The threatened Kirtland's warbler Dendroica kirtlandii breeds in stands of young jack pine Pinus banksiana growing on well-drained soils in Michigan, USA. We summarize information documenting the range expansion of Kirtland's warbler due to increased habitat management in the core breeding range in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan during 1990–2000. We collected records and conducted searches for the species in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Wisconsin over 1978–2000. During that time 25 males were found in Wisconsin and 90 males in the Upper Peninsula. We documented colonization of Michigan's Upper Peninsula by six ringed males from the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Four ringed birds also moved back to the core breeding range, including two males that made two-way movements between the core breeding range and the Upper Peninsula. Thirty-seven females were observed with males from 1995 to 2000, all in Michigan. Nesting activities were noted for 25 pairs and at least nine nests fledged young. One male ringed as a fledgling returned to breed in two subsequent years. After a 19-year period of population stability, the Kirtland's warbler population increased four-fold during 1990–2000, most likely in response to a tripling in habitat area. This increase in sightings and documented breeding may be related to habitat availability in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and to saturation of habitat in the main breeding range. The increase in extra-limital records during 1995–1999 corresponds to the time when the population went from the minimum to the maximum projected population densities, and a decline in natural wildfire habitat was just offset by new managed habitat for the Kirtland's warbler.


The quality of work in the Netherlands remains quite stable, with a small increase in exposure to time pressure. Despite the stable working conditions, fewer workers feel that protective measures are needed. Changes in work disability regulations have led to far fewer workers dropping out of employment due to disability. However, it appears that some employees with health issues voluntarily choose to leave the workforce.


The utility model discloses a self-service keeping and fetching postal matter machine which solves a problem that at present when a courier delivers postal matters, the courier must hand over the postal matters to an addressee face to face is solved. The self-service keeping and fetching postal matter machine comprises a box body and a main engine arranged inside the box body. Input equipment for signal transmission is arranged on the outer surface of the box body. The input equipment is connected with the main engine. The box body is provided with a plurality of storage cabinets with cabinet doors. Each storage cabinet is provided with an automatic door operator electrically controlled by a main engine. The main engine is provided with a network module. The self-service keeping and fetching postal matter machine is reasonable in layout. And the purpose of self-service keeping and fetching the postal matters is achieved. The occurrence that the courier must hand over the postal matters to the addressee face to face is avoided, and therefore the time of the courier is saved and the working efficiency is improved. And the addressee can arrange the time to take the postal matters casually. The operation of the self-service keeping and fetching postal matter machine is stable and can detect the storage cabinets and door locks of the storage cabinets in real time, and errors do not occur easily, and therefore the occurrences of leaving out of the postal matters and not locking the cabinet doors of the storage cabinets timely can be avoided.


An Empirical Study on the Effects of Music and Sound Effects in Fiction E-Books Alissa E. Strong Department of Linguistics and English Language, BYU Master of Arts Research indicates that music has a unique and powerful ability to affect how listeners react to a story (Schaefer, 1998). Publishing houses are increasingly incorporating music and other multimedia effects into their products, with companies such as Booktrack now including novel-length soundtracks with e-books. The present study aimed to empirically investigate the relationship between music and text by examining whether readers' enjoyment of and distraction from a fiction e-book is affected by the inclusion of music or sound effects. One hundred and twenty undergraduate students at Brigham Young University completed an e-book reading task (either accompanied by sound effects, music, or nothing at all) and completed a post-task survey that measured their enjoyment of and distraction from the task. It was found that multimedia-enhanced e-books were significantly more enjoyable (M = 4.555) than e-books alone (M = 4.035). Both sound effects and music (Ms = 4.512 and 4.594, respectively) led to higher levels of enjoyment than the control condition (M = 4.035), although later analyses indicated this effect was primarily found in females. Only the multimedia e-books incorporating sound effects significantly lowered distraction levels compared with the control (Ms = 1.698 and 3.621, respectively). The amount of time a participant spent engaged in multimedia behaviors (e.g., watching television, playing video games) did not consistently affect the relationships investigated. It was concluded that music and sound effects may be an enjoyable and interesting feature of e-books without detracting from the story. In some cases, the addition of multimedia made e-books as enjoyable for those who typically did not enjoy fiction as it was for those who enjoy fiction. It is recommended that publishers continue investigating this relationship, as multimedia e-books may open access to a new marketable audience for publishers.


ABSTRACT Deterrence and labeling theories predict opposing effects of sanctions on criminal behavior, and this diversity in the expected effects of sanctions is also apparent in the empirical literature. Sherman's (1993) defiance theory has been proposed to explain the conditions under which punishment may either increase or decrease crime. In a reanalysis of the Police Services Study data, we examine how police behaviors may influence the likelihood that citizens will respond with defiant behavior in encounters with police officers. Consistent with defiance theory, we find that police actions that are likely to be perceived as unfair and stigmatizing increase the likelihood that citizens behave defiantly toward police officers. Directions for future research are also identified.


Photograph of a cemetery near Brenham, Texas, with a grave in the foreground covered in flowers and several gravestones and trees in the background.


The combined strengthening effects of high pressure torsion (HPT) and age hardening on a recently developed 3rd generation Al-Cu-Li alloy was investigated. Solution treated samples were processed through HPT at room temperature, followed by low temperature artificial ageing (i.e. T4-HPT-AA). A micro-hardness of ~240 Hv was achieved on ageing at 110°C/60h after HPT. A further improvement in the hardness to ~260 Hv was accomplished by a pre-ageing 110°C/24h before HPT in combination with a post-HPT ageing process at 110°C for 180h (i.e. T6-HPT-AA). These novel multi-stage processes give rise to an increase in hardness by a factor of 2 as compared to the T4 condition (~120 Hv). After HPT the grain size was dramatically refined to the ultrafine-grained (UFG) structure, accompanied by a large amount of dislocations. No long-range ordered precipitates were observed after HPT and subsequent ageing treatments. Instead, atom probe tomography (APT) provided clear evidence that Cu-Mg co-clusters were homogeneously distributed in the matrix of T4 and T6 processed samples and they segregate strongly to the grain boundaries (GBs) during HPT. Further ageing treatment after HPT leads to the segregation of clusters to the dislocations. A strengthening model that incorporates dislocation hardening, grain boundary hardening, solid solution strengthening and a new short-range order strengthening mechanisms was used to predict the yield strength of the alloy. This model indicates that the combined effect due to all three types of Cu-Mg clusters (clustering in matrix, clustering at GBs and at dislocations) is dominant for the strength in all conditions.


To study and analyze the knowledge gained , acceptance and preference by pharmacology students to three different methodology of teaching -Tutorial, Interactive lecture and small group discussion. II MBBS Pharmacology students total number of 140, were randomly divided into three groups and were allotted to Interactive lectures, Tutorial and small group discussion in rotation for three days. Three topics which were not covered previously were selected from the prescribed text book, given to the students well in advance. At the end of each class they were given objective structured questionnaires in that particular topic to assess the knowledge and understanding of subject. The questions were framed in such a way that five questions were easy; five were little difficult and remaining five were difficult questions to have a better assessment. At the end of the study they were given a feedback questionnaire (Assessment form) to assess the preference, acceptance of the teaching methodology. Answer sheets and Assessment forms were evaluated by single faculty. Results analyzed to assess the knowledge gained, acceptance and preference of the students towards three methodologies.It shows, Interactive lectures has more role in gaining knowledge than tutorials and small group discussion. Students accepted and preferred interactive lectures for Pharmacology classes more than tutorials and small group learning. : Knowledge, tutorials, small group discussion, interactive lectures


The present invention belongs to the field of plant cultivation technology, and is nutritious liquid for soil-less cultivation of strawberry and its preparation process and usage. The nutritious liquid contains macro elements N in 259.2-316.8 ppm, P 30.6-37.4 ppm, K 190.8-233.2 ppm, Ca 161.1-196.9 ppm and Mg 55.8-68.2 ppm; and trace elements Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn, B and Mo in certain amounts. The material includes KNO3, CaNO3.4H2O, MgSO4.7H2O, (NH4)24HOP4, NH4NO3, FeEDT4, H3BO3, MnSO4.4H2O, ZnSO4.7H2O, CuSO4.5H2O and NaMoO4.2H2O, and the material is added based on certain calculation. The nutritious liquid is diluted to 1/3 to 1/2 in different growth stages of strawberry. The present invention provides strawberry with reasonable nutrients to raise its yield and quality.


This paper proposes a method for weighted latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) using metadata for extracting topics with latent needs by teachers. The proposed method enables us to identify and display contents needed by teachers. Specifically, by improving the original LDA through weighting of word frequencies using metadata that reflects teachers' needs (e.g. Likes), the proposed method enables extraction of topics that are not only common to many contents but also needed by teachers. Experiments using contents on Forestanet, i.e., the largest Web service for teachers in Japan, verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.


Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for generating an online analytical processing (OLAP) query against a cube. The cube may have dimensions, each dimension having a hierarchy of members. A report specification may be received against a hierarchy of the cube. An OLAP query may be generated from the report specification. The OLAP query may include projected members not having any descendant at the detail level of the hierarchy, thus producing more accurate results.


The aim of the study is to determine the influence of poor health status on wage losses of Chinese people aged over 20. We estimate the average treatment effect on wage losses due to poor health using the Chinese Health and Family Life Survey (CHFLS) data of 3821 individuals. A concern when estimating the effect of (poor) health on wage losses is that health (especially self assessed health) might be endogenous, and in particular that people might use poor health to justify low wages. This would result in the effect of health being inconsistent if health was treated as exogenous. Considering covariate endogeneity and sample selection bias, we use propensity score matching to analyze the average treatment effect of poor health status on wage losses. About 11 percent of wages is estimated to be lost due to poor health status in China.


There is strong empirical evidence that human perception of a graph drawing is negatively correlated with the number of edge crossings. However, recent experiments show that one can reduce the nega...


The packet sampling algorithm based on mask matching is a practical distributed traffic sampling algorithm.But the algorithm is ineffective in measuring an important network traffic characteristic,which is the distribution of packet arrival time interval.First of all,the reason leading to the problem is analyzed according to the error theory.Then,an improved program of double sampling is introduced in the initial algorithm in order to reduce the system error of measurement.As the improved algorithm will bring extra burden to the measurement system,a solution which is to increase the sampling mask bits is put forward and its feasibility is demonstrated.Finally,the improved algorithm is tested with the actual network traffic data.The experiment results show that the measurement of the distribution of packet arrival time interval is in line with the real situation.And it has little effect on the measurement accuracy of other network performances.


The invention relates to a method and device for emitting and receiving electromagnetic radiation for identifying an imminent collision with an object, which located ahead, within a future period of time. The emitted radiation is FMCW-modulated, the slope of the frequency ramp is determined according to the transmit frequency and according to the future period of time, and in the event a negativereceive frequency is detected, an imminent collision is identified within the future period of time.


SUMMARY In the present mandate EFSA was asked, by the European Commission (EC), to carry out a quantitative risk assessment and evaluate: the relative contribution of different meat categories to cases of food-borne Salmonella infections in humans, taking into account the occurrence of the pathogen in the food chain, risk factors, food production flows and food preparation and consumption habits. Following discussion with the EC, it was clear that QMRA was only one of several methods available for answering the ToR. In addition it was found that the questions were very broad and that data gaps would limit the possibilities for a complete answer to the questions. The WG agreed that the mandate should be pursued through focusing on different approaches for source attribution of human salmonellosis and the results obtained so far from such studies. Different MS use different approaches for source attribution of human salmonellosis, e.g. analysis of outbreak data, analytical epidemiology, microbial subtyping, comparative exposure assessment, and structured expert opinion. Each method of source attribution has different strengths and weaknesses and addresses different points in the food chain. The choice of method is therefore dependent on the questions that need answering. Comparing and


The South African women's movement had its origins in the Cape, but it also had a strong transnational relationship with countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States. The earliest formally created women's organisation in the country, the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), established in 1889, focused on forging a pure society that was liberated from the so-called constraints and perils of liquor. By 1892, the WCTU had formed a franchise department in response to the absence of female enfranchisement in the Cape, therefore promoting women's national and international suffrage. The WCTU encouraged the establishment of other women's organisations such as the Women's Enfranchisement League (WEL) in 1907, which was solely dedicated to the promotion and creation of women's suffrage. This article aims to understand the international links of the WCTU and WEL as the first two women's organisations in the Cape Colony. It does so through the framework of transnationalism and also considers the transnational influence on further developments in South Africa's women's movement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.


Background & Local Problem
ED boarded ICU patients are generally not included in interprofessional ICU rounds. The project objective was to implement interprofessional rounds in the ED on boarded ICU patients.
Methods & Interventions
ICU patients in the ED were followed for two months from admission to transfer. The primary outcome was feasibility of ED ICU rounds, measured as the proportion of days on which rounds occurred.  Secondary outcomes included communication quality, time to oral intake, and DVT prophylaxis documentation.
Results
A total of 92 patients were included in this project. Rounds occurred on 33 of 36 possible days. Following rounds, nurses and physicians reported improved communication. New DVT prophylaxis orders were written for 42% of cases, and 61 near miss events were corrected. Time from patient ED presentation to first oral intake decreased from 28 to 17 hours.
Conclusions
Interprofessional rounds in the ED are feasible, improve patient care, and enhance communication among team members.


Based on the data of energy consumption and SO2 emission in 2005 year,the paper classifies the forty industrial departments,embarking on the energy consumption and SO2 emission double regulation.The results show that they can be divided into three types based on the energy consumption and SO2 emission per 104 RMB Yuan.One type is low energy consumption and low pollution,which includes furniture manufacturing industry,etc.Another one is middle energy consumption and middle pollution,which contains nonferrous metal selection,etc.The last one is high-energy consumption and high pollution,in which coal exploitation industry is included.According to the new industrial classification,the paper analyses the energy consumption and SO2 emission of the three-type industry,using the data of 2001-2005.The results are following: the high energy consumption and high pollution industry consumes 71%-74% of the total energy,and discharges 88%-90% of the total SO2,whose production output value occupies the total 40%.It is culprit that causes energy shortage and air pollution.The low energy consumption and low pollution industry,products 40% of the total production output value,consumes less than 10% of the total energy,and discharges lea than 5% of the total SO2.It is typical energy conservable and environment friendly industry.The new industrial classification builds double relation between industrial production and energy consumption and SO2 emission,which provides scientific foundation for building resource conservable and environment friendly society.


Snoopy cache coherence protocols broadcast requests to all nodes, reducing the latency of cache to cache transfer misses at the expense of increasing interconnect power. We propose speculative supplier identification (SSI) to reduce power dissipation in binary tree interconnects in snoopy cache coherence implementations. In SSI, instead of broadcasting a request to all processors, we send the request to the node more likely to have the missing data. We reduce power as we limit access only to the interconnect components between the requestor and the supplier node. We evaluate SSI using shared memory applications. We show that SSI reduces interconnect power by 23% in a 4-way multiprocessor. This comes with negligible performance cost and hardware overhead. SSI does not change existing coherence protocols and is completely transparent to software and the operating system.


Reform of current real estate taxation and introduction of property tax is one of the important issues of taxation system reform in China.Nowadays,there exist many problems in current real estate taxation system,such as complicated fees and taxes,substitution tax with fee,emphasis more on property circulation phase rather than property holding phase etc,which is the primary reason for the fiscal difficulties faced by local government.The aim of property taxation reform is to maximize the real estate taxation structure,improve the tax volume in the phase of property withholding.In the long run,property tax should be fostered as main tax for local government revenue.On the basis of the reform objective of property tax reform,the paper proposes the fundamental framework of institutional arrangement of property taxation.


The article is aimed at developing an alternative structure of relationships between participants of the solid household waste management chain (SHWM) by analyzing the existing economic interests and relations of participants from the European countries who have achieved the greatest success in this sphere. The methods and instruments for satisfying the economic interest of each participant of the solid waste management chain in these countries are identified, which leads to the existing structure of relationships. As a result of the study, an alternative scheme of relationships between the participants in the SHWM together with the formula for calculating profits/savings for both producers and processors of waste are proposed. A way to achieve advanced results without infusing significant funds of both budget and citizens is proposed for Ukraine and the countries of Eastern Europe. Using the proposed scheme, each participant chooses its actions for its own economic reasons, and the State is given the role of education and control. Prospects for further research in this direction are quantitative and financial analysis of the situation with SHW for each city and the identification of target indicators for each link in order to ensure the desired result, in compliance with the economic interests of all participants, with a minimum burden on the producer, processor of SHW and the State.


A self-adaptive telescopic weeder, comprising a single-freedom-degree telescopic cutter head (1), a blade dragging engine (2), travelling wheels (3), a travelling mechanism (4), a single-freedom-degree telescopic cutter blade (5), a hand grab (6), a hand grab frame (7), a cutter head blade extending-retracting motor (8), a left control button (9), and a right control button. A single-freedom-degree telescopic cutter blade is installed in a single-freedom-degree telescopic cutter head, and a coaxiality of the single-freedom-degree telescopic cutter blade and the single-freedom-degree telescopic cutter head is maintained within a range of 0.05-0.1 mm. The self-adaptive telescopic weeder can effectively adapt to different road conditions.


A new methodology was applied for the designing potentiometric membrane sensors. An electrochemically polymerized Poly(Pyrrole)s (PPy) film was applied as a solid contact-ion to electron transducer on the surface of a pencil graphite electrode (PGE) to make an all-solid-state ion selective electrode (CP-ASS-ISE) for the determination of Tramadol Hydrochloride. A thin layer of a PVC membrane containing synthesized ion-pair as the active element and suitable plasticizer was then placed on the surface of the conducting polymer layer to prepare the sensor. The suggested sensor showed a Nernstian response (a slope of 57.17 mV per decade) over the concentration range of 1.0×10 −6 to 1.0×10 −1 mol L -1 . The Tramadol sensor had a low detection limit of 7.4×10 −7 mol L -1 with response time of less than 10s in the concentrated solutions. The working pH range of the sensor was 2.0-7.0. Finally, the proposed sensor used for the Tramadol assay in some pharmaceutical tablets.


Method for oxymethylene copolymer comprising the polymerization vessel from the discharge of catalyst deactivation was pulverized with a pulverizer and the basic compound used in the present specification, the structure of the polymerization catalyst deactivation.


This paper we present above show an actual situation in the natural environment with the state of the emergency which was made by all people on the Earth. We mean here the pollution of air, bad state of water, waste, noise, electromagnetic spaces and the quality of many of our rivers has been considerably deteriorated. In the international aspect of these kind of problems with polluted environmental surroundings, we the people living now and here, it means on the Earth, we should recognize the state of the emergency around us. What is going on? For example: urban pollution, where a river runs through an industrial area and is degraded by litter, dirty road and factory yard runoff water, is also a countinuing problem. For the future we have to see some radical re-thinking. Especially by law regulations to improve the state of waste management there should be reminded for all to know and understand an actual situation. People should be thinking about next generations which would have no other planet to live on. The ethical imperative to keep good conditions to protection of the natural environment problems is clear. That is a very important obligation "We must keep order in nature"! When some people look into a trash bag, they see things like plastic, paper, metal, glass, and food waste. We can see our whole world being thrown away and littered on. At both the global level and the local level, these warning signals are delivering the same message: We can't run a throwaway society on a finite planet. We mean that the world society cannot make economic and industrial decisions and continue global activities which could cause and lead to a finite of our planet. We don't want the conditions on the Earth which make impossible the life and exist for people. Nature makes no waste, only a man living on the Earth. This paper presented a few fields, where we need to improved the state of it. They are as follow: air, water, atmosphere, noise, waste, forests, and tropical forests, animals and we need organize the environmental startegy to improve the conditions of it.The problem is how we use water resources in such a way as to sustain them for the benefit of the future generations. In this circle of problems which are connected with the environmntal protection in the international aspect, there is still some way to go, however, and progress will ultimately depend on how much money the public is willing to spend on such work. In final part of our reflections we have said, that different categories of people need to sustain suitable environmental problems education. I mean here children in school, young people, and all the other too. We can point out the following tasks to improving environmental actions in global situation; They are as follow: our close working with local authorities; our ability and willingness to prosecute in certain circumstances; our approach in areas of widespread historical pollution. We believe it is the most important to work closely with both public and private sector organisations. Because we need it for future. God is the Master of the universe and nature. The most important of all things, is the fact, the man should remember that God is our Creator, and natural environment and man were made by the same Creator. We ought to exist with nature together in a harmony. Generally we can say, that our paper is divided into nine sections. They are as follow: 1. Symptoms of the state of the ecological emergency; 2. What kinds of natural resources? 3. Who is an author of the ecological emergency in the natural environment? 4. Visions which are doing the state of the ecological emergency; 5. Spaces of emergency; 6. Interference of the Man into circle of the nature; 7. Poisoned components of human life: a. Soil; b. Water; c. Air; d. Forests; e. Noise problems and electromagnetic spaces; 8. A plan of the strategy to recognize the proecological activities and an adequate environmental education; 9. Appeal to all people about the environmental protection.


I report on special features of a course on statistics and probabilities at my university, where future teachers of mathematics in primary school are instructed on en-active representations of statistical situations and on their analogue modelling. I also report on empirical work with future mathematics teachers of primary school in Baden Württemberg who have been instructed to introduce simple, en-active representations of statistical concepts in the classroom.


The listener is able to identify a melody (motif) within a "sonorous image" created during the performance of music, be it generated by a single voice (monody) or by several simultaneous voices (polyphony). The "sonorous continuum" of a musical piece, in fact, does not exhaust itself in the mere acoustic perceptive fact, yet it has a meaning that emerges from the structural properties of the musical piece, cognitively processed by the listener and linked back to conceptual structures. This article presents a model of analysis developed so as to identify a melodic line inside a polyphonic musical structure. Study highlights the manner in which the horizontal (monody) and vertical (polyphony) dimensions of a given musical piece must be pondered, on the basis of recent considerations on a harmonic and cognitive level developed respectively by D. de la Motte and D. Huron. The algorithm conceived to this effect was tested on a set of data (scores) of small dimensions serving as a sample. Key-Words: analysis, monody, musical object, musical surface, polyphony, segmentation


Background Fatigue is one of the most frequent symptoms in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), affecting more than 80% of them. The experience of fatigue is multidimensional. Objectives To identify the factors associated with fatigue on its different subscales (Physical, Living, Cognitive and Emotional). Methods Cross-sectional study. 60 patients were included, they were being followed up in the rheumatology outpatient clinic of Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain. Data were collected between July 2018 and January 2019. All patients met the ACR/EULAR 2010 criteria and they were in treatment with Biological or Targeted Synthetic DMARD. Main variable: Fatigue was assessed by the Bristol Rheumatoid Arthritis Fatigue Multidimensional Questionnaire (BRAF-MDQ). Covariables: Demographic, clinical and treatment. Statistical analysis. A descriptive analysis was carried out for the different variables. To identify factors independently associated to BRAF-MDQ and its subscales, multivariable linear regression was applied. Results were expressed as coef with their corresponding 95% CI. A value of p < 0.05 was accepted as statistically significant. Results A total of 60 patients, comprising of 53 females (88%) and 7 males (12%) with a mean age of 56.4±11.8 years and mean disease duration of 14.1±7.7 years were evaluated. RF was positive in 60% of patients. 65% were in active on work and 23% retired. Regarding comorbidities, 43% had dyslipidemia, 42% hypertension, 17% hypothyroidism and 15% depression. The DAS28-ESR and SDAI scores of the patients were 2.6±0.8, 8.5±5.9 respectively. The HAQ was 0,86 ± 7.7. The rest of the clinical, treatment characteristics, and the scores of the fatigue instruments are shown in Table 1. The factors affecting the BRAF-MDQ and its subscales was evaluated in multivariate analyze Table 2. Our results shows a correlation between disability and the different dimensions (p <0.001). Patients who reported good sleep quality had less physical fatigue, while those under Non Anti-TNF treatment perceived more physical and living fatigue. In addition, an association was observed between depression and cognitive fatigue, disease activity (DAS28-ESR) and living fatigue and between VAS-pain score and emotional fatigue. A positive RF was associated with less physical and living. Conclusion It is important to evaluate fatigue in a multidimensional perspective, each of the different subscales could be modulated by different factors. The results of our study indicated that disability predicts in all subscales of fatigue, however, other factors can configure different patterns of fatigue in RA patients, and identify them is key to the approach of this complex symptom.Table 1 Characteristics of the sample Glucocorticoids mg/day, mean ± SD 4.8 ± 1.6 Treatment, n (%)Conventional DMARDsAnti TNFNon-Anti TNFSynthetic target DMARDs 47 (78.3)40 (66.6)16 (26.6)4 (6.6) VAS pain mean ± SD 39.3 ± 24.2 Sleep quality self-report, n (%)GoodPoor 23 (39.6)35 (60.3) BRAF-MDQ (0-70), mean ± SD 21.9 ± 15.0 Physical (0-22) 10.6 ± 5.4 Living (0-21) 5.08 ± 5.0 Cognitive (0-15) 3.3 ± 3.3 Emotional (0-12) 2.9 ± 2.7Table 2 Multivariate analyses of BRAF-MDQ and its subscales. *p < 0.001, **p < 0.05. Cells represent beta coefficients with standard error Physical Living Cognitive Emotional Age -0.10 (0.04)** 0.00 (0.04) -0.00 (0.03) 0.04 (0.02) Sex -2.65 (1.70) -0.74 (1.64) -1.93 (1.26) -1.21 (0.97) RF positive -3.80 (1.15)** -2.85 (1.13)** HAQ≥1.1 4.76 (1.14)* 4.05 (1.13)* 1.83 (0.90)** 1.91 (0.70) ** Non Anti-TNF 3.33 (1.18)** 2.60 (1.23)** VAS Pain 0.02 (0.01)** DAS28-ESR 1.75 (0.65)** Depression 3.10 (1.19)** Good Sleep quality -2.75 (1.10)** Disclosure of Interests None declared


Pakistan faces surface water and groundwater shortage which are the main reason for assessing more appropriate method of irrigation water use. Subsurface drip irrigation plays an important role to conserves irrigation water and enhances crop yields by reducing surface water evaporation in Pakistan. Two years (2019-20) trials were carried out at "Water Management Research Center" (WMRC), Mansoor Malangi road Faisalabad, under randomized complete block design (RCBD). Maize (Zea mays L.) hybrid variety "YH-1898" was selected for this experiment with sandy loam soil. Sub-surface drip laterals were buried manually at different depths of 0.15, 0.25 and 0.35 m. The results of subsurface drip irrigation for crop water productivity and maize grains yield were compared with surface drip and gravity irrigation methods (furrow-bed and furrowridge). The outcomes showed that maximum grain yield (8753 and 8860 kg/ha) was achieved in both the seasons in 2019 and 2020, respectively under sub-surface drip irrigation installed at a depth of 0.15 m. Similarly, the results of water productivity also revealed that the highest water productivity (2.074 and 2.085 kg/cm3 ) was concluded both the years in 2019-20, respectively under subsurface drip irrigation installed at a depth of 0.15 m. It is concluded that maximum grain yield and water productivity can be accomplished by the installation of sub-surface drip laterals at 0.15 m depth for maize crop in a semi-arid region of Pakistan.


Financial globalization integration are the two important concepts in today's world financial reform and development.Financial globalization is economic base and financial integration is superstructure.They are concepts that not only have differences,but also have relations.This paper mainly analyses the basic contents,the relations between them,their different influence on the development of international economy and our country's countermeasures.


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Multimetallic complexes having π-conjugated dithiolate ligands have recently received attention because of their unique solid-state properties. Reported herein are efficient and versatile routes for the synthesis of structurally well-defined multimetallic gold–bis(dithiolene) complexes. A dichlorogold(III) complex having a benzene-1,2-dithiolate ligand was prepared as a key terminal unit. A one-dimensional dimetallic gold complex was synthesized in good yield by using benzene-1,2,4,5-tetrathiolate as a bridging ligand. Furthermore, by using benzenehexathiolate as a bridging ligand, this strategy was applied to the synthesis of a two-dimensional trimetallic complex with a starburst structure. The solid-state structures of the anionic complexes were unambiguously confirmed by X-ray diffraction analyses.


Lower grip strength and measures of physical functioning are associated with all‐cause mortality. Relationships among long‐term weight loss, physical functioning, and mortality in older women are understudied.


Porous fiber materials are the most widely used acoustic absorption materials at present, and they have excellent acoustic absorption performance. This paper uses the finite element method to explore the factors affecting the acoustic absorption performance of porous fiber materials, including flow resistance, thickness of the porous fiber material, incidence angle, and back cavity thickness. Due to the complex acoustic absorption mechanism of porous fiber materials, an equivalent fluid model is used to simulate the acoustic absorption properties of the porous fiber materials. The correlation of acoustic absorption performance and the model of the back cavity was analyzed. An impedance tube test was implemented to verify the simulation results.


The formation of a three-dimensional vortical structure beneath a free surface by wind waves is investigated numerically. The full Navier-Stokes equation with the nonlinear surface condition is solved by the finite volume method. The flow field is assumed to be periodic in both wind and lateral directions. The surface shear layer with the velocity profile of an exponential function of depth and the free surface waves of small amplitude propagating in the same direction induced by wind are incorporated in the numerical models at the initial state. The model shows that the transition to three- dimensionality of the low field occurs when laterally periodic disturbance is imposed on the shear layer. The waves are then deformed by the shear layer with the wave amplitude increasing in the low speed region while the vorticity component in the wind direction is amplified by the waves propagating over it. It is shown that this interaction of the shear layer and the waves causes the formation of three dimensional vortical structure which consists of a parallel system of counter-rotating vortices aligned with the wind. It is also confirmed that the structure has the same qualitative features as the observation of Langmuir circulation.


Basic concepts, research areas, sev eral important effects and novel devices of magnetoelectronics are reviewed. Som e recent hot spots and the future prospects of magnetoelectronics are proposed.


ABSTRACT The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) has developed an institutional Compliance Evaluation Procedure (CCEP). The CCEP aims to enhance CCAMLR's compliance enforcement capabilities by evaluating fisheries monitoring information, compliance control actions and CCAMLR Contracting Party (CP) cooperation. It appears to improve implementation of CCAMLR Conservation Measures (CMs) in meeting Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CAMLR Convention) objectives. The legal responsibilities of CPs are considered in relations to the CCEP's perceived performance in promoting responsible fishing within the CCAMLR Area. Various ideas on the CCEP's future are offered.


boson properties. These proceedings present measurements of total and differential fiducial cross sections in the H → γγ and H → Z Z∗ → 4` decay channels, and amassmeasurement in the H → Z Z∗ → 4` decay channel. The total fiducial cross section is measured to be σ fid = 65.2 ± 7.1 fb in the H → γγ channel and σ4` fid = 3.28 ± 0.32 fb in the H → Z Z∗ → 4` channel, in agreement with the Standard Model predictions. Differential cross-section measurements are reported for


BACKGROUND
RNA methylation is a reversible post-transcriptional modification involving numerous biological processes. Ribose 2'-O-methylation is part of RNA methylation. It has shown that ribose 2'- O-methylation plays an important role in immune recognition and other pathogenesis.

OBJECTIVE
We aim to design a computational method to identify2'-O-methylation.

METHOD
Different from the experimental method, we propose a computational workflow identifying the methylation site based on the multi-feature extracting algorithm.

RESULTS
With a voting procedure based on 7 best feature-classifier combinations, we achieved AUC of 0.80 in 10-fold cross-validation. Furthermore, we optimized features and input the optimized features into SVM. As a results, the AUC reached to 0.813.

CONCLUSION
The RNA sample, especially the negative samples, used in this study are more objective and strict, so we got more representative result than state-of-arts studies.


This research raises the issue of banking performance including Risk Profile, Good Corporate Governance, Earning and Capital (RBBR or RGEC). Profit achieved by a company is a measure of performance and is considered by investors or creditors in making decisions to make investments or to provide additional credit. The low quality of earnings will make the decision making mistakes of the users such as investors and creditors, so that the value of the company will decrease. Earnings quality will be measured by using earnings response coefficient. Low The earnings response coefficient shows that earnings are less informative or in other words less qualified for investors to make economic decisions. The purpose of this study was to examine and determine the EFFECT of the Bank's Financial Performance on the Coefficient of Earnings Response through the Investment Opportunity Set. The analysis tools used include CAR, NPL, LDR, NIM, and GCG for bank financial performance. Then MBVE for investment opportunity set and for KRL using CAR, EU and RT. The results of this study indicate that the bank's financial performance has a positive and insignificant effect on the earnings response coefficient and earnings response coefficient can be explained by the bank's financial performance of 28.5% and the remaining 71.5% is explained by other variables outside the financial performance of the bank under study. Then the bank's financial performance has a negative and significant effect on the investment opportunity set and the earnings response coefficient can be explained by the bank's financial performance of 10.1% and the remaining 89.9% is explained by other variables outside the financial performance of the bank under study. Furthermore, the investment opportunity set has a positive and significant effect on the earnings response coefficient and the earnings response coefficient can be explained by an investment opportunity set of 26.4% and the remaining 73.6% is explained by other variables outside the financial performance of the bank under study.


Cloud computing is a recent and emerging technology of computer science and engineering. In cloud data center runs more than thousands of server and host runs for process and store the data. Due to this reason, the cloud data center produces a lot of carbon and heat which exhalation into the air thus the environment pollution occurs due to the cloud data center. That is why researches in energy consumption, saving energy, cooling renewable energy, environmental pollution control are a new researches area of cloud computing. In this research, we mainly concentrate on the heating problem of the cloud data center and produce distilled water by using the heat of the cloud data center. We transfer the heat from the cloud data center to the water tank through the channel and by using this heat we produce the distilled water. For produce, the distill water huge heat and cost required. In our research proposal for producing the distilled water, the main source of the heating energy is cloud data center so we can reduce the heating cost for producing the distilled water. By using this proposed model we not only reuse the heat of the data center but also we can control the heating problem of the cloud data center which is harmful to the environment.


Scope insurance activities in maritime transport, navigation safety oversight of the port industrial activities freight port area, and / or port in general, the determination of the presence of good seamanship, vessel operators, navigators, mechanics 1, 2, 3 classes of towing fleet in diploma-passport Division captain seaport on the certification of skippers, navigators, mechanics 1, 2, 3 classes.


The invention relates to a nematicidal compound containing fluensulfone and fludioxonil. The nematicidal compound is prepared by compounding two effective components with auxiliary components allowed and accepted by the pesticide, wherein the two effective components are fluensulfone and fludioxonil, the mass ratio of fluensulfone and fludioxonil is (1-25):(25-1), fluensulfone and fludioxonil account for 1-80% of the total mass of the nematicidal compound, and the auxiliary components account for the balance. The nematicidal compound provided by the invention can be prepared into a cream, a suspension, wettable powder, an aqueous solution, water dispersible granules, an aqueous emulsion, a micro-emulsion, granules and micro-capsules, and the nematicidal compound is mainly used for preventing and treating nematodes and other pests of solanaceous vegetables, cucurbitaceous vegetables, lettuces and other leafy vegetables.


© 2021 Soniya Shetty et al. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Abstract Probiotics are defined as nonpathogenic living microorganisms, that have beneficial effects on host health. The most important and frequently used functional food compounds are probiotics and fermented foods. Functional foods have numerous beneficial nutritional effects. Probiotics dairy foods, idli, dhokla, pickles etc are traditional Indian foods that beneficially affect the host. They improve survival and implantation of live microbial supplements. In our study, probiotics were isolated from Fermented Idli batter. There is a difference observed in the pH of fermented idli batter. It decreases from 6 to 4.3-5.3 during fermentation. Yeasts were isolated from the fermented batter on Sabouraud's agar. Serial dilutions were performed, furthermore spread plate of these dilutions upto 10-5 was done on Rogosa agar plates and incubated for 72 h in a candle jar under microaerophilic condition. Colonies of lactic acid bacteria were observed on Rogosa agar plate. The count of bacteria in the fermented batter was 108 cells/ ml. This experiment shows the presence of probiotic microorganisms, both bacteria and yeasts. Lactic acid bacteria and yeasts facilitate idli batter fermentation thereby enhancing their nutritional value and development of desirable texture and flavor.


The Prehistory of Home. JERRY D. MOORE. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2012. xi, 269 pp., illus. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-520-27221-7; $29.95 (e-book), ISBN: 978-0-520-95213-3.Jerry Moore's The Prehistory of Home is an interesting treatment of the symbolic and practical functions of dwellings and the landscape among hominids and ancient civilizations. Moore's book uses examples from all over the world and he combines ethnographic and ethnohistorical information with archaeological data to make convincing arguments about the symbolic meaning of the concept of "home." For Moore, "home" is more than just a shelter from the elements. "Home" is a concept that embodies how populations adapted to their environments and how people made sense of the universe, society, and their place in both.The early chapters of the book cover the Paleolithic period, discussing everything from Mary Leakey's living floors and Glynn Isaac's home base theory (pp. 23-26) to Neanderthal burial practices (p. 40). Moore situates "home" as part of a larger landscape that was full of resources and imbued with meaning, and he discusses how people defined space in the "home" for food prep, tool making, sleeping, and so on. In Moore's estimation, art, personal adornment, and burial practices expressed the knowledge that early human groups had about humanity's place in nature and the individual's place in society (pp. 72-76). Creating art reflected a human ability to engage in symbolization, which implies that prehistoric humans thought about "home" and personhood in multiple dimensions-an earthly dimension and an otherworldly dimension, which worked in tandem with one another.Occasionally, ethnographic and ethnohistorical evidence is more effective than the archaeological case studies in discussing certain issues. In particular, the emergence of group living is addressed much more effectively with ethnographic examples. Though Moore never claims to employ ethnographic analogy, the approach is implied. For example, the chapter that deals with communal living described Catalhoyuk and said that nobody knows why people suddenly built this huge urban-like apartment complex because there were no obvious defensive or economic needs for communal living (p. 96). Then Moore addressed reasons communal living arose in other times and places. For example, Iroquois longhouses were a manifestation of a matrifocal society that was necessitated by long-term male absences due to warfare and diplomatic interactions or trade excursions (pp. 96-100), while climate change in prehispanic Peru necessitated communal living at the Quebrada Santa Cristina site (pp. 102-105). The chapter also includes a long section on the rise and fall of various Pueblo cultures in the American Southwest that ultimately argues that today's Pueblo peoples can coexist because their societies are divided into smaller subgroups within each community (pp. 105-111). The chapter summary makes multiple statements about how organizing large numbers of people into smaller subgroups-families, extended families, ritual moieties, or sodalities, and so forth-deals with scalar stress (pp. 111-115), which is an adequate explanation for the ethnographic data presented for the American Southwest and the Iroquois, but there is no direct connection to interpreting Catalhoyiik, or Quebrada Santa Cristiana in these terms. The reader is left to ask how or if responses to scalar stress were actually at work in either of these case studies even though scalar stress may have been at play in the ethnographic examples.Ritualization of home spaces is effectively dealt with in Chapters 9 and 10 in a variety of ways. Descriptions of household shrines at Pompeii (pp. 169-170) and construction methods that turned a home into an axis mundi-a center of the world/uni verse-in the South Pacific (pp. 170-171) were very effective at demonstrating how worshiping gods and spirits can take place at home instead of in homes built for the gods that are situated some distance from one's own dwelling. …


This project entitles "A conceptual study on Supply Chain Management at Mosquito Repellent Industry, Puducherry" is based on the production of the Good Knight Active+ Booster Machine in Mosquito Repellent Industry. Supply Chain Management is an important factor which helps to increase the effective co-ordination between supply chain partners and productivity. The researcher visited the production department of the Mosquito Repellent industries. Based on the observation and discussion with the experts in production department, the researcher formulated a case on Supply Chain Management. The case formulated on Supply Chain Management explains the entire operation of Supply Chain Process from the procurement of raw material transform them into intermediate goods and then final products and deliver products to customer through a distribution system. The SWOT analysis was done on this case. Based on the SWOT analysis findings from the study is formulated. The findings suggest various suggestions and recommendations. The conclusion of the study focuses on enhancing the Supply Chain Management is more effectively in Mosquito Repellent Industry, Puducherry.


We revised our manuscript, originally titled "N-limited or N and P co-limited indications in the surface waters of three Mediterranean basins". Since one of the referees suggested us improve the title, we revised the title as "Lack of P-limitation of phytoplankton and heterotrophic prokaryotes in surface waters of three anticyclonic eddies in the stratified Mediterranean Sea". By carefully reading the referees' comments, we revised the manuscript and prepared our reply to the referees in the separate paper (see below).


Liberalism has long been thought as the best answer to ıhe issue of socio-cultural diversity (pluralism). The liberal non-interference model, which is based on an idea of toleration within the limits of the Harm Principle. and the liberal non-discrimination model, which is based on an idea of state neııtrality to socio-cultural differences and a principle of a system of eqııal (forma\) citizenship rights and libeı1ies for all, have traditionally been seen the best way to accommodate socio-cultura! diversity. However. the reçent demand of ethno-cultural groups for the recognition and expression of their cultural identities chaııenges this view, suggesting transcending these traditional liberal policies in favour of one that recognizes socio-cultural differences in the forms of different rights and treatments. This paper discusses whether the traditional liberal policies of non-interference and non-discrimination are sufficient to properiy deal with ıhese recem cultural demands. Showing ıhat neİlher approach is sufficient to meet these demands, the paper concludes that liberal needs to develop new approaches to the issue of socio-cultural diversity, and the recent developments in liberal multiculturalism are a result of this awareness.


The effects of salting degree of cabbage on the chemical, microbiological, textural changes and taste of Korean whole cabbage Kimchi fermented at 21℃ was studied. Low salted Kimchi (1.8% NaCl, soaking for 2hr. in 20% brine) was showed higher total acdity than high salted Kimchi II (3.1% NaCl, Soaking For 8hr. in 20% brine) and III (2.9% NaCl, no soaking in 20% brine). The changes in growth of lactic acid bacteria was relevant to the salt content of whole cabbage Kimchi. Kimchi I was showed higher growth rate of Lactic acid bacteria and slower death rate constant of Lactic acid bacteria than that of Kimchi II and III. In palatability test, salty taste of Kimchi II, III was more salty than that of Kimchi I (p ≤0.01) and total evaluation of Kimchi I , II was more palatable than Kimchi III (p≤0.05) at 3rd`s day (optimum taste). Cutting force by Rheometer was well correlated with the salt content of Kimchi.


Objective To evaluate the effects of different operation methods on the sexual life quality and hormone levels of patients with uterine fibroid.Methods Collected 90 cases of uterine fibroid were randomly divided into three groups,30patients one group.A group was treated with total hysterectomy,B group was treated with subtotal hysterec tomy,C group was treated with vaginal hysterectomy.Contrasted and analyzed the Sexual Life Quality and Hormone Levels of the three groups.Results After treatment,BISF-W scores of the three groups were increased.BISF-W scores of B group and C group were significantly increased,with(P 0.05).but BISF-W score of A group was no significantly increased,with(P 0.05).BISF-W scores were C groupB groupA group.Hormone levels of the three groups in one month after operation were significant difference,with(P 0.05).The change degree were A groupB groupC group.Conclusion The sexual life quality is different in patients with uterine fibroid after different operations,BIST grade is related with the change of sex hormone level.Vaginal hysterectomy has minimum effect on the sexual life quality of patients with uterine fibroid,is worth clinical widely.


A cosmological scenario where dark matter interacts with a variable vacuum energy for a spatially flat Friedmann–Robertson–Walker (FRW) spacetime is proposed and analyzed to show that with a linear equation of state and a particular interaction in the dark sector it is possible to get a model of an Emergent Universe. In addition, the viability of two particular models is studied by taking into account the recent observations. The updated observational Hubble data and the JLA supernovae data are used in order to constraint the cosmological parameters of the models and estimate the amount of dark energy in the radiation era. It is shown that the two models fulfil the severe bounds of Ωx(z ≃ 1100) < 0.009 at the 2σ level of Planck.


Cement concrete may undergo the thaumasite form of sulfate attack when it is exposed to low temperature, high humidity, sulfate, carbonate and adequate water for a long period of time. This form of attack directly leads to the decomposition of CSH gel and formation of the non-binder thaumasite crystal in the cement paste. As a result, the attacked concrete becomes a white mushy and friable mixture. Progress and research on the form of sulfate attack on concrete is reviewed from various aspects including damage mechanism, influencing factors and preventive measures. And some aspects of research in the future are proposed.


The purpose of the research is to find out the subject of regulation and scope of the Law of Ukraine «on Administrative Procedure», as well as the directions of activity where this law does not work. Methods. The research was carried out by means of the method of formal logic, formal-legal analysis, analysis of legal categories and understanding and their correlation, which allowed to give answers to the questions outlined in the purpose of this scientific investigation. Results. The importance of the Law of Ukraine «on Administrative Procedure» to regulate relations between public administration and private person is emphasized. Its European integration essence is underlined. The importance of administrative procedure for public administration is analyzed. The emphasis was placed on the need for law enforcement activities to define the subject of legal regulation and the scope of the law. Analysis of such fundamental provisions of the law on administrative procedure as administrative case, publicity of legal relations, rights, freedoms and lawful interests of the person, duties of the person, administrative body, functions of public administration, administrative act was made. Their essence and meaning is drawn. The position on the possibility of realization and protection in administrative proceeding of legal interests of the person is substantiated. An approach to understanding the administrative body in its functional context has been formulated. Types of administrative acts are given. The scope of the Law of Ukraine "on Administrative Procedure" and the exceptions to it are outlined. Conclusions. The definition of the subject of regulation and scope of the Law of Ukraine «on Administrative Procedure» is important for law enforcement, as it allows to outline the nature of public relations and the spheres of activity that will be regulated by the LAP. The category «administrative body» is characterized by functional purpose, which has a consequence of expansion of the circle of subjects whose activity is subject to regulatory influence on the part of the LAP. With the adoption of the LAP, the realization and protection of legal interests of the person through the implementation of administrative proceedings have received legal regulation. This opens up opportunities for the settlement of administrative cases involving interested persons, which will allow to take into account the interests of all participants of the proceeding and to adopt administrative act that will satisfy public interests and needs of persons. An administrative act should be understood as a decision or legally significant action on granting a person a right, its realization, assigning to a person the duty stipulated by the law, refusing to exercise the right, about early termination of the act, which is carried out by its cancellation, withdrawal or recognition as invalid. The scope of the LAP is public administration, with the exception of the relations established by the law from its effect.


Heat resisting Al Fe V Si alloys have been prepared by spray forming process. The process parameters were optimized, the hot extrusion process was investigated, and the microstructures and resulting mechanical properties were evaluated and compared. The results show that under suitable spray forming conditions, the as deposited alloys have good forming properties and high dense, and can be compacted completely with low hot extrusion rate. The decrease of hot extrusion temperature has good effects on mechanical properties of extruded products. By optimizing the alloy contents, high machining and employing properties of alloys can be obtained.


Graywater (GW), i.e., the portion of household wastewater that excludes toilet flushes, is an interesting wastewater type because it requires only mild treatment. Green walls have been proposed as example of a nature-based solution for GW treatment due to low energy requirement and high ecological/societal benefits; however, indications about their treatment performances remain limited. This work presents experimental results of a laboratory modular green wall for GW treatment. Experiments have been performed outdoors during the winter season for three months. Each panel included four vertical columns of planted pots, and it was fed with 100 L of synthetic GW per day. Removal efficiencies were as follows (average values): 40% chemical oxygen demand, 97% biochemical oxygen demand, 61% total Kjeldhal nitrogen, 56% NO3 −-N, 57% total phosphorus, 99% Escherichia coli, and 63% anionic surfactants. This work proved the potential of an open-air green wall for treating GW, even under challenging conditions for biological treatment processes and with high hydraulic loading rates.


Aim:The study aimed to assess the oral condition in a group of Egyptian children with bronchial asthma in terms of salivary pH and dental caries pattern. And, assessment of the medications taken by those children (Aironyl and Apidone) in terms of pH and total sugar content. Material and methods:A sample of 60 children was divided into two groups (30 asthmatics, 30 asthmatic-free). A questionnaire was used to record history of asthma, snacking habits and frequency of tooth brushing. Dental caries surface index was measured using DMFs/defs index. The saliva samples were collected for measuring salivary pH. Anti-asthmatics (Aironyl and Apidone) were evaluated in terms of pH and total sugar content Results:The asthmatics had a significantly higher value regarding(defs) than the control (p < 0.001). Concerning the pH value, the asthmatics had a significantly lower value than the control(p < 0.001(.But there was no significant difference between both groups regarding DMFs (p=0.260). Both drugs (Apidone and Aironyl) are acidic where their pH values are 5.3 and 5.1 respectively. While, the total sugar content of Apidone is higher than Aironyl as the values are 17g% and 0.5g% respectively. Conclusions:Asthmatic children have more caries experience than healthy controls. Salivary pH value is less in asthmatics than controls.


The abundance, diversity and composition of bacterial and archaeal communities in a freshwater iron-rich microbial mat were investigated using culture-dependent and culture-independent methods. The sampling site is a mixing zone where ferrous-iron-rich fluids encounter oxygen-rich environments. Quantitative PCR analysis shows that Bacteria dominated the mat community (>99% of the total cell numbers). Phylotypes related to iron-oxidizers in Gallionellaceae, methano/methylotrophs in Methylophilaceae and Methylococcaceae, sulfide-oxidizers in Sulfuricurvum and an uncultured clone group, called Terrestrial group I or the 1068 group, in the Epsilonproteobacteria were detected in the clone library from the original sample and/or the enrichment cultures. This result suggests that these members may play a role in Fe, S and C cycling in the mixing zone. Although Archaea were minor constituents numerically, phylogenetic analysis indicates that unique and diverse yet-uncultivated Archaea are present in the iron-rich mat. The phylotypes of these yet-uncultivated Archaea belong to environmental clone groups that have been recovered from other mixing zones in terrestrial and marine environments, and some of our phylotypes have significantly low similarity (80% or lower) with the archaeal clones reported previously. Our results provide further insights into the bacterial and archaeal communities in a microaerobic iron-rich freshwater environment in mixing zones.


The nature of impurities associated with china clays and the principles involved in the selection of a suitable process for commercial beneficiation of clays to eliminate such impurities are discussed. Fundamental considerations in processing and the sequence of operations have been examined in detail. A review of the clay purification methods which are in use at present in England, Germany, America and India has been given. In connection with clay processing in India, some of the defects observed in the course of studies on Indian clays at the Institute and the steps contemplated to remedy them and to improve the quality of domestic china clays have been described.


arrived at thesame conclusion using a Jastrow (or pair product) wavefunction. Solids de-scribed by such a wavefunction must have vacancies (assuming the Jastrowwavefunction is short ranged), and a non-zero condensate fraction at zerotemperature. We can then ask what type of interaction will have a Jastrowwavefunction as its ground state: the interaction will have a very strongthree-body component; stronger than the pair interaction and very di er-ent from the interaction between helium atoms. The unanswered questionsare then a) are there enough vacancies in


It has been shown that saprophytes were prevalent at the nodes, lenticels, and other irregularities on 1-, 2-, and 3-year-old bark of Populus trichocarpa Torrey and Gray and Salix sp. Antagonism tests demonstrated that the extracts of natural bark and two of the most common saprophytes inhibited the growth of Hypoxylon pruinatum (Klotzsch) Cke. However, the extracts of surface-sterilized bark were found to promote the cultural growth of the pathogen. No differences were observed in the behavior of the extracts obtained from dormant and actively growing bark tissues.The results of inoculation experiments demonstrated that Hypoxylon canker did not develop when the saprophytes were present on watered greenwood cuttings of black Cottonwood and willow. However, the saprophytes were not effective in preventing infection and canker growth on cuttings with below-normal levels in bark turgor. Surface-sterilized cuttings proved susceptible to the disease at all levels of bark turgor.Possible relationships between t...


The invention The oxidation number is surface active to a different compound of iron oxide compounds porous ceramics, and relates to a method of manufacturing the same, more specifically to the surface of the porous ceramic by the oxidation number of the porous ceramic carrier carrying the other composite oxide transition metal and / or transition metal salt the oxidation number which is changed by modifying the polarity and significantly improve the absorption for the Removal of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) of different molecular weight pore surface active properties in other complex oxide compounds porous ceramic and to a method of manufacturing the same. The present invention is a porous ceramic carrier; The porosity is supported on the ceramic substrates, loading the porous ceramic powder mixture a small-carboxylic sancheol, ammonium iron carbonate, iron powder, nano-iron oxide, iron hydroxide oxide, iron hydroxide than 0.01 to 30 parts by weight 20O mesh (mesh) based on 100 parts by weight, and the oxidation state, including providing the surface activity of a porous ceramic composite to other iron oxide compound, iron nitrate, and any other composite oxide of one or more oxidation states selected from iron sulfate, a transition metal or transition metal salt. In addition, the present invention provides a method to create a powder mixture by the addition of activated carbon in (S1) the porous ceramic carrier; (S2) to the other oxidation state complex iron oxide mixed transition metal or transition metal salt, a metal deactivator, an emulsifier and an organic solvent phase to make an oil phase solution; (S3) The steps for creating the emulsion solution by adding water to the mixture of oil phase solution of the above (S2) phase; (S4) the method comprising mixing the emulsion with the solution of (S3) step is added to the powder mixture prepared in the above (S1) phase; It provides a process for the preparation of the oxidation comprising a surface-active porous ceramic iron oxide compound to another compound; and (S5) shaping, drying and firing the paste water. Wherein the volatile organic compounds of different molecular weight by changing the oxidation number of the surface active porous ceramic is modifying the surface polarity, and pore characteristics in other complex iron oxide compounds according to the invention, to improve the adsorption selectivity for the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) Removal of absorption is very good and, by filling the activated carbon brought high surface area can be effectively used as an air cleaning material. In addition, the manufacturing process is simplified according to the present invention, it is possible to improve the manufacturing intensity improve process efficiency.


A device for robot-assisted brachytherapy has been designed to be used with a robotic minimally invasive surgical robot such as the ZEUSTM. It allows loading of a standard brachytherapy needle so that the robot can position and orient it as required. The device accurately retracts a hollow needle loaded with radioactive seeds while a stationary plunger pushes the seeds out within the cancerous tissue. The position error when retracting the needle is less than 0.05 mm. The incorporation of this device into robotic systems that are already approved for clinical use can potentially allow it to be commercialized much sooner than competitive technology.


The electrochemical response of n-type gallium arsenide (n-GaAs) pbotoanodes
was monitored while in contact with aqueous basic selenide electrolytes before and after
exposme to separate aqueous 0.010 M solutions of transition metal ions. Representative
members of the transition metal complexes included RuCl_3•xH_2O, RhCl_3•xH_2O,
IrCl_3•xH_2), OsCl_3•xH_2O, [Co(lll)(NH_3)_6](Br)_3, [Ru(III)(NH_3)_5(Cl)](Cl)_2, and
[Ru(II)(NH_3)_5(OH_2)](Cl)_2. Several members of this group were shown to yield improved
current-voltage (I-V) characteristics at the n-GaAs/KOH – Se^(-/2-)(aq) junction. A
comparison of the current-voltage properties for p-type and n^+-type GaAs electrodes in the
~ as well as for 10% Sn-doped In_2O_3 electrodes, demonstrated that the source of the
improved I-V response following metal ion exposure was a large decrease in the
overpotentials, at a given current density, required for selenide oxidation.

An extensive surface analytic study revealed that Co(III) ammine complexes became
adsorbed on GaAs surfaces from solutions of pH > 9 by a redox reaction involving
sacrificial oxidation of the GaAs substrate. The product in all cases was an amorphous
Co(OH)_2 surface layer. The stoichiometry of the redox reaction involves one equivalent of
GaAs per six equivalent Co(III) species. Following immersion into the KOH – Se^(-/2)(aq)
electrolyte, the Co(OH)_2 surface layer was converted to a CoSe_2-like phase that is believed
to be the active electrocatalyst responsible for the reduced overpotential dependence
following Co(III) ammine treatment.
Finally, the surface composition of n-GaAs electrodes that had been specifically
etched to produce either a clean, a metallic arsenic covered, or a uniformly oxidized surface
were probed by high resolution XPS and were correlated with the n-GaAs I-V properties in
aqueous and non-aqueous electrolytes.


Mesophyll suspension cultures of Zinnia elegans L. have been used extensively to investigate the development of tracheary elements. Here we have modified the culture conditions to promote cell expansion and inhibit tracheary element differentiation and cell division. Cell expansion, measured by computer image analysis, was stimulated by auxin (α-naphthyleneacetic acid), cytokinin (N 6 -benzylaminopurine), gibberellic acid, brassinosteroid (24-epibrassinolide), and light, all of which are known to promote cell expansion in whole plants or excised organs. Whereas light stimulated cell expansion primarily during the first 48 h of culture, auxin, cytokinin, gibberellic acid and brassinosteroid had little effect until after 48 h. Treatments also differed in their relative effects on cell elongation and radial cell expansion. Light and cytokinin had a greater effect on radial cell expansion, auxin and epibrassinolide promoted only cell elongation, and gibberellic acid had nearly equal effects on expansion in both directions. We have also shown by combining treatments that the effects of cytokinin and auxin are additive. Neither hormone treatment, however, was additive with the effect of light treatment, Finally, in contrast to xylogenic cultures where expansion occurs by tip growth, cell expansion in non-differentiating cells was due to diffuse growth. These data show that cell expansion can be induced by hormones in primary mesophyll cultures from Zinnia in contrast to serially transferred plant suspension cultures. Furthermore, they indicate that auxin, cytokinin, and light induce cell expansion by different mechanisms in these cultures.


With thermodynamic calculation software and XRD,the equilibrium transformation for SAE9310 steel after austenizing was investigated.Through expansion and metallographic methods the continuous cooling transformation curves of the steel were determined using Formastor-FⅡdilatometer.The results show that the equilibrium microstructure of SAE9310 steel was composed ofα-Fe,γ-Fe,M_(23)C_6 and M_7C_3 carbides.The products of austenite transformation were granular bainite and ferrite when the cooling rate was lower than 0.056℃·s~(-1). Granular bainite could be mainly formed with small amount of martensite as the cooling rates were from 0.056℃·s~(-1) to 1.9℃·s~(-1).The products of austenite transformation were lath martensite with small quantity retained austenite when the cooling rate was higher than 1.9℃·s~(-1) and the granular bainite disappeared gradually.The hardness of the steel increased with the increase of cooling rate.


Pesticides in food cause great harm to human health. Unfortunately, agricultural pests make their use unavoidable. However, special processing can lower the content of pesticides in plant products. The present article summarizes and systematizes the previously obtained data on the possible reduction of contaminant residues in plant products during various processing stages.
The review featured 30 years of domestic and foreign publications on pesticides in Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer, PubMed, Google, and Google Scholar.
Proper technological processing can reduce the concentration of pesticides by 99%. However, particular physicochemical properties can lead to the accumulation of the xenobiotics, which may later transform into more dangerous compounds. Such cases require special operations to remove pesticides. Most contaminants usually remain on the surface. As a result, peeling and chemical washing seem to be the most effective method of anti-pesticide technological processing. These procedures can lower the amount of pesticides by 85% and more, if repeated. Eventually, the remaining pesticides fall below 7.5% of the initial content.
The review structured information on the anti-pesticide procedures in food industry. By combining various methods, farmers can increase the biosafety of their products. Further research is prospective because the number of compounds used as pesticides continue to grow.


Many algorithms for oblivious merging have been invented. However, it is a common phenomena that radically different algorithms produce identical networks. In order to prevent a duplication of effort it is desired to tell when different algorithms produce identical networks. Our work studies this question and out main result is a criteria which shows that all published merging networks belong to a family of networks which is a generalization of Batcher's odd/even network. A significant advantage of our criteria is that it does not require a complete understanding of the technique in question; in fact, a very superficial understanding of the algorithm suffices to establish that a merging technique produces generalized Batcher merging network. Our criteria is as follows: A network has the At Most One Path Property, or is AMOP, if it has at most one path from every input to every output. A comparator of a network is degenerate if its incoming edges can be named e′ and e′′ s.t. under any valid input the value transmitted on e′ is smaller or equal to the value transmitted on e′′. Our main theorem states the following characterization of the Batcher merging networks. A merging network is a Batcher merging network iff it is AMOP, it has no degenerate comparators and its width is a power of two. We survey several published merging techniques and use this criteria to show that all these techniques produce Batcher merging networks. Additional contributions of this work are presented in the introduction. Technion Computer Science Department Technical Report CS-2007-16 2007


To improve the credibility of prehistory flood research,combining the field survey of sedimentary characteristics of modern flood as well as the correlation analysis between the archaeological sites and unordinary flood stage in history in the study area etc.,using the textual researches of the flood document in the history,this paper analyzed comprehensively the more than 1.5 m silt-sand layers which were deposited about during 6 567~6 489 aBP in Yuxi profile in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River,and discussed the authenticity,reliability,magnitude,characteristics and possible driving or influence factors of the paleoflood sedimentary phenomenon.The paleoflood layers formed about during 6 567~6 489 aBP in Yuxi profile reflected that there were more than 5 exceptional floods at least,which occurred about during the 78 a in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in the mid Holocene,and it was possible that the more than 1.5 m flood deposits were remained.The characteristics which the return period(years) reflected by the stratum records in the mid Holocene and the exceptional floods recorded by the historical documents in study areas was very close or basically coincident with the change periods of ENSO.It indicated that,the frequency phenomena of exceptional floods might be linked to the change periods of ENSO in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River since the mid Holocene.


The system of social security is a basic link in the socialist market economy, which is significant to the development and steadiness of society. A perfect system should include both city and countryside. However, currently the system about rural area is rather backward, which affects peasants' living standard and society' steadiness. So we must perfect this system, such as establishing legal systems and perfecting the system of raising funds etc.


In comparison to laboratory gamma-ray spectroscopy, in situ gamma-ray spectrometry characterizes a much larger volume of material, requires much less time to determine accurate radionuclide concentrations, and minimizes worker dose and the risk of radioactive contamination. However, the main limitation of in situ gamma-ray spectrometry lies in determining the depth distribution of radionuclides. This limitation is addressed by developing an improved method for the in situ determination of radionuclide depth distributions. Whereas previous in situ methods require a priori knowledge of the depth distribution or multiple X-ray/gamma-ray emitting radionuclides, the presented method is absolute and does not rely on such assumptions.


Background: Liver cirrhosis was common problem in india. The aim of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of hyponatremia in liver cirrhosis and the correlation between serum sodium and the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score in patients with liver cirrhosis.
Methods: We prospectively collected data of 100 patients of chronic liver disease hospitalized in department of General Medicine Sardar Patel medical college, Bikaner.
Results: Mean age of patients was 52.11±14.63 years and consisted of 78 men and 22 women. The mean MELD score, 14.21±4.98 and mean serum sodium concentration, 133.21±8.24 mmol/L. Serum sodium values were strongly associated with severity of cirrhosis, assessed by child Pugh class and MELD score.
Conclusion: Hyponatremia is a common problem in liver cirrhosis, especially advanced cirrhosis. The study showed that there is an association between hyponatremia and the presence of certain complications of liver cirrhosis. Also hyponatremia was associated with a higher severity of cirrhosis assessed by MELD scores.
Keywords: Child pugh class, Liver cirrhosis, MELD score, Hyponatremia


Coherent population trapping (CPT) is treated in multi–level systems, excited by two– or four–frequency laser light. The dynamics of filling non–absorbing (dark) states is investigated. In cases where all transitions involved are excited (closed systems), the effect becomes dependent on the relative phase of the light waves. Further electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is described in three– and four–level systems and used for effective side band generation.


Current work at Argonne emphasizes the use of fully deuterated algae and cyanobacteria as tools in the study of photosynthesis and as a source of complex substrates for the culture of engineered overproducing bacteria. 17 refs., 1 fig., 1 tab.


For the first time, the polymorphism and nucleation mechanism of the precipitates from concentrated sodium aluminate solution reacted with sodium bicarbonate solution were investigated. The interface tensions of gibbsite and bayerite in the solution were measured as 45.9 and 58.3 mJ/m2, respectively. Temperature and supersaturation significantly affected the polymorph as well as the polymorphic transformation of the initial precipitates in the reactive solution. Gibbsite solely nucleated at 70 °C, while bayerite solely nucleated at 50 °C regardless of supersaturation; however, the high supersaturation benefited the nucleation of bayerite and inversely the nucleation of gibbsite at 60 °C. The sequence of polymorphic transformation in the reactive solution was proposed as Al-containing cluster → boehmite → bayerite → gibbsite. And the transformation rate from bayerite to gibbsite in the mother solution increased with temperature and caustic concentration.


A series of MgCl 2 -supported Ziegler-Natta type catalysts containing different amounts of ethyl propionate (EP) as internal donor were prepared and tested in the propene polymerization in order to evaluate their activity and stereospecificity. These catalysts were obtained by treating chemically activated MgCl 2 supports bearing variable ethyl propionate contents with TiCl 4 . The supports and the derived catalysts so prepared were characterized by elemental analysis, XRD and FT-IR techniques. The polymerization tests were carried out at 70°C and 7.5 atm using dimethoxydiphenylsilane as external donor and hydrogen as chain transfer reagent. A correlation between the procatalyst structure and composition and their activity as well as stereoselectivity was obtained. On processing the obtained results it was possible to evaluate the trend of both the activity and the stereoselectivity on the simultaneous changes of the Ti/Mg, Ti/EP and EP/Mg molar ratios. Actually, these catalysts show the best performance with a composition corresponding to the following molar ratios: Ti/Mg = 0.03, Ti/EP = 0.14 and EP/Mg = 0.27. Finally, these studies confirm again that the active supports and the procatalysts are essentially based on a Cl-Mg-Cl chain structure model.


Software processes is becoming a more addressed issue in software development companies every day. These processes are defined regardless of the environment in which they run. To incorporate aspects of that environment is essential, especially if referring to GSE. Despite this fact, the process itself should not be necessary modified. This paper provides a first draft of a research focused on software process definition, modeling, implementation and evaluation in a GSE environment, so as to facilitate the information exchange through a hierarchical process that does not involve modification of specific processes.


A vehicle-mounted device control system includes a first vehicle-mounted device, a second vehicle-mounted device, and a control unit connected to the first vehicle-mounted device and the second vehicle-mounted device. The control unit includes signal transmission means that transmits a pre determined signal to the first vehicle-mounted device, coop erative control means that performs cooperative control in which the second vehicle-mounted device is controlled using information used by the first vehicle-mounted device when the first vehicle-mounted device responds to the predeter mined signal, and alternative control means that performs alternative control in which the second vehicle-mounted device is controlled without using information, used by the first vehicle-mounted device, when the first vehicle-mounted device does not respond to the predetermined signal.


With the available amount of information rapidly increasing, retrieving specific pieces of information becomes more and more important. Combining technologies such as meta data management, organisational knowledge modelling, work flow components and information management results in an approach for a context-based knowledge management and will help to solve this problem. The KnowWork project focuses on improving the exchange of knowledge and information between technical sales, design and manufacturing departments by such a system in order to enhance co-operation between these departments and consequently improve product quality. But knowledge management is more than just technology: In order to succeed, human aspects have to be taken into account. Thus future users should be involved in the development process from the very beginning.


Integration of simian virus 40 (SV40) deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) into cellular DNA occurred when permissive African green monkey kidney (CV-1) cells were infected at a low multiplicity of SV40 in the presence of cytosine arabinoside.


Estimation of human biological age is an important and difficult challenge. In this work, we generalize a biological age estimation method and investigate the performance of the method against popular approaches. We introduce a centroid based approach, using the notion of age neighborhoods. We develop a model, based on which we compute biological age using blood biomarkers, body measurements, and a combination of both, by considering the centroid of specially selected age neighborhoods. Experiments were performed on the NHANES dataset (21451 individuals). Our experiments show that the proposed age neighborhood model results in an improved performance in biological age prediction.


A set of three views negative for cervical spine injury decreases the probability of an injury to 2% for high-risk patients and to less than 1% for low-risk patients. Interestingly, the positive predictive values show that the majority of patients with positive cervical spine radiographs will not have cervical spine injuries. However, this is certainly not to minimize the importance of treating each of these patients as if he or she has a cervical spine injury, as the consequence of doing otherwise can be devastating.


Background: Limited evidence exists concerning the effect of age on hip arthroscopy outcomes for femoroacetabular impingement (FAI). Purpose/Hypothesis: The purpose was to investigate patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and clinical failure rates across various age groups in patients undergoing hip arthroscopy for FAI. We hypothesized that older patients would experience lower improvements in PROs and higher clinical failure rates. Study Design: Cohort study; Level of evidence, 3. Methods: A total of 109 of 130 eligible consecutive patients underwent hip arthroscopy for FAI with a minimum 5-year follow-up. Patients were stratified into 3 groups for comparison (ages 15-34, 35-50, and 51-75 years). Clinical survival rates to revision surgery or total hip arthroplasty (THA) were determined by Kaplan-Meier analysis, and PROs were assessed using analysis of variance. Regression analysis was used to determine factors associated with clinical failure and ΔPROs from baseline to 5 years. Results: The 5-year survival-to-revision rate was 71% (survival time, 69.2 months; 95% CI, 62.8 to 75.5 months). A significant difference in survival to THA was found between groups (P = .030). Being in the older group versus the young and middle-aged groups predicted increased risk of THA conversion (hazard ratio, 5.7; 95% CI, 1.1 to 28.6; P = .035). Overall modified Harris Hip Score (mHHS) and Nonarthritic Hip Score (NAHS) improved from baseline to 5 years (mHHS, P < .001; NAHS, P < .001). Body mass index (mHHS: beta, −1.2; 95% CI, −2.2 to −0.3; P = .013; NAHS: beta, −1.6; 95% CI, −2.6 to −0.5; P = .005) and baseline PROs (mHHS: beta, −0.8; 95% CI, −1.1 to −0.4; P < .001; NAHS: beta, −0.7; 95% CI, −1.1 to −0.4; P < .001) were predictive of 5-year ΔPROs. A decrease was seen in minimal clinically important difference rates in middle-aged (P = .011) and old (P = .030) groups from 6-month to 5-year outcomes. Conclusion: Although hip arthroscopy for FAI yielded improvements in PROs regardless of age, middle-aged and older patients experienced greater declines in clinical outcomes over time than younger patients. Older patients remain good candidates for arthroscopy despite a greater risk for conversion to THA.


Quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a novel state of matter with exotic excitations and was theoretically predicted to be realized most possibly in an S=1/2 kagome antiferromagnet. Experimentally searching for the candidate materials is a big challenge in condensed matter physics and only two such candidates were reported so far. Here we report the successful synthesis of a new spin-1/2 kagome antiferromagnet ZnCu3(OH)6SO4. No magnetic ordering is observed down to 50 mK, despite a moderately high Weiss temperature of {\theta}W ~ -79 K. It strongly suggests that the material is a new QSL candidate. Most interestingly, the magnetic specific heat clearly exhibits linear behaviors in two low-temperature regions. Both behaviors exactly correspond to two temperature-independent susceptibilities. These consistently reveal a novel re-entrance phenomenon of gapless QSL state at the lowest temperatures. The findings provide new insights into QSL ground and excited states and will inspire new theoretical and experimental studies.


This paper presents a novel visual algorithm based on YOLOv7, designed to enhance the robustness of automated elevator-taking service robots in detecting elevator buttons. Traditional solutions for elevator interaction, such as image processing methods, feature selection, or wireless communication protocols, have inherent limitations related to communication security issues and additional equipment costs. In order to overcome these challenges, our method leverages a physical robotic arm and the YOLOv7 object detection neural network to improve the accuracy of elevator button detection and enable effective robot-elevator interaction. To identify elevator buttons, we employ single-stage object detection algorithms along with multiple cameras to capture comprehensive environmental information during experimental trials. By utilizing these techniques, our proposed method ensures the safety and reliability of the automated elevator-taking process for service robots. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm in accurately detecting elevator buttons across various testing scenarios. Overall, our method offers a more suitable solution for service robots to autonomously navigate elevators and perform their intended tasks.


We study quantum corrections to Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology with a scalar field under the assumption that the dynamics are subject to renormalisation group improvement. We use the Bianchi identity to relate the renormalisation group scale to the scale factor and obtain the improved cosmological evolution equations. We study the solutions of these equations in the renormalisation group fixed point regime, obtaining the time-dependence of the scalar field strength and the Hubble parameter in specific models with monomial and trinomial quartic scalar field potentials. We find that power-law inflation can be achieved in the renormalisation group fixed point regime with the trinomial potential, but not with the monomial one. We study the transition to the quasi-classical regime, where the quantum corrections to the couplings become small, and find classical dynamics as an attractor solution for late times. We show that the solution found in the renormalisation group fixed point regime is also a cosmological fixed point in the autonomous phase space. We derive the power spectrum of cosmological perturbations and find that the scalar power spectrum is exactly scale-invariant and bounded up to arbitrarily small times, while the tensor perturbations are tilted as appropriate for the background power-law inflation. We specify conditions for the renormalisation group fixed point values of the couplings under which the amplitudes of the cosmological perturbations remain small.


[Objective] To investigate the feasibility of gallbladder mucosal ablation by hysteroscopic rollerball electrocoagulation after cholecystostomy.[Methods] Under epidural or general anesthesia combined with local anesthesia,8 patients were treated with hysteroscopy after cholecystostomy.After inserting a Storz endoscope,the epithelium of the proximal cystic duct and the mucosa of the gallbladder were ablated with the roller-ball and roller-barrel electrodes respectively.The electrocoagulation power was set at 60~70 W with the roller-barrel excursion rate between 10~15 mm/s,which makes the innerwall of the cyst homogenously brown-grey.[Results] The mean endoscopic operation time was 45 minutes(range:35~55).Among the patients,the gallbladder lumen was completely obliterated within one month in 3 patients,and within 3 months in other 3;2 patients developed retention cysts.All the patients were cured with no complications,no stone recurrence.[Conclusion] Endoscopic electrocoagulation of the cholecystic mucosa is feasible for obliteration of the gallbladder.


Let us start out with a partial description of a recent disaster in the United States. A 12-car passenger train carrying 579 passengers (and 12 crew members) was hit by the engines of another train. The ensuing wreck killed 16 persons and injured about 200 others. A total of 178 injured were taken to 11 different hospitals and three temporary shelters.
There were a number of problems in the provision of emergency medical services (EMS) in this large mass casualty situation.


The invention relates to an Ni-saving austenitic stainless steel with excellent processability. The austenitic stainless steel comprises one or two of the following chemical components in percentage by weight: 0.06-0.12 of C, 0.2-1.0 of Si, 7.0-9.0 of Mn, 17.0-18.5 of Cr, 3.01-3.45 of Ni, 0.15-0.22 of N, 0.01-0.2 of Mo, 1.2-1.9 of Cu, B larger than or equal to 0.001% and smaller than or equal to 0.004%, Ca larger than or equal to 0.001% and smaller than or equal to 0.005%, V smaller than or equal to 0.1%, Nb smaller than or equal to 0.1%, and the balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein the sum of the percentage of C and the percentage of N is larger than or equal to 0.25%. The manufacturing method of the austenitic stainless steel comprises the following steps: heating a smelted and poured casting blank to 1100-1250 DEG C and preserving heat, performing hot working on the casting blank until a needed thickness is obtained, wherein the heat preserving time is more than 30min; after hot working, annealing at a controlled temperature of 980-1100 DEG C and washing the blank with any acid, and performing cold rolling, wherein when Md30/50 is larger than or equal to -30 DEG C and smaller than or equal to 0 DEG C, the maximum cold rolling deformation is 75-80%; or when Md30/50 is smaller than or equal to -30 DEG C, the maximum cold rolling deformation is 80-85%. According to the invention, the cold working performance of the Ni-saving austenitic stainless steel is improved; the corrosion resistance is close to that of type 304, and meanwhile the cost is lower than that of the type 304.