The Kuder Occupational Interest Survey and Career Search Schedule are interpreted for a client (given the pseudonym Ellenore Flood) in the form of a letter addressed to her. Comments on technique, the author's reasoning, and suggestions for further interventions are interpolated throughout. Dear Ellenore: It's not really good practice to do career counseling by mail, but because Drs. Savickas and Spokane have asked to me interpret your Kuder Interest Survey results, I'll undertake it, expecting that you will have an opportunity to explore with them more fully the issues that you are presently facing in the light of what your inventories reveal. My work with Ellenore Flood is guided by principles I have articulated elsewhere (Zytowski, in press) in detail. I would begin by reviewing her reports [see Appendixes A and B] of results: checking indices of validity, forming tentative concepts to convey the essence of her results, comparing them (as in Swanson, 1992) with information from the case materials. I try to use ordinary language in discussing results. People take interest inventories for many reasons: (a) to sharpen their understanding of their interest patterns ("I like science best, but art doesn't appeal to me"); (b) to generate occupations for further consideration ("I just got a D in chemistry. I need a new major"); (c) to bolster a tentative career choice ("I'm pretty sure that I want to be a CPA, but I'd like to see what the test says"); (d) to prioritize a number of possible actions ("I could go into sales, management, or self-employment. I'd like to see which fits me best."), as well as some dubious reasons ("My boyfriend took that test. I'd like to see what it says about me.") I often ask my clients which of these reasons (derived from Power, Holland, Daiger, & Takai, 1979) is most nearly theirs. It is part instruction in making career decisions, and part guidance for my interpretation. You don't lack career alternatives: renewing your teaching contract, applying for an overseas teaching job, returning to graduate school, or going back to work for your former employer. There are themes of social service and business reflected in these alternatives. I note that they are more like positions than occupations, and interest inventories don't really speak in these terms. Nevertheless, your results might be used to confirm that your several possibilities fit your interests, and possibly prioritize or rank order them. You took the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (KOIS), among several other inventories. Do you remember what the inventory was like? It asked about your interests in various activities-not occupations, and your preferences-most-preferred and least-preferred. It gives several levels of results, like a three-stage microscope: Vocational Interest Estimates (VIEs)low power; Occupational and College Major scales (OS and CMSS medium power; and additionally scored from your responses, the Kuder Career Search Survey (KCSS-highest power magnification. I would have liked to ask you to rank-order your interests in 10 areas, the VIEs, before you filled out the answer sheet, but there wasn't an opportunity to do so. Immediately, the "caution" message in the Dependability section must be confronted. From the counselor's copy of the report on which numerical scores are given, I note that the V-score is 44, just 1 point under the cutoff for a caution message. More noticeable is the array of VIEs compared with women; none in the "high" range; five each in the "average" and "low" ranges. Notice too, how the highest of the VIE scores in the low range is only the 11th percentile. I would characterize this as an "undifferentiated" profile, likely affecting the V-score. Ellenore has many interests competing for satisfaction, not unlike the problem that she presents. This might raise the topic for her counselor of Ellenore's decision making skills. You can read through your report form (see Appendix A) in numerical order, 1,2,3; the green ink text and then the computer-printed to get the gist of it. …


Introduction: Bortezomib (Bz, VELCADE) is a proteasome inhibitor proven safe and effective for patients (pts) with relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma (MM). Pts in SUMMIT (NEJM 2003;348:2609) and CREST (BJH 2004;127:165) underwent rigorous testing (neurologic evaluations, FACT/GOG-Ntx questionnaires, nerve conduction studies) to determine the incidence, characteristics and reversibility of PN. In these phase 2 trials, the PN rate was 31–41% (grade [G] ≥ 3 in 11–12%). Specific dose modification (DM) guidelines for PN were not incorporated into the phase 2 trials but were developed for subsequent studies. The objective of this report was to evaluate the frequency, characteristics and reversibility of PN in an updated analysis of the randomized phase 3 APEX trial (NEJM 2005;352:2487), in which specific DM guidelines for PN were implemented.

Methods: Pts with relapsed MM were randomized to Bz 1.3 mg/m2 IV on d 1, 4, 8, 11 q3wk for 8 cycles then 3 cycles on d 1, 8, 15, 22 q5wk, or dexamethasone (Dex) 40 mg PO on d 1–4, 9–12, 17–20 q5wk for 4 cycles, then 5 cycles on d 1–4 q4wk. Pts with G ≥ 2 PN were excluded. Data were collected on incidence, severity and reversibility of PN.

Results: Of 331 pts safety evaluable enrolled on Bz, 120 (36%) developed PN, including 30 (9%) with G ≥ 3. PN was classified as sensory or not specified in the vast majority of cases; motor neuropathies were rare. Of 91 pts with G ≥ 2 PN, 68 had DM, including 37 with doses reduced, held or schedule modification and 31 with Bz discontinuation (DC); 23 pts not following DM protocol. The majority (58 pts; 64%) of the 91 pts improved (9%) or had complete resolution (55%) of symptoms. Of 37 pts with DM without Bz DC, the majority (26 pts; 70%) had improvement, all with complete resolution of PN to baseline, with a median time to resolution of 78 d. Of 31 pts requiring Bz DC, 2 (6%) improved and 17 (55%) had complete resolution of PN with a median time to improvement/resolution of 121 d. Of 23 pts who did not follow the DM protocol, 12 (52%) had complete resolution with a median time to resolution of 106 d. The rates of PN (any G, G ≥ 3) were similar regardless of pt age or number/type of prior therapies (Table). The median TTP of 91 pts with G ≥ 2 PN, 68 pts with DM, and the Bz arm overall were 6.2, 6.9 and 6.2 months, respectively.

Conclusion: The overall rate of PN in APEX was similar to that of SUMMIT and CREST, but the rate of G ≥ 3 PN was lower, perhaps because of specific DM guidelines. PN was reversible in the majority of pts, and DM did not compromise efficacy. Pt age or number/type of prior therapies did not appear to affect the rate or severity of PN.

| | PN |
|:----------------- | --------- | ------- |
| Bz Subgroup | Any G*, % | G ≥3, % |
| *Bz related |
| ge; 65 y | 35 | 9 |
| < 65 y | 37 | 9 |
| > 1 prior therapy | 36 | 10 |
| 1 prior therapy | 37 | 8 |
| Steroids | 38 | 7 |
| Alkylating agent | 35 | 7 |
| Anthracycline | 39 | 7 |
| Vinca alkaloid | 38 | 8 |
| Thalidomide | 44 | 8 |
| Transplantation | 37 | 7 |


Plasticity of central synaptic transmission has been considered as the mechanism of learning and memory. Its disruption causes neuropsychiatric and neurocognitive disorders. The molecular mechanism of synaptic plasticity has been the center of research since its discovery. I have been particularly interested in the postsynaptic signaling process regulating synaptic surface receptor and found that activity-dependent trafficking of various receptor and intracellular components during synaptic plasticity. This is triggered by the raise in intracellular Ca 2+ concentration, which in turn triggers various signaling cascades. Among them, Ca 2+ /calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) has been considered pivotal signaling molecule in the synaptic plasticity. However, its characteristic dodecameric structure and abundance at the synapse have been mystery. I found that CaMKII can indeed undergo liquid-liquid phase separation in a manner dependent on Ca 2+ /calmodulin- with its substrate proteins and cross-link them together. This modulates the distribution of synaptic surface receptors and define their nanodomains. In this way, Ca 2+ -dependent liquid-liquid phase separation of CaMKII and other synaptic proteins is a mechanism to modulate synaptic transmission persistently during synaptic plasticity.


Introduction: Many cytokines including tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) and interleukin one beta (IL-1β) are increased in osteoarthritic joints. They bind at different receptors but cause a similar increase in NFκB and JNK. These intermediates then increase the transcription of matrix metalloproteinases, cycloxygenase-2, and inducible nitric oxide synthase. The end result is increased cartilage degradation and prostaglandin (PGE2) release leading to joint swelling and pain. Understanding cytokine changes during the onset and progression of osteoarthritis (OA) is a critical factor in the development of biomedical therapies. The purpose of this study was to define pro-inflammatory cytokine alterations in synovium, synovial fluid, and cartilage during the progression from normal articulations to early and late stages of osteoarthritis. Methods: Equine carpi from horses age 2 to 11 years were used. Horses included those undergoing surgery for clinical osteochondral carpal fragmentation and various degrees of secondary arthritis, as well as horses being submitted to the pathology service for necropsy. Carpal joints were grouped as normal, or as mild, moderate, or severe OA according to gross and histologic examination . Tissues were harvested at surgery or euthanasia, and RNA was isolated for qRT-PCR analysis. TNFα, IL-1β, aggrecanase 1 (ADAMTS4), aggrecanase 2 (ADAMTS-5), matrix metalloproteinase 13 (MMP13), interleukin 17 (IL-17), and collagen one alpha (Col-Iα) expression was determined in synovium. TNFα, IL-1β, ADAMTS-4, ADAMTS-5, MMP-13, IL-17, collagen two B (Col-IIB), and aggrecan expression was determined in cartilage. TNFα level in the synovial fluid was determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Cytokine expression data and protein levels of the normal, mild OA, moderate OA, or severe OA groups were compared. A two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Tukey's and LSD post-hoc tests were performed on the qRT-PCR values. Results: Thirty-six horses with OA joints and 22 horses with normal joints were included in the synovium studies. Twenty-one horses with OA joints and 8 horses with normal joints were included in the cartilage studies. Thirty-one horses with OA joints and 22 horses with normal joints were included in the synovial fluid study.


This study suggests a classification model and an e-learning system based on this model for all instructional theories, approaches, models, strategies, methods, and technics being used in the process of instructional design that constitutes a direct or indirect resource for educational technology based on the theory of intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFS). IFS is a set theory through expanding the membership systems of the classic theory of fuzzy sets in such a way to also involve the indeterminacies. As the model is grounded on a mathematical base, it also presents a convenient platform to define various metrics.


The treatment analysis of patients with chronic heart failure with ACE inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers, beta adrenergic blocking agents, alpha-adrenergic receptor blockers, mineralo-corticoid receptor blockers and other drugs used to treat heart failure was made. The first stage of the study was performed in 2001. In 198 patients with chronic heart failure was evaluated the frequency of using drugs for the treatment of chronic heart failure recommended by the Russian Society for the treatment of heart failure. The repeated observation of patients was conducted in 2005 and in 2010. During the period of monitoring increased the frequency of using ACE inhibitors (from 40,9 to 60,6%) and beta-adrenergic receptors (from 0,5 to 12,8%). The frequency of using mineralocorticoid receptor blockers reduced from 15,7 to 8,5%. In 2010 12,8% of patients with heart failure did not take any of the drugs recommended by the Society of specialists in heart failure.


Georgia's individual conflicts with Abkhazia and South Ossetia. For Georgians, the conflict is between Georgia and Russia, with Ossetians and Abkhazians as little more than Russian pawns, while for South Ossetians and Abkhazians it is a conflict between Georgia, on the one hand, and Abkhazia and South Ossetia, on the other. The book ends with two stand-alone chapters under the heading "The Power of the Past." Ronald Grigor Suny (chapter 13) shows how, despite the young Iosif Stalin's best efforts, Georgian Bolsheviks were fighting a losing battle during the 1905 Revolution, as workers and peasants swung behind Noe Zhordania's Mensheviks while the Bolsheviks came to be seen by Georgia's masses as remote intellectuals and committeemen. The book closes with Malkhaz Toria's chapter highlighting the recent development of "state-sponsored memory projects" (330) that aim to overcome the Soviet legacy and link recent conflicts with the Russian Federation with the Red Army's occupation of Georgia in 1921 and even the Russian occupation of Kartli-Kakheti in 1801. Of course, any research that attempts to explain recent geopolitical developments is inevitably aiming at a moving target. The authors were not able to consider the implications of the recent conflict in Ukraine and the narratives in Georgia surrounding this conflict. A possibly more critical omission was the role of Russian "soft power" over Georgia, involving Russia's promotion of "traditional" Christian Orthodox values versus a Europe promoting "alien" values such as tolerance of homosexuality. Despite these (minor) omissions, this book is unique insofar as it uncovers groundbreaking material and sheds light on the role of Soviet and post-Soviet narratives in rethinking the past and restructuring ideas on power, politics, and nationhood.


The spin polarization of the Xe {ital M}{sub 4,5}{ital N}{sub 4,5}{ital N}{sub 4,5} Auger electrons was measured after photoionization of free atoms by circularly polarized synchrotron radiation at 834.5 eV.Significant polarization effects were found across the whole Auger group. With the hole state orientation determined from the spin polarization of the {ital M}{sub 4}{sup 1}{ital S}{sub 0} Auger line the intrinsic Auger parameters were evaluated for all lines. The orientation derived from the {ital S}{sub 0}1 Auger line is consistent with the measured spin polarization of the 3{ital d}{sub 3/2} photoline in good agreement with the two-step model of the Auger decay. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}


This paper analyzes on the causes why the enterprise owner and the professional manager say good-bye to each other, and puts forward some ways for making the two sides break away from the error areas, the first is that the owner should not only give the residual rights but also carry out strict motivation mechanism and restraint mechanism for the professional manager, the second is that the professional manager should strengthen the professional ethics accomplishment of themselves, the third is to perfect the social environment, and the fourth is that the both sides should possess the common sense of worth.


OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the efficacy, sensitivity and specificity of chest x-ray as a diagnostic imaging tool in management of thorax traumas.

STUDY DESIGN
Descriptive study.

PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY
Haydarpasa Numune Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey, between December 2014 and December 2015.

METHODOLOGY
Case records of patients admitted to the emergency department with thoracic trauma were retrospectively analysed through the hospital database. Plain postero-anterior chest X-rays and thorax computerised tomography (CT) scans were evaluated seperately by same radiologist. Accurcy of signs of thoracic trama was determined using CT scan as gold standard.

RESULTS
Nine of 23 pneumothorax patients were diagnosed by chest X-ray. Sensitivity and specificity of PA chest X-ray in the diagnosis of pneumothorax was 39.1% and 100%, respectively. Positive predictive values of chest X-ray for diagnosis of pneumothorax was 100% and negative predictive value was 97.1%. Twenty-four patients had pleural effusions on CT scans, while only 15 could be diagnosed in chest X-rays. Chest X-rays were 62.5% sensitive and 100% specific with positive and negative predictive values of 100% and 98.1%, respectively. Twenty of 41 rib fractures were diagnosed with X-rays. Chest x rays had a 48.8% sensitivity and 100% specificity, and positive and negative predictive values were 100% and 95.6%, respectively.

CONCLUSION
Chest X-ray should not be used as a sole diagnostic imaging tool for exclusion of pneumothorax, hemothorax, and lung contusion. Due to high predictive values of chest X-rays, they can be used for follow-up.


In this paper, the principle and procedure of alignment of Cassegrain and coude optical systems for 2.16m astronomical telescope are described. With a star as the light source, a Foucault's knife-edge graph of the optical system at the Cassegrain focus is given. After assembling the fused quartz field corrector on Cassegrain focus, a star cluster photograph with a whole field of view (30cm×30cm) is also performed. Finally, in the whole field of view from center to edge and corner, the images are round. The linear size is measured. The diameters of dim stars are 0.18mm~0.20mm.


Selected the analysis method for coal gangues. Determined the major elements and microelements of 19 coal mines in Henan Province. Presented some comprehensive utilization suggestions for different coal gangues.


Abstract Low temperature plasma nitriding of 17-4 PH martensitic and A286 austenitic precipitation hardening stainless steels has been investigated over a wide range of treatment temperatures and times. Experimental results have shown that the microstructural characteristics and properties are highly process condition dependent and there exits the possibility to provide considerable improvement in wear resistance without compromising corrosion resistance properties.


Background and purpose: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one the most prevalent diseases associated with neurological and non-traumatic disability in adults. This autoimmune disease affects the central nervous system (CNS) and manifests different signs and symptoms. The prevalence of disease and age of onset varies considerably across the world. This study aimed at investigating demographic, clinical characteristics, and different risk factors in patients with MS. Materials and methods: The study was performed on 152 MS patients from May 2013-July 2014. McDonald diagnostic criteria were used for disease diagnosis. Data was recorded and analyzed in SPSS V.17. Results: The mean age of patients was 31.6 ± 7.3 and females were three times more likely to be afflicted with MS. Most of the female patients were married. The majority of patients had benign disease (86.4%), and positive family history of MS was found in 21.2%. Plaque lesions in MRI were seen in 94% of the patients. Sensory loss, visual impairment and depression were observed in 45.7%, 43.8%, and 9.2%, respectively. Visual impairment was the first sign of the disease that was observed in most of the patients (41.3%). Fatigue and sexual dysfunction were significantly different between relapse-remitting, primary progressive, and secondary progressive form of MS (P= 0.05 and P= 0.02, respectively). Fatigue was associated with disease progression but other symptoms were not significantly different between three forms of the disease. Conclusion: Demographic and clinical characteristics of MS in Mazandaran province were similar to those reported from other countries. MS registry is recommended to record all MS cases in order to increase knowledge on demographic and clinical characteristics, treatment options, and patient's response to medications. Furthermore, high familial prevalence of multiple sclerosis in Mazandaran province compared with other regions in Iran calls for further genetic analyses.


The purpose of this article is to introduce you a new subpixel image processing method. This method is designed for use in the measuring device for the accurate measurement of dimensions in the building industry. The construction of the optical part of the measuring device and the new method of the image processing are closely connected. This is the reason to introduce measuring device construction too, especially the optical part of the measuring device. The construction of the optical part of the measuring device is discussed in an initial part of the article then the link between the construction of the measurement device and the image processing subpixel analysis method is presented. Realization of an algorithm for the subpixel image processing method is presented too. Some additional information about this measurement system is present in conclusion.


We present multicolour broad band (BVRI) photometry for a sample of 33 spiral-spiral (S+S) binary galaxies drawn from the Karachentsev Catalogue of Isolated Pairs of Galaxies (KPG). The data is part of a joint observational programme devoted to systematic photometric study of one of the most complete and homogeneous pair samples available in the literature. We present azimuthally averaged colour and surface brightness proles, colour index (B I )m aps,B band and sharp/lteredB band images as well as integrated magnitudes, magnitudes at dierent circular apertures and integrated colours for each pair. Internal and external data comparisons show consistency within the estimated errors. Two thirds of the sample have total aperture parameters homogeneously derived for the rst time. After reevaluating morphology for all the pairs, we nd a change in Hubble type for 24 galaxies compared to the original POSS classications. More than half of our pairs show morphological concordance which could explain, in part, the strong correlation in the (B V ) colour indices (Holmberg Eect) between pair components. We nd a tendency for barred galaxies to show grand design morphologies and flat colour proles. The measurements will be used in a series of forthcoming papers where we try to identify and isolate the main structural and photometric properties of disk galaxies at dierent stages of interaction.


OBJECTIVE:To establish a method for the content determination of tanshinoneⅡ A in Yidu tiaogan mixture.METHODS:HPLC method was adopted.The determination was performed on Hypersil C 18(250 mm×4.6 mm,5 μm)column with mobile phase consisted of acetonitrile-water(70:30,V/V)at flow rate of 1.0 mL · min-1.The detection wavelength was set at 270 nm and column temperature was 30 ℃.RESULTS:The linear range of tanshinoneⅡ A was 1.005~10.050 μg · mL-1(r=0.999 2)with an average recovery of 98.66%(RSD=1.46%,n=9).CONCLUSION:The method is simple,rapid,accurate,reproducible and applicable for the quality control of Yidu tiaogan mixture.


—This paper compares and analyzes the objectives of the "secondary vocational-higher vocational-undergraduate" logistics management professional training from the three levels of policy, academia and college practice, and proposes that colleges and universities of different levels should make clear personnel training objectives according to their own conditions to meet the needs of logistics personnel of different levels of society.


A singularity-free perturbation solution is presented for inverting the Cartesian to Geodetic transformation. Geocentric latitude is used to model the satellite ground track position vector. A natural geometric perturbation variable is identified as the ratio of the major and minor Earth ellipse radii minus one. A rapidly converging perturbation solution is developed by expanding the satellite height above the Earth and the geocentric latitude as a perturbation power series in the geometric perturbation variable. The solution avoids the classical problem encountered of having to deal with highly nonlinear solutions for quartic equations. Simulation results are presented that compare the solution accuracy and algorithm performance for applications spanning the LEO-to-GEO range of missions.


__________________________________________ Abstract Abstract Background and aims : Pulmonary disorders are among the most frequent complaints of subjects in their working ages and may lead to considerable sickness absences and temporary or permanent disability. This study was conducted to follow subjects with probable occupational asthma University of Medical Sciences. Methods : This was a follow occupational asthma who were followed for Data were analyzed by SPSS ( Results : Ninety five workers with probable diagnosis of occupational asthma entered the study. After 2 years follow-up most subjects results of spirometry and respiratory symptoms were significantly associated with return to work but, no significant association was revealed between age and job experience with return to work. Conclusion : The finding of this study showed that a con occupational asthma remain in their previous job regardless of their symptoms. Pulmonary disorders are among the most frequent complaints of subjects in their working ages and may lead to considerable sickness absences and temporary or permanent disability. This study was conducted to follow subjects with probable occupational asthma referring to occupational medicine clinic of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences. : This was a follow-up study on 95 workers with probable diagnosis of occupational asthma who were followed for 2 years after diagnosis regarding return to (ver. 20) using T-test and non-parametric tests. : Ninety five workers with probable diagnosis of occupational asthma entered the up most subjects (82.11%) returned to their previous job results of spirometry and respiratory symptoms were significantly associated with return to work but, no significant association was revealed between age and job experience with : The finding of this study showed that a considerable number of workers with occupational asthma remain in their previous job regardless of their symptoms. : occupational asthma, return to work, spirometry, dyspnea. Pulmonary disorders are among the most frequent complaints of subjects in their working ages and may lead to considerable sickness absences and temporary or permanent disability. This study was conducted to follow subjects with referring to occupational medicine clinic of Shahid Sadoughi workers with probable diagnosis of years after diagnosis regarding return to work. parametric tests. : Ninety five workers with probable diagnosis of occupational asthma entered the returned to their previous job. The results of spirometry and respiratory symptoms were significantly associated with return to work but, no significant association was revealed between age and job experience with siderable number of workers with occupational asthma remain in their previous job regardless of their symptoms.


Reversible logics are a promising application for low power computing, quantum computing and other emerging computing technologies. The application of multi-valued logic reduces the width of reversible and quantum computing gates. Barrel shifters are being used for high speed data shifting. In this paper, we propose a ternary bidirectional barrel shifter design which is a combination of Ternary Feynman and Modified Fredkin Gate. The proposed design is evaluated in terms of Operations, Garbage outputs, Quantum cost and the number of Ancilla inputs.


1. Egg weight data from 408 laying hens of different breeds subjected to three dietary treatments were regressed on age assuming an asymptotic relationship of the form y = A — Brt where y is egg weight and t is age. 2. Characteristics of the curves were analysed with respect to breeds and diets. 3. The residual standard deviations of egg weight about the regression lines of this form were consistently found to be close to 2 g.


The invention discloses an expanded graphite composite bipolar plate material as well as a manufacturing method and application thereof. The composite bipolar plate material provided by the invention comprises expanded graphite and polyimide, wherein the weight ratio of the expanded graphite to the polyimide is 1:0.2-1:0.9. The thickness of the bipolar plate material is 1.0-2.0 mm, and the density thereof is 1.0-1.8 g/cm3. The bipolar plate material is especially applicable to a fuel cell system.


The goal of this study is to investigate the role of working memory capacity in L2 attainment and performance. The study uses an L1 reading span task to measure working memory of a group of 59 highintermediate/advanced learners of English, and a film retelling task to measure their oral production. The analysis first showed a moderate to high correlation between proficiency measured by a general proficiency test and learners' fluency, lexical complexity, and accuracy but not structural complexity on the retelling task. Secondly, no correlation was found between overall proficiency and working memory. Thirdly, a weak correlation was found between fluency and lexical complexity, and working memory. When the group was split into top and bottom levels of proficiency, moderate correlations were found between lexical complexity and working memory only for the high-proficiency group. The results are discussed in the light of previous research.


Background: Affect (i.e., emotions) can be associated with diabetes self-care and ambient glucose in teens with type 1 diabetes (T1D). We used momentary sampling to examine associations of daily affectwithblood glucose (BG) monitoring,BG levels,and BG variability in teens with T1D. Method: Over 2 weeks, 32 teens reported positive and negative affect (Positive and Negative Affect Scale) and BG levels on handheld computers 4x/day, coordinated with planned daily BG checks. BG values were classified as: in-range (70-180 mg/dL); low (<70 mg/dL); severe low (<54 mg/dL); high (>180 mg/dL); severe high (>250 mg/dL). Daily BG variability was derived from BG coefficient of variation (BGCV). To determine associations of positive and negative affect with BG checks, BG levels, and BGCV, separate generalized estimating equations were performed, adjusting for demographic and diabetes-related variables, for the overall sample and stratified by HbA1c (≤8%, >8%). Results: Teens (44% male, ages 14-18, 63% pump-treated, HbA1c 8.8 ± 1.4%) reported 51% in-range, 6% low (2% severe low), and 44% high (19% severe high) BG. In teens with HbA1c ≤8%, positive affect was associated with in-range BG (OR = 1.08, 95% CI = 1.04-1.13, P = .0002), reduced odds of very low glucose (OR = 0.35, 95% CI = 0.16-0.74, P = .006), and less daily BGCV (β = −0.9; 95% CI = −1.6, −0.2; P = .01). In teens with HbA1c >8%, negative affect was associated with less likelihood of checking BG (OR = 0.75, 95% CI = 0.64-0.87, P = .0003). Conclusions: Our findings shed light on individual differences in metabolic reactivity based on glycemic levels and the importance of incorporating affect into automated insulin delivery systems.


Alienation and Race in the United States How To Become White "They Are OK - Just Keep Them Away From Me": Residential and Marital Segregation Patterns The End of the Rainbow Coalition The Changing Significance of "Latino" and "Asian" The Black/Nonblack Society.


The aim of this study was to evaluate the yield and concentrations of nutrients in soil and corn plant in response to fertilization with different doses of sewage sludge compost and Gafsa rock phosphate. The work was conducted at experimental area of the ICA/UFMG in a Haplic Cambisol. The treatments, in a factorial 2 x 4, corresponded to two rates of Gafsa rock phosphate (0 and 90 kg P2O5 ha-1) and four rates of sewage sludge compost (0, 25, 50 and 75 t ha-1, on dry basis). The experimental design was randomized blocks, with three replications. In general, the corn yield and the concentrations of macronutrients in soil and plant were not influenced by fertilization with Gafsa rock phosphate. However, corn yield and nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium and sulfur concentration in the soil and nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium concentration in leaf increased with the addition of sewage sludge compost to soil, being the optimal recommended rate of 75 t ha-1.


This paper investigates the system performance of an energy harvesting (EH) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled relay (UR) in the Internet of Things (IoT) under Nakagami-m fading, where the UR applied time switching (TS) and adaptive power splitting (APS) (U-TSAPS). To increase throughput, all links (i.e., from the base station (BS) to the UR and from the UR to the IoT device (Id) clusters) are transmitted using the nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique. The U-TSAPS protocol is divided into two stages. In the first stage, the BS chooses the best antenna for transmitting the signal to the UR. The UR then divides the received signal into two streams, one for information processing and the other for the EH. In the second stage, the UR uses the decode-and-forward (DF) scheme to send the obtained signal to the best far device (BFD) in the far cluster and the best near device (BND) in the near cluster. Under imperfect channel state information (ICSI) details, we derive closed-form expressions for the outage probability (OP) of BFD and BND with the APS ratio to evaluate device efficiency. These derivations are also used to evaluate the throughput of the system under consideration. Monte Carlo simulations are used to validate our system.


AbstractThe ECTFE membrane with bicontinuous structure was prepared by a binary diluent via thermally induced phase separation method. The effect of binary diluent composition on membrane structure was investigated systematically. The Flory–Huggins interaction parameters between ECTFE and diluents were investigated to analyze the mechanism of phase separation. Dibutyl sebacate (DBS) was selected as the primary diluent due to the high boiling point and strong interaction with ECTFE, while triphenyl phosphite (TPP) was selected as the secondary diluent because of the good compatibility with DBS. As the weight ratio of DBS to TPP was 3/2, a uniform bicontinuous structure was obtained. A typical upper critical solution temperature behavior was displayed and the monotectic concentration was as high as approximately 50 wt.%. Finally, an ECTFE hollow fiber membrane with a bicontinuous structure was prepared by the binary diluent and revealed high mechanical strength (tensile strength of 2.40 MPa) and filtration ...


Practical ability is the ability gained by the individual solving actual problem in life and work.In our country,there still exist many disadvantages in training students,practical ability,for example,setting up implement system,education resources,development,action method.We should think over the development of students,practical ability from the view of human development;returning to real life,providing valid action resources;following the developing rule of practical ability,promoting schools,practical activity proceeding in high quality and efficiency;providing support on management policy to insure the implement of target on the training of students,practical ability.


Distributions of 10 dominant tintinnid taxa and groups in the western North Pacific Polar Frontal Zone or the Sanriku Waters were analysed on T-S-Plankton diagrams to estimate their values as indicator species of water masses. Because it is difficult to identify the origin of water by conventional T-S analysis in areas such as this where three currents such as the warm Kuroshio, the Tsugaru Warm Current and the cold Oyashio are converging, reliable indicator species can be of great help in identification of the water masses. Normal cells of tintinnids with a soft body together with empty loricae were plotted separately on T-S diagrams. Because empty loricae of most species were distributed over wider ranges of temperature and salinity, or empty loricae might remain suspended in a particular water mass for a fairly long time, tintinnid species including empty loricae were recognized as reliable indicator species. Because contrastingly different tintinnid faunas were derived from the Kuroshio and the Oyashio, water masses originating from both currents were clearly traced by the indicator species as would be expected. Furthermore, by employing the appropriate indicator species defined on the T-S-Plankton diagram, it was also possible to identify the most similar pair of water masses, i.e. the Tsugaru Warm Current and mixture of the Kuroshio and the Oyashio, which cannot be identified by conventional T-S analysis.


water content and compaction of soils have great effect on their shear strength.Considering the two variables,laboratory study is put forward.Through multiple linear regression,the relationship between the two factors and shear strength is studied,and a conclusion that compaction has little effect on shear strength with great water content in soils,and water content is major factor,is drawn.preliminary study on the relationship between shear stress and and displacement is also given.


With the incorporation of the 1 to 1 Model at the elementary public school level in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, certain educational paradigms have changed. The inclusion of information and communications technology (ICT) in the school curriculum was favored by the introduction of laptops with internet connections, enjoyed by all students and their teachers. Although the new educational proposals open up possibilities for regular classes, they also present new challenges that teachers must face when they plan and conduct their classes. The present article provides a state of the question, analyzing some antecedents of the 1 to 1 Model at the international and national levels, placing an emphasis on the analysis of the Plan Sarmiento BA, implemented since 2011 in the city of Buenos Aires. A few terms will be conceptualized, such as information society, digital gap, and cyberculture, looking to understand the present moment through the social tensions linked to these concepts. Students and teachers will be characterized by probing the methodologies used to plan and implement classes with the inclusion of ICT. Finally, pending challenges and possible lines of action will be projected, so as to promote pedagogic innovation in classrooms.


The protection of the environment is a vital issue for modern society. Following the Industrial Revolution, the contamination of the environment found many avenues, and now can be found in the water, the atmosphere and, sometimes less obviously, in the soil. Considering the number of contaminated lands indexed by the ministere du Devoloppement durable, l'Environnement et des Parcs, one might well wonder about the effectiveness of the measures in section IV.2.1 of the Environment Quality Act which include powers of ordering land characterization and rehabilitation retroactively over not only the polluter and whoever allows the contaminants to be emitted, but also in certain cases the one who has or has had the custody of the land, in any capacity. In 2003, the regulatory structure for remediation orders underwent a major reform, whose main features are described in the first part of this essay. However, the application of these measures derives from the minister's discretionary power. Developments that affect this discretion are described in the second part of our study. The number of orders delivered by the minister is so low that we have to consider, in the third part of our essay, the eventual liability of the State in relation with contaminated grounds, considering the principles of sustainable development and above all of intergenerational equity which, in our view, should be reflected in the application of minister of the environment's power to order.


mobilization, which relies above all on ethical and merely political impulses, necessarily creates a mechanism of exclusion that eliminates concrete interests because they cannot stand up to the legitimating political weight of world events. It is not possible to legitimate, in every instance, the abolition of examinations or the transformation of individual classroom syllabi in the same way one legitimates a concrete action that has a real or a supposed impact on liberation struggles. As regards the way these abstractions work, it is of little significance whether Vietnam, the struggle for the victory of liberation movements, or the domestic struggle on behalf of the working class is given precedence. What is essential to such abstractions is that this accurate qualification and localization of the most important contradictions leads to a subordination of concrete interests in which the same contradictions are necessarily repeated as particBOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIAN PUBLIC SPHERE • 88 ular ones. This is the reason why the concrete interests of students localized in the university were separated from large-scale political activities, such as the campaign against the emergency laws, that problematize domestic politics as a whole. A similar mechanism underlies the turning away of the majority of student groups from university issues in favor of infrastructural work in factories—a trend that is presently on the wane. Both tendencies are admittedly an expression of the same phenomenon: the inability of the intelligentsia to achieve a concrete relation to the context of living and public sphere of the proletariat. It is difficult to put forward a single reason why the student movement, which formulated precisely the emphatic concept of the production of a public sphere and of the incorporation of individual interests, should have so neglected these two categories after the dissolution of the SDS. To understand this paradox and to grasp it as the key to the functioning of the proletarian public sphere, it is necessary to widen our perspective. The valorization interest of capitalism cloaks the whole of reality with value abstractions, with a framework in which levels of attention and prohibitions on perception are bound. By means of these filters, the bourgeois public sphere excludes reality in diverse ways. The abstract negation of the valorization interest can result in a similar exclusion of reality, whose effect is comparable irrespective of the anticapitalist intention. The result is a kind of political value abstraction on the part of the radical left. From the perspective of a Jacobin or socialist ideal or intent, the "real community," the whole "social essence" (Marx) itself becomes a context of valorization that eliminates all that which does not serve the aim of overthrowing society as a whole—an aim, sustained by pure will, that transforms anything suitable into mere raw material. Social practice interrupts the dialectic between individual interests and the totality of society, including the dialectic between concrete experience in the workplace and the experience of the contradictions that determine the world as a whole. The result is a duplication of reality. One aspect of this phenomenon is that the capacity for action by groups that consider themselves emancipatory is not increased, but rather diminished. Campaigns motivated by abstractly conceived politics do not have to clash concretely with the nerve centers of capital. Instead the outcome is, as a rule, a parallelism, which allows for the coexistence of goals formulated in revolutionary terms and of ongoing bourgeois conditions. At both levels, the real interests of human beings become visible and form connections with the capitalist interest and the political legitimation interest alike. The explanation for this is neither treason nor opportunism. Rather, the correctly assessed weight of world events (Vietnam, the Black Panther movement, the suppression of the working class) leads to an inability to undertake small quantitative changes in immediate experience and in the workplace. These changes acquire meaning only in their relation to the total picture. Thus, if the interrelation between such concrete steps—which cannot be legitimated at every BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIAN PUBLIC SPHERE • 89 moment without destroying the situation—and the large-scale political fronts is interrupted, there is no longer any criterion whereby particular interests, in their subordination to abstract political goals, can be evaluated. The reverse side of the value hierarchy is the instrumentalization of life interests, which are, however, the medium within which all transformation, including a global one, takes place. Conversely, there is then also no criterion for measuring the limits of individual or group interests. Interests whose public status has been suppressed assert themselves all the more freely in the form of organic connections with legitimation values. The consequences of such a derived constitution of interests are far more complex for anticapitalist movements than the consequences of the decay of the bourgeois public sphere are for capitalist society. This is because groups that operate socially in terms of pure, abstract negation do not even participate in the abstract, effective universalizing and socializing tendencies of society. These are tendencies that create something like a public sphere, even when the bourgeois form of this sphere is decaying, or when it is not grasped as such. What is at issue here is a general problem of every revolutionary movement that attempts to realize its aims within a surrounding bourgeois public sphere. Sartre has used the term "fraternite-terreur" to describe this experience: "A group forms itself in a heated situation, for instance in the face of a goal ("Storm the Bastille!"); immediately after the campaign, the individuals who make up the group uneasily confront one another anew and attempt in their freedom to establish a bond that could take the place of the direct bond produced during the campaign—in other words, a kind of agreement or oath, which in turn tends to constitute the nucleus of a series and to set up a relationship of reified contiguity between them. I have called this 'fraternite-terreur.'" Another aspect of the same situation is described by Adorno: "Repressive intolerance toward the idea that is not immediately accompanied by a recipe for action is rooted in fear. One must beware of an unmuzzled idea and of the attitude that is not prepared to sell it out, because one is profoundly aware of something that one cannot admit to oneself: that the idea is correct. An archetypal bourgeois mechanism well known to the Aufklärer of the eighteenth century is current once again, in an unchanged form: anguish about a negative state of affairs, in this case a blocked reality, is converted into rage against the person who points it out." The situation described here—that on the one hand one must go on with one's existence, while 51. Jean-Paul Sartre, in a discussion with II Manifesto in Partei und Klasse, p. 32. By "series" Sartre means forms of loss of individuality, isolation, and lack of consciousness such as result from processes of reification and alienation. "The same worker who finds himself part of an amalgamated group at work can be completely serialized if he is alone at home or in other life situations" (p. 31). Seriality is here the counterconcept to spontaneity, a sense of being part of a unified group. 52. Adorno, "Resignation," p. 147. BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIAN PUBLIC SPHERE • 90 at the same time being in a position to grasp the meaninglessness of this individual existence—would be no different if we were dealing with industrial workers instead of students. There are as yet no forms of life or experiences that allow one to sustain a state of consciousness even when the gap between this state and reality has become physically and psychically intolerable. It cannot be denied that it is precisely the student movement in the Federal Republic that has gone the farthest in inventing modes of behavior to deal with visible gaps as visible gaps. Examples include Rudi Dutschke's notion of informal cadres, and the refusal of the most important leaders of the student movement to depict the social Utopia in affirmative terms. Within student groups, the abandonment of the emphatic concept of the public sphere and the mistrust of the sectarian nature of student interests (measured against the class interest of the proletariat) have been seen as signs not of disintegration, but of progress and insight. The calls to leave the universities and turn to infrastructural work in the community and the factory were in tune with this selfcriticism. They were, however, also the expression of a rationalistic and moralistic context of legitimation that belongs to a bourgeois mode of production. The more highly the legitimation of one's own work could be rated, the more intense was the withdrawal from the postulate of a public sphere and the return to clandestine group work and isolation. The opposing answer in the historical situation after 1968 would have been formulated as follows: the radicalization of the limited interests of the students leads, on the one hand, to collective theoretical exertions in an anticapitalist spirit and, on the other hand, to a transformation of the intelligentsia in the universities that puts them, for the first time, in a position to ally themselves with the working class. This process of transformation cannot succeed if even a few of the fundamental interests of the intelligentsia remain ill defined. A partial aspect of human labor, as it exists at all levels of development of society, is made autonomous by the professional intelligentsia. In the process, the intelligentsia has not voluntarily made itself the agent of capitalist interests throughout history. Rather, the division of manual and


port. Beaglehole's simple statement. with its implications, remains: "It was the land and not the sea that killed the Endeavour's men". Of the problems of venereal diseases Cook was well aware, and it was, as Sir James Watt points out, one of his main preoccupations during the voyages. His rather indulgent attitude to his crew on the earlier voyages may not have helped. But venereal disease became a major problem, "The real problem", of the third voyage and then "provided the occasion but not the cause of Cook's exasperation and changed attitude towards his men". It had, of course, become not just a problem of the crew's health, but a source of hostility by native people who, rightly or wrongly, blamed the voyagers for introducing what had become for them a scourge. Cook's reaction to this and other problems was then taking on an unpredictably harsh quality that was right out of character, and he was heading for the increasingly strange phase of behaviour that was to mar the record of the third voyage and, so it would seem, lead directly to his death. Discussion of this strange behaviour can better be left to another time, as it is scarcely part of the picture of "the real Cook". No one at the Simon Fraser conference was concerned to be iconoclastic; the desire was simply to get to know the man, human in fallibility and limitation, but great in achievement and vindicated in essential character. Seen as he now begins to appear-"warts and all" -James Cook no longer needs the adulation that would make him a demigod. He emerges as a very human person, great in his own right. We need have nothing but continuing admiration for the man who put Australia properly on the map.


In Model-Driven Engineering, model merging plays a relevant role in
the maintenance and evolution of model-based software. Depending on
the amount of metamodels involved in a model merging process, we can
classify model merging techniques in two categories: endogenous
merging, when all the models to be merged conform to the same
metamodel; and exogenous merging, when the models to be merged
conform to different metamodels. MOMENT (MOdel manageMENT) is a
framework that is integrated in the Eclipse platform, and provides a
collection of generic set-oriented operators to manipulate MOF
models, following the Model Management discipline. In this paper, we
study how model transformations are useful in a model merging
process and we provide a solution for both kinds of model merging by
means of model management operators and the QVT Relations language.


Personalisation, adaptation and recommendation are central aims of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) environments. In this context, information retrieval and clustering techniques are more and more often applied to filter and deliver learning resources according to user preferences and requirements. However, the suitability and scope of possible recommendations is fundamentally dependent on the available data, such as metadata about learning resources as well as users. However, quantity and quality of both is still limited. On the other hand, throughout the last years, the Linked Data (LD) movement has succeeded to provide a vast body of well-interlinked and publicly accessible Web data. This in particular includes Linked Data of explicit or implicit educational nature. In this paper, we propose a large-scale educational dataset which has been generated by exploiting Linked Data methods together with clustering and interlinking techniques to extract import and interlink a wide range of educationally relevant data. We also introduce a set of reusable techniques which were developed to realise scalable integration and alignment of Web data in educational settings.


This paper introduces the working principle and basic function of the soft starter and points out the advantage of the soft starter applying to offshore platform.


The article is dedicated to the study of the up-to-date problem of "gender" and sexual peculiarities and the differences of the communicative behavior of men and women. The aim of the research is the analysis of the peculiarities of the communicative behavior of men and women in the process of unofficial communication, described in the American and English drama of the 20 – 21 centuries. The main applied methodical approach is based on the calculation of the quantity of the discovered communicative phenomena in the speech of men and women, and the comparison of the results of the calculation. The author of the article offers the analysis of the quantity of the applied communicative phenomena in the speech of men and women, the comparison of the main communicative strategies and tactics and the discovery of the common and different features of the communication of sexes in the analyzed time period.


DTU Orbit (01/02/2019)  Performance of an autotrophic nitrogen removing reactor: Diagnosis through fuzzy logic Autotrophic nitrogen removal through nitritation-anammox in one stage SBRs is an energy and cost efficient alternative to conventional treatment methods. Intensification of an already complex biological system challenges our ability to observe, understand, diagnose, and control the system. A fuzzy logic diagnosis tool was developed, utilizing stoichiometric and concentration ratio measurements and removal efficiencies, along with rules derived from process knowledge. The tool could accurately determine the overall performance of the system and can therefore serve as a powerful tool to provide input for future control applications.


Bullying is a social problem that needs to be solved for happiness and well-being of the individuals. For junior high school students to make friends, it is very important that they find a common set of values, such as similar interests, the same hobbies, or some kind of common activity or striving. However, there is a minority of students who are unable to find a set of values in common with others, and these students are potential victims of bullying. To describe this phenomenon, we proposed a formalized agent-based model, both for the formation of a group and the exclusion of a minority, in order to clarify the mechanism by which a minority emerges. Secondly, in order to model real organizational and social phenomena, we upgraded the model to a hybrid multi-agent system consisting of both human and machine agents, in which a player could participate as in gaming. In this so-called multi-agent system model a player would be able to interact with the machine agents, which were controlled by the stochastic rules of the model. The game was made similar to amusement games by using interesting illustrations. We carried out a preliminary examination with a junior high school student playing the game and as a result, the appropriate number of parameters was determined.


The T-shirt as we know it today is an apparel staple. This is the simple garment that is deeply ingrained in world culture. T-shirts are worn in one color, and there are more and more t-shirts that have printed applications on the front or back. When using the digital printing method "Direct to Garment" the quality of the garment is paramount to the quality of the fi nal product, and makes of shirts will give diff erent results. If the material is tightly woven and 100% cotton such as the tested samples, it is obtained guaranteed the best possible fi nish. The aim of this paper is computer construction, modeling and grading of parts of men's T-shirts, making a marker as well as sewing. The focus of this article is digital T-shirt printing.


Background Death of a spouse is one of the most stressful life events an individual can face. It has various negative consequences including, at the worst, incidence of disease of the bereaved person. Previous studies have shown that bereavement is associated with an excess overall mortality of up to 50 per cent with an even more pronounced risk – as much as 1.9-fold during the first months following the death of spouse, and mortality from accidents and violence is especially increased. Moreover, most studies indicate that mortality is higher among widowers than widows.


The tempered Lefschetz thimble method is a parallel-tempering algorithm towards solving the numerical sign problem. It uses the flow time of the gradient flow as a tempering parameter and is expected to tame both the sign and multimodal problems simultaneously. In this paper, we further develop the algorithm so that the expectation values can be estimated precisely with a criterion ensuring global equilibrium and the sufficiency of the sample size. To demonstrate that this algorithm works well, we apply it to the quantum Monte Carlo simulation of the Hubbard model away from half-filling on a two-dimensional lattice of small size, and show that the numerical results agree nicely with exact values.


Due to the increasing number of Resident Space Objects, it becomes fundamental to characterize them. In particular, the ballistic coefficient and the effective ballistic coefficient play an important role for LEO and MEO/GEO objects. Current literature proposes several analytical or numerical approaches for estimating these parameters, depending on the type of input data. In this context, this paper investigates the application of a semi-analytical method for the characterization of both LEO and MEO/GEO objects. The presented approach is tested and discussed using open-source datasets. In both cases, ad-hoc metrics are used to assess the performance.


Political campaigning may be a more effective means for NGOs to tackle poverty than practical work such as providing clean water and building new schools and clinics. The extension of 'rights' to the poor – including rights to education, health and sanitation – is central to this approach.


Objective To examine the relationship between childhood abuse and adolescents' self-injurious behaviors.Methods The investigation was administered to 10 894 middle school students from 16 schools in 4 counties of Anhui province.All participants completed an anonymous questionnaire with information of demography,adverse childhood experiences and selfinjurious behaviors.Results The incidence of repeated severe childhood physical abuse was 8.5%,in which the lowest rate was 0.7%(head being pressed under water) and the highest was 5.9%(being kicked).There were 23.6% of respondents exposed to repeated moderate childhood physical abuse,in which the lowest rate was 1.5% of being forced to eating their disliked food and the highest was 13.7% of being spanked buttocks with hand or sticks.The incidence of repeated childhood emotional abuse was 20.4%,in which the lowest rate was 1.9%(being threatened by speaking of evil spirits) and the highest was 14.8%(being shouted).The rate of self-injurious behaviors was 22.3%.Dose-response trend existed between the number of items of repeated serious childhood physical abuse,moderate childhood physical abuse,childhood emotional abuse and the rates of general self-injurious behaviors and 6 kinds of self-injurious behaviors.Unconditional multivariate logistic regression results showed that the three forms of repeated childhood maltreatment were the risk factors for the adolescents' self-injurious behaviors.Conclusion Childhood abuses had negative influence on self-injurious behaviors in adolescents.


Plant diseases caused by pathogenic fungi play a major role in the decrease of food production in agriculture, which often result in significant yield loss. In particular, soilborne pathogens cause important losses, fungi being the most aggressive. The distribution of several phytopathogenic fungi, such as Fusarium, Rhizoctonia, Sclerotium and Phytophthora has spread during the last few years due to changes introduced in farming with detrimental effects on crops of economic importance (Asad et al., 2014). Soil borne plant pathogens can be a major limitation to yield and quality in crops. These pathogens are predominantly challenging because they often survive in soil for many years and each International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 12 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com


Technology has evolved to the point that image sequences can be captured, compressed, transmitted, decompressed, and displayed in real time with a system consisting of predominantly off-the-shelf components. The system we have developed is able to decode and display approximately 10 frames/sec (128x128 images) using four 16Mhz Motorola 68020s controlled by an IBM PC/AT. The 68020 processors are connected to a Multibus 1®. Via a BIT3® interface [1], the PC/AT sees the Multibus as an extension of its bus. We are presently optimizing the four processor system to handle 8-15 frames/sec.


simulations of future snowpack conditions for the midand late 21st century in the French Alps under three climate change scenarios. Refined statistical descriptions of snowpack characteristics are provided with regards to a 1960–1990 reference period, including latitudinal, altitudinal and seasonal gradients. These results are then used to feed a statistical model of avalanche activity–snow conditions–meteorological condi10


This study investigated the challenges of calibration of the PARAMICS microscopic simulation model for the local traffic conditions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It proposed an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) based calibration protocol for the PARAMICS model. The developed ANFIS model performs adequately in modeling the queue length as a function of two key calibration parameters, namely mean headway time and mean reaction time. The selected values of the calibration parameters obtained through the ANFIS modeling approach were used as the input parameters for the PARAMICS model. The error indices such as mean absolute errors and mean absolute percentage errors of the developed ANFIS model in predicting the queue lengths varied between 1.11 and 1.24, and between 3.44 and 4.06, respectively. The conformance of the PARAMICS output and the measured queue length indicates the validity of the proposed calibration protocol.


It has been extensively shown that statins, inhibitors of 3-hydroxyl-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase can effectively be used in the treatment of hypercholesterolemia. Indeed, coronary morbidity and mortality related to atherosclerotic plaque dependent cardiovascular diseases have been greatly reduced by their employment. Recently, it has been shown that statins can affect cell growth and survival of solid tumours and leukaemic cells. Indeed, it has been proposed their employment in multiple myeloma treatment in association with thalidomide or its derivatives. On the other hand, statins have strong anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects and thus they may have a role in the regulation of anti-tumour immunity. Indeed, there are several evidences that inflammation may promote oncogenesis and, on the other hand, inflammation may participate in cancer rejection. Herein, we analyze the effects that statins can exert on cancer cells, stromal cells in tumor microenvironment and anti-tumor cytolytic activity of human natural killer cells.


The Fourth Industrial Revolution is characterized by the destruction of boundaries between various domains and creative convergence based on horizontal and open diversity. This study aims to analyze the overall changes in the fashion industry brought on by this revolution, predict the future direction of the fashion industry, and highlight the transformative ICT paradigm that has manifested within it. To analyze the process of changes and development of ICT related to the fashion industry in the digital era (since 2000), this study established the scope of the research as the following: research papers written after 2010, literature including publications after 2015, Internet articles, reports from social networking sites, press releases, and interviews with experts. The usage of ICT in the fashion industry is demonstrated by various innovations such as Sharing Fashion, Wearable Tech Fashion, Internet of Things, Interactive Fashion, and Interface Fashion (SW3I), all of which share the following characteristics: sustainability, hyper-intelligence, convergence, creativity, and communication (SH3C). Furthermore, the ICT-fashion paradigm signifies an era of user-centered design and prosumers in that that the wall between producers and consumers has collapsed. Therefore, to enhance the competitiveness of the industry, particularly on a national level, fashion in Industry 4.0 must integrate industries, culture, arts, and businesses. It is essential for the fashion industry to expand its scope beyond simply focusing on clothes production or business strategies and promote social values.


In early years with the expansion of industries and growth of technology, the usage of aluminum and its alloys is also expanding. Therefore It is additionally utilized in aviation and vehicle industries because of their low thickness, good hardness property, great mechanical properties, better consumption opposition and low coefficient of extension when compared with other metals and alloy. The initial step of assembling in the aluminum combinations begins with the throwing strategy in light of the fact that the underlying throwing structure importantly affects the achievement of thermo-mechanical properties. The initial step of manufacturing in the aluminium alloys is the casting method . The casting structure has an important effect on the success of thermo-mechanical properties. The quality of aluminum amalgams can be dictated by its size and microstructure highlights of circulation all through the throwing procedure. In this way, it is essential to characterize throwing parameters of the aluminum compounds examples for controlling the microstructure properties and throwing abandons. This paper depends on the strategy to evacuate throwing abandons and improve the hardness of the aluminum composites.


© An optical fiber coupling system is described including a laser for generating a laser beam through a lens having spherical aberration. The spherical aberration in the lens blurs the focal spot, thereby reducing incident fluence levels over the prior art configurations. To further reduce peak fluence levels, a small obscuration is placed between the laser beam and the lens near the center of the lens. The incident end of the optical fiber is then placed at the point where the cross sectional area of the laser beam is smallest, which is closer to the lens than both the location of peak fluence and the paraxial focal point.


of IFN treatment (4), observed, not only in CHC patients, but in all settings of IFN administration. However, severe, life-threatening immune thrombocytopenia is a rare, but well-documented adverse event of IFN, so far reported only in patients with CHC treated with the recombinant, nonpegylated form of IFN (6–8). Recently, Peg-IFN has been introduced in treatment of CHC, and already one case of autoimmune thrombocytopenia has been reported in a patient receiving it (9). In that case, severe thrombocytopenia developed at the 10th wk of Peg-IFN administration, and the response to appropriate treatment was slow and difficult. In our patient, severe thrombocytopenia with features of an idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura-like syndrome developed shortly after initiation of Peg-IFN, and recovery was relatively rapid and stable. We believe that physicians treating patients with CHC must be aware that immune thrombocytopenia can occur under Peg-IFN treatment, as has already been reported with recombinant IFN. Its prompt recognition and treatment can be life saving for the patient.


By means of variational asymptotic homogenization, using Piola's meso-macro ansatz, we derive the linear Timoshenko beam as the macro-scale limit of a meso-scale beam-like periodic planar square lattice structure. By considering benchmarks in statics and dynamics, meso-to-macro convergence is numerically analyzed. At the finest micro-scale, a 2D assembly of elastic, geometrically linear, isotropic and homogeneous Cauchy continua in plane strain with different material parameters is considered. Using this description, we calibrate the meso-scale model using standard methodology and, by exploiting the meso-to-macro homogenization scaling laws, we recover bending and shear Timoshenko beam moduli. It turns out that the Timoshenko beam found in this way and the finest-scale description based on the Cauchy continuum are in excellent agreement.


Owing to the recent advancement in the field of `Robotics', the use of robots can now be modified to fit our own requirements. A potential field of expansion in this domain is the design and implementation of prosthetic limbs. In this paper we discuss the robust control of a customized robotic gripper arm. We also incorporate unstructured uncertainties and analyze responses of both H2 and H∞ compensators. This comparison show the advantage of integrating the aforementioned compensators on system stability.


Hierarchical models are formulated for analyzing data with complex sources of variation. In many cases, those complex sources of variation refer to hierarchical structure of data. Since, the hierarchical modeling process takes into account the characteristics of each data level, it leads to a complex model. Commonly, the issues of interest are how well the model fit the data and how well the random effects fit their assumed distribution. In that case, the problem is often viewed on hierarchical Bayesian modeling is confounding across level which means whether the problem comes due to mis-specification of likelihood on the lowest level of mis-specification prior on higher level. In general, there are two different proposed methods for Bayesian model criticism, i.e. Bayes factors and Deviance Information Criterion (DIC). However, there is practical and theoretical limitation of Bayes factors due to complexity of model. This paper proposes to discuss and generate a Bayesian predictive model criticism based on trade off between model fit and complexity through DIC and graphs for two alternative Lognormal hierarchical Bayesian models on household expenditure data. Result shows that there is a slightly different result between the two-parameter log-normal hierarchical model and the three-parameter log-normal hierarchical model. However, the three-parameter log-normal hierarchical model yields a better fit and a bit lower complexity compare to the two-parameter Log-Normal hierarchical model.


n December 1996, CEB established a Task Group with the main objective to elaborate design guidelines for the use of FRP reinforcement in accordance with the design format of the CEB-FIP Model Code and Eurocode2. With the merger of CEB and FIP into fib in June 1998, this Task Group became fib TG 9.3 FRP Reinforcement for concrete structures in Commission 9 Reinforcing and Prestressing Materials and Systems. Finally, as a result of the restructuring of fib's Commissions and Task Groups at the end of 2014, the Task Group became fib T5.1 FRP Reinforcement for concrete structures, chaired by Stijn Matthys at Ghent University, in Commission 5 Reinforcements.
The work of former TG 9.3 and current T5.1 was performed by two working parties (WP), one of which is "Externally Applied Reinforcement" (EAR), which produced fib bulletin 14 "Externally bonded FRP reinforcement for RC structures" in July 2001. Following a number of years of relatively slow activity, the WP on externally applied reinforcement was reactivated and started working on an update of bulletin 14. The result of this work is summarised in the present technical report, which aims to give design guidelines on the use of externally applied FRP reinforcement (both externally bonded and near-surface mounted) for concrete structures. An attempt has been made to present some of the topics in a Eurocode-compatible format, so that the material covered may form the basis for the introduction of composites in the next version of Eurocode 2 and for the updating of the text on seismic retrofitting with composites in the next version of Eurocode 8.
All persons who participated in the preparation of this Bulletin are mentioned in the copyright page. Further acknowledgements are due to Josee Bastien (Canada), Hans Rudolf Ganz (Switzerland) and Luc Taerwe (Belgium) for revision of the document. To all members of the working party on externally applied reinforcement our sincere thanks are expressed for the high quality and extensive work brought in on a voluntary basis.

Stijn MATTHYS, Convenor of TG5.1

Thanasis TRIANTAFILLOU, Convenor of WG EAR

Theodore NEFF, Chair of Commission 5


In recent decades, village abandonment as a result of migration from rural areas constitutes a serious socioeconomic problem in China and many other developing countries. The aim of this study is to identify the drivers of village abandonment in the mountain areas of Southeast China. Pucheng County was selected as the study case. A conceptual framework for the primary drivers of village abandonment was established to link rural depopulation, farmland abandonment, and house abandonment, which are three integral parts of village abandonment. Results show that the intense rural–urban migration propelled by new urban economic opportunities is the most significant driver of sparse rural population distribution, though this does not usually result in the straightforward abandonment of villages. Instead, the scarcity of public services in mountain villages is a decisive factor in local resettlement and resultant village abandonment. Limited school access and a demand for high‐quality education is the foremost and most immediate motivation for rural–town migration and resettlement in townships, which directly leads to the substantial abandonment of mountain settlements. Additionally, isolation, higher transportation costs, and non‐viability of traditional subsistence agriculture are minor drivers that are interwoven, aggravating the abandonment of remote villages. Our study highlights the aggregated characteristics of village abandonment and heterogeneity of rural migration and its corresponding primary drivers. These findings will have significant policy implications for decision makers by helping to identify areas with a high probability of village abandonment and predict the future magnitude of intra‐county migration and subsequent in situ urbanization.


The developmental patterns of seed, seed coat, and hardseededness were studied in naturally growing crop plants of beach pea (Lathyrus maritimus (L.) Bigel.) at six reproductive growth stages (S1–S6). Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.) seeds were used for comparison in some experiments. The accumulation of fresh and dry weight in pod shell and seed of beach pea and pod shell of grass pea followed an almost sigmoidal pattern. However, grass pea seed showed a linear pattern of weight accumulation. During maturation, moisture content of pod shells and seeds decreased because of dehydration. Beach pea seeds were able to germinate precociously at S4. Seeds collected between S1 and S3 failed to germinate because of immaturity, whereas the development of hard seed coats prevented germination in seeds gathered at S5 and S6. An imbibition test revealed that hardseededness completely prevented water absorption of S5 and S6 seeds even after 24 days of soaking. In grass pea, precocious seed germination was observed at S...


The colloquium formed part of a broader initiative of the Preventive Healthcare Research Cluster that aimed to develop new thinking on theory in Preventive Health. The initiative was designed to consider theories shaping the field today, and to critique and re-imagine these theories, in order to provide the grounding for robust debate and to advance a more developed theoretical base for that field. In short, the subgrouping – and the colloquium which its members organised – started from the position that while many Public Health experts remain unconvinced by the relevance of theorising, these experts nevertheless employ frameworks which may be more or less implicit in that they are precisely not recognised as involving theoretical presumptions (Kickbusch 2006:561; Dean and McQueen 1996:7,9). This context, far from producing an absence of theorising within Public Health, tends to result in a flourishing of particular sorts of theoretical approaches. Yet, the dominance of certain ways of thinking such as atomistic individualism (with its asocial prescriptive agendas regarding individual health disconnected from material social conditions) and unreflective empiricism (a theory that rejects the need for theory, Jones and Walker 1997: 58-60), remains relatively invisible and under-examined. The result is what Green refers to as the 'theory practice gap' Copyright © eContent Management Pty Ltd. Health Sociology Review (2008) 17: 124–128


In this article, the authors examine the costs and benefits of action-based learning (i.e., learning that occurs as a by-product of making repeated decisions with outcome feedback). The authors report the results of three experiments that investigate the effects of different decision goals on what is learned and how transferable that learning is across related decision tasks. Contrary to popular wisdom, compared with traditional learning, experiential learning is likely to be a risky proposition because it can be either accurate and efficient or errorful and biased.


Electron channeling contrast imaging (ECCI), as a rapid and convenient technique, has been widely used to characterize dislocations of heteroepitaxial III-V materials in recent years. The previous ECCI measurements, however, were primarily based on plan-view ones. In this work, we demonstrate an experimental observation of the cross sectional ECCI measurement on a Si-based GaAs sample for the first time. The plan view ECCI image can provide information on threading dislocations, stacking faults, as well as the dislocation distribution. By investigating the relationship between the defect contrast and the corresponding accelerating voltage, the optimal range of beam voltages for cross-sectional ECCI measurement is 10 kV-15 kV. The cross-sectional ECCI can simplify the process of characterizing dislocations in Si-based III-V materials.


Skeletal muscle is an uncommon site of metastasis in the field of head and neck cancer. We report here a rare case of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma with right bicep intramuscular metastasis. Our patient had advanced oropharyngeal carcinoma and complained of right upper arm induration. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed that bicep muscle tumor showed high-signal intensity on T1-weighted images and low-signal intensity on T2-weighted images, with heterogenous texture. Needle aspirate of the mass revealed metastasis of squamous cell carcinoma in the bicep muscle. Three months later, the patient died of progressive metastatic disease.


197 Cavernous malformations represent about 10% of all vascular lesions of the brain.[1‐3] They occur equally among men and female and usually present between the ages of 20 and 40 years. Cavernous malformations are most commonly located in the cerebral hemispheres, especially in the parietal lobe and thalamus.[4,5] Intracranial extra‐axial cavernomas are relatively rare.[6] They are congenital in origin and are differentiated clearly from vascular tumors. As these lesions are essentially nonspace occupying and angiographically occult, the detection rate and the clinical interest in this entity have increased in the era of computer tomography and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Cavernous hemangiomas are more often identified as small lesions, which show evidence of hemorrhage. Cavernous malformations can present with headaches, seizures, neurological deficits, or can be found incidentally. The natural history of cavernous malformations has been studied in detail and is still under debate.[7,8] When hemorrhages occur, cavernous malformations have a high risk of rebleeding, with rebleeding rates of, for example, brainstem cavernous malformations ranging from 5% to 35% per year.


A novel scheme of robot based control using Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) is proposed, in which the PLC performs control of robot arms via a novel interface. This scheme is simple and minimum drive control unit for robot. A mathematical model and software algorithm are proposed for controlling signals, switching and monitoring the system behavior. The results obtained by laboratory implementation are presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed on-line scheme.


We used simplified oocyte/embryo vitrification and warming protocols (Irvine Scientific) combined with vitristraws (SciTech Invention) to freeze and thaw human oocytes and blastsocysts. Throughout the year of 2014, twelve recipients were transferred embryos developed from vitrified donor oocytes, and fourteen recipients were transferred embryos developed from fresh donor oocytes at the North Carolina center for reproductive medicine (NCCRM). There were no statistically significant differences in donor age (25.9 ± 3.6 vs 24.9 ± 3.2) and recipient age (43.0 ± 5.4 vs 41.4 ± 6.8), fertilization rates (86.2% vs 87.0%), blastocyst development rates (50.0% vs 53.8%), number of embryo transferred (1.7 ± 0.8 vs 1.9 ± 0.4), clinical pregnancy rates per transfer (75.0% vs 71.4%) and live birth rates per transfer (66.7% vs 57.1%) between vitrified and fresh oocyte cycles, respectively. The results demonstrate that vitrification techniques can be used to cryopreserve human oocytes for future use. We are also reporting the live birth of healthy monozygotic twins resulted from a re-vitrified blastocyst derived from a vitrified oocyte. Oocytes from a 30-year-old donor were vitrified in vitristraws. Seven out of eight oocytes survived after thawing on November 16, 2013. Those seven oocytes were inseminated by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) at about 2 hours post thawing. All seven oocytes were tested as fertilized by pronuclear check at 18 hours after ICSI. Those fertilized oocytes showed normal cleavage on day 2 and day 3. Four of them developed to blastsocysts by culturing in continuous single culture medium in a tri-gas incubator for 5 days. Two blastsocysts were transferred to a 43-year-old recipient, but that did not result in a pregnancy. The other two blastsocysts were re-vitrified in a vitristraw. The re-vitrified blastsocysts were thawed and then transferred to the same recipient on May 8, 2014. The patient achieved a normal pregnancy on her second transfer. On June 14, 2014, an ultrasound scan detected two heartbeats in one gestational sac. Two healthy monozygotic boys (weighing 2466g and 2353g) were born on January 13, 2015. To our knowledge, this is the first report of monozygotic twins born from an embryo by twice vitrification at oocyte and blastocyst stage.


A strategy for selective mono-, di- and tri-O-methylation of kaempferol, predominantly on the basis of selective benzylation and controllable deacetylation of kaempferol acetates, was developed. From the selective deacetylation and benzylation of kaempferol tetraacetate (1), 3,4′,5,-tri-O-acetylkaempferol (2) and 7-O-benzyl-3,4′5,-tri-O-acetylkaempferol (8) were obtained, respectively. By controllable deacetylation and followed selective or direct methylation of these two intermediates, eight O-methylated kaempferols were prepared with 51–77% total yields from kaempferol.


The invention relates to a method for brewing wine by using peel residue. The method comprises the following steps of firstly putting peel residue which is remained after acanthopanax fruits and/or short-stem acanthopanax fruits are subjected to juicing or fermented juicing and peel residue which is remained after grapes are subjected to juicing or fermented juicing, into a container, mixing, sequentially adding water, sugar as well as tartaric acid and yeast into the container, fermenting for 3-12 days while controlling the internal temperature of the container to 23-30 DEG C, then, putting liquid generated by distillation into stainless-steel or oaken barrels, and preserving for 1-4 years, thereby obtaining finished wine. According to the method for brewing the wine by using the peel residue, alcohol is generated through fermenting the peel residue which serves as a raw material, and then is distilled so as to prepare the wine, and thus, the wine is similar to brandy and has a very good taste; through brewing the mixture of the acanthopanax fruit peel residue and the grape peel residue, the wine has a certain amount of nutritional ingredients, and waste utilization can be achieved.


The development of mobile communications technology and the broadening of the mobile communications business have brought the possibility of mobile learning.The appearance of the means of mobile learning has its theoretical basis.Mobile learning is to become,for sure,a new means of adult education learning after the network distance education and will replenish and optimize the network distance education.


Among the worst forms of child labor that have been identified as priority areas by the International Labor Organization (ILO) are practices analogous to slavery. This chapter examines the historical evolution of international norms against slavery and forced labor. It also examines the legal status of the prohibition on slavery as a customary norm of international law and possibly as an erga omnes obligation or a norm of jus cogens, and the implications for the elimination of child labor, particularly in light of the International Law Commission (ILC) Articles on State Responsibility. Provisions of international law relating to the prohibition on slavery include both slavery itself and slavery-like practices or practices similar to slavery. Bonded labor is a slavery-like practice resulting from indebtedness. The creditor/employer offers loans in exchange for labor, often that of the child or children of the debtor.Keywords: bonded labor; child slavery; forced labor; International Law Commission (ILC)


Abstract This paper examines the social economic value of the Greenland offshore shrimp fishery. The contribution of fishery to the economy is examined using a cost–benefit analysis in which the objective of the report is to examine the current state of fishery rather than possible changes.The analysis is undertaken by assessing the economic state and development of fishery, as well as the changes in profits, sales and production in the years 2006 and 2007. Financial accounts and costs data provided by the companies fishing in Greenland have contributed to estimating the net economic value of the industry. As management cost is part of the social cost of fishery, this is included in the analysis as well. The paper concludes that there is a positive economic net benefit from the shrimp fishery in Greenland, which is believed to be caused by the efficient management system of fishery (based on an individual transferable quota system). It is further shown that the companies and the crew retain nearly the whole net benefit from fishery, while the public finance is not gaining much.


This paper describes the fabrication and electric characteristics of nonvolatile memory devices from a poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) thin film sandwiched between two Al electrodes. These devices have unipolar switching behavior. The on and off voltages are about 2–3 and 0.5 V, respectively. The on/off current ratio of the device is 104–109. Also, the write–erase cycle test was operated 27 times and the retention time was up to 6 h. These characteristics were affected by several factors, such as the formation of current paths due to the redox behavior of PEDOT:PSS chain, the application of the compliance current and the existence of the native thin oxide layer, Al2O3, on top of the Al bottom electrode.


ABSTRACT Reinforcing the stability of aliphatic carbonate is an intractable problem that the mesomorphism of the material still needs to solve today. Here, novel main-chain liquid crystal compounds with mesomorphism are designed via the bulk ring-opening polymerisation to improve the stability and mesomorphic properties. The compounds were synthesised by bulk copolymerisation reaction of the monomers and initiator. The monomers of the 1, 3-trimethylene carbonate and the d, l-lactide were initiated by the diosgenyl derivative, without adding any catalyst. The chemical structures of obtained compounds were characterised by FT-IR and 1H NMR. The mesomorphic behaviour of the materials was determined by polarising optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction measurement. The thermal performance was investigated by differential scanning calorimetry and thermo gravimetric analyser. The results indicated that the phase transition temperature of the obtained compounds can be adjusted by the variation content of the monomers, and the compounds displayed an enantiotropic smectic phase in the room-temperature. Graphical abstract


Improved inverse eigensensitivity method and improved frequency response function (FRF) sensitivity method developed for analytical model updating have become increasingly popular among other methods and have been successfully applied to the practice of analytical model improvement. This paper examines the mathematical relationship between these two powerful methods for updating analytical models of undamped systems with objectives ofdemonstrating the advantages and disadvantages of each method as well as their specific practical application conditions. The problem of solution uniqueness associated with these methods is addressed. Computational considerations regarding the practical application of the methods are discussed. Numerical simulations are given to demonstrate the practical applications of these methods.


Automatic detection of diseases by use of computers is an important, but still unexplored field of research. Such innovations may improve medical practice and refine health care systems all over the world. However, datasets containing medical images are hardly available, making reproducibility and comparison of approaches almost impossible. In this paper, we present KVASIR, a dataset containing images from inside the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The collection of images are classified into three important anatomical landmarks and three clinically significant findings. In addition, it contains two categories of images related to endoscopic polyp removal. Sorting and annotation of the dataset is performed by medical doctors (experienced endoscopists). In this respect, KVASIR is important for research on both single- and multi-disease computer aided detection. By providing it, we invite and enable multimedia researcher into the medical domain of detection and retrieval.


Abstract1. From urine of rabbits injected intraperitoneally with ethylbenzene or acetophenone small amounts of ω-hydroxyacetophenone, p-hydroxyacetophenone, and m-hydroxyacetophenone were isolated.2. The implication of the occurrence of ω-hydroxyacetophenone in the oxidative degradation of ethylbenzene and acetophenone is discussed.


Sheet glass with respect to the easy-sheet material to be affected by an external force, such as a glass sheet, and then a step conveying operation or a loading operation of the pallet, such as a safe, quickly, reliably, and also how the sheet material treated to make it possible to perform efficiently It provides. A sheet material handling method for handling the sheet material (S) in a continuous process which will be treated as a curved state projecting the sheet material (S) in the flow direction of the process is continuous. Process is continuous, in the see step, a sheet member disposed not include a step, the step of arranging the (S) on the slope (31) not for holding the sheet material (S), the inclined surface of the sheet material (S) held at the bent state with respect to the projecting (31) and, in the batch process, it is arranged on the inclined surface 31 is not Waiting release of the sheet material (S), and returns the sheet material (S) in the flat state.


Spontaneous and induced platelets aggregations were studied in 50 patients with local frostbite trauma of extremities. It was established, that maximal level of induced aggregation decreased, and aggregation speed increased in late reactive period of trauma.


Objective To explore clinical pathological features,radiographic findings,treatment and prognosis of renal inflammtory myofibroblastic tumor(IMT),and to improve the diagnosis of the disease. Methods The clinical data of one case of renal IMT were reported.The radiographic features of the patient with histology-proven were retrospectively analyzed and the relevant literature was reviewed. Results There were some distinctive findings of renal IMT:(1) On non-enhanced CT,the imaging features included isodense attenuation,round or irregular contour,and its margin with the renal parenchyma was ill defined.On contrast-enhanced CT,the lesion showed heterogeneously slight-to-moderate contrast enhancement at artery and vein phase,and thick-rim contrast enhancement at delayed imaging.The density of adipose capsule adjacent to mass increased.Renal fascia showed marked thickening,and the thickness of the coating was more extensive.18F-FDG PET/CT scan demonstrated a hypermetabolic mass featuring markedly increased 18F-FDG uptake.No clear signs of metastasis were found in extrarenal other parts.(2)Histological examination demonstrated the tumor composed of spindle-shaped fibroblastic cells and infiltrating variable amount of lymphocytes and plasma cells.Immunohistochemically,the tumor cells were positive diffusely for SMA and partially positive for desmin.(3) The patient often appear without hematuria.Follow-up showed no recurrence and metastasis of the tumor. Conclusion Renal IMT is a rare pathologic entity easily misdiagnosed.Radiographic findings combined with clinical features have important value in making correct diagnosis and treatment of IMT preoperatively.The renal IMT has a favorable prognosis.


It provides a method to form a porous material of a semiconductor element layer. The method includes forming substance a film containing the impurity to react with the water molecules on the substrate. By curing under conditions having a high temperature substrate having the film material than the high pressure higher than the atmospheric pressure, water vapor atmosphere and at room temperature to produce the pores (pores) in the material film.


BACKGROUND Previous growth charts for Saudi children have not included detailed tables and parameters needed for research and incorporation in electronic records. OBJECTIVES The objective of this report is to publish the L, M, and S parameters and percentiles as well as the corresponding growth charts for Saudi preschool children. DESIGN Community-based survey and measurement of growth parameters in a sample selected by a multistage probability procedure. SETTING A stratified listing of the Saudi population. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Raw data from the previous nationally-representative sample were reanalyzed using the Lambda-Mu-Sigma (LMS) methodology to calculate the L, M, and S parameters of percentiles (from 3rd to 97th) for weight, length/height, head circumference, and body mass index-for-age, and weight-for-length/height for boys and girls from birth to 60 months. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Length or height and weight of Saudi preschool children. RESULTS There were 15 601 Saudi children younger than 60 months of age, 7896 (50.6 %) were boys. The LMS parameters for weight for age from birth to 60 months (5 years) are reported for the 3rd, 5th, 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th, 95th, and 97th percentiles as well as the corresponding graphs. Similarly, the LMS parameters for length/height-for-age, head circumference-for-age, weight-for-length/height and body mass index-for-age (BMI) are shown with the corresponding graphs for boys and girls. CONCLUSION Using the data in this report, clinicians and researchers can assess the growth of Saudi preschool children. LIMITATIONS The report does not reflect interregional variations in growth.


Through the method of documentation,video observation,mathematical statistics,logical analysis and other research methods,the research studies the rise and decline of Ba Yi team in 15 years and its performance during the 2008-2010 seasons in the CBA.The study shows that the glory of the team is a product of the planned economy and then it gradually declines in the market economic system.The determined factors mainly focus on the deviation of personnel training notions,the lack of people oriented spirit,backward system and the low quality of training.


This paper unifies Occupational Health and Safety Management System-Specification GB/T 28001-2001 to anthenticate the supervision enterprise's practice, proposes the standardized safe supervision means, in the certain degree has cleared up supervision enterprise about the safe aspect, thus achieves the enhancement of specification in safe supervision.