Mazarredo executed a large amount of cartographic work dealing with the interior of Spain, as well as with home and foreign seas; and he was the first person to accurately determine the position of the famous Puerta del Sol. He was also the author of a geographical treatise, and one on navigation, both designed for the instruction of naval cadets. The late Admiral de Paula Pavia relates that the idea of deducing the longitude of a ship at sea by means of astro-lunar distances measured with a sextant occurred to Mazarredo suddenly and independently, one clear night in 1772, while pacing the deck of the frigate Venus with his friend and comrade Laingara; and that they instantly busied themselves with putting the project to a practical test and with elaborating the necessary calculations. Other authorities, with less romance, but doubtless greater exactitude, only claim for Mazarredo that he was the first Spanish officer to apply the lunar distance method at sea, of which, before serving in the Venus, he had already heard some vague rumours. It would certainly have been remarkable if-at that date-he had not; for certain it is that he was a man of wide knowledge, reading, and experience, and that he rendered useful and distinguished services to the navy and to his country. We therefore cordially congratulate our sister Society in having made the Santa Rosalia's voyage better known to geographers at large. B. GLANVILL CORNEY.


The present invention relates to a stainless steel Type II chemical tanker ballast tanks duplex stainless steel surface treatment process, comprising the steps of: stainless steel plate assembly, welding, composed of a plurality of segments; front section of the cargo tank area sandblasted stainless steel, using lime brushing first use, then three anti-cloth covered, and finally the seam is sealed three anti-cloth and the cloth tape with three anti-cloth fixed; stainless steel ballast tanks plurality of segments of the high hardness region sand casting is injected, so that the surface roughness of the stainless steel plate is 55um ~ 65um; cleaner using a stainless steel plate surface cleaning sand; then sweep blasting by a thin iron-aluminum garnet, a stainless steel plate for removing the casting surface the abrasive grit contamination; again using the vacuum cleaner on the stainless steel plate surface cleaning sand; Finally, the stainless steel plate after cleaning the surface for inspection, the inspection is fed paint spray shop qualified after the stainless steel plate. The present invention has a good surface roughness can be obtained relatively clean surface, low cost.


Recent increases in inflation-adjusted weekly wages and employment, as well as a corresponding decline in the unemployment rate suggest that the area's labor market has improved. The mining sector is a key contributor to the recent employment gains, though these gains have been offset somewhat by declines in manufacturing and financial activities.


With an increasing number of vehicles with alternative powertrains, the choice of the most appropriate powertrain system for a vehicle class or a load cycle is challenging. This paper introduces a method to design an optimal alternative powertrain based on a longitudinal dynamic simulation. The objective function of the minimization problem describes the characteristic map of the traction system. The goal of the optimization is to minimize fuel consumption respectively energy demand. Different types of propulsion systems are investigated. The results show that the proposed method delivers useful alternative powertrains by applying an optimization with reasonable restrictions.


A novel melt processing technique is presented which combines some of the advantages of established meltand powder-route approaches to metallic foam production. Production of the foam is a two-stage operation. In the first stage, a pretreated gas-generating powder (TiH2) is dispersed into an aluminium/SiCp composite melt. A precursor material having a relatively low porosity is produced by allowing this melt to solidify. The powder pretreatment consists of a heat treatment sequence which generates a diffusion barrier (Ti02) on the powder particle surface, which then prevents excessive hydrogen evolution during dispersion and subsequent casting. In the second stage of the operation, the precursor material is heated above the matrix melting point, when progressive evolution of hydrogen converts it into a cellular structure. Relationships between the processing parameters and the foam structure are explored.


The present invention, when presenting the personal media content, to produce a compelling experience by the user, making it possible to synthesize additional content and personal media content. Accordingly, the present invention obtains a user selection of a first media file (step 202), acquires the user selection of a media file source (step 208), at least from the content-related data and media file source of the first media file matching the content-related data for one second media file (step 214), generating at least one user inquiry related to the content associated data of at least a first media file (step 216), the first media file and at least one based on the second media file, regarding the multimedia presentation generating method and apparatus having a generating a multimedia presentation (step 218) having a user query at least one product That.


This paper predicts that marriage market conditions that favor men push married women into the labor force, whereas marriage market conditions that favor women encourage more married women to stay home. These predictions follow from a competitive marriage market model that views women as workers in marriage and analyzes this form of work with a competitive labor market model. When the number of men exceeds the number of women in these markets, market conditions favor women, and married men are more willing to pay the bills. The opposite is true when the number of women exceeds the number of men, i.e when the sex ratio is smaller than one. When marriage market conditions favor men, and men are less willing to pay the bills, it is predicted that women are more likely to go to work outside the home than when marriage markets favor women. We use time series for 4 U.S. regions to test this prediction. Sex ratios vary substantially over time, due to age differences in marriage and fluctuations in the number of births. After controlling for fertility, men's wages, education, age, and regional dummies, it is found that sex ratios are inversely related to growth in married women's labor force participation (LFP). Furthermore, we find that marriage market imbalances are likely to have more impact on the labor force participation of married women with no college education than on that of married women with a college education. This indicates that women with low education are most likely to value husbands as a source of income and therefore to be influenced by marriage market conditions affecting men's willingness to pay marital bills.


Fertilizer use in Ethiopia has focused mainly on the application of nitrogen and phosphorous fertilizers in the form of di-ammonium phosphate and urea for almost all cultivated crops for the last several years. Such unbalanced application of plant nutrients may aggravate the depletion of other important nutrient elements in soils such as S and micro-nutrients. Present study was conducted in Tigray region Enderta district with the objective of evaluating Yaramila (23-10-5, N: P2O5: S) and its rate on yield of wheat crop. In this trial five treatments were included and it was laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with three replications. The results indicated that biomass, grain, and straw yields of wheat responded to the additional yaramila levels. But, these levels did not beat recommended NP and the maximum grain yield was obtained at the recommended NP. The yaramila@200kg/ha level has almost equal levels of N and P with the recommended NP and additional sulfur levels but the yield and yield components of wheat were not significantly higher than recommended NP even with additional NP adjusted. This implies that either the sulfur or the formulation of blending decreased nitrogen and phosphorus efficiency. Hence, nitrogen and phosphorus are the yield limiting nutrients rather than sulfur for wheat. Moreover, Yaramila blended based on this formulation as source of sulfur is not a suitable fertilizer for wheat growth in the study. So, other alternative sources of sulfur rather than yaramila should be used for wheat production.


The present of laboratory teaching staff in our university was compared with the past.This article summarized the development and characteristics of the laboratory teaching staff under the new situation.Furthermore,it come up with some suggestions in order to build a team of laboratory teaching staff with high level,high quality and rational structure,which can provide reference for colleges and universities at the same time.


ABSTRACT The invention relates to a low-friction vehicle tyre for driving training and to a method of producing a tyre. The tyre is characterized in that the contact surface of the tyre is a low-friction contact surface comprising grip-weakening material for enabling winter driving training.


The paper describes a framework for constrained flight control based on the use of recoverable sets that are chained together to guide constrained admissible transitions between trim points. The re...


DBN is a classification of fast and global optimum neural network. It contains several layers of unsupervised networks and one layer of supervised network. The paper approves this novelty machine learning approach is suitable to the domain of named entity categorization. The paper applies RBM,an unsupervised learning method,to reconstruct more representative features from character-based features. Subsequently,the paper utilizes BP,a supervised learning method,to fine-tune parameters in whole network and accomplish the categorization task. In the end,the paper tests DBN on ACE 04 Chinese corpus and achieve 91. 45% precision,which is much better than Support Vector Machine and Back-propagation neural network.


At the recent conference in Scottsdale, the editorial board members presented a (gratifyingly) very well-attended workshop, "Writing for Theological Librarianship." Participants expressed enthusiasm about writing for the journal, and came up with a number of excellent topics and ideas for articles, essays, bibliographic essays, and columns. This contrasted sharply with our uncertainty (at the time when the journal was launched in 2008) whether we would be able to solicit enough content to make TL fly!


Abstract Two new paratungstate-based compounds were isolated from the acetate buffer solution containing decatungstate [W10O32]4− at different reaction temperatures. The two compounds have been characterized by elemental analysis, IR spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and single crystal X-ray diffraction, and formulated as (H3O)3[{K(H2O)}2{Na2(H2O)8}2(Na0.5H2O)2(H2W12O2)] ・ 6H2O (1) and (H3O)2[{K(H2O)4}2{Na3(H2O)9}2(H2W12O42)]·2H2O (2). Compounds 1 and 2 exhibit different three-dimensional architectures with bridging sodium and potassium as countercations for the paratungstate anion. Compound 1 displays an intense blue luminescence in the solid state. The structural transformation from [W10O32]4− to [H2W12O42]10− in an acetate buffer provides a route for the synthesis of new paratungstate-based compounds.


Univariate filters and production function methods are among the most widely recommended methods for estimating potential output and output gap. In this paper we apply the production function method on annual time series covering years 1991-2012 and employ the Hodrick-Prescott filter, BaxterKing and Christiano-Fritzgerald bandpass filters on quarterly data of real GDP covering the period 20002012 to extract potential GDP and output gap for Romania. The production function we use is Cobb-Douglas type with constant returns to scale and Hicks neutral technological progress and the potential labor is computed considering both constant NAIRU, estimated with Ball-Mankiw's method (2002), and variable NAIRU resulted from a version of Phillips curve expectation augmented model (Greenslade, Pierse (2003)). Potential output and output gap are calculated using two different values for production elasticity with respect to capital, and both constant and variable NAIRU. Regarding the empirical applications of the filters, we conclude that the CF filter performed better, and that all the methods used show the economic crisis that affected the Romanian economy during 2008-2010.


In this issue ofThe Journal, Sprung1finds American medicine further along the road to euthanasia than is commonly thought. His argument can be summarized as follows: With the development of the technology of life support during the past 30 years, severely ill persons have survived in coma, in the chronic vegetative state, or in other states of great impairment. These persons formerly would have died relatively promptly after the insult that precipitated their condition. Now they are shielded from cardiopulmonary collapse and death by the modern forms of life support, which extend from complex volume ventilators to simple methods of feeding by gastrostomy tube. To cope with the problems presented by this population, our society has revised the definition of "death" (as in the Harvard report of 1968)2and relaxed the standards for maintenance of life (as in theQuinlancase of 1976).3Who may be


ABSTRACT                    This study aimed to determined the role of spiritual well-being to developed mental health in order to realized social resilience  in the victims of social conflict in Aceh Singkil..                     Retrieving of data used questionnaires, namely spiritual well-being, resilience and mental health. In this study involved the number of subjects as many as 300 people who were victims of social conflict in Aceh Singkil. Data analysis using correlation and regression.                     It was found that there was a significant role for spiritual well-being towards the development of resilience, there was a role of spiritual well-being towards the development of mental health, and there was a role of resilience towards mental health in victims of social conflict. ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui peran spiritual well-being untuk mengembangkan kesehatan mental demi mewujudkan ketahanan sosial pada masyarakat korban konflik sosial Aceh Singkil.Pengambilan data dengan menggunakan kuesioner yaitu spiritual well-being, resiliensi dan kesehatan mental. Penelitian ini melibatkan subjek sebanyak 300 orang yang menjadi korban konflik sosial di Aceh Singkil.  Analisis data dengan menggunakan korelasi dan regresi.Ditemukan bahwa ada peran signifikan spiritual well-being terhadap pengembangan resiliensi, ada peran spiritual well-being terhadap pengembangan kesehatan mental, dan ada peran resiliensi terhadap kesehatan mental pada korban konflik sosial.


The present invention provides a display control method of a desktop icon corresponding to the application ID, the control method comprising, a signal corresponding to the desktop icon application identifier receiving a trigger display; desktop icon corresponding to the acquired application ID; generating preset layer the preset upper layer is added desktop icon corresponding to the application identifier, the predetermined display area of the display layer is less than a display area of the interface; predetermined position within the display screen on the display of the predetermined layer. The method avoids the prior art users find cumbersome desktop icons on the display screen. Meanwhile, since the predetermined preset level display position within the display screen, so the user can easily find a preset level, and thus can quickly realize the operation of the application.


The present invention relates to a washing, cleaning or treatment agent for textiles. It has surprisingly been found that, through the use of certain Fettsaureestern in conjunction with at least one surfactant, improved brightening (Lightness-) and / or whiteness (Whiteness-) effect can be achieved.


The F+D2 and F+HD reactions were investigated in a high resolution crossed molecular beams experiment at several collision energies. The DF product from both reactions was predominantly backward scattered although some forward scattered DF(v=4) was observed at the highest energy studied. The HF angular distributions from F+HD were quite different, showing considerable forward scattered (v=3) and no other identifiable structure. These results disagree with classical trajectory studies, which predict only small variations in the product angular distributions among F+H2 and its isotopic variants. They agree, however, with the predicted dependence of dynamical resonance effects on isotopic substitution. The results therefore support the conclusions drawn in the previous paper regarding the role of dynamical resonances in the F+H2 reaction.


Title of article: Regulation of tolerance of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to heavy metal toxicity by heme oxygenase-1 and carbon monoxide Running head: HO-1/CO regulates C. reinhardtii tolerance to Hg Full names of all authors: Yuan Yuan Wei, Qi Zheng, Zhao Pu Liu, Zhi Min Yang Name of Institution: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China; Key Lab of Marine Biology in Jiang Su, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China Postal address: College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China. Corresponding author: Zhi Min Yang Telephone number: 86-25-84395057 Email: email@example.com


In the history of the Sino-Korean cultural communication,the 18th century is an important period.On the one hand,from then on the Korean gradually got to know the high Qing had been coming.On the other hand,with the change of the political situation in East Asia and the achievements of the Korean diplomats,the Qing government also gradually decreased confines to the Korean envoys.At that time,the Korean envoys extricated themselves from the Xuban(Chinese petty officials) in the Korean embassy and got to freely communicate with the booksellers in the Liulichang.As the Liulichang was the cultural center of Beijing,this enriched the resources of the imported books for the Korean envoys.And the lasting communication with different people also made the Korean get much more information of the Chinese society.


Pristine layered double hydroxides (LDHs) which have been modified into LDHs-metal oxide composite were applied as procion red (PR) photodegradation catalysts. The preparation was performed using a low calcination temperature of 300°C. Optimization variations include pH, catalyst weight and catalysis time. The degradation percentages of Mg/Al LDH, Mg/Al-TiO2 and Mg/Al-ZnO were 51.8%, 72.0% and 89.5%, respectively. The percentage of degradation of Zn/Al LDH, Zn/Al-TiO2 and Zn/Al-ZnO were 44.0%, 61.2% and 58.4%, respectively. The study results showed that all composites produced a greater percentage of PR degradation and better reusability than pristine LDH. Mg/Al LDH-based catalysts tend to catalyze PR better than Zn/Al LDH-based catalysts. PR which is an anionic dye when photodegraded using Mg/Al-ZnO tends to be better than Mg/Al-TiO2 meanwhile Zn/Al-TiO2 and Zn/Al-ZnO have competitive performance.


Based on the investigation of natural population of Keteleeria cyclolepis in Fujian province,the corresponding distribution rule was studied and discussed in this paper.The results showed that the Keteleeria cyclolepis distributes in 39 towns of 20 counties(including the cities or districts),the altitude ranges from 300 to 900 meters,and 86.5% of them distribute over the altitude of 600 meters.There are 22,15,2 distributions belong to Jiufeng(56.4%),Wuyi(5.1%) and Daiyun(38.5%) mountains,respectively.What is more,there are 12 distributions existed as community and 27 distributions scattered or as a single tree.


CLAIMS 1. A liquid pharmaceutical formulation, free of propellant in the form of a list for managing preparation for use by nebulization, comprising: i) a suitable soluble salt physiologically acceptable 8- hydroxy-5 - [(1R) -1 -hydroxy-2 - [[(1R) -2- (4-methoxyphenyl) -1-methylethyl] amino] ethyl] -2 (1H) -quinolinone (carmoterol) as active ingredient; ii) a solvent selected from water or an aqueous solution comprising at least 50% v / v of water and a miscible cosolvent with water; iii) a buffering agent wherein the pH of the solution is between 4.0 and 5.0 and the buffering agent comprises citric acid. Claim 20: Use of the pharmaceutical formulation of any of the preceding claims, characterized in that it is for the prevention or treatment of a disease characterized by reversible obstruction of the airways. Claim 22: A set of components, comprising: a) a pharmaceutical formulation according to any of claims 1 to 19, placed in vials for administration of a single dose; and b) a nebulizer.


Measurements of the excitation power-dependence and temperature-dependence photoluminescence (PL) are performed to investigate the emission mechanisms of InGaN/GaN quantum wells (QWs) in laser diode structures. The PL spectral peak is blueshifted with increasing temperature over a certain temperature range. It is found that the blueshift range was larger when the PL excitation power is smaller. This particular behavior indicates that carriers are thermally activated from localized states and partially screen the piezoelectric field present in the QWs. The small blueshift range corresponds to a weak quantum-confined Stark effect (QCSE) and a relatively high internal quantum efficiency (IQE) of the QWs.


Despite the momentous social and economic change of recent decades, patterns of social stratification have proven to be remarkably stable. In "From Origin to Destination", an expert team analyzes the current state of social stratification research from a comparative, international perspective. This volume presents theoretical knowledge as well as empirical evidence on questions such as intergenerational social mobility; inequalities of educational opportunity, gender and ethnicity; and the role of education in the labor market.


The use of herbal medicine is becoming popular day by day due to toxicity and side effects of allopathic medicines. Considering the medicinal importance of the plant Murraya koenigii Linn (Curry leaf), the antioxidant activity (AC), total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoid content (TFC), of different fractions of methanolic extract (DIA-ion resin adsorbed fraction, chloroform, Ethyl acetate and petroleum ether) of M. koenigii were investigated. Among the fractions, DIA-ion resin-adsorbed fraction showed the highest total antioxidant activity with absorbance 2.320±06 and petroleum ether fraction showed the lowest total antioxidant activity with absorbance 1.944 at 100 mg/ml concentration. The TPC were found range between 13.285 to 17.52 mg GAE/g while the highest amount of TFC recorded among the extracts was 16.65 mg CatE/g. DPPH free radical scavenging activity of different extracts of leaves was also measured where DIA-ion resin-adsorbed fraction had the highest free radical scavenging activity with IC50 value 15.53 μg/ml. In the present study phenolic compound were found to be the predominant components in the leaves of M. koenigii indicating that they are potent antioxidant. DOI : COMING SOON Corresponding author: Md. Badrul Islam, Senior Scientific Officer, Drugs & Toxins Research Division, BCSIR Laboratories, Rajshahi-6206, Bangladesh, E-mail: email@example.com


Acoustoelastic wave energy harvesting in thin plates and other structures has recently gained attention from the energy harvesting research community. Metamaterial-inspired concepts for enhancing wave power generation have been investigated, including metamaterial funnels, mirrors, and defect-based resonators. In support of such concepts, this paper presents an electromechanically coupled, multiple scattering formulation for accurately modeling, exploring, and optimizing metamaterial-based harvesting systems incorporating scatterers ( e.g., cylindrical inclusions and voids ) . Following development, the formulation is applied to determining optimal arrangements of scatterers, nominally in a semi-elliptical path, which maximize electrical power harvested, This is done, in part, by diminishing side lobes resulting from ellipse truncation. Optimization results exhibit minimized side lobes and harvester power nearly ten times that of the non-optimized case. Finally, an experimental study is presented which con fi rms many of the model predictions.


The study of valley temperature structure and the formation of temperature inversions have been studied numerous times. However little of these studies are performed in high latitude areas, with little known about the effects of the arctic circle felt on the temperatures recorded. The purpose of this study is to look at the factors that control the research area of Kevo in northern Finland, 69°45'N, 27°01'E. The factors studied in this study, were how the elevation affects temperature, the aspect of the slopes and the effect of wind speed and direction on data recorded. Particular attention is paid to the formation of temperature inversions in this area and the governing factors behind these.


The crystal structure of a 1: 1 complex of 9-ethyladenine and indole has been determined by the X-ray method. The crystal system is monoclinic with the space group of P21/c. The cell dimensions are a=15.712(2), b=8.098(1), c=11.838(1)A, and β=103.90(1)°C. Adenines form walls made of double layer. An overlap of adenines is found between layers. The adenine molecule in the front layer is found to be joined by the hydrogen bond with the molecule in the back layer. An intermolecular hydrogen bond is found between adenine and indole rings. The significance of these observations in the interaction of adenine with tryptophan in biological systems is discussed.


Excitation winding temperature is used for determination of the dynamic limit in the P-Q diagram of a synchronous generator. The surface temperature of an excitation winding can be measured by an infrared (IR) thermometer. Due to rotation, the IR thermometer absorbs thermal radiation from the excitation winding on the salient pole and from the interpolar space as well. These two surfaces can have different temperature or emissivity, which both affect the amount of the thermal radiation radiated towards the sensor of the IR thermometer. Irradiation read by the sensor is therefore the average irradiation of a rotating rotor. This irradiation results in the temperature that differs from the pole surface temperature. The difference depends on the interpolar space size, emissivity and temperature. The effect of the interpolar space can be cancelled if the IR thermometer is positioned at a certain angle with respect to machine's main axis. Temperature sensors have been mounted on the rotor to measure the excitation winding surface temperature for comparison.


Objective To explore the value of color Doppler ultrasound in diagnosis of ilio-femoral venous thrombosis. Methods Forty patients with ilio-femoral venous thrombosis confirmed by venography were enrolled in this study, then CDFI imaging was performed before and after thrombolytic therapy. The blood flow direction, situation, spectrum, velocity and respiratory movement were observed, and the vein situation and thrombus changes were obtained. Results Compared to the venography before thrombolytic therapy, the detection rate of CDFI was 98% , after treatment, thrombosis of 36 cases were found smaller with CDFI, and with differenct disease course, the vascular recanalization and vessels surrounding situation was different. Conclusion Color Doppler flow imaging is a non-invasive method for early and timely diagnosis of ilio-femoral venous thrombosis, it could observe and evaluate the efficacy of treatment accurately.


Disclosed is a method for reducing the horizontal current in liquid aluminum in an aluminum reduction cell, comprising: placing a part of current conducting material at a cathode carbon block, or a steel bar, or a connecting material cathode paste thereof, or phosphorus pig iron, and making the current in the liquid aluminum enter the cathode carbon block evenly, pass through the steel bar, and exit from a side portion of the reduction cell. The method provided by the present invention changes the resistance distribution at the cathode, adjusts the current distribution at the cathode, reduces the horizontal current in the liquid aluminum, improves the stability of the magnetic fluid in the reduction cell, improves the efficiency of the current, and extends the service life of the cell.


For more than 100 years, Australia has used the referendum to approve constitutional change. In deciding to adopt the referendum, the framers of the Australian Constitution deliberately rejected reliance on constitutional conventions, as used in the United States, in favour of a more direct voice for voters. In designing the detail of the Australian referendum requirement, the framers followed the system of double majorities in use in Switzerland, as a way of reflecting the same balance between national and state interests achieved in the constitution of the federal parliament. The referendum was an unusual and radical choice for a polity otherwise extensively influenced by British conceptions of parliamentary responsible government. The conflict between the two were reflected in the convention debates. To a degree they have been realised since, although not in the manner expected by the framers. The referendum has not undermined responsible government. If anything, the practices of responsible government and the culture associated with it have affected the operation of the constitutional referendum and inhibited its effectiveness. The paper explores the relationship between parliament and voters in the use of referendum over 100 years. It identifies key difficulties including the manner in which voters are informed of proposals for change and the processes through which proposals are developed. It concludes that Australia has not sufficiently adapted its decision making processes to the very different demands of a referendum. This conclusions is important for the future evolution of constitutionalism in Australia. To the extent that the paper casts light on the adaptation necessary for the effective operation of either deliberative or directive democracy or both, it has wider relevance as well.


The inversion, or, as I prefer to call it, the apparent inversion, of the order of events in time is a phenomenon frequently encountered in the reading of Greek and Latin authors. I suppose the case which is first encountered by most of us is the famous 'moriamur et in media arma ruamus' of Virgil, Aen. ii. 353.


The abridged form of the Beck Depression Inventory was administered to 537 Iranian college students in the United States and in Iran. The results of factor analysis for students in Iranian colleges were similar to those in the United States. The rotated factor pattern of the combined data indicated two dimensions (negative self-view and physical withdrawal) embedded in the inventory that were similar to those reported by the author of the scale.


Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is major causes of morbidity and mortality in the world especially in industrialized countries. Healthy diet is one of the key points that will influence all other cardiovascular risk elements. Hence, easy and lucrative steps such as an appropriate diet should be able to improve the obesity epidemic and the subsequent CVD burden as it is assessed that lifestyle selections can account for up to 40% of early CVD mortalities .   Please cite this paper as: Rasregari F. The healthy diet for cardiovascular disease. Acta Persica Pathophysiol. 2016;1(1):e02.


The zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), and iron (Fe) ash contents of two sugar-cane varieties (PR 1028 and V 58-4) cultivated in the Río Yaracuy Valley (Venezuela) were chemically analyzed. In both varieties of sugar-cane, a great similarity in the amounts of micronutrients extracted was noticed within the various fraction forms. A high element recovery was also obtained and the results indicated that the fractionation method was adequate to extract Zn, Cu, Mn, and Fe from the sugar-cane ashes. About 281 g Zn ha−1 year−1; 127 g Cu ha−1 year−1; 611 g Mn ha−1 year−1and 6662 g Fe ha−1 year−1were returned annually to the soil by ash deposited in the sugar-cane agrosystem. According to the results of the procedure used, a minor micronutrient ash-fraction would be easily available for the plants. The information suggests that the ashes contained an important part of the agroecosystem micronutrients, affecting soil fertility. Soil chemical analysis can be used as a tool in understanding the role of plant ashes in the nutritional state and micronutrients cycling of agroecosystems where fire is a management practice.


Objective To study the etiological structure of the disease in patients with various forms of erysipelas of the lower extremities by using bacteriological method. Materials and methods A total of 50 in-patients with erysipelas of the lower limbs, mainly with bullous hemorrhagic form, were examined. Using bacteriological method we examined blood, smears from the skin in the area of the hearth and bulls punctate. The study demonstrated the preferential identification of staphylococcus, mainly in smears from the skin, while the informativeness of blood culture and bulls punctate was low. Conclusion The positive results of bacteriological research can serve as an objective criterion of therapy correction based on identified microbes.


Overview Both the threat of global warming and peak oil drive the transition to renewable energies. While EU policy targets of 20-20-20 are correct and feasible, the transition brings high extra cost. One is related to very high subsidies on renewable energies instead of subsidizing R&D on their cost reduction. Another is dysfunction of natural gas plants in electricity production that were designed to combat global warming using relatively abundant fossil fuel during the transitory period. Establishing carbon tax on such level along with reduction of subsidies for renewable can generate smother and less costly transition to EU policy objectives, If collected taxes are distributed to consumers to compensate for some increase in equilibrium price for electricity, income effect can be practically eliminated. Natural gas will substitute coal in electricity, cost (and hence price) of electricity will increase, but then onshore wind does not need subsidy anymore, while subsidy for PV can be reduced.


Macrofossils from the Chalk Group of the Bradfield Southend Borehole indicate assignment of
the topmost interval (58.83 – 67.83 m depth), below the contact with Paleogene strata, to the
Uintacrinus socialis and uppermost Micraster cornguinum zones; the boundary between these
zones is tentatively placed at a depth of 67.6 m. The lithology of the chalk assigned to the U.
socialis Zone corresponds with the typically marl-rich Newhaven Chalk Formation. The
remainder of the chalk in the borehole, below 67.6 m to the base of the borehole at 89.6 m, is
assigned to the upper (Santonian) part of the M. coranguinum Zone. This interval contains
tentative evidence for Rowe's Echinoid Band and the Barrois Sponge Bed, both indicative of
levels near the top of the M. coranguinum Zone in the North Downs. There is no macrofossil
evidence for the succession ranging below the base of the Santonian into the lower (Coniacian)
part of the M. coranguinum Zone.
The lithology of the chalk interval assigned to the M. coranguinum Zone in the Bradfield
Southend Borehole is marl-rich, and unlike the typically marl-free upper Seaford Chalk that
elsewhere in southern England generally corresponds with the upper M. coranguinum Zone.
Similar, but less prolifically marly chalk occurs in the upper M. coranguinum Zone of the
Faircross Borehole south of Reading. Provisionally, this atypical marly facies is designated the
Bradfield Southend Member of the Seaford Chalk Formation. Regional gravity data suggest that
local basin architecture may have influenced the successions found in the Bradfield Southend
and Faircross boreholes.


The peak–end rule is used to explain how people make retrospective hedonic evaluations. This study advances our understanding of its mechanism by identifying the different effects of the rule on such evaluations over short and long retention intervals. The results of two experiments show that (i) respondents constructed their retrospective hedonic evaluations on the basis of the peak and end affects only over a short retention interval, not over a long one; and (ii) respondents relied on episodic information to construct their evaluations over a short retention interval, whereas they relied on both semantic and episodic information to construct their evaluations over a long retention interval. Our study also suggests that the "watershed" between short and long retention intervals is likely to lie between 3 and 7 weeks. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The article researches reforming experience of tax structure in 19th century. Taxation peculiarities of given historical period are described. The article examines the causes of substitution of traditional levying methods by contemporary taxations principles.


Highlight StWRKY1 transcription factor mediates secondary cell wall thickening in potato by regulating expression of tyramine-related hydroxycinnamic acid amide biosynthetic genes, thus contributing to resistance to late blight disease.


In this paper,we establish some formulas on closed curves in 2-dimensional space forms.Mean absolute geodesic curvature is introduced to describe the average curving of a closed curve.Inthis sense,a closed curve could be compared with a geodesic circle that is the boundary of a convex geodesic circular disk containing the closed curve.The comparison can be used to show some properties of space forms only on themselves.


The influences of Ru and Cr as well as their interaction on the elemental partitioning ratio and microstructural evolution have been investigated in six Ni-based single crystal experimental superalloys with various levels of Ru(0—5.1%) and Cr(0—5.7%) additions(mass fraction).The results indicate thatγ′precipitates are nearly spherical in the dendrite core of the base alloy(Ru and Cr-free),which has a low Re partitioning ratio and near zero lattice misfit,after aging treatment at 1100℃for 8 h.The lattice misfit and Re partitioning ratio increase slightly and theγ′precipitates change to be more cuboidal with the addition of 5.1%Ru in both Cr-free and Cr-containing alloys. Meanwhile,the Re partitioning ratio increases significantly with increasing the Cr content in both Rufree and Ru-containing alloys,which in turn results in more negative lattice misfit and more cuboidalγ′precipitates.After long-term thermal exposure at 1100℃,the nearly sphericalγ′precipitates with near zero lattice misfit in the alloy have no change in morphology,and are coarsened after a longer exposure time,while the alloy with intermediateγ′precipitates and low lattice misfit is coarsened more severely.However,a nearly-rafted structure tend to form in the alloy with nearly cuboidalγ′precipitates and intermediate misfit after heat treatment for 800 h.The time to form the rafted structure is significantly reduced in the alloys containing both Ru and Cr with high Re partitioning ratio and high lattice misfit as well as cuboidal or rectangularγ′precipitates.The alloy containing high Ru and intermediate Cr exhibits a rafted trend after heat treatment for 200 h while the rectangularγ′precipitates are rafted after heat treatment for only 50 h in the alloy containing high levels of Ru and Cr additions with the highest lattice misfit.


Based on Government Regulation No. 53 of 2010 Concerning Civil Servant Discipline described in Chapter II Obligations and Prohibition Article 3, paragraph 11, 12 and 17 affirmed that the civil servants, including teachers, are required to come to work and comply with the terms of working hours and the civil service employee shall achieve the goals set forth and obey the rules set by the official authorities. Field observations there are problems in SMK Negeri 1 Tanah Putih among others, the teachers are often not present in the teaching, the teacher was present and did not come home on time for no apparent reason, the class that does not implement the learning process. This study aims to determine labor discipline teacher in SMK Negeri 1 Tanah Putih Rokan Hilir District and the factors that hinder the implementation. The author uses the theory of discipline according to Anwar Prabu Mangkunagara that preventive discipline (attempt to work the discipline) and corrective discipline (implementation of disciplinary sanctions). This study used a qualitative descriptive approach using key informant with data collection using interviews, observation, and documentation. Work Discipline research results Teachers SMK Tanah Putih 1 Rokan Hilir is still not discipline, it is because SMK N 1 Tanah Putih has not been able to exercise the discipline of preventive and corrective discipline optimally.Inhibiting factors in the discipline of teachers, among others: the persistence of negligence on the part of teachers in implementing the obligation of the school, the lack of responsibility of a teacher to his students in the learning process, a lack of supervision and the imposition of sanctions by the school, the salaries are slightly obtained by the highest honor teachers only 1 (one) million. With salaries like that principals can apply less rigor because the discipline does not fit what is acceptable to the responsible work. Still the teachers who do not master science and technology. There is still a lack of facilities and infrastructure SMK Tanah Putih N 1 is of means of information (internet) as well as practice equipment. Keywords : Discipline, Work, Teachers


Long term corrosion resistance is evaluated for G-2 and G-12 titanium as a candidate of the high-level nuclear waste packages. The repassivation potential for crevice corrosion, E R , in comparison with the well known spontaneous potential, E SP , of a metal passivated in given environment, allows conclusions to be drawn whether it performs "permanent" or does not. This repassivation method is extended to determine critical conditions in terms of NaCl concentration and temperature for specimens kept at an electrode potential which is more noble than E R and is included in E SP ranges. Thus obtained NaCl concentration - temperature - crevice corrosion map could predict critical conditions for the titanium used in geologic formations.


Keith Walters welcomed delegates and chaired the first session on "New Solutions", aimed to attract presentations on latest developments and novel Biocontrol/IPM approaches nearing completion or recently launched. Lauren Diepenbrock (University of Florida) started the session
 in which 'Rebuilding of IPM in growing citrus' was described. Before Huanglongbing (HLG) in the good old days, farmers may have used an oil spray and they used spider webs between trees. HLG is a bacterial disease Liberibacter asiaticus, first detected in 2005 that caused yellow
 shoots, twig dieback, stunted growth, and overall tree decline with misshapen fruits. Another pest from 1998 was the Asiatic citrus psyllid (ACP – Diaphorina citri) that is the vector of Candidactus liberator, causal agent of HLB. With many natural enemies including ladybirds,
 lacewings, syrphids, spiders, ants and other parasitoids, but from 1998–2016, in Citrus Health Management areas, farmers used insecticides, including neonicotinoids, but although this achieved solid returns, it was not going to last and there was a need to return to IPM, by incorporating
 non-insecticidal management options and reduce insecticide inputs. A new tool was to apply kaolin clay to reduce psyllid infestation and increase plant health. Another new idea was to protect individual trees with Exclusion bags to prevent ACP access to trees and improve scouting for pests.
 While successful with young trees, more research is needed to improve the return on investment.


In article questions of formation of strategic planning in Russia are considered. Problems are revealed, risks and threats are characterized and measures for their decision are proposed.


John Shank (in this special edition) summarises the argument for complementing a capital budgeting approach to investment decisions with a broader strategic cost management (SCM) accounting approach incorporating three additional tools __ value chain analysis, cost driver analysis and competitive advantage analysis. This article first discusses how this new framework might be assessed empirically and then examines the application of these techniques in practice, drawing on 51 case studies of strategic investment decision in 44 companies in Britain and Germany (including U.S. subsidiaries in both countries). There are substantial international differences, German companies placing much more emphasis on strategy in their approach. In general, compared with successful companies, successful companies placed proportionately five times as much attention on the issue of competitive advantage, almost three times as much on value chain considerations and twice as much on cost drivers; commensurably less attention was placed on traditional capital budgeting techniques. Finally, we draw conclusions on the role of the finance function and of such techniques within the context of strategic planning.


There are two crystallographically unique molecules present in the asymmetric unit of the title compound, C14H16N6O; in both molecules, the seven-membered diazepinone ring adopts a boat-like conformation and the chair conformation piperidine ring is an axial substituent on the diazepinone ring. In the crystal, each molecule forms hydrogen bonds with its respective symmetry equivalents. Hydrogen bonding between molecule A and symmetry equivalents forms two ring motifs, the first formed by inversion-related N—H⋯O interactions and the second formed by C—H⋯O and C—H⋯N interactions. The combination of both ring motifs results in the formation of an infinite double tape, which propagates in the a-axis direction. Hydrogen bonding between molecule B and symmetry equivalents forms one ring motif by inversion-related N—H⋯O interactions and a second ring motif by C—H⋯O interactions, which propagate as a single tape parallel with the c axis.


Abstract Premise The application of high‐throughput sequencing, especially to herbarium specimens, is rapidly accelerating biodiversity research. Low‐coverage sequencing of total genomic DNA (genome skimming) is particularly promising and can simultaneously recover the plastid, mitochondrial, and nuclear ribosomal regions across hundreds of species. Here, we introduce PhyloHerb, a bioinformatic pipeline to efficiently assemble phylogenomic data sets derived from genome skimming. Methods and Results PhyloHerb uses either a built‐in database or user‐specified references to extract orthologous sequences from all three genomes using a BLAST search. It outputs FASTA files and offers a suite of utility functions to assist with alignment, partitioning, concatenation, and phylogeny inference. The program is freely available at https://github.com/lmcai/PhyloHerb/. Conclusions We demonstrate that PhyloHerb can accurately identify genes using a published data set from Clusiaceae. We also show via simulations that our approach is effective for highly fragmented assemblies from herbarium specimens and is scalable to thousands of species.


Summary.  The aim of this study was to assess, comprehensively, medical and genetic attributes of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in a multiracial American population. The Genetic Attributes and Thrombosis Epidemiology (GATE) study is an ongoing case–control study in Atlanta, Georgia, designed to examine racial differences in VTE etiology and pathogenesis. Between 1998 and 2001, 370 inpatients with confirmed VTE, and 250 control subjects were enrolled. Data collected included blood specimens for DNA and plasma analysis and a medical lifestyle history questionnaire. Comparing VTE cases, cancer, recent surgery, and immobilization were more common in caucasian cases, while hypertension, diabetes, and kidney disease were more prevalent in African‐American cases. Family history of VTE was reported with equal frequency by cases of both races (28–29%). Race‐adjusted odds ratios for the associations of factor V Leiden and prothrombin G20210A mutations were 3.1 (1.5, 6.7) and 1.9 (0.8, 4.4), respectively. Using a larger external comparison group, the odds ratio for the prothrombin mutation among Caucasians was a statistically significant 2.5 (1.4, 4.3). A case‐only analysis revealed a near significant interaction between the two mutations among Caucasians. We found that clinical characteristics of VTE patients differed across race groups. Family history of VTE was common in white and black patients, yet known genetic risk factors for VTE are rare in African‐American populations. Our findings underscore the need to determine gene polymorphisms associated with VTE in African‐Americans.


Improving the computational efficiency of reliability assessment is a long-term goal for researchers. Regarding this issue, an impact-increment-based decoupled reliability assessment approach (IID) is proposed in this study. First, a new formulation of reliability indices is derived by decoupling the reliability index of composite systems into two parts: generation adequacy and transmission reliability. Then, an impact-increment-based state enumeration reliability assessment method is implemented to both the parts, which are more efficient than tradition methods. Thereafter, a reduction technique for the higher-order contingency states is developed for the transmission reliability evaluation. With this technique, the number of analysed contingencies can be significantly reduced, which improves the computational speed significantly. Finally, the overall framework of the proposed IID approach is demonstrated. Case studies are performed on the RTS-79, RTS-96 and a provincial system of China. Results indicate that the proposed method has superior performance to the traditional reliability assessment methods in terms of accuracy and computational speed, particularly on large-scale composite systems.


Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multiple ways of envisioning the relationships between maps and narratives. This is approached from a map making perspective. Throughout the process of editing this special issue, we have identified two main types of relationships. Firstly, maps have been used to represent the spatio-temporal structures of stories and their relationships with places. Oral, written and audio-visual stories have been mapped extensively. They raise some common cartographic challenges, such as improving the spatial expression of time, emotions, ambiguity, connotation, as well as the mixing of personal and global scales, real and fictional places, dream and reality, joy and pain. Secondly, the potential of maps as narratives and the importance of connecting the map with the complete mapping process through narratives is addressed. Although the potential of maps to tell stories has already been widely acknowledged, we emphasize the increasing recognition of the importance of developing narratives that critically describe the cartographic process and context in which maps unfold - the core idea of post-representational cartography. Telling the story about how maps are created and how they come to life in a broad social context and in the hands of their users has become a new challenge for mapmakers.


In our work over the past 15 years, we have been guided by a premise, right or wrong, that fundamental changes in how organizations work require fundamental changes in how we think and interact. Changes in the "outer world" do not necessarily produce change in the "inner world"… I am skeptical of what can be accomplished by changes in structure alone.… What leads us to believe that lots of local managers, focused on their own profits, will be any more far-sighted than a few corporate managers focused on corporate profits? Will they be any better at systems thinking? … What good is it to have more free movement of information if people cannot discuss the information that is most important, but that is also the most threatening? (Sugarman, 1997).


Introduction: Needs assessment is considered as the first step in planning comprehensive education in various settings. In this paper we aim to illustrate the efficiency of needs assessment approach in exploring the viewpoints of parents, teachers and adolescents towards pubertal health needs in school settings.
Materials and Methods: In this descriptive study we randomly selected two schools of from the. For appointing the best educational method be selected assessment of need approach. The tools of gathering information contain 3 separate questionnaires that their questions were open and close with demographic particulars. The information concerning puberty health in youths in physical, sexual, mental and social dimensions is used for target groups who's contain students, mothers and teachers. Date be considered and analyzed by statistical software spss.
Results: The findings reveal opinion of girls, the best learning was peer education approach about concerning puberty and opinion of mothers and teachers it was group discussions. In opinion of all on them period before puberty was the best time for education and the mother and health educator were effective first and second persons in order for infirmity about health puberty. All of them introduced the home – family and the school as first and second agents in promotion of puberty health of girls.
Conclusion: The student's groups introduce mother and sister and their interested sources for informing about puberty health in order. While the mother's groups have given first grade to health educators in schools and other to mothers and the teacher's group introduced mother and health educators in schools in order a first and second agents. So the findings suggest that the Need assessment Approach is one of those useful ways to render health needs of girls in the age of puberty as well as family health in general. Needs assessment approaches can be used to provide the schools educational packages which needs to be matched with the health needs of target groups.


Every clinician who has worked in an intensive care unit (ICU) for any length of time has had the experience of caring for a patient whose prognosis is very poor, but rarely can we say that there is no chance for survival. Most of us have also had the experience of having such a patient not only survive but return to a normal life. It is well recognized that multiple organ failure is associated with an increased risk of mortality, often after a prolonged period of ICU support (1, 2). It is very difficult to identify those patients with multiple organ failure who will ultimately survive and those who will not. The usual approach is to provide maximal support for potentially reversible conditions until the outcome becomes clear or the patient and family request that treatment be limited.


A survey of 182 employees participating in writing workshops reveals some differences in writing practices, based on the educational level of the employee, and suggests that employees with advanced degrees (e.g., master's or doctoral) vary most noticeably from the other groups. In particular, it seems that a large percentage of workers with graduate training write long reports, write to other experts in their field, and spend time revising. Additional research needs to be done on the impact of educational level on writing practices.


relatively "pure" articulatory dyspraxia, the responsible lesion was smaller than in these other case reports. The traumatic haemorrhage destroyed a small area of the inferior aspect of the left precentral gyrus leading to scarring and shrinkage of the Rolandic operculum by the time the second scan was performed two years later. It is impossible to conclude whether damage to the cortex alone was responsible for the disorder or whether subcortical trauma led to additional cortical disconnection, particularly in view of the inner "dumb-bell" area of haemorrhage seen on the initial scan. Presumably, there is a relatively small collection of neurons responsible for the organisation ofarticulation in the dominant precentral gyrus close to, but distinct from, Broca's area which when damaged produces the curious syndrome of articulatory dyspraxia. C E CLARKE D S HOLDER S CURRIE Department of Neurology, St James's University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF J STONE Department of Speech Therapy, Harrogate District Hospital, Harrogate, UK.


This paper presented a new analytical model of partial differential equations (pde) for volatile organic compounds (vocs) emission from porous building materials. By applying Laplace transformation the representations for vocs concentration in the chamber and in the porous building material were given. The emission curves and average concentrations of some porous building materials Medium Density Fiberboards (mdf) in an airtight chamber were obtained. Result of the present model shows a good agreement with the experimental data.


In order to obtain the optimum extraction conditions for flavoness from Semen Astragali Complanati,on the basis of one-factor experiment,the ratio of solvent-to-sample,extraction temperature,particle size and extraction time were optimized by Response Surface Methodology( RSM) and the absorption of extracts was chosen as the response value.The optimized extraction conditions were determined as follows: the suitable extractant was 60% methanol; the particle size was 120 mesh; the extraction temperature was 42 ℃; the extraction time was 47 min; the ratio of solvent-to-sample was 30∶ 1. Under these conditions,the crude extraction yield of flavone was 10. 66%. In addition,the DPPH scavenging ability of the extract was investigated. The results indicated that there was a good correlation between extract's concentration and scavenging rate at lower concentrations,and the highest DPPH scavenging ability was obtained when the concentration of flavone was 2%.


Abstract Recently Knapp and coworkers1 reported a highly stereoselective synthesis of the naturally occurring cyclitol conduritol A (1) from p-benzoquinone (2) in 39% overall yield using 9-[(benzyloxy)methoxy]-anthracene (3) as a protecting group (Scheme 1). Although regeneration of the olefinic bond in the product was achieved at room temperature via an oxyanion-accelerated2 retro Diels-Alder reaction, this step necessitated protection of the newly introduced groups.


The aim of the present investigation is to identify the mechanisms of deformation of the affective - emotive system and his relation with the disorders of attention in an intentional sample of 60 children between the ages from 6 to 7 years of age, who possess clinical history of evaluation of control of the healthy child from the first months of born up to the current control of the cohort in the period in December 2011 to November 2012.The instruments will be:The SNT designed by Sarria 2010 and Faces Test : Yale, 2006 in order to measure the disorders atentivos of the described sample, and the protocol of evaluation of control of the healthy child registered by the specialists pediatricians of HNERM at different stages of the children of these children ,in such a way that will be a design of cohort study (Hernandez, Fernandez & Baptista, 2010) with regard to the prospective follow-up of processes affective-emotional and attention deficits associated. For the analysis of the data will be used SPSS version 17, frequency distribution tables and percentages,Coefficient of Correlation Pearson and other parametric measures, showing the following conclusions: 1. The mother child interaction in the first stage of life has significant influence on the formation of emotional affective systm and this determined a posteriori indices of attention deficit. 2. There is a direct correlation between positive emotional development (load happy, mourn little in the presence of the mother and optimal orientation reflects voluntary attention (le optimal reception of stimuli). 3. There is a direct correlation between inadequate emotional development (they mourn frequently, even while in his mother arms) and poor reaction voluntary attention to changes in stimulation (le poor reception of stimuli).


The invention discloses a skewed slot crystallization apparatus and a working method thereof. The skewed slot crystallization apparatus comprises a liquid flow plate, the liquid flow plate and a horizontal plane are arranged with an included angle, one end is positioned on the horizontal plane, the other end is fixed at the position higher than the horizontal surface, several opening grooves are distributed on the upper surface of the liquid flow plate along an inclined plane direction in order, and several condenser tubes are distributed below the liquid flow plate. The skewed slot crystallization apparatus has the advantages of simple structure and low cost, by controlling the condenser tube, the inclination degree of an inclined plate and the flow velocity of crystallization liquid, the reagent products with different purity can be conveniently obtained on same liquid flow plate, industrial large-scale production is realized, the apparatus can solve the problem of single purity crystal preparation, secondary utilization is realized according to different purity, operation is easy, and the apparatus can be widely used for purifying and separating common inorganic salt reagents.


The techniques of tissue culture and rapid propagation of Eupatorium chinense L.were studied by comparing with different explants,types and concentrations of plant growth regulartors,types of rooting medium and transplanting medium.The results showed that the most suitable procedure for sterilization was to soak explants into 0.1% HgCl2 solution for 10 min after pretreatment with 75% alcohol for 10 s.The tender stems were the best explants.MS+6-BA 1.00 mg·L-1+IBA 0.05 mg·L-1 could effectively induce fasciculate buds and be suitable for subculture and proliferation,the propagation coefficient was 9.43 every 30 days;the most optimum rooting medium was 1/2MS+IBA 0.05-0.10 mg·L-1,and the rooting rate was 100%.The rooting seedlings were effectively transplanted in glebe soil.The highest survival rate was 93.3%.


This report presents the case of an 18-year-old Colombian creole mare with a history of subfertility, continuous and prolonged oestrous, uterine oedema categorized between 4 and 5, and moderate sized cysts present in the endometrial and myometrial layer. As a diagnostic plan, an endometrial culture, hysteroscopy, and a biopsy for histopathology were performed. Proteus mirabilis was found in the bacteriology culture. Hysteroscopy


Cultural Goods is a complex creating economical added value combining country's cultural and historical element with aesthetic element and industrial technology. Cultural Goods is not only a high value creative industry, but also a knowledge-creative industry creating new value combining country's own cultural identity and uniqueness to the world. Therefore it's a twenty-first century's promising growth requiring cutting edge software technology and high-degree cultural creative ability than any other industries.Korea has a high level in national governmental cognition to cultural goods, but establishing foundation to private capital's inflow and fostering of conciliation is insufficient. Product developments are being also promoted in the stage of imitating western items, and new-product development in financial-centrical aspect is very short due to product development focusing on handicrafted similar works of art, regional local products, tourism souvenirs.Korean Traditional Embroidery is our valuable cultural heritage projecting our thought and aesthetic consciousness. Without being industrialized with differentiated culture, it could be lost without counteracting to international competitive period. We have to develop our Korean Traditional Embroidery as Cultural Goods fit to our period like ceramics of China and England, wooden lacquerware of Japan, etc.So we have to study Korean Traditional Embroidery can be produced and developed as globally excellent Cultural Goods.


In order to compensate the thermal deformation of the ball screws due to the heat generated during operation, the ball screws are generally given tension load when the machine tools are assembled and shipped. Although this empirical practice has been widely adopted, the effect of tension load given to the ball screws is not clarified quantitatively. The present paper deals with theoretical and experimental analyses of the effect of the tension load on the thermal deformation of the ball screw and the deviation of the position of the nut. It has been clarified that there exists a position of the nut along the ball screw where its deviation is zero despite the thermal deformation of the ball screw, and this position is determined by the ratio of the rigidities of both supporting brackets. A practical method is also presented to reduce the machining error due to the thermal deformation of the ball screw.


Criteria for noise exposure considered acceptable for hearing protection are based upon industrial experience, yet these same criteria do not describe the experience of musicians. Investigation of the physics of the human ear reveals a basic design compromise that explains this anomaly. Acoustic stimulation is encoded in the velocity response of the basilar membrane, which makes possible the use of damping control to achieve the dynamic range of the ear. The use of damping control for this purpose without unacceptable distortions is possible if damping is slowly varying. The ear is free running and guided by previous instruction, making it vulnerable to loud impulsive sounds. To protect the ear the aural reflex is provided, but this protection is limited to frequencies below about 1 to 2 kHz. In the natural environment this design compromise is satisfactory, but in the industrial environment loud impulsive sounds are common and the compromise fails. It is to be noted that impulsive sounds of high frequenc...


This paper presents an improved voltage controlled crystal oscillator for the ATCXO, which uses variable MOS capacitors to regulate its frequency, thus achieving higher compensation accuracy in a smaller area. The enhanced VCXO is biased using a CTAT current source, a method that eliminates the temperature variation effects on ATCXO compensation accuracy of conventional pierce oscillator circuits. Based on this, the ATCXO's temperature compensation voltage coefficient is modified to compensate for output frequency variations caused by temperature changes in the MOS capacitors own capacitance, achieving higher compensation accuracy. The design achieves frequency compensation accuracy of ±0.7ppm over the -$40^{\circ}C$ to $85^{\circ}C$ temperature range in a $0.23\times 0.26mm^{2}$ footprint using a 110 nm CMOS process.


Purpose. The aim of the article is a consolidated analysis of brewing barley cultivation practice in comparison with data of specialized malt laboratories on annual grain quality, with the intention to optimize elements of its cultivation technology adapted to changes in the environment, resource opportunities and modernized requirements for brewing grain quality.

Methodology of research. The following methods were used in the study: monographic, scientific generalization (to determine the problems of production of malting barley), dialectical (in determining the impact on grain quality of natural and anthropogenic factors), system analysis, abstract and logical (in the analysis of operational information on production technology and statistics of cost structure, substantiation of conclusions and proposals).

Findings. The technology of growing malting barley in farms of different levels of resource provision of the central and north-eastern regions of Ukraine is analysed and compared with the results of monitoring the quality of grain yield, which allows to make reasonable conclusions about the effectiveness of each of its elements. It is established that the adaptation of domestic producers of grain products to the requirements of European quality standards can be ensured through advanced technology and effective management decisions. It is proved that to achieve maximum efficiency in the realization of quantitative and qualitative potential of malting barley is possible only if the placement of crops is in a favourable agro-climatic zone; the use of varietal resources adapted to the conditions of the region is agreed with the final consumer - the malt enterprise; indisputable clear implementation of the elements of technology is regulated by the target direction of cultivation.

Originality. Using an array of information from a significant number of farms in different regions, for the first time, a consolidated analysis of the effectiveness of the existing technology for growing malting barley in terms of quantitative and qualitative indicators, taking into account the resource provision of farms and the results of analysis of the quality of grain harvest from specialized laboratories of malt corporations, was carried out.

Practical value. Analytical information, conclusions and recommendations will help farmers to optimize the technology and cost structure and significantly increase the efficiency of production of malting barley.

Key words: barley, productivity, quality, technology, resource provision, efficiency.


The precise 3D microstructures with a high aspect ratio are needed in many advance applications. This paper describes recent advantages and prospects of precise 3D microfabrication with a high aspect ratio. Especially LIGA process using synchrotron radiation is applied to pattern regist layers with typical thickness from several μm to 2000μm. Here next technical targets of LIGA process are described. And a variety of ultra Precise 3D microstructures process brought LIGA process allows a new diffraction grating for obtaining high-resolution phase data. We developed the fabrication technique composed MEMS process and LIGA process. The line width and the aspect ratio of this grating are 4μm and above 7, respectively. We evaluated the diffraction grating in SPring 8.


A direct test of cell-mediated function is described using a 51Cr release assay for lymphocyte-mediated cytotoxicity (LMC) of influenza virus- (H3hkNeq1) infected tissue culture cells. LMC was detected only in volunteers with serum-neutralizing antibody to H3hkNeq1 influenza virus. A positive correlation between degree of LMC and serum neutralizing antibody titers was found in the tested volunteers.


I wanted to know everythi ng . The promise of school-where you learnedsounded like a paradise. On my first day, I was out the door early, scrubbed and de terminedly alone. On the way I purchased a tabl et and a thick green pencil at the corner grocery. The redbrick school squa tted in the midd le of a dusty p layground . Inside , it was cool and dark as I walked down an oiled wood corridor to my hom eroom . I found a mili tary array of tablet desks. The best sea t, I saw, was aga ins t the large oak desk of the teacher. I sat there, took out my new pencil and tablet, and w atche d m y classm ates dawdle into the roo m. An attractive large wo ma n walked in and gave me an as tonished look. She asked my nam e and said, "Larry,please take your seat with the other children." She crisply exp lained that my sea t was for bad boys an d girls who couldn't beh ave. That exp lanation seemed menacing-even prophetic. I dragged my shoes back to a seat in the last row, embittered by a scheme that allowed only the worst stude nts to sit by th e teacher. Indeed, I had thought th at school meant you go t your own teach er. That was best for learning, I kn ew-for, w he never I coul d pest er an adult wi th questions, I learned. Now, I was in the back row. At least there was some one to talk wi th, and I began to get acquainted . Suddenly, the teacher loomed before us. "No one, " her voice intoned like the unsheathing of a kn ife, " talks in this roo m unless they are addressed by the teacher." We sat in glum silence. I wanted to go home and cry. I wan ted to run, hide, d isappear, and w ake up fro m this sud den nightmare. Learning was talk. I followed uncles, aunts, grandparents, and parentseven neighbors and meter readersand asked them about wha t they were doing. I talk ed to strangers who wa lked down the stree t, and they became friends. I shared my opinions about the world . Everywhere, people were eager to show me, answer me, ask me. If school had no fresh and freeflowing talk, then I was a fish on a mud bank. Wh at kind of hell was school? Within we eks, I knew. Teachers talked , asked qu estions, described your faults, gave orders, and led cheerleading. Everyone had to do the same things at the same time-read the same book, draw the same pumpkin, and sing the same song. If you talk ed spontaneously, yo u were ya n ked to sit by th e teacher 's desk , where classmates cou ld mock you . Everything required permission-getting a drink, goi ng to the toilet , sharpening a pen cil. You sa t quietl y. You were sup posed to listen . If you looked out the window or opened a comic book, the dunce sea t go t you. In stubbo rnness, I decid ed that school w asn ' t abo u t learning. Whether cursive writing, sounding out words in insipid stories, or colo ring seasonal objects within the line s, I did the work without heart. At the age of six, I kn ew that school was abou t being told, watche d, and corrected . Sur-


Report presents additional information about system described in "Video Event Trigger" (LEW-15076). Digital electronic system processes video-image data to generate trigger signal when image shows significant change, such as motion, or appearance, disappearance, change in color, brightness, or dilation of object. Potential uses include monitoring of hallways, parking lots, and other areas during hours when supposed unoccupied, looking for fires, tracking airplanes or other moving objects, identification of missing or defective parts on production lines, and video recording of automobile crash tests.


A mission to Guatemala provides insight on the PA profession and introspection on what it means to work in healthcare.


Geographical Indications (GI) have emerged as a significant form of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issue in the Indian context. In view of their commercial potential, adequate legal protection of GIs becomes necessary to prevent their misappropriation. GI protection with the enactment of 'the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999, coupled with the 'Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Rules, 2002. The Act, which became operational with effect from 15 September 2003, was drafted as part of the exercise in the country to set in place national IPR laws as much in compliance with India's obligations under the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) so as to take advantage of the 'minimum' standards of GI protection that the TRIPs sets out for the WTO members to comply with in their respective national legislations. General Geographical names have acquired a lot of importance in the existing commercial market particularly the goods uniquely associated with such names like Kashmir apple. There is a possibility in the modern-day for misusing such Geographical names and wrongly applying on the goods or products not associated with such names. This type of misusing Geographical Indication or deceptive Indications of sources of goods has become quite common in commercial market it should be results in loss cause to the consumers and to the particular geographic region. The International community has taken the necessary action for protect the Geographical Indication. In 1994 WTO Agreement on Trade Related aspects of Intellectual property Rights of intellectual property rights provides a skeletal framework of rules intended to permit the international recognition of Geographical Indications and free trade in the products that bear a Geographical Indications. India has also taken legislative measures by enacting Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 along with the Geographical Indication of Goods (Registration and Protection) Rules, 2002 that on implementation would go a long way to protect Geographical Indications and provide a model for other countries to follow. The protection of Geographical Indications has over the years, emerged as one of the most contentious intellectual property rights issues in the global level assumes enormous significance for a country like India. Which has in its possession a number of world renowned Geographical Indications e.g. Darjeeling, Basmati Alphonso etc. Geographical Indications generally refer to any Indications that identifies a good as originating from a particular place, where a given quality reputation or other characteristics of the good are essentially attributable to its Geographical origin. Introduced by the Trips agreement presently the Geographical Indications have been recognized as one of the important intellectual property rights and there for given statutory protection both under national and international levels. Plainly stated the Geographical Indication is an indication, which statutorily signifies that a particular product originated from a particular place, which may be a country, territory, region or a locality.


We have investigated the critical behavior of a two-dimensional phase transition of the p(2×1) oxygen overlayer on a W(110) surface, using high-resolution low-energy-electron diffraction (LEED). The temperature dependence of a characteristic (1/20) LEED spot of the p(2×1) structure reveals a power-law divergence for the susceptibility and correlation length of the critical scattering near the transition temperature of 709 K. Two independent exponents estimated from line-shape analyses are β=0.19±0.05 and γ - =1.48±0.34 for T<T c , showing significant deviations from those of the two-dimensional (2D) Ising model


This study shows the feasibility of obtaining of hydroxyapatite nanoparticles by a modification of conventional precipitation method. The work focuses on the synthesis and characterization. Particle sizes were obtained nanometric form of spheres, finding an average diameter in the range from 50 nm to 98. The identification studies of hydroxyapatite phase were obtained by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) whereas the nanoparticles sizes and morphological study was carried out by the scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) technique.


This research aimed to study the effect of garlic extract on the growth of stem cuttings of several types of bougainvillea and used a factorial randomized block design (RAK) with two factors. First factor is garlic extract in 2 levels,  (with or without garlic extract). Second factor 2 is the type of bougainvillea consisting of 5 varieties such as yellow flowers, dark purple flowers, white flowers, red flowers and orange flowers. The results showed that the interaction between onion extract and bougainvillea had no significant effect on all observed variables (sprouting time, number of shoots, shoot length, number of roots, root length, percentage of cuttings sprouted and percentage of rooted cuttings). Garlic extract had no significant effect on all observed variables. There was a tendency for cuttings given garlic extract to show a faster age of budding, more shoots, longer roots and more roots. The type of bougainvillea gave a very significant effect on all observed variables except the number of shoots. Red flowers show the earliest age to start sprouting (16.80 days), the longest shoots (26.03 cm) and the longest roots (9.43 cm). Orange flowers performed the highest number of shoots (4.79), the highest percentage of shoots (96.67%) and the highest percentage of roots (96.67). Yellow flowers showed the latest sprouting time (37.08 days), the shortest shoot length (2.51 cm), the shortest root length (1.56 cm), and the least number of roots (1.06). Dark purple flowers showed the lowest percentage of budding and root percentage (63.33%).


The aim of this paper is to give some algorithms detecting topological transitivity, mixing and other properties of subshifts of finite type.


Refraction of gravity waves in the coastal area off Cape Hatteras, NC as documented by synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery from Seasat orbit 974 (collected on September 3, 1978) is discussed. An analysis of optical Fourier transforms (OFTs) from more than 70 geographical positions yields estimates of wavelength and wave direction for each position. In addition, independent estimates of the same two quantities are calculated using two simple theoretical wave-refraction models. The OFT results are then compared with the theoretical results. A statistical analysis shows a significant degree of linear correlation between the data sets. This is considered to indicate that the Seasat SAR produces imagery whose clarity is sufficient to show the refraction of gravity waves in shallow water.


Diabetes mellitus encloses a group of metabolic riots that can lead to the hiperglicemia. The main symptoms are intense headquarters, urine and hunger and loss of weight. It has peripheral vascularinsufficience, provoking riots of healing, and physiological alterations that diminish the imunological capacity, increasing the easiness to have infections. 3 or 4% of the adult patients whom will submit the odontological treatment are diabetic. Amongst the buccal alterations of these patients, there are the hipoplasia, the hipocalcificacao of the enamel,


The present invention provides a method for adjusting a channel, the cognitive radio communication is possible, by inhibiting the perception of interference with the auxiliary channel (ACS) Pilot Channel (CPC), can be reliably detected information and control information detection exchange. In this method, firstly, establish a perceived connection pilot channel (CPC), and thereafter, determines whether or not the auxiliary channel spectrum detection of (the ACS), if the determination result of use, it is determined that the assist control of the spectrum detected by the whether a channel (ACS) and established the cognitive pilot channel (CPC) will interfere, thereby adjusting the perceived channel auxiliary pilot channel (CPC) is the spectral detection (ACS) such that they do not produce put one's oar in.


This article briefly describes principle and use of Partograph in obstetrical practices. This article includes objectives and scope of the tool, the WHO partograph model, the principle of partograph use, components of partograph, problems with the who partograph and advantages and disadvantages of partograph use.


The paper considers new classes of software-oriented logical formalisms – pure first-order logics of partial quasiary predicates with extended renomi- nations and predicates of strong equality and of weak equality.


This study examined attitudinalfactors that discriminate between virgins and nonvirgins among an urban sample of junior and senior high school adolescents. The sample consisted of 240 Hispanic adolescent females, age 12 through 18 years. Virgins significantly differed from nonvirgins within both the junior high school sample (12-through 15-year-olds) and the senior high school group (16-through 18-year-olds). There were notable differences and similarities between the two age groups on which attitudes most powerfully discriminated between the virgins and the nonvirgins. The younger females were most strongly influenced by their perception of their friends 'attitudes and behavior regarding premarital sexuality. The older females were most powerfully influenced by their own attitudes about premarital sexuality. Additionally, achievement orientation discriminated virgins from nonvirgins among the younger females while perception of parental attitudes toward premarital sexuality discriminated older virgins from nonvirgins.


COVID-19 has altered our experiences over the last few years; it has put our lives and
daily choices in a new light. This paper reflects on these challenges regarding healthy
ageing and what we can do to contribute to our ageing process as well as the health of
the planet. Physical activity and exercise have been proven to make people happy and
healthy. Those same things also make the planet healthy. The basic assumption of this
presentation is that the well-being of the individual and that of the earth can be improved
through a sustainable, active lifestyle. While social science and medical research have
addressed the importance of human movement in recent years, the social and environmental
factors that help promote physical activity and healthy ageing remain insufficiently
addressed. Some factors that lead to engaging in physical activity and sustainably
continuing will be addressed. Finally, the interaction of some of the influences of personal
circumstances and community, as well as the impacts of environmental support and constraints,
will be highlighted, - especially as they relate to the ongoing COVID-19 global
pandemic.


Our study presents a Late Neolithic enclosed settlement from Lower Bavaria. This site arouses interest not only regionally but also on a Central European level, as several phenomena emerged during this period along the Danube in Lower Bavaria that are strongly linked to the Carpathian Basin and other parts of Central Europe. In our present report, we focus on one phenomenon of the many at Riedling, the so-called structured deposits. These find assemblages are probably results of intentional selection of the material culture deposited deliberately, perhaps related to single ritual events.


Humanism is first used in the west in the 19th century.The terminology stands for a direction or orientation whereby as human liberations are continuously achieved,they make consecutive progress,and human freedom and liberations are gifted more meanings.However,the Chinese humanism rises in the later 1980s and early 1990s.First,neo-Confucianism-based humanism is advocated.Moreover the west-modernity-pivoted anti-materialism or anti-science gets disseminated in humanistic thoughts.On this basis the paper argues that the modern Chinese humanism should be closely combined with practice in China.Science as humanism is opposed,and feudal official-centered concept of human oppression should be severely denounced.


The aim of this work is to investigate the catalytic properties, i.e. activity, selectivity and stability of nickel‐substituted Ba‐hexaaluminates for the cracking and steam‐reforming of a tar in pr ...


This paper develops a modeling approach to address the end-of-batch product quality prediction problem for batch processes with limited batch-cycle data. Generally, those batch processes that have multiple phases are the focus of the present paper. Different from the traditional multiway/phase-based partial least-squares (PLS) method, which unfolds the three-way data set through the batch direction, the proposed method unfolds the data set through the variable direction, in order to generate more training data samples. Reproducing the product quality data with the noise injection method allows a statistical model to be developed in each phase of the batch process. This, however, does not remove the nonlinearity of the batch process data, as practically addressed by the typical batch normalization. Therefore, a nonlinear regression model is subsequently introduced to handle this problem for product quality prediction modeling. To compare the performance of linear and nonlinear statistical models, phase-bas...


We investigate the effects produced mainly by broadband soft X-rays up to 2 keV (plus fast (∼keV) photoelectrons and low-energy (∼eV) induced secondary electrons) in the ice mixtures containing H2O:CO2:NH3:SO2 (10:1:1:1) at two different temperatures (50 and 90 K). The experiments are an attempt to simulate the photochemical processes induced by energetic photons in SO2-containing ices present in cold environments in the ices surrounding young stellar objects (YSO) and in molecular clouds in the vicinity of star-forming regions, which are largely illuminated by soft X-rays. The measurements were performed using a high-vacuum portable chamber from the Laboratório de Astroquímica e Astrobiologia (LASA/UNIVAP) coupled to the spherical grating monochromator beamline at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Source (LNLS) in Campinas, Brazil. In situ analyses were performed by a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer. Sample processing revealed the formation of several organic molecules, including nitriles, acids, and other compounds such as H2O2, H3O+, SO3, CO, and OCN−. The dissociation cross section of parental species was on the order of (2–7) × 10−18 cm2. The ice temperature does not seem to affect the stability of SO2 in the presence of X-rays. Formation cross sections of new species produced were also determined. Molecular half-lives at ices toward YSOs due to the presence of incoming soft X-rays were estimated. The low values obtained employing two different models of the radiation field of YSOs (TW Hydra and typical T-Tauri star) reinforce that soft X-rays are indeed a very efficient source of molecular dissociation in such environments.


This essay argues that government budget should be used as the main instrument to control of public policies. When judicial institutions take it seriously, they respect, at the same time, majoritarian decisions from the democratic process and the fundamental rights they are responsible to guard as imposed by the Constitution. The essay, in a literature review, begins analyzing the nature and characteristics of public policies, and their relation to fundamental rights and the possibility of judicial control over them, which is followed by the public budget, its concept, nature and relation with planning and public policies. Finally, the essay turns to the importance of public budget as a link between the legal and political system and the importance of taking into account allocative decisions legitimately made when judges review public policies in concrete cases, therefore a space for a proposal of criteria limiting the judicial interference in the budgetary formulation of public policies: depending on its connection with electoral proposals and of that with political parties' programs in the democratic process, the budget works as a reasonableness parameter usefull to judicial review of public policies


We study an electron that interacts with phonons or other linear or nonlinear excitations as it resonantly tunnels. The method we use is based on mapping a many-body problem in a large variational space exactly onto a one-body problem. The method is conceptually simpler than previous Green`s function approaches, and allows the essentially exact numerical solution of much more general problems. We solve tunneling problems with transverse channels, multiple sites coupled to phonons, and multiple phonon degrees of freedom and excitations.


Contents: Preface. Part I: Cognitive Interference and Information Processing. E. Klinger, The Contents of Thoughts: Interference as the Downside of Adaptive Normal Mechanisms in Thought Flow. C.S. Carver, Cognitive Interference and the Structure of Behavior. C. MacLeod, Anxiety and Cognitive Processes. P.L. Yee, J. Vaughan, Integrating Cognitive, Personality, and Social Approaches to Cognitive Interference and Distractibility. R. Schwarzer, Thought Control of Action: Interfering Self-Doubts. M.W. Vasey, E.L. Daleiden, Information-Processing Pathways to Cognitive Interference in Childhood. I.G. Sarason, G.R. Pierce, B.R. Sarason, Domains of Cognitive Interference. R. Kanfer, P.L. Ackerman, A Self-Regulatory Skills Perspective to Reducing Cognitive Interference. Part II: Cognitive Interference, Stress, and Performance. S.M. Miller, Monitoring and Blunting of Threatening Information: Cognitive Interference and Facilitation in the Coping Process. M. Mikulincer, Mental Rumination and Learned Helplessness: Cognitive Shifts During Helplessness Training and Their Behavioral Consequences. M.A. Bruch, Cognitive Interference and Social Interaction: The Case of Shyness and Nonassertiveness. J.V. Wood, P. Dodgson, When Is Self-Focused Attention an Adaptive Coping Response?: Rumination and Overgeneralization Versus Compensation. R.E. Smith, Performance Anxiety, Cognitive Interference, and Concentration Enhancement Strategies in Sports. G.R. Pierce, C.A. Henderson, J.H. Yost, C.M. Loffredo, Cognitive Interference, and Personality: Theoretical and Methodological Issues. Part III: Cognitive Interference and Clinical Problems. M.J. Dombeck, G.J. Siegle, R.E. Ingram, Cognitive Interference and Coping Strategies in Vulnerability to Negative Affect. Z.V. Segal, Cognitive Interference in Depressive and Anxiety-Based Disorders. I.H. Gotlib, J.E. Roberts, E. Gilboa, Cognitive Interference in Depression. W. Nasby, J.L. Yates, Toward a Network Model of Dissociative Mechanisms. K.J. Craig, J.A. Heisler, A. Baum, Intrusive Thought and the Maintenance of Chronic Stress.


Panel studies show that job creation and job destruction coexist at all phase of the business cycle. In this paper, we develop a model of endogenous job destruction in response to persistent idiosyncratic shocks and incorporate the model into he transactions cost (matching) approach to equilibrium job creation and wage determination. Second, we examine the dynamic stochastic implications of the model for co-movement between job creation, job destruction, and the employment growth induced by a common aggregate shock to productivity. Finally, a simulation of the model for a reasonable parametrization demonstrates that it can explain cyclical properties of US Manufacturing data.


Lock-in thermography (LT) is based on the correct evaluation of phase differences between the temperature oscillations at different surface regions of the object under test during periodic heating. Since the usual heating procedures contain a DC component, the actual heating pattern achieved is not harmonic. This causes systematic deviations when phase differences are determined by means of harmonic analysis, e.g. with FFT analysis. The resulting errors depend clearly on the ratio between DC and AC amplitude, which is demonstrated at simulated and experimentally recorded temperature transients. Further experimental LT data obtained by different oscillating energy inputs showed a variety of possible shapes of transients with different DC components.


The upgrading of industrial competitiveness is the key to the development of burgeoning strategic industry,and industrial policies are the important means of promoting industrial competitiveness.This paper analyzes the characteristics of the evolution of kernel technical chain of IoT and the problems during the industrialization of technology,and describes the industrial innovation system consisted of endogenous technical chain and exogenous industrial policy.Based on the industrial experiences of developed countries,this paper puts forward to some suggestion for independent development of IoT.


ABSTRACT This study investigated interleukin-4 (IL-4), IL-4δ2, transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β), TGF-βRII, Foxp3, GATA-3, T-bet, and gamma interferon (IFN-γ) transcription in peripheral blood samples of adult pulmonary tuberculosis patients prior to and after 1 week of therapy. Twenty patients with positive results for sputum culture for Mycobacterium tuberculosis were enrolled and treated with directly observed short-course antituberculosis chemotherapy. Early treatment response was assessed. At the end of the intensive phase of treatment (month 2), 12 patients remained sputum culture positive (slow responders) and 8 converted to a negative culture (fast responders). Only the expression levels of IL-4 (4-fold decrease) and IL-4δ2 (32-fold increase) changed significantly during the first week of therapy in the 20 patients. No baseline differences were present between the responder groups, but fast responders had significantly higher IL-4 transcripts than slow responders at week 1. Fast responders showed a 19-fold upregulation and slow responders a 47-fold upregulation of IL-4δ2 at week 1. Only slow responders also showed a significant decrease in IL-4 expression at week 1. There were no significant differences in expression of TGF-β, TGF-βRII, Foxp3, IFN-γ, and GATA-3 between the groups. These data show that differential IL-4-related gene expression in the early stage of antituberculosis treatment accompanies differential treatment responses and may hold promise as a marker for treatment effect.


The composition and antimicrobial activity of the essential oil from Verbesina negrensis Steyerm. leaves is reported. Analysis was performed by GC/MS. Major constituents were α-pinene (43.1%), α-humulene (13.8%), δ-cadinene (8.1%), limonene (4.6%) and bicyclogermacrene (4.2%). The essential oil showed in vitro activity against the Gram-positive bacteria Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923 and Enterococcus faecalis ATCC 29212 (MIC 500 and 350 μL/mL respectively).


A modular fault diagnosis model of induction motor is proposed based on radial basis function neural network. The modular structure makes model configuration flexible, training time short and model convergence easier. The training algorithm of the fault diagnosis model is given. Through an example, factors of the affecting fault diagnosis model classification are analyzed, methods of feature extraction and feature enhance are discussed, and the algorithm of feature enhance is presented. Lastly, the construction, training and verification of the motor fault diagnosis model consisting of two sub-models are introduced. Research results show that because of adopting the modular model and using a sub-model to recognize a fault state, model training becomes easier. It is more important that the fault recognition ability and application flexibility of the fault diagnosis model proposed are improved obviously.