It has been proposed that SLI children have a rapid‐rate auditory‐processing deficit, and alternatively, that they have special difficulty with signals that are low in information or degraded. In the present study, steady‐state vowel pairs, /a/–/i/ and /ae/–/eh/, were presented to 20 normal and 20 SLI children within a series of tasks, namely, discrimination, in which they had to detect change/no‐change in a series; identification where they identified stimuli presented one at a time; and sequencing, where they indicated order of presentation of paired stimuli. For both vowel pairs, short (40–5 ms) and long (240–40 ms) series were presented. It was found that the performance of the SLI children was not significantly different from the normals' in tasks involving /a/–/i/. Both groups of children had greater difficulty with the /ae/–/eh/ than the /a/–/i/ tasks, but the SLI children showed significantly greater decrement in performance than normals for /ae/ vs /eh/. Neither group showed a significant effect of ...


Abstract : Maintenance dredging in the Black Channel portion of the Portsmouth Harbor and Piscatiqua River Federal Navigation Project in Portsmouth (commonly referred to as Sagamore Creek) occurs in close proximity to submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV). Species, density, and spatial distribution are of concern to resource agencies given the potential impacts associated with dredging activities including the physical removal of vegetation as well as increases in turbidity and/or siltation. A variety of techniques are available for determining these attributes, including manual sampling, aerial photographic surveys, and acoustic-based surveys. Aerial photography is a standard technique for characterizing SAV distribution and, under some conditions, distinguishing species. It may underestimate SAV coverage if water clarity is low or there is poor contrast between SAV and adjoining bottom material. Acoustic surveys employ the acoustic reflectivity of the SAV for detection and for determining canopy geometric characteristics. Although acoustic techniques are not limited by water clarity, they are typically unable to distinguish species. Both photographic and acoustic techniques require some physical ground-truth sampling to verify interpretation and output. In preparation for scheduled maintenance dredging in Sagamore Creek, near Little Harbor, NH, SAV surveys were scheduled. During coordination meetings to plan these surveys, the validity of the height-based rule for distinguishing eelgrass from marine macroalgae was questioned. Accordingly, a study was planned to compare an acoustic-based estimate of eelgrass distribution with that from aerial photography. In particular, the effect of the acoustic-based plant height discriminant for estimating eelgrass coverage was to be evaluated in this study.


With the fast growth of artificial intelligence and technology, the use of machine learning techniques in financial markets is gaining popularity. As a result, many opportunities arise, such as predicting future stock movements. Financial markets are complex and constantly evolving environments, so analyzing them can be challenging and interesting. There are no specific rules to predict or estimate the value of a stock in the stock market, so one can do stock price prediction by various methods. In this project, the stock price data of Amazon for the past five years, 'Date', 'Starting price', 'Closing price', 'Highest price', 'Lowest price', 'Adjusted close price', and 'Volume' are all included. The data were obtained from Yahoo Finance to predict the future stock price. Two forecasting models, the Linear Regression model, and the Long short-term memory model were analyzed, and based on the comparison of Mean Absolute Error, it was concluded that the LSTM forecasting model was shown to be more effective for forecasting the time-series data category.


The dynamic consolidation technique is characterized by the use of large amounts of energy: a mass from 8 to 20 tons strikes the surface of the land, free-falling from 8 to 15 m at the rate of 2 to 3 blows per minute, the tamping program being determined previously as a function of the nature of the materials. The experience acquired in about 50 operations has shown that this technique, initially intended for the consolidation of very permeable materials such as rocky run-of-quarry materials, was in fact used more often in semi-impermeable saturated soils such as silts and sandy clays. The consolidation process requires in this latter case successive applications of tamping power, with intermediate rest periods, estimated on the basis of laboratory results (dynamic consolidation press). Soils of poor quality have thus become good construction materials and are capable of supporting, without unfavorable settling, structures that normally would have required a pile foundation.


In the software domain, self-adaptive systems are able to modify their behavior at run-time to respond to internal and external changes. In life science, biological cells are power entities able to adapt to the (unpredictable) situations they incur in, in a complete decentralized fashion. We are working on a new architectural paradigm for self-adaptive software systems inspired by the adaptation mechanism coming from the cell life-cycle. In order to address the complexity and the variety of self adaptive systems we found that the cell lifecycle is interesting for three main features: i) their ability to specialize behaviors starting from the most general one, i.e. the stem cell, ii) the cell ability to make regular use of the programmed death mechanism (apoptosis) to get rid of obsolete behaviors. iii) a sort of architectural principle that allows the living organisms to be very efficient systems by maintaining the right trade off between general/universal cells (stem cells)and specialized/labouring ones. In this poster paper we present our STEM paradigm by proposing new roles and architectural structure that will be part of the STEM architecture description language.


CHARLES BROOKER, NICHOLAS TARRIER, CHRISTINE BARROWCLOUGH,ANTHONY BUTTERWORTH and DAVID GOLDBERGCommunitypsychiatricnursesweretrainedto deliverpsychosocialinterventionto clientswitha diagnosisof schizophrenialivingat homewith relatives.The trainingpackageconsistedof familyassessment,healtheducation,andfamilystressmanagementstrategies.Ina '?quasiexperimental'design, a sampleof families (n= 54) were recruitedto either a control orexperimentalconditionandfollowed up for 12 months.A numberof favourableoutcomeswere observedin the experimentalgroup, includingimprovementsin the client's targetsymptoms,personalfunctioning,andsocialadjustment.Relatives'satisfactionwith servicesincreasedand reportsof their own minorpsychiatricmorbidityimproved.Historically, community psychiatric nurses (CPNs)have always been associated with the community careof the patient with schizophrenia. Indeed, the mainimpetus for the establishment of CPN services in themid-1950s was the introduction of the phenothiazinedrugs, which established a new demand for thefollow-up and after-care of such patients (Simmons& Brooker, 1986). Early research into communitypsychiatric nursing was primarily concerned withrelapse in schizophrenia. For example, several studieshave examined the effect on readmission to apsychiatric hospital when a CPN administered depotmedication in the community (Sandford, 1976; Scottet a!, 1977). Hunter (1978) reported a retrospectivestudy of outcome in schizophrenia where patientswere followed up on discharge from hospital. Heformed two groups for comparison, those referredat discharge to a CPN and those not so referred.Surprisingly, perhaps, he found that the patients inthe '?CPN'group had greater psychiatric hospitalcontact five years after discharge. Sladden (1979)provided the first full description of the work of aCPN team. She looked at the work practices of fiveuntrained CPNs using a variety of research methods.She established that, on average, each CPN in the


To study the effects of tempering on microstructure and mechanical property of Cu-22 wt.%Sn alloy, tempering was carried out for 30 sec, 1 min, 5 min, 30 min, 3 h, 5 h, and 10 h at 325, 370, 500, and 570℃, which are in the (α+e), lower (α+δ), higher (α+δ), and (α+γ) region of Cu-Sn phase diagram, respectively. Overall, the hardness value increased and decreased over time at all tempering temperatures, and the time to reach the maximum hardness value beccame shorter as the tempering temperature increases. At the beginning of tempering at each temperature, a portion of the β'' phase was decomposed into a fine (α+δ) phase or (α+γ) phase, so that the Cu-22Sn alloy had a high hardness value. However, as the tempering time increases, the hardness value of the alloy decreased due to the growth of the decomposed phases.
(Received March 16, 2020; Revised March 20, 2020; Accepted March 24, 2020)


TO THE EDITOR: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is prevalent throughout the world, with approximately 4 million infected individuals in the United States alone (1). Spontaneous clearance of HCV after chronic infection has already been established is rare enough to justify individual case reports (2, 3).


Background: Maladaptive cognitive processes have been evidenced in problem anger, and anger rumination is empirically well-established to increase anger and aggression. Negative and positive beliefs about anger may be involved in the selection of maladaptive mental strategies such as angry rumination. The current study explored male forensic inpatients' self-reports of meta-beliefs about anger in episodes involving anger and verbal aggression. Method: Five male forensic inpatients who partic-ipated in a larger data collection were interviewed after a verbally aggressive episode to explore the problematic processing routines and metacognitions activated during anger arousal. Measures: Anger was measured using the NAS, aggression using the SOAS-R, and metacognitive beliefs using the MAP. Patients were interviewed using the `metacognitive profiling´ developed by Wells. Results: All five participants confirmed activated negative meta-beliefs, three confirmed positive meta-beliefs, and three patients confirmed rumination in association with the anger episode concerning the interview. Conclusion: Male forensic inpatients could successfully report details on their cognitive processes during a recent anger episode, and the metacognitive perspective on anger seems clinically relevant to apply in this setting. Modifying the cognitive structures responsible for the selection of rumination as a mental strategy in situations of anger might prove helpful in anger interventions.


A B S T R A C TIntroduction. The Acceleration Program and the International Standard School PilotProject (RSBI) are currently being held in Indonesia. Previous research stated thatthe anxiety of students with acceleration was higher than that of non-acceleratedstudents (regular). Currently, the regular program has mainly been replaced by theRSBI program. This research was conducted to determine differences in the level ofanxiety of students who take the accelerated program and the RSBI program.Methods. The study was conducted using a cross-sectional method, and thesampling was determined by purposive sampling. This study took the population ofstudents of Junior High School 1 Purwokerto. Primary data were collected in the formof friendship quality questionnaires, Rahe-Holmes Social Readjustment Rating Scalelife events questionnaire, body image questionnaire (Body Shape Questionnaire) andTMAS anxiety questionnaire (Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale). Results. Acceleratedstudents who experienced anxiety above the average were 8 (40%) students and 12(60%) students experienced anxiety below average. Non-accelerated students (RSBI)who experienced anxiety above the average were 15 (75%) students and 5 (25%)students experienced anxiety below average. Conclusion. There is a significantdifference in the level of anxiety of students who take the acceleration program andRSBI, where the anxiety of RSBI students is more than that of accelerated students.


A 7-year-old boy with recent left elbow septic arthritis and osteomyelitis presented with new left knee swelling. The patient was recovering from recurrence of traumainduced left elbow septic arthritis and osteomyelitis, which had resulted in 2 admissions within the preceding 2 months. Approximately 1 month into his antibiotic treatment for these conditions, he had developed Clostridioides difficile (C difficile) enterocolitis and was treated with metronidazole. Presenting symptoms began with left knee pain 3 days prior to presentation, with subsequent redness, swelling, pain, and refusal to ambulate, prompting a visit to the Emergency Department. At this time, he was still completing a 6-week course of cephalexin 3 times daily for prior diagnosis. He had experienced mild back pain for approximately 2 weeks prior to admission but had no other significant musculoskeletal complaints. He had no rashes, no visual symptoms, no urogenital symptoms, and no current complaints of diarrhea, after his C difficile diagnosis and treatment 3 weeks prior. At the Emergency Department, he was afebrile (T 36.7°C), had tachycardia to 125 bpm, with normal respiratory rate (26 bpm), blood pressure (102/77 mm Hg), and oxygen saturating 98% on room air. Physical examination was notable for erythema of the left knee, with warmth, swelling, and tenderness to palpation, as well as a palpable effusion. Patient preferred to keep the left leg flexed at the knee and reported pain with full extension. Neurovascular examination was intact. He had negative examination at all other joints, except his left elbow which showed only mild swelling, but no tenderness or limited range of motion, felt to be secondary to improving previous infection. Diagnostic testing showed evidence of inflammation, with white blood cell (WBC) count of 14 000/uL, elevated platelets to 627 000/uL, erythrocyte sedimentation rate to 60 mm/h, C-reactive protein (CRP) reaching a peak of 15.9 mg/dL. Comprehensive metabolic panel was within normal limits. He was SARS-COv-2 PCR (polymerase chain reaction) negative. The x-ray of the left knee showed suprapatellar joint effusion but no acute fracture and no radiographic evidence for acute osteomyelitis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the left knee identified joint effusion with abnormal synovial enhancement but no concern for osteomyelitis, no internal debris or loculations, nor an abnormal marrow signal (Figure 1). He underwent an incision and debridement with Orthopedic Surgery with synovial fluid cell count of WBC 13 000 cells/mm3 (83% segs) and red blood cell count 3000 cells/mm3. Bacterial and fungal joint fluid cultures were negative. His bacterial blood cultures were also negative. Final Diagnosis: Reactive arthritis (ReA) secondary to C difficile enterocolitis.


The article discusses social-psychological aspects of justice. Theories of learning (G. Homans) and social exchange are presented. The distributive justice and its rules are analyzed. The peculiarities of the feeling of injustice are reviewed.


The invention discloses a power switch cabinet protection system. The system comprises a controller, a protection current signal input module, a voltage signal input module, a digital signal input module, a wireless communication module, an analog quantity output module, and a programmable control output module. The power switch cabinet protection system is multifunctional, the production of a switch cabinet intelligent protection measurement and control apparatus and the construction of an on-site communication network are simplified, the workload for links of production, test, installation, debugging, and maintenance of the switch cabinets is greatly reduced, and the problem of heavy workload of test, installation, debugging, and maintenance in the conventional production process of the switch cabinets due to various kinds and quantities of intelligent measurement and control equipment is overcome; and since the current power equipment competition is especially more and more fierce, the optimization of the cost for design, manufacture, test, installation, debugging, and maintenance of the switch cabinets and the improvement of the system reliability are the shortcut for improving the competitiveness of equipment manufacturing enterprises.


payers are increasingly demanding accountability for quality, cost-effective outcomes based on research findings. Reasons for the current focus on scientifically based practice are cost containment, improved patient outcomes, and efficiency. Evidencebased practice is based on research findings, quality improvement data, and/or clinical expertise. Evidencebased clinical applications can be incorporated into written policies, procedures, standards of care, care pathways, and quality-improvement plans. As healthcare and academic organizations expand their affiliations with one another to develop collaborative models for evidence-based nursing practice, students and practicing nurses are being held accountable for using research findings in their practices. Due to a variety of barriers, including educational preparation, most nurses do not, in fact, apply research findings in their practices. The majority of practicing nurses are graduates of diploma or associate degree programs with no education in, or experience with, research. They may not understand concepts of evidence-based practice and are generally unaware of the importance of scientifically based support for their actions. Baccalaureate education is designed to prepare registered nurses as consumers of research; to use research in their practices. Therefore, nursing programs preparing Bachelor of Science completion (BSN) students must incorporate scientifically based content into their courses, and nurse educators need to provide students with experience in accessing scientific literature to support decision making in clinical practice. Some authors even recommend that nursing programs develop courses designed exclusively to teach research utilization. Although most BSN programs include research courses, many do not deal with research utilization in any expanded or practical way. Nursing students can learn first-hand the practical use of research findings if they are given the opportunity to apply this knowledge in a real-world setting. Use of evidence-based practice applications by students may encourage them, as registered nurses, to incorporate research findings into their practices.


Italian crime fiction (known as gialli in Italy) has developed from a popular genre to a fully-fledged literary genre; and in the past thirty years it has gradually become the focus of growing interest from literary critics as well as the reading public. This collection of twelve essays is the first one in English to deal exclusively with Italian crime fiction. The essays are scholarly yet accessible contributions to the growing research in this field. They analyze texts by well-known authors (such as Umberto Eco, Leonardo Sciascia and Andrea Camilleri) as well as works by younger writers. They bring together four of the most significant strands of Italian gialli: the way gialli develop or subvert the tradition and conventions of the crime genre; regional specificity within Italian crime fiction; gialli by and about women, lesbians and gay men; and representations of Italy in gialli written by English-speaking writers.


In this paper, we reported a theoretical study of a novel Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensor composed of BK7 prism, gold (Au)/silver (Ag) bimetallic layer, silicon and two-dimensional (2D) materials. The bimetallic layer combines the advantages of Au and Ag and the high refractive index silicon layer enhances the electric field on the surface of the sensor, so that the sensor has a better overall performance in terms of sensitivity and figure of merit (FOM). Compared with ordinary dielectrics, 2D materials have excellent photoelectric properties, such as larger specific surface area, higher carrier density and stronger adsorption capacity, which improve the detection ability of the sensor. The sensitivity of the optimized sensor achieves 297.2°/RIU, 274°/RIU and 246°/RIU when the silicon layer is covered with graphene, MXene (Ti3T2Cx) and MoS2, respectively. Compared with the traditional SPR sensor, the sensitivity of the structure has been significantly improved, and its excellent performance has broad application prospects in biosensing and other fields.


This paper introduces a kind of speed regulation for DC mortor based on the soft CPU core named Nios II,and then illuminates the thinking and method of SOPC.A piece of FPGA is the core of the system,simple and compact,showsing high integration,flexibility,expandability of SOPC and reduction of the time of development of product.


Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome (CFSDI), is a complex and debilitating chronic condition which has a serious impact on the lifestyle of the sufferer. A number of studies have stated the importance of demographic factors in the development of this illness. Some sociodemographic topics have been asseted in this study, such as: gender, age, ethnicity, and marital status, among others. The current study compared two samples of undergraduate students: a sample of 51 students from DePaul University who identified as Caucasian (not Latino), and a sample of 156 students of Latino origin from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). Results show that women report higher levels at men; participants who have never been married reported less prone to CFS/ME; Also, in the geographical area, at Mexican sample, it was found that 40% suffered from CFS and the State of Mexico. Little research has been made in this field, being necessary.


After differential thermal analysis (DTA) of different concentrations of PbF 2 of Pr 3+ /Yb 3+ codoped fluozirconate glass is carried out under dried nitrogen,the results show that the thermal stability decreases with the concentration of PbF 2 up to 4.5%mol,DTA curves appear to have two crystallisation peaks above T g. The scanning electron micrographs of the samples appear to have phase separation in which the concentration of PbF 2 is different from basic phase.


INTRODUCTION
Cytokines are largely responsible for the regulation of immunoregulatory events and therefore play an important role in transplantation immunology. Recent advances in genetics have made it possible to study the role of cytokine gene polymorphisms in allograft rejection.

METHODS
This review describes studies that have analysed genetic variants in relation to renal disease and transplantation.

RESULTS AND CONCLUSION
Polymorphism of cytokine gene promoters can significantly influence the level of cytokine production, which in turn affects the amount of immunosuppression needed. It is possible that in future, genotyping of transplant recipients with respect to their cytokine gene polymorphisms may help determine their risk of allograft rejection, and thus, provide a guide to individualised immunosuppression in the post-transplant period.


Ongoing operations remain underreported in academia on humanitarian relief operations and the humanitarian supply chain world. It has been repeatedly recognized by both academics and practitioners that there is a need for a well-operated supply chain for the delivery of the relief items to enable success of humanitarian relief operations. To have an efficient and effective supply chain, it is crucial to measure its performance. This study seeks to enable good performance measurement in humanitarian supply chains for ongoing operations.

To achieve the purpose of the thesis, a comprehensive literature review on ongoing operations, the humanitarian supply chain and performance measurement was carried out. It was identified that a performance measurement system should be derived from strategy and provide a balanced view of performance, support decision making in all relevant processes, and be adapted to supply chain context. The literature review contributed to a theoretical framework on how performance should be measured in humanitarian supply chains for ongoing operations. The findings from the literature review was complemented by an in-depth single case study with the UN World Food Programme (WFP), extending from July to October 2018. Interviews with thirteen practitioners involved in different supply chain activities in the chosen case was conducted. Further, during employment at WFP Regional Bureau Nairobi (RBN), the dynamics of the organization's supply chain was observed in different settings. Finally, internal documentation was used to confirm and elaborate information collected during interviews and observations.

Analysis of the collected information concluded that the strategic objectives of a hybrid supply chain strategy, decision elements in the supply chain processes assessment/planning, procurement, storage and transport, and contextual internal and external factors should be taken into consideration to fulfill the purposes of good performance measurement.


Objective To study the occurring of multiple urinary organ involved urothelial carcinoma. Methods 42 cases of multiple urinary organ involved urothelial carcinoma out of 527 cases of urothelial carcinoma were analyzed, with review of the literature. Results In this series the incidence of multiple urinary organ involved urothelial carcinoma was 7.96%, synchronous tumors occurred in 17 cases, metachronous tumors in 25 cases (down urine stream in 20 cases up urine stream in 5 cases).In 18 cases the metachronous tumors occurred within 2 years while only 4 cases over 3 years. In most cases,synchronous or metachronous histological grade was consistent. Conclusions Tumor cell implantation is possibly the most important mechanism in the occurring of multiple urinary organ involved urothelial carcinoma.


This paper provides experimental evidence on whether having religiously different neighbors affects attitudes about other religious groups and/or preferences for interreligious living. I exploit a natural experiment in a large Indian city in which Hindus and Muslims were randomly assigned units in a public housing complex with physically distinct "clusters" of four units. The lottery generates exogenous variation in the degree of religious diversity across clusters within the complex. I conduct an original survey of 1363 household that focuses on explicit and implicit attitudes about members of the other religion and willingness to live together. My estimates demonstrate that location influences interactions, in that individuals spend significant time with others in their cluster. Increased proximity and interaction, in turn, affect attitudes. Greater exposure to Muslims (the minority group) improves Hindus' explicit attitudes about Muslims by 0.25 to 0.40 standard deviations, depending on the measure, and increases their willingness to live with Muslims. Paralleling this, I observe significant reductions in implicit bias against Muslims (0.20 to 0.57 standard deviations) among Hindu children. While I observe no significant effects for Muslims, the overall effect is a convergence of attitudes across religious groups. As India expands public housing for the poor to accommodate rapid urbanization, deliberate mixing of religious groups can be a way of improving attitudes toward the religious minority.


In this paper, we propose a Mobile Crowd Sensing application based on Community Information-Centric Networking to collect opportunistic sensing data in limited area where it restricts radius of Bluetooth Low Energy beacon. The application has more valuable features by comparing with common Mobile Crowd Sensing one. First is to support data integrity and utilize simple communication model according to IP-less communication through common CICN features. Secondly, to gather sensing data by using a name including BLE beacon Identifier. The application inherently supports user privacy and data integrity. We deployed several environmental sensors with Raspberry Pis and BLE beacons together in different places across a building. The developed MCS application collects sensing data as the user walks around in a smart building and draws building sensor map. We show implementation result as well as simple analysis work.


Intraocular lens power selection and optic capture We fully agree with Millar et al. about the importance of preserving an intact capsulorhexis in cases of complicated cataract surgery, which should be appropriately sized and centered to enable lens optic capture. We previously highlighted the problems related to intraocular lens (IOL) power selection when this technique is used and suggested leaving the IOL power unadjusted (using the same IOL power selected for in-the-bag IOL fixation). Therefore, we commend the authors for the good results observed in their series and for investigating this subject for the first time and in a single-surgeon retrospective study. Although their study was in line with our experience, the evidence provided should not be considered conclusive in view of several study limitations. Besides the small number of eyes with optic capture (24), the effect of some of the collected variables that could have an impact on the final refraction was not analyzed, particularly the anterior chamber depth and the average corneal power. In addition, the IOL power prediction formula and IOL constants were not detailed and it might be more appropriate to investigate the results with only 1 of the IOLs, given the differences in terms of manufacturer A constant (118.4 versus 118.9) and anterior optic profile (ie, the Acrysof MA50BM IOL is not anteriorly asymmetric). We wonder whether the authors are able to provide the results observed with the Acrysof MA60AC IOL alone, which is more widely implanted. Additional variables might be the type of refraction (manual or automated) and the reported possibility that in some eyes, the optic capture was lost postoperatively. In a recent multi-surgeon audit at our institution, we observed that only a fifth of the sulcus-fixated IOLs (12/54) implanted following posterior capsule rupture had optic capture (all cases implanted with the Acrysof MA60AC). In these cases, the refractive outcomes were more accurate, with 91% of eyes within 1.0 diopter (D) of target and a mean absolute error of 0.40 D G 0.27 (SD) (range 0.03 to 1.07 D). For this reason, and for the expected lower rates of IOL decentration/dislocation and iris chafing, we favor the use of this technique whenever possible. Finally, capsular distension syndrome cannot intervene when this technique is used in cases with posterior capsule rupture; accordingly, the 2 papers cited by Millar et al. described cases with intact posterior capsules, which were managed with neodymium: YAG laser capsulotomy.


From the Publisher:
Have you ever gone to a yard sale and marvelled at the dubious treasures on display? Imagine seeing a homemade deer-poop paperweight for ten dollars, a lonely left boot, a belt with a glass eye embedded in its buckle. It would never be possible to find such fantastic oddities all in one thrift shop or garage. But, all these objects do exist and have been sold on eBay. Now these items and many, many more like them are collected for your viewing pleasure in this hilarious "museum" of priceless eBay artifacts. With thirty million registered users, eBay is one dotcom that has thrived, becoming the most popular shopping website on the net. The suspense of bidding online inspires fanatic obsession, and all kinds of people from grandmothers to teenagers come to eBay to buy and sell just about everything. If you're searching for a rare deal on a hardtofind gift, eBay is the place. But, when it comes to the unusual, buyers can easily get more than they bargained for. The author has collected one hundred of these gimcracks and photographed them as if they were jewels. Here are a trucker's prayer plaque in its shining newness, a real frog coin purse that looks like it's about to hop off the page, and a strand of Abraham Lincoln's hair shot as a historical gem. Accompanying each image are the seller's original sales pitch and goofy email correspondence about the objects' possible but improbable uses. This pocketsize catalog of curiosities makes for a delightful novelty gift for the eBayer in anyone's family.
Author Biography: Marc Hartzman knows the secrets of salesmanship. By day he works as an advertising copywriter in New York City. By night he is an eBay junkie who has amassed enough odd tchotchkes to fill a museum. He is also the founder and editor of the monthly humor zine Backwash.


Information retrieval device of the present invention is composed of two double hierarchy, the first structure includes a premise, the second structure includes a result / provisions generated from the premise. According to a variant embodiment, the information is not bound to one another, are represented by a set of folding sheets nested. Advantages: space or paper required to store the information reduction and shorter treatment time.


Today our world experiences a large number of active social media users daily, twitter being one the most used platform for discussion on various topics like politics, sports, entertainment etc. It highly influences people's lives and therefore it is required to maintain a healthy environment in such places. Thus these places eventually become the epicenter of malicious activities, wherein someone tries to share hate or manipulate information as per their own interest. The common mass which comprises the most part of the user base having limited knowledge of such things, fall prey to these activities. At present millions of such automated accounts exist, also known as bots which are involved in malicious activities like spreading misinformation and manipulating public opinion. The work presented here is aimed at developing a framework by implementing ensemble machine learning approaches like Adaptive boosting, Gradient boost (GB) and Extreme Gradient boost (XGB) to detect these twitter bots. We have used a dataset that is publicly available from database community and evaluate our proposed approach to predict whether the user account is a bot or non-bot. Our experiment demonstrates that the estimator GB achieves highest accuracy in detecting the social bots.


In this study, the effect on the welding angle distortion was reviewed by carrying out a thermal elastic-plastic analysis while changing the cooling condition(width, length, and distance from weld torch to cooling torch) the back of the welding zone for the butt weld joint. The review results revealed that maximum 57% of reduction in the angle distortion was achieved when the distance between weld torch and cooling tip of 25mm, cooling length of 80mm, and cooling width of 30mm were maintained.


Background: Enterobacteriaceae is one of important cause lower tractus respiratorius infection in adult. Many factor which guess as cause of nasopharynx Enterobacteriaceae. Main of this study is to search the risk factors of nasopharyngeal colonization by Enterobacteriaceae in adult.
Methods: An observasional analytic study with cross sectional at 242 adult who 45-70 years old and have include criteria in Semarang City from January until Apryl 2010. Data has been processed using Chi-Square Test for bivariat by SPSS 15 for Windows.
Result: The prevalence of Enterobacteriaceae colonized subject is 21,9%. The risk factor of well water consumption founded RP=1,607, , CI95%= 0,864-2,986, well water for drink consumption RP=0,688, CI95%= 0,371-1,273, well water for food prepare RP= 1,463, CI95%= 0,786-2,720, well water for bath RP=1,712, CI95%= 0,921- 3,183, cigarettes expose RP= 1,184, CI 95%= 0,612-2,289, chronic sickness history RP=1,415, CI95%= 0,768-2,607, fired mosquito aid use RP= 1,917, CI95%= 1,027-3,576.
Conclusion: fired mosquito aid use is the risk factors of nasopharyngeal colonization by Enterobacteriaceae in adult,meanwhile the others are not.
Key word: risk factors, Enterobacteriaceae colonization.


This paper presents measurements of the absolute spectral responsivity of Ge and InGaAs trap detectors carried out by direct comparison with an electrically calibrated cryogenic radiometer (ECCR) in the near-infrared spectral range. Two tunable laser diodes were used as radiation sources operating between 1260 nm and 1360 nm and between 1460 nm and 1620 nm. The measurements of the cavity absorption and the Brewster-angled window transmission of the ECCR in these wavelength ranges are presented. A detailed analysis of the total measurement uncertainty is performed. The relative standard uncertainty of the responsivity measurement achieved is less than 5 × 10−4 for all wavelengths investigated. The measurements are also discussed in terms of external spectral quantum efficiency, which is up to 90% for the Ge trap and up to 93% for the InGaAs trap. The determined spectral responsivities are compared with the existing scale for spectral responsivity at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (the German National Metrology Institute) based on a thermopile detector. The deviation between the scales is at most ± 0.15% for the InGaAs trap detector and at most ± 0.30% for the Ge trap detector. The agreement is therefore within the combined standard uncertainties.


Eisenhower administration squandered a goodly inheritance when, in Guatemala, the United States might have worked through the OAS, arguing that the Monroe doctrine took precedence over any system of treaties. As one American ambassador suggested, "It is not a corollary to non-intervention that others should be permitted to intervene freely." As Professor Wood concludes, "After 1954, the voice of the Good Neighbor was no longer heard in the land."


This paper first extends the model of Lacoviello raised in 2005and theoretically analyzes the effect of housing prices on corporate investment.Then it makes an empirical analysis by using the data of financial statements and notes of listed companies from 2003to 2010.It comes to the following conclusions:firstly,real estate not only is an important production factor,but also helps firms to provide money,so housing prices affect corporate investment through cost effect and liquidity premium effect;secondly,these two effects play the opposite role,and the dominant state is determined by financing constraints;thirdly,under greater financing constraints,the increase in housing prices is more likely to promote corporate investment;otherwise under smaller financing constraints,the increase in housing prices is more likely to inhibit corporate investment.It provides direct micro evidence for real estate research based on Lacoviello'framework and also shows the possible problems.


Oogenesis of Phascolosoma esculenta is studied using histological microtechnique for ovary structure and the morphological changes. Ovary at the base of introvert retractor muscle has a banded or massive structure of many folioles. Oogonium develops into early oocyte in the ovary, and then the oocyte leaves the ovary for the coelomic fluid in the form of single cell or cell mass followed by the rapid separation of the group of oocytes into individual ones. Oocyte enters into the nephridium after its maturation. The rupture of germinal vesicle marks the oocyte maturation. Oocyte in the coelom does not have follicle membrane and vitelline membrane is formed and developed by the oocyte itself. Smaller oocyte (60μm in diameter) is round, and larger ones (≥60μm in diameter) is ovate. The short and long diameters of a morphologically mature oocyte are about 115—120μm and 140—145μm respectively, and the vitelline membrane is 7— 9μm thick. The oogenesis of P. esculenta can be divided into the following phases in morphological characteristics of oogonium and oocyte development: the proliferative phase of oogonium (10μm in diameter), the initial growth phase of oocyte (10—20μm in diameter), the grand growth phase-Ⅰof oocyte (20—60μm in diameter), the grand growth phase-II of oocyte (60μm×70μm to 120μm×145μm in size), the mature phase of oocyte, and the declining phase, showing a dynamic changes in oogenesis of P. esculenta.


that he baffles diagnosis. He is a droll enigma. In the fifteen years of his life he has consciously exerted himself to play that role effectively and he has succeeded. In all probability Tom is a high grade imbecile. He thoroughly enjoys appearing at times much less than that, at times much more than that. If he is an imbecile, he is an extraordinarily intelligent one; if he is normal he directs his intelligence in extraordinarily eccentric directions. At his best, when his face is bronzed, his cheeks flushed with healthy color, when his brown eyes are keen, and his hair neatly smoothed, when he holds himself erect, proud of his well-cut suit and of his smart white tie, he looks like a handsome normal boy. But there was no greater difference between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde than there is between this Tom and the Tom we see all too frequently. It is not only that his hair is rumpled, his skin pallid, his eyes lusterless and drowsy, but the human intelligence seems to die out of his


CSX Transportation and University of Kentucky researchers in cooperation with local highway agencies have developed a technology for rapidly renewing highway crossings using a panel system and premium materials. The procedure involves complete removal of the old crossing panel and trackbed materials and replacing them with an asphalt underlayment, a compacted ballast layer, a new track panel, and a new crossing surface. Numerous documented performance evaluations indicate this design provides a long-life, smooth crossing for heavy rail/highway traffic applications. The project schedule is for the railroad to be out-of-service for a maximum of four hours and for the highway to open later in the day, typically after eight to ten hours. The importance of the cooperative effort between the railroad and local highway agency is stressed. The objective is to minimize disruption to both railroad and highway traffic during the renewal process. Earth pressure cells have been imbedded at various locations in selected crossings to monitor trackbed pressures within the track structure under both railroad and highway loadings. Pressures vary within the crossing structure. Peak dynamic pressures develop directly below the sleeper/rail interface. These are typically less than 140 kPa at the underside of the compacted ballast layer for the 33 metric ton axle loads. The results of these tests and evaluations are presented in detail. The desirability of using a high modulus, waterproofing layer to properly support the ballast layer/track panel/crossing surface within the track structure is discussed. The desirability for and proper installation of transition zones along the track and highway approaches are stressed. Also described is the benefit of pre-compacting the ballast to reduce subsequent settlement and maintain smooth crossings. Numerous case studies are presented, based on long-term performance evaluations, which indicate this practice ensures long life, economical, smooth crossings for improved safety and operating performances. For the covering abstract see ITRD E122683.


This article critically evaluates the Chinese securities markets. It concludes that if the Chinese securities markets are to be competitive with those of other Western and Asian countries, the Chinese government must implement three changes. First, the government must allow the marketplace to decide which companies will go public rather than having that function controlled by the state. Second, corporate managers of public companies must be responsible to their shareholders rather than the state. And, third, the Chinese government must establish a strong enforcement program to prevent abuses inherent in the free marketplace. Without implementation of these three factors, the author concludes that the Chinese securities markets are destined to fail and return to the era of doctrinaire communist economics.


An automatic unreeling device includes two brackets, a rolling shaft the two ends of which are rotatably fixed respectively between the two brackets; the rolling shaft is provided with a driven gear; the utility model is characterized in that one bracket is provided with a variable frequency motor and a closed ring vector control device; the output shaft of the variable frequency motor is provided with a drive gear; the drive gear is engaged with the driven gear. Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the beneficial effects of being capable of keeping constant tensions during the whole unreeling process and being hard to be damaged as the utility model is provided with the variable frequency motor and the closed ring vector control device.


Oil and gas pools in shallow basins or on the shallow, stable shelves of deeper sedimentary basins appear to be exceptions to the model of a hot-deep origin of petroleum. However, the oil in shallow basins is directly associated with faulting extending out of the deepest parts of the basin. Evidence exists that some of these shallow basins have been much hotter in the past either from igneous activity or from a higher geothermal gradient. Uplift and erosion may also have removed substantial thicknesses of sediments in some of these basins.


Ten Chinese children with 12 affected hips (two patients with bilateral hip involvement) over a 10-year period were reviewed retrospectively for slipped capital femoral epiphysis. One patient has a diagnosis of the Turner's syndrome. The mean follow-up duration was 4.7 years. The average Southwick slip angle was 43.8 o . Eleven hips had fixation in situ; one hip was closely reduced unintentionally and was fixed with screw. The average Iowa hip score was 96.5 for acute and 95.7 for chronic slip cases. Chondrolysis was not observed. The patient with inadvertent closed reduction, however, developed Boyer grade III osteonecrosis. Two patients had implant protrusions that required removal of the implants.


Background: Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma (IVLBCL) is a distinct disease entity of extranodal large B-cell lymphoma according to the current WHO classification. The peculiar characteristics of the disease of selective growth of tumor cells in the lumina of small vessels make an accurate diagnosis difficult, and the delay of timely diagnosis results in the poor prognosis. Recent retrospective analyses revealed that the prognosis of the disease was improved in the rituximab era (Shimada et al. J Clin. Oncol . 2008 and Lancet Oncol . 2009) and central nervous system recurrence was still important complication (Shimada et al. Cancer Sci. 2010). Meanwhile, the underlying biology of the disease, that is why the tumor cells lodge in the lumina of vessels, remains unknown due to the difficulty of obtaining sufficient patient tumor samples. Purpose: To uncover the underlying mechanisms of the disease, we developed and analyzed the NOD/Shi- scid IL2Rγ null (NOG) mouse xenograft models established from primary IVLBCL patient samples. Material and methods: Patient bone marrow samples were obtained from 4 IVLBCL patients with written informed consent and injected into NOG mice intravenously. The successes of the engraftment and surface antigens of tumor cells were analyzed by the flow cytometry. Pathological specimens of the mouse models were evaluated by hematoxylin-eosin and immunohistochemical stainings. Global gene expression profiling and genomic wide analyses by array comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) were performed and genomic copy number abnormalities were confirmed by RQ-PCR and FISH analyses. Result: Patient tumor cellswere successfully engrafted in all 4 xenograft models.The serial passages of the xenograft tumor cells were also successful. Pathologically, the tumor cells were distributed into systemic organs including liver, bone marrow, spleen, kidney, adrenal gland and lung except for testis. The peculiar characteristics of the growth of tumor cells in the lumina of vessels or the sinusoid in the organs were retained. The surface antigens analyses relevant to the lymphocyte migration revealed the expression of L-selectin (CD62L) was low in all 4 IVLBCL models and the expressions of LFA-1 and VLA-4 were various. The expression of CXCR4 and CXCR5 were observed in all 4 models. The time lapse engraftment analyses revealed that tumor cells initially engrafted in the sinusoid and the lumina of vessels in the liver a week after inoculation and then engrafted in the various organs including bone marrow, lung, spleen and adrenal gland two weeks later after inoculation, which indicated that the sinusoid in the liver might be advantageous for the engraftment of the tumor cells compared to other organs. Intriguingly, tumor cells from bone marrow, spleen and liver in the first transplanted mice distributed into the various organs in the secondary transplanted mice in the serial tumor passage, meanwhile tumor cells from adrenal gland in the first transplanted mice mainly distributed into adrenal gland in the secondary transplanted mice, which indicated that tumor cells might be selected at the engraftment of the specific organ. In terms of the dependency on vascular endothelial cells, the survival of tumor cells were dependent on the human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) in in vitro co-culture assay (co-culture vs mono-culture, 84% vs 9%, p=0.0067). Gene expression profiling and array CGH analyses revealed the similar gene expression pattern relevant to the adhesion molecule and the consistent loss of chromosome 6 and 9 in all 4 xenograft models. Genomic copy number analysis targeted the gene located on chromosome 6 and 9 confirmed the loss of copy number in 3 of 4 IVLBCL models. FISH analyses are now under investigation. D iscussion and Conclusions: The characteristics of IVLBCL tumor cells from patient bone marrow samples were retained in our xenograft mouse models. Moreover we could expand the tumor cells in the mouse models and then investigate the biological characteristics of this disease entity. Further investigations including global gene mutation analysis to uncover the mechanism of the disease should be required. Disclosures Sugimoto: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd: Employment. Naoe: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. LTD: Research Funding; Bristol-Myers Squibb: Research Funding; Novartis Pharma,: Research Funding; Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. LTD: Research Funding; Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co. LTD: Research Funding; Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma: Research Funding; Zenyaku Kogyo: Research Funding; FUJIFILM Corporation: Research Funding. Kiyoi: Bristol-Myers Squibb: Research Funding; Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. LTD: Research Funding; Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co. LTD.: Research Funding; Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma: Research Funding; Zenyaku Kogyo: Research Funding; FUJIFILM Corporation: Research Funding.


State-owned enterprise (BUMN), is one of the important business players that largely contributes to national development, aimed at developing people prosperity. Highly valuable state-owned enterprise (BUMN) requires professionalism in its management for a well run enterprise, without creating burden to the government. PT Perkebunan Nusantara V Riau (PTPN V) is one of the state-owned plantation enterprises in Indonesia. It is a consolidation of exPT Perkebunan II, PT PerVol. 5 | No. 2 ISSN: 2089-6271 The Influence of Transformational Leadership on Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, and Employee Performance


The principle of closed multiple-motion extruding forming and the structure of hydraulic cushion were introduced,and the working process of extruding forming and hydraulic cushion as well as the principle of hydraulic system were analyzed.


In this paper a method for evolutionary acquisition of dexterous behaviors based on the Intelligent Composite Motion Control, ICMC, is presented. The paper describes how adaptive robot behavior acquisition is achieved by the presented method in evolutionary manner. The methodology does not simply aim at ad hoc execution of given tasks but acquisition of dexterous behaviors that can be effectively utilized to more complex behaviours through action intelligence evolution. The method is then applied to the dexterous ball catch and throw behaviour to demonstrate the process


This article reports on an ongoing peer supervision group, to which the author belongs, comprised of Orthodox Jewish mental health professionals in private practice, who specialize in the treatment of Orthodox Jewish patients. Unique features of clinical work with this religious patient population are described together with the development, composition, and benefits of this peer group.


To the Editor. The Malaysian Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee (MADRAC) was established under the Drug Control Authority (DCA) to perform the function of pharmacovigilance for drugs registered for use in Malaysia. It became a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Program for International Drug Monitoring in 1990.1 Although MADRAC has invited healthcare professionals (physicians, pharmacists, dentists, etc) to submit adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports, the number of ADR reports submitted by healthcare professionals is considered low according to WHO recommendations for the optimal National Pharmacovigilance Centre.2 The most important reason for underreporting of ADR by healthcare professional is a lack of information3. .....


This article reflects on the process of regionalization of higher education in Latin America, discussing the advances and challenges for the constitution of an integrated space for higher education in the Southern Common Market – Mercosur. This is a descriptive-exploratory research that deals with the theme, based on the analysis of categories that express political-educational elements. As a result, it appears that there is still no space for higher education in Mercosur; the presence of supranational forces acting in the bloc's integration policies; as well as the existence of political, educational and social asymmetries between the member countries of the bloc, making possible major obstacles to the educational integration process.


Diltiazem, a benzothiazepine calcium antagonist, is prescribed widely for the treatment of ischaemic heart disease, hypertension and supraventricular arrhythmias. I Overdose with this drug is an infrequent event but there have been at least 27 cases reported in the literature to date.2-5 Predictably, the dominant features of the overdose have been bradycardia or complete heart block, and hypotension. We report the case of an elderly man who ingested a large overdose of diltiazem. Hypotension and oliguria were refractory to conventional therapy with fluid-loading and calcium, glucagon, dopamine and isoprenaline, but responded dramatically to the administration of adrenaline. The case is notable because of the development of pulmonary oedema which was severe and persistent, necessitating intubation and mechanical ventilation. The pharmacokinetics of diltiazem and the two major, active metabolites were examined and related to those after therapeutic doses in the elderly.


Today SoC designs are complex and dense with millions of transistors. These designs have complex DFT architecture for testing. Thousands of DFT patterns are used during silicon bring up. All these patterns are going through multiple stages of pre silicon verification to ensure bug free design and meet higher pass rate on silicon. In this paper, we will talk about DFT pre silicon validation flow enhancements at different stages to verify design quality and ensure patterns quality delivered for post silicon validation with maximum patterns passing without re-generation in short duration of post silicon testing. This paper talks about enhancement done across different stages of verification cycle to meet rapid silicon bring-up with zero post silicon DFT bugs.


Observations of ions from Appalachian State's Ion Trap Laboratory! and from ground-based observations of total solar eclipses are !used to better understand solar activity and its sphere of !In general, the behavior of plasma governs events ranging! from formation of structure in the early universe to the violent behavior !solar atmosphere, the effect of this solar activity on Earth's !and developing technologies. Understanding the! macroscopic behavior of plasmas requires reliable, quantitative !on the interactions of the constituent ions, which are! being provided by an apparatus comprising a RF ion trap with UV !observation capabilities and a tandem timeof-flight spectrometer. !y, fundamental atomic and molecular parameters for ions of! hydrogen and nitrogen are being measured with this apparatus. !results from narrow-band polarimetric imaging systems! for emission lines of highly ionized iron species in the solar corona! will be presented.


The necessity of confronting current incidents of the world has intensified the issue of safety observation and preparedness in critical conditions for societies. These incidents, which have been mostly related to industrial incidents, have been accompanied by serious environmental damages and many financial and life losses. Risk assessment includes management system to observe necessary requirements in order to reduce irreversible hazards. The desired option for risk assessment is based on economic analyses in most of the cases and any economic analysis requires optimization of financial resources. The goal of this study was to model and assess the risk resulting from the emission of chlorine gas in water treatment plants in order to protect environment and population against storage of this toxic substance. To model this process, Jalalieh Water Treatment Plant located between Fatemi Square and Fatemi Crossroad, which is one of the high density areas of city of Tehran, was studied.


This is a part of a further undertaking to affirm that most of classical module theory may be retrieved in the framework of Abstract Differential Geometry (à la Mallios). More precisely, within this article, we study some defining basic concepts of symplectic geometry on free A-modules by focussing in particular on the group sheaf of A-symplectomorphisms, where A is assumed to be a torsion-free PID C-algebra sheaf. The main result arising hereby is that A-symplectomorphisms locally are products of symplectic transvections, which is a particularly well-behaved counterpart of the classical result.


In the last decade, Lean Startup has become an emerging methodology for teaching entrepreneurship to Software Engineering and Computer Science students. However, for most students, it is difficult to understand the key concepts of this methodology and put them into practice successfully. An approach to solve this problem is the use of serious games as a support tool that foster positive attitudes such as motivation, engagement and participation leading to effective learning. Besides, simulating real-life situations within an academic environment still remains a challenge. This article proposes a guide as support to teachers that aims to teach Lean Startup methodology using a serious game. The guide provides a set of recommendations, best practices and re-sources that contribute to improve the understanding of the key concepts of Lean Startup. The guide was evaluated by a group of Lean Startup experts. The results confirm the usefulness of the guide and the positive effects on learning from the experts' perspective.


In this research, the effect of the date kernel flour (0%–20%), the extruder temperature (120–160°C), and the screw speed (120–220 rpm) as an independent variable on the physical characteristics (density, porosity, expansion index, color, texture properties) and the functional properties (water absorption index [WAI], water solubility index [WSI], moisture content, crude fiber, oil absorption index) of an expanded corn snack was evaluated. Increasing the date kernel flour from 0% to 20% reduced the moisture content, WAI, expansion index, and porosity and increased the WSI, oil absorption capacity, crude fiber, bulk density, and hardness of the samples. Increasing the screw speed increased the WSI, crude fiber, and reduced the hardness, WAI, and the expansion index. Increasing extruder temperature caused WSI, hardness. The incorporation of date kernel flour improves the nutritional composition of an extruded snack, especially crude fiber. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS: The extruded snacks with high amounts of calorie and fat and low amounts of protein and fiber are considered as unhealthy and harmful to the consumers. Today, the use of fibers in producing food has been taken into consideration because of their useful physiological and metabolic influences on the health of human beings. In this research, for first time, we aimed to optimize the percentage of date kernel powder to improve and increase the physicochemical properties of extruded snacks. According to our results, the incorporation of date kernel flour improves the nutritional composition of extruded snacks, especially crude fiber.


Chemical insecticides for estate crop pests control are ineffective, impractical, expensive, and causing environmental pollutions. The entomopathogenic virus (EPV) mainly the nucleopolyhedrovirus (NPV) can be developed as an effective, efficient, and environmentally friendly biopesticide. NPV can be survived in the field in the form of polyhedra and spread naturally through the vertical and horizontal transmission process. The infected larvae usually hang by pseudolegs to the leaves or entrees. Research to increase virulence, host spectrum and its persistence has been done to overcome some weaknesses of NPV if developed as biopesticide. Some NPV isolates that infect the estate crop pests and potential to be developed in Indonesia, among others: Spodoptera litura NPV (SlNPV), S. exigua NPV (SeNPV), Helicoverpa armigera NPV (HaNPV), Sethotosea asigna NPV (SaNPV), Hyposidra talaca NPV (HtNPV) and Maenas maculifascia NPV (MmNPV). Based on several advantages of NPV compared with the chemical insecticides, the development of NPV biopesticide for controlling estate crop pests in Indonesia has very good prospects.


This article will examine the widespread and growing movement of solidarity partnerships as a primary way in which ordinary churchgoers practice global mission in today's church. It will describe the movement and attempt to view it from the eyes of the resource-poor partners in the developing world. It will look at the strengths, challenges, and failures of solidarity partnerships, and illustrate some of the best practices. It suggests that solidarity partnerships have enormous potential to contribute to "overcoming the divisions in our world" but all too frequently have amplified them. The article concludes with recommendations for a changed approach.


The hitherto unknown title compounds (III) (12 examples) are prepared by a novel procedure starting from the 6-chloropurines (I) by nucleophilic substitution of the chlorine atom under the conditions of phase-transfer catalysis.


An analysis is made of the relationships between bandwidth, length increment, number of channels, number of waveguides and channel spacings in silica-based arrayed waveguide WDM. The study is based on beam propagation calculations on AWG structures of up to twenty channels. The AWGs are designed on a silica substrate with waveguide refractive index of 1.584 and layer refractive index of 1.522.


Shape parameters that may control the strength of color induction across contours are examined. The observer views a central shape enclosed by a surround. The surround is modulated sinusoidally in time along a line in color space around midwhite. A joystick is used to null the induced modulation by adjusting the real modulation in the central shape. The amplitude of the nulling modulation is a measure of induction [Krauskopf et al. (1986)]. The central test is modified to independently vary area, boundary length, and parameters that describe its shape. Figures with the same area but varying contour lengths and shapes can be generated by a simple method. The area enclosed by N complete cycles of a sine wave above the mean line is equal to the area below the mean line. If the mean line is bent into a circle, the outline of the sine wave forms a shape with the same area as the circle but a longer boundary. The length and shape of the contour depend on both the amplitude and wavelength of the sine wave (wavelength = circumference of equal area circle/integer).


This paper is an analysis of modern chrome coating technologies for the barrels of small arms and cannons. Barrel survivability refers to the ability of a weapon system to fire a certain number of rounds without significant deterioration in ballistic characteristics. There are various methods to provide the necessary survivability of the barrels, both technological and constructive.
This paper will consider technological methods, in particular chroming technologies.
The objects of the research are various methods of chromium coating: electrolytic, cylindrical magnetron sputtering, galvanic honing, cathode-mechanical chromium plating, and thermodiffusion saturation by chromium.
Electrolytic chrome plating in baths is the most common method, however it has significant drawbacks - toxic waste, difficulty in providing uniformity and integrity of plating, hydrogen release during plating, the need for subsequent heat treatment of the barrel.
Coating barrels with cylindrical magnetron sputtering is one of the least studied methods, but from the available materials we can note the reduced toxicity and the absence of hydrogenation of the barrel and the plating. Nevertheless, the adhesion of the coating material and the barrel should be investigated.
Analysis of the thermodiffusion chrome saturation method is also a promising method. However, a reduction in temperature during the coating process and subsequent normalization of the coating is necessary. This method is currently being investigated in the "Special purpose product technology" laboratory at the Azerbaijan Technical University.
As a result of the research, the most prospective methods can be considered galvanic honing, the cathodic-mechanical method and thermodiffusion chrome saturation. The advantages of these methods are increased productivity and quality of the plating surface. In addition to the prospective chrome plating methods, the paper also noted questions for which the answers remain open.
Keywords: barrel, coating, chromium plating, wear, electroplating, magnetron sputtering, diffusion.


The upper eyelid is raised by the action of the levator palpebrae superioris and Muller's palpebral muscle. The former is innervated by the oculomotor nerve and the latter by fibers from the cervical portion of the sympathetic trunk. Ptosis of the upper lid follows paralysis of either nerve supply, that due to a lesion of the oculomotor nerve being greater than the slight droop which is seen in Horner's syndrome1due to involvement of the cervical portion of the sympathetic trunk (figure,A). Likewise, there is limitation of the upward excursion of the lid when the eyeball is elevated in disorders referable to the oculomotor nerve while in disturbances of the sympathetic innervation the amplitude is normal. With section of the third nerve mydriasis occurs as well as external and internal ophthalmoplegia, while a lesion of the sympathetic trunk causes miosis and enophthalmos. This communication deals with ptosis produced


With the continuing development of our higher vocational education,the field and depth of higher vocational education reform are constantly expanding and developing.Curriculum reform is,the most important thing and the key.Combined with practice of hotel management majors training mode of integrating work with learning in Heyuan Polytechnic college,regarding the reform of awareness guidance curriculum towards hotel management majors as a starting point,and using many kinds of research methods such as document method and observation method,this paper expounds the connotation system,implementation features and existing problems of training-teaching,summarizes the current implementation practice of training-teaching,and proposes further research directions of training-teaching curriculum reform.


Public transportation transforms communities and the lives of the people dwelling in them via spurring monetary development, promoting sustainable existence and providing a greater first-rate of life. In Kuala Terengganu, an iconic and famous public bus is called 'BAS KITe'. In order to evaluate the energy consumption and emissions of BAS KITe, its driving cycle needs to be developed. Driving cycle represents traffic behaviour in a specific area or city. Objectives of this paper are; to characterize and validate the parameters of BAS KITe driving cycle with existing driving cycle, to develop BAS KITe driving cycle using k-means method, and to analyse the energy consumption and emissions of BAS KITe driving cycle for conventional and plug-in hybrid electric types using AUTONOMIE software. The methodology consists of data collection, route selection and cycle development. From the validation, it can be concluded that the MATLAB code is acceptable for further analysis. The BAS KITe driving cycle is developed with 36 final micro-trips and 21.49 km/h of average speed. Hence, energy consumption and emissions analysis shows that the PHEB powertrain gives the best result with reduced energy consumption and emissions thereby minimizing the impact on the environment and economy.


Background: Spontaneous caecal perforation secondary to abdominal wall abscess is a rare entity. There may be abdominal wall abscess due to spontaneous caecal perforation. Small and large bowel perforation in neonatal period is common secondary to necrotizing enterocolitis. But beyond neonatal caecal perforation is unusual.
Case presentation: We are reporting an interesting case of spontaneous caecal perforation in two year old female child without any sign and symptoms of peritonitis or abdominal discomfort secondary to abdominal wall abscess. Or it may be vice versa, abdominal wall abscess develops secondary to caecal perforation.
Conclusion: Caecal perforation in children beyond to neonatal period is extremely rare. To the best of our knowledge, I have never seen in English literature of spontaneous caecal perforation secondary to abdominal wall abscess or vice versa.


People all over the world speak in a variety of languages. Despite the fact that English appears to be the most suited language for most people and is taught all around the globe, many individuals find it difficult to learn, and some think that working or studying one's home language is more pleasurable than learning other languages. As a result, communication is tough while travelling throughout the world. As we see in our every-day lives, accomplishing activities, managing things, and so on, technology has the capacity to affect the world in new ways. It has been proved to make things easier for travellers. There are a variety of technologies that might help travellers who travel a long distance. We have included a new feature in today's fitness watches/bands that will assist travellers or anybody else who travels from one location to another and is having difficulty with language translation. Apart from language translation, it has many other features that other smart watches have, and they don't have to pay more for these services because they are included in their budget and are easy to use for everyone. For this, we employed voice recognition and a variety of other modules.


According to experience of developed countries,usually some large-scale modern companies take the leading position in the national economy and are concentrated closely in industries with capitals and technology.The modern companies may concentrate limited and state-owned capital in dense-scale capital and technology industries and use the model of modern company to take namagement so as to raise competitive power of state economy.


Abstract Mean monthly snowfall data for 216 stations across the conterminous United States were analyzed to produce a climatology that identifies statistical, spatial and intraseasonal aspects. Geographic variations in the length of the snowfall season are characterized using two statistics: the number of months of snow and the Snow Concentration Index (SCI). The annual distribution of mean monthly snowfall is also examined using harmonic analysis. Snowfall across the conterminous United States generally peaks in February; earlier snowfall maxima are found in the Great Lakes area and in the Pacific Northwest, whereas late February or March maxima occur in the western High Plains. Stations with relatively high amounts of variance explained by the second harmonic indicate 1) areas with a short snowfall season such as the southeastern United States, or 2) areas with a long snowfall season that have a tendency toward a bimodal distribution. A climatology of the changing monthly patterns of snowfall is identif...


This research supports the structure of critical discourse when viewed from the perspective of Teun Van Dijk. The data source used was a video uploaded by the Indonesian representative entitled K-POP Non Korea EXP Edition. The method used is descriptive qualitative. The results of the analysis show that non-Koreans can be part of K-pop. Various pros and cons experienced by this EXP EDITION boy band, did not ignite their enthusiasm for a career in South Korea. The phenomenon in this EXP EDITION. Positive and negative opinion. Most of the supporters of this boy band because they see their efforts are not instantaneous as previously reported. Some consider that they are giving up Korean culture or what is cooler is called cultural appropriation. Associated with the practice of power and discourse accents. The practice of power in this non-Korean K-pop phenomenon. Reporting from the Columbia University official website, Bora Kim formed the EXP EDITION group and mapped it out with the aim of "discussing what Kpop and Kpop fandom are".


Several small trials have suggested that using a plastic biopsy catheter to scratch the endometrium prior to in vitro fertilization (IVF) might


In Bavaria e Austria from the beginning of the 16th century to the middle of the 20th there is remarkable number of stone slabs engraved in etching. The art of etching probably was transferred from metal to stone. Near the town of Solnhofen deposits of lithographic limestone are found which allow etching in stone. You write or paint an image on the stone with an oily substance; a solution of nitric acid is put on the stone and etches away the parts not covered by the oily substance, by this process an engraving of 1–2 mm results. The art of etching in stone was used by painters and teachers in the art of writing. The scripture to be found therefore follows the tradition of book-writing more than epigraphic script, and stands on the margin of both arts. Etching was rather fine and precise work. The tablets, a part from some funerary monuments, are astronomic instruments like sundials and perpetual calendars, but also maps. A specialty are luxurious table tops, engraved with notes, crests etc. and tablets engraved with aphorisms showing the virtues they should have to city magistrates. This slabs where sent to various city magistrates by two etchers who tried to gain profit by the honorary gifts magistrates tended to give them for it. Center of the art of etching in stone in the beginning was Nürnberg, later Regensburg. Etchers were learned man who participated in the religious conflicts of their time like Andreas Pleninger a protestant citizen of Regensburg who worked also in Upper Austria. The etched tablets or often of minor size only and therefore often are two be found far from their 654 Christine Steininger place of origin. The identification of the etchers remains difficult, also because of the signatures they use. A comprehensive study of stone etched tablets and their artists is still a research requirement. Therefore at the end of the research record a list of etchers and a small biography is given to enhance researchers to occupy themselves with the genre of etched tablets.


This paper presents measurements of pore water pressures (positive and negative) from an old railway embankment and a more recently constructed highway embankment. The results demonstrate the existence of seasonal variations, which it is argued could adversely affect the serviceability of these earth structures. Measurements of peak pore water pressures, from a large number of embankments, made during the exceptionally wet winter of 2000-2001 are also presented. For the covering abstract see ITRD E128041.


Bode plots are crucial for frequency domain analysis of SISO systems. The aim of this paper is to develop a complete approach for Bode plots of multivariable uncertain systems for both the magnitude and phase. The magnitude is based on the singular values. The phase is based on the phase spread of the numerical range. An IQC-based approach is pursued to provide both the magnitude and phase. A simulation example shows that the presented approach allows the generation of multivariable Bode plots of multivariable uncertain systems.


This article presents the result on existence, uniqueness and stability of mild solution of impulsive stochastic partial neutral functional differential equations under sufficient condition. The results are obtained by using the method of successive approximation.


The Ni-based superalloy, Inconel 713, was oxidized at for 50 and 100 hours in air. It displayed excellent oxidation resistance, forming a few micrometer-thick scales. The major scale was . Other scales formed were , and . Generally, uniform oxidation occurred over the alloy surface, resulting in the formation of with and without . Other oxides such as and sometimes also formed. Locally, nodular oxidation occurred at the nodules that consisted of diverse alloying elements. The scales were adherent at . However, they spalled a little at .


Objective: To investigate the difference of level of serum creatinine and urea nitrogen among cerebral infarction patients of different ages and correlation about the level of serum creatinine and urea nitrogen and Yin-deficiency. Methods: The 149 cases of cerebral infarction according to different age were divided into five groups. Determine their contents of serum creatinine and urea nitrogen. Analysis the different contents of serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen in patients with cerebral infarction among different age groups. According to "for the application of Chinese medical disease diagnosis and treatment of conventional" the cerebral infarction patients were divided into Yin deficiency syndrome group and non-Yin deficiency syndrome group . And analysis the correlation of Yin deficiency and the contengs of serum creatinine and urea nitrogen. Results: The creatinine levels of 70-79 years old with cerebral infarction in patients are higher than 50-59 years old and the urea nitrogen level of 70-79 years old and 80-89 years old with cerebral infarction are higher than those in the 50-59 years old. The difference is statistically significant (P0.05). The creatinine levels of 70-79 years old with cerebral infarction are higher than those in 50-59 years old. The difference is highly statistically significant (P0.01). The level of serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen in cerebral infarction patients with Yin deficiency are the same with those in cerebral infarction patients with non-Yin deficiency . The number of Patients with cerebral infarction whose serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen are increased show no significant difference between non-Yin deficiency and Yin deficiency. Logistic regression analysis showed that Yin deficiency syndrome are correlated with history of coronary heart disease and family history of cerebral infarction,However, with levels of serum creatinine and urea nitrogen are not correlated. Conclusions: Compared with the 50-59 years old patients with cerebral infarction, the 70-89 years old are more likely suffering from renal insufficiency. Serum creatinine and urea nitrogen still can not serve as the indicators of micro-Yin deficiency syndrome with cerebral infarction . Creatinine and urea nitrogen whether associated with Yin deficiency for cerebral infarction patients needs further study.


The first comprehensive, modern introduction to the theory of central simple algebras over arbitrary fields, this book starts from the basics and reaches such advanced results as the Merkurjev–Suslin theorem, a culmination of work initiated by Brauer, Noether, Hasse and Albert and the starting point of current research in motivic cohomology theory by Voevodsky, Suslin, Rost and others. Assuming only a solid background in algebra, the text covers the basic theory of central simple algebras, methods of Galois descent and Galois cohomology, Severi– Brauer varieties, and techniques in Milnor K-theory and K-cohomology, leading to a full proof of the Merkurjev–Suslin theorem and its application to the characterization of reduced norms. The final chapter rounds off the theory by presenting the results in positive characteristic, including the theorems of Bloch–Gabber–Kato and Izhboldin. This second edition has been carefully revised and updated, and contains important additional topics.


A new bacterial nitroreductase has been identified and used as a biocatalyst for the controllable reduction of a variety of nitroarenes with an electron-withdrawing group to the corresponding N-arylhydroxylamines under mild reaction conditions with excellent selectivity (>99%). This method therefore represents a green and efficient method for the synthesis of arylhydroxylamines.


Recent BCIs mainly need calibration sessions for a new user in order to system training before the usage. Such systems are known as subject-dependent BCIs which are suitable for just one particular subject. In this research, we proposed an efficient subject-independent BCI that can be applicable for any new subject without the need to calibration session in order to train the BCI system. For this aim, a new approach based on the Local Temporal Correlation Common Spatial Pattern (LTCCSP) method for feature extraction, and GA wrapper algorithm for time interval and frequency band optimization is proposed for designing motor imagery based subject-independent BCIs. According to the experimental results, the suggested Subjectindependent algorithm is able to classify different motor imagery tasks of the new users, efficiently.


The improvement of the train operation speed will increase roadbed vibration, and undermine its dynamic stability, and may cause great subsequent settlement; when it reaches the limit value, the roadbed structure will get a bulking failure. Therefore, the dynamic response and disastrous mechanism of subgrade structure under high-speed train load has become an international and urgent research subject in the process of high-speed railway construction and operation. Relying on Wuhan inter-city typical engineering, a large-scale model test of vibration due to train load is carried out by using a self-developed excitation system. By simulating the process of loading with vibration exciter, the time history curve of velocity and the space distribution features of different subgrade layers under the action of different frequencies of vibration force is obtained; and then the velocity transfer and attenuation law of subgrade under the train load is revealed. The experiment results show that. The curve of velocity on subgrade structure has a obvious cyclical peak under different frequencies of vibration force; the speed amplitude on subgrade structure will ever-reduce along the depth direction and show a trend of exponential decay under frequencies of vibration force. The research results will provide a certain reference for designing, construction and operation of practical engineering.


The influence of the illumination by the direct sun light and the diffuse light of the sky on the spectral structure of the apparent optical properties of seawater is studied. The resulting formula of this paper couples the sea diffuse reflection coefficient with the angular distribution of the natural light and the inherent optical properties of the seawater. This work uses a self-consistent approach to solve the radiative transfer equation. That approach was developed earlier to calculate the apparent optical properties including the diffuse reflection coefficient. A model of the inherent optical properties of seawater is proposed. This model expresses the inherent optical properties through the concentrations of chlorophyll, yellow substance, and biogenic and terrigenic hydrosols. The transformations of sea optical signatures, due to the changes in illumination and concentrations of suspended and dissolved matter, are analyzed. It is shown that the atmospheric optical parameters and the sun elevation angle significantly influence optical signatures of the upwelling light. The effective wavelength -- the parameter that is weakly dependent on the conditions of illumination -- is proposed.


In AC/DC interconnected power system, when the important AC transmission lines have faults and power supply is broken, the safe and stable operation of power grid will be seriously threatened. At present, one-shot auto-reclose is widely used in high voltage transmission lines. In order to enhance the reliability of power supply, this paper presents a design idea of the two-shot auto-reclose for AC/DC hybrid power grid, and introduces a specific implementation method of adding the secondary reclose logic to circuit breaker relay. The PSCAD program is used to simulate and analyze a practical power grid. The results show that AC system had faults lead to multiple trip and reclose, and system disturbances produce multiple shocks. When the time interval of tripping and closing is set reasonably, although DC voltage drops twice or more continuously, it will not lead to DC pole blockade. Therefore, the reliability of power supply can be improved by adding the secondary reclose logic, and it will not do great harm to the DC power system of AC/DC interconnected power grid. Keywords—the two-shot reclosing; extra-high voltage; AC/DC interconnected power grid; DC system blocked; off line simulation


THROUGHOUT THE 1950s and early 1960s there was a certain insecurity amongst political theorists. The study of politics, especially in the United States, was dominated by several varieties of political science sharing a common disdain for "traditional" political theory. Beyond the boundaries of political studies, sociology seemed to be taking over political theory's role as grand inquisitor of society, whilst philosophy had little time for anyone's grand theories, or the value-laden categories in which political theory traded. It was also arguable that the ideological systems that were meat and drink to the practising political theorist were losing their relevance and persuasive power. In a world of fairly rigid disciplinary division and increasingly complex and various modes of social enquiry, political theory seemed to be in a no-man's land. It was neither history, philosophy, science nor sociology; neither fish, flesh nor good red herring; and the world was passing it by.


This paper describes an evaluation method of free-form curve profile, which uses the distribution characteristics of directed profile error. This method can express the deviation trend of curve contour and the quality of overall contour to a certain extent. It adopts the concept of directed profile error (DPE), which can quantify the feature of the difference between the ideal curve and the actual curve, including size and direction of deviation. To eliminate systematic errors, the calculation of DPE mainly includes two steps, curve registration and curve fitting. Aiming to evaluate the free-form curve profile, this paper analyzes the degree of concentration and dispersion of DPE. The simulation experiment and actual measurement experiment is designed to test the effectiveness and applicability of this method. From the experimental results, this method can be used to describe the profile features of free-form curves better and meet the needs of quality assessment.


We present a method for automatically generating input parsers from English specifications of input file formats. We use a Bayesian generative model to capture relevant natural language phenomena and translate the English specification into a specification tree, which is then translated into a C++ input parser. We model the problem as a joint dependency parsing and semantic role labeling task. Our method is based on two sources of information: (1) the correlation between the text and the specification tree and (2) noisy supervision as determined by the success of the generated C++ parser in reading input examples. Our results show that our approach achieves 80.0% F-Score accuracy compared to an F-Score of 66.7% produced by a state-of-the-art semantic parser on a dataset of input format specifications from the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (which were written in English for humans with no intention of providing support for automated processing). 1


Social work is originally rooted in volunteering.During the early stage of seeking 'scientific charity',social workers attempted to combine individual change with social change in local communities,partnering with volunteers.However,since social work became a major profession for government to deliver social welfare services,it sought social status as its main goal by professionalizing.As a result,the conflict between individual factors and social factors came about,and the partnership between social workers and volunteers broke down.With the increase of economic competition in the context of globalization,social welfare services have shifted from the traditional state-dominated form to the multiple shared one,which is facilitated by the general recognition of the failure of state or market performing and the introducing of voluntary sectors into social welfare services in the 1980s and 1990s.To meet the new challenges caused by the transition of social welfare services,social work needs to redefine its professional position to meet the request of both as a governor in multi-level management system and as representative of government in collaboration with voluntary sectors.Only in doing so,is it possible for social workers to utilize different social resources in communities to provide specific services suitable for local citizens.The historical experiences of Western social work provide a good lesson for the development of Chinese social work facing the same challenges caused by globalization.


Understanding the quantum many-body problem and its applications to correlated materials, cold atoms and nanoelectronic devices is a central problem of physics. Nonetheless, few numerical techniques can simulate strongly correlated systems in an accurate and controlled way, especially when far from equilibrium. Perturbation theory has seen an unexpected recent revival, based on Quantum Monte Carlo approaches that calculate all Feynman diagrams up to large orders. Here we show that integration based on low-discrepancy sequences can be adapted to this problem and greatly outperforms state-of-the-art diagrammatic Monte Carlo methods. In relevant practical applications, we show a speed-up of several orders of magnitude. We demonstrate convergence with scaling as fast as $1/N$ in the number of sample points $N$, parametrically faster than the $1/\sqrt{N}$ of Monte Carlo methods. Our approach enables a new scale of high-precision computation for strongly interacting quantum many-body systems. We illustrate it with a solution of the Kondo ridge in quantum dots.


Official rates of alcohol‐related problems are highest in the North, and lowest in the South of Britain. As pan of a wider study of regional variations, surveys of self‐reported levels of alcohol consumption and adverse consequences of drinking were simultaneously conducted within 3 areas of Britain. These were Highland and Tayside Regions in Scotland, and part of the South East Thames Area Health Board in England. These areas have markedly different rates of alcohol related problems. It was found that these variations were not reflected in differences in either levels or patterns of self‐reported alcohol consumption. It is suggested that care has to be exercised when interpreting official statistics relating to area differences in problem‐drinking. Copyright © 1985, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved


Thirty-eight patients in stuporous states or in active psychoses without evident cause showed prompt and often very impressive improvement after treatment with nicotinic acid. The usual criteria for the clinical diagnosis of pellagra or of other deficiency syndromes were absent. This experience leads us to believe that many patients whose psychiatric status suggests the diagnosis of toxic psychosis or exhaustion delirium may be relieved of their symptoms by the administration of nicotinic acid. It is believed that in such cases and in cases who show unexplained clouding of consciousness a therapeutic trial of nicotinic acid is the only means available by which one can determine whether or not the psychosis is due to avitaminosis. In some exceptional cases, even when clinical evidence of pellagra is absent, extremely large amounts of nicotinic acid are necessary to obtain satisfactory results.


The black-foot disease of grapevine is one of the most destructive diseases in viticulture and it is caused by a complex of soil-borne fungi. This study aimed to identify the species associated with black-foot disease in young grapevines in vineyards of China. Fungal isolates were identified as Campylocarpon fasciculare, based on both morphological and multi-locus phylogenetic analysis of ITS, tef1–α and ß-tubulin sequence data. For the first time in China, we report Campylocarpon fasciculare associated with symptomatic young grapevines. Koch's postulates were performed on Vitis vinifera cv. Summer Black (SB) in a greenhouse and to confirm the pathogenicity on grapevines. This work improves the knowledge of black-foot disease in Chinese vineyards and will be helpful to growers in their decisions regarding vinicultural practices, planting and disease management.


A 74-year-old man with old fracture of right femoral neck was planned to undergo CT angiography to determine whether there were both lower extremities arteriosclerosis occlusion. The patient was negative for iodine anaphylactic test. About one minute after an IV injection of iobitridol start, the patient suddenly experienced loss of consciousness, asphygmia, and undetectable blood pressure. Iobitridol was stopped immediately and he was given oxygen inhalation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation immediately. Five minutes later, his heart rate was 121 beats per minute and blood pressure was 86/47 mm Hg. An intravenous injection of dexamethasone 10 mg and epinephrine 3 mg were administered. Twenty-three minutes later, his heart rate was 119 beats per minute and blood pressure was 205/140 mm Hg. Agitation appeared in the patient. Twenty-nine minutes later, his heart rate was 99 beats per minute and the electrocardiogram showed sinus rhythm. The patient was continuously treated with anti-infection, improvement of cardiac function, and alleviation of pulmonary edema. Seven days later, the patient's condition was stable.

Key words:
Drug hypersensitivity; Heart arrest; Iobitridol