IN this paper we propose recording our observations on the variations in the antitryptic titre of the blood of animals during various stages and degrees of bacterial infection and anaphylactic shock. In addition we include observations on the alteration in the antitryptic titre of the serum when anaphylotoxin is produced in vitro. So far we have been unable to find any records of systematic observations regarding variations in the antitryptic titre of the blood in infection, &c., the observations are chiefly scattered clinical observations, there are no records of continued observations. In these experiments we have investigated the changes in the antitryptic power of the blood in(I) Nprmal animals infected with or inoculated with(A) Non-pathogenic bacteria. (B) Heterogeneous non-toxic protein. (C) Pathogenic .and virulent bacteria. (D) Exotoxins. (E) Sensitized bacteria. (II) Immunized animals reinjected with the homologous bacteria. (III) Sensitized or immunized animals reinjected with the homologous antigen. (IV) Variations due to (a) food; (b) phosphorus poisoning, &c.; (c) agents destroying antitrypsin in vitro; (d) drugs affecting the temperature; (e) drugs damaging blood-forming tissue. (V) Variation in the in vitro preparation of anaphylotoxin. (VI) Influence of antitrypsin on the growth of bacteria.


Objective: To review and evaluate the pattern of muscle involvement evidenced on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with mild recessive mutations in ryanodine receptor type 1 (RYR1) gene–related congenital myopathies, and to compare the consistency with those previously reported, and correlate with genetic and histological analysis. Methods: The thigh and calf MRI (axial T1-weighted and short-tau inversion recovery / T2-weighted) of three Chinese patients who presented with early-onset congenital myopathy and were subsequently confirmed to have a heterozygous autosomal recessive RYR1 gene mutation were retrospectively reviewed by two paediatric radiologists. Pattern of muscle involvement was documented, with correlation of focused mutational genetic analysis and histological analysis of muscle biopsies. Results: All three patients showed selective involvement of the thigh muscles with relative sparing of the rectus femoris, gracilis, semitendinosus and adductor longus, consistent with a previously reported pattern. A more diverse pattern was noted within calf muscles, although the soleus still showed a generally more severe degree of fat infiltration than the gastrocnemius. One muscle biopsy confirmed rod bodies on Gomori trichrome staining and nemaline rods on electron microscopy. Mutational analysis of the RYR1 gene revealed three novel mutations (c.1675dupA, c.10615delC, and c.11956dupG), and two known missense mutations (c.3523G>A, c.3800C>G). The missense mutation c.3523G>A (p.Glu1175Lys) was identified in two patients, suggesting that this variant is probably a hotspot mutation in the Chinese population. Conclusion: With characteristic and consistent patterns of muscle involvement and fat infiltration, muscle MRI of the thigh and calf is useful in establishing the diagnosis of RYR1-related congenital mypopathy in a Chinese population, thereby guiding more focused mutational analysis and management.


This paper investigates the applicability of the Fama-French Three Factor Model in explaining, portfolio returns on the Ghana Stock Exchange. Following the model and variables proposed originally by Fama and French (1992), two additional variables firm size and Book-to-Market (BTM) ratio are added in a six Size-BTM portfolios to the excess returns on the market portfolio. Data from the Ghana Stock Exchange database covering the period between 2002 and 2011 were used for the analysis. The results reveal that the portfolio returns on the Ghana stock exchange are better explained by the three factor model proposed by Fama and French (1992).


With dynamic closed air chamber method,this paper studied the soil and litter respiration(RS+L),soil respiration(RS) in typical desert steppes of the Artemisia desertorum Spreng,Leymus secalinus,Glycyrrhiza uralensis and Agropyron crisatum communities,and then the contribution of the litter decomposition to the total CO2-release(RL) were estimated.The results showed that:(1)The average RS+L values of four plant communities were different: Agropyron crisatum Leymus secalinus Glycyrrhiza uralensis Artemisia desertorum.And RS+L of Artemisia desertorum,Leymus secalinus,Glycyrrhiza uralensis and Agropyron crisatum communities was different in one day and all showed an asymmetric daytime pattern.The values of the soil basal respiration were in the following order: Agropyron crisatum Glycyrrhiza uralensis Leymus secalinus Artemisia desertorum.We can see that the higher soil basal respiration,the soil nutrient better.(2)Relatived to temperature,RS had time-lag,and the RS average values of the four plant communities were in the following order: Agropyron crisatum Leymus secalinus Artemisia desertorum Glycyrrhiza uralensis.(3)The RLaverage values of the four plant communities were in the following order: Agropyron crisatum Glycyrrhiza uralensis Artemisia desertorum Leymus secalinus.And the contribution rates of RL to RS+L were in the following order: Glycyrrhiza uralensis Agropyron crisatum Leymus secalinus Artemisia desertorum.We can see that the RLaverage values and the contribution rates of RL to RS+L had no positive correlation.The correlationship showed inconsistency between contribution rates and litter quality,temperature,but the contribution rates had better correlation in the soil temperature of 15 cm depth.In summer,the contributions of RLto RS+Lwere from 0.05 to 0.16 g CO2.m-2.h-1,and the contribution rates were from 12.88% to 35.33%,we thought that the RLwas one of the most important emissions source to the atmospheric CO2.


Much of the research literature in job shop scheduling deals with pure job shop environments. However, currently most processes involve a hybrid of both the job shop and a flow shop with a combination of flexible and conventional machine tools. Presents a study of such a job shop under varying conditions and performance criteria. Argues that for scheduling in this environment, certain combinations of scheduling rules should be utilized under different arrival rates and for different job types. A simulation model is developed using a hypothetical hybrid job shop to study the performance of rule combinations with variations in arrival rates and processing times. The performance criteria used are flowtime as a measure of work‐in‐process inventory, tardiness for JIT, and throughput for completed items inventory. It was found that rule combination performance varied with the performance criteria. Furthermore, it was found that the combinations were sensitive to arrival rates and processing times. Concludes, fr...


In order to track the angle of non-cooperative direct sequence spread spectrum(DSSS) signals,a new algorithm of azimuth angle error and elevation angle error extraction for single channel amplitude comparison monopulse tracking radar is presented.In this algorithm,the signal has been delayed and multiplicated.After detection of signal and acquisition of the PN code rate,angular errors in azimuth and elevation can be derived in the frequency of code rate.Compared with estimation methods available for the tracking of DSSS signal,the proposed algorithm can track cooperative or non-cooperative objects under the condition of low signal-noise ratio(-20 dB).A block diagram of implementation is given for the processing method.The validity of design is verified by simulation results.


The association between consumption of genistein‐containing soybean products and lower risk of breast cancer suggests a cancer chemopreventive role for genistein. Consistent with this suggestion, exposing cultured human breast cancer cells to genistein inhibits cell proliferation, although this is not completely understood. To better understand how genistein works, the ability of genistein to induce apoptosis was compared in phenotypically dissimilar MCF‐7 and MDA‐MB‐231 human breast cancer cells that express the wild‐type and mutant p53 gene, respectively. After 6 days of incubation with 50 μM genistein, MCF‐7 but not MDA‐MB‐231 cells, showed morphological signs of apoptosis. Marginal proteolytic cleavage of poly‐(ADP‐ribose)‐polymerase and significant DNA fragmentation were also detected in MCF‐7 cells. In elucidating these findings, it was determined that after 2 days of incubation with genistein, MCF‐7 but not MDA‐MB‐231 cells, had significantly higher levels of p53. Accordingly, the expression of certain proteins modulated by p53 was studied next. Levels of p21 increased in both of the genistein‐treated cell lines, suggesting that p21 gene expression was activated but in a p53‐independent manner, whereas no significant changes in levels of the pro‐apoptotic protein, Bax, were found. In MCF‐7 cells, levels of the anti‐apoptotic protein, Bcl‐2, decreased slightly at 18–24 h but then increased considerably after 48 h. Hence, the Bax:Bcl‐2 ratio initially increased but later decreased. These data suggest that at the genistein concentration tested, MCF‐7 cells in contrast to MDA‐MB‐231 cells were sensitive to the induction of apoptosis by genistein, but Bax and Bcl‐2 did not play clear roles. J. Cell. Biochem. 82: 78–88, 2001. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


the 24 weeks follow-up. A total of 165 eyes (52.2%) finished the 48 weeks follow-up. We are aware that at 48 weeks, there is significant loss of patients from follow-up, butwith 165 eyes, the number is still large. More importantly, between 24 and 48 weeks, there is stabilization of the median VA, the median CRT, the percentage of eyes with a gain of at least threeVA lines and the percentage of eyes with no residual ME (Epstein et al. 2012) indicating reliable results also at 48 weeks. At 24 weeks, 44.6% (141 eyes) gained at least three lines (mean of 2.7 injections), and at 48 weeks 48.5% (80 eyes, mean of 4.7 injections). Optical coherence tomography (OCT) examinationwas performed in 81%(256 eyes) at week 24. Of those, 46% (118 eyes) showed no residual ME with a CRT below 300 lm. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) examination was performed in 128 eyes at 48 weeks, of those, 45% (58 eyes) revealed no residual ME defined as a CRT of <300 lm. We found a significant impact of the number of injections applied on the improvement of BCVA at 12 and 24 weeks (ANOVA p = 0.007 and p = 0.048, respectively): In the first 12 weeks, two injections were needed to achieve a median gain of three lines, at 24 weeks, aminimumof three injections wasneededtoachieveamedianimprovement of three lines. At 48 weeks, five or less injections revealed a median gain of two BCVA lines, whereas 6 and more injections resulted in a median gain of three BCVA lines. However, the latter was not statistically significant (p > 0.25) which may be explained by the low number of eyes enclosed in each subgroup. Therefore, our 48 weeks data should be regarded carefully. Whether monthly injections during the first 3 months would have been associated with a gain of more than three VA lines cannot be answered with our data. However, Epstein and colleagues (2012) performed fixed bevacizumab injections every 6 weeks over 12 months and did not find a gain of more than three lines until week 12. Several randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and three meta-analyses with 5, 6 and 7 relevant RCTs included (Huang et al. 2013; Pielen et al. 2013; Braithwaite et al. 2014) investigated injection schemes with intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) agents that effectively reduce ME and increase BCVA in CRVO (level 1b and 1a evidence, respectively). Besides the level 1 treatment efficacy, the minimal number of injections needed to maximize and maintain the therapeutic effect has not been analysed in the literature, yet. Therefore, we found it highly important to look at this in a routine clinical setting.


In this study, we carried out a precedent investigation for an ultra-large container ship, which is expected to be a higher value-added vessel. We studied a preliminary optimized design technique for estimating the principal dimensions of an ultra-large container ship. Above all, we have developed optimized dimension estimation models to reduce the building costs and weight, using previous container ships in shipbuilding yards. We also applied a generalized estimation model to estimate the shipping service costs. A Genetic Algorithm, which utilized the RFR (required freight rate) of a container ship as a fitness value, was used in the optimization technique. We could handle uncertainties in the shipping service environment using a Monte-Carlo simulation. We used several processes to verify the estimated dimensions of an ultra-large container ship. We roughly determined the general arrangement of an ultra-large container ship up to 1500 TEU, the capacity check of loading containers, the weight estimation, and so on. Through these processes, we evaluated the possibility for the practical application of the preliminary design model.


Provided are: a control device allowing degradation of the image quality of radiographic images caused by a movement of a subject to be suppressed; a radiographic imaging apparatus; a radiographic imaging method; and a radiographic imaging program. The control unit 40 of the radiographic imaging apparatus 10 performs control so that a radiation source 24 is moved so as to cause radiation R to be emitted at multiple positions so that the radiation R is incident on a breast N of a subject W at mutually different angles. The control unit 40 performs control on a radiation detector 30 so that the radiation detector 30 detects the radiation R emitted from the radiation source 24 at the multiple positions. Additionally, the control unit 40 performs control so that the radiation source 24 is moved at a speed according to the relative position of the radiation source 24 with respect to a position close to the subject's face.


Multiple myeloma (MM) is a hematological malignancy characterized by clonal proliferation of malignant plasma cells in the bone marrow. The survival of MM patients has significantly improved with the establishment of intensive treatment followed by autologous stem cells (ITS-ATG). Recently, the infused autograft lymphocyte-monocyte ratio (A-LMR) has been identified as a prognostic factor for survival post-ITS-ATG in malignant hemopathies. Our aim is to establish the clinico-epidemiological profile of MM patients benefiting from ITS-ATG in hematology and cell therapy at the EHU "1 November 1954", Oran and to demonstrate a relationship between prognostic factor A-LMR and postAutograft in the MM. A retrospective study was carried out on 147 patients with MM benefiting from an ITSATG during a 7-year period at the Oran EHU. The calculation of A-LMR is obtained by the number of events of lymphocytes and monocytes acquired from 82 harvests of hematopoietic stem cells. The results obtained showed that the average age of the patients was 53 years with a male predominance and a sex ratio of 1.53. On the para-clinical, a monoclonal peak in serum protein electrophoresis was noted in 80.54% of cases with IgG (61.04%), IgA (19.17%) and light chains (16.11%) and bone marrow aspiration revealed an infiltration greater than 10% in 89.79% of cases. According to the classification of Durie and Salmon, all patients were classified as stage III. The average duration of overall survival (OS) was thirty months (904 days) and 25 months (688 days) for progression-free survival (PFS). Also, The patients injected with an A-LMR≥1 show no significant difference with the PFS patients injected with an A-LMR<1 [PFS median not reached vs 1600 days, 1000-days PFS rate 75% against 54%, p= 0.57], also, the same finding was reported by the status of the disease (CR vs VGPR) [median PFS not reached vs 1600 days, 1000 days-PFS rate 70% against 72%, p= 0.26]. In the West Algerian, this group of MM presents a polymorphism on symptomatology plan and biology. The A-LMR did not predict survival in patients with MM after ITS-ATG. Improving methods for exploring the tumor clone opens up new avenues for identifying new and better performing prognostic biomarkers so that they are taken into account in therapeutic decisions to improve the quality of life of patients


Dimensional analysis has been employed to review the isothermal or quasi-static simulation of kinematic Stirling engines and to study the influence of the engine and drive mechanism types, and other parameters, on the thermodynamic engine cycle. The use of isothermal simulation with decoupled losses to obtain reliable predictions at practical levels of rpm is experimentally justified. The method seems to be an adequate tool to study a large number of configurations, which the engineer needs at the initial design stage. At the same time it provides a intuitive knowledge of and similarity criteria for the thermodynamic engine performance.


This study analyzes the e cacy and e ciency of alternative bank regulatory policies within a theoretical framework that is general enough to encompass many issues relevant for policy design. We revisit the existing literature and consider the consequences of generalizing banks' investment and nancing opportunities as they relate to the design of bank capital regulation and deposit insurance pricing. When equity issuance is costless, a common modeling assumption, narrow banking costlessly resolves the moral hazard ine ciencies and insurance pricing problems addressed in this literature. When equity issuance is costly, minimum capital requirements can still be e ective, but optimal policy design is complicated by its dependence on equity issuance costs, heterogeneous bank investment opportunity sets, and the substantial information requirements that these dependencies create. Incentivecompatible policy mechanisms, while potentially useful in certain circumstances, appear limited in their ability to resolve the information problems. Correspondence: James O'Brien, Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C. 20551; Tel: (202) 452-2384, Fax: (202) 452 3819, E-Mail: email@example.com. The conclusions herein are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the Federal Reserve Board or any of the Federal Reserve Banks. We are grateful to Greg Du ee and Mark Fisher for useful discussions and to Pat White, Mark Flannery, and Erik Sirri for helpful comments.


I like handbooks as ready reference guides, and this Oxford handbook is no exception. This text goes further than many in that it is packed with information beyond the core issues.


Mustafa Bey, or "Mustafa bin Mollazâde Hüsrev Radovişî," as his official seal reads, is not a well-known personality in present-day Ottoman historiography.2 However he used to be quite well known in Salonica in the 1870s and 1880s. He was the publisher of the weekly newspaper Rumeli and, then, Zamân. These papers were rather independent publications, relatively critical of the Ottoman administration between 1873 and 1876 and becoming, to a certain extent, a voice of independent Muslim opinion in this major provincial port city. While serving as deputy to the first Ottoman parliament, Mustafa Bey emerged as an outspoken critic of government encroachments on constitutional rights and was forcibly deported to Salonica following the closure of parliament. During the autocracy of Abdülhamid II, Mustafa Bey became a member of the educational bureaucracy and functioned as the Director of Education in the provinces of Salonica and the Archipelago. Before his death in Istanbul, he was the head of the Department of Secondary Schools at the Ministry of Public Education. Mustafa Bey is an ancestor of the well-known Turkish journalist and author Şevket Rado.


Corona is widespread in bats. These are spread in the world but can be found in many other species like humans, birds, cats, dogs and pigs. They can cause respiratory, enteric hepatic or neurologic disease Corona virus is a very harmful for human in recent time. More than 1 lakh people infected in while countries and 7000-9000 peoples died after spread corona virus. corona virus is spread from in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, primary cause infectious in birds and mammal but in recent day these infections in human. It causes a variety of disease in mammals and birds but in last few decades, has shown to be capable of infecting humans as well. Various symptoms shown in 2003 of severe acute respiratory syndrome. Recently, middle -ease respiratory syndrome (MERS)and unknown pneumonia, were identified dec.2019jan.2020 in Wuhan municipal health commission. On 15 march to 14april closed the market and high alert while countries because these are affected 9000-10,000 peoples. Corona virus is an acquiring disease, these infections transmitted to one people to others peoples. Treatment of corona virus by yoga & pranayama and ayurvedic herbs. Yoga and Ayurveda hers improve the immunity and kill the corona virus. Herbal drugs having various properties like anti-viral, anti-bacterial and antimicrobial. Herbal extracts reduce the cold and cough. Herbal extracts treat the bronchitis and asthma. daily practice of kapal bhati & pranayama are control breathing.


Layered narrow band gap semiconductor Bi2Se3 is composed of heavy elements with strong spin-orbital coupling (SOC), which has been identified both as a good candidate of thermoelectric material of high thermoelectric figure-of-merit (ZT) and a topological insulator of Z2-type with a gapless surface band in Dirac cone shape. The existence of a conjugated pi-bond system on the surface of each Bi2Se3 quintuple layer is proposed based on an extended valence bond model having valence electrons distributed in the hybridized orbitals. Supporting experimental evidences of a 2D conjugated pi-bond system on each quintuple layer of Bi2Se3 are provided by electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) and electron density (ED) mapping through inverse Fourier transform of X-ray diffraction data. Quantum chemistry calculations support the pi-bond existence between partially filled 4pz orbitals of Se via side-to-side orbital overlap positively. The conjugated pi-bond system on the surface of each quintuple Bi2Se3 layer is proposed being similar to that found in graphite (graphene) and responsible for the unique 2D conduction mechanism. The van der Waals (vdW) attractive force between quintuple layers is interpreted being coming from the anti-ferroelectrically ordered effective electric dipoles which are constructed with pi-bond trimer pairs on Se-layers across the vdW gap of minimized Coulomb repulsion.


Abstract The intra-day auction launched by the London Stock Exchange (LSE) on 21 March 2016 was designed as a mechanism to boost midday liquidity. During the auction time, Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs) as competitors of the LSE, continue their normal trading. We examine the midday liquidity changes on both the LSE and MTFs and analyze their implications on platform competition. The intra-day auction in general improves liquidity at midday on both the LSE and MTFs. The intra-day auction helps consolidate the primary status of the LSE by increasing its market share at midday. Liquidity on MTFs drops considerably during the auction and bounces back toward the normal level when the auction ends. Overall, the midday liquidity patterns indicate the LSE's competitive advantages over MTFs in providing market liquidity after the launch of the intra-day auction.


Energy constraint is a critical issue in the development of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) because sensor nodes are generally powered by batteries. Recently, wireless rechargeable sensor networks (WRSNs), which introduce wireless mobile chargers (MCs) to replenish energy for nodes, have been proposed to resolve the root cause of energy limitations in WSNs. However, existing wireless charging algorithms cannot fully leverage the mobility of MCs because unity between the energy replenishment process and mobile data collection has yet to be realized. Thus, in this paper, a joint energy replenishment and data collection algorithm for WRSNs is proposed. In this algorithm, the network is divided into multiple clusters based on a  ${K}$ -means algorithm. Two MCs visit the anchor point in each cluster by moving along the shortest Hamiltonian cycle in opposite directions. The positions of anchor points are calculated by the base station (BS) based on the energy distribution in each cluster. A spare MC is assigned to the network in case either of the two MCs depletes its energy before reaching the BS. After the two MCs' current tours are over, a semi-Markov model is proposed for energy prediction so anchor points can be updated in the next round. Simulation results demonstrate the semi-Markov-based energy prediction model is highly precise, and the proposed algorithm can replenish energy for network energy effectively.


We use a picosecond acoustics technique to modulate the laser output of electrically pumped GaAs/AlAs micropillar lasers with InGaAs quantum dots. The modulation of the emission wavelength takes place on the frequencies of the nanomechanical extensional and breathing (radial) modes of the micropillars. The amplitude of the modulation for various nanomechanical modes is different for every micropillar which is explained by a various elastic contact between the micropillar walls and polymer environment.


Suicide is a major problem. Prevention is a worldwide priority. This book, a wonderfully wide-ranging, holistic and practical manual for practitioners from health and social care backgrounds, aims to help suicide prevention by increasing practitioners' understanding of this complex issue. Written by two experienced mental health nurses who also have academic and policy backgrounds, this comprehensive book includes chapters from different health service sector perspectives. However, far more interestingly, it also includes legal considerations, the role of the Samaritans, issues around supporting staff after a suicide and a particularly thought provoking chapter outlining a conversation between a service user consultant and an exmental health nurse around issues of self-harm. The final chapter, on useful resources, is also the best I've read of this nature, and includes a range of relevant services from across the spectrum of health and social care. The book is perhaps of more use to health care practitioners than those from a social care background but you could equally well argue that since suicide prevention is everybody's business, and requires a whole-systems approach, this book would be of interest to almost any adult in the UK. It is easy to navigate. Each chapter uses a consistent format with bulletpoints and case study boxes and there is a refreshing lack of repetition for an edited collection of 22 chapters. I have one slight reservation in that, although the book is clearly addressing approaches to preventing suicide, deliberate self-harm is raised by a number of authors and might have justified a stand-alone chapter. In a year where the Healthcare Commission's survey of mental health services users found that only two-thirds felt their psychiatrist had listened to them carefully (Healthcare Commission Survey of Users, 2005; Mental Health Services Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection, London, 2005), the comments of Clare Shaw, the service-user consultant, are particularly pertinent. New approaches to preventing suicide can be complex, multi-factorial and expensive however as Clare states: ''Listen to people. That really is the key. Forget all of your fancy theories and just come back to listening. . . . In my experience everything follows from that''.


The effects on browning and the enzymatic activity of fresh-cut 'Fuji' apples during the storage at 2℃,6℃and 10℃,respectively were investigated.The results showed that low temperature could delay the browning and senescence of fresh-cut apple by inhibiting the activities of PPO and POD.At the same time,it kept high quality of fresh-cut apple by restraining the increase of MDA and total phenolic contents,reducing the activity of PAL.Under 6℃,the occurrence of browning could be effectively suppressed and the damage of fresh-cut 'Fuji' apple could also be lowered,which maintained the quality of fresh-cut fruit appearance.


An 83-year-old male with a history of angina pectoris presented with massive intracranial hemorrhage in June 2011, and he died 2 days after admission. Previously, he was included in the first in-human feasibility study of biodegradable poly-l-lactic acid (PLLA) coronary stents: the Igaki-Tamai stents (Kyoto Medical Planning Co Ltd, Kyoto, Japan). To assess the long-term behavior of PLLA coronary stents in humans, postmortem examination of his coronary arteries was performed. In November 1999, he was diagnosed with stable angina pectoris, and coronary angiography disclosed a single lesion at the middle part of left anterior descending coronary artery (Figure 1A). One Igaki-Tamai stent had been implanted with successful result (Figure 1B). He received follow-up coronary angiography at 6 months, which showed restenosis at the distal edge of the stent (Figure 1C). Because he was asymptomatic, reintervention was avoided. Additional coronary angiography at 2 and 6 years of follow-up revealed late lumen enlargement (Figure 1D and 1E). The coronary arteries were examined histopathologically by hematoxylin and eosin staining and other histochemical methods. The spaces previously occupied by PLLA struts had disappeared, suggesting complete degradation of PLLA (Figure 2A, 2D, and 2G). Inflammatory cell infiltration, foreign body reaction, and thrombus were not observed. The neointima consisted of connective tissue (Figure 2B, 2E, and 2H) and smooth muscle cells (Figure 2C, 2F, and 2I), and this stable neointimal layer sealed off old preexisting atherosclerotic plaques. The phenomenon of so-called neoatherosclerosis was not observed. The Igaki-Tamai stent is the first in-human bioresorbable scaffold, and this is the first human histology case to show the complete biodegradation of PLLA. Although this is only a single case, the histological examination indicates the biocompatibility and the long-term safety of PLLA. This bioresorbable scaffold technology can be one of the ideal treatment choices for coronary artery disease, especially when viewed from a long-term standpoint.


The main activity of HGD SA, an SME located in Belgium, is manufacturing hardware for the building sector, such as fittings for shutters and windows, for example. The company was founded in 1854. It then manufactured hinges using only the power produced by a water wheel. It became HGD SA in the summer of 2005, when it was taken over by a French entrepreneur, also a consultant engineer. In late 2010 the company has a turnover of EUR 1.15 million for a staff of 17. In 2010 HGD products are mainly sold on its domestic market. However some export deals -in the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France in particular- are initiated by spontaneous consultations, even though the company does not have an active export policy. Towards the end of 2010, after a long phase of reworking company activities and achieving initial results in terms of increasing order volume, the CEO noticed that orders were stagnating as a result of the economic crisis. He is now wondering about the possibilities of developing his business and envisaging international expansion... He therefore contacts you yearend 2011, requesting information that will help him make a decision, describing the situation in these terms: "The problem is that my backlog of orders is stagnating. The economic situation is not looking good at present. In parallel, my company's production capacities are quite considerable due to investments over the last five years, and are at present under-exploited. I am therefore envisaging international expansion, mainly in Germany, on the DIY market. I want to achieve this expansion with the existing products, in order to limit the costs, although I am of course open to innovation and adaptation proposals. I need a complete and reliable study to limit the risks related to my decision.


Sixteen sheep were randomly divided into four groups,treatⅠ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ and control group and were fed on Oxytropis ochrocephala dry hay power at dosage of 10 g/kg·BW daily.Three test groups were separately sent "Fengcaoling slow release pill" at dosage of one pill,two pills and three pills per sheep,the control group was not sent.Blood samples were collected before and on the experimental day per seven days for examining serology enzymology and biochemical indexes,stopping feed Oxytropis ochrocephala dry hay power when finding the clinical poisoning signs.The results showed that the clinical poisoning signs occurred in the 16th~21th day for the control group,those separately occurred in the 33th~48th day for the experimental group Ⅰ,75th~77th day for the experimental group Ⅱ and 75th~77th day for the experimental group Ⅲ.Results of serum α-mannosidase test showed that the activity increased significantly(P0.05) for the experimental group Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ in contrast to the control group from the 14th day.In contrast to the control group,the activity of serum aspartate aminotransferase fell down significantly(P0.05) for the experimental group Ⅰ from the 14th day and for the experimental group Ⅱ,Ⅲ from the 7th day.


In this paper angle measurement method of Monopulse SAR is discussed. And the processing algorithm of the angle information extraction was proposed for Monopulse SAR. The simulation results verified the theoretical analysis of the proposed algorithm. With the study in the paper theoretical basis of angle estimation in Monopulse SAR was built and could be applied widely in both civil and military fields.


The invention relates to doxazosin mesylate sustained-release tablets and a preparation method thereof. The doxazosin mesylate sustained-release tablets comprise tablet cores and sustained-release coatings, wherein the tablet cores contain a hydrophilic gel skeleton material which accounts for 15%-30% of the weight of the tablet cores, and the weight of the sustained-release coatings is 2.0%-5.0% of the weight of the tablet cores. The doxazosin mesylate can be well controlled to release by the doxazosin mesylate sustained-release tablets obtained by the invention, and a drug-release curve similar to that of commercial Cardure XL can be obtained, so that the blood concentration can achieve and keep in a therapeutic concentration range, thereby improving the safety and effectiveness of medication and the compliance of patients.


A survey of the practice styles and preferences of the members of the Danish Ophthalmological Society with address in Denmark was performed in January 1996. Only ophthalmologists performing cataract surgery were asked to return the questionnaire. Eighty-five responses were received by the cut-off day, representing 24 948 cataract operations per year. The data were compared to a similar questionnaire analysing the 1995 practice styles and preferences.


Most of our current knowledge on the stability of the hydrosulphide complexes of the transition and precious metals has come from solubility studies. This is a consequence of the very low solubilities of their sulphides which do not allow metal concentrations sufficiently high enough for the application of other methods such as spectroscopy. With the development of increasingly sensitive analytical techniques, the solubility method continues to provide a useful approach to the determination of metal complex stoichiometry and stability. The hydrosulphide complexes of Fe(II) are one speciation scheme which is not, as yet, adequately determined. The presence of these complexes has important implications to transport of iron and the mechanisms of iron sulphide formation in anoxic seawater, during diagenesis, as well as in hydrothermal ore-depositing environments. In addition, the availability of iron as a nutrient to microbial organisms in anoxic waters may be partly controlled by the presence of these complexes (Balistrieri et al., 1994). In the present study, the solubility of FeS in solutions containing reduced sulphur is being investigated with the aim of determining the speciation of Fe(lI) as hydrosulphide complexes.


Precartilage tissue, of a type differing froiii that described as typical, has been obserrecl in the vertebral centra of mammaliaii embryos. This distiiictire tissue first mentioned by Reiter ('42) as occurriiip in liumaii eiiibryoh has also been observed by the present author in his inrehtipation of the embryology of the spiiie (to appear 1948). It lias not, however, been illustrated or described in detail. The standard textbooks of embryology state that cartilage formation begins with a precartilage stage characterized by "the enlargement and differentiation of niesei ichpe into a compact cellular precartilage" (Are;\-, '46) or 1)"the aggregation of an exceedingly dense mass of ine~enchj-nial cells (Patten, '4G). Such a typical precartilage is hhown in figures 1 tiiicl 2. These photographs, as well as those illnstrating the contrasting type of precartilage devclopnient in the centrum (figs. 3 and 4) are taken from sections through the seventh cerrical segment of a 12 inm human embryo, no. 6521 of the Cariiegie Collection, belonging to Streeter 'b aze group xvii. In this embryo no deposition of cartilage matrix lias occurred as yet in any par t of the rertebra althoudi in embryos only slightly older matrix begins to be laid don-n. A developing vertebra arises b;\the inigi*ation of cells from the sclerotoiiie. All parts of the vertebra except the primary


Even in a time of declining enrollment some students should be discouraged from pursuing a marketing career. In particular, students who prefer to deal with things rather than people and who believe marketing priorities to be inherently immoral should be counseled out of marketing. Several other personality characteristics also indicate unsuitability for a marketing career.


—This paper presents a forthcoming study on the relationship between perceptual cues and context of use in the attribution of gender to a robot. We hypothesize that the context of use might drive the attribution of gender when robots have minimal gender cues. To test this hypothesis, we plan to run a 2x2 between subjects study with minimal gender cues (slightly feminine vs. slightly masculine voice) and typically gendered contexts (typically feminine vs. typically masculine) as independent variables. If our hypothesis is correct, our study will suggest that designing perceptually gender-neutral robots is not enough to make social robotics inclusive, because the context of use might still influence their genderedness.


ABSTRACT In the early 1950s, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) organized a mission to the Brazilian Amazon Valley to assess development needs and help implement a development plan. The Brazilian government saw this as part of an initiative to integrate a sparsely populated and 'backward' region more firmly into the nation. The FAO's local partner was the Superintendancy for the Plan of Economic Valorization of the Amazon (SPVEA), a regional development agency created in 1953. This article analyzes the operation of the Mission, specifically its fishery and forestry sections, to understand the dynamics of transnational development cooperation. The mission eventually failed because the Brazilian state never offered sufficient support on FAO terms; SPVEA never acquired the necessary financial resources, administrative capacity and technical expertise. The FAO experts recognized the problems, but had no means to enhance the resources or change the approach of the local partner. The government's decision, in the late 1950s, to prioritize the building of a major road from Brasília to Belém, aggravated the lack of resources for the Mission's work. Importantly, the failure was not a question of ideological resistance to foreign meddling or a fundamental opposition to the FAO development strategy.


Temperature dependent studies of the low frequency (10–350 cm−1) Raman spectra of (C2H5NH3)2CdCl4 in the orthorhombic D182h and D152h phases have been carried out. Polarization information obtained in various scattering geometric configurations is used to provide tentative assignments for the observed Raman bands. The anomalous features associated with the temperature dependent Rayleigh wing observed in the αxx, αyy, and αxy spectra are also explained.


Abstract Cyclohexanone and morpholine in the presence of KSF under azeotropic distillation gave 1-morpholinocyclohexene which is alkylated or acylated in situ without isolation of the enamine. The overall yield of these Stork's reactions are better or equivalent to those obtained by isolation of the enamine.


Organ preservation remains one of the essential elements in the success of organ transplants [1–4]. Without preservation, it would be impossible to maintain organs outside the human body for any reasonable amount of time and have them remain viable after transplantation. Thus, improving the various components of preservation is vital to reaching a steady state of good results with preserved organs. Ischemic injury and organ preservation are equally fundamental to the organ transplant enterprise, and frequently it is not easy to separate the two because both are essential to the whole process of organ recovery and transplantation. How, then, can we maximize the organ transplantation experience by obtaining the best means of preserving and protecting organs from ischemic injury? Perhaps that is the most appropriate question addressed by the short reviews introduced in this monograph. The contributing authors discuss topics of decisive importance to the transplant surgeon and transplant specialist, including the scientific basis of preservation, advances in islet cell and pancreas preservation, the role of hepatic preconditioning in hepatic ischemia, and the newest developments in liver preservation. These topics individually could generate extended studies, but here we are using them to express the need for greater understanding, recognizing them as the basis for improved results in transplantation.


This paper presents data an Ant colony optimization (ACO) based data hiding technique. ACO is used to detect complex region of cover image and afterward, least significant bits (LSB) substitution is used to hide secret information in the detected complex regions' pixels. ACO is an algorithm developed inspired by the inborn manners of ant species. The ant leaves pheromone on the ground for searching food and provisions. The proposed ACO-based data hiding in complex region establishes an array of pheromone, also called pheromone matrix, which represents the complex region in sequence at each pixel position of the cover image. The pheromone matrix is developed according to the movements of ants, determined by local differences of the image element's intensity. The least significant bits of complex region pixels are substituted with message bits, in order to hide secret information. The experimental results, provided, show the significance of the performance of the proposed method.


We report a case of pentosan polysulfate sodium-induced pigmentary maculopathy with nonleaking cystoid macular edema in both eyes. Our patient showed marked cystoid macular edema improvement and increased VA with treatment. The nonleaking characteristic of the cystoid macular edema associated with pentosan polysulfate sodium toxicity and its treatment with anti–vascular endothelial growth factor have never been described. Purpose: To report a case of nonleaking cystoid macular edema (CME) associated with pentosan polysulfate sodium (PPS)-induced pigmentary maculopathy. Methods: Multimodal imaging, including optical coherence tomography, fundus photography, autofluorescence, and fluorescein angiography, was used to substantiate our diagnosis, further characterize the cystoid macular edema showed by our patient and to monitor the response to treatment. Results: A 59-year-old woman was referred for decreased visual acuity and bilateral macular edema. She had been treated for interstitial cystitis with PPS for 10 years. Multimodal imaging showed the characteristic features of PPS-induced pigmentary maculopathy. Moreover, fluorescein angiogram showed nonleaking cystoid macular edema in both eyes. She was treated successfully with intravitreal injections of bevacizumab. Conclusion: To our knowledge, this report is the first to demonstrate that PPS-associated cystoid macular edema can be nonleaking on fluorescein angiography and responds well to intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor injections.


I begin this brief review of this important volume with the confession that I have not personally pursued a teaching style that has employed a self-acclaimed textbook for many, many years, preferring to construct courses around monographs, articles and other visual materials. However, were I provided the opportunity to teach a course at the upper division undergraduate level or early gradate level in the subject of human security, this would certainly be the book I would choose (with the caveat introduced below). Alex and Sabina Lautensach have given careful and thoughtful consideration to every aspect of the text: the preface and introduction, written by the editors, lay out both the logic of the text and frame the subject matter that will locate the reader firmly in the midst of the vast challenges that constitute the issue of human security. They do so by emphasizing both the multiple dimensions along which the issue of human security can be located and the inseparable nature of these as they interact with each other in complex ways. In many respects this strikes me as one of the most important contributions to the text—its steady insistence that human security as a construct is in a discursive state of constant emergence, such that in some important ways all its varied dimensions insistently co-vary. To make such a claim is in itself daunting—to demonstrate its validity and mutual engagements through the complex subject matters of its 20 chapters, is a tour de force. Their conclusion is sufficiently rich to stand alone as an illustrative text in other course materials.


A honeypot is a non-production system, design to interact with cyber-attackers to collect intelligence on attack techniques and behaviors. There has been great amount of work done in the field of network intrusion detection over the past three decades. With networks getting faster and with the increasing dependence on the Internet both at the personal and commercial level, intrusion detection becomes a challenging process. The challenge here is not only to be able to actively monitor large numbers of systems, but also to be able to react quickly to different events. Before deploying a honeypot it is advisable to have a clear idea of what the honeypot should and should not do. There should be clear understanding of the operating systems to be used and services (like a web server, ftp server etc) a honeypot will run. The risks involved should be taken into consideration and methods to tackle or reduce these risks should be understood. It is also advisable to have a plan on what to do should the honeypot be compromised. In case of production honeypots, a honeypot policy addressing security issues should be documented. Any legal issues with respect to the honeypots or their functioning should also be taken into consideration. In this paper we explain the relatively new concept of "honeypot." Honeypots are a computer specifically designed to help learn the motives, skills and techniques of the hacker community and also describes in depth the concepts of honeypots and their contribution to the field of network security. The paper then proposes and designs an intrusion detection tool based on some of the existing intrusion detection techniques and the concept of honeypots. KeywordsSecure Network, Honeypot, Intrusion Detection.


Increasing global human populations and wealth have resulted in increased demands for animal protein and widespread use of confined animal feeding operations to meet added animal protein consumptive demands. Disposal of animal wastes from these operations can be ecologically and environmentally problematic (Kellogg et al., 2000; Roberts et al., 2004; Shober & Sims, 2003). Poultry production is an important source of this protein and is a major agricultural industry in the United States. The United States is the world's largest producer and second largest exporter of poultry meat (UDSA Economic Research Service, 2009). Four-fifths of the United States poultry industry is comprised of broiler meat production. Broiler meat production is largely concentrated in Southeastern states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia), with 82% of U.S. broiler production occurring in these states (National Agricultural Statistic Service, 2008). Broiler production results in the generation of massive amounts of litter, a mixture of feces, feed, feathers and bedding materials such as straw, peanut or rice hulls, and wood shavings (Gupta et al., 1997; Weaver, 1998). The U.S.A. poultry industry produces more than 11 million Mg of litter per year (Cabrera & Sims, 2000). Broiler poultry litter contains several plant macroand micronutrients (Table 1), which makes it desirable as an agricultural fertilizer (Sistani et al., 2008). Following removal from poultry production facilities, litter is commonly applied to nearby pastures, hay meadows, and agricultural crops such as corn and cotton to increase crop production and quality (Harmel et al., 2004; Sims & Wolf, 1994). Applications of poultry litter ranging from 4.5 to 11.2 Mg ha-1 yr-1 are common to supplement or replace inorganic annual fertilizer additions to pastures (Adams et al., 1994). Thus, poultry litter application is an efficient and potentially cost-effective method for improving forage production within the vicinity of production facilities, which helps to sustain non-poultry related agriculture economies in poultry producing regions. Substitution of broiler litter for inorganic fertilizers continues to increase in the southeastern U.S.A. as prices of inorganic fertilizers escalate (Funderberg, 2009).


Domestic and industrial water-softening processes are among the major contributors to the Na content of waste water. Potassium salts can replace Na salts (mainly NaCl) successfully in many water softening treatments; such replacement leads to a decrease in exchangeable Na and to an increase to −12 in exchangeable potassium percentage (EPP). The objective of this study was to investigate the combined effect of K and Na on clay dispersion and macroaggregate stability in two high-charge smectitic soil types: a Typic Rhodoxeralf and a Typic Chromexerert. The soils were brought to equilibrium with solutions of differing SAR and PAR in the ranges of 0 to 6 and 0 to 4, respectively, such as would be expected in waste water obtained from sources where K salts replaced Na salts in water-softening treatments. The equilibrium studies showed that for a given sodium adsorption ratio (SAR) increasing the potassium adsorption ratio (PAR) resulted in a decrease in exchangeable Na. For SAR 6, increasing PAR from 0 to 2 led to decrease from 0.044 to 0.033 in exchangeable sodium ratio (ESR). In the clay dispersion studies, increasing exchangeable Na from 0.5 to 5.5 resulted in an increase in dispersed clay from 22.2% to 30.4% in the Typic Rhodoxeralf. A similar adverse effect of Na was noted in the macroaggregate studies. Conversely, increasing the EPP to 10 to 15 had no negative effect on either of the properties investigated in the two soils. The results indicate that (i) it is imperative to maintain as low a level of exchangeable Na as possible, in order to prevent sodicity hazards, and (ii) increasing soil EPP to 10 to 15 does not lead to a deterioration of those soil properties that affect soil structural stability and hydraulic properties.


More than 500,000 women die each year from pregnancy and childbirth-related causes. Gestational hypertension complicates the pregnancy of 6-17% of healthy primigravida women and 2-4% of multiparous women. Maternal nutrition is a major factor for avoiding many complications in pregnancy and bring about good pregnancy outcomes. The aim of the study was to assess the Pattern of Pica Practice and Prevalence of Gestational Hypertension among Antenatal Attendees in Tertiary Hospitals in Rivers State. This study was a descriptive cross sectional study conducted on 250 antenatal attendees between the ages of 18 and 45 years in tertiary hospitals in Rivers State. It was a non-invasive self-administered questionnaire based study. Data obtained from the study was analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25 and values of 0.05 and below were considered significant. The result obtained from the study revealed a 14.0% prevalence of gestational hypertension among antenatal attendees. It also revealed a 31.6% pattern of pica among the attendees. The most common forms of pica in the study were Geophagia (75.9%), Pagophagia (64.6%), Amylophagia (20.3%), and lastly Lithophagia (16.5%). The frequency of pica was 55.7% daily, 8.9% thrice a week and 36.4% weekly. Those with mild pica were about 31.6%, moderate pica was 55.7% and severe was about 12.7%. At the end of the study, it was ascertained that there was a 14% prevalence of gestational hypertension among antenatal attendees at tertiary hospitals in Port Harcourt. The pattern of pica among the women was 31.6% and consisted of Geophagia, Pagophagia, amylophagia and lithophagia. There was a significant association between sociodemographic characteristics such as age, marital status, occupation and ethnicity with pica practice. Clinical and obstetric characteristics like gravidity, parity, blood pressure and f

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Cellular senescence is a complex process that plays an important role in the aging of the organism and is accompanied by several functional and morphological changes of cells. This phenomenon, now known as Hayflick limit, is characterized by the loss of cell proliferative capacity. Senescence seems to be a barrier in tumour progression and it also plays an important role in development, repair processes, diseases associated with aging and also in tumour transformation. Moreover, the aging cells produce a number of substances which are a part of senescence-associated secretory phenotype, and may either induce senescence or promote tumour progression. This information is crucial for the further development of appropriate therapies for the diseases associated with aging, including cancer. This bachelor thesis describes the molecular mechanism of senescence, morphological, functional changes and highlights the role of senescence in tumour transformation and also the application of these findings in therapy.


In this paper the work of the technical function, along with that of the other functions is outlined in developing the Business Unit concept, put forward in the previous paper on Planning. It mainly covers the ongoing activities of the Business Unit and the work which can be seen as a natural evolution of its present activity. What it does not cover is the identification by both the Planning and Technical Functions of the longer term developments of a company or its Business Units, and also possibly the fields for still wider diversification. These will be dealt with in Part II.

In many cases, however, a surprisingly high proportion of the Technical Function budget is spent on the natural extension of the present business and a means of analysis by business unit objectives is proposed so that other functions can participate in the setting of objectives and evaluating progress. Close identification with business unit objectives will be found helpful in eliminating waste and often identifying new problems for the Technical Function to pursue.


The Australianization of English This paper deals with the question of the history of Australian English in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It delineates the path from English in Australia to Australian English, looking at specific relevant historical periods. Internal developments and external influences are in focus and Australian English (AusE) is placed in the context of world Englishes today. The paper is based on the doctoral thesis: From English in Australia to Australian English 17881900 (Fritz 2005).


Objective To study the therapeutic effect about orthodontic preschoolers with different methods.Methods 1200 orthodontic preschoolers were divided into three groups equally,fluorate foam and dental groove group,oral health education group and control group.Results The caries prevalence rate in fluorate foam and dental groove group and oral health education group were lower than the control group.Conclusion The treatment of fluorate foam and dental groove and oral health education could decrease the caries prevalence.


ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to present arguments for an integrated empirical research on teaching and learning based on previous research and the phenomenographic research tradition. From 1970 and for some years after, the main focus in phenomenographic research was on students' approaches to and understanding of subject matter. Later, based on Variation theory and in the form of Learning studies, there has also been a focus on teacher presentation of subject matter. These 2 research foci on students' and teachers' treatment of subject matter, represent a good basis for integrated research on teaching and learning. Contextual Analysis is suggested as a relevant research approach to integrated research on teaching and learning.


The objective of present study was to analyze and compare the nephroprotective effects of petroleum ether extracts of seeds of Nigella sativa and Silybum marianum in Swiss albino mice. Petroleum ether extracts of seeds of Nigella sativa and Silybum marianum were administered (200 mg kg–1) orally for 14 days following one dose of cisplatin injection (16 mg kg–1 i.p.) on 4th day. Cisplatin toxicity was identified in mice by loss of body weight, reduced triglycerides levels, elevated blood glucose, blood urea nitrogen and creatinine levels (P < 0.05). Silybum marianum and Nigella sativa significantly enhanced the body weight (9%) of diabetic rats. Silybum marianum had significantly reduced the elevated blood glucose (–106%), and BUN levels (–9%) as compared to the Nigella sativa administration. Silybum marianum extract also significantly elevated the levels of triglycerides (257%) which were much reduced after the cisplatin injection. Histological study showed that the cisplatin treated group demonstrated the necrosis signs in the glomerulus of Bowman's capsule, hyalinization and severe cellular damage. The animals administered with extracts showed nearly normal kidney architecture, however, the kidney tissues of Silybum marianum-treated animals showed some improvement with slight signs of cellular damages.


Core/shell CdS/ZnS quantum dots (QDs) with the emission wavelength of 618nm, was synthesized by thermal deposition using cadmium oxide and selenium as precursors in a hot lauric acid and hexadecylamine trioctylphosphine oxide hybrid. CaAl<inf>2</inf>Si<inf>2</inf>O<inf>8</inf>:Eu2+, Mn2+ phosphor was synthesized by high-temperature solid state reaction at 1290 °C for 2 hours under the H<inf>2</inf> reducing atmosphere, and X-ray powder diffraction analysis confirmed the formation of it. It has two emission bands peaking at 420 nm and 580nm originated from the transition 5d to 4f of Eu2+ and 4T<inf>1</inf>-6A<inf>1</inf> of Mn2+, respectively. Blends of CaAl<inf>2</inf>Si<inf>2</inf>O<inf>8</inf>:Eu2+, Mn2+ phosphor and CdS/ZnS QDs exhibited the prominent spectral evolution with an increasing content of QDs. A hybrid white LED, which combines a blue LED with the blend of CaAl<inf>2</inf>Si<inf>2</inf>O<inf>8</inf>:Eu2+, Mn2+ phosphor and QDs with a weight ratio of 2:1, with the CIE coordinate of (0.3183, 0.3036) and CRI of 85 was obtained.


Context. The associations and moving groups of young stars are excellent laboratories for investigating stellar formation in the solar neighborhood. Previous results have confirmed that a non-negligible fraction of old main-sequence stars is present in the lists of possible members of young stellar kinematic groups. A detailed study of the properties of these samples is needed to separate the young stars from old main-sequence stars with similar space motion, and identify the origin of these structures. Aims. Our intention is to characterize members of the young moving groups, determine their age distribution, and quantify the contamination by old main-sequence stars, in particular, for the Local Association. Methods. We used stars possible members of the young (~10-650 Myr) moving groups from the literature. To determine the age of the stars, we used several suitable age indicators for young main sequence stars, i.e., X-ray fluxes from the Rosat All-sky Survey database, photometric data from the Tycho-2, Hipparcos, and 2MASS database. We also used spectroscopic data, in particular the equivalent width of the lithium line Li I λ6707.8 A and H_α, to constrain the range of ages of the stars. Results. By combining photometric and spectroscopic data, we were able to separate the young stars (10-650 Myr) from the old (> 1 Gyr) field ones. We found, in particular, that the Local Association is contaminated by old field stars at the level of ~30%. This value must be considered as the contamination for our particular sample, and not of the entire Local Association. For other young moving groups, it is more difficult to estimate the fraction of old stars among possible members. However, the level of X-ray emission can, at least, help to separate two age populations: stars with <200 Myr and stars older than this. Conclusions. Among the candidate members of the classical moving groups, there is a non-negligible fraction of old field stars that should be taken into account when studying the stellar birthrate in the solar neighborhood. Our results are consistent with a scenario in which the moving groups contain both groups of young stars formed in a recent star-formation episode and old field stars with similar space motion. Only by combining X-ray and optical spectroscopic data is it possible to distinguish between these two age populations.


The paradigm of Content-based retrieval (CBR) with query-by-example (QBE) has been prevailing in multimedia applications and systems. While the CRB/QBE approach is easy to use from the end-user's perspective, it is not always possible for a user to prepare/have a suitable "example" in hand; besides, the lack of semantics inherent to this approach may cause strange things to happen (e.g., funny results). In this paper, we argue that multimedia retrieval should be knowledge-based and semantics-driven, preferably with personalization support. Through a case study on a distributed multimedia recipe database (DMRD) system, we show that User-community Profiling + Domain Knowledge + CBR (including keywords/QBE) is an effective way to go forward. Experiments on a prototype of DMRD system demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of such a hybrid approach we are advocating.


Abstract-In this paper, a novel methodology for design irregular quasi-cyclic LDPC codes is presented. The quasi-cyclic structure facilitates encoder and decoder implementation through shift-register-based circuits. The irregularity characteristic improves the code performance in waterfall region. The structure imposed on the bipartite graphs together with shifting matrix, Lead to a class of this code suitable for fast iterative decoding. The construction method results in a class of quasi-cyclic LDPC codes with girth of at least 6.The simulation results show, using the Sum Productive Decoder, this kinds of codes having excellent performance on the additive white Gaussian noise channels .


It is known that type IV solar radio bursts, which are emitted in association with flares, show various spectral fine structures. Zebra Patterns (ZPs) are one kind of such fine structures showing a number of nearly parallel drifting narrowband stripes, superimposed on the background broadband type IV bursts. Although many theoretical models for explaining the generation of the ZP are proposed, there is no widely accepted model which is consistent with all of observational characteristics. Tan et al. (2014) performed a statistical analysis on microwave ZPs and showed that microwave ZPs can be classified into three types according to the variation of frequency separation () with respect to its frequency. They also suggested that three types of ZPs are generated by three different mechanisms. As described above, the variation of is important information to discuss generation mechanisms of ZPs. However, its temporal variation has not been studied before. For the purpose of revealing the temporal variation of , we analyzed highly resolved spectral data obtained with AMATERAS, a solar radio telescope developed by Tohoku University. As a result, we found different types of the variation of (equidistant ZP, varying distant ZP, and growing distant ZP) as mentioned in Tan et al. (2014). However the variation of was not same throughout the ZP lifetime and it changed from one type to another during one continuous ZP. In this presentation, we will show the temporal variation of in detail and discuss possible reasons for the variation.


1. Factors associated with advanced cerebrovascular damage incidentally seen on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were investigated in a population of 34 normotensive and 54 hypertensive asymptomatic elderly individuals (69±5 years).


Objective To observe the clinical effects of "Zhenjing Xiehuo Mixture" in the treatment of insomnia. Methods 102 subjects were randomized into two groups: treatment group in which 51 cases were treated with "Zhenjing Xiehuo Mixture" and control group in which 51 cases were treated with "Fufang Zaoren Capsule" for 28 days. The SPIEGEL scale and symptoms scores were observed. Results The total effective rate was 92.3% in treatment group and 84.3% in control group, P0.05; the cure rate and marked effective rate were higher in treatment group than in control group (P0.05, P0.01); the symptom scores, sleeping time and sleep-inducing time were improved better in treatment group than in control group. Conclusion "Zhenjing Xiehuo Mixture" is quite effective for insomnia.


We examined the effect of tea extracts on immunoglobulin (Ig) production of mesenteric lymph node lymphocytes of Sprague-Dawley rats and found that various extracts suppressed the production of lgA, IgG, and lgM. In addition, the original extracts of green and black teas strongly enhanced lgE production, and their 10' or 103 times diluted samples exerted an inhibitory effect. Similarly, tea polyphenols having a triphenol group enhanced lgE production at I mM and inhibited it at concentrations below 100 pM. On the contrary, diphenolic epicatechin did not affect lgE production. Though all tea polyphenols exerted inhibitory effect on the production of lgA and lgG at concentrations above 10 pM, triphenolic compounds, such as epigallocatechin gallate, gallic acid and pyrogallol, exerted an enhancing tendency on lgA production at 0.1 pM. These results suggest that the lg production-regulating activity of tea extract is partly due to tea polyphenols, especially those having a triphenol group.


Review that discusses the arguments for reform of the social security and social protection systems currently operating in the world, given their propensity to exclude or minimise support for labour market participants in atypical employment.
Among other things, it comments on the challenges of providing adequate social security and social protection for people in informal work and 'hard to reach' sectors of employment, and the suggestion that the standard employment contract – an important device for social insurance purposes – is now 'in retreat'. It also discusses the assumptions made by contributors that a universal basic income can overcome the status and other multiple barriers typically faced by hard-to-reach workers in the informal economy; or that measures from standard-setting bodies like the International Labour Organisation are making much difference in the face of the radical transformations being seen in the world's labour markets, whether in what the editors call the global North or the global South.
Book title: Social Security Outside the Realm of the Employment Contract: Informal Work and Employee-Like Workers by Mies Westerveld and Marius Olivier (editors) and contributors, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, USA, Edward Elgar, 2019, 275 pp, ISBN 978 1 78811 339 7 Cased; 978 1 78811 340 3 eBook.


We are going to study "Los Sucesos" newspaper, focusing on events news. Part of the interest within the framework of the History of the Press, through them we https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8472-4414 ISSN: 2255-5129 Víctor José Ortega Muñoz Revista internacional de Historia de la Comunicación, No10, año 2018, pp. 199-221 200 are going to observe the social issue and how the tension radiates from and to the popular sectors.


The Queen, like several other formations of the Permian basin, contains a widespread quartz sandstone-dolomite unit in its uppermost part. The Shattuck Member is a widespread surface-subsurface marker unit. In the outcrop area investigated, the Shattuck Member of the Queen Formation undergoes facies change up depositional dip into marginal-marine evaporite (gypsum on outcrop, anhydrite in the subsurface) and intertongues south-southeastward with marine carbonate rocks. Prior to development of the Seven Rivers embayment as a topographic feature and before erosion of the upper part of the Queen from the Queen Mesa area, the updip facies change to gypsum is believed to have covered a sizable area, probably at least several hundred square miles. The Shattuck Member at outcrops in the Guadalupe Mountains is largely of marine origin, although it may have passed through an eolian stage prior to deposition in a marginal-marine lagoon. It was not deposited by southward progradation of dune sand updip from, and eventually over, an evaporite environment. Subsurface areas of largely, if not wholly, continental eolian Shattuck probably exist. Origin of a unit as widespread as the Shattuck should not be conceived as the product of one, or even mostly one, environment. The top of the Shattuck is neither an unconformity nor a terminus of the nonmarine phase of a cycle throughout its extent. Rather, this formational contact is a broadly subtle one intertonguing with marine to marginal-marine dolomites and dolomitic limestones of the overlying Seven Rivers Formation. Our evidence shows north-northwestward-sloping depositional topography flanking carbonate-sand barrier islands north of the Goat Seep bank. This slope reversed itself farther north to form the narrow-to-broad lagoon. The current regime was such as to allow quartz- and carbonate-sand transportation parallel with the barriers along the south side of the lagoon. Such a setting would foster quartz sand deposition in facies relation with marine carbonates flanking the islands on the south-southeast and marginal-marine evaporites on the north-northwest. Quartz sand could have reached the lagoon elsewhere along the coast by eolian or deltaic processes, or both.


The technology used to create virtual reality training systems is still new and evolving rapidly. This article points out some of its current limitations and the difficulty of attempting to assemble the best possible system to meet a training objective while research remains to be done in overcoming these limitations. The article then examines the contributions contained in this journal issue in light of this challenge.


FINALLY, IT ALL COMES DOWN to a correct description of God. Everything else culture, politics, nature, human relationships--is properly understood only in the measure that ultimate reality is grasped with at least a relative adequacy. Like all of the other great theologians of the tradition, St. Augustine struggled his whole life with this central question. Though his restless mind ranged over innumerable issues, from human psychology to Roman history to Christology and eschatology, his primary preoccupation was determining the meaning of the word "God." And he found answers. Though he was one of the greatest searchers in the Western tradition, Augustine did not have a romantic attitude and therefore did not regard the search as an end in itself. Here I think John Caputo, reading Augustine through the lens of Derridean undecidability, has misconstrued his subject. (1) At the end of his questioning, Augustine found a truth in which he could rest, a truth that, he was convinced, had set him free. And this was none other than the conviction that ultimate reality is the trinitarian God revealed in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that Augustine's questions and answers are remarkably relevant to our time, and that finding for ourselves the truth that he found is of great moment not only for our personal spiritual fulfillment but also for the health of our Church and culture. What I should like to do, in the course of this article, is to follow, in a necessarily sketchy way, the Augustinian path toward the understanding of God, thinking with him and after him. And I would like to demonstrate throughout the analysis how Augustine's questions and solutions matter for us, especially for those committed to carrying on and making effective the intellectual heritage of Catholicism. I will undertake this task by looking at three key arguments that Augustine had at different points in his intellectual journey: the first with the Manichees and the Platonists when he was a comparatively young man, the second with the Arians when he was in midcareer, and the third with the Romans as he approached the end of his life. What emerges, as Augustine wrestles with these various opponents, is that very distinctive understanding of ultimate reality that we Christians call belief in the God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Augustine's Argument with the Manichees and the Platonists The work of St. Augustine that has exercised most fascination and given rise to most commentary over the ages is, of course, his great autobiography, Confessions. Relying implicitly on the double sense of the Latin term confessio, Augustine uses this text as a means both to confess his sins and to profess his praise of God. In fact, those two moves are, in his mind, inextricably linked: the more he becomes aware of his sins, both intellectual and moral, the more he is able to acknowledge and thank the true God--and vice versa. Nowhere is this link between contrition and praise more clearly on display than in the seventh book of Confessions. In this densely textured section of his autobiography, Augustine recounts the tortuous process by which he wriggled free from the influence of Manichaeism, the dualist, quasi-Gnostic system of which he had been, for nine years, a faithful adept. The principle allure of Manichaeism--both in Augustine's day and in ours--is the simple and elegant way that it handles the problem of evil. If the world is, at the most basic level, a struggle between a force of good and a force of evil, then we are not obliged to blame God for suffering. Instead, we should simply side with him in his just and worthwhile enterprise, even as we hate the principle responsible for evil. Manichaeism solves the problem of theodicy by dissolving it. Now what is the conception of God associated with this Manichaean philosophy? It would not be quite right to say, as most popular accounts have it, that God is, on the Manichaean reading, purely spiritual, set radically apart from the realm of matter. …


Modern economies rely heavily on their infrastructure networks. These networks face threats ranging from natural disasters to human attacks. As networks are pervasive, the investments needed to protect them are very large; this motivates the study of targeted defense. What are the "key" nodes to defend to maximize functionality of the network? What are the incentives of individual nodes to protect themselves in a networked environment and how do these incentives correspond to collective welfare? We first provide a characterization of optimal attack and defense in terms of two classical concepts in graph theory: separators and transversals. This characterization permits a systematic study of the intensity of conflict (the resources spent on attack and defense) and helps us identify a new class of networks—windmill graphs—that minimize conflict. We then study security choices by individual nodes. Our analysis identifies the externalities and shows that the welfare costs of decentralized defense in networks can be very large.


Sicilian manner, Horace censuring him for returning to Epicharmian originals (p. 20), these are entertaining thoughts, but better is to come (p. 91): when Plautus makes a town-slave say to a bailiff: abi rus, abi dierectus tuam in provinciam he clearly agrees with Cato in his praises of country-folk and disparagement of town-dwellers, and so he is a political follower of Cato's. Innumerable books and papers on Plautus make an impressive show of learning in the footnotes. But all is not well. On pp. 107 ff. Delia Corte discusses the original of the Cistellaria and pleads for Syra, blissfully unaware that documentary evidence has settled the issue in favour of Synaristosai. His references to Suss and Webster, who start from the discovery of Bischoff and Fraenkel, merely show that he cites what he has not read. On the same page it is stated that Festus habitually quotes Plautine plays by their Greek title. Why then all the endless labour spent on identifying the originals ? Why does not Delia Corte open his Festus and tell us what they are? He does tell us, in some cases, but not from Festus. The original of die Rudens, for instance, is Diphilus' Agnoia (pp. 139 ff.). Here Delia Corte follows Kuiper, to whom scant acknowledgement is made. At first he seems to feel a little uneasy: Toriginale che pub avere una certa possibility di esser statopreso a modello da Plauto pare che possa essere 3yvoia' (my italics). Nevertheless, si e fatta luce, and soon the swallow-coloured hare mentioned in a fragment of the Hyvoia be,comes the monkey which, in Daemones' dream, tries to get at the nest of the swallows. Kuiper is not responsible for this remarkable metamorphosis, except in so far as he has provided Delia Corte with the garbled and truncated version of Diphilus required for the purpose. Delia Corte discreetly omits to inform the reader that the poet he quotes is not Diphilus but Kuiper. The fantastic idea that the Asinaria translates a play by the Sicilian Deinolochus (Demophilus codd.; Deinolochus' known titles are all mythological) is brilliantly confirmed (p. 168) by the observation that the final -a of Cleareta is Doric. By the same token, of course, Amphitruo, Aulularia, and a great many other Plautine plays are Doric. I gave up reading at or near this point. The two chapters that I read are followed by a third (pp. 209 ff.), which seems to consist of fairly harmless summaries and evaluations of the plays.


This paper emphasized to introduce Gu Jiegang's life,and elaborats the profound influence to the library couse of our country by his academic works.


Lipoprotein-X, a low density lipoprotein containing lecithin and free cholesterol, appears in the circulation of infants maintained on total parenteral nutrition within 16 hrs of Intralipid infusion, suggesting that the clearing mechanism of lecithin (present in Intralipid) is not well developed at birth. We have therefore quantitated the activity of the key enzyme in lecithin catabolism, lecithin-cholesterol acyl trasferase (LCAT) in cord blood of 173 infants. LCAT activity, measured by transesterification of 3H-fatty acid from lecithin to cholesterol, is expressed in nmol cholesterol esterified/ml serum/hr. Cord blood levels of cholesterol, lecithin and triglycerides were also measured. LGAT levels were significantly (p 0.001) lower in newborns than in adults: 43±10, 54±19. 101±29 and 290±36 (Mean+SEM) at 24-30(n=19), 31-35(n = 17), 36-40(n = 137) wks gestation and in adults (n=7), respectively. Cord blood cholesterol, lecithin and triglyceride levels were similar at all gestational ages. We conclude that the clearing of lecithin is inefficient at birth and that preterm infants have a higher incidence of hyperlipemia due to low LCAT activity. (Supported by NIH grant HD-15631).


Breviscutheissia, a new atypical micropterous genus, belonging to the subfamily Calisiinae of the Aradidae, is described. It is characterised by a short lunate scutellum that barely reaches the anterior margin of abdominal tergite 3, the hemelytra which are reduced to very small pads and the absence of hind wings. The type species, B. ernsti, is described and figured. They live and feed on the succulent creeper Carpobrotus edulis (Mesembryanthemaceae) where they can be found on the brown stems and dying leaves. It is suggested that the Calisiinae primarily live on the trunks and larger branches of living trees. It is uncertain on what they feed and it may be either plant juices or fungi growing amongst the bark.


This paper presents a new roller-based nano-imprinting method based on the laser assisted direct imprint (LADI) technique. Similar to LADI, it utilizes a high-energy pulse laser to melt the silicon substrate and a pre-loaded quartz mold to imprint nano-patterns into the substrate. However, a cylindrical roller made of highly transparent silica is introduced in this new method. Optically, the roller is acting like a cylindrical lens which can focus the laser beam into a line source at the mode/substrate interface. Mechanically, the roller provides a constant line-type contact pressure between the mold and substrate. With this innovative roller design, the laser-assisted imprint process can be carried out in a smooth and continuous way and therefore open the possibility for large-area nano-imprinting and faster imprinting speed. A prototype setup of this laser-assisted roller imprinting (LARI) has been constructed and the experimental results are successfully obtained.


Chapter One: Some Key Concepts in Ancient Virtue Ethics. Chapter Two: Obedience and Persuading the Laws in the Crito Chapter Three: Promoting and Preserving Virtue in the Menexenus Chapter Four: Virtue as Mental Health in the Gorgias and Other Dialogues. Chapter Five: Paternalism in the Republic. Chapter Six: The Statesman and Equity. Chapter Seven: The Laws: Persuading the citizens. Chapter Eight: Towards virtue-promoting Democratic Institutions.


We compare the algebras of the quantum automorphism group of finite-dimensional C$^\ast$-algebra $B$, which includes the quantum permutation group $S_N^+$, where $N = \dim B$. We show that matrix amplification and crossed products by trace-preserving actions by a finite Abelian group $\Gamma$ lead to isomorphic $\ast$-algebras. This allows us to transfer various properties such as inner unitarity, Connes embeddability, and strong $1$-boundedness between the various algebras associated with these quantum groups.


This paper proposes the concept of perceived safety to quantitatively evaluate the safety benefits of collective perception to connected road users in safety critical scenarios. It is assumed that connected vehicles and infrastructure network transmit collective perception messages (CPMs) that contain not only basic information about the transmitter, but also key information about other objects detected via its on-board sensors. The detected objects may include non-connected road users that could be either occluded or out of the sensor range of the other connected road users. Our perceived safety framework provides a systematic way to determine when information perceived by a vehicle is sufficient to safely perform a given maneuver based on the sensory set, wireless connectivity, and dynamics of the ego vehicle. We illustrate the perceived safety framework by considering a lane change scenario, and show by simulations that CPMs enhance the ability of connected automated vehicles to perform safe lane changes.


Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate clinical effect on dental implant with minimally invasive flapless surgery. Methods Width,height,thickness,quality and quantity of crestal bone in implant area were measured with panoramic tomography, linear tomography and clinical examination. The mucosa depth of implant site was evaluated, bone map was drew and the template for implants was made preoperation. ITI screw implants were placement with the minimally invasive flapless implant surgery. When the torque of implants at insertion ≥35 N·cm, the abutments were connected onto implants, temporary acrylic resin restorations were performed immediately after insertion of implants. The clinical parameters evaluated were total surgical time of single implant, crestal bone changes of X radiograph at preoperation and 4 weeks, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months postoperation; Total surgical time of flapless implant group was also compare to it of control group. Results The average single implant surgical time of flapless surgery was 10.4 minutes and the average surgical time of control group was 25.7 minutes(P0.01). The average follow-up time for flapless group was 12.3 months, marginal bone loss of peri-implant was 0.15 mm, all patients feel comfortable and satisfactory. No implants were lost except one patient has short-term peri-implantitis. Conclusion The method of dental flapless surgery is suitable to good crest bone in quality and quantity, Its procedure is simple and operation time can be shorten greatly. The implant survival rate is as highly as 100% in follow-up time.


Weakly-coupled mode-division-multiplexing (MDM) is a promising approach to overcome the capacity crunch in optical transmission systems and networks. In this paper, we present the latest progresses of weakly-coupled MDM transmission over multi-mode fiber (MMF) or few-mode fiber (FMF) supporting large quantity of independent modes with intensity modulation and direct detection.


Reduction of NO2 in Simulated Exhaust Gas Using Dielectric Barrier Discharge Tomokazu Suzuki, Student Member, Hiroyuki Murakami, Student Member, Koichi Takaki, Member, Tamiya Fujiwara, Member (Iwate University) This paper presents the removal of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in air by dielectric-barrier discharge. Using an electrode with needles, the discharge plasma was produced at remarkably low voltage. The discharge onset


A composite medicine for treating coma, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and diabetes features that it contains mainly peoney and borneol. Its preparing process is also disclosed.


Consider estimating a functional T(F) of an unknown distribution F e F from data X1, * * ,X,, i.i.d. F. A companion paper introduced a bound on the rate of convergence of estimates Tn of T as a function of n. The bound involved the modulus of continuity b (e) of the functional T over F. The bound says that the estimation error T^-T cannot converge to zero faster than b(n112) uniformly over F. This rate bound was shown to be at least as strong as some earlier bounds on rates of convergence. In this paper we show that the "modulus of continuity" bound is attainable, to within constants, whenever T is linear and F is convex. In two nonlinear cases -estimating the rate of decay of a density, and estimating the mode -the bound is also attainable to within constants. We do this by introducing a new bound on the rate of convergence and showing that this new bound is always attainable (to within constants). The new bound is based on the difficulty of testing between the composite, infinite dimensional hypotheses Ho:T(F)<t and Hl:T(F)>t+A. The modulus bound and the new bound are comparable -and hence the modulus bound is attainable to within constants -whenever the difficulty of the hardest simple two-point testing subproblem is comparable to the difficulty of the full infinitedimensional composite problem. This property holds whenever T is linear and F is convex, and also in the cases of the tail rate functional and the mode discussed above.


The article deals with experimental determination of local head loss in straight polypropylene pipeline (PP) joint connected by butt-welding. A local loss coefficient is introduced for turbulent flow of water in plastic pipeline of circular cross-section. The value of local loss coefficient has not been experimentally quantified so far and hence its determination is significant for designers of plastic pipeline systems.


Chapter 1 – General introduction Academic hospitals are traditionally highly hierarchical, mono-cultural and exclusive, select spaces. In order to secure quality of care and competence of professionals, academic health care organizations increasingly give attention to cultural diversity issues in policy and practice. Although student populations in medicine and health care are increasingly diverse in terms of cultural, ethnic and religious background, professionals with a cultural minority background, i.e. with cultural, ethnic and/or religious roots different from the majority in a particular country, are underrepresented in medical schools and academic hospitals, and especially in leading positions and management. Internationally, insight is lacking into why recruitment, selection, promotion and retention of professionals with a cultural minority background is difficult as well as into what it takes to develop inclusive organizations. However, welfare of the workforce and in particular of professionals with a cultural minority background seems pressurized as high rates of (sexual) harassment, discrimination and racism, and of psychological distress such as burn-out and substance abuse are reported in international academic health care. Specifically, there is a lack of knowledge of how (future) professionals with a cultural minority background experience everyday work place and education practice. In the Netherlands, there are no empirical studies that look into experiences of (future) professionals with a cultural minority background or into exclusion, discrimination and racism in academic health care. By generating empirical and theoretical insight into experiences of (future) professionals with a cultural minority background, into interactions between (future) professionals with a minority and majority background and into processes of inand exclusion in medical education and the academic hospital, this thesis aims to stimulate inclusion of (future) professionals with a minority background in Dutch academic health care and to support learning about development of inclusive organizational culture within the Netherlands and beyond. The two central research questions are as follows:


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In this engaging book, the Irish writer Brian Dillon looks at the topic of hypochondria. The subject is an elusive one, because the concept of hypochondria has changed greatly over the centuries. The word hypochondrium was used by Hippocrates to refer to the regions


Abstract : This Strategy Research Project (SRP) examines current Ukrainian defense policy in light of changes in domestic and foreign policy made by newly-elected President Victor Yanukovych in the period 2010-2011. A short historical review provides background on the development of contemporary Ukrainian defense policy from Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 to the present day. An analysis of current Ukrainian defense policy assesses the effectiveness of its implementation and its advantages, shortfalls, and potential risks. The SRP also contains suggestions for the Ukrainian government regarding missions, actions, and resource allocation of the Ukranian Armed Forces; defense industry reformation; and international military cooperation.


The cultural life of Ljubljana during the years of occupation is practically not studied in the Slovenian historiography. Based on the Slovenian mass-media, this article lists the main events that took place in Ljubljana at the very beginning of the Italian occupation, namely from April to December 1941, as well as it provides information about cultural and educational public figures of that time.


An organization teaches its members its culture through socialization. Sources of anticipatory socialization exceed just the organization. Many sources such as family, friends, media, communities, previous employment, and education play a role in the socialization process. Not only are people socialized into skills but also into ideals such as workplace diversity. Therefore, the teachings of such ideals need to occur before an individual enters an organization. Through socialization, members learn not only workplace skills but also ideals and concepts such as workplace diversity. Therefore, if anticipatory socialization begins before an individual enters an organization, then teaching of concepts like workplace diversity need to occur earlier as well. In order to merge theory with practice, institutions of higher education must incorporate the teaching of organizational values such as workplace diversity to adequately prepare graduates for entry into the workforce.


This study investigates conceptions first-year cadets at a U.S. senior military college bring to general education writing courses, often termed first-year composition (FYC). Using a mixed methods research design, we surveyed over 700 cadets and conducted semi-structured in-person interviews with four first-year cadets. Our data suggest cadets stress orality, credibility, and clarity when writing for FYC. These conceptions are largely influenced by the cadet's interest and immersion in the Army yet are also strongly influenced by their brief introduction to college-level writing within their required FYC class. We conclude by arguing for two specific avenues of future research into gleaning students' conceptions of courses, specifically arguing for exploring how conceptions all students bring to the classroom impact important moments of transfer and engaging all students and students' conceptions in course design.


The cruise sector promotes itself as a responsible steward of the ocean environment and claims its policies and practices protect the marine ecology. As such, it would argue that its activities do not significantly contribute to global warming and climate change. However, there is disconnect between what the cruise sector says it does and what cruiseships actually do in relation to the environment. This chapter looks at the sector's environmental practices and how it contributes to climate change. This is both directly through greenhouse gases and indirectly through degradation of the marine environment, as well as the prospects for the sector to voluntarily take responsibility for its part of the problem. Despite a poor record on voluntary efforts, the chapter calls on the cruise sector to embrace initiatives that bring its behavior in line with its public pronouncements about environmental responsibility.


The rectus femoris myocutaneous flap has proved to be an effective means of closing particularly difficult wounds in 2 patients. One patients had a massive defect in the lower abdomen, pubic, and right groin area after the radical resection of a recurrent pleomorphic liposarcoma of the spermatic cord. The second patient presented with a huge, right greater trochanteric wound measuring 15 cm in diameter. Both patients progressed to relatively uneventful primary healing.


The
purpose of this conceptual article is to provide insights on how
student-teachers of any Bachelor of Education program might become main actors
in the space of the practicum when they help their pupils build up abstract
understanding from concrete knowledge. This goal can be achieved through,
firstly, an explicit teaching of semantic waving and knowledge construction as
part of a theory-based teacher education course, and secondly, the
implementation of lesson plans based on gravity waving instructional models
during their practicum. The theories that frame this proposal and are presented
in this article are semantic gravity and semantic density, stated by Karl
Maton; Basil Bernstein's theory of "discourses" and "knowledge structures";
and, the conceptualization of reflective teaching. This article illustrates an
example of the essential stages an instructional model based on semantic
gravity might include. For this example, a model of a class of English as a
Foreign Language (EFL) Teaching Methodology is taken into account.


A 37–40 GHz power amplifier (PA) has been designed and fabricated on 0.1-μm GaAs pHEMT process. Utilizing two-way direct shunt power combining and low impedance transmission line pre-matching technique, the PA achieves measured saturation output power of 25.6 dBm with peak power added efficiency (PAE) of 28% at 38 GHz. The measured output 1-dB gain compression point is 24.6 dBm and the peak gain is 13.5 dB. The chip size is 2.03 × 1.03 mm2.


Selecting technology parameters are very important for reforming and producing 240×240mm 2 billet on Bloom Caster. On the basis of the current parameters,the new technology parameters of 240×240mm 2 billet are made and optimized.


The following paper deals generally with the linguistic research of the german language of law and more precisely - the texts written by lawyers. It presents the joint analysis of three successive written statements concerning a civil case - the statement of claim, the statement of defence and the replication. The aim is to give a linguistic description of this type of text including the analysis of the interaction between the parties reflected in the language of these texts. Therefore three levels of texts were taken into consideration - the macrostructure, the midistructure and the microstructure. The main part of the interaction takes place in the complex level of midistructure, on the one hand between the speech acts of each text, on the other hand as a progress of the topical structure, but the remaining levels are also influenced. The joint analysis of the three texts enables to observe similarities between such approach and the analysis of a spoken interaction, ie. a talk, discussion. Thus, it is an example of overcoming the division of the linguistic research into two fields - the linguistic of the spoken and written language.