At the request of the Bureau of Land Management, 16,882 acres of the Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness Study Area (CDCA-372) were studied. In this report, the area studied is referred to as "the wilderness study area", or simply "the study area." Field work for this report was carried out between 1983 and 1985. There are no mining districts or mines in the study area. The U.S. Gypsum Company has 18 unpatented placer claims with an estimated 20 million tons of gypsum reserves inside the study area, and oil and gas leases are held in and near the area. There is high potential for undiscovered resources of the nonmetallic mineral commodities gypsum and limestone in the northwestern and central parts of the study area, respectively. A northwest-trending zone that roughly bisects the study area has low potential for undiscovered resources of the metallic minerals lead, tungsten, and molybdenum. Character and Setting The part of the Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness Study Area that was studied for this report occupies approximately 16,882 acres in western Imperial County, Calif, (fig. 1). The study area encompasses most of the Fish Creek Mountains, one of the easternmost ranges of the Peninsular Ranges province. The steep, rugged northeast and east faces of the range rise about 2,400 ft above the Imperial Valley, which lies partly below sea level and is part of the Salton trough, the landward extension of the Gulf of California. The Fish Creek Mountains are characterized by an arid climate, extremely high summer temperatures, and a desert flora. The study area is underlain by Cretaceous (138 to 66 million years Before Present (Ma); see appendix for geologic time chart) plutonic igneous rocks of the Peninsular Ranges batholith; these plutonic rocks comprise much of the crystalline bedrock of the Peninsular Ranges. The batholith is composed of a variety of syntectonic (deformed) and late-tectonic to posttectonic (relatively undeformed) plutons that intruded metamorphosed Paleozoic(?) (approximately 570 to 240 Ma) sedimentary and volcanic rocks, remnants of which are exposed in tabular bodies, called screens, between the plutons. Neogene (24 to 1.7 Ma) marine and alluvial deposits unconformably overlie the uplifted and deeply eroded batholithic rocks in the study area and faults of the San Andreas system cut the batholithic rocks and sedimentary deposits. Identified Mineral Resources There are no mining districts or mines in the Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness Study Area. The northwestern part of the study area is underlain by bedded gypsum deposits of Miocene age that are continuous with deposits mined by the U.S. Gypsum Company at the U.S. Gypsum quarry 1.5 mi west of the study area (fig. 2). The U.S. Gypsum Company has 18 unpatented placer claims in the northwestern part of the study area. The gypsum reserves within the study area are estimated at more than 20 million tons. The Roberts Celestite mine, 3 mi northwest of the study area, produced 8,000 tons of strontium ore, mostly during World War II. Minor amounts of celestite and barite may occur within the gypsiferous strata within the study area, but no deposits of these minerals were identified. Limestone is the major constituent of a large screen of Paleozoic(?) metasedimentary rocks in the central part of the study area. The Waters prospect (fig. 2, No. 2; table 1) encompasses large quantities of this limestone, which may be suitable for many commercial uses. Skarns, or carbonate-rich rocks altered by the intrusion of granitic magma, and (or) clay alteration


As the first step of Beijing regional time and frequency network, Currently, Tsinghua University (THU) and the Changping site of National Institute of Metrology (NIM-Changping) have been linked and synchronized via the fiber network. The frequency stability of the hydrogen maser in NIM and the ultra-stable crystal oscillator steered by a cesium atomic clock in THU was measured. More atomic clocks from the Beijing Institute of Radio Metrology and Measurements, Hepingli site of NIM and Peking University (PKU) will join the synchronization network soon, with these clocks we can get the stability of each clock though three-corner-hat method.


CONTEXT
Kaiser Permanente measures how often tobacco users are offered strategies to quit but not the success of such strategies.

OBJECTIVE
To compare tobacco abstinence rates for participants of the Kaiser Permanente Riverside (California) Medical Center's Freedom from Tobacco Class in 2008, before direct physician involvement, and in 2009, after direct physician involvement, and to compare other variables affecting these rates.

DESIGN
In a retrospective study, participants were divided into two groups based on year of participation. Data were collected using electronic medical records and phone interviews.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES
Tobacco use status between both groups at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the classes started and within groups by sex, number of classes attended, medication received, and class teacher.

RESULTS
The 12-month abstinence rates were 27% in 2008 and 33% in 2009 (p = 0.3). The abstinence rate for men improved from 23% to 38% (2008 vs 2009; p = 0.05), whereas for women it was 30% vs 27% (p = 0.7). Abstinence rates decreased over time for the group as a whole (p < 0.001). Attendance of 6 or more classes was associated with higher abstinence rates. There was no significant impact on abstinence rates due to age, body mass index, class teacher, or medications used.

CONCLUSION
Direct physician involvement improved men's but not women's abstinence rates among class participants. The relapse rate was significant over the first year after the class. Further research is needed to study the difference between sexes and the factors affecting relapse.


In this paper, a leader-follower formation control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) design methodology is proposed to keep the desired formation, while simultaneously deal with the potential collision and actuator faults. The proposed formation control is divided into outer-loop and inner-loop controllers. First, a leader-follower control structure is constructed as the outer-loop controller. Then, an adaptive fault tolerant control (FTC) scheme along with a collision avoidance strategy are combined as the inner-loop controller. Simulation validations are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of this presented design method.


Our purpose was to explore the pregnancy experiences of Australian women attending a specialized childbirth and mental illness (CAMI) antenatal clinic. A qualitative exploratory design was selected to give voice to women with severe mental illness receiving antenatal care. Telephone interviews with 41 women, 24 primiparous and 17 multiparous, were analyzed using thematic analysis. Three themes emerged: "building relationships," "acknowledging me as a person with special needs," and "respecting and understanding without stigma." Findings offer insight into care experiences possible within a multidisciplinary model developed to address psychiatric and obstetric needs of pregnant women with severe mental illness.


Abstract PEI-based network materials with polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) particles as a cross-linker were prepared by the chemical amine/epoxide reaction of PEI and glycidyl-POSS. Glycidyl-POSS is a hybrid molecule with an inorganic silsesquioxane at the core and organic glycidyl groups attached at the corners of the cage. POSS molecules were homogeneously dispersed as the crosslinking point in PEI matrix. These hybrid network materials were fabricated with not only different weight ratio of POSS to PEI but also 1,4-butanediol diglycidyl ether (BDE) as a cross-linker instead of POSS to confirm the effect of POSS on the CO2 capture performance and thermal stability.


We agree that the spatial structure of the satellite SST errors is probably different from those of the standard deviations of the model. In addition to the errors that are related to the instrument themselves, an important contribution to the observational error is the error of representation which may be a larger contributor to the total observational error than the instrumental error. For the case of SST assimilation, the error of representation is not only made up by the mismatch in spatial resolution but should also reflect any mismatch in measurement depth and the location of the uppermost model layer. The SSTs are sub-skin temperatures, valid at a depth of approximately 1 mm, while the vertical position of the uppermost model layer in our model setup is on average 60 cm below the surface. Specifying an appropriate observational error is thus not straightforward.


Emissions that appear to have been electrostatic ion cyclotron (EIC) waves have been observed at low altitude in the diffuse aurora by a sounding rocket payload. The rocket was launched from Poker Flat, Alaska, at ∼2030 MLT. The flight successively traversed ∼70 km of the diffuse aurora, a dark region, and a quiet 40 kR auroral arc. In the diffuse aurora, peaks were observed in the power spectrum of the electric field at frequencies near the hydrogen and oxygen ion cyclotron frequencies. Doppler shift and polarization analyses have been performed using EIC wave spectrum parameters derived from linear theory. Both analyses indicated that these emissions had properties consistent with those expected for H+ and O+ EIC waves. Taken together, the two analyses indicated that both emission bands were due to waves propagating both up and down the field line and eastward parallel to the poleward boundary of the diffuse aurora. The large local cold plasma density and resulting large Landau damping require that the source be local. Free energy for the waves was apparently available in the 5 µA/m² downward parallel current density which was inferred from the magnetometer data. The presence of the waves indicates that this current was being carried by less than 2% of the plasma, presumably in the form of a field aligned beam of electrons with energies of a few eV.


SECONDARY OR ACQUIRED HYPOGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA has been described in association with malnutrition, cytostatic drug therapy, burns, protein-depleting conditions, and infections (1,2). More recently, rituximab administration has also been demonstrated to cause hypogammaglobulinemia and B cell depletion (3,4). Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and measles are the most potent immunosuppressing viruses. Particularly, in the post-transplant condition, life-threatening adenovirus infections are associated with marked abnormalities in blood lymphocyte and cytokine profiles, and may also cause hypogammaglobulinemia (5). Varicella was noted under immunodeficiency to cause hypogammaglobulinemia and lymphopenia (6,7). We report here severe and prolonged B cell depletion and hypogammaglobulinemia in a 12year-old female bone marrow transplant recipient with acute promyelocytic leukemia who developed a transplantrelated life-threatening adenoviral infection followed by varicella zoster infection. This child was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia t(15;17)(q22;q21) in 1994. She attained complete remission (CR) after a year of treatment with alltrans retinoic acid and other anti-leukemic agents. However, in February, 1997, the disease recurred. A second CR was attained following reinduction chemotherapy and at age 7, the patient received an allogeneic bone marrow transplant from an HLA-matched donor sibling in September, 1997. The conditioning regimen employed was BU/CY/melphalan. A combination of cyclosporine A, short-term methotrexate, and prednisolone was used in the prophylaxis for graft-versushost disease (GVHD). The patient suffered a severe post-transplant life-threatening adenoviral infection a month later, with the viral genome detected in her sera (8). Administration of vidarabine as well as ribavirin was not effective and the patient developed severe pancytopenia and renal and cardiac dysfunction. Over the next 3 years, the patient required hospitalization for cardiac, renal, and bone marrow failure. Fortunately, the patient showed no chronic GVHD and gradually recovered from renal and bone marrow dysfunction but continued to suffer from cardiac failure. As shown in Fig. 1, patient serum IgG levels were in the range of 550–700 mg/dl (age-matched control values, 680–1800 mg/dl) prior to transplantation, but rose above 1000 mg/dl during the immediate post-transplant period due to anti-cytomegalovirus (CMV) high-titer intravenous immunoglobulin infusions (IVIG). IgA and IgM levels were within the 30–60 mg/dl range during this period. Thereafter, the patient sustained a serum IgG level above 500 mg/dl until mid 2000, when her serum IgG dropped below 500 mg/dl. We began replacement IVIG therapy, but during early 2001, the patient developed two successive viral infections, herpes zoster and the mumps. During these episodes, the patient received nine doses of IVIG to control viral infections and her serum IgG levels remained above 1000 mg/dl until full recovery. However, her serum IgG levels declined sharply to 78 mg/dl thereafter. Since then, IVIG replacement therapy has been administered monthly, but her serum IgG levels still remain low. The patient's peripheral blood lymphocyte counts were initially normal, with T cell counts .1500/ml (normal


The assembly and persistence of ecological communities is a phenomenon that occurs across large spatial and temporal scales. However, the relative effects of regional versus local processes on community structure are not well understood in marine ecosystems. In order to understand how scale can alter processes that drive variation in community assembly it is necessary to determine patterns of diversity across multiple scales. Here, I used invertebrate epifaunal communities in the foundation species Zostera marina to test 1) whether this marine community exhibits meadow-scale variability through time, and 2) whether we can identify patterns of connectivity and diversity within and among meadows in the same region. I found that seagrass epifaunal communities are variable in terms of their rarefied richness, alpha and beta diversity, and evenness among meadows. In addition, differences in these metrics were detected over the course of a summer season.


In this essay I argue that despite Arendt's dislike of psychology, she, like all political theorists, relies on a particular understanding of human nature. Her account, which can be discovered with a careful reading of her work, including Eichmann in Jerusalem , The Human Condition and The Origins of Totalitarianism , resonates with the explicitly psychoanalytic one of Jessica Benjamin. When the two accounts are considered together one can find the outline of a very interesting conception of the self which is neither the deconstructed, discontinuous self of postmodernism nor the strongly unified, rational subject of liberalism. This account also points to a way of under18 standing both the allure of evil and the political remedies that can stymie its realization.


Deposition process by physical deposition of metal vapor and generation procedure roughnesses nanoparticles. # Deposition process of metal nanoparticles on all types of substrates by sputtering, where because the deposition is performed at a power density between 0.2- 5 W / cm {sup, 2} at a pressure between 60 and 180 Pa, in the presence of a noble gas. Thanks the method of the invention is possible to deposit nanoparticles on any type of substrate (polymers, fibers, silicon ...), at low temperatures, particularly at room temperature, without limitation in the deposition area without restrictions on time in the which the deposit is made. After deposition, reversing the polarity, they can be performed nanoscale roughness on the substrate.


Wang Wei's Ancient five-character poetry anthology named Wang Chuan Ji that carries the abundant information.It creates the multiple indefiniteness of artistic phenomenon to express emotion and mood as the aesthetic object.It also makes the readers use their own aesthetic imaginations to do the multi-dimension analysis and deep philosophical thinking as the aesthetic subjects.Based on the author's thoughts and experience,this paper analyzes and discusses the imagery that can be sensed,but can not explained in words by readers in Wang Wei's poetical fuzzy meanings.


This paper is based on in-depth historical and sociological research (Killias, 1979) exploring the conditions under which societies forbid sexual activities between persons under a certain age, where age is the only criterion for prohibition.


In this paper, a manufacturing process for laminar gratings is
 described and the effects of variations of this process on the surface
 roughness are studied using a STM.


Textural parameters of seventeen thin sections cut from specimens of neritic units of the Thorold and Grimsby Sandstones (Silurian), were examined. The interrelationships of grain orientation, grain size and grain elongation were found to be as follows:

1
The interrelationships among the textural parameters within each sample indicate that the coarser grains (0.24–0.39 mm) are more elongated and their orientations tend to cluster within few preferred orientational classes.

2
The interrelationships among the samples, within the same stratigraphic section, whose grain size averages range between the fine to the very fine sand grades, indicate that the average coarser grained samples have non-preferred grain orientations.

3
Samples having a wider range (large measured dispersion) of grain sizes and elongations, tend to have weaker preferred grain orientations.

4
The type of grain orientation distribution in each sample appears to be more strongly related to the maximum values and measured variabilities, than average values of grain size and elongation.

5
Utilizing a multiple regression methodology, it is found that the values of the vector magnitudes per cent of the preferred grain orientation distributions are best predicted if only the averages and standard deviations of grain elongations are taken into consideration.


The human photopic luminous efficiency function, the basis of photopic photometry for over 50 years, may be derived from several psychophysical tasks. These tasks are sometimes assumed to tap a "luminance channel" in the visual system, but the physiological identity of this channel has been controversial. The physiological basis of two photometric tasks will be discussed. For flicker photometry, there is strong evidence that cells of the phasic, magnocellular system of the primate visual pathway form the substrate. Not only can photometric properties, such as additivity and transitivity, be demonstrated in this pathway, but also odd psychophysical effects, such as that seen when the relative phase of two flickering lights changes, find a precise correlation in the responses of these cells. This makes it unlikely that cells of the parvocellular system contribute to this task. For another photometric task, the minimally distinct border, evidence for M-pathway cells as the physiological substrate is also compelling, implying that this pathway is a major contributor to form vision. It is parsimonious to suppose that the M-pathway is involved in other photometric tasks, such as resolution photometry.


Professional activities of nursing stuff, the quality of the aid rendered by them are among the most urgent problems of modern health care. The main objectives of measuring labor input are: • to assess labor costs, workload and the number of employees, • to standardize the process of distribution of tasks in carrying out a certain activity, • to plan directions of the health care development


The production scheduling problem in steel manufacturing can be discussed in the domain of multi-stage job shop scheduling problem. In the steel manufacturing scheduling, lots which include some amount of coils are the handling units. We have developed a scheduling system of single line in the steel plants and obtained good results. However, a scheduling system of multi-lines is difficult to be realized because of large developing efforts, long calculating time and the low working ratio of planned scheduling results. In this paper we propose the production scheduling system with a lot division strategy in steel manufacturing in order to improve the attainment ratio of appointed date and the working ratio of scheduling results. Lot division strategies are often used in actual manual planning by skillful planners. We formulate the lot division strategy and its effectiveness are proved by simulations. And we apply this strategy to an actual planning system in steel manufacturing by making use of the knowledge-based scheduling system tool and we can improve the working ratio of the planned results in the scheduling system of multi-lines in steel manufacturing.


Comparison the influence of voluntary increasing alpha power and decreasing EMG by using biofeedback (BFB) and usual self-regulation techniques (SRT) on cognitive functions and alpha activity in 27 male subjects was provided. The results show that alpha-BFB improve cognitive task performance and enhance the alpha activity in participants with low alpha frequency. SRT without feedback has no such effect.


This book offers a bold new account of modernism. By focusing on cubism, primitivist-modernism, jazz, and Josephine Baker's performance, Lemke demonstrates that black art exerted a crucial if masked presence in both Euro-American high art and popular culture. American and European modernism owe much of their symbolic capital to the black cultural other. Black American artists, for their part, also relied on Euro-American American models. By reappropriating European primitivist-modernism, they invented a sui generis black modernism.


We consider an inverse boundary value problem for a semilinear wave equation on a time-dependent Lorentzian manifold with time-like boundary. The time-dependent coefficients of the nonlinear terms can be recovered in the interior from the knowledge of the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map. Either distorted plane waves or Gaussian beams can be used to derive uniqueness.


Objective: The ob j e c t i v e of t he s t ud y is to e v al uat e t he effectiveness of rubber band ligation in the treatment of internal hemorrhoids. Methods: This is a prospective study of 120 cases who underwent rubber band ligation as an outpatient procedure for internal haemorrhoids. Binomial probability pre-post test were used for statistical analysis, pvalue less than 0.0001 was taken as significant. Results: One hundred twenty patients underwent rubber band ligation as a outpatient procedure for internal haemorrhoids. No major post procedure complications as sepsis, vasovagal reflex were observed. Only 36 patients had moderate discomfort following procedure, which lasted for 3-4 days and none had severe discomfort, and 84 patients did not need pain relief; 84 patients returned to work just after procedure .of symptom improvement post procedure compared to at presentation only 49% patients had bleeding post procedure out of 108 patients who had bleeding at presentation p-value of which was significant as pvalue = 0.00055, 6 patients had pain post procedure out of 36 patients who had pain at presentation p-value = 0.00024 was found significant. None patient after procedure had prolapse out of 24 patients who had prolapse on presentation (p-value = 0.0025). No patient had irritation or discharge post procedure (p-value = 0.00036). Ninety-six patients assessed rubber band ligation as excellent and 24 patients as of moderate help. Conclusion: Rubber band ligation for internal haemorrhoids is an effective modality of treatment mainly in 2° grade haemorrhoid which is convenient, simple, high patient acceptance with limitations as post procedure discomfort and pain.


Minimalism plays an important role in the evolution of contemporary Chinese women's clothing. It is a clothing design style and a representative of the change of contemporary Chinese women's thinking and lifestyle. Especially in the new century, the birth and rapid development of mass media and post-modern consumerism have promoted the evolution and popularization of minimalism and its connotation. Under such circumstances, the trend has greatly influenced Chinese women's dress aesthetics, self-consciousness, and life concept. This paper will focus on analyzing this phenomenon and trace the development of minimalism in contemporary China.


A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for notifying a client device, such as a mobile terminal, as to an upcoming change to the configuration of an ongoing streaming session such that the subsequent change to the configuration of the streaming session may be accomplished in an efficient manner. The method, apparatus and computer program product may be configured to effect the change in the configuration of the streaming session even in instances in which the ongoing streaming session is relying upon a non-persistent session control connection.


This paper considers the problem of estimating an unknown high dimensional signal from noisy linear measurements, {when} the signal is assumed to possess a \emph{group-sparse} structure in a {known,} fixed dictionary. We consider signals generated according to a natural probabilistic model, and establish new conditions under which the set of indices of the non-zero groups of the signal (called the group-level support) may be accurately estimated via the group Lasso. Our results strengthen existing coherence-based analyses that exhibit the well-known "square root" bottleneck, allowing for the number of recoverable nonzero groups to be nearly as large as the total number of groups. We also establish a sufficient recovery condition relating the number of nonzero groups and the signal to noise ratio (quantified in terms of the ratio of the squared Euclidean norms of nonzero groups and the variance of the random additive {measurement} noise), and validate this trend empirically. Finally, we examine the implications of our results in the context of a structural health monitoring application, where the group Lasso approach facilitates demixing of a propagating acoustic wavefield, acquired on the material surface by a scanning laser Doppler vibrometer, into antithetical components, one of which indicates the locations of internal material defects.


Low-cost or affordable private schools in developing countries including those of South Asia produce better academic outcomes than government schools. This generalisation seems true even after account is taken of background variables such as parental education and household wealth. A small number of these studies of private-public schooling have been in Pakistan, mostly in the Punjab, Pakistan's richest and most populous province. This study uses parts of a large nationwide survey in Pakistan (Annual Status of Education Report, 2012) to assess whether students of private schools across Pakistan seem to outperform government school students. This is done by comparing test outcomes in Urdu, arithmetic, and English across the school sectors. In addition, the study sheds light on the distribution of fees and fee levels charged by Pakistan's private schools, tests whether differential fee levels relate to differential academic outcomes, considers some evidence on the effectiveness of Public-PrivatePartnership schools and offers some evidence on overall quality in the private sector.


BACKGROUND & AIMS—Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA) is increasingly common among patients with Barrett's esophagus (BE). We aimed to provide consensus recommendations based on the medical literature that clinicians could use to manage patients with BE and low-grade dysplasia, high-grade dysplasia (HGD), or early-stage EA. Address requests for reprints to: Janusz A. Z. Jankowski, MSc, MBChB, MD, PhD, FRCP, FACG, AGAF, Centre for Digestive Diseases, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary, University of London, 4 Newark Street, Whitechapel, London EC1 2AT, UK. email@example.com; fax: + 44 (0) 116 252 3294 or Paul Moayyedi, BSc, MbChB, PhD, MPH, FRCP (London), FRCPC, AGAF, FACG, Department of Medicine, McMaster University Medical Centre, 1200 Main Street West, HSC 4W8E, Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5, Canada. email@example.com; fax: (905) 518-8544. Supplementary Material Note: To access the supplementary material accompanying this article, visit the online version of Gastroenterology at www.gastrojournal.org, and at http://dx.doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2012.04.032. Conflicts of interest These authors disclose the following: Janusz Jankowski is a paid consultant to AstraZeneca UK and Almirall and a grant holder from FALK. He is Chief Investigator for the AspECT and CHoPIN trials, which are supported by AstraZeneca. Cathy Bennett is the proprietor of Systematic Research Ltd and received a consultancy fee for her work on this consensus document. Paul Moayyedi is a consultant to AstraZeneca. Nimish Vakil is a consultant to Astra Zeneca, Takeda, Ironwood, Restech, and Orexo. Robert Ganz is the primary inventor and the cofounder of BÂRRX Medical, holds equity in the company, and serves as a paid consultant. Peter Kahrilas performs ad hoc consulting for AstraZeneca, Eisai, EndoGastric Solutions, and Ironwood, and serves on advisory boards for Torax and Reckitt Benckiser. Michio Hongo is a consultant to Abbott Japan, AstraZeneca Japan, AstellasPharma, Daiichi-Sankyo, Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma, Eisai, Kissei Pharmaceutical, Takeda Pharmaceutical, Scampo Pharma, and Zelia Pharmaceutical. Yvonne Romero is a consultant to AstraZeneca, Santarus, Takeda, Kala, Pfizer, and Aptalis. David Armstrong has received one or more of the following: educational and research grants, honoraria, consulting fees, and related travel expenses from Abbott Laboratories, AltanaPharma, AstraZeneca, Axcan, Eisai Limited, Gilead, Janssen Ortho Inc, Merck, NPS Pharmaceuticals, Nycomed, Olympus Canada Inc, Pentax Medical Inc, Pfizer, Proctor & Gamble, Schering-Plough, Shire Canada, Takeda Canada, Warner-Chilcott, and XenoPort Inc. Richard Sampliner received a BÂRRX research grant. Oliver Pech is a consultant to Hitachi Medical, Fujinon, Norgine, and AstraZeneca. Jaroslaw Regula is a consultant to Abbott, Astellas, AstraZeneca, Krka, MSD, Polpharma, Sandoz, and WarnerChilcott.M. Brian Fennerty is a consultant for Aptalis, Oncoscope, and Meridian Bioscience. Nicholas Talley has had grant support from Falk, Forest, Janssen, and Takeda, has been a consultant for ARYx, Astellas, Astra Zeneca, Boehringer Ingleheim, Care Capitol, ConCERT, Edusa, Falk, Focus Medical Communications, Forest, Ironwood, Janssen, Johnson & Johnson, Meritage, NicOx, Novartis, Prometheus, Salix, Sanofi-Adventis, Shire, Tranzyme, Theravance, XenoPort, and Zeria, and is a key opinion leader for Doyen Medical Inc. John de Caestecker is Chair of AspECT Trial Management Group, which is AstraZeneca supported. Jacques Bergman is a consultant for Boston Scientific and has research support from BÂRRX Medical, Olympus, and Cook. Stephen Attwood is on the aspect trial management committee, which is AstraZeneca supported. JeanPaul Galmiche is a consultant and speaker for Given Imaging, Mauna Kea Technologies, Shire, Norgine, and Xenoport. His institution has received research grants from AstraZeneca, Janssen Cilag France, ADDEX, and Pentax. Laurence Lovat is on the Advisory Board of Ninepoint Medical and performed ad hoc consulting for Given Imaging and research support for Axcan Pharma, DUSA Pharmaceuticals, and BÂRRX. Peter Watson is a member of AspECT Trial Management Group, which is AstraZeneca sponsored. Kenneth Wang is a consultant to BÂRRX, Ironwood Pharma, CDX Diagnostics, Pinnacle Pharma, and CSA. David Johnston has received speaker's fees and support to attend educational meetings from AstraZeneca. Krish Ragunath received research support, educational grants and speaker honoraria from Olympus Keymed, Cook Medical and BÂRRX Medical. Stuart Gittens is managing director of ECD solutions web data handling company. The remaining authors disclose no conflicts. HHS Public Access Author manuscript Gastroenterology. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2017 August 01. Published in final edited form as: Gastroenterology. 2012 August ; 143(2): 336–346. doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2012.04.032. A uhor M anscript


Cytoplasmic male sterility systems (CMS) have been useful in the production of hybrid seed in a number of crops. The Texas or T-cytoplasmic male sterile line (crns-T) system was used extensively in the 1960s to eliminate the need for hand detasseling in hybrid maize production. As a consequence of the 1970 epidemic of southern corn leaf blight cms-T is no longer widely used commercially. However it has been developed as a model system to study the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying male sterility and fertility restoration. Male sterility in T-cytoplasm maize results from the action of a T-cytoplasm specific mitochondrial gene, T-urf l3, Full (or partial) fertility restoration of T-cytoplasm maize is mediated by the Rf2 nuclear restorer in combination with one of the three restorers: Rf1, Rf8, or Rf*. Rf2 encodes a protein highly similar to mitochondrial aldehyde clehydrogenases; Rh, Rf8 and Rf* each mediate discrete T-urf l3 mitochonclrial transcript processing events. AFLP bulk segregant analysis has been used to identify DNA markers closely linked to the Rf8 locus. These tools provide a foundation, for determining mechanisms of nuclear-directed mitochondrial RNA processing and fertility restoration.


On the basis of public goods theory, it analyzed the necessity of government responsibility in the supply of basic public health services from public goods attribute, discussed the main problems in the supply of basic public health service, proposed specific suggestions and provided good references for the equalization of basic public health services.


We prove a classification theorem of the generalized Sasakian space forms which are realized as real hypersurfaces in complex space forms.


Hanging "Established 1935" over your door does nothing to drive business. After all, 80 years is not a particularly long time for a publisher to have been in operation with many publishing companies having substantially longer pedigrees. Faber & Faber celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2009, and the origins of companies including HarperCollins, Hodder Headline, and most notably Oxford University Press, extend far back into previous centuries.


Abstract Based on 115 recent literature references this review draws up the present status of the photochemistry of thiocarbonyl compounds.


The spectral properties of two systems of orthogonal polynomials closely related to the sieved Pollaczek polynomials are studied. The main goal is to detect extreme or embedded mass point for such systems.


On the basis of observation for wind fields and wind wave fields in Lake Dianshan,the wind wave fields were numerically simulated with the SWAN model.Comparisons of wave height between modeling and measurement indicated that the variation tendencies of the modeled wind wave fields were in agreement with those of the measured data.However,the fluctuation amplitudes of measured data are greater than those of modeled results.On the whole,the modeled wind wave fields are reasonable and reliable.Therefore,the wind wave fields in Lake Dianshan have been systematically simulated with different water levels and different wind fields.The modeled results can be taken as the reference basis for the flood prevention and environmental conservation of Lake Dianshan.


We propose an approach for structural learning of
directed acyclic graphs from multiple databases. We first learn a local structure
from each database separately, and then we combine these local structures
together to construct a global graph over all variables. In our approach, we
do not require conditional independence, which is a basic assumption in most
methods.


PURPOSE: An image protection device for protecting privacy, an image security system thereof and a method thereof are provided to prevent unintentional invasion of privacy while maintaining the main purpose of a monitoring system. CONSTITUTION: A face region detecting unit(3121) detects a target region for protection from a collected image. A protection processing unit(3122) applies a privacy protection algorithm to a detected target region for protection. The protection processing unit generates a protection processed image with a recognition disabled region. A storage managing unit(3123) stores/manages the protection processed image. The protection processing unit applies a privacy protection releasing algorithm to a protection processed image of which a client requests to release the protection.


Improvement of the thermal stability of continuous SiC fiber reinforced SiC ceramic matrix composites (SiCf/SiC CMC) by the pre-treatment of SiC fillers and the suppression of oxidation during polymer impregnation and pyrolysis (PIP) process were investigated. Dense SiCf/SiC CMCs were fabricated using the slurry infiltration and PIP process under a purified argon atmosphere. Structure and mechanical properties of the SiCf/SiC CMC heated at different temperatures were evaluated. The flexural strength of the SiCf/SiC CMC decreased only 15.3% after heating at 1400 °C, which exhibited a clear improvement compared with the literature data (49.5% loss), where severe thermal deterioration of SiCf/SiC composite occurred at high temperatures by the crystallization and decomposition of the precursor-derived ceramic matrix. The thermal stability of the SiCf/SiC CMC fabricated by PIP process was improved by the pre-treatment of SiC fillers for removing oxides and the strict atmosphere control to prevent oxidation.


Creating Safe and Secure Communities in Economically Challenging Times. Peter E. Tarlow. Tourism Economics, vol. 6, no. 2, June 2000, pp. 139-49. Turpin Distribution Services Ltd., Blackhorse Road, Letchworth, Herts SG6 1HN, United Kingdom. $217 annual subscription. Addresses the relationship between economic decline and crimes against tourists. Through a theoretical examination of the possible impacts of an economic downturn on tourism-related crime, the author develops a series of ideas and recommendations for the formulation of a strategic approach to combat the potential negative effects.


Biological assessment is a useful alternative for understanding the ecological quality of aquatic ecosystems because biological communities integrate the environmental effects of water. This work investigates the diversity and abundance of phytoplankton in the Upper Jebba Basin of the Niger River in Nigeria. We sampled phytoplanktons by dragging plankton nets at three stations from March to May 2015 for qualitative and quantitative samples. Qualitative plankton samples were collected by towing 55μm mesh hydrobios plankton nets just below the water surface for five minutes at each sampling station. Quantitative samples, on the other hand, were collected by filtering 100 litres of water fetched with a bucket through a 55μm mesh hydrobios net. Both samples were preserved separately in a 4% buffered formalin solution. A total of 3160 cells/ml of phytoplanktons from taxa were identified in the study. High dominance of Oscillatoria sp., Microcystis sp., Chlorella sp., Pediastrum sp. and Synendra indicate that this lake has high amount of organic waste, polluted predominantly by upstream concerns (i.e., mining, agricultural, and domestic) and should be monitored strictly by relevant agencies in order to additional reduced health hazards caused by these pollutants. HYDRO Nepal Journal Journal of Water, Energy and Environment Issue: 19 Page: 52-56


Summary The monoglycerides from eight samples of lipolyzed milk fat were converted to allyl esters and identified by gas-liquid chromatography. Fresh milk fat did not contain monoglycerides detectable by the methods used. The majority of the samples contained butyrate through stearate and oleate. Many contained C 10 -C 16 monounsaturates, C 9 -C 17 saturates, and linoleate, and up to eight additional unidentified esters. The fatty acids present in largest quantity, reported as per cent by weight of total allyl esters, were: palmitate—31.2, oleate—17.7, myristate—15.6, caprate—5.7, palmitoleate—5.6, linoleate—4.1, laurate—4.0, and stearate—3.9. The patterns were distinctly different from the reported fatty acid composition of intact milk fat.


The hydrothermal reaction of indium chlorine, 2,2'-bipyridine, and 2,3-pyrazinedicarboxylic acid leads to the generation of a mononuclear InIII complex, [In(bpy)(Cl)2]Cl·0.5pz·H2O (1) (bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine, pz = pyrazine). X-ray diffraction analysis indicates that compound 1 crystallizes in the orthorhombic system Pbca space group with a = 12.667(3) A, b = 15.269(3) A, c = 15.859(3) A, V = 3067.4(11) A3 and Z = 8. These discrete units are linked by the hydrogen bondings and C···H–π stacking interactions to form a 3D network. It is interesting to find that the in situ decarboxylation of 2,3-pyrazinedicarboxylic acid into pz ligand was observed.


A catalyst using nanoparticle magnesia as the support was prepared for CH4-CO2 reforming system,which exhibited higher activity and stability.The nanoparticle magnesia support was prepared from MgCl2·6H2O and ammonia liquor using PEG as the modifier.Influence of MgCl2 concentration,pH value,reaction temperature,intermediate calcination temperature,calcination medium and surfactant PEG on nanoparticle magnesia was investigated.The resultant samples were characterized by XRD,TEM and physical adsorber(ASAP-2020).Nanoscale magnesia with narrow size distribution and high surface area was obtained with particle size of about 20 nanometer and without agglomeration.


In [1], reference number 36 is incorrect. It currently reads as: Monami M, Cremasco F, Lamanna C, Colombi C, Desideri CM, Iacomelli I et al. Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and cardiovascular events: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. Exp Diabetes Res 2011; 27: 57–64. The correct reference should be: Monami M, Dicembrini I, Martelli D, Mannucci E. Safety of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. Curr Med Res Opin. 2011; 27 (Suppl 3): 57-64.


Background:
 The salt debate continues, also regarding the WHO recommendation to restrict salt intake below 5 g/day. Black populations exhibit a high prevalence of salt-sensitivity, but no large-scale studies in these populations have been performed to show the cardiovascular consequences of dietary salt intake.

 Aim:
 To determine whether estimated daily salt intake is associated with BP and renal function cross-sectionally; and prospectively over 5-years.

 Methods:
 We included 1589 HIV-uninfected black participants aged > 30 yrs, and followed 1174 over 5 years (of which 151 died). We collected blood and fasting morning spot urine. The Kawasaki-formula was applied to estimate 24-h urinary sodium excretion. Using ANCOVAs we compared the following salt-intake groups: <3; 3-4; 5-6; 7-8; ≥9 g/day. Group sizes ranged from 84-499 participants.

 Results:
 Before and after adjustments baseline SBP tended to associate with estimated daily salt intake (adjusted p-trend=0.10). At baseline, there was no association of salt intake with estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR; p=0.65), but a strong positive association with albumin-to-creatinine ratio (p<0.001). Baseline daily salt intake of 5-6 g/day resulted in the smallest increase in SBP/DBP of 1.49/1.25 mmHg. Low daily salt intake of <3 and 3-4 g/day resulted in greater increases in BP than intakes of 5-6 g/day, namely SBP/DBP of 5.02/5.12 mmHg for < 3 mg/day (p for trend=0.034). The highest salt intake group (≥ 9 g/day) showed increases of 4.49/3.15 mmHg, albeit not significantly different from the 5-6 g/day group (p for trend=0.24). Regarding renal function, serum creatinine decreased from 101 to 65 μmol/L over 5 years, with an increase in eGFR from 114 to 129 ml/min/1.73 m
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 (both p<0.001). %eGFR increased according to salt intake (p-trend=0.038).

 Conclusion:
 Estimated daily salt intake relates weakly to BP cross-sectionally, but strongly with albuminuria. Prospectively, low salt intake of less than 5 g/day predicts a significant elevation in SBP compared to 5-6 g/day. In contrast to healthy white populations indicating a decrease in GFR with age, we found an increase over 5 years, which is related to salt intake, suggesting a high prevalence of salt-sensitivity in this black population.


Accounting marketing is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on strategic marketing investments through accounting accuracy and efficiency. Accounting marketing actually means marketing in accounting, which means implementing the principles and rules of marketing to promote accounting and related services. In order to shorten the combination that is actually the keyword of this article, in this paper is used accounting marketing instead of marketing in accounting. Nevertheless, accounting marketing is still in its infancy. In this article, while examining the concepts of accounting marketing, its role in the period before and after Corona is discussed. Accounting marketing strategies are also reviewed and the key to organizations' success in using them is explained.
Finally, an eight-step plan is presented to succeed in implementing accounting marketing strategies. As a general conclusion, it is suggested some organizations as well as accounting consulting companies study the steps of this plan for changing and unfavorable conditions of the post-corona period and use benefits of accounting marketing, effectively.


This document is a primer on solar radiation data. General uses of solar energy are presented. The manner in which solar radiation data is used to aid engineers in optimizing the use of solar thermal conversion and photovoltaic conversion is discussed. Methods for acquiring and assimilating the solar radiation data are illustrated. This would include the design and use of pyranometers and pyrheliometers. Seasonal and geographical variations in solar flux reaching the earth are evaluated. Other uses of compiled data include the determination of meteorological impacts of atmospheric disturbances such as volcano eruptions.


The kinetic parameters of the submitochondrial particles cytochrome chain obtained from steady-state kinetics were studied for pH dependence. The life-times of the activated states (tau) for cytochrome pairs b leads to c1 and a leads to a3 are shown to bear dissimilar dependence on pH of the medium, while for cytochrome pairs c1 leads to c and c leads to a they display practically no pH dependence at all. The rate constants of the non-activated state (alphai-kiCo) decreased for the pair b leads to c1 and increased for a leads to a3 with the increase of pH from 6.5 to 8.5. The apparent pK values obtained therefrom were 7.2 and 8.9, respectively. A kinetic model is proposed suggesting that local pH in the mitochondrial membrane, dependent on the rate of electron transfer, may be a controlling factor for the ratio of activated and non-activated carrier states. The model is in good consistence with the experimental dependences of k'i on V and the pH dependences of alpha2 for b leads to c1 and a leads to a3. It also gives a qualitative prediction for the pH dependences of the ordinate intercepts of the straight lines in l/(k'i--alphai) vs. l/V plots. The rate constants for the diffusion of hydrogen and hydroxyl ions in the membrane are estimated on the basis of our kinetic data to be 10(4)--10(5) s-1 and 10(2)--10(3) s-i, respectively.


. . .we hope, given the description of the JIE as one of the gold standards for peer review of LCAs, that the figures in the ads and blog posts will be revised to reflect the more nuanced understanding that these dueling articles have engendered. As editors and as teachers, we are frequently asked, "What is the relationship between industrial ecology and public policy?" Sometimes the question is more specific: What is the likelihood that the United States will use life cycle assessment (LCA) as the basis of regulation? Given the lack of affinity in the United States for product-oriented environmental regulation, the prospects have seemed quite remote. This is, in part, a reflection of the issues that remain unresolved about LCA as an analytical tool and, more broadly, a result of reticence to reduce policy decisions to the output of specific analytical procedures. To some degree, it reflects a more diffuse reluctance, in a country with a strong predilection for free market ideology, to introduce a new category of regulation. In the United States, however, we now have in the final stages of approval both state and federal biofuel policies that will determine the quantities of fuel that can be sold and set government subsidies to biofuel producers based on life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as determined by LCA models.1 Although it has been modified slightly by regulatory agencies in both cases, the tool underlying these policies is the wellknown life cycle model developed by the U.S. Argonne National Laboratories, known as Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy


...transformation of public education from factory-model schooling into communities of learners where all students experience a rich and challenging curriculum that holds the possibility of preparing them for the demands and opportunities of life and work in the 21 century. The intent is not only to hold all students to high standards of performance, but also to provide teachers ... with the tools, processes, opportunities, and supports that will enable them to help students across the socioeconomic spectrum reach for and achieve high levels of performance according to their "multiple intelligences" (Thompson, 1999, p. 46 cited in Diaz, 2001).


SummaryThe current status of medicines regulation and legislation throughout the world is reviewed. The basic task of drug regulatory agencies is to ensure that the medicines available to the physician are sufficiently safe and effective, and that the information supplied on these medicines is adequate and reliable; the final choice of drug remains the physician's task. By examining the way in which regulatory agencies have dealt with different problems it is possible to identify many of the norms which are emerging. By and large these would seem to be reasonable, and it appears unlikely that drug regulation has, in fact, impeded the development of valuable new medicines. Such problems as do arise are due in part to marked differences in national control systems. It is suggested that these problems may be more readily resolved by informal international co-operation than by formalized international control of medicines.


Electrochemical conversion of abundant feedstocks to fuels and value-added chemicals is rapidly gaining significance as a promising method to harness renewable electricity. To this end, research group develops heterogeneous catalysts (e.g. nanomaterials, MOFs) geared for the reduction of CO2 and oxidation of biomass platforms to fuels and value-added chemicals. Further, we establish strategies in emergent areas of electrocatalysis such as electrochemically forming and cleaving C-N bonds. Because the design of new catalytic systems is inherently linked to a precise understanding of how these reactions proceed on heterogeneous surfaces, we put considerable efforts in developing methodology for operando probing of these systems with vibrational spectroscopy. In all, I show how using these experiments provides key mechanistic information on surface reaction mechanisms that enhance our understanding of functional interfaces and how the research provides avenues for future materials design within the context of renewable energy electrocatalysis.


MEDICAL literature contains many articles on the subject of the x-ray treatment of acne vulgaris, but comparatively few of them deal with statistics based on a large amount of material that has been under observation for many months or years. Statistics can be misleading, but when properly compiled they are invaluable for the control of impressions. Our knowledge of results obtained with the roentgen rays in dermatology is based largely on impressions. For an accurate therapeutic appraisal, statistics from many workers are required. After a sufficiently large number of such statistical reports have been published, they can be compiled and analyzed in an attempt to formulate an accurate evaluation. Years ago the senior writer believed that with the x-ray treatment of acne vulgaris, with the technic universally employed in this country, permanent cures amounted to 85 or 90 per cent; also, that not more than 20 per cent were cured in a reasonable length of time with methods other than x-rays. Later, this imp...


Abstract This study aimed at investigating the prevalence of anxiety and depression, and their risk factors as well as their correlation with prognosis in refractory or relapsed (R/R) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients. A total of 180 R/R AML patients were enrolled and their anxiety and depression were assessed by Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) before treatment. Besides, HADS was also evaluated in 180 de novo AML patients prior treatment and 180 healthy controls (HCs), respectively. Both the HADS-Anxiety and HADS-Depression scores were increased in R/R AML patients compared with de novo AML patients and HCs (all P < .001). Meanwhile, the prevalence of anxiety and depression was 53.9% and 45.6% in R/R AML patients, which were also greatly higher compared with de novo AML patients and HCs (all P < .01). Regarding risk factors, higher Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group score and lines of salvage therapy were correlated with anxiety and depression in R/R AML patients (all P < .05). Furthermore, anxiety and depression were associated with shorter overall survival (OS) in R/R AML patients (all P < .05), while no association of different degrees of anxiety and depression with OS was observed (all P > .05). Anxiety and depression are highly prevalent and implicated in the management and prognosis of R/R AML.


Pawel RODAK University of Warsaw The Truth in a Personal Diary The author uses an understanding of personal diary as a writing practice where recordmaking is an action of multiple functions, the material dimension contributing to the significance and functions of such action. If an 'I' is the text's subject, then the subject of action/writing is an empirically existing person, as confirmed by the trace left over by this individual not only in the text itself but also, in the diary's materality. Thus, truth in a diary is of a historic, personal, and written nature (a diary being a series of dated personal traces). The truth of a diary does not only exist on the textual level but is a truth of the life of the individual who is leaving his or her trail in the diary-keeping practice whose essential characteristics is its written and material character (literacy and materiality). Having assumed so, the author discusses three types of diaristic truth, naming them respectively: the truth of events (i.e. historic(al) truth); the truth of experience (i.e. psychological/personal truth); and, the truth of reality (i.e. metaphysical/transcendental truth).


This paper presents a new software technique to detect transient hardware errors. The objective of the technique is to guarantee data integrity in the presence of transient errors and to reduce energy consumption at the same time. The basic approach is to duplicate computations. There are three choices for duplicate computations: (1) duplicating every statement in the program and comparing their results, (2) re-executing procedures through duplicated procedure calls and comparing their results, (3) re-executing the whole program and comparing the final results. Our technique combines choices (1) and (2): Given a program, our technique analyzes procedure call behavior of the program and determines which procedures can have duplicated statements (choice (1)) and which procedure calls can be duplicated (choice (2)) to minimize energy consumption with reasonable error detection latency. We simulated our technique with benchmark programs and found that it reduces energy consumption by over 25% on average compared to previous techniques that do not take energy consumption into consideration.


Pakistan has been one of the fastest-growing economies in developing countries. Therefore, it is not surprising that the healthcare industry is also expanding rapidly. In the past two decades, Pakistan's healthcare industry has risen astoundingly. This study seeks to determine the extent to which TQM has been implemented in Pakistan's healthcare sector, as well as how it influences and is influenced by organizational effectiveness. Numerous TQM characteristics and organizational performances were analyzed to achieve this objective, and the results were analyzed to determine how well they were utilized. To achieve this objective, research was conducted on several facets of TQM, including organizational leadership, customer satisfaction, and customer relationships, emphasizing human resources. Also, structural equation modeling was utilized to examine the relationships between TQM elements and an organization's performance (SEM). The primary objective of this study is to investigate how Total Quality Management (TQM) influences the performance of healthcare institute. The research was conducted with the assistance of National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD). This research utilized both primary and secondary data to determine the extent to which pharmaceutical businesses had implemented TQM.


e20012 Background: Several US studies have evaluated ethnic differences in patients with multiple myeloma (MM), but few have focused on populations other than non-Hispanic Whites and Blacks. We examined ethnic differences in a contemporary cohort of MM patients and their presenting laboratory findings in a large, insured, community-based population, including findings across Asian American subgroups. Methods: Using the Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) Cancer Registry, we identified all new cases of MM from 2010-2018 and obtained data on age, sex, race/ethnicity, Asian subgroup, and presenting hemoglobin, calcium, and estimated renal function (eGFR derived from serum creatinine) from health plan databases. Moderate to severe anemia was defined by hemoglobin <10 g/dL, hypercalcemia by calcium >11 mg/dL, and chronic kidney disease (CKD) by eGFR: stage 3 (eGFR 30-59) and stages 4-5 (eGFR <30). MM incidence was estimated using membership denominators. Results: There were 2224 new MM cases (mean age 68y, 60% male) in 2010-2018, with an annual MM incidence of 7.9-9.8/100,000. Table 1 compares presentation by race/ethnicity. Non-Whites (45%) were more likely to present at age <65 than non-Hispanic Whites (30%, p<0.01). Black (43%) and Asian (39%) adults were more likely to present with hemoglobin <10 g/dL than non-Hispanic Whites (27%, p<0.01); Black adults were more likely to present with hemoglobin <10 g/dL than Hispanic adults (31%, p=0.02). Among the primary Asian subgroups, proportions with hemoglobin <10 g/dL were 38% (East Asian), 43% (Filipino), and 45% (South Asian). Blacks were more likely to present with CKD stage 4-5 (19.5%) than other races/ethnicities (p=0.04); differences between White vs non-White or Asian vs non-Asian were not significant. In Asians, 12.7% (South Asian) and 19.0% (Filipino, East Asian) presented with CKD 4-5. Asians were least likely to present with hypercalcemia (6.7%, p=0.03), and this was similar for Asian subgroups. Conclusions: We observed ethnic differences in MM presentation in a large integrated healthcare system. Blacks were more likely to have CKD stage 4-5 and hemoglobin <10 g/dL than non-Hispanic Whites. Asians were more likely to have CKD stage 4-5 than non-Hispanic Whites but least likely to have hypercalcemia. This is one of the first studies to identify Asian subgroups and examine variation across East Asians, Filipinos, and South Asians. Analyses examining ethnic differences in survival among MM patients are in progress.[Table: see text]


In this study,effect of five reaction components,including template DNA,dNTPs,primer,Mg2+ and Taq DNA polymerase,on the SSR amplification results were studied using wheat genomic DNA as PCR template.Mg2+ and Taq DNA polymerase showing most significant influence on PCR products,and then is template DNA,dNTPs have no significant effect on it.Furthermore,SSR markers on wheat chromosome 7B were screened by the optimized SSR system.Results indicated that,dominant SSR markers or codominant markers with significant difference on length can be separated by optimized SSR amplification system and high concentration agarose gel effectively.


This paper evaluates the performance of three evolutionary algorithms to globally optimize complex continuous functions. The performance is evaluated by measuring the algorithms success rate to find the global optimum in several trials. At each set of trials, the search-space is reduced to be closer to the global optimum, so that the starting population is generated in an even more promising region. According to the results, it is possible to can conclude that, in high complexity problems, a good performance of classical evolutionary algorithms can not be expected. The paper also evaluates the performance of an evolutionary algorithm in a deceptive function. In this case, the reduced search-space is the model which generates the deceptive function. The success rates with and without the use of the starting model were compared. In this case, the use of a better starting model substantially increases the performance.


In this paper, we explore the relationship between work-life balance policies and three outcomes of interest to employers and employees: the job tenure of women employees, turnover rate of women employees and retention rate of new women graduates. In the cross sectional analysis, we find that firms with work-life balance policies such as the full amount of maternity pay practice and flextime system are positively associated with the job tenure of women employees. We also find that the full amount of maternity pay practice has an effect on retention rate of new women graduates. However, we can ft find the relationship between maternity pay practice and job tenure of women employees in fixed effects. Even though our hypothesis just receives partial support, our results still suggest that work-life balance policies such as the full amount of maternity pay and flextime system can produce positive outcomes for both employers and employees.


Analytical studies of some selected physicochemical parameter with metallic elements were made on the water bodies of Arpa river of Bilaspur Urban areas, Bilaspur Chhattisgarh. Water samples were collected from five different selected spot in the month of May'2017 of Premonsoon season. Temperature, pH, E.C, Turbidity, TDS and D.O were analyzed instantly at the sampling spot while T.S, TSS, TH, Total Alkalinity, BOD, COD, Cl−, F−, SO42−, NO3−, PO43−, Na, K, Ca, Mg and Fe by the standard method as per IS procedure. The statistical parameters like mean, SD, SE, %CV and WQI were systematically calculated. Around 70% of these parameters were above the maximum permissible limit of IS: 10500 and WHO standard of drinking water. The elevated values of these parameters are of great concern to public health when the water bodies are consumed by people without treatment.


The invention relates to a bottom glue erasing liquid for cleaning bottom glue residue of non-setting adhesives, instant plasters, double-sided adhesives, and other products of the kind. The bottom glue erasing liquid comprises the following components by volume fraction: 6% ~ 35% of acetone; 10% ~ 40% of ethyl acetate ethanol; 15% ~ 30% of ethanol; 1% ~ 4% of OP emulsifier; 10% ~ 25% of ammonia; 3% -10% of N,N- dimethylformamide; 5% ~ 20% of turpentine; and 0.2% ~ 2% of a spice. The components are mixed proportionally and stirred in 500 ~ 1000 rpm / min for 5 to 30 minutes to obtain the bottom glue erasing liquid, the bottom glue erasing liquid is directly sprayed on glue mark surface, after waiting for 3 to 15 minutes, the glue mark surface is softened and deformed, and then is wiped with a cloth, and no mark is left.


Abstract Two identical trials were conducted to determine the optimum level of calcium in conjunction with reduced levels of nonphytate phosphorus (NPP) in diets for male broilers during 42 to 56 days of age. Diets containing .12% and .24% NPP, and calcium levels ranging from .06 to .60%, were compared to a control diet that contained .80% Ca and .35% NPP. Body weight gain, feed consumption, feed conversion, and mortality of male broilers that were fed the treatment diets did not differ significantly from those of broilers that were fed the control diet. All dietary treatments produced birds with visual leg abnormalities, but there were no significant differences among treatments. Diets with reduced levels of Ca and NPP fed to birds during the 42- to 56-day period did not adversely affect tibia length and width when compared to those fed the control diet. At a Ca level of .48%, tibia strength of broilers fed diets with .12 or .24% NPP did not differ significantly from that of broilers fed the control diet. Raising dietary Ca to .60% did not further increase tibia strength when diets contained .12% NPP, but it did increase tibia strength significantly when diets contained .24% NPP.


The new Belgian health minister, Maggie De Block, is a former GP. She also reportedly weighs 20 stone (127 kg), prompting critics to claim that she is unsuitable to manage a portfolio that includes reducing obesity.

Recently, England's chief medical officer, Sally Davies, said that she was "perpetually surprised" at how many NHS staff were overweight. "How are they to have the impact on patients if they are not thinking about it for themselves?" she asked.1 Meanwhile, Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, has told staff to join gyms and weight loss clubs, to "fight against obesity."2

The message for doctors is clear: don't be fat. But obesity is complicated. …


The six papers in this special issue depict the state of the art and practice of the impact of semantic technologies in the field of Software Engineering.


The economic value of Phalaris arundinacea,oxidative enzyme activity,the accumulation of heavy metal and the content of N,P and K in rhizosphere soil of Phalaris arundinaceat,he content of N and Pt,he activity of carbonic anhydrase and the photosynthetic rate of Phalaris arundinacea were studied.Meanwhile,some representative plants growing in wetland were compared with it.The results show that Phalaris arundinacea could adapt to the transitional reduction environment from water body to the land.The abilities of Phalaris arundinacea disposing N,P and accumulating heavy metals in rhizosphere were higher than those of Phragmites communis.


The use of drones in education is growing and has been implemented in various courses as well as in pedagogy development. Using drones in education highly engages students and supports them to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills, which will prepare themselves in advance to pursue their career. The role of drones in education covers from simple coding for 4–8-year students to much more complex remote sensing for environmental management in higher education and in various fields of academic research. This article aims to review the application of drones in various educational environments and epitomizes the ideas and implementations of drones for educational purposes. Classification of drones of different types used for educational purposes were also outlined. The frameworks proposed for Drone based learning were reviewed and summarized. Further directions of research in this domain were proposed.


Aim: The objective of this research is to enhance the drain current and to eliminate the leakage current with the use of different dielectric material having a various relative constants. Dielectric material with relative constant values of 3.9 nm (SiO2) and 30 nm (La2O3) is used in turn to eliminate the leakage current in order to enhance the drain current with nano hub simulation tool. Dielectric material 30nm relative constants provides the higher drain current with the nano tubediameter of lnm andwith glass insulator thickness of O.lnm comparingto the material has a relative constant value of 3.9 which returns the low drain current. Herby within the limits of work done La2O3 provides higher drain current comparing to the SiO2. Circuit designers prefer Vth to be invariant with transistor size and biasing conditions, hence Vth fluctuation is undesirable with scaled geometries, and a stable Vth is required to limit leakage power which can be done with CNTFE T rather than the traditional silicon devices.


This paper identifies thedata sources available inOPCSoncancer amongethnic groups, shows someofthe findings ofprevious analyses andoutlines thepotential forfurther analyses anddata collection. Themainsource ofdata comesfromtheregistration ofdeaths inwhich country ofbirth ofthedeceased isrecorded. Other sources ofdata include theGeneral Household Survey (GHS)whichenables analyses ofrisk factors suchassmoking, alcohol and contraception. Dataoncancer incidence amongethnic groups iscurrently limited. However inthefuture, both the Longitudinal Study andcancer registration data should provide measures ofcancer incidence amongethnic groups.


A process for fabricating MEMS devices using a silicon on insulator (SOI) wafer bonded to a substrate glass or silicon wafer is presented. In this process, the device layer of the SOI wafer is bonded to the substrate wafer, and the handle and SiO2 layers of the SOI wafer are subsequently removed. This method of manufacturing MEMS devices using SOI wafers offers important advantages over alternative SOI wafer processes, and is being implemented to manufacture high accuracy MEMS inertial devices.


A multi-location trial was conducted during 1986-92 to evaluate a new systemic fungicide 'G 696' (Provax) for controlling loose smut of wheat (Triticum aestivum L. emend. Fiori & Paol.) caused by Ustilago segetum (Pers.) Roussel var tritici Jensen [ = U. nuda (Jens.) Rostr. var tritici Schaf.]. The new fungicide was used as dry seed treatment, along with 2 recommended fungicides, viz carboxin and carbendazim, @ 0.2,0.25 and 0.3%. G firstname.lastname@example.com and 0.3% proved significantly superior in controlling the disease (giving respectively 95 and 98% control) to the other treatments, except email@example.com% which was on a par with it in effectiveness.


In this paper we introduce, from basic principles, the main concepts of beam focusing and transport of space charge dominated beams in high brightness accelerators using the beam envelope equation as a convenient mathematical tool. Matching conditions suitable for preserving beam quality are derived from the model for significant beam dynamics regimes.


A complex [Zn2(dipic)2(biim)(H2O)3]·2H2O(H2dipic=2,6-pyridinedicarboxylic acid,biim= 2,2′-biimi-dazole) have been hydrothermally synthesized and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis,IR and element analysis.The solid-state fluorescence emission spectra and thermal analysis of the complex were also studied.The theoretical studies of title complex as a structure unit were carried out at B3LYP/6-31G level with Guassian 03W program,and the atomic charges,natural bond-orbital analysis and bond energies were also discussed.CCDC: 759050.


For finding the zeros of a coquaternionic polynomial p of degreen, wherep is given in standard form p(z) = ∑ cjz j , the concept of a (real) companion polynomial q of degree2n, as introduced for quaternionic polynomials, is applied. If z0 is a root ofq, then, based on z0, there is a simple formula for an element z with the property thatp(z)p(z) = 0, thusz is a singular point ofp. Under certain conditions, the same z has the property thatp(z) = 0, thusz is a zero ofp. There is an algorithm for finding zeros and singular points o f p. This algorithm will find all zerosz with the property that in the equivalence class to which z belongs, there are complex elements. For finding zeros which are not similar to complex numbers, Newto n's method is applied, and a simple technique for computing the exact Jacobi matrix is presented. We also show, t at there is no "Fundamental Theorem of Algebra" for coquaternions, but we state a conjecture that a "Weak Fun damental Theorem of Algebra" for coquaternions is valid. Several numerical examples are presented. It is also sh own ow to apply the given results to other algebras of R like tessarines, cotessarines, nectarines, conectarines , tangerines, cotangerines.


INTRODUCTION Prevalence of tobacco use in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is 12.2% and negatively impacting the health of the population. Diseases such as lung cancer, heart diseases, and poor prognosis of COVID-19 can be prevented by tobacco cessation. Physicians are trusted among patients and therefore are well-positioned to provide tobacco cessation services, however, their attitudes about such services are unknown. Our purpose is to assess attitudes about providing tobacco cessation services among physicians practicing in KSA. METHODS This study is questionnaire-based and of cross-sectional design. We applied the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) framework to guide our study. Twenty percent (n=25) of primary care centers were randomly selected. A paper-based survey was administered to 291 physicians practicing in the selected primary care centers, each item mapped onto one of the seven TRA constructs. Constructs assessed were: demographics, self-efficacy, knowledge, subjective beliefs, normative beliefs, control beliefs, and intentions to provide tobacco cessation services. Constructs were measured with latent variables, and associations were estimated in a structural equation path model. RESULTS The majority (71%) of physicians reported minimal or no training on tobacco cessation. The average score for tobacco treatment knowledge was 4.09 out of 10 questions. On a scale of 1 to 5, the mean score for intention to provide tobacco cessation services was 3.26. Mean scores for subjective, normative, and control beliefs were 3.45, 3.41, and 3.43, respectively. Mean score for self-efficacy was 3.38. Self-efficacy had a strong influence on intention to provide cessation services via several pathways. CONCLUSIONS Due to lack of prior training among physicians, we recommend delivering future tobacco cessation training. Such training would be effective, given that scores on self-efficacy, beliefs, and intentions, in this study indicate a promising attitude toward the provision of tobacco cessation services. © 2021. Elkhadragy N. et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International License. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0).


The development of EHV transmission line raises higher requirement on tower material.High-strength steel will be used widely in transmission lines,which promotes the problem of matching high strength bolt selection as one of problems for designers.This problem composed of two parts,namely rod hole wall pressure and high strength bolt shear.With the damage characteristics of high-strength bolts connecting,the application of high-strength bolts used in the transmission towers is discussed.The choice of high strength bolts,determination of tightening torque values and positioning of bolt alignment are described in detail,which provide reference for future application of high strength bolts in the transmission line towers.


This paper concerns the earnings mobility of individuals in the Canadian labour market. It is inspired by the growing economics literature on the growing inequality of the earnings distributions in North America. The majority of the studies that deal with Canada, such as the well-known work by Beach and Slotsve (1996) are based on cross-sectional data sets such as the Canadian Survey of Consumer Finances ans the Labour Force Survey, which ,lacking a longitudinal dimension, do not permit an analysis of earnings dynamics.


The corrosion of SIMFUEL, simulated high-burnup CANDU (CANadian Deuterium Uranium) fuel, was investigated in 0.1 mol{center_dot}dm{sup -3} NaClO{sub 4} solution (pH {approximately} 9.5) as a function of dissolved oxygen concentration using electrochemical techniques and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Electrodes were constructed of SIMFUEL pellets with compositions close to those of a natural UO{sub 2} fuel that has undergone burnup of 3 at% and 6 at%. The XPS analysis of freshly polished SIMFUEL pellets showed that the extent of uranium oxidation in SIMFUEL was equivalent to that in stoichiometric UO{sub 2}. The SIMFUEL electrodes showed higher conductivity and electrochemical reactivity than the pure UO{sub 2} electrodes. A comparison of the open circuit corrosion potentials of the SIMFUEL electrodes with that of a pure UO{sub 2} electrode in oxygenated solutions showed a much faster increase in the potential for the SIMFUEL electrodes at short times. This suggests that the initial stages of UO{sub 2} oxidation, i.e., UO{sub 2} {yields} UO{sub 2+x} {yields} UO{sub 2.33}, are facilitated by fission product impurities in the UO{sub 2} matrix. However, the {open_quotes}steady-state{close_quotes} oxidation of uranium in SIMFUEL by the dissolved O{sub 2} was similar to that observed in pure UO{sub 2} under similar conditions.


Abstract : If it is true that the Navy is moving away from platform-centric toward network-centric warfare (NCW), then its leaders must ensure that any such transition is accomplished in the most efficient and effective manner possible. Since the Navy's current vision of net-centric operations raises many complex and often unsettled legal issues, the Navy must establish a formal framework for analyzing the legal challenges posed by NCW then integrate this framework into any NCW transition process. Future net-centric operational commanders have a vested interest in ensuring that the legal implications of NCW on factor space, time, and forces have been thoroughly considered. Current and future international and domestic law might limit the ability of net-centric commanders to optimize the key concepts of the Navy's vision of net-centric operations. If the technological and doctrinal aspects of NCW continue to rapidly evolve without regard for the legal challenges, the Navy might find itself in a position where it has invested a tremendous amount of time and money developing a system of sensors and platforms that cannot be employed as envisioned due to legal constraints.


The study explored the method of isolation,cultivation,and sex identification of cattle fetal fibroblasts in vitro.The ear tissue was cultured by tissue explant attachment and observed the cattle fetal fibroblasts by inverted phase contrast microscopy of 40 days cattle fetal.A pair of PCR primers was designed to identify the sex of cattle fetal fibroblast cell lines according to the cattle SRY gene.The isolated fibroblasts could grow and proliferate in vitro.The female sample and cell lines did not amplify the 255 band product,conversely.The result indicates that PCR of SRY gene is a simple,fast and accurate method to identify the sex of cattle fetal firoblast cell lines,and can be used in routine study on transgenic cloning animals.


Many studies have found positive relationships between community engagement and students' learning outcome. Students find relevance and are more connected to what they learn when they are exposed to real-life situation. Thus is it important to provide students with the ability to participate and engage in various civic initiatives to allow them the opportunity to develop themselves. However, the challenge is to include community engagement in the curriculum, specifically as part of a subject's assessment. Also, in terms of teachers' readiness, it requires teachers to shift their conventional teaching and learning methods towards a more engaging method. For students, they have to grow beyond traditional and passive role of problem solvers to become problem-definers. One teaching method that can address these issues is the project-oriented problem based learning (POPBL). Through project, students can be encouraged to participate in community building. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of POPBL in improving psychology student's perception of the course and citizenship participation. Seventy three undergraduate students participated in this study. As part of the project, students worked in a team of five to six members to identify one issue or problem affecting the community, and offered possible solution to the issue. Two measures were used (pre and post) to gauge students' perception of their learning, and citizen participation. The results of paired samples t-tests show that the POPBL style improved students' experience of teaching and learning, and participation in citizenship (specifically civic skills and civic participation.


The station crew members were busy with a variety of spacewalk preps Monday. The spacewalk is set to begin at 8:10 a.m. EDT Tuesday morning.


Comparisons are made of two atomic force microscopes in different modes of operation, and two scanning electron microscopes, one high and one lower resolution for quantifying the edge roughness of patterned features in resist and silicon. Definitions of the edge roughness magnitude and spatial frequency are given. For each metrology method, the parameters that limit the edge roughness measurement and how they compare to the parameters that limit the critical dimension measurement are addressed. An attempt to quantify the edge roughness spatial frequency is also discussed. For the two best metrology methods the repeatability of the measurements was determined, and measurements were made to understand the correlation between them.


The stock price performances of the ISE listed non-financial firms are examined before and after the merger announcements by employing cumulative average abnormal returns (CAARs) from 1997 to 2006. In Turkey, merger and acquisitions (M&As) intensified in particular after the 2001 financial crisis. Consistent with the previous studies, the findings suggest that the stock prices prior to merger announcements are likely to increase. However, this positive effect disappears following the merger announcements and the post-merger stocks underperform in the long-run. Investors' sentiment (optimism) explains the post-merger underperformance anomaly. Furthermore, a benchmark of control firms is constructed according to size and growth potential. The findings reveal the fact that bidding firms perform better than non-merged firms in the long-run.


Purpose Wrist arthroscopy is taking up an important place in hand surgery. The purpose of this study was to build a wrist arthroscopy simulator to train the key navigation and probing skills required for a diagnostic wrist arthroscopy. methods Our starting point was to keep the simulated environment as close as possible to the real-life situation by using normal equipment and replacing the joint by a physical anatomical model that can be mounted on a force platform to track performance. The specific requirements for the simulator were determined by questioning a panel of experts. These were translated in technical demands regarding the intra-articular structures and the skin. Especially the skin substitute was tested to provide the same elastic and resistance properties as human skin. A prototype was built and tested for face validity by asking the opinion of 14 experts. results All 14 participants found the simulator a good tool to teach wrist arthroscopy. The aspects that were paid most attention to in the design demonstrated face validity: realism of the lubricated top layer (mean 7.7 / SD 1.6), realistic size of the joint structures (mean 7.7 / SD 1.6) and realistic arthroscopic image (mean 7.9 / SD 1.2). The flexibility of the prototype (mean 6.0 / SD 2.3) and the color of the structures (mean 5.4 / SD 1.9) were rated lower. The structures that the experts missed most were the TFCC and the volar ligaments. conclusions The concept to use a physical model for wrist arthroscopy training is well perceived, and indicates the potential for continued development clinical relevance Training of skills is a prerequisite for good clinical care and should start outside the operating room for patient safety reasons. By introducing a validated wrist arthroscopy simulator, we have added a necessary and relevant training tool. Design and preliminary validation of a new wrist arthroscopy simulator 83


Aquilaria crassna, an exsotic plant species in Indonesia is naturally distributed in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. The aim of this research was to determine the effectiveness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi namely Glomus sp. 1, Glomus sp. 2 on height and diameter growth in both nursery and field. Experiment in the nursery was designed using completely randomized design while in the field using completely randomized block design with three treatments of control, Glomus sp. 1, and Glomus sp. 2. Results indicated that Glomus sp. 1 and Glomus sp. 2 were able to increase height and diameter plant growth of eight -month-old A. crasna seedlings as much as 123%, 122% and 42%, 47%, respectively, compared to control, and increasedroot dry weight, shoot dry weight, and total dry weight significantly as much as 133%, 143%, 193%, 174% and 173%, 164%, respectively, compared to control. Height and diameter growth of six -month-old A. crassna in the field, where seedlings were inoculated by Glomus sp. 1 and Glomus sp. 2, were 55%, 43% and 39%, 33%, respectively, compared to control


Commissioner Bell's speech was prepared for the Fourth Annual Networks Financial Institute Insurance Reform Summit held on March 7, 2007 in Washington D.C.


social movements of the region. It is this relationship between academic theory and activists in the Pacific that gives this book its "collective dimension," which Escobar describes as a collaborative effort that goes beyond the validation of theories and contributes to the goals of particular social and political movements (p. 306). In large part that collective dimension has contributed to inform an exceptional book.


ABSTRACT In 1756, Antonio de Santa María published in Lima the hagiography of Quito-born Juana de Jesús (1662–1703), which was based on an unpublished manuscript penned almost fifty years earlier by Juana's confessor, Antonio Fernández Sierra. Before printing his edition, Santa María wrote his own manuscript in which he commented on the work of his predecessor. Reading the two manuscripts and the printed book side by side, I argue that while the first manuscript focuses on Juana as an exemplary pious woman, Santa María's versions help to reveal the transformation of criollo identity by showcasing feelings of civic pride for its wise men and pious women. I examine how Santa Maria's proto-nationalistic discourse engaged with the politics of the day, thus anticipating the ideas that became widespread only a few years later among the intellectual architects of Quito's first independence movements in whose libraries this book was found.


We establish several sufficient conditions for the strong ellipticity of any fourth-order elasticity tensor in this paper. The first presented sufficient condition is an extension of positive definite matrices, which states that the strong ellipticity holds if the unfolding matrix of this fourth-order elasticity tensor can be modified into a positive definite one by preserving the summations of some corresponding entries. An alternating projection algorithm is proposed to verify whether an elasticity tensor satisfies the first condition or not. Conditions for some special cases beyond the first sufficient condition are further investigated, which includes some important cases for the isotropic and some particular anisotropic linearly elastic materials.


The properties of spinel ferrites are known to be dependent on many various
factors and mainly on the cations distribution among the tetrahedral and octahedral sites. Therefore, they
are sensitive to the presence of doping cations, the type and the amount of these cations. Many researchers
have focused on investigating the effect of doping on spinel ferrites nanoparticles with various types
of dopants. Among the dopants, transition metal (TM) ions have shown significant effects and changes
on the structural, optical, electric and magnetic properties of spinel ferrites nanoparticles.

The goal of this work is to investigate the effect of the TM ions Mo5+ on the several properties
of manganese ferrites nanoparticles.

Mo-doped manganese ferrites nanoparticles with the general formula MnFe2-xMoxO4 (0≤x≤
0.1) were prepared by co-precipitation technique using two different methods, depending on the molarity
of NaOH and the annealing temperatures. The characterization of the prepared samples was
conducted by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), Energy-Dispersive X-ray (EDX), Transmission Electron
Microscopy (TEM), ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) absorption spectroscopy and Fourier Transform
Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy in order to investigate the effect of Mo-doping on the structure, crystallite
size, morphology, energy gap and functional groups of MnFe2O4 nanoparticles. Vibrating sample
magnetometer (VSM) was used to study the magnetic hysteresis of the samples.

The XRD patterns show the segregation of MnFe2O4 phase into α-Fe2O3 and Mn2O3 for samples
prepared at 4 M NaOH and annealing temperature of 873 K. Whereas, samples prepared at 2 M NaOH
without annealing process, obtained a single phase of MnFe2O4. The Eg of both samples decreases with the
increase in Mo-doping. FTIR confirms the presence of Fe-O bands corresponding to α-Fe2O3 for annealed
samples, and the metal-O bands corresponding to octahedral and tetrahedral sites in non-annealed samples.
Magnetic measurements show that annealed samples are antiferromagnetic whereas ferromagnetic behavior
is observed in non-annealed samples. Dielectric measurements, for both samples, indicate that the dielectric
parameters are strongly dependent on both Mo-concentrations and temperatures.

In order to get a single phase of MnFe2O4 nanoparticles, thermal treatment at high temperature
and high molarity of NaOH are not recommended. Mo-doping has significant influences on
the optical, magnetic and dielectric properties and therefore future studies on the Mo-doping with different
and new doping percentages are recommended.


with breast or prostate cancer), but the patterns of the alopecia were not described and no scalp biopsies were performed to assess the alopecia. Frontal fibrosing alopecia development after an antiandrogen therapy seems to be a rare event. Androgens may have a role in the lichen planopilaris progression and treatment with antiandrogens, such as finasteride or dutasteride has been proposed to be useful for FFA. On the other hand, many patients show good responses to these drugs, frequently in combination with also topical treatments such as minoxidil. However, MacDonald et al. state that androgen excess cannot be the only reason to explain the FFA pathogenesis as non-androgen-dependent hair is also involved in the process. Different triggering factors could predispose to the development of FFA and increase its incidence. In conclusion, we report the first case of a FFA in a male patient after starting a hormonal therapy with antiandrogens for a prostate cancer. Low serum androgen levels secondary to blockage by bicalutamide and goserelin might play a role in the induction of FFA. Testosterone serum levels might be determined for future studies to assess the possible influence of hormonal therapies in the development of FFA. A. Lobato-Berezo,* A. March-Rodr ıguez, G. Deza, M. Bertol ın-Colilla, R.M. Pujol Department of Dermatology, Hospital del Mar-Parc de Salut Mar, Passeig Mar ıtim, 25-29, 08003, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Dermatology, Hospital Universitari General de Catalunya, Carrer Pedro i Pons 1, 08190, Sant Cugat del V alles, Barcelona, Spain *Correspondence: A. Lobato Berezo. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


The term "affirmative action" has changed in meaning since it was first introduced. Originally it referred only to special efforts to ensure equal opportunity for members of groups that had been subject to discrimination. These efforts included public advertisement of positions to be filled, active recruitment of qualified applicants from the formerly excluded groups, and special training programs to help them meet the standards for admission or appointment. There was also close attention to procedures of appointment, and sometimes to the results, with a view to detecting continued discrimination, conscious or unconscious. More recently the term has come to refer also to some degree of definite preference for members of these groups in determining access to positions from which they were formerly excluded. Such preference might be allowed to influence decisions only between candidates who are otherwise equally qualified, but usually it involves the selec-tion of women or minority members over other candidates who are better qualified for the position. Let me call the first sort of policy "weak affirmative action" and the second "strong affirmative action." It is important to distinguish them, because the distinction is sometimes blurred in practice. It is strong affirmative actionthe policy of preferencethat arouses controversy. Most people would agree that weak or precautionary affirmative action is a good thing, and worth its cost in time and energy. But this does not imply that strong affirmative action is also justified. I shall claim that in the present state of things it is justified, most clearly with respect to blacks. But I also believe that a defender of the practice must acknowledge that there are serious arguments against it, and that it is defensible only because the arguments for it have great weight. Moral opinion in this country is sharply divided over the issue because significant values are involved on both sides. My own view is that while strong affirmative action is intrinsically undesirable, it is a legitimate and perhaps indispensable method of pursuing a goal so important to the national welfare that it can be justified as a temporary,


The systematization of physical and mechanical properties was carried out in the paper. At is pointed out at correlation of these properties with shell structure of atomic nuclei, and with influence onthem by magic of atomic nucleus. Properties in the behaviour of mechanical and physical elements in the range of atomic number 64 are supposed to have to be observed.


Intrinsic and RadHard-by-Design hardness characterization has been performed on a 130 nm fab process. Hardness results from test chips produced in phase II of a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center contract are presented.


In this work, we demonstrate theoretically and experimentally a technique allowing us to realize a polarization‐insensitive wavelength conversion with an output beam whose polarization state is unique and linear for all input signal polarization states. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 29: 344–348, 2001.


Introduction: Aging is a persistent decline in an individual's physiological and structural attributes with time, and geriatric care has become a top specialty. Ayurveda has suggested regimes for graceful aging and it is included under the spectrum of Rasayana therapy. Chyavanaprasha is a preparation that has been mentioned in the classics as an excellent rejuvenator with ability to delay aging and enhance general wellbeing. Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of Chyavanaprasha in improving general body health and quality of life (QOL) in apparently healthy elderly subjects. Materials and methods: A prospective open-label multiple center clinical study was carried out at three peripheral centers of the Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences and 214 subjects satisfying the selection criteria were enrolled and were administered Chyavanaprasha Lehyam 12 gm twice daily before food with milk for 12 weeks and the effect of the drug was assessed at intervals of 14 days up to 84 days. Paired sample t-test was used to compare mean change in functional exercise capacity by 6 minutes walk test (MWT) and changes in QOL using World Health Organization (WHO) QOL BREF scale from baseline to the 84th day. A p-value of <0.05 was considered significant. Results: Statistically significant improvement was observed in WHO QOL BREF score (p-value <0.001) and functional exercise capacity: Blood sugar, serum cholesterol, kidney function test, and liver function test (LFT) were within normal limits during the entire trial. No adverse drug reaction or adverse event was reported during the trial period. RESEARCH ARTICLE 1-8Research Officer (Ayurveda), 9Statistical Officer (Statistics) 10Senior Statistical Assistant (Statistics), 11Deputy Director General (Ayurveda) 1,4Dr. Achanta Lakshmipathi Research Centre for Ayurveda Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India 2,5Regional Ayurveda Research Institute for Metabolic Disorders Bengaluru, Karnataka, India 3,6Central Ayurveda Research Institute for Cancer, Mumbai Maharashtra, India 7-11Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences, New Delhi, India Corresponding Author: Bhagwan Sahai Sharma, Research Officer (Ayurveda), Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences, New Delhi, India, Phone: +919968485854, e-mail: email@example.com Conclusion: Chyavanaprasha administered in the abovementioned dose was found effective and safe in apparently healthy elderly subjects in improving their QOL.


A reactor for catalyst preparation by treating a granu lar stock material with a reducing gas which comprises a reaction chamber made as a vertical tube whose cross-section is reduced in the direction of the stock material flow, a chamber for drying and thermally treating the stock material, a chamber for cooling the catalyst, and a chamber for passivating the catalyst. The reactor is provided with preheating and heat exchange devices. The reactor construction allows the drying, reduction, cooling, and passivation of the cata lyst to be carried out in one apparatus by a continuous method.