐MHz sampling rate. The clock power is reduced to 30.9% and 36.2% of a conventional DAC at 1.25‐MHz and 10‐MHz signal frequencies, respectively. The measured spurious free dynamic ranges are 72.8 dB and 56.1 dB at 1‐MHz and 50‐MHz signal frequencies, respectively.


Gain diagrams are used to study pulse deformation which must be allowed for in the case of series connection of amplifying stages. The concept of an effective pulse duration is introduced. This concept is used to estimate the maximum breakup integral and to determine the optimal parameters of series-connected amplifying stages in the case when the breakup integral is constant for each stage.


1. Student's research committee, Faculty of Nutrtion, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 2. Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran 3. Department of Nutrition Sciences, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Center, Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Department of Statistics, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Center, Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran


A notice outlining the ceremony to take place if the armistice has been signed.
The text continues: "One hour after the first gun His Excellency the Governor-General will, from the terrace in front of the Parliamentary Library Buildings, formally read the official Despatch and announce the cessation of hostilities."
"The public will be admitted to the Parliament Grounds. The library porch and steps and the enclosed terrace will be reserved for Members of both Houses of Parliament and their wives, Naval and Military officers in uniform, the heads of the Departments of the Public Service, the Mayors and Mayoresses of Wellington and of the Suburban Boroughs, City and Borough Councillors, and members of the Harbour Board".
"After the Dominion ceremony at the Parliament Buildings the City ceremonies already announced by His Worship the Mayor will be held at the Town Hall. The City ceremony will commence two hours after the first gun."
"If the first gun fires before 9 am, the ceremony at the Parliament Buildings will be held at 10.30 am, and the City ceremony at 11.30 am. If the first gun fires after 5 pm, the Dominion ceremony will be hold at 10.30 on the following morning."
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The international tax system is targeted by a diverse range of networked civil society actors, from critical professionals mobilizing their expertise to anti-austerity protestors targeting the consequences of tax dodging. The years following the 2008 financial crisis saw an increase in the range of these actors and their cooperation with one another. This paper argues that a transnational field analysis complements existing expertise-oriented approaches, by identifying the overarching objective of the tax justice agenda as increasing heteronomy in the international taxation field relative to political fields. This objective requires the mobilization of diverse resources across different fields, resulting in network relationships crossing field boundaries to contest inter-field relations, rather than any single bounded field struggle. The findings are supported by an analysis of tax justice advocacy after the 2008 financial crisis in the United Kingdom and Australia, including thirty-seven in-depth interviews with different organizations involved in the network.


Increasing power demands on multicore processors necessitate effective thermal management. The present study investigates natural convection heat transfer inside a square cavity with an alternately active bi-heater that mimics two cores of a dual-core processor. Pulsating heat flux condition is implemented on two discrete heaters with a certain switching frequency. The heat transfer characteristics have been investigated for Prandtl number =0.71 and Rayleigh number in the range of 10 3 - 10 6 using OpenFOAM. The results obtained for alternative active heaters configuration have been compared with that of the steady single heater and steady double-symmetric heaters subjected to the same heat flux. The alternately active heater configuration showed better heat transfer characteristics than a single steady heater for all switchover periods, and better than a double-symmetric heater for low switchover periods. However, it is found that for higher values of the switchover period, the maximum temperature of alternately active heaters configuration touches the temperature of steady single heater. This threshold switchover period has been determined using a scale analysis. The threshold switchover periods determined from scale analysis are consistent with the results obtained from numerical simulations for different Rayleigh numbers and heater lengths.


The rise in the national debt... is entirely a consequence of the federal government's increase of expenditures without an offsetting increase in revenues.


In the rotor passage of tidal energy hydroelectric unit, there is a tip leakage problem between rotor and runner chamber. In order to research the flow characteristics of tidal energy hydroelectric units and explore the control method of tip leakage, based on the experimental data of NACA0009 hydrofoil, the SST-CC turbulence model was used for numerical simulation and compared with the experimental results. The characteristics of tip leakage flow and vortex were analysed under different hydrofoil shapes and gap widths. The results show that the rounded hydrofoil can effectively control the generation of tip separation vortex, but the rectangular hydrofoil has higher vortices coefficient and lower pressure coefficient in the downstream section; the tip leakage amount will increase with the increase of gap width; the tip vortex intensity will increase first and then decrease, and cavitation may occur when the vortices is maximum. The results can provide reference for studying the control method of tidal energy hydraulic machinery clearance leakage.


Various products coded by genes recognized in microbiota are involved in many biochemical pathways in thehuman body. Bacteria composition in the gastrointestinal tract may be an important aspect of selected diseases' pathogenesis, including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Traditional research methods based on classical microbiology, using selective media for bacterial growth, have proven to be ineffective. The use of genetic methods allows the identification of unidentified microbiota, including anaerobes. Roseburia hominis is a flagellated gut anaerobic commensal bacterium, producing short-fatty acids. The knowledge about the microbial components of the intestinal ecosystem is still very limited, including Roseburia hominis. This study aimed to identify Roseburia hominis in the faeces samples obtained from IBS patients and healthy individuals, using PCR techniques. The differences between studied groups were observed, and it was concluded that R. hominis may play a role in IBS etiology.


Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform possesses the advantages of multi-scale,multi-direction and shift-invariance.In this paper,a new digital watermarking algorithm is proposed based on nonsubsampled Contourlet and singular value decomposition.After the nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform,the low frequency component is got.The singular value of low frequency component is decomposed.The watermark information is embedded in the singular values.The experiment shows that this algorithm can satisfy the invisibility and it is robust to common attacks.It can also improve the ability to resist against JPEG compression,median filtering,Gaussian filtering and rotate attacks.


Group A streptococcus (GAS) produces a variety of disease processes in children. Severe invasive diseases such as necrotizing fasciitis can result. Traumatic dental injuries are common in the pediatric population, although the role of dental injuries in invasive GAS disease is not well characterized. In this article, we describe our retrospective series of 5 cases of GAS infection following oral or dental trauma in children.


What is transparent to one person may be opaque to another. It is clear to me that before symptoms can be used to make a valid psychiatric diagnosis the meaning and context of these symptoms must be taken into account. Many clinicians do not see it that way. Neither did the DSM-III and its subsequent editions.


Background and Aim: There is evidence that NCS of the eighth cranial nerve can cause a paroxysmal and persistent vertigo syndrome with or without tinnitus and hearing loss. In 1984, Jannetta et al introduced the term "disabling positional vertigo" for this situation and reported successful treatment by vascular decompression techniques. Brandt and Dieterich (1990) proposed that the term "vestibular paroxysmal" be used instead and suggested four characteristic features of the syndrome: (1) short attacks of rotational to-and-fro vertigo lasting seconds to minutes, (2) attacks frequently dependent on particular head positions and modification of the duration of the attack by changing head position ("disabling positional vertigo"), (3) hyperacusis or tinnitus permanently or during the attack, and (4) measurable auditory or vestibular deficits by neurophysiological methods. A lot of controversy exists in the literature about the diagnosis of the NCS, and the evolution in MRI and MRA techniques have elucidated the cases. Case Report: We report on a case of NCS in a 30-year-old woman who experienced short attacks of rotational vertigo combined with head movements. Full neurotological evaluation showed no measurable deficits, and MRI revealed a vascular loop of the AICA going deeply against the fundus of the eighth cranial nerve. Conclusions: It seems that although it is relatively rare and there is still no unanimous opinion in the literature about the pathogenesis and the diagnosis of the syndrome, NCS cannot be underestimated as a cause of vestibular disorders.


Rosalind Marsh. History and Literature in Contemporary Russia. New York: New York University Press, 1995. xi, 289 pp. Index. $42.50, cloth. Few literary systems have been subjected to the degree of dramatic change that Russian literary culture experienced during the perestroika years. In the period 1985-1991, Russian literature was transformed from a closed, highly normative system subject to intrusive state control into one influenced more by market censure rather than government censorship. Equally true, few literatures have been as historically conscious of their role as a forum for social and moral commentary as Russian literature. In her valuable book, Rosalind Marsh combines these topics both to discuss the role literature played in preparing for and facilitating the momentous social changes that took place during the Gorbachev era, and to examine the state of literature and history in contemporary Russia. As a means of mastering so potentially broad a field of inquiry, Marsh's analysis is primarily thematic. After briefly outlining the cultural context of the period under discussion and introducing two writers of central importance, Shatrov and Rybakov, the bulk of Marsh's book proceeds to an investigation of seven important historical themes in the literature of the period. In discussing their literary treatment and attendant critical debate, Marsh is able to focus her discussion of the literary representation of historical themes and contemporary social response to those topics. Before attending to her analysis of the literary treatment of historical themes during this period, however, Marsh provides an interesting and highly informative temporal outline of the literary cultural developments during perestroika. Essentially, Marsh delineates four phases of glasnost according to the changes that led to increasingly liberal cultural policies-from March 1985, when Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, to 1990, the year which saw the inauguration of multi-party politics and the codification of the Law on Press Freedoms. Here, Marsh briefly, though skilfully, recounts the way in which the incremental changes initiated by Gorbachev to foster his reform plans were "seized from below" by concerned writers and editors in their efforts continually to press the limits of glasnost in the interests of increased literary freedom. Related to the chronology of changes during the Gorbachev years, though now in greater detail and with greater emphasis on literature, Marsh next analyses in two separate chapters literary developments from the years 1985-1986 and the year 1987. Examining works written during this period and also those which surfaced for publication after years of waiting "in the desk drawer," Marsh chronicles the first tentative probings of such previously problematic topics as Stalinism, the terror, industrialization, the deportation of nationalities and the rehabilitation of repressed writers. Taking her study into still further greater detail-while maintaining emphasis on the tentative quality of change during the early years of perestroika-Marsh turns attention to two writers who published works in 1987, Anatolii Rybakov and Mikhail Shatrov. Marsh uses the examples of Rybakov's Children of the Arbat and Shatrov's play The Peace of Brest-Litovsk, to demonstrate how, although changes were being contemplated in the re-appraisal and depiction of Soviet history, the changes being considered were still ultimately in the service of socialist orthodoxy, albeit modified and liberalized. …


The administration for orally medicine is a basic professional activity in nursing care, that needs the knowledge about of the pharmacology.


Persistence of research was towards the behaviour of folded plate. In this project, we used GGBS blended ferrocement concrete to cover a folded plate 600 mm x 1800 mm x 150 mm. Ferro cement is a building material that is emerging as an alternative for traditional RCC. According to prior research, folded plates are the most cost-effective and visually acceptable option for longer span roofs. First, we built the folded plate model in ANSYS and investigated its behaviour in terms of load versus deflection. Later, for experimental purposes, we cast a folded plate coated with GGBS mixed ferrocement concrete. The results of the experimental inquiry demonstrate that there was an improvement in flexural behaviour when compared to the traditional model. The same was verified using ANSYS findings. ANSYS analysis aids in comparing and summarising experimental data. Both the analytical and experimental inquiry results show that ferro cement structures are a good alternative to RCC since they are less costly and lighter. Because folded plates retain their effectiveness for a longer length of time when Ferro cement is utilised. Ferro cement has made the components smaller to support the load because ferro cement parts are high in stress when reinforcement is spread.


Abstract We describe the application of pD, a small para-functional language that we developed as a high-level programming interface for the parallel computer algebra package PACLIB. pD provides several facilities to express parallel algorithms in a flexible way on different levels of abstraction. The compiler translates a pD module into statically typed parallel C code with explicit task creation and synchronization constructs. This target code can be linked with the PACLIB kernel, the multi-processor runtime system of the computer algebra library SACLIB. The parallelization of several computer algebra algorithms on a shared memory multi-processor demonstrates the elegance and efficiency of this approach.


Objective To assess the clinical effects of anterior cruciate ligament(ACL) reconstruction using the LARS artificial ligaments and the four-strand autogenous semitendinosus tendons.Methods Twenty-eight cases of ACL reconstruction were operated by arthroscopy.According to the graft material of reconstruction ACL,they were divided into the LARS artificial ligament(13 cases) and four-strand autogenous semitendinosus tendons(15 cases).Bone tunnels of the femur and the tibia were prepared with ACL anatomical isometric technique.Two groups cases were evaluated and compared in knee stability and Lysholm score.Results The strength of quadriceps restored in LARS was better than four-strand autogenous semitendinosus tendons group after operation.The Lyshrolm score before transplantation was significantly higher than that after transplantation 6 months later(P0.05).There were significant difference in the Lysholm scores between LARS artificial ligaments group(90.4±5.3) and quadruple hamstring tendon group(81.2±4.7)(P0.05).Conclusions The LARS artificial ligaments can be good substitute of ACL in the ACL reconstruction surgery.


The Gray Fossil Site (GFS), an early Pliocene aged site in northeastern Tennessee, is one of the richest Cenozoic localities in the eastern United States. To date, thousands of micro-vertebrate specimens have been collected, but few small mammals have been identified and thoroughly studied. This study describes the first talpid specimens recovered from the GFS, which represent four talpid species (Parascalops grayensis sp. nov., Neurotrichus sp., Mioscalops sp., and a new stem desman, Magnatalpa fumamons gen. et sp. nov.). The fossil taxa were quantitatively compared to a wide range of extant and extinct moles using a geometric morphometric analysis of humeri shape. Humeral morphology has commonly been used to diagnose talpid species and study their relationships. Quantitative analysis shows humerus shape is highly reflective of locomotor ecology in extant talpids, highlighting convergence among highly fossorial clades, and allows ecological inferences for fossil species. Hierarchical cluster analysis using morphometric data allowed examination of morphological similarity among taxa and helped to secondarily support taxonomic designations for the Gray Fossil Site taxa. The resulting phenogram shows strong similarity to the most up-to-date molecular cladogram and actually matched phylogenetic relationships substantially better than any morphological cladistic analyses to date. All six recognized tribes were represented on the cluster analysis phenograms, all of the shrew moles (Scaptonychini, Urotrichini, and Neurotrichini) clustered together, and there was some separation between the tribes Talpini and Scalopini. Additionally, the cluster analysis provides new information about the placement of fossil taxa and which parts of the tree still need better resolution. Danielle E. Oberg. Department of Geosciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA. email@example.com Joshua X. Samuels. Department of Geosciences, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee 37614, USA. email@example.com


This paper gives a method for platinum group metals recovery from zirconia oxygen sensor by ultrasonic wave which is simple,efficient,non-toxic and environmentally friendly.Platinum group metals as active electrode are widely used in zirconia oxygen sensor.As resource scarcity and high price of platinum group metals,recovery of platinum group metals from the waste zirconia oxygen sensor has great significance in terms of economic and environmental.


This paper describes a real time vision system, allowing to localize faces in video sequences and to recognize their
identity. These processes are based on combining techniques of image processing and neural network approach.
The robustness of this system has been evaluated quantitatively on 8 video sequences. We have tested our model
using the ORL database in order to compare performances with other systems. The system has also been implanted
on electronic architectures based on dedicated chip ZISC and FPGA. We analyse the algorithm complexity and
we present results of hardware implementations in terms of used resources and processing speed.


One method to develop offshore gas reserves is to use a floating LNG plant (FLNG) on site and export the LNG via tankers. This alternative requires the use of a reliable LNG transfer system between the FLNG and the tanker under offshore conditions. One such system involves a flexible cryogenic hose whose main body is a pipe-in-pipe hose made of two concentric corrugated 316L stainless steel pipes (C-pipe) with flanged terminations. Thermal insulation is achieved by maintaining vacuum between the inner and outer corrugated stainless steel pipes. In addition, the hose assembly contains two outer layers of helical armor wires to sustain the axial load. Given the complexity and novelty of the transfer system, a finite element study was performed on the inner C-pipe — the critical fluid containment layer. The effects of strain hardening of corrugations due to cold forming and temperature were modeled. Finite element (FE) analyses of the C-pipe under axial, bending, and internal pressure loading were carried out to evaluate global load-deformation and local stress responses. Comparisons of full-scale tests at room and cryogenic temperatures to simulation predictions including the novel material model showed good agreement. However, fatigue life predictions for the C-pipe that were based on local stresses and sheet metal fatigue S-N curves did not agree with the full-scale fatigue test results. The results indicated that the spatial variation in strain hardening due to corrugation forming and biaxial local stresses during pipe deformation could play important roles in the fatigue response of the C-pipe.Copyright © 2011 by ASME


The linear dispersion equation for the rectangular TE10 mode is obtained using the Maxwell-Vlasov approach with a lorentzian velocity distribution. The resultant dispersion relation is used to find the distributed gain of a tapered gyro-TWT operating in rectangular waveguide. In order to examine bandwidth limitations, a synchronization parameter is introduced. This parameter is defined by the ratio of the local magnetic field to the synchronous magnetic field. The synchronous field ia defined is that which makes the beam mode tangent to the waveguide mode in the ω– K2 dispersion graph. By varying the synchronization parameter along the tube axis, a 40% bandwidth (3 dB) has been predicted for the TE10rectangular gyro-TWT with the linear wall taper. The total gain was 30 dB. A similar bandwidth can also be achieved by holding the synchronization parameter constant and imposing an appropriate non-linear variation on the waveguide dimensions.


The article is devoted to the study of heart rate variability in students of lyceum and general education classes during physical activity. Evaluation of adaptation reactions of organism to physical activity depending on type of regulation is considered.


Education is the main key for life that conditions the quality of life that a determined group would have. The absence of schooling could cause various consequences, such as an excessive women's fertility, which leads to an increase of the families, falling in a poverty cycle. This research analyzes if in Ecuador the level of education determines the Ecuadorian women's fertility rate, and also which are the other variables that affect this social field. Through using theoretical concepts and an econometrical method, the effect of education over fertility, for 2004 and 2014, is evaluated with the purpose of observing the evolution of the effect in a decade. The research showed that there is empirical evidence that in Ecuador women that have a higher level of education are less likely to have a high number of children. Additionally, household's income was analyzed separately by husband and wife, finding a negative effect of the income of the mother over her fertility, due the opportunity cost that represents to have children. In the other side, husband's income shows a positive effect over the chance of fertility of His wife.


Effects of repeated administration of varying concentrations of the ethanolic extract of Bougainvillea spectabilis leaves on some hepatic and renal function indices were examined in albino rats (Rattus novergicus). The experimental animals were randomly divided into three groups: those administered distilled water (control), those administered 100 mg/kg body weight of the extract (E1) and those administered 200 mg/kg body weight of the extract (E2). The animals were administered the extract daily for seven days after which venous blood was collected. The extract significantly reduced (P 0.05) on the serum sodium ion concentration while it reduced serum potassium ion concentration significantly (P 0.05)


Between 1792 and 1836 the Christian evangelists Thomas Tattershall, John Hoyland, Thomas Blackley, Samuel Roberts, and James Crabb published accounts of their efforts to 'improve' English Gypsies. Though their missionary activities failed, their writings preserve valuable ethnographic observations about pre-Victorian Gypsies. This article examines the prejudices, impressions, and influence of these five authors, and the information about Gypsies that their accounts and surveys yield.


A recent result on weak stabilizability is that the system $\dot x = Ax + Bu$, where A is the infinitesimal generator of a contraction semigroup over a Hilbert space H, and B is linear bounded, is ...


Amorphous silicon (a-Si) was crystallized by femtosecond laser annealing (FLA) using a near-infrared (λ≈800nm) ultrafast Ti:sapphire laser system. The intense ultrashort laser pulses lead to efficient nonlinear photoenergy absorption and the generation of very dense photoexcited plasma in irradiated materials, enabling nonlinear melting on transparent silicon materials. We studied the structural characteristics of recrystallized films and found that FLA assisted by spatial scanning of laser strip spot constitutes superlateral epitaxy that can crystallize a-Si films with largest grains of ∼800nm, requiring laser fluence as low as ∼45mJ∕cm2, and low laser shots. Moreover, the optimal annealing conditions are observed with a significant laser-fluence window (∼30%).


In 62 bce, the aging poet Aulus Licinius Archias was arraigned before the Praetor on a charge of having spent almost a quarter of a century fraudulently claiming to be a Roman citizen, thus breaking the Lex Papia de Peregrinis. Archias, who first arrived in Rome in 102 bce, had, since the conclusion of the Social War in 89 bce, been living as a Roman citizen and enjoying all of its attendant privileges. Archias's defense was undertaken by a former pupil of his, the previous year's Consul, Marcus Tullius Cicero. Cicero's defense of Archias follows a two-pronged argument. After providing the jury with the legal foundations of Archias's citizenship, he proceeds to argue that even if reasonable doubt were to surround Archias's claim to be a Roman citizen, he should nevertheless be considered worthy of inclusion in the citizen body as a result of the contribution his poetry has made to the Republic. Although there is no direct evidence that this speech was a success, a later letter to Atticus suggests that Archias was indeed acquitted and remained a part of life at Rome. The text which Cicero later published as his Pro Archia attracts most scholarly attention for the so-called "Encomium of Literature" that Cicero delivers to convince the jury that Archias has contributed more than enough to the Republic to earn his citizenship. However, it also provides an invaluable insight into the early stages of Cicero's senior statesman persona. Beyond this, the speech also offers readers a glimpse at the complicated procedures involved in spreading Roman citizenship throughout the Italian peninsula.


Magnesium hydroxide (MH) was added into high-density polyethylene (HDPE)/ethylene vinyl-acetate (EVA) copolymer blends with various MH contents (30–60 wt%) to improve the flame retardancy of HDPE/EVA blends. The flammability, morphology of charred residues, thermal stability, crystallization, and mechanical properties of HDPE/EVA/MH composites were investigated by UL-94 test, limiting oxygen index (LOI), cone calorimeter test (CCT), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and tensile test. The data obtained from LOI, UL-94 test, and CCT revealed that the addition of MH provided improvements in flame retardancy by increasing the LOI values, UL-94 rating, and reducing heat release, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide emissions along with delayed ignition with increasing the content of MH. The UL-94 V-0 rating and high LOI value were achieved with the incorporation of MH at a loading level higher than 50 wt% in HDPE/EVA blends, which suggested that the formation of intact, consolidated, and thick residue structures on the surfaces of MH-filled composites prevented the underlying polymer materials from burning. DSC results showed that the crystallinity of HDPE/EVA blends increased with increasing the content of MH, resulting in the enhancement of the strength of HDPE/EVA/MH composites. The thermal stability of HDPE/EVA blends decreased due to the addition of MH.


Science and humans are the main topics of the theories of scientism and humanism and meanwhile the "problem in the problems" of modern education. Since 1996s, scientism and humanism have found their way into the various fields of social life. These theories have a profound influence on the development of modern education whose focus is still the solution of problems of science and humans.


A guide to symptom control in end-of-life dementia patients developed by the Irish Hospice Foundation, St Vincents Hospital and St Brigid's Hospice.


The virtual sound technology based on the Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) is important in many applications such as gaming, education and military. Currently, the most important and accurate method to obtain HRTF is experimental measurement. In experimental measurement, the Maxim Length Sequence (MLS), the sweep signal, and impulse signal are usually used as the exciting signal and played in loop to generate several HRTFs and then the HRTFs are averaged to improve the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) of the results. However, the inconsistency of the timing modules (Oscillator) used in the recording system and in the playback system results the time non-alignment between the measured HRTFs in different played loop. The time non-alignment destroys the function of the average process and makes the average results distortion. For solving this problem, this paper proposed an asynchronous HRTF measurement method based on the phase alignment. Firstly, HRTFs are measured using the MLS signal as the exciting signal which are played in loops; then the phase alignment algorithm is applied to HRTFs in each loop to compensate the difference of the timing modules (Oscillator) of the recording system and the playback system; lastly, the aligned HRTFs are averaged to generate the result HRTF. The evaluation experiment results show that the Peak-SNR of the proposed HRTF measured method are improved about 4.5 dB compare to that of the traditional method.


In this issue of Blood, Wang and colleagues uncover a novel mechanism by which fluid shear stress regulates expression of endothelial genes through effects on HDAC5 phosphorylation. The endothelium of blood vessels serves important functions in normal physiology including regulation of vascular tone, endothelial cell survival, smooth muscle cell proliferation, leukocyte recruitment, and thrombosis. 1.2 .


In their reply to rapid responses about the guideline from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) on persistent non-specific low back pain,1 Underwood and Littlejohns say that two systematic reviews report that spinal fusion is effective and informed the NICE low back pain guideline development group2; the group proposes referral for consideration of spinal fusion as an appropriate step in managing low …


Aim To study chemical constituents of Selaginella uncinata(Desv.)Spring.Methods The compounds were isolated by means of chromatography on silica gel,Sephadex LH-20 column,ODS column,and reversed-phase Pre-HPLC.Their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic analysis and chemical methods.Results and conclusion Seven phenolic compounds were obtained from the 60% ethanol extract of Selaginella uncinata(Desv.)Spring and their structures were identified as 16-feruloyloxypalmitic acid(1),p-hydroxycinnamic acid(2),1-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-ethanone(3),vanillin(4),vanillic acid(5),syringic acid(6),p-hydroxybenzoic acid(7).Compounds 1-3 were isolated from Selaginella genus for the first time,while compounds 1-7 were firstly obtained from Selaginella uncinata(Desv.)Spring.


While tomatoes featured in numerous recipes in Italian and Spanish cookbooks of the eighteenth century, they were curiously absent from French cookbooks, although by the end of the eighteenth century tomatoes
 were certainly available in southern France. In the Archives Departementales de Vaucluse a handwritten recipe for a highly concentrated tomato puree, dated 1795, possibly represents the earliest
 French tomato recipe.


Objective
To investigate the correlation between heteroplasmy level of the mitochondrial DNA A3243G mutation and the onset of mitochondria diabetes.

Methods
We performed a systematic review of mitochondrial DNA A3243G mutation using PubMed, Wiley online library, Wan fang data, CQVIP and CNKI. Selected cases were divided into two groups: affected group and unaffected maternal relatives group. Statistical analyses were performed using Box-plot, independent sample t test, cumulative frequency and binary logistic regression.

Results
The heteroplasmy level of affected group was significantly higher than the unaffected maternal relatives group (35.49%±16.28% vs 8.38%±10.24%, t=11.31, P<0.001). Binary logistic regression was applied to build a forecasting model. The predicted probability of being affected was 0.079 at the mutation level of 4%.

Conclusions
The onset of mitochondria diabetes is positively associated with mitochondrial DNA A3243G mutation level. Forecasting model could be used to establish the cutoff value of mutation level.

Key words:
Diabetes mellitus; Mitochondrial diseases; Heterogeneity; Clinical symptoms; Forecasting model


A 64-year-old man was referred to our center for metabolic characterization of 2 bilateral pulmonary lesions, incidentally detected at computed tomography (CT). F-FDG PET/CT scan showed a weak radiopharmaceutical uptake in both pulmonary lesions. A subsequent Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT showed intense radiopharmaceutical uptake in both pulmonary lesions. Subsequently, the patient underwent histopathological examinations of both lesions, which showed a synchronous well-differentiated pulmonary neuroendocrine carcinoma (typical carcinoid tumor). This case reports a rare occurrence of synchronous pulmonary carcinoid, highlighting the role of different PET tracers for metabolic characterization of pulmonary nodules.


The Role of Distributional Information in Linguistic Category Formation Patricia A. Reeder (firstname.lastname@example.com) Elissa L. Newport (firstname.lastname@example.com) Richard N. Aslin (email@example.com) Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester Meliora Hall, Box 270268 Rochester, NY 14627 USA Abstract A crucial component of language acquisition involves organizing words into grammatical categories and discovering relations between them. Many studies have argued that phonological or semantic cues or multiple correlated cues are required for learning. Here we examine how distributional variables will shift learners from forming a category of lexical items to maintaining lexical specificity. In a series of artificial language learning experiments, we vary a number of distributional variables to category structure and test how adult learners use this information to inform their hypotheses about categorization. Our results show that learners are sensitive to the contexts in which each word occurs, the overlap in contexts across words, the non-overlap of contexts (or systematic gaps), and the size of the data set. These variables taken together determine whether learners fully generalize or preserve lexical specificity. Introduction Language acquisition crucially involves finding the grammatical categories of words in the input. The organization of elements into categories, and the generalization of patterns from some seen element combinations to novel ones, account for important aspects of the expansion of linguistic knowledge in early stages of language acquisition. One hypothesis of how learners approach the problem of categorization is that the categories (but not their contents) are innately specified prior to experiencing any linguistic input, with the assignment of tokens to categories accomplished with minimal exposure. A second possibility is that the categories are formed around a semantic definition. A third hypothesis, explored in the present research, is that the distributional information in the environment is sufficient (along with a set of learning biases) to extract the categorical structure of natural language. While it is likely that each of these sources of evidence makes important contributions to language acquisition, this third hypothesis regarding distributional learning has often been thought to be an unlikely contributor, given the information processing limitations of young children and the complexity of the computational processes that would be entailed. Furthermore, it has been difficult to test the importance of such a distributional learning mechanism because the cues to category structure in natural languages are highly correlated. In fact, it has been argued in many artificial language studies that the formation of linguistic categories (e.g., noun, verb) depends crucially on some perceptual property linking items within the category (Braine, 1987). This perceptual similarity relation might arise from identity or repetition of elements in grammatical sequences, or a phonological or semantic cue identifying words across different sentences as similar to one another (for example, words ending in –a are feminine, or words referring to concrete objects are nouns). Learners of artificial languages have been unable to acquire grammatical categories and to extend their linguistic contexts to new items correctly without such cues (Braine et al., 1990; Frigo & McDonald, 1998; Gomez & Gerken, 2000). However, this has been somewhat of a puzzle: Maratsos & Chalkley (1980) argued that in natural languages, grammatical categories do not have reliable phonological or semantic cues; rather, learners must utilize distributional cues about the linguistic contexts in which words occur to acquire such categories. Mintz, Newport & Bever (2002), as well as several other researchers, have shown that computational procedures utilizing distributional contexts can form elementary linguistic categories on corpora of mothers' speech to young children from the CHILDES database, and Mintz (2002) and Gerken et al. (2005) have shown that both adults and infants can learn a simple version of this paradigm in the laboratory, at least when there are multiple correlated distributional cues. In the present series of experiments we also begin by demonstrating that there are distributional properties that lead to successful learning of linguistic categories in artificial language paradigms. Importantly, however, in order to understand how this mechanism works in human learners and why many previous experiments have not found such learning, we present a series of experiments that manipulate various aspects of these distributional variables, in order to understand the computational requirements for successful category learning. Experiment 1 An artificial grammar was created with the structure (Q)AXB(R), where each letter represents a set of 2 or 3 words: the Q and R categories had 2 words each, and the A, X, and B categories had 3 words each. The words of the grammar were spad, klidum, flairb, daffin, glim, tomber, zub, lapal, fluggit, mawg, bleggin, gentif, and frag, and there was no referential world to which the words were mapped. All studies were run with two languages that assigned different words to each of the categories. X was the target


Companies must realize that the composition of the work force is becoming more culturally diverse. This change can have an important implication for the employee-employer relationship. The psychological contracts of racioethnic groups can play a crucial role in increasing organizations' understanding of the changing work relationships. Future research is highlighted.


The present invention discloses a granular powder quantitatively spread out container can be used to spread the granular powder industrial and domestic cooking appliance apparatus. Lower square silo, the silo bottom array of radially arranged rows of holes, each row of holes at least one row, each row remains between the bore intervals in the circumferential direction. The lower cover is arranged with the same group number and the silo arranged in the same row of holes in the bottom row of holes, but its row of holes and rows of holes and rows of holes are spaced silo bottom staggered in the circumferential direction, so that the two through holes from each other in the axial direction obscured. Square frame movable frame has a row of teeth. Button spring mounting between the cover and the lower keys. Cartridge has a through-hole round hole with the same row of holes arranged in the silo, bin ratchet wheel teeth with a square frame bar toothing. Adjusting disk and the discharge hole is opened at the same row of holes arranged in the cover, adjusting the alignment of the stem by dialing the number of columns, it can also be adjusted quantitatively. Ball plunger disposed inside the cover, the disc functions as a positioning regulating effect. Reasonable structure, easy to use, enabling quantitative different sizes spread out.


The social behavior characteristics of a civilian university are mainly seen in its value orientation to face the civilians and its tenet to serve them.Civilian is a historical paradigm with different specific connotations in different times.Facing the civilians is in accordance with facing the grass roots.Overcoming the problems in realizing a civilian university requires sticking to a socialism education orientation,consciously maintaining and promoting the justice and fair in higher education,actively collecting education fund,and actually enhancing education quality.


: Open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) via a high submandibular transmasseteric approach was performed in 14 patients with the fractures of condyle or ramus of the mandible. The patients were 6 men and 8 women of ages ranging from 20 to 84 years. ORIF was performed for 13 condylar fractures in 12 patients and 2 ramus fractures in 2 patients. Fractures at other mandibular sites were found in 9 patients and treated by ORIF. A strut plate was primarily used to treat condylar base fractures, and a lambda plate was used to treat neck fractures. The postoperative course was uneventful with full recovery of the occlusion. Facial nerve palsy did not develop except for a patient with preoperative facial palsy. Suture wounds of the skin were not so visible in all patients. An interincisal distance of more than 40 mm was generally obtained at 6 months. A high submandibular transmasseteric approach has the following advantages: 1) a large surgical field around the fracture site, 2) plate fixation using straight instruments, 3) a low risk of facial nerve palsy, 4) less visibility of the suture wound, 5) adaptable to the ramus in addition to the condyle. Therefore, ORIF by a high submandibular transmasseteric approach is one of the useful procedures for the management of fractures of the condyle and ramus of the mandible.


Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) is a software protection mechanism that detects a class of code reuse attacks by identifying anomalous control-flows within an executing program. Hardware-based CFI has the promise of the security benefits of CFI without the performance overhead and complexity of software-based CFI: generally speaking, hardware-based monitors are more difficult to bypass, offer lower performance overheads than software-based monitors, and, furthermore, hardware-based CFI can be performed without the necessity of altering application binaries or instrumenting language compilers. Although hardware-based CFI is an active area of research and there is a growing literature describing CFI strategies at a high-level, there is, to the authors' best knowledge, no work on languages specially tailored to the specification and implementation of CFI monitors. This article presents a proof-of-concept domain-specific language with built-in abstractions for expressing control-flow constraints along with a compiler that targets the functional hardware description language ReWire. While the case study is small, it indicates, we argue, an approach to rapid-prototyping hardware-based monitors enforcing CFI that is quick, flexible, and extensible as well as being amenable to formal verification.


This essay is the first study from a racial perspective of Travels in China (1925), the travelogue by the renowned Taisho Japanese short-story writer Akutagawa Ryūnosuke. The essay draws attention to the colourized body in a multiracial environment under semicolonialism and discusses how Akutagawa's travelogue demonstrates the destruction of racial identities, including the conceptual white. Unlike other studies of Travels in China, which usually discuss Akutagawa's trip as a whole, I divide his route into four zones – each corresponding to a chapter in the travelogue – and analyze them individually (with the understanding that none of the four zones should be considered isolated, homogeneous spaces). Tracking his route from Shanghai to the lower and middle Yangtze River, then to the northern part of the continent, and even back to Japan, we see how he, as well as those around him, ceaselessly examines his own skin colour in response to the power struggles across national, ethnic, and cultural boundaries. With ample evidence from a detailed reading of the text, this essay demonstrates the vagueness, fluidity, and instability of racial categories. For the traveller Akutagawa, in his experiences of everyday semicolonialism, race functions as a cognitive mechanism through which he absorbs and processes the social significance of each skin colour. In this way, skin colour becomes an open-ended concept (or a living metaphor) for Akutagawa rather than an inherited essence, the meaning and signification of which change depending on the different social contexts that he encounters.


The authors report a new diffraction method for evaluating the magnitudes of the wavelengths of deformation waves caused by creation, annihilation and movements of dislocations, point defects etc. and other effects in crystals containing defects. The method makes use of the properties of variance and fourth movements of X-ray diffraction profiles. The deformation wave is considered to be sinusoidal. Both the cases of zero and non-zero initial phases have been treated. The ratio of the intercept to slope of the linear plot representing the variation of the strain component of the fourth moment of the line profile with the range in reciprocal space over which the intensity is non-negligible has been expressed in terms of the crystalline size and wavelength of the deformation wave. The resulting expression is a function of the ratio of the crystallite size with respect to the wavelength of the deformation wave. This function is experimentally determined and from a plot of this function against the ratio of crystallite size to the wavelength, the respective values of the ratio are determined. Knowing the crystallite size from the variance of the diffraction profile, the respective wavelength has been determined.


FDA has approved perampanel (Fycompa, Eisai), an AMPA receptor antagonist, as an adjunctive treatment of partial-onset seizures with or without secondarily generalized seizures in patients aged 12 years and older who have epilepsy.


This paper analyses the EZW algorithm, finding that the EZW algorithm repeating coding the significant coefficients can be avoided. So the new algorithm in this paper proposes "winkling" the significant coefficients to avoid repeating coding them. Moreover it takes running length coding for symbol bitstream to reduce the redundance among zerotrees. Experiments prove that these measures are of certain effect that cannot be neglected for improving the compression rate.


The aim of work was to test the antibiotic and phytotoxic activity of cultural filtrates of 125 micromycete strains isolated from different ecological niches. Methods. The activity was studied using different test-organisms – Gram-negative phytopathogenic bacteria, yeasts and green algae. Results. It is shown that 57 cultures were developed biological activities only. The wide spectrum of antibiotic action and middle antifungal activity was characterized for the cultures of genus Aspergillus and Penicillium. A fungistatic activity was shown only by strains as A. parvulus 31, A. versicolor 60, P. brevicompactum 144, P. rubrum 91and 93. A significant group consisted of cultures with phytotoxic activity: A. alliaceus 16, A. parvulus 30, A. versicolor 56, Aureobasidium pullulans 41 and 44, Chaetomium globosum 38, Curvularia inaequalis 84, Fusarium merismoides 151, Mortirella vinacea 74 and 82, Paecilomyces lilacinus 127, P. chrysogenum 163. Most strains with antibiotic activity did not show phytotoxic activity against test culture. Conclusions. As it is no findings about phytotoxic effect of strains of A. pullulans and M. vinacea and from the data obtained it might be inferred that the phytotoxic potential of these genus to be the most promising for further researches.


Because we believe it is better to show our students than to tell them that they learn more from active experience, we have designed selected courses within our rhetoric and writing program to offer them guidance and to help them conceive of their major in the form of different careers, both academic and nonacademic, before they hit the job market, careers that exist in the local economy and that make use of their rhetorical and literary skills. These courses include our capstone course, the senior seminar, and two internship courses. In what follows, we present the design and benefits of these courses
which work to help students find careers that our rhetoric majors and minors may not envision otherwise. These courses help them bridge the gap between being a student and a professional.