Purpose This paper sets out to explore whether and how the bullwhip effect, as found in product supply chains, might also manifest itself in services, as well as what policies can be successful for mitigating it. Design/methodology/approach A combination of analytic methods was used—inductive case analysis and analysis of data from two service supply chains in the telecom industry. Findings Empirical evidence from two cases was examined and provides support for the presence of a service bullwhip effect. Quantitative and qualitative case data were used to explore how this effect manifests itself in services, the distinctive drivers of the bullwhip effect in services, and the managerial actions that can either trigger or mitigate these bullwhip effects. Eight propositions are developed. Three types of characteristics that potentially make the bullwhip effect worse in services than in manufacturing are identified: (1) the destabilizing effects of manual rework in otherwise automated service processes, (2) the omission of accurate and timely data on rework volumes upstream in the chain, pointing at future bullwhip effects downstream, and (3) the lack of a supply-chain mindset within the various departments jointly responsible for delivering the service, leading to longer delays in reacting to service bullwhips as they develop over time. Originality/value This paper explores an area that has been well researched in manufacturing, but not in services, and it contributes to both the theory and practice of service supply chains. Research limitations The research is based on two cases within a single industry, limiting generalizability. The propositions developed need testing in a wider set of contexts, including hybrid service and product supply chains. Practical implications The implications of this research can help organizations prevent or reduce the negative impact of planned and unplanned fluctuations in their service supply chains.


An optical apparatus is provided comprising an optical waveguide, the propagation direction different from each other in a parallel beam group incident to the optical waveguide, and a set of parallel beams propagated through said optical waveguide via the light emitted from the optical waveguide being totally reflected repeatedly. The optical waveguide comprises a first reflection-type volume hologram grating and a second reflection type volume hologram grating. Interference fringe pitch on the hologram surface are equal to each other first and second reflection-type volume hologram grating. At least the second reflection volume hologram grating, the angle formed between the interference fringes of the hologram and the hologram surface layer on the primary incident beam continuously or stepwise varied to satisfy the Bragg condition. Thus, it is possible to reduce the uneven color and brightness as the viewing angle is generated.


In this contribution, we report a home-made pump-gain integrated fiber (PGIF) based on side-pumped fiber laser scheme. PGIF with a 60cm coiling diameter is characterized in a bidirectional amplifier configuration, 1.6kW laser output with excellent beam quality (M2=1.3) is obtained. The result indicates that PGIF has great potential in power scaling of high power fiber lasers.


The past years have shown the widespread vulnerability of agro-food systems and rural diets to external perturbations such as wars, climate events, and pandemics. Experiencing numerous obstacles, Cuba constitutes an example of success in the transition to agroecological sustainability models. This article characterizes how processes of agricultural change, local development, and industrial degrowth have impacted food availability and dietary diversity among rural livelihoods in the municipality of Yaguajay, Sancti Spíritus, for the past forty years (1980s–2020s). It integrates findings from focus groups, repeated nutritional surveys, and interviews carried out between 2016 and 2022 among residents of the towns of Yaguajay and La Picadora. The goal is to identify effects and response strategies within agro-food systems of rural populations. Distinguishing between periods of abundance and shortage, our findings show two counterpoints: intensive sugar monocrop cultivation, which resulted in high dietary variety; and economic crises in the 1990s and during the last period of the pandemic, which have led to significant dietary adjustments. The article concludes by underscoring the importance of comprehensive assessments of dietary strategies to elicit what agroecological transitions mean for local realities and of the value of food consumption and small-holder production experiences to understand the limits to sustainable transformations.


Abstract We consider incompressible flows in the rapid-rotation limit of small Rossby number and vanishing Ekman number, in a bounded volume with a rigid impenetrable rotating boundary. Physically the flows are inviscid, almost rigid rotations. We interpret the Coriolis force, modified by a pressure gradient, as a linear operator acting on smooth inviscid incompressible flows in the volume. The eigenfunctions of the Coriolis operator $\boldsymbol{{\mathcal{C}}}$ so defined are the inertial modes (including any Rossby modes) and geostrophic modes of the rotating volume. We show $\boldsymbol{{\mathcal{C}}}$ is a bounded operator and that $-\text{i}\boldsymbol{{\mathcal{C}}}$ is symmetric, so that the Coriolis modes of different frequencies are orthogonal. We prove that the space of incompressible polynomial flows of degree $N$ or less in a sphere is invariant under $\boldsymbol{{\mathcal{C}}}$ . The symmetry of $-\text{i}\boldsymbol{{\mathcal{C}}}$ thus implies the Coriolis operator is non-defective on the finite-dimensional space of spherical polynomial flows. This enables us to enumerate the Coriolis modes, and to establish their completeness using the Weierstrass polynomial approximation theorem. The fundamental tool, which is required to establish invariance of spherical polynomial flows under $\boldsymbol{{\mathcal{C}}}$ and completeness, is that the solution of the polynomial Poisson–Neumann problem, i.e. Poisson's equation with a Neumann boundary condition and polynomial data, in a sphere is a polynomial. We also enumerate the Coriolis modes in a sphere, with careful consideration of the geostrophic modes, directly from the known analytic solutions.


To solve how to find the Web service that distribute different locations efficiently and exactly,analyzed existing related researches,and put forward a new matching model for service based on P2P network and semantic description.In this model,this paper first analyzed the P2P network.Combine the thought of multi-level matching approach based on extended UDDI,presented a kind of matching and filter algorithm with three level,each of algorithm,namely basic description,thoroughly discussed semantic Web service matching and QoS matching,introduced similarity functions to measure Web service similarity degree of provider and requester,this approach will be significant to Web services discovery.


The article presents key approaches to methods of assessing and prognosticating the need both for bed stock, considering level of morbidity and epidemiological process in conditions of development and prevalence of coronavirus COVID-19 infection, and as well the regional network of medical organizations of public and municipal health care that should be reoriented to medical care support during pandemic according to 14 evaluation criteria.


It is shown that the large signal behavior of a popular family of high power factor AC-to-DC power conditioners can be analyzed via linear models, by using squared output voltage as the state variable. The state equation for a general (constant power plus resistive) load is obtained by a simple dynamic power balance. Time-invariant or periodically varying controllers acting at the time scales of the line or switching periods, respectively, can then be designed from the resulting averaged or sampled data models. Simulations and experiments corroborate the results.<<ETX>>


The paper derives the expressions of oil-film force of the synchronous precession-squeezing short cylindrical sliding-bearing from the Reynolds equation in the rotational cartesian coordinate system., and points out a mistake of the expressions of oil-film force of the synchronous precession-squeezing short cylindrical sliding-bearing in current school-book. Moreover it compares the expressions of oil-film force with of the steady state short cylindrical sliding-bearing, and find the expressions of oil-film force of the two sliding-bearing are same in formal representation, the difference between them is the defination of the rotational speed, the former is the synchronous precession-squeezing rotational speed, and the later is the steady state rotational speed. Finally the paper simulates numeric values of the oil-film force of the two sliding bearing through computational fluid dynamiccs approach (CFD), and proves the conclusion is correct.


Synopsis: Temperature distribution in slag bath and heat transfer rate to cooling water at various interfaces were investigated on 80 mmƒÓ ESR furnace. Effective thermal conductivity of slag crust was also measured. CaO-Al2O3-CaF2 slags were used in these experiments. Effects of heat transfer characteristics on melting rate and the shape of metal bath are discussed. The results obtained are as follows: (1) Overall heat transfer coefficient of the interface region between slag bath and cooling water in ESR and effective thermal conductivity of CaO-Al2O3 are 0.014 cal/cm2•Es•Edeg and 2.2 •~ 10-3 cal/cm•Es•Edeg, respectively, and they both increase with the increase in CaF2 content. (2) In case of oxide-base slag, temperature in slag bath gradually decreases in radical directions, but in fluoride-base one, it doesn't change so much to the vicinity of slag crust. (3) The temperature gradient in slag crust of CaO-Al2O3 slag is very steep. However, it becomes gentle and the temperature gap at the slag crust-mold wall interface increases with the increase in CaF2 content. (4) The shape of metal bath differs according to slag composition. Its depth depends on the temperature of slag bath. On the other hand, the height of the cylindrical part of metal bath is related to the heat transfer rate across the slag bath-metal bath interface.


Eleven inspectors from regional airlines participated in a study on inspection performance conducted at the FAA's Airworthiness Assurance NDI Validation Center (AANC) at Sandia Laboratories. These inspectors were asked to perform six inspection tasks, typical of inspections performed in their airline's maintenance department, on a testbed aircraft using workcards developed by the researchers. Performance on these six tasks varied widely between inspectors. Differences in performance were due to three main factors: differences in the domain knowledge of the inspectors, differences in workcard familiarity, and differences in the way the tasks were approached. The major factor seemed to be the individual's approach to the tasks.


Cloud-Assisted Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) is one of the key emerging technology for medical applications in the era of Internet-of-Things. In cloud-assisted WBANs, the WBANs are able to access the cloud resources, which are geographically close to the local Access Points (APs). However, in the presence of poor radio link-quality between cloud-assisted WBANs and APs, energy consumption and service delay of the network dynamically changed. Therefore, in order to solve this problem, we propose an energy-efficient Body-to-Body (B2B) communications among coexisting WBANs to relay the information of the patients to nearest APs to provide real-time healthcare services. On the other hand, the healthcare services enabled for cloud-assisted WBANs is popularly known as Healthcare-as-a-Service (He-aaS). In He-aaS, it is very challenging to finalize a price agreement between WBANs and Health-Cloud Service Providers (H-CSPs) as WBANs follow a heterogeneous architecture. The existing pricing mechanisms, which are constrained to the homogeneous applications, are not compatible to He-aaS. We propose an optimal and distributed pricing policy for He-aaS in order to increase the profit level of each WBAN with the consideration of the optimal QoS and energy. Analysis of the proposed algorithms and the inferences of the results validates the usefulness of the proposed energy-efficient B2B communication and distributed pricing policy. Extensive results indicate that our proposed schemes are able to efficiently utilize limited resource with optimal QoS and energy consideration.


There are a number of important elements in designing of building energy management systems – when data collection, aggregation and management is usually well addressed by existing building management systems, actual analytical components allowing to diagnose energy-prone and/or user comfort compromising behaviors are far less mature. It is not only about developing algorithms for such tools, but also proper design of a hosting platform and its viability – it should not only enable access to sensor readings, but also provide access to other building data like Building Information Models and allow collaboration and interconnection of such analytics. BaaS project calls such tools Assess, Predict and Optimize services. Developing a smart platform supporting these services naturally leads to a concept of the building as a service ecosystem (BaaS) where any new tool can be plugged in the system and can benefit from already existing components. In the present work, the high level architecture of the BaaS platform is presented and the ability of BaaS system to act as a platform enabling the building contextual data as well as dynamic data (sensor readings) to software modules is demonstrated through a use-case example on a simple one zone office building.


Abstract A small-signal lumped model of a grown junction transistor ig developed. By using state-space techniques, the model is used to predict the small-signal common-emitter short-circuit input impedance.


e11552 Background: Enriched environment (EE) by promoting physical activity and social communication reduces development of tumors such as in colon cancer. It seems to act particularly through a de...


Layer-multiplying coextrusion was used in conjunc- tion with isothermal recrystallization to study the confined crys- tallization of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and polyvinylidene fluoride-tetrafluoroethylene (PVDF-TFE) using polycarbonate (PC) and polysulfone (PSF) as confining materials. Three layered systems were produced (PC/PVDF, PSF/PVDF, and PC/PVDF-TFE) with layer thicknesses ranging from 525 to 28 nm. The crystal morphology was affected by both layer thickness and recrystalli- zation temperature. Specifically, increased recrystallization tem- perature and decreased layer thickness facilitated the formation of high aspect ratio in-plane crystals in both PVDF based poly- mers. On the other side of the spectrum, thicker layers and lower recrystallization temperatures produced on-edge PVDF crystals and isotropic PVDF-TFE crystals. The morphology was corre- lated with oxygen permeability, which decreased by almost two orders of magnitude compared with the bulk. A variety of crystal structures were obtained and explained with nucleation and dif- fusion theory. V C 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 49: 1750-1761, 2011


Successful development of advanced coal-fired power conversion system often requires reliable and efficient cleanup devices that can remove particulate and gaseous pollutants from high-temperature, high- pressure gas streams. A novel filtration concept for particulate cleanup has been developed at the U.S. Department of Energy`s Morgantown Energy Technology Center (METC). The filtration system consists of a fine metal screen filter immersed in a fluidized bed of granular material. As the gas stream passes through the fluidized bed, a layer of the bed granular material is entrained and deposited at the screen surface. This material provides a natural granular filter to separate fine particles from the gas stream passing through the bed. Since the filtering media is the granular material supplied by the fluidized bed, the filter is not subjected to blinding like candle filters. Because only the in-flowing gas, not fine particle cohesive forces, maintains the granular layer at the screen surface, once the thickness and permeability of the granular layer are stabilized, it remains unchanged as long as the in-flowing gas flow rate remains constant. The weight of the particles and the turbulent nature of the fluidized bed limits the thickness of the granular layer on the filter leading to a self-cleaning attribute of the filter. The granular filtration testing system consisted of a filter, a two-dimensional fluidized bed, a continuous powder feeder, a laser-based, in-line particle counting, sizing, and velocimeter (PCSV), and a continuous solid feeding/bed material withdrawal system. The two-dimensional, transparent fluidized bed allowed clear observation of the general fluidized state of the granular material and the conditions under which fines are captured by the granular layer.


The article examines challenges and threats to the digital transformation of companies, organizations and enterprises. The factors that determine the success of digitization processes are analyzed, the influence of the human factor on transformation is considered, the importance and necessity of a change in thinking for the success of digital transformation is determined. Here are five strategies companies can implement to overcome the challenges of digital transformation and realize their potential with new digital systems and technologies.


Under the market economy, the finance of the small and medium enterprises is mainly the internal source capital and outside loans. During a long term, the small and medium enterprises have being racked by the problems of loaning which are the great barriers in development. Therefore the inner reformations of the enterprises should be taken, the laws systems and social credit systems should be constructed and regulated, and the channels of loaning should be widened as well.


Partial table of contents: Ethnobotany, Drug Development and Biodiversity Conservation--Exploring the Linkages (M. Balick). The Ethnobotanical Approach to Drug Discovery: Strengths and Limitations (P. Cox). Basic, Quantitative and Experimental Research Phases of Future Ethnobotany with Reference to the Medicinal Plants of South America (W. Lewis & M. Elvin-Lewis). Ethnopharmacological Search for Antiviral Compounds: Treatment of Gastrointestinal Disorders by Kayap? Medical Specialists (E. Elisabetsky & D. Posey). Natural Product Chemistry in North-Eastern Brazil (A. Craveiro, et al.). African Medicinal Plants in the Search for New Drugs Based on Ethnobotanical Leads (M. Iwu). Two Decades of Mexican Ethnobotany and Research on Plant-Derived Drugs (X. Lozoya). Ethnobotany and Intellectual Property Rights (J. Barton). Indexes.


Pelvic floor dysfunction is a complex of disorders of the fascial structures and pelvic floor muscles that keep the pelvic organs in a normal position and provide continence of urine and feces [1-6]. The POP amounts 30.8% in the structure of urogynecological pathology in European countries [7], in the Middle East countries 19.9-49.6% [4], in the countries of North and East Africa 46-56% [8]. In recent years, the incidence of POP has been increasing worldwide [9]. However, despite the growing prevalence of pelvic floor dysfunction in women, there is no consensus on its etiology and pathogenesis to date. Herewith, there is no doubt that this is a multifactorial pathology, the development of which is determined by genetic and environmental factors. The environmental factors contributing to the development of pelvic floor dysfunction in women have been studied quite well. Those include traumatic and prolonged labor, estrogen deficient conditions, diseases accompanied with increased intra-abdominal pressure (bronchitis, bronchial asthma, constipation, etc.), disturbance of microcirculation of blood and lymph in the small pelvis, obesity, and sedentary lifestyle [5,10,11].


It is well known that different expression of Apo-1/Fas (CD95) plays important roles in various tumors and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) pathogenesis. Apo-1/Fas mediated apoptosis is one of the important pathways of apoptosis and is known to mediate apoptotic cell death by fas ligand (FasL). To examine the possible relationship between Apo-1/Fas gene polymorphism and HCC susceptibility, MvaI restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of Apo-1/Fas gene was examined in 94 Korean HCC patients and 240 control subjects. No statistically significant difference in the genotypic distribution and allelic frequencies was found between the control and the HCC. It is, therefore, concluded that Apo-1/Fas gene polymorphism is not associated with HCC susceptibility. Further studies are needed in order to clarify the relationships between genotypes of Apo-1/Fas gene and HCC pathogenesis.


The present invention is directed to a behavior control apparatus for a vehicle, because of the turning driving in order to provide a means for evaluating the slip ratio of the pair of right and left drive wheel and a factor that represents the lateral force means for evaluating the lateral force acting on the vehicle body and the vehicle based on the target braking force generated in a pair of driven when one of the front wheels or the vehicle is a front wheel drive vehicle either of a pair of driven rear wheel turning acting from the inside on a slip ratio and a factor which acts turning on the outside when the rear-wheel drive by the means for evaluation, the braking system of the vehicle to generate a desired braking force to brake the driven wheel or the driven rear wheel turning acting from the inside to act on the turning outer side.


Applications of thionyl chloride in pharmaceutical and pesticide sectors and application developments in organic synthesis reaction and ring formation reaction are introduced. Synthesis methods of thionyl chloride such as HSO 3Cl method, SO 2 method, SO 3 method, co production method and enterprises adopting above methods are evaluated. The domestic production, demand, import and export of thionyl chloride are analyzed. It is suggested that backward HSO 3Cl method should be eliminated and new plants should adopt advanced technologies. Factors such as feedstock source and scale effect should be considered when new plants are being built.


The article deals with the problem of actualization of student's readiness for selfcontrol through a process of pedagogical interaction between the subjects of educational process. Conducted experimental work has allowed to specify the concept of «readiness of students for self-control» and define its levels, to clarify the essential characteristics of the concept of «actualization» and to distinguish its stages (formation, development, activation) and also to justify the complex of pedagogical conditions.


With the increase of the speed in the railway operation, a particular care has to be addressed to the interaction between pantograph and catenary: the variation of contact force and, consequently, the contact loss probability increases. The contact between pantograph and catenary is an electromechanical contact and when a contact loss occurs electrical arcing phenomena arise. One of the most important effects of arcing phenomenon is the increase of wear for both contact wire and contact strip. The monitoring of contact force between pantograph and catenary in the high frequency range (up to values greater than 100 Hz) should be useful to put in evidence problems on the pantograph-catenary interface. In this work the use of fiber optic strain gauges, with FBG technology, to measure the pantograph-catenary contact force is discussed. This solution is insensitive to the electrical disturbances caused by the sparks and can be safely used in-line. Starting from a static and dynamic validation of the sensors, using as a reference traditional electrical strain gauges, a method to estimate the contact force was developed and tested.


Federal Reserve policymakers are watching a broad set of indicators for signs of "substantial" labor market improvement, a key consideration for beginning to scale back asset purchases. One way to find which are most useful is to focus on how well movements in these indicators predict changes in the unemployment rate. Research suggests that six indicators are most promising. They offer evidence that the recovery has more momentum now than a year ago, a strong signal that the labor market is improving and could accelerate in coming months.


The stunning ability to collect quantitative single-cell analyses of up to 20 parameters simultaneously (1), at rates of tens of thousands of cells per second, and then to divert and recover a specific single live cell, or a subpopulation of live cells, with desired characteristics is the genius of fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS). FACS applied in conjunction with fluorescently labeled monoclonal antibodies (Mabs) derived from immortalized hybridoma cell lines is a ubiquitous core technology in medicine and biomedical research, impacting all of immunology, cancer diagnosis, stem cell identification and transplantation, AIDS monitoring, and a variety of therapies, as well as plant and microbial biology. It is, in fact, very difficult to imagine the biomedical research landscape of the last 40 years without FACS.

Len and Lee Herzenberg with a FACS, circa 1985.

The father of FACS, Leonard "Len" A. Herzenberg of the Department of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, died on Sunday, October 27, 2013 at the age of 81. Len will be remembered as a deeply innovative scientist, a biotechnology founding figure, a life-long mentor and gentle teacher, an early and effective proponent of diversity in science, and a committed social philanthropist. He is survived by his wife, Leonore "Lee" A. Herzenberg, also of the Stanford Department of Genetics, their children Berry, Jana, John, and Rick, four grandchildren, and an international extended family of former students and postdocs whose lives and careers he and Lee touched and enriched. Len and Lee were a unique team, their partnership transcending essentially all of the humdrum drudgeries of laboratory management and academic piffle for more than five decades. Len's contributions were all shared with Lee, and they were each other's staunchest champions and toughest insider critics (2).

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[↵][1]1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dangl{at}email.unc.edu.

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The peculiar characteristics of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) make them vulnerable to physical attacks. Once a sensor node is physically captured by an adversary, it can be modified not only to perform malicious activities to disrupt network operation but also to propagate malicious worms to infect other nodes. In the face of such a threatening scenario, the system administrator needs to be aware of which nodes may have been compromised, so that appropriate countermeasures can be taken in a timely fashion. This paper presents the Sensor Security Status (S3), a security metric model for estimating in an online manner the probability that a sensor node has been infected, based on both the interaction among nodes and the alerts from the intrusion detection system (IDS). Simulation results show that S3 can accurately estimate node security level with low performance overhead and power consumption.


The role of the public and professional media in medicine cannot be underestimated. What is said, seen, or heard on a mass basis has tremendous impact on what treatments are demanded and prescribed. It also has substantial impact on the stock prices of companies who offer the product or an essential portion of the procedure involved, such as the diagnostic testing kit or the medical apparatus. 1 Release of promising results of incomplete or preliminary studies via statements made in conferences . attended by reporters, by official press releases, and by publication in professional journals can persuade politicians, funding services, practitioners, and the general public to demand that the treatment be offered immediately to all who might benefit from it. Such publicity can be so powerful in its effect that planned research to determine the value of the experimental treatment in a more complete, thorough, and reliable manner, cannot be done. This may be because either the physicians refuse to administer the "old," supposedly inferior treatment or potential participants refuse to risk being assigned to it rather than to the new "wonder" treatment.


In this paper we present MobileDeluge, a general mobile network-reprogramming tool based on Deluge for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). MobileDeluge effectively addresses the weaknesses of Deluge and other traditional over-the-air reprogramming approaches for WSNs. It enables efficient code dissemination for heterogeneous WSN motes regularly operating over low-power links through a mobile base station. We evaluate the performance of MobileDeluge via both laboratory experiments and a real-world outdoor environmental WSN testbed. Results show that our proposed MobileDeluge leads to a significant improvement of the performance compared to the original Deluge for WSNs operating over low-power links.


Natural language understanding (NLU) and natural language generation (NLG) are both critical research topics in the NLP and dialogue fields. Natural language understanding is to extract the core semantic meaning from the given utterances, while natural language generation is opposite, of which the goal is to construct corresponding sentences based on the given semantics. However, such dual relationship has not been investigated in literature. This paper proposes a novel learning framework for natural language understanding and generation on top of dual supervised learning, providing a way to exploit the duality. The preliminary experiments show that the proposed approach boosts the performance for both tasks, demonstrating the effectiveness of the dual relationship.


The dynamic response of a ship scaled model subjected to underwater explosion is studied using numerical simulation and realistic explosion tests. Based on the characteristic parameters of longitudinal strength and local plastic distortion, the grade evaluation of anti-deflection capability of the model is conducted. The results show that the acceleration response and damage grade increase with the shock factors, and the local response is related to the vibration mode. When the damage grade based on the local plastic distortion reaches the highest value, the damage grade based on longitudinal strength is not necessarily the highest. The result is of significance for evaluation of ship shock tests.


With Xinli mine area as a case study,in-situ surveying,sampling and constant ions test in water samples were conducted,correlation analysis on the variables indicators was performed based on the test data and some variables of significant positive correlations were removed,and the physical significances of some ions in water were discussed.With mass concentrations of Cl,K + and Ca 2+,γ(SO 4 2)/γ(Cl) and γ(Na +)/γ(Cl) as variables,the mine water samples were classified using hierarchical cluster analysis and the connectivity between an undersea metal mine and overlying seawater was speculated.The results show that the mine water from surrounding rock of the northeast roadway along the vein is closer to sea water in chemical properties,which indicates that the connectivity between the rock fissures in lower northeast block of the ore-controlling fault and seawater is relatively good;the mine water in the southwest roadway along the vein and crosscuts is closer to the brine(salty) water in bedrock fissures in chemical properties and drains the net reserves of brine(salty) water in bedrock fissures.


Traditional geography information system (GIS) on soil resource management application has a lot of insufficient departments, for example, the defect on function; too huge and complex in system components; lack of flexibility etc. Along with the development of information technology, the traditional GIS is difficulty to met the demand of the soil resource management of unceasing development, so decision support system (DSS) are pregnant. This paper points out a decision support system for soil resource management based on GIS. This system is made of database and its management system, method storehouse and its management system, model storehouse and its management system and man-machine interaction system. The system can be used to offer various decision schemes for land suitable appraisement and planning, and to serve for different level policymaker. It makes up the lacks of traditional GIS and unitary DSS.


The paper presents a new direction in methodology of modeling the potentials of regional economic growth developed by the authors in their previous studies. The proposed approach is based on decomposition of the extended production function in the Mankiw – Romer – Weil model and measuring statistically unobserved composition factors characterizing innovative, investment and human potential of regional development. This model enables defining the weight vectors of initial indicators for different groups of spatial entities. Detected weights of statistically observed indicators are the basis for structural analysis of economic growth specifics in different regions. Multiway Data Analysis is the basic method to define these potentials quantitatively. Based on this method of multivariate analysis with statistically observed indicators describing various components of regional economic growth in the period from 2001 to 2015, obtained were estimates of each of the three specified potentials per year per Russian Federation constituent member under consideration. The dynamic analysis in form of such calculations assists in comparing the potentials in individual regions. The information gained also helps in the dynamic analysis of different potentials within regions concerning cities numbering over a million inhabitants. A detailed retrospective study of the regional growth made it possible to carry out an integrated analysis and form identical groups thereafter. The time series obtained can serve as statistical tools for determining the contribution of the three composition factors of growth to each constituent member of the Russian Federation through repeated application of Multiway Data Analysis already to these factors. By way of such calculation the aggregate potential of economic growth for the group of the regions under consideration can be formed


In distributed systems, a group of multiple processes are required to cooperate with each other to achieve some objectives. In this paper, we consider a distributed system where there is o centralized coordinator. Each member process is peer, i.e. each peer has to autonomously make a decision by itself through communicating with other peers in a group. Each peer sends a message to every peer and every other peer receives the message in a group. In group communication, each message sent by a peer has to be causally delivered to every peer. Types of clocks, linear clock, vector clocks, and physica clocks are used to causally order messages. The linear clock can be used in a scalable group since message length is O(1). However, some messages which are not to be causally ordered are ordered. On the other hand, all and only messages to be causally ordered are ordered in the vector clock. However, the vector clock cannot be adopted in a scalable group due to the message length O(n) for the number n of peers of the group. A computer is equipped with a physical clock which is synchronized with a time server. Each peer can read time at a physical clock of a computer where the peer is performed. Messages are totally ordered in terms of physical time when the messages are sent. However, a pair of messages to be causally ordered might be ordered in the reverse order due to difference of times shown by physical clocks. In a scalable group, it is not easy for each peer to send a message to every peer. In this paper, we discuss a hierarchical group to realize a scalable group.


Flexible supercapacitors with extremely high areal capacitances are of great significance in wearable electronics. Here, we report fast fabrication of high mass loading monocrystalline FeMnO3 on hi...


This paper intends to undergo a comparative study on George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876) and Sally Rooney's Normal People (2018). The nature friendships the characters display in the aforementioned novels are of various attributes. Principles of religious, economical, racial, and societal heritage come together to delineate the relationship the four characters experience and brandish. The theme of power struggle in interpersonal relationships and the related parameters in play will be discussed through the ideas of Michelle Foucault, Luce Irigaray, Emmanuel Levinas, Frank Lovett, Jacques Derrida, and Aristotle. Among the defining factors to be tended to, vulnerability, the element of time –futurity-, death, and the approach towards ―the other‖ are dominant. An almost two century-interval between the two literary works has marked a tremendous difference in the attitude of the protagonists towards friendship and conversion. The paper attempts to explore the inevitable factors, defining a friendship, the constituents empowering it along with those reducing it to an entity of its own negation.


Over the last decade, cytogenetic analysis has become a firmly established technique in the diagnosis and assessment of lymphoid malignancies. Translocations t (14 ; 18) (q32 ; q21) and t (8 ; 14) (q24 ; q32) are cytogenetic hallmarks of follicular and Burkitt lymphoma, respectively. Only rare cases of de novo Burkitt leukaemia/lymphoma (BL) with t (14 ; 18) have been described. In this single center retrospective analysis, we report the results of a cohort of 3 patients with de novo BL characterized by a tandem of t (14 ; 18) and t (8 ; 14) translocation. Patients were 2 females and 1 male, age 59, 51 and 20 at the time of diagnosis. Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) of enlarged cervical lymph node was performed in all three cases. Giemsa stained FNAB smears were cellular and contained numerous large lymphoid cells with intensively basophilic cytoplasm. Flow kilometric immunophenotyping showed neoplastic B-cells and a diagnosis of Burkett lymphoma was made. In 1/3 patients bone marrow analysis revealed leukemic presentation. Conventional cytogenetics and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis of lymph node showed in all cases the combination of t(14 ; 18) and t(8 ; 14) rearrangement. Despite intensive chemotherapy in 2/3 patients disease progressed and the survival from diagnosis was 2 and 10 months, respectively. One patient underwent autologous stem cell transplantation (2000) and is now pregnant. In conclusion, cytogenetic evaluation of lymph nodes plays a critical role in determining patient management and prognosis. Whether early bone marrow transplant could modify the natural history of the disease remains to be determined.


Objective To explore endoscopic and clinical features of primary gastric malignant lymphoma(PGML) for improving diagnosis and treatment of this disease. Methods The clinical and endoscopic features as well as histopathologic data were analyzed for 54 PGML patients. Results The clinical manifestations mainly included epigastric discomfort,abdominal mass,melena and anemia.Gastroscopic appearance mainly included ulcerative lesions for 28 cases,mass lesion for 18 cases and infiltrating lesions for 8 cases.The lesions originated from body and antrum of stomach for 13 and 14 cases,and from multifocal lesions for 16 cases.All of them were non-Hodgkin lymphoma,pathologically included 50 cases of B-lymphocyte,2 cases of T-lymphocyte and 1 case with combined T and B lymphocyte.H.pylori infection was found for 70%.Fifteen patients were resected surgically and followed chemotherapy.Forty-one patients had following up data and the 5-year survival was 53.7%. Conclusion Most primary gastric malignant lymphoma are B cell lymphomas related to H.pylori infection.Gastroscopy is the best diagnostic method.Surgical resection combined postoperative chemotherapy is effective approach.


Abbe number, defined by having V Diagnostic ophthalmic lens of such a single element, with either indirect ophthalmoscope or slit lamp biomicroscope may be used to inspect the eye. .FIELD 4


The CD of glucagon, secretin, and vasoactive intestinal peptide has been studied as a function of temperature in water and in aqueous solutions of dodecyl sulfate, phosphatidyl glycerol, and L‐α‐phosphatidic acid (dipalmitoyl). The anionic detergent and lipids induce helix formation in all three peptides, with the amount of induced helical content increasing in the order glucagon < secretin < vasoactive intestinal peptide. These observations are subject to quantitative rationalization using a matrix formulation for the configuration partition function. In this formulation the major conformational consequences of the interaction with anionic lipids or detergents is an increase in the probability for helix formation by arginyl, histidyl, and lysyl residues. The region in which helix formation is maximal is found to be at amino acid residues 13–20 in all three peptides. Other studies have implicated this portion of the polypeptide chain in receptor binding. Thus, the helical segment induced by interaction with anionic lipids may play an important physiological role.


Well-intended and richly argued as Salin's proposal for reconciliation between the Austrian School and Chicago School is, it eschews a discussion of one aspect of the two schools that is also relevant to their respective monetary views; namely, their analytical method. This short comment aims to clarify why the specific praxeological approach of the Austrian school makes its monetary theory unique. By implication, as long as methodological differences between the Austrian and the Chicago traditions persist, no reconciliation will be within reach. This comment concludes that this is the decisive, though unintended, contribution of Salin's article.


This research explain about how operational auditing support in improving effectively in production process. Operational auditing is an action perform from management point of view to give economic, efficiency, and effectively value from whole operation, based on the management purpose. With operational auditing, production process can run effectively. Based on theory explained above, the writer decides to do some research and explains into final thesis "Operational Auditing Support in Improving Effectively on Production Process." The explanation is limited on research towards problems in performing operational auditing on production process which is already substance, effective production process and how operational auditing takes part in effective production process. This research is done upon CV. Chan Jaya using the descriptive method which is simple linear regression analysis and Pearson coefficient analysis with independent
variable (X), operational auditing and dependent variable (Y), effective production process. From the data processing in hypothesis try out done by the writer, the result gained for r = 0,789 proved that based on Pearson it is included and the amount of variable x (operational auditing) domination to variable y (effective production process) is Kd = 62,52% and the amount left is 36,48%, explained by the other factors. Based on the calculation writer concludes operational auditing has big positive portion to effective production process.


This paper briefly takes up on sport industry culture and points out that at present period how to tap sport market and develop sport industry culture. On this basis, theoretical premise and changing condition of sport industry and kinds of possibility and feasibility of sport industry culture are discussed.


Several versions of spectral duality are presented. On the two sides we present (1) a basis condition, with the basis functions indexed by a frequency variable, and giving an orthonormal basis; and (2) a geometric notion which takes the form of a tiling, or a Iterated Function System (IFS). Our initial motivation derives from the Fuglede conjecture, see [3, 6, 7]: For a subset D of Rn of finite positive measure, the Hilbert space L(D) admits an orthonormal basis of complex exponentials, i.e., D admits a Fourier basis with some frequencies L from Rn, if and only if D tiles Rn (in the measurable category) where the tiling uses only a set T of vectors in Rn. If some D has a Fourier basis indexed by a set L, we say that (D, L) is a spectral pair. We recall from [9] that if D is an n-cube, then the sets L in (1) are precisely the sets T in (2). This begins with work of Jorgensen and Steen Pedersen [9] where the admissible sets L = T are characterized. Later it was shown, [5] and [10] that the identity T = L holds for all n. The proofs are based on general Fourier duality, but they do not reveal the nature of this common set L = T . A complete list is known only for n = 1, 2, and 3, see [9]. We then turn to the scaling IFS's built from the n-cube with a given expansive integral matrix A. Each A gives rise to a fractal in the small, and a dual discrete iteration in the large. In a different paper [8], Jorgensen and Pedersen characterize those IFS fractal limits which admit Fourier duality. The surprise is that there is a rich class of fractals that do have Fourier duality, but the middle third Cantor set does not. We say that an affine IFS, built on affine maps in


Massive attack: Galactoside prodrugs have been designed that can be selectively activated by lysosomal β-galactosidase located inside cancer cells expressing a specific tumor-associated receptor. This efficient enzymatic process triggers a potent cytotoxic effect, releasing the potent antimitotic agent MMAE and allowing the destruction of both receptor-positive and surrounding receptor-negative tumor cells.


Objective To observe the impact of psychological intervention in the treatment of children's dental fear through physiological test method. Methods Ninety children aged from 6 to 7 year with standard untreated caries in deciduous molars were selected as experimental subjects.They were randomly divided into group A and group B(each n=45).All the children were received routine dental caries plombage.Group A was given psychological intervention,while group B had no psychological intervention.Blood pressure and pulse of the children were tested in the different time points,including T0(triage time),T1(treatment start-time),T2(5 minutes after treatment start),and T3(5 minutes after treatment end). Results The physiological values at T0 in children of two groups showed no statistically significant difference(P0.05).The physiological values at T1 were all higher than those at T0 in children of two groups,group B was significantly increased than group A,and the difference was statistically significant between the two groups(P0.05).The physiological values at T2 were lower than those at T1 in children of two groups,group A decreased more significantly,and the difference was statistically significant between the two groups(P0.05).The physiological values at T3 in children of two groups were minimum,and no statistically significant difference was found between the two groups(P0.05). Conclusions Physiological intervention in the course of dental treatment can ease children's dental fear.


Kalmanol exhibits a difficult to synthesize 5-8-5-5 ring structure with 10 stereocenters that have made it a popular target for total synthesis research for several years. The focus of current research has been on how to efficiently construct (S )-2,2-dimethyl-3-(triisopropylsilate)-cyclopentyl triflate, an enantiomerically pure five membered carbon ring required for the intramolecular [2+2] photocycloaddition key step from which the 8-membered ring structure is formed.


The recent years have been extremely difficult for banks. Competition has increased and, in addition, last year the global financial market crisis hit the industry, from which many banks did not recover yet. As a consequence, financial institutions are looking for ways to cut costs and to increase their efficiency in production. This paper proposes a new methodological approach – based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) – for the detection and analysis of inefficiency within a certain business process. As a case study, a typical banking process is analyzed: settlement and clearing of securities. The analysis is performed by utilizing a very large dataset of actual operational transaction data from one of the largest banks in Europe. In order to receive a comprehensive understanding of the process performance, three different perspectives on process efficiency are applied, whereas each is analysed by a distinct DEA approach. The results document not only the existence of inefficiency but also a high variance of process performance. Furthermore, it is found that the pattern of inefficiency differs across different views of performance in settlement and clearing. This research indicates that substantial inefficiencies occur due to the process execution performance. The analysis provides deep insights that can be helpful for understanding and improving the securities settlement and clearing process.


Instrumented wheelsets have been used for years to assess running safety of railway vehicles. International Standards (EN 14363 [1]) prescribe a complete testing procedure for the approval of a new vehicle. As far as running safety is concerned, the sum of the guiding forces in straight track (ΣY) and the derailment coefficient (Y/Q) in curve must be measured. Therefore, measuring wheel-rail contact forces is mandatory when the so-called "normal method" must be applied. In order to use wheelsets as a measuring device, a preliminary calibration procedure is required. Usually instrumented wheelsets are based on strain gauge bridges placed either on the axle or on the wheel web (or both). During the calibration phase forces of known magnitude are applied to the wheelset and the corresponding strain values are measured. In this way it is possible to establish a correlation between the output of strain gauge bridges and the applied forces. The calibration procedure appears crucial in order to assess the accuracy of the measuring system. Rolling test-rig are often used to perform the calibration of the wheelset [2]. In this way, forces at wheel-rail contact interface are usually not directly measured but are determined by imposing the equilibrium of the system, thus reducing significantly the accuracy of the system. In order to improve the accuracy of the device, a new full scale test-rig has been designed at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Politecnico di Milano. A bogie assembly made up of a bogie frame and 2/3/4 wheelsets, depending on the vehicle architecture, or a single wheelset in case of a non-bogie vehicle is mounted on the test-rig. This allows to correctly reproduce the real working conditions of the instrumented wheelset that are of fundamental importance: in fact, measured strains depend both of the contact forces and on reaction forces; hence, an error on the boundary conditions determines a re-distribution of reaction forces and thus a measuring error. Instrumented rail elements are positioned under each wheel of the wheelset under calibration. Each rail element is equipped with 7 load cells in order to measure wheel rail contact force components in each direction (vertical, lateral and longitudinal). Vertical forces are applied to the bogie through the secondary suspensions by means of a load beam, whereas lateral and longitudinal forces are applied directly to the rail elements.


We recently developed a novel learning solution for unsupervised learning in robots based on resistive memory devices arranged in a crossbar fashion and validated it by navigating a robot in an unknown environment with randomly placed obstacles [1]. In this work, we study the effects of variations in device doping concentrations and the resistive states on the performance of the robot during navigation tasks. Such variabilities arise from the variation in process parameters during device fabrication. We have modeled the variabilities in the initial device doping concentration and in the update of the device resistive states. We have also considered the possibility of a device getting stuck in a low resistance state. This study will help us evaluate the performance of our learning scheme and develop specifications on acceptable range of variability in these devices for application-specific tasks.


-in opening the discussion, explained that his remarks would be based on twenty years of experience in radiotherapy at Bradford, and that his technique was that recently described by Wintz in his book. As a result of much unwise comment in the press, a much greater demand for X-ray treatment had been made than was justifiable, many false hopes were raised, and those who had been feeling their way on the subject had found their hands forced, for it came to be regarded as almost a crime to refuse to treat a case in this way, however hopeless it might be judged. Of 133 malignant growths treated in the first year 30 were carcinoma of the breast, 28 epithelioma of jaws, tongue, and larynx, 1 of forehead, 8 cancer of the pelvic colon and rectum, 7 of cervical glands, 2 of superior maxilla, 4 sarcomata, 2 carcinoma of the body of the uterus, 20 of the cervix uteri, 2 of the pancreas, 2 sarcoma of skull, 1 chondro-sarcoma of pelvis, 1 epithelioma of ear, 2 carcinoma of kidney. Stomach, bladder, and rectal *cases, 1 osteo-sarcoma of clavicle, and 1 myeloid sarcoma of the head of the femur, sarcoma of buttock and lympho-sarcoma of neck, Hodgkin's disease, uterine fibroids, carcinoma of thyroid, splenic leukemia, and some minor conditions were also treated. Forty-eight of the 133 cases were hopeless before treatment was commenced, and 46 of the cases were post-operative recurrences. At the end of a year 41 had ceased attending before completing their course, many because their doctors advised them that the treatment was probably doing -them more harm than good, some because they felt the treatment upsetting and trying. Of two cases of cancer of the cervix uteri, both of which he (Dr. Mitchell) at one time thought were cured, one had a recurrence and refused to have further treatment. In two cases of carcinoma of the pelvic colon in which colotomy had been performed, the result of the treatment seemed good, and one patient was still living, though with a faecal fistula. One case of carcinoma of the bladder, in which that viscus had been opened and cauterized, he had treated six times with a 100 per cent. dose, at the end of which course the man was in good condition, nothing could be felt per rectum, and urine was passed easily. After each treatment the urine remained clear for three months, but then blood reappeared in it. Four breast cases appeared to do very well. A case of lympho-sarcoma of the neck at one time seemed cured, but there was a recurrence, and death took place from


The emission color of organic-light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) can be tuned by doping the active layer with fluorescent polymers, dyes or macromolecules. We built white light emitting OLEDs with an external electroluminescence (EL) quantum efficiency of up to 1.8% by doping a blue-light-emitting laddertype poly(paraphenylene) with an orange emitting fully π-conjugated macro-molecule. For the EL spectra we found a much stronger contribution from the guest emission than in photoluminescence, which is attributed to charge carrier trapping at the guest and subsequent EL in addition to excitation energy migration of singlet excitons from the host to the guest.


This paper explains the focuses of environmental impact assessment of coal chemical projects on environment capacity,pollution control,risk assessment and comprehensive utilization,and then the feasible ways are proposed about improving the levels of environmental impact assessment of coal chemical projects.Meanwhile,the importance of sources of coal chemical's pollution and process control are discussed by analysis and comparison of coal gasification process what the coal chemical projects adopt.


Abstract The effects of stratification and bottom topography on the Kuroshio path transitions in a multiple equilibrium regime due to a short-term velocity increase are examined using a two-layer inflow–outflow model with simplified coastal geometry and bottom topography. For an imposed velocity increase on a straight-path state, the typical transition from a straight to a meandering path occurs with or without bottom topography through the same process as in a barotropic case with flat bottom. Thus, the geometrical effect of Kyushu is essential to this transition or to the formation of a small meander triggering the transition; stratification and bottom topography are somewhat secondary. Nevertheless, under the influence of stratification, a small meander significantly develops south of Kyushu during a decreasing phase of velocity through shoaling of the interface depth and triggers the transition with the amplification rate of velocity Amp of 1.5. The continental slope south of Japan prevents a small me...


SARS-CoV-2 is an infection that affects several organs and has a wide range of symptoms in addition to producing severe acute respiratory syndrome. Millions of individuals were infected when it first started because of how quickly it travelled from its starting location to nearby countries. Anticipating positive Covid-19 incidences is required in order to better understand future risk and take the proper preventative and precautionary measures. As a result, it is critical to create mathematical models that are durable and have as few prediction errors as possible. This study suggests a unique hybrid strategy for examining the status of Covid-19 confirmed patients in conjunction with complete vaccination. First, the selective opposition technique is initially included into the Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO) in this study to improve the exploration and exploitation capacity for the given challenge. Second, to execute the prediction task with the optimized hyper-parameter values, the Least Squares Support Vector Machines (LSSVM) method is integrated with Selective Opposition based GWO as an objective function. The data source includes daily occurrences of confirmed cases in Malaysia from February 24, 2021 to July 27, 2022. Based on the experimental results, this paper shows that SOGWO-LSSVM outperforms a few other hybrid techniques with ideally adjusted parameters.


In 1946 Krasnosel'skii proved that if every three points in the boundary of a compact set in the Euclidean plane E2 can see at least one point of S via S then S is starshaped. In his paper [2] Krasnosel'skil proved the corresponding theorem for E. under still weaker hypotheses. These theorems have been recently expanded by Robkin in his doctoral dissertation [4]. In our first section we state conditions in E2 sufficient for a subset B of S to see a point of S via S. In the second section we characterize those bounded closed connected plane sets S which can be covered by a family of parallel lines each of which intersects S in a connected set.


Purpose To report a case of transient acantholytic dermatosis with review of the related literatures so as to improve the recognition of this disease.Methods The clinical manifestations of this patient were collected,and the lesion was observed by microscopy.Paraffin-embedded tissue sections were prepared with immunofluorescence.Results A 88-year-old man with long-term in bed,had many functional lesions of organs and had a high body temperature before getting sick.The principal changes of skin were papule and blister,and the microscopic findings were the sphere and grain of epidermis,vacuolar degeneration of acanthocytes,acantholysis,forming a gap and a phlysis with infiltration of some neutrophilic granulocytes,and the microabscess in the surrounding regions of the gap.The staining of immunofluorescence showed that IgA,IgM,IgG and C3 were all negative.Conclusions Transient acantholytic dermatosis is seldomly reported in China.The most important diagnostic clue of this disease is acantholysis with edema like sponge.It is valuable to make a final diagnosis by the combination of physical examinations and correlated clinical history.


IN A RECENT SURVEY of the "alt-ac" community, 74 percent of respondents stated that when they initially started their graduate work, they planned to become a professor and "of that 74%, 80% report[ed] feeling fairly certain or completely certain that professorship was the career they would pursue" (Rogers). (1) These statistics match my personal experience and my conversations with other grad students. I am one of those grad students who originally planned--and continues to plan--a career in a tenure-track position. Yet because of the sheer relentless, nigh apocalyptic nature of job market forecasts, I'm now in the position of considering careers beyond academia. For the past year I've been attending workshops at my university's Centre for Career Action, talking with my supervisor, other professors, and career counselors, meeting with mitacs representatives, conducting informational interviews with people in the private sector, and trying to immerse myself in the extremely active online discussions about the academic job market and the alt-ac path. So with that said, I'd like to present some of my concerns and ideas from the perspective of a grad student. What I'd like to suggest is an open, curious, iterative, versatile, non-teleological, or even "antifragile," approach to career preparation for humanities PhDs. In the survey quoted above, the respondents, in their postacademic careers, did not end up in any specific sector. When humanities scholars move beyond academia, there is no set path. According to Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius, in "So What Are You Going to Do With That?": Finding Careers Outside Academia, many alt-ac career paths only have a "logical continuity to them in retrospect" (34); Basalla and Debelius therefore suggest "be[ing] open to unexpected possibilities" (74). Similarly, in Geoffrey Moore's presentation, "Crossing the Chasm from Academia to Business," at Stanford University's Bibliotech conference (a conference for "Connecting Liberal Arts PhDs with Forward-Thinking Companies"), he claims that humanities PhDs have skills to offer every sector of business, provided we're willing to learn a totally new vocabulary. The vocabulary we currently use ("semiotics," "John Donne," and so on) won't translate, but what we can do with that vocabulary translates extremely well to any sector. At another bibliotech talk, Patrick Byrne, ceo and founder of Overstock.com (and a philosophy PhD), argues that in the private sector humanities scholars make naturally good team leaders and are good at nurturing a team's ideas. Some businesses have realized that humanities scholars offer a unique skill set that can be trained or modified to adapt to very different industries. There are now management consulting firms hiring not just mbas and stem scholars but humanities PhDs as well, because of the "raw horsepower" in critical thinking of which the PhD serves as evidence (quoted in Montell). Geoffrey Moore uses the metaphor of professional football teams that draft running and track stars who've never played football, because the team is after the "best available athlete" and the team can train the athlete for a specific football position. My point is not just that humanities scholars can succeed in other industries but that the PhD itself can be leveraged if PhD students are willing to branch out and if they are given the chances to do so. Often they need something else on the resume, since obviously not every company will take a chance on the "best available athlete." For grad students this will require early open-mindedness toward pursuing a career other than as a tenured professor. Cal Newport, in So Good They Can't Ignore You, argues that the uncritical repetition of advice like "follow your passion" is downright dangerous and damaging when people become convinced "that somewhere there's a magic 'right' job waiting for them" (22). Doesn't this ring a bell, in light of the frightening stories one hears about PhD adjuncts moving around the continent for years in a series of low-pay, limited-term contract positions--in some cases even going on food stamps (see Patton)--all in the hope that they'll finally land that magic "right" job, even as the odds become increasingly against them? …


The antibacterial metabolites from fermentation broth of marine Paenibacillus polymyxa strain L_1-9were purified by silica gel column chromatography,Sephadex LH-20,thin layer chromatography and HPLC methods,and the structures of these metabolites were identified by ESI-MS,~1H NMR、~(13)C NMR and spectra analysis.The antibacterial activities were then determined by Oxford cup method.It was demonstrated that two kinds of compounds,B1 and B2 showed strong antibacterial activities,which were identified as dibutyl phthalate(DBP) and di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate(DEHP),respectively.DBP and DEHP had inhibition effects on five kinds of fungi and bacteria.The inhibition effect of DBP was higher than that of DEHP.


Christian life. What engrossing of faculties, what absorption of desire, what depth of thought, what wistfulness of kindness, what strength of will, what inspiration of power-to endeavour or to endure-would forthwith follow, with spontaneous, silent, irresistible sequence, if once we were ' in love' ! " So all-inclusive indeed is the meaning of love, that it is needless to distinguish from love, as though it were a separable point, the effort of personal imitation and approach. Consciouslyor unconsciously, love is imitative. What I am really in love with I must in part be endeavouring to grow like, and shall be growing like, if the love is really on fire, even more than I consciously endeavour. What I am really in love with characterizes me. It is that which I, so far, am becoming. In love then, at least, though perhaps not separably from love, there is much imitation, conscious and unconscious, of the Spirit which revealed itself to the world on Calvary. There may be no inherent beauty in asceticism. There may be no form of asceticism which is not, sometimes, the product of mean and selfish impulses; which does not, sometimes, draw justly upon itself the condemnation, and even contempt, of healthy consciences. But alas for us if we cannot also, in this context, see how directly the ascetic spirit may be the irresistible outcome of pure love! The daily unselfishness-more and more smiling and spontaneous-the quiet stringency and gladness ofdetailed self-discipline-do we not see how this, as the unconscious, or the conscious, imitation of the Cross, by one who is in love with the Crucified, may be just the natural homage, the relief which will not be denied, of a devoted love, wellingup and bubbling over in act ~ Be it what it may as cold self-conscious rule, at least as the expression and relief of overflowing love, asceticism, even the exactest, is not only blameless but beautiful. It is also, in very large measure, a practical token of the thing we are looking for: a secret of the process of the real translation of Calvary, contemplated and loved, into the inmost characterizing reality of the spirit of the loving worshipper."* F. P. HARTON.


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The National Institute of Medicine's report, "To Err is Human, was extremely critical of the health care delivery system in the United States.1 Medication errors were a major contributor to the medical misadventures discussed in the report.

The pharmacy department of our facility began to use its data warehouse for identifying potential problems and discovering patients who may have "fallen through the cracks" of the traditional drug delivery system. To date, the system has been used to identify several areas of opportunity for the pharmacy department, for example identifying patients on quinidine who were supposed to have been prescribed quinine. The system also has been used to monitor patient safety issues as medication use guidelines are altered. The system provides fairly rapid access to information, with a typical search taking ten minutes or less.


Performance and metabolic change of TMAO and its related derivatives and performance of related enzyme were analyzed,the principle and measure of improving savor and processing performance of fish products was explored,and it was supposed to provide reference for improving quality of fish products and promoting and expanding fish products deep processing industry.


In this chapter, we deconstruct the computable general equilibrium model and describe its core elements. These include sets, endogenous and exogenous variables, exogenous parameters, behavioral and identity equations, and model closure. We describe prices, price normalization, price transmission, and the numeraire. We explain how the CGE model runs and how to carry out an experiment. A computable general equilibrium (CGE) model is a system of mathematical equations that describes an economy as a whole and the interactions among its parts. A model this comprehensive is more complex than the bicycle industry model we built in Chapter 1, but it need not be a "black box." In this chapter, our objective is to introduce, at a general level, the model's elements and mechanics. Even so, for many students, it may suffice to skim this chapter and return to it as needed as your modeling skills progress. For now, we also set aside any consideration of the economic theory that governs behavior in the model. Here, we do not consider how the model describes the motivations behind producers' decisions about how much to produce or consumers' decisions about how much to buy, or a nation's choice between consumption of its domestic production and imported goods. Of course, the economic properties of a CGE model are its real heart and soul, but they also present a much broader area of study; most of the other chapters in this book address this study. In this chapter, we deconstruct the CGE model to describe its core elements. We show that a CGE model and the simple bicycle model share many features, such as exogenous and endogenous variables, market-clearing constraints, and identity and behavioral equations. We explain and compare linearized and nonlinear expressions of the behavioural equations in a CGE model. We describe how the price of a single good changes as it moves along the supply chain from producers to consumers and the implications for price transmission. We explain the practice of normalizing prices and the role of the price numeraire. We introduce model closure, which is the decision about which variables are exogenous and which are endogenous. We also describe how the CGE model runs by explaining the sequence of model calibration or consistency check, baseline model solution, and model experiment.


This paper contains a collection and a classification of the 12 most common errors seen in company valuations performed by financial analysts, investment banks and financial consultants. The author had access to most of the valuations referred to in this paper when consulting in company acquisitions, sales and mergers, and in arbitrage processes. Some of the errors are from public reports by financial analysts.


this enzyme, characterized by current densities of 30 Nm 2 at a cell potential of 600 mY vs. Ag/AgCI electrode. This means that an active layer of ca. 9000 U of enzyme activity/m 2 is obtained. As a result, glucose and lactose are converted very efficiently at the electrode. An effective method for the prepara-tion of enzyme electrodes with high cur-Introduction


The article deals with the ethnomethodological aspect of the phenomenon of trust in the conditions of transformation of the social structure of contemporary Russian society. The notion of trust is used in the analysis of the changing social order in the country and the emergence of new social roles


The monograph concludes with a coda exploring the multiple centenary events celebrating Roger Casement's afterlives that took place in Ireland in 2016, as part of Ireland's Decade of Commemorations. Rather than offer a conclusion that forecloses our understanding of Casement's afterlives, this coda gestures towards his continued relevance to cultural memory, cosmopolitan consciousness and the rapidly changing political landscapes of the British and Irish isles. These performances and exhibitions shed fascinating light on the unfinished role that Casement plays within Irish culture and self-fashioning, capturing a range of artistic responses to his afterlives at a key moment in Irish history.


3-Acetylpyridine-adenine dinucleotide, reduced form (AcPdADH) is able to act as an alternative reductant in glutamate-synthase-catalysed glutamate synthesis. In the AcPdADH-dependent reaction, kcat and Km values for the other substrates are fourfold lower than those for the NADH-dependent reaction, and Km for AcPdADH is about 3 μM. AcPdADH acts as a competitive inhibitor with respect to NADH in NADH-dependent glutamate synthesis, with a Ki of 1 fμM.

Glutamate synthase catalyses NADH-dependent reduction of AcPdAD+. This appears to proceed by a substituted-enzyme (ping-pong) mechanism, with competitive substrate inhibition by NADH at high levels. The Km value for this reaction are 1.4 μM for NADH and 14 μM for ACPdAD+ and kcat, is 51 s−; K1 for NADH is about 10 μM.

The latter findings suggest that NADH is capable of reducing the enzyme molecule in the absence of other substrates and that a reduced form of the enzyme can exist in the absence of bound NADH.


Information system's ontology is not frozen: it must evolve in the course of its life cycle to keep its consistency and its coherence in dynamic and multi-disciplinary domains. However, any change to be taken care at the level of Information System (IS) design ontology is a wonderful source of new structural and semantic disconnectedness, which must be perfected to keep the ontology operational and consistent.

In this paper, we define an approach for the recognition of the IS design ontology evolution. Change operators are defined for this goal. Besides, strategies of evolution are defined to manage the consequences of these changes.


Human mobility is central to our understanding of design, planning and development of civil infrastructure, particularly in urban areas where large scale mobility flow problems can critically depend on the interface between human mobility and infrastructure. Therefore, researchers have spent considerable effort to understand and predict human mobility patterns. Several recent studies have used geo-social networking platforms to examine human mobility, but the focus of these studies has been on small scale social networking media. In this study, we examined the possibility of using Twitter, a massive online social networking platform with over 400 million users, to collect human mobility data. We developed a process map to collect data from Twitter, and designed two Python modules for its implementation. A case study was conducted and its results confirmed that Twitter can provide a larger quantity of useful human mobility data. In future research, we plan to analyze the data and validate that it can accurately capture mobility patterns. This will provide insight into whether Twitter is a viable resource to study city-scale human mobility. It can also potentially deepen our understanding about the interaction between urban dwellers and civil infrastructure.


The Paper compares rainfall IFDs published in Australian Rainfall and Runoff (ARR, 87) with 2013 Bureau of Meteorology publication for various locations throughout Western Australia, for AEP down to 1% and storm duration up to 72 hours. The 2013 IFDs shows considerably lower rainfall intensity in the Pilbara across all AEPs and durations, and large increases in rainfall intensity in other areas of WA (as around Busselton in the South West). Annual maximum analysis of daily rainfall data for single stations suggests that the increase (decrease) may be partially attributed to the occurrence (non-occurrence) of relatively high rainfall totals in years since ARR87.


The status of the Kalkar nuclear power plant in early summer 1986 is that, apart from later alterations to the workshop building, the assembly and non-nuclear commissioning work has practically been completed. From a technical point of view, nuclear commissioning of the plant can begin, but vital factors for this are the necessary nuclear licenses. The most important licensing prerequisites have been fulfilled;all essential appraisals have been available since January/February 1986. At the beginning of April 1986, the Reactor Safety Commission and the Radiation Protection Commission cast a positive vote for initial fuel loading. Before the accident in Chernobyl, but particularly since then, the issuing of the licenses has come under the political pressure of the commencing election campaign phase for the federal elections in January 1987. The initial project definition phase, the organizational boundary conditions, and the major requirements for the construction of the plant are summarized in chronological form. To provide the total picture, references dealing with general and technical aspects of the project are listed.


This article pointed out the present research condition of the early risk warning in our country.Through the research of military hospital to the medical risk early warning mechanism,the author put forward consult project,verify the problems and provide the references to others.


Recent planning for bicycle use is relatively low compared to other studies. Although studies for the bicycle roads accessibility are actively underway, those considering topographical elements and characteristics of the user behaviors are very limited. Choosing paths of cyclists is typically influenced by slopes and intersections as well as optimal distance. This study presents a method to find optimal paths considering topographical elements in case of choosing paths for school commuting using bicycles. Conversion formulae suggested here are tested on a Songpa area using round-trip directions and compared with traditional optimal path computation.


Bayesian compressive sensing introduces a new framework for compressed sensing, which has important significance. And the effect will be better when the signal being reconstructed is sparser. This paper utilizes the statistical feature of wavelet coefficients to sparse the important coefficients signals with high level because they contain much energy. Additionally, the improved method is applied to other BCS improved algorithms, and the experimental results show the significance of introducing the method.


The study examined the households' consumption preference for cowpea and its products in Western zone of Bauchi State, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling procedure was employed in the selection of 210 households. Data were collected using questionnaire and analyzed with descriptive statistics and multinomial logistic regression. The study revealed that majority (75.7%) of households' highly preferred alale as cowpea-based products and used kwankwasiya cowpea variety to make kosai (52.3%), alale (87%), cowpea soup (39.5%), rice and beans (53.3%) dishes, respectively.  Furthermore, 35.7% of households prefer to consume kwankwasiya cowpea variety than other varieties. The result of the multinomial logistic regression analysis revealed that, age (P<0.05), educational level (P<0.1), occupation (P<0.1), income (P<0.1), price (P<0.01), time taken to cook (P<0.1), taste (P<0.05) and weevil damage tolerance (P<0.05) were statistically significant in determining the factors influencing households' consumption preference for cowpea varieties. The major constraints to household preference for cowpea consumption include high cost of cowpea (97.1%), insect infestation (81.4%) and abdominal discomfort (70.0%) among others. The study concluded that households' highly preferred alale as cowpea-based products and used kwankwasiya cowpea variety to make different dishes. The study recommended that effort should be made by stakeholders and breeding institutions to create policies that would be favourable to control the menace of price fluctuations of cowpeas and cowpea farmers should divert more resources to the production of kwankwasiya cowpea variety so that they can meet consumer demand and increase their level of income.


The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of self-regulated learning strategies on learners' perception of motivation within web-based instruction. In this study, self-regulated learning strategies, which were intended to assist students to self-observe and self-evaluate their effectiveness, were incorporated into a one-semester web-based course to help students improve their learning motivation. Research results revealed that students' motivation perception benefited from the web-based instruction with self-regulated learning strategies. Students learning within a web-based environment with self-regulated learning strategies became more responsible for their own learning, more intrinsically orientated and more challengeable. They tended to value the learning material more and became more confident in course understanding and class performance.


In a previous class (Lecture 25), we showed how to construct an identification scheme which is secure against a passive adversary using an Honest-Verifier Zero-Knowledge Proof of Knowledge (HVZK-PoK). We also showed that it is possible to construct an Identification Scheme secure against an active adversary using a Witness Indistinguishable Proof of Knowledge (WI-PoK). In this lecture, we will construct efficient proof systems with these properties, and thus efficient identification schemes, based on the discrete logarithm assumption. We will also see how the resulting identification schemes can be converted into signature schemes.


Regression analyses are perhaps the most widely used statistical tools in medical research. Centring in regression analyses seldom appears to be covered in training and is not commonly reported in research papers. Centring is the process of selecting a reference value for each predictor and coding the data based on that reference value so that each regression coefficient that is estimated and tested is relevant to the research question. Using non‐centred data in regression analysis, which refers to the common practice of entering predictors in their original score format, often leads to inconsistent and misleading results. There is very little cost to unnecessary centring, but the costs of not centring when it is necessary can be major. Thus, it would be better always to centre in regression analyses. We propose a simple default centring strategy: (1) code all binary independent variables +1/2; (2) code all ordinal independent variables as deviations from their median; (3) code all 'dummy variables' for categorical independent variables having m possible responses as 1−1/m and −1/m instead of 1 and 0; (4) compute interaction terms from centred predictors. Using this default strategy when there is no compelling evidence to centre protects against most errors in statistical inference and its routine use sensitizes users to centring issues. Copyright © 2004 Whurr Publishers Ltd.


Abstract Several separative technologies for the removal of thorium isotopes from a waste nitric acid raffinate have been evaluated. The implications of interfering ions and the efficiency of thorium recovery are described. A comparison of the various techniques studied is reported with particular reference to: i. Secondary waste. ii. Scale-up. iii. Overall best practical environmental option.


SOME ILLINOIS CASES PERTAINING TO HIGHWAY LAWS ARE DISCUSSED IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE FEDERAL INTERSTATE SYSTEM. PROCEDURES AND DISBURSEMENTS FOR RIGHT-OF-WAY ACQUISITION ARE DESCRIBED. ONE OF THE MOST PERPLEXING PROBLEMS IN CONNECTION WITH THE ACQUISITION OF RIGHTS-OF-WAY, ESPECIALLY FOR FREEWAYS, IS THE SEVERANCE-DAMAGE APPRAISAL OF REMAINING PARCELS. FINDINGS CONTAINED IN THE MANUAL FOR HIGHWAY SEVERANCE DAMAGE STUDIES PREPARED BY THE HIGHWAY AND LAND ADMINISTRATION DIVISION OF THE BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS ARE DISCUSSED. THE MANUAL PROVIDES SUGGESTIONS FOR OBTAINING MAXIMUM USEFULNESS FROM THE SEVERANCE DAMAGE FORM WHICH HAS BEEN DEVELOPED BY THE COOPERATIVE EFFORTS OF INTERESTED PERSONS IN THE VARIOUS STATES, THE AMERICAN RIGHT OF WAY ASSOCIATION AND THE BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS. IN THE 1957 ILLINOIS STATE LEGISLATURE, A BILL WAS ENACTED INTO LAW, TO THE EFFECT THAT WHEN IN THE JUDGMENT OF THE ACQUIRING AGENCY IT IS MORE PRACTICAL AND ECONOMICAL TO ACQUIRED THE FEE TO THE INACCESSIBLE REMNANTS OF THE TRACTS OF LAND FROM WHICH RIGHTS-OF-WAY ARE BEING ACQUIRED THAN TO PAY SEVERANCE DAMAGES, SAID AGENCY MAY DO SO BY PURCHASE BUT NOT BY AN EMINENT DOMAIN PROCEEDING. THIS LEGISLATION HAS PROVED TO BE BENEFICIAL AS WELL AS ECONOMICAL IN THE ACQUISITION OF RIGHTS-OF-WAY FOR FREEWAYS. ALSO IN 1957, THE ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY AMENDED THE FREEWAY ACT BY AUTHORIZING THE CLOSING OF ROADS THAT JOIN OR INTERSECT THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS. PRIOR TO THIS, A HEARING HAD TO BE HELD IN THE COUNTY WHERE THE CROSSING IS SITUATED. NO CROSSING MAY BE ELIMINATED WHICH SHALL UNDULY DISCOMMODE OR INTERFERE WITH LOCAL TRAFFIC, OR DESTROY REASONABLE ACCESS TO SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, MARKETS, TRADE OR COMMUNITY CENTERS. RECENTLY, THE BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS CALLED ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT SEVERANCE DAMAGES CAUSED BY A PROPERTY BEING RELOCATED ON A FRONTAGE ROAD, WHETHER IDENTIFIED AS CIRCUITY OF TRAVEL OR IMPAIRMENT OF ACCESS ARE GENERALLY NON-COMPENSABLE IN EMINENT DOMAIN AND, THEREFORE, NON-FEDERAL PARTICIPATING. THIS RULING WAS IN THE STATE OF INDIANA. APPARENTLY THE QUESTION HAS NOT BEEN DECIDED BY THE SUPREME COURT OF ILLINOIS. STUDY IS NEEDED ON PRESENTLY ACCEPTED METHODS OF DETERMINATION OF BENEFITS, BOTH USER AND NON-USER, FROM HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENTS. HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATORS MUST ENLIST PUBLIC SUPPORT AND UNDERSTANDING FOR RESEARCH AND NEEDED LEGISLATION.


The goal of this thesis is the development of theoretical methods targeting the implementation of topology optimization in structural engineering applications. In civil engineering applications, structures are typically assemblies of many standardized components, such as bars, where the largest gains in efficiency can be made during the preliminary design of the overall structure. The work is aimed mainly at truss-like structures in civil engineering applications, however several of the developments are general enough to encompass continuum structures and other areas of engineering research too. The research aims to address the following challenges:- Discrete variable optimization, generally necessary for truss problems in civil engineering, tends to be computationally very expensive,- the gap between industrial applications in civil engineering and optimization research is quite large, meaning that the developed methods are currently not fully embraced in practice, and- industrial applications demand robust and reliable solutions to the real-world problems faced by the civil engineering profession.In order to face these challenges, the research is divided into several research papers, included as chapters in the thesis.Discrete binary variables in structural topology optimization often lead to very large computational cost and sometimes even failure of algorithm convergence. A novel method was developed for improving the performance of topology optimization problems in truss-like structures with discrete design variables, using so-called Kinematic Stability Repair (KSR). Two typical examples of topology optimization problems with binary variables are bracing systems and steel grid shell structures. These important industrial applications of topology optimization are investigated in the thesis. A novel method is developed for topology optimization of grid shells whose global shape has been determined by form-finding. Furthermore a novel technique for facade bracing optimization is developed. In this application a multiobjective approach was used to give the designers freedom to make changes, as the design advanced at various stages of the design process. The application of the two methods to practicalengineering problems, inspired a theoretical development which has wide-reaching implications for discrete optimization: the pitfalls of symmetry reduction. A seemingly self-evident method of cardinality reduction makes use of geometric symmetry reduction in structures in order to reduce the problem size. It is shown in the research that this assumption is not valid for discrete variable problems. Despite intuition to the contrary, for symmetric problems, asymmetric solutions may be more optimal than their symmetric counterparts. In reality many uncertainties exist on geometry, loading and material properties in structural systems. This has an effect on the performance (robustness) of the non-ideal, realized structure. To address this, a general robust topology optimization framework for both continuum and truss-like structures, developing a novel analysis technique for truss structures under material uncertainties, is introduced. Next, this framework is extended to discrete variable, multiobjective optimization problems of truss structures, taking uncertainties on the material stiffness and the loading into account. Two papers corresponding to the two chapters were submitted to the journal Computers and Structures and Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. Finally, a concluding chapter summarizes the main findings of the research. A number of appendices are included at the end of the manuscript, clarifying several pertinent issues.


Evaporites exposed in the workings of the Canadian Salt Co. mine at Pugwash Nova Scotia have been the subject of a number of studies, but only limited petrographic and geochemical work has been done on anhydrite from the deposit Based on internal characteristics observed in both the mine workings and drill core, three anhydrite units are recognized macroscopically and have been informally termed the shaft, borate and third anhydrites. The shaft anhydrite is characterized by the following textures: (1) microcrystalline, associated with minor blocky, felted, aligned-felted and lath shaped crystals; (2) nodular, showing displacive growth within carbonate and dolomite laminae; and (3) laminated, with alternations of carbonate and anhydrite. The shaft anhydrite has dark organic-rich laminae crosscut by veinlets filled with coarse, crystalline anhydrite. The borate anhydrite exhibits three separate habits that do not show intimate association as in the shaft anhydrite. The habits are: (1) microcrystalline, (2) felted and (3) aligned-felted. Peculiar to the borate anhydrite is the arrangement of coarse, ragged laths of anhydrite in fibroradiate groups and the presence of small, round, opaque aggregates of danburite crystals is unique to this unit The third anhydrite is texturally similar to the borate anhydrite, exhibiting felted and aligned-felted textures. However, the third anhydrite does not contain borate nodules and possesses more consistent and well defined alignment of anhydrite laths within aligned-felted portions. The highly ordered alignment of anhydrite laths in this unit is very distinctive and has not been observed in the other two anhydrites. In contrast to the shaft and borate anhydrite units, where nodules are invariably surrounded by carbonate, nodular mosaic portions of the third anhydrite contain microcrystalline nodules surrounded or rimmed by aligned-felted anhydrite crystals. Statisitical analysis of geochemical data shows that each unit exhibits distinct chemical characteristics. The shaft anhydrite is the most inhomogeneous, contains the highest concentrations of several trace and minor elements and has the highest carbonate content. The third anhydrite is the most homogeneous, with low concentrations of almost all elements and the highest gypsum content. The borate anhydrite is intermediate in composition but has the highest halite content.


We study the impact of R-parity violating Supersymmetry (RPV SUSY) on the 125 GeV Higgs production and decay modes at the LHC. We assume a heavy SUSY spectrum with multi-TeV squarks and SU(2) scalar singlets as well as the decoupling limit in the SUSY Higgs sector. In this case the lightest CP-even Higgs is SM-like when R-parity is conserved. In contrast, we show that when R-parity violating interactions are added to the SUSY framework, significant deviations may occur in some production and decay channels of the 125 GeV Higgs-like state. Indeed, we assume a single-flavor (mostly third generation) Bilinear RPV (BRPV) interactions, which generate Higgs-sneutrino mixing, lepton-chargino mixing and neutrino-neutralino mixing, and find that notable deviations of ${\cal O}(20-30\%)$ may be expected in the Higgs signal strength observables in some channels, e.g., in $p p \to h \to \mu^+ \mu^-, \tau^+ \tau^-$. Moreover, we find that new and detectable signals associated with BRPV Higgs decays to gauginos, $h\rightarrow\nu_{\tau}\tilde{\chi}_{2}^{0}$ and $h\rightarrow\tau^{\pm}\chi_{2}^{\mp}$, may also arise in this scenario. These decays yield a typical signature of $h \to \tau^\pm \ell^\mp + {\not\!\! E_T}$ ($\ell =e,\mu,\tau$) that can be much larger than in the SM, and may also be accompanied by an ${\cal O}(20-30\%)$ enhancement in the di-photon signal $pp \to h \to \gamma \gamma$. We also examine potential interesting signals of Trilinear R-parity violation (TRPV) interactions in the production and decays of the Higgs-sneutrino BRPV mixed state (assuming it is the 125 GeV scalar) and show that, in this case also, large deviations up to ${\cal O}(100\%)$ are expected in e.g., $p p \to h \to \mu^+ \mu^-, \tau^+ \tau^-$, which are sensitive to the BRPV$\times$TRPV coupling product.


Krukenbergtumor is a metastatic ovarian tumor with its primary site being the gastrointestinal tract. The pathogenesis of Krukenberg tumor formation is still in its hypothetical stage though the current understanding suggests lymphatic, hematogenous and transcoelomic route as the 3 major route of metastasis. There is a lack of description in the literature related to the pathway of metastasis. Here, we intend to search the available literature and provide a thorough review, which may be helpful to the readers to understand the issue of mechanism of Krukenberg tumor metastasis more clearly.


Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy (RBS) is a versatile and powerful technique for investigating the near-surface properties of polycrystalline ceramics, glasses, and single-crystals. In the case of macroscopic single-crystal samples, the variant of RBS known as ''channeling spectroscopy'' can be used to obtain detailed information regarding the near-surface structural, impurity, and defect characteristics of ceramic materials. 6 refs., 10 figs.


Submitted work "Analysis of possible risks and methodology of processing contingency plan for urban district Brno - Lisen" analyses present state of preparedness according to legislature and actual state documentation for this urban district. Practical part is considered of possible optimizing of recognized deficiencies.


Preparation for test taking begins with a comprehensive and organized study plan. For the certifi cation exams offered by the WOCNCB, the study plan can be best organized by using the examination content outline as a guideline. The test taker can use the outline to make sure that each element addressed on the outline is reviewed and core concepts are understood. Exam content outlines are located within the WOCNCB Examination Handbook and are available for download from the WOCNCB Web site: http://www.wocncb.org . Some suggestions on how to use the exam content outline to study include writing your own questions for each area of content, creating fl ash cards enabling a review relevant vocabulary in each area, listing elements of nursing assessment and management, searching the Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing for case studies or multiple case series that integrate care of patients related to a specifi c problem, and writing your own case study that integrates elements of care. Content outlines are based on role delineation surveys distributed to practicing WOC nurses every 5 years. This survey looks at common components of the role of the WOC nurse in order to defi ne basic-level practice. Certifi cation examinations contain 80 questions. The Wound Examination includes the following content areas: (1) general principles of assessment, (2) general principles of management, (3) pressure ulcers, (4) lower extremity ulcers, and (5) other types of wounds. The examination questions included here not only provide a rationale for the correct and incorrect answers but also identify where on the test outline this question applies. Obtaining a correct answer confi rms area of strength and wrong answers aid preparation by identifying areas that require further review prior to taking the certifi cation examination.