The objective of this research was to determine the planning, implementation, and evaluation in improving the quality of education. This study used a qualitative approach with descriptive method. The technique of collecting data through interviews, observation and documentation. Subjects in this study is the principal, vice principal, teachers, and chairman committee of MTsN Grong Grong Pidie district. The results of this study indicate that: (1) planning program based on the vision, mission, and goals of the school. The work program drawn up by each component of the school by revising the annual work program and verified by the school principal. Substance leads to improving the quality of education but does not specify the target results in detail. (2) The implementation of each component of the program is managed by the school, by setting up implementation guidelines such as documents written educational unit level curriculum, organizational structure, job descriptions of teachers and education personnel, academic regulations, and school rules.. (3) Evaluation of the program is more focused on the academic program of the effectiveness and efficiency of learning and teacher performance, carry out self evaluation of schools and school accreditation. The results of the evaluation made a report consisting of technical and financial reports to The Head Office of District Religious Ministry . Keywords: School Based Management and Quality of Education


For a period of 30 ± 3 days samples were collected in Bergerhoff deposition gauges, as described in the German VDI 2090/1 Entwurf-standard of December 1999. The content of the 3 gauges is put together and analysed as one sample. After removal of coarse objects, the solid fraction is filtered in a pre-extracted glass fibre thimble, dried in air for 48 hours, spiked with internal


Bobgunnia fistuloides is a leguminous plant which belong to the family of fabaceae. Ethno-medicinally, Bobgunnia fistuloides parts (leaves, bark and roots) have been used by the Nupe communities, Niger State, Nigeria to treat various diseases for decades. This research assessed the proximate composition and elemental composition of the leaves, stem bark and roots of Bobgunnia fistuloides. The Ca, Mg and Fe content in the plant parts were investigated using atomic absorption spectrophotometer while as the Na and K content were assessed using flame photometer. More so, the proximate compositions of the leaves, stem bark and roots were analyzed using standard methods. The results of the proximate analysis, in percentages, revealed the values of 10.01±0.15, 9.40±0.46, 10.61±0.18; 32.40±0.16, 36.20±2.47, 33.00±0.20; 2.71±0.16, 10.13±0.26, 11.27±0.08; 3.28±0.22, 2.91±0.13, 3.50±0.44; 0.88±0.01, 1.06±0.02, 1.08±0.02 and 50.73±2.51, 40.30±1.87, 40.25±1.09 respectively for the moisture, ash, crude fibre, crude protein, crude fat and crude carbohydrates contents of leaves, stem bark and roots of the plant. On the other hand, the nutritive values in mg/kg were: K (822.20±0.20, 756.13±0.06, 652.67±3.05); Na (507.24±0.08, 496.13±0.06 and 252.83±0.04), Ca (2405.48±0.43, 1208.64±0.02 and 977.36±0.57), Fe (102.07±0.05, 70.44±0.04and 6.17±0.31), Mg (580.20±0.07, 448.54±0.29 and 206.35±0.25) respectively for the leaves, stem bark and roots of this plant. These results indicate that the roots of Bobgunnia fistuloides contain relatively lowest amounts of the elements determined followed by the stem bark while the leaves have the highest. These results also reveal that the carbohydrates, calcium and potassium contents of the leaves were the highest compared to those of the other parts analyzed. The results also reveal that since such parameters including the ash contents among other parameters investigated were high, all the parts of this plant could serve as good sources of nutrients when properly utilized.


This paper explores how writers of online diaries, or weblogs, about public affairs negotiate their relationship with the genres and social position of news journalism. Although often labelled radical journalists, this paper finds, through interviews with seven webloggers, that such writers orient themselves in complex ways towards news journalism, at times drawing upon its modes of knowledge, at times setting themselves in opposition to it and at times seeking to cross discursive spaces. The paper concludes that, rather than emerging as a new public communicative form or genre in relation to journalism, the distinctiveness of the form is in its generic heterogeneity and ability to traverse the boundaries of news and other institutional discourses.


In this short paper, we generalize some theorems about pseudo valuation domain to ring and give characterizations of psedo valuation ring.


ABSTRACT For the aerial images characterized by low contrast or containing repetitive patterns or homogeneous textures, robust tie point matching is still a challenging task. In this letter, an effective hypergraph-based tie point matching method is proposed. Firstly, feature points are divided into several point clusters in the overlapping area of images. Secondly, a two-stage matching pipeline, that is, candidate feature point matching and high-order graph matching, is performed. The candidate relationship is utilized to establish the high-order similarity tensor without any information loss. The experimental results show that our algorithm can significantly enhance the matching robustness and success rate compared with traditional tie point matching algorithm, and when compared with state-of-art hypergraph matching methods, our algorithm can obtain approximate equal matching success rate with a largely higher computational efficiency.


The 21st-century education emphasizes a number of indicators that teachers, students, parents, and other education stakeholders should completely understand. English teachers should be encouraged to be able to integrate the intended 21st-century competency indicators into instructional materials that are preceded by a needs analysis stage. Needs analysis is crucial in designing English materials as it serves as a valuable tool for practitioners to create English materials aligned with students' target and learning needs. As a consequence, needs analysis is seen as a necessary component of the teaching practice. The purposes of this study are to examine and reveal the numerous types of students' target needs and learning needs for English material development. This study examined two English lecturers and 206 students enrolled in the primary education department. The data collection instrument was a questionnaire and the data were analyzed using a software program, namely an excel chart data series. Findings indicated that the students' target needs included necessities, lacks, and wants, whereas learning needs included input, procedure, setting, learner's role, and lecturer's role in the teaching-learning process. Students' target and learning needs emphasized the importance of developing English materials that boosted 21st-century education skills. English materials should be adjusted to meet the needs of students' future careers, with a particular emphasis on the eleven sub-skills of 21st-century education.


GREGORY EVANS DOWD. War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 360. $32.00 (US); ERIC HINDERAKER and PETER C. MANCALL. At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 210. $17.95 (US), paper; JANE T. MERRITT. At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700–1763. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. vi, 338. $32.95 (CDN), paper; MICHAEL LEROY OBERG. Uncas: First of the Mohegans. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 268. $27.50 (US). Reviewed by Gary Clayton Anderson


In this paper the advantages of pulse low vacuum chemical heat treatment,classification,structure characteristics,Usage,process characteristics,penetrating agents and application prospect of such furnaces have been discussed.


The job of a physicist is to describe Nature. General features, hypotheses and theories help to describe physics phenomena at a more abstract, fundamental level, and are sometimes tacitly assigned some sort of real existence; doing so appears to be of little harm in most of classical physics. However, missing any tangible connection to everyday experience, one better always bears in mind the descriptive nature of any efforts to grasp the quantum. And elementary particles interact in the quantum world, of course. When communicating the world of elementary particles to the general public, the Bayesian approach of an ever ongoing updating of the depiction of reality turns out to be virtually indispensable. The human experience of providing a series of increasingly better descriptions generates plenty of personal pleasures, for researchers as well as for amateurs. A suggestive analogy for improving our understanding of the world, even the seemingly paradoxical quantum world, may be found in recent insight into how congenitally blind children and young adults learn to see, after having received successful eye surgery.


The invention provides compositions and methods for the detection and quantification of Ehrlichia ewingii, Ehrlichia ewingii antibodies, antibody fragments, and polypeptides.


Objective: A large amount of acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients have stress hyperglycemia on admission, which is associated with poor in-hospital and long-term prognosis. This research aimed to find the effects of hyperglycemia on in-hospital mortality, adverse cardiovascular events and long-term prognosis in patients with STEMI.Method: We conducted a prospective cohort study on 456 STEMI patients from January 2015 to December 2016 in Zhongda hospital affiliated to Southeast University. We recorded the baseline data, then used propensity matching (a ratio of 1:2) to balance the confounding variables and rule out the bias, according to the definition of stress hyperglycemia, admission random blood glucose >11.1 mmol/L, we divided patients into two groups: hyperglycemia group (71 cases) and non-hyperglycemia group (142 cases). We recorded and compared the baseline data, past history, auxiliary examination index, medication usage, coronary angiography data, and inhospital outcome between two groups. One-year follow-up main adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) were recorded by telephone and clinic, we use X2 test to research the relationship between hyperglycemia and in-hospital outcome, we use ROC curve to assess the predictive value of hyperglycemia for in-hospital death both in diabetic and non-diabetic patients. Kaplan-Meier curve and Cox regression are used to evaluate the predictive value of stress hyperglycemia for the long-term prognosis.Result: Stress hyperglycemia occurred in 86 patients (18.9%), of whom 65 had diabetes history. There were 10 patients (14.1%) died in hospital in hyperglycemia group, 6 for malignant arrhythmia, 3 for cardiogenic shock and 1 for cardiac rupture. In the non-hyperglycemia group, the in-hospital mortality is 3.5% (P=0.028). The incidence of malignant arrhythmia and cardiogenic shock were higher in hyperglycemia group than control group (P=0.023, P=0.030). The ROC curve of admission random blood glucose predicting in-hospital deaths for non-diabetic patients and diabetic patients showed the area under curve and 95% CI were 0.627, 0.438 ~ 0.837; 0.786, 0.586 ~ 0.913 respectively. The incidence of one-year follow-up MACCE was about 41.7% in hyperglycemia group, and the incidence in the control group was 27.8% (P=0.018). Gender, age, diabetes, hypertension, previous myocardial infarction, hyperglycemia, left ventricular ejection fraction were included in Cox regression model of one-year followup MACCE in STEMI patients. Stress hyperglycemia was an independent risk factor for one-year follow-up MACCE in STEMI patients (OR=4.398, 95% CI=2.869 ~ 7.483, P<0.001).Conclusion: Hyperglycemia is a predictive factor for in-hospital death in STEMI patients, and it has good predictive value for the long-term prognosis.


In this work, we study on the improved Bernoulli sub-equation function method. We apply this method  to the nonlinear time-fractional Burgers equation. We obtain new analytical solutions to this model for values of  n, m and M. Numerical simulation were depicted for di erent values of alpha.


The seasonal and local variations of the diet of the lizard Eremias olivieri (Lacertidae) were studied on the Kerkennah islands, off the coast of Tunisia. A total of 247 stomach was examined. The wide range of the food items ingested, and the lack of a close relationship between the size of the prey and that of the predator, emphasizes the dietary opportunism of Eremias olivieri. Such a diet is considered as adaptive to the scarcity of food resources of the semi-desertic environment of the Kerkennah islands.


Abstract Direct Doxastic Voluntarism — the notion that we have direct (un-mediated) voluntary control over our beliefs — has widely been held to be false. There are, however, two ways to interpret the impossibility of our having doxastic control: as either a conceptual/ logical/metaphysical impossibility or as a psychological impossibility. In this paper I analyse the arguments for (Williams 1973; Scott-Kakures 1993; Adler 2002) and against (Bennett 1990; Radcliffe 1997) both types of claim and, in particular, evaluate the bearing that putative cases of self-deception have on the arguments in defence of voluntarism about belief. For it would seem that if it is the case that self-induced cases of self-deception are indeed possible, then voluntarism about belief could be true after all. Bennett claims that Williams' argument for the impossibility case proves too much in that if it is successful in ruling out direct doxastic voluntarism, it is also successful in ruling out cases of indirect doxastic voluntarism. If cases of self-deception can also be cases of indirect doxastic voluntarism, then such cases support the argument against the impossibility case. I argue that Bennett is right in claiming that Williams' argument proves too much, that cases of self-deception are indeed also sometimes cases of indirect self-deception and so that they cause genuine trouble for the conceptual impossibility case. However, I also argue that this is the only genuine worry for Williams' argument. I end, while considering whether cases of self-deception can tell us anything about the psychological possibility of direct doxastic control, by suggesting a way of establishing the conceptual impossibility of direct doxastic control that circumvents Bennett's counter-argument.


The main goals of this article are first to examine through Olympic sports journalism what hierarchies and categorisations of the global space and the people populating it were considered important to the national imagery in Finland at the beginning of the twentieth century and, secondly, to assess how the notion of race was intertwined with these categorisations. Sports journalism played an important role in Finland by constructing and legitimising a national imagery and by providing accounts of other races, cultures and nationalities that were considered 'different' from 'us'. The article concludes that sports journalism at that time employed three major discursive practices that were aimed at constructing an image of a white, Western and Finnish nation living in the north. The 'others' were placed in a hierarchy, in which their position was determined by their racial background and assumed similarities/differences in appearance and behaviour as compared with Finnish males.


We study a periodically reviewed, serial inventory system in which excess demand from external customers is lost. We derive elementary properties of the vector of optimal order quantities in this system. In particular, we derive bounds on the sensitivity (or, more mathematically, the derivative) of the optimal order quantity at each stage to the vector of the current inventory levels. Our analysis uses the concept of L-natural-convexity, which was studied in discrete convex analysis and recently used in the study of single-stage inventory systems with lost sales. We also remark on how our analysis extends to models with capacity constraints and/or backordering.


Even in the face of a continuously changing economic environment, interest rates often remain unadjusted for long periods. When rates are moved, the norm is for a series of small unidirectional discrete basis-point changes. To explain these phenomena we suggest a two-equation system combining a "long-run" equation explaining a binary decision to change or not change the interest-rate, and a "shortrun" one based on a simple monetary policy rule. We account for unobserved heterogeneity in both equations, applying the model to unique unit-record level data on the voting preferences of Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) members.


The outspread principle of involute and enveloping principle of curve is applied to build the model of double involutes gear contrate profile, the veracity is verified by the data. On the base of the mathematical model of double involutes gear contrate profile, the mathematical model of double involutes gear teeth surfaces is built, which is on any rotary angle. The 3D simulation pictures of double involutes gear of three typical cut tooth top's circular arc radius and simulation of mesh are obtained by mathematical model of double involutes gear teeth surfaces, the correctness and feasibility of model is validated. The expression is very simple and coordinate is not translated by using, the any point of double involutes gear teeth surfaces is fast and truly described on any rotary angle, the simple and speedily new theory gist is offered for 3D numerical design, manufacture and the analysis of mesh, kinematics and dynamics of double involutes gears.


Palmitoyl-CoA desaturase activity in microsomes was increased up to about 4-fold within 2 h after temperature shift from 39.5 to 15 degrees C. Compared with control cells, cycloheximide-treated cells indicated no induction of palmitoyl-CoA desaturase by a decrease in temperature. The results suggest that temperature acclimation requires an increase in the level of the desaturase enzyme content.


The effects of graded levels of crude oil-contaminated diets were investigated on haematological parameters in growing pigs. 24 pigs of average body weight (BW) of 8 ± 1.1 (Mean ± SD) kg were used in the trial. The animals on arrival at the Animal Wing, Rivers State University were randomly allotted to their experimental pens. There were 6 dietary treatments with varied levels of crude oil contaminations as: 0g (control group), 2g, 4g, 6g, 8g and 10g of crude oil/kg of diet, respectively. There were 4 replications per treatment. The animals were fed at 5% of their BW. Trial lasted for 4 weeks (28d); blood samples were collected from all animal treatment groups and immediately snap frozen. Red blood cell (RBC) counts, haemoglobin (Hb), packed cell volume (PCV) concentrations as well as white blood cell (WBC) counts, including their differentials: neutrophils (NEU), lymphocytes (LYM), eosinophil (EOS) and monocytes (MON) were analyzed. There were no significant (P > 0.05) differences in the RBC, Hb and PCV contents. Furthermore, there were no significant (P > 0.05) differences in the WBC counts as well as their differentials. It was concluded that growing pigs can ingest up to 10g of crude oil/kg of diet without any negative effects on blood constituents of the growing pig.


A longstanding Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia, Richard Smith was a pioneer in the fields of biochemistry and nutrition, and made an enormous contribution to both fields. The scope of this impact can be appreciated by reading his citation for appointment as an Officer of the Order of Australia, which reads: "For distinguished service to scientific research in the fields of human nutrition, cardiovascular disease and agriculture, to Indigenous communities in rural and remote areas, and to professional organizations". Richard began his 45-year career with the CSIRO in 1948 when he was appointed a Research Scientist with the Division of Biochemistry and General Nutrition in Adelaide. His research focussed on the chemical basis of life, including the biochemical role of trace elements in nutrition, and the nutritional and endocrine factors affecting growth. Early in his career he identified a new enzyme function of vitamin B12 in the metabolism of propionate. This research, undertaken at the McCollum-Pratt Institute, Baltimore, was the first demonstration of a specific biochemical site of action of vitamin B12 in a mammalian system. During this period he also made fundamental scientific contributions to understanding the effects of cobalt deficiency on metabolism and the role of copper in the developing brain. Later research programs with the CSIRO's Division of Human Nutrition included iodine deficiency and the role of thyroid hormone in brain development, growth and endocrine development of premature infants, nutrition of low-birth weight infants in Aboriginal communities and risk factors for hypertension and cardiovascular disease – particularly in Aboriginal populations. At the time of his retirement in 1993 he was a Chief Research Scientist with the CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition. Following retirement, Richard continued to work for a number of years as a consultant to the Western Australian Health Department, Kimberley Region, on issues relating to lowbirth weight infants and their nutrition. His talents were widely recognised internationally, including an invitation early in his career to collaborate with Sir Hans Krebs, one of the foremost biochemists of the twentieth century. His appointments included a Fellowship at the McCollumPratt Institute, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, twice as a Visiting Scientist TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 2016 VOL. 140, NO. 1, 129–133 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03721426.2016.1150248


In this paper, the survivability of a tension leg platform (TLP) under severe environmental conditions has been investigated. Survival conditions related to tendon damages are considered. Tendon damage conditions include tendon slacking condition, unpredicted increase in wave/wind condition after one tendon is removed and sudden tendon breakage. The effect of column spacing on the TLP survivability is also investigated and presented in this paper. Numerical results are presented for the tendon tension time histories including any tendon down-stroke or unlatching events. Based on the analysis results, recommendations are made to improve the survivability of the TLP under extreme environmental conditions.Copyright © 2006 by ASME


The accumulator, as the auxiliary power supply of the hydraulic instantaneous braking system, plays a key role in speed control of the system. After establishing the mathematical model of a bag-type accumulator, the corresponding simulation and calculation on the model in AMESim was conducted, and the influence of inflation pressure and configuration mode of the accumulator on the speed of piston rod was analyzed. Results showed: the inflation pressure of the accumulator was 50% ~75% of the system pressure; while single accumulator being applied, the speed control of the hydraulic braking system was superior.


In polarimetry, a superposition of internal quantal states is exposed to a single Hamiltonian and information about the evolution of the quantal states is inferred from projection measurements on t ...


Introduction: As one of the high-stress positions in Indian Railways, loco pilots were the subject of a cross-sectional investigation on occupational stress in 2020. A comparative cross-sectional research investigation on occupational stress was subsequently carried out in 2022 among section controllers, another high-stress position held by Indian Railways. The studies' main goal was to evaluate and contrast workplace stress and hypertension. In 2020, 230 loco pilots participated in a cross-sectional study on occupational stress and hypertension, and in 2011, 82 section controllers participated in a comparative cross-sectional investigation.
Materials and Methods: A 24-item, closed-ended survey on occupational stress was given out. Systolic blood pressure above 140 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure above 90 mmHg were considered as hypertension as per the VII Joint National Committee. Chi-square test and t-test were used for testing significance at P < 0.05.
Results: The average stress score for loco pilots was 8.56, compared to 7.32 for section controllers. 49 loco pilots (21.3% of all loco pilots) had more than 12 stressors, and 7 (8.5%) section controllers had more than 12 stressors. There were 30 (32%) workers in the goods category, 12 (12%) in the mail/passenger category, 7 (19%) in the shunter group, 3 (11%) in the supervisory group, and 4 (7%), in the on-board group known as section controllers, who had more than 12 stress factors. The prevalence of hypertension was 36.52% (84) for loco pilots and 53.66% (44) for division controllers. In a group with more than 12 stress variables, the prevalence of hypertension was 30.61% (15) in loco pilots and 28.57% (2) in section controllers. In both study groups, those who were older, had a family history of the condition, and had a body mass index greater than 25 kg/m2 had a higher prevalence of hypertension. The group of loco pilots had higher mean occupational stress and personnel with more than 12 stress variables. Loco pilots in the commodities category experienced the most stress. The risk factors for hypertension in this group were older age, a history of the condition in the family, and a BMI of greater than 25 kg/m2.


[Problem] It is an optional part of the plating process can be, and provides a family (好 適) a rigid Rooster plating to the electronic component of the connector, and the like. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] The present invention is soluble in geumyeom or gold complex, a conductive salt, a rigid Rooster plating solution containing a chelating agent, an aromatic compound, e.g., nitro benzoic acid, dinitro benzoic acid, nitrobenzene sulfonic having at least one nitro It characterized in that it contains an aromatic compound selected from the acid group. In addition, the present invention is characterized in that it further contains a cobalt salt, nickel salt, at least one kind of metal salts of a silver salt, or organic additives of the polyethyleneimine.


In a competitive environment, where the battle for market supremacy is severe, certain companies might face with serious problems due to the current context of the world economic crisis. Because the crisis phenomenon has become a disturbing factor in the progress of bussines activities, providing quality at the required standards is a sine qua non requirement. In time, many companies have tried to come up with cost reduction methods, spending a large amount of resources in order to achieve their strategic goals. For some companies, the cost of quality becomes a variable that must be downsized in order to obtain a more considerable profit. For other companies instead, quality is the key which makes the difference. So, the proper question is: Can quality be a reliable way to overcome the economic crisis? We will have to search for the answer in the present article...


France has the world's fifth largest economy by nominal figures and the ninth largest economy by PPP figures. It has the second largest economy in Europe (behind its main economic partner Germany) in nominal figures, based on the dynamic industrial structure of the French economy. When choosing where to invest internationally there are a couple of important considerations that should be taken into account. Understanding International Investment France your international investment options is the first step to making wise investment choices and the process is best undertaken with expert advice. Considering the importance of foreign investment and the subsequent benefits it brings. The French government has also established various agencies that work to attract more foreign investment in the country. In order to improve the competitiveness of French companies, the French government has decided to invest massively in a "National Pact for Growth, Competitiveness and Employment". The "2012 Report" highlights the confidence in the French economy shown by North American investors, who were the source of 26 % of investment decisions in 2012 and the growing share of projects from the emerging markets (8%). Over 800 offices under foreign control were active in the competitiveness clusters and over 2,000 foreign companies opened an office in France, taking advantage of the Research and Development Tax Credit.


Authentication is an important component to protect information systems from unauthorised access of malicious sources. Because of resource limitations of mobile devices, it is a challenge to apply current authentication methods in wired networks for wireless networks. It lacks any considerations of security, efficiency, scalability and flexility in wireless networks. In this paper, an authentication model for individual and group users in wireless network is elaborated. It provides a flexible and scalable model to suit different problem requirements of wireless network services. A realisation of the authentication model using dynamic keys and group key management is proposed and analysed to demonstrate the security and efficiency in wireless networks.


After photodissociation of carbon monoxide bound to myoglobin, a thermally driven conformational relaxation towards the equilibrium structure of the deligated protein occurs above 160 K. Here we show that a relaxation can already be induced at lower temperatures by absorption of visible light. Both thermally induced and light-induced relaxations occur in discrete steps. The light-induced relaxation is characterized by a broad distribution of quantum yields. Similarities to spectral hole burning of dyes in glassy matrices suggest that the light-induced protein relaxation is initiated by electronic excitation of the heme group.


: Teaching management is an important part of school education in colleges and universities. Especially the management of public basic course teaching assistant system is very difficult and complicated. It is difficult to preserve the teaching audio and video and the resources taught by teachers. The follow-up review and use of students is also very flawed. The teaching of public basic courses belongs to the daily important work of the school, so it is necessary to fully rely on network resources to integrate teaching resources into the computer, so that students can use these resources in class to improve students' learning efficiency. Therefore, it is required to study a set of teaching assistant for public foundation courses. Based on the actual situation, each user can use the relevant functions to apply the public basic course teaching assistant system according to the different authority, which is helpful for the teaching of public basic courses.


Medication compliance is a familiar problem in the treatment of chronic psychiatric patients, and it can present special difficulty in treatment of young adults. Compliance can be encouraged through enhanced communication with the patient.


Inspired by classical puzzles in geometry that ask about probabilities of geometric phenomena, we give an explicit formula for the probability that a random triangle on a flat torus is homotopically trivial. Our main tool for this computation involves reducing the problem to new invariant of measurable sets in the plane that is unchanged under area-preserving affine transformations. Our result show that this probability is minimized at all rectangular tori and maximized at the regular hexagonal torus.


Prenatal screening for Down syndrome affects millions of pregnancies every year worldwide. The vast majority of screen-positive results are false, yet encourage invasive diagnostic procedures that pose additional risks to unborn babies. As a direct consequence many babies who do not have Down syndrome are lost. We estimate that current screening practice in England and Wales reduces annual live births of babies with Down syndrome by around 660 and leads to the losses of 400 babies without Down syndrome. Although prenatal diagnoses are becoming more frequent, more babies with Down syndrome are being born (up 25% over 15 years). Considerable attention has been given to studying the performance of competing screening techniques, yet relatively little attention has been given to the consequences for the psychological and physical wellbeing of all parents and their babies. Meanwhile, quality of life for people with Down syndrome continues to improve. In many countries, people with Down syndrome are living longer and achieving more than ever before. The authors urge policymakers to note that the live birth prevalence of Down syndrome continues to rise and that average life expectancy is now approaching 60 years. Accordingly, research and practice priorities should shift from prevention to improving care, education and support for a growing and ageing population. We suggest that policies permitting genetic screening for mental or physical abilities should be reviewed through wide public debate before new prenatal diagnosis and genome sequencing technologies become more readily available.


The most effective communication media is language. However, not all uses of language can produce effective communication. Effective communication can only be done when there is an understanding between the communicator and the communicant. This means that language understanding between communicators and communicants is a demand in effective communication (Kemendikbud, 2013). In such languages it is necessary to use effective sentences. Therefore, in effective communication effective sentences. In other words, effective communication can only be achieved by using effective sentences. In this paper explained about communication, effective communication, and effective sentences in Indonesian.


[Objective]To identify,analyze and evaluate the occupational hazardous factors and level in the expansion construction project of a fertilizer plant,confirm the occupational disease categories and the feasibility of preventive measures and put forward occupational protection countermeasures in order to protect the laborers' health.[Methods] Similar project was taken as the analogy project;evaluation was made with analogy method assisted with experience.[Results] The site selection of the project and the production overall layout were basically in compliance with the relevant standards and requirements;the preventive measures were relatively complete;the main factors of occupational hazards in the production process were dusts,CO,NH3,noise and so on;it is a construction project with severely occupational hazards.[Conclusion] This project complies with the relevant national laws and regulations for construction projects;it has taken feasible occupational disease prevention and control measures;this construction project is feasible from the occupational disease prevention and control point of view.


Abstract This article focuses on a novel mechanism for market segmentation and price discrimination based on consumers' use of online infomediaries. Using the automotive retailing context as the setting for the study, the authors address the following question: Can online infomediaries serve as a viable mechanism for market segmentation and price discrimination? They draw on a unique and extensive data set of consumers who report on the information they found when using online buying services (OBS) as part of their new vehicle purchase process. The analysis of the data set shows that consumers who obtain price information pay lower prices (for the same product), whereas consumers who obtain product information pay higher prices. Although this points to the existence of distinct consumer segments, this knowledge is of limited value without a viable mechanism that enables firms to identify and target these customer segments specifically. On the basis of consumer usage patterns of OBS, the authors uncover di...


In this work we present the preparation and functionalization
of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) for the detection of presence of gp63 glycoprotein
in the surface of Leishmania genus parasites.
AuNPs were prepared by induced laser ablation in a clean and biologically suitable
media. The nanoparticles were functionalized with anti-gp63 lgG antibody in order
to study the interaction with the glycoprotein component gp63 (63 kDa) present on
the membrane surface of Leishmania genus parasites.
The functionalized AuNPs showed potential as a spectrometric indicator of the parasite
existence, both by the detection of the presence of the gp63 in solution and through the specific interaction with
the parasites in vitro. The specificity
of the study opens a new line of research on the use of modified nanoparticles in
the development of a fast and easy assay for Leishmaniosis diagnostics.


BACKGROUND: The introduction of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) drugs to ophthalmology has revolutionized the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD). Despite this significant progress, gaps and challenges persist in the diagnosis of nAMD, initiation of treatment, and management of frequent intravitreal injections. Thus, nAMD remains a leading cause of blindness in the United States. OBJECTIVE: To present current knowledge, evidence, and expert perspectives on anti-VEGF therapies in nAMD to support managed care professionals and providers in decision making and collaborative strategies to overcome barriers to optimize anti-VEGF treatment outcomes among nAMD patients. SUMMARY: Three anti-VEGF therapies currently form the mainstay of treatment for nAMD, including 2 therapies approved by the FDA for treatment of nAMD (aflibercept and ranibizumab) and 1 therapy approved by the FDA for oncology indications and used off-label for treatment of nAMD (bevacizumab). In clinical trials, each of the 3 agents maintained visual acuity (VA) in approximately 90% or more of nAMD patients over 2 years. However, in long-term and real-world settings, significant gaps and challenges in diagnosis, treatment, and management pose barriers to achieving optimal outcomes for patients with nAMD. Many considerations, including individual patient characteristics, on-label versus off-label treatment, repackaging, and financial considerations, add to the complexity of nAMD decision making and management. Many factors may contribute to additional challenges leading to suboptimal long-term outcomes among nAMD patients, such as delays in diagnosis and/or treatment approval and initiation, individual patient response to different anti-VEGF therapies, lapses in physician regimentation of anti-VEGF injection and monitoring, and inadequate patient adherence to treatment and monitoring. These latter factors highlight the considerable logistical, emotional, and financial burdens of long-term, frequent intravitreal injections and the vital importance of personalized approaches to anti-VEGF treatment decision making and management for patients with nAMD. To address these challenges and reduce the number of yearly injections, studies have examined alternative dosing regimens, including extended fixed intervals, as needed, and treat-and-extend strategies in specific nAMD patient populations. New clinical evidence and insights into expert clinical practice discussed in this article can support managed care professionals in the key role they play in addressing challenges in nAMD treatment and management and optimizing patient outcomes through appropriate management of anti-VEGF treatment.


Using the literature material investigation and study,mathematical statistic method and so on analyze the species and the number of the campus afforestation floristic in Langfang city,the frequency of utilities of trees species in campus and species richness about botanical community.The result indicates:In the campus of Langfang city the type of afforested tree seed are less;In the campus community tree seed composition is more;In the campus plant community species richness is gradually increasing along with the area.In 250~300 m~2,the index of the species richness in community species reach the maximun.


more data. MR. FROST (MODERATOR): What about mycobacterium avium complex (MAC)? DR. CURRIER: It is [stopped]. But I do not go around discontinuing it as a matter of routine. MR. FROST (MODERATOR): Dr. Rubin, do you discontinue MAC therapy or MAC prophylaxis? DR. RUBIN: Yes. However, I am not doing a study, so I understand why you [Currier] do not. But I believe that CD4 count is probably the biggest risk for acquiring MAC. As a result, once my patients' CD4 counts bound over 100, I will routinely stop it. For those patients who do not respond to the HAART regimens, I will maintain it. Fortunately, it is a relatively small percentage. I will never stop Pneumocystic carinii pneumonia (PCP) prophylaxis unless there is some . . . MR. FROST (MODERATOR): Is there a positive blood culture that you might use or a negative blood culture to guide you, or do you just look at the CD4 counts? DR. RUBIN: If someone has whatmight be an incubated case of a disseminated MAC, that is


To AN increasing degree we are seeing today what seems to be a new womanwith new interests, new responsibilities, and new ways of doing things. What has changed and is still changing, of course, is not woman herself but her status in a rapidly developing social order, and her ways and means of securing satisfactions and making contributions to social life under the changed conditions in which she has to function. When the clash of opinion about the question of woman's sphere and of her activities viewed in the light of the traditional ideas about her sphere, subsides enough to permit a glimpse at the principles about whom the controversy rages, we are confronted with the rather simple phe-


This made us realise that this appliance was really changing the relation between the mandible and the maxilla, harmonising soft tissue and balancing the patient's face. We were completely surprised by the fantastic facial outcomes that we achieved with this minimal approach. We thus decided to create a special design according to the needs of the mandible, the Carriere Motion Class III Appliance.


Sardinella lemuru is important species and only exists in Bali Strait. In recent years (1980-2019), the fishing condition in Bali Strait is highly volatile. This condition makes lemuru catching locations are challenging to predict. According to catch data, Sardinella lemuru has collapsed and dramatically vanished in 1999, 2011, and 2017. Here, we examined the collapse was due to the impact of IOD or ENSO. According to wavelet coherence analysis, there was a strong association between IOD or ENSO phenomenon with decrease or increase in lemuru catches occurred in 2007-2012 with power 0.6 for IOD and 0.5 for ENSO. After those years, the coherence shows a weak association. The result of wavelet coherency in this study found that the incidence of lemuru collapse in the years 2011 and 2017 was caused by different factors. In 2011 decrease of lemuru was strongly coherent with the occurrence of positive IOD and La Nina events, but in 2017 lemuru decreased was not coherent with IOD (positive/negative) or ENSO (El Nino/La Nina) event.


In S.Gervacio, R.Guerrero and H.Rara, Folding wheels and fans, Graphs and Combinatorics 18 (2002) 731-737, the authors obtain formulas for the clique numbers onto which wheels and fans fold. We present an interpolation theorem which generalizes their theorems 4.2 and 5.2. We show that their formula for wheels is wrong. We show that for threshold graphs, the achromatic number and folding number coincides with the chromatic number.


This study aims to identify the level of self-regulated learning, the level of academic anxiety, and to analyze the relationship between self-regulated learning and academic anxiety in class X students at vocational high school. This study uses a correlational quantitative approach. The subjects of this study amounted to 44 students. Data collection techniques used self-regulated learning scale instruments and academic anxiety scales. This study used descriptive statistical analysis and parametric inferential statistics with the support of the IBM SPSS version 25 Pearson Product Moment formula. The results of the descriptive analysis of this study show that the level of self-regulated learning and the level of academic anxiety are in the medium category. Meanwhile, the Pearson Product Moment analysis results obtained a significance value of 0.000 <0.05, then Ha is accepted which means there is a correlation between variable (X) and variable (Y) and the correlation coefficient value between self-regulated learning variables and academic anxiety is -0.742 which shows a negative relationship, meaning that the higher the self-regulated learning, the lower the academic anxiety of students, and vice versa, the lower the self-regulated learning, the higher the academic anxiety of students.


This study centers on the use of in situ FTIR spectroscopy and online NMR to study the nucleophilic addition of benzimidazole analogues to an N-methylpyridinium salt. The reaction consists of two stages. First, the protected benzimidazole was lithiated with LDA to form the C-2 lithiated benzimidazole. The lithiated benzimidazole was then added to the pyridinium salt to generate the coupled product. The lithiated benzimidazole was not thermally stable, so offline sampling was challenging. A good understanding of the reaction completion of the lithiation was needed for process understanding as well as to provide a basis to determine the fate of the lithiated benzimidazole through the entire addition sequence. In situ FTIR and online NMR provided online methods for monitoring the reaction sequence and studying the temperature-dependent stability of the lithiated benzimidazole.


The present study attempts to make a link between eye movement measures and reading comprehension (RC) to further examine how reading span (RS) differences contribute to differences in L2 reading performance. The variability of text processing was measured by duration and frequency of fixations using an eye tracker. Thus, it investigates the effects of RS in terms of processing as well as RC performance. To this end, forty-five Korean undergraduate students at an intermediate level participated in the experiment. Four types of eye movements were tracked: first-fixation time (FFT), total-fixation time (TFT), secondfixation time (SFT), and fixation count (FC). The results showed that the high-RS group received higher scores than the low-RS group on the RC test, suggesting a significant role of RS in RC performance. In addition, significant differences between the RS groups were found in TFT and SFT. RC performance is negatively correlated with the TFT and SFT. Due to their limited RS, the low-RS group needed more time for comprehension and left few resources available for integration of meaning in the text. The findings suggest that fast and efficient EMs are closely associated with a better RC performance. The present study shed light on how RS affects the students' text processing and that, in turn, leads them to different outcomes from the L2 reading comprehension tests.


The increasing utilization of renewable sources for electricity production turns CO2 methanation into a key process in the future energy context, as this reaction allows storing the temporary renewable electricity surplus in the natural gas network (Power-to-Gas). This kind of chemical reaction requires the use of a catalyst and thus it has gained the attention of many researchers thriving to achieve active, selective and stable materials in a remarkable number of studies. The existing papers published in literature in the past few years about CO2 methanation tackled the catalysts composition and their related performances and mechanisms, which served as a basis for researchers to further extend their in-depth investigations in the reported systems. In summary, the focus was mainly in the enhancement of the synthesized materials that involved the active metal phase (i.e., boosting its dispersion), the different types of solid supports, and the frequent addition of a second metal oxide (usually behaving as a promoter). The current manuscript aims in recapping a huge number of trials and is divided based on the support nature: SiO2, Al2O3, CeO2, ZrO2, MgO, hydrotalcites, carbons and zeolites, and proposes the main properties to be kept for obtaining highly efficient carbon dioxide methanation catalysts.


This thesis reports on experiments with ultracold atomic and molecular quantum gases. Magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances are used to associate diatomic molecules from atomic 87Rb in a three-dimensional optical lattice. In a first experiment, molecules are formed by a sudden jump of the magnetic field to the resonance. This induces coherent atom-molecule oscillations with large amplitude. In another experiment, a dissipative analog of the one-dimensional Tonks-Girardeau gas is realized with molecules in an optical lattice. Inelastic collisions between the molecules lead to particle loss. This interaction is so strong that the system reaches the strongly correlated regime, and the molecules, which are bosons, are forced to behave much like fermions. The strong correlations suppress the molecule loss rate by up to three orders of magnitude.


A low-cost conditioning structure for PbSe photoconductor arrays with few components is described. We use a PbSe array of 64 pixels in a simultaneous atmospheric pollutant detector of several gases. The sensor system is based on infrared optical absorption spectroscopy. We present a second version of the sensor. We deduced: (i) it is necessary work at high chopper frequencies to reduce the effect of 1/f noise, (ii) a conditioning circuit is necessary for each channel, (iii) the conditioning interface must be near the array. Therefore, we propose to amplify and mix the incoming signal to produce a signal at a fixed intermediate frequency (IF), in our case 1 Hz. The circuit has few components which makes possible to place 64 conditioners in a small volume with SMT technology, 10/spl times/4.9/spl times/7.6 cm. The conditioner is divided into 8 boards. Each board has eight channels and an analog multiplexor. This permits to approach the circuitry to the array. Each channel conditioner has up to 100 dB voltage gain. Low IF technique makes possible to have high-performance circuits with low-cost components.


Since Trousseau initially described an as sociation between mucin-producing gastric carcinoma and recurrent migratory throm bophlebitis in 1865, physicians have known that cancer may be accompanied by a va riety of bleeding or thrombotic disorders.' Arterial and venous thrombosis, dissemi nated intravascular coagulation (DIC), and microangiopathic hemolytic anemia are the most evident clinical manifestations of altered coagulability. In this review, we discuss bleeding and thrombotic para neoplastic syndromes, emphasizing the practical aspects in the management of coagulopathies.


The base of football players sportsmanship is technical training, which determines the game performance and its staginess. Many specialists note, that our athletes have a low level of possession as distinct from foreign one. In their opinion, the main reason of this advocacy is insufficient effectiveness of the football techniques training at a young age, so increasing the level technical skill inextricably linked to of domestic football players is the quality of sports provisions training improving.


The effect of gamma radiation was evaluated on the microbiological population, soluble solids content, acidity, pH and ascorbic acid content of natural orange juice. Microbial activity may cause deterioration of orange juice. Irradiation is a process of food conservation which eliminates microorganisms. Neverthless radiation may affect some characterisitics of irradiated foods. The experimental design was a 4x5 factorial scheme, including control and 3 rates of irradiation (2.0, 4.0 and 6.0 kGy) and 5 storage periods (1, 7, 14, 21 and 28 days), with 2 replicates. Samples of juice were extracted from variety "Pera" oranges and irradiated at a rate of 2.0 kGy/h (60Cobalt) and thereafter stored at 5 ± 3oC. Results showed small changes in soluble solids content, acidity and pH, for all treatments. The ratio soluble solids/acidity was also determined and showed little variation for all treatments. There was a reduction on ascorbic acid content of the orange juice with increased radiation dosage and storage time. Gamma radiation was effective in reducing the microbiological population of the juice.


A key research problem in the field of ship emissions is how to perform efficient, accurate, and timely measurements of pollutant gases in a ship's plume. To address this, we have designed and implemented an unmanned aerial system (UAS) that consists of a rotary unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a lightweight pod for exhaust monitoring, and a mobile control terminal. The UAV carries the pod and a camera and can fly into a plume at close range. The pod is equipped with a gas acquisition module, SO2 and NO2 sensors, and communication modules to measure the gases in real time. The mobile control terminal is convenient for operators and receives real-time video and measured gas concentrations. We measured SO2 and NO2 in six ship plumes in 2018 to verify the effectiveness and accuracy of the UAS. The SO2/NO2 ratios in high-sulfur fuel were significantly higher than of those in low-sulfur fuel and can thus be used for distinguishing the sulfur content of ship fuel. In comparison to land-based and airborne-based measurements, we conclude that the UAS provides an active, close-range, low-cost, and accurate measurement approach for monitoring ship emissions in real time.


We perform radiation hydrodynamics simulations of mass transfer in close and massive binary systems, focusing especially on the impact of radiation pressure and wind momentum from the two luminous stars that compose the system. We find that for the large mass transfer rates important for the evolution of such binary systems (of the order of 10 –3 M ⊙ yr –1 ), the light and wind momenta are too low to affect the behaviour of the dense gas stream ejected by the Roche Lobe filling component. In particular, the presence of a wind-wind collision between the two stars has no effect on the gas stream dynamics.


AbstractWith a critical world food situation and an increasing protein gap between the rich and the poor, scientific and technological solutions exist, at least in principle, to extend food production and thus avoid world wide famine. Human food requirement, malnutrition, the world markets of supply and food habits are reviewed. Conventional developments of food production consist in expanding arable land, the Green Revolution more fertilizers and irrigation, plant protection and the accumulation of reserves. But the efficient processing of animal and plant proteins is equally important and so is the production of new concentrated proteins. Amongst the more unconventional developments, algae, fungi, yeast and bacteria as single cell proteins, are only the first steps in the biotechnological production of natural substances for human consumption to remove the food crisis.


A multi-stage side-channel pump (1) in particular for fuel for a motor vehicle, having at least first blade chambers (16) of a precursor stage (7) and second blade chambers (17) of a main stage (10). The side-channel pump (1) has an electric motor (19) for driving an impeller (13). The electric motor (19) has a rotor (22) and a stator (24). The first blade chambers (16) of the precursor stage (7) and the second blade chambers 17 of the main stage (10) are integrated with the impeller (13). The impeller (13) can also form the rotor (22), making it possible to produce an extremely shallow side-channel pump (1). This pump is employed preferably for fuel delivery in gasoline injection to an internal combustion engine.


The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the system modeling of a nanoquadcopter as well as designing position and trajectory control algorithms, with the ultimate goal of testing the system both in simulation and on a real platform.
The open source nanoquadcopter platform named Crazyflie 2.0 was chosen for the project. The first phase consisted in the development of a mathematical model that describes the dynamics of the quadcopter. Secondly, a simulation environment was created to design two different control architectures: cascaded PID position tracker and LQT trajectory tracker. Finally, the implementation phase consisted in testing the controllers on the chosen platform and comparing their performance in trajectory tracking.
Our simulations agreed with the experimental results, and further refinement of the model is proposed as future work through closed-loop model identification techniques. The results show that the LQT controller performed better at tracking trajectories, with RMS errors in position up to four times smaller than those obtained with the PID. LQT control effort was greater, but eliminated the high control peaks that induced motor saturation in the PID controller. The LQT controller was also tested using an ultra-wide band two-way ranging system, and comparisons with the more precise VICON system indicate that the controller could track a trajectory in both cases despise the difference in noise levels between the two systems.


Public Policy and Higher Education established a collaborative project to help states improve higher education performance by assisting with examination of state higher education policies and with establishing broad agreement around statewide priorities for improvement. point for the analysis in each state was Measuring Up, the national report card series issued by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. Additional state-specifi c information was added to provide a more comprehensive picture of the needs of each state. As part of the process, a leadership group was formed in each state to analyze performance, assess policy gaps, and develop a new state agenda for higher education. The leadership group sought guidance from stakeholders throughout the state. A common priority in all of the states was the need for a more highly educated population that could function effectively in a technologically sophisticated world. This report summarizes lessons learned from the collaborative project. It offers guidance to states interested in gaining broad agreement around a new agenda for higher education that is grounded in performance in the state and directed toward meeting the needs of state residents (see center pullout section). The National Collaborative for Higher Education Policy acknowledges the many leaders who have worked with us to develop new public agendas for their states and to defi ne the responsibilities of higher education within those agendas. Their commitment and vision were instrumental in developing consensus around new priorities. The collaborative also is grateful for the guidance provided by those who served on the National Collaborative Advisory Council (see sidebar). The collaborative was managed by Terese Rainwater at the Education Commission of the States, with assistance from Carl Krueger. We thank them for their good work. Finally, the support of The Pew Charitable Trusts helped to make the collaborative possible. We are particularly grateful to program managers Michele Seidl and Nichole Rowles. We worked formally in fi ve states, but our approach to policy and to reframing the public agenda for higher education has infl uenced a number of other states as well. Once again, the Trusts have helped to set a direction for American higher education policy.


I have, in essence, been invited to review both Sheldon Segal's professional autobiography, Under the Banyan Tree,1 and Maurice King's review of it.2 The situation has a certain irony in that King bites the hand of one of the people ideologically closest to him in the population debate. Both King and Segal have a deep sympathy for the poor of the Third World, an empathy gained from residence in Uganda and India respectively. Both believed that the people of these countries were likely to remain poor unless the great spurt in population growth after the Second World War was brought to a close. First, let me put my own position. Scientific advances and a new era of international co-operation led to unpredictably rapid mortality decline in developing countries after 1945. In that year these countries probably had a life expectancy at birth of little more than 35 years which is compatible with the United Nations estimate of 41 years for 1951–1955, following the spectacular mortality declines immediately after the war. Now, life expectancy is around 64 years. To take for that period the two countries Segal writes most about, the increase in India was around 30 years and in China 33 years. This was no disaster, but, on the contrary, probably the greatest single achievement of our time. King played a significant and much admired role in the reduction of mortality both by teaching in an African medical school and writing influential textbooks on how better health could be attained in very poor environments. Certainly, the sudden drop in mortality implied problems: runaway population growth threatening to reach in the Third World 3.5% per year or more which would eventually drive world population far beyond 10 billion. The immediate concern was that rapid population growth would retard per capita income increase (not as clearly proven in the subsequent statistical evidence as many people believe) and the concern in recent years has been that the ultimate world population would be too high to be sustainable in terms of global systems providing a tolerably pure atmosphere, stable soils, and natural resources that were not continually degrading. No one knows what the upper population limit is for such stability but the risk that it is below 10 billion means that we cannot experiment with that number. For 20 years after the war, the future looked grim as the world population increased by one billion. The first national family planning programmes began in India and Pakistan but they failed to halt the escalation in population growth. The problem was the lack of adequate contraception. The necessary scientific break-throughs came in the 1960s in the form of the intra-uterine device, and pill and contraceptive injectables, as well as suction abortion and improved female sterilization techniques. This was probably the second greatest achievement of our time. It soon became clear that these inventions could curb population growth, and national family planning programmes employing them sprang up widely, especially in Asia and North Africa. In the late 1960s global rates of population increase stopped climbing and began a long slow decline. Now we know that the world population will probably never reach 10 billion. It may not even reach 9 billion and will probably thereafter decline. Segal played a central role in these magnificient scientific achievements, both as a researcher and a scientific administrator. He is justly proud of it as his professional autobiography shows. He was able to play his part well because of his broad human and humane sympathies and his understanding that social and behavioural change was involved. I am proud of the role of demographers and other social scientists in showing that the miserable and poor of the world would move towards having smaller families but that there was a limit to the pace at which social practices and the role of children could change. It was not a war but an attempt to Demography and Sociology Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com 430 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY


We present a study we conducted to build a repository storing associations between simple dependency treelets in a source language and their corresponding phrases in a target language. To assess the impact of this resource in EBMT, we used the repository to compute coverage statistics on a test bitext and on a n-best list of translation candidates produced by a standard phrase-based decoder.


Solanum surattense has been largely used in the indigenous system of medicine for various therapeutic effects, mainly analgesics. The aim of the present study was to assess the analgesic effect of the ethanolic extract of the powdered seeds of Solanum surattense in relieving pulpal pain. Patients reporting with pain to the department of conservative dentistry and endodontics, SRM dental college and diagnosed with symptomatic irreversible pulpitis were selected for this study. Ethical committee approval from Institutional Review Board and informed consent from the patients were obtained. The intensity of pain was recorded using Heft Parker Visual Analogue Scale (HP-VAS). Patient was asked to rinse the experimental solution for 3 minutes. The intensity of pain was again recorded using HP-VAS scale. Results showed 68% reduction of pulpal pain in the experimental group. Thus it can be concluded that Solanum surattense when used as an oral rinse showed considerable analgesic activity immediately after its usage. It can be thus safely used as an alternative emergency drug to relieve pulpal pain in symptomatic patients.


ABSTRACT Southern Criminology is a theoretical perspective that shifts the focus from the state criminal justice process to global inequalities, transnational crime, and postcolonial politics. While recognising the importance of this shift in perspective for a globalising world, this paper asks two difficult questions. Firstly, how easy is it to generalise about whole regions of the world in advancing a political viewpoint? Secondly, is it possible for those in the West to imagine an alternative global criminology, if non-Western societies really do have different cultural values and epistemologies? For example, how should we respond to traditional practices among Indigenous Australians or a Confucian understanding of crime? These questions may make a Southern Criminology sound impossible in the same way as other varieties of critical theory. But this paper is intended to strengthen this emerging movement by acknowledging, and working through, potential difficulties.


Objective to discuss Influence of nursing intervention through telephone following-up on compliance behavior of discharged patients with Nephrotic Syndrome. Methods 70 patients were divided randomly into the observation group and the controlled group,two group patients during hospitalization were given conventional treatment,routine nursing and health education,the observation group patients accepted telephone visit since discharged from hospital according to specific situation,including solving various problem patients encountered,giving guidance on self-care,prevention infection and nutrition,compared the compliance behavior and the recurrence situation of two groups after one year. Results 1 year later,compared compliance behaviors and recurrence rates of two groups of patients,differences are significant(p0.05). Conclusion Telephone visit nursing intervention can solve various health problems patients encountered after discharging from hospital,establish good compliance behavior,improve self-care,promote healing and reduce the relapse rate,reduce the distance between patient and nurse,hospital,making hospital services more warmth and humanity,so as to enhance the image of the hospital.


Urachal tumor is extremely rare, since it is responsible for about 0.01% of all neoplasms already repeated in the history of clinical oncology, with the adenocarcinoma subtype being the most prevalent. Thus, the present work aims to report a case of a 55-year-old patient diagnosed with urachal tumor, relating the clinical presentation of the case according to current literary data. It was possible to show that such a diagnosis, as well as the institution of a standard treatment, is still a clinical challenge in modern medical practice.


The characteristics of the spatial distribution of Ar glow discharge plasma were experimentally investigated. By means of direct comparisons between theory and experiment, the effects of the variation of gap separation, gas pressure, and electrode radius on the spatial distributions of electron density and electric field were studied. Results indicate that the maximum electron density moves toward the cathode as the gap separation or gas pressure increases while variation of electrode radius produces little effect. Predictions from a theoretical model have been experimentally verified. General agreements between theory and experiment were found to be reasonably good except in the cathode region, where discrepancy exists.


A rapidly changing world order has prompted renewed interest in providing a national capacity for dealing with languages and cultures beyond those of Western Europe. In particular, much recent attention has been directed toward strengthening instruction in the less commonly taught languages. The authors suggest that past approaches to providing this capacity have been of only limited success and that a national less commonly taught language strategic planning process should be initiated, aimed at creating a new architecture for managing the delivery of instruction in these languages.


We develop a new method of extracting simultaneous measurements of weak lensing shear and a local rotation of the plane of polarization using observations of resolved radio sources. We show that the direction of polarization is statistically linked with that of the gradient of the total intensity field, and this provides the basis of our method. Using a number of sources spread over the sky, this method allows constraints to be placed on cosmic shear and birefringence, and it can be applied to any resolved radio sources for which such a correlation exists. Assuming that the rotation and shear are constant across the source, we use this relationship to construct a quadratic estimator and investigate its properties using simulated observations. We develop a calibration scheme using simulations based on the observed images to mitigate a bias which occurs in the presence of measurement errors and an astrophysical scatter on the polarization. The method is applied directly to archival data of radio galaxies where we measure a mean rotation signal of $\left =-2.03^{\circ}\pm0.75^{\circ}$ and an average shear compatible with zero using 30 reliable sources. This level of constraint on an overall rotation is comparable with current leading constraints from CMB experiments and is expected to increase by at least an order of magnitude with future high precision radio surveys, such as those performed by the SKA. We also measure the shear and rotation two-point correlation functions and estimate the number of sources required to detect shear and rotation correlations in future surveys.


Feeding and swallowing problems are reported in 10-25% of all children, 40-70% in premature infants, and 70-90% in children with medical/developmental delays (Graham, 1985; Rogers & Arvedson, 2005;...


The invention discloses an apparatus for on-line detection of a hidden image in a liquid crystal false proof element. The apparatus comprises a luminescence unit, a lens and sensor unit and a signal processing unit which are arranged according to the type of the liquid crystal false proof element, a first polarization filter mirror disposed between the luminescence unit and the liquid crystal false proof element, and a second polarization filter mirror disposed between the lens and sensor unit and the liquid crystal false proof element, wherein the luminescence unit is used for emitting parallel light; the lens and sensor unit is used for obtaining the optical signals of the image hidden in the liquid crystal false proof element through the second polarization filter mirror and converting the optical signals into electric signals; and the signal processing unit is used for calculating the contrast of the hidden image according to the electric signals, comparing the calculated contrast and a reference contrast, and dynamically adjusting the process parameters for manufacturing the liquid crystal false proof element according to a comparison result. By using the apparatus provided by the invention, on-line detection of hidden images in various liquid crystal false proof elements can be realized.


Time labeling method and their mutual conversion are problems that may be appeared in the geodetic data processing.The following description is about a few algorithms of time labeling method and their mutual conversion,with a view to provide some information to relevant readers.


ABSTRACT This article critically examines the value and scope of the cab rank rule in England and Australia. Despite the laudable non-discrimination principle underpinning it, the cab rank rule is subject to so many exceptions it is debatable whether the rule has any effect, positive or negative, on access to justice. On the other hand, when the rule is followed, it has the potential to unnecessarily distort the legal services market. Despite legitimate questions about its continued relevance, the paper argues that the rationale for the cab rank rule remains critically important in an age where most people are unable to afford private legal representation and are ineligible for public legal assistance. The cab rank rule could play a greater role in delivering access to justice for all, by 'rebooting' it as a limited universal service obligation to provide legal representation for all who genuinely need it but cannot obtain it privately. In practice this would involve the creation of a compartmentalised public cab rank in which all practising lawyers dedicate a small percentage of their billable hours to representing eligible clients for a regulated fee.


The integration of telemedicine with medical micro sensor technology (Mobile Sensor Networks for Telemedicine applications -- MSNT) provides a promising approach to improve the quality of people's lives. This type of network can truly implement the goal of providing health-care services anytime and anywhere. Our research in this field generates the following outcomes that are reported in this paper: (1) We propose a mobile sensor network infrastructure to support the third-generation telemedicine applications; (2) An energy-efficient query resolution mechanism in large-scale mobile sensor networks is used for critical medical data collections; (3) To provide the guaranteed mobile QoS for arriving multimedia calls, a new multi-class call admission control mechanism is proposed which is based on dynamically forming a reservation pool for handoff requests. We used discrete-event-based simulation model using OPNET to verify our scheme. The simulation results show that our system can satisfy the adaptive QoS requirements in large-scale telemedicine sensor networks.


Background
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care continuum attrition is a major global public health challenge. Few studies have examined this problem in resource-limited settings. We aimed to assess cumulative, current, and historical achievement along China's HIV continuum of care.

Methods
A nationwide, serial cross-sectional study of all individuals with HIV infection diagnosed in China between 1 January 1985 and 31 December 2015 was conducted using data from China's HIV/AIDS information systems. Biennial estimates of the number of persons living with HIV were also used. We defined 7 steps in HIV care continuum as infected (estimated), diagnosed, linked, retained, enrolled, receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART), and virally suppressed. Cumulative, 30-year performance, and biennial performance during the most recent 10 years were examined.

Results
A total of 573529 persons diagnosed with HIV infection were included. Cumulatively, 94% were linked, 88% were retained, 73% were enrolled, 67% were receiving ART, and 44% were suppressed. Greatest attrition was observed for adolescents, minorities, and those who reported injecting drug use as their route of infection. Improvement was observed from 2005 to 2015. As of the end of 2015, 68% among those infected were diagnosed, 67% among diagnosed were receiving ART, and 65% among those receiving ART were virally suppressed. After adjusting for those without viral load testing, the proportion suppressed increased to 89%.

Conclusions
Despite dramatic improvements, China faces serious challenges in achieving the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS 90-90-90 targets, because of substantial attrition along its continuum of HIV care.


To investigate the difference in forces developed by atrial and ventricular myocardium during contraction in human embryos using a novel method.


In this paper, we introduce the notion of uni-soft sub- groups and uni-soft normal subgroups of a group by us ing the denition of soft sets and investigate their related properties especially with respect to anti image, -inclusions of soft sets and group homomorphism. We also obtain some signicant relations between int-soft subgroups and uni-soft subgroups. 2010 AMS Classication: 03G25


Habitat fragmentation and loss are two of the most important factors driving current biodiversity decline. Nonetheless, the relationship between biodiversity and landscape patterns appears more complex than generally expected, depending on the species and communities involved. We aim to enrich knowledge concerning the relationship between plant diversity and landscape patterns along linear landscapes, such as Mediterranean coastal dunes. A dedicated buffering method considering multiple nested extents was developed for sampling linear landscapes (e.g. coastal or fluvial), which traditionally present a challenge for standard round or square sampling buffering approaches.


Poverty is a rural phenomenon in Nigeria. This study investigated poverty profile across geopolitical zones in rural Nigeria, using the 2003/2004 NLSS data. The result of FGT poverty decomposition shows that majority of the poor (84%) live in the rural area. Northwest zone had the highest relative contribution to incidence and depth of national rural poverty (29 and 30%, respectively) while Southwest had the least relative contribution (4 and 3% respectively). Although North-central had the highest level of severity of rural poverty (P2 = 0.1454), North-west accounted for the highest relative contribution (30%) to national rural poverty.

 Key words: Poverty, assets, rural, geopolitical zones, Nigeria.


The Method of Lines (MOL) has been one of the simplest but effective technique for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in which all but one dimension is discretized. This work describes numerical solution of 1-dimensional Schrodinger equation using the method of lines approach (MOL) where spatial dimensions were discretized using some finite difference approximation leaving the time dimension to be the only independent variable in the resulting system of initial value problems. The effect of changing the discretization size on the accuracy of the solution procedure versus changing the step size in the integration of the resulting differential equation was also studied with the incorporation of Simpson's rule function in MATLAB.


Modification of commercial cellulose products commonly used in homes and hospitals was the main purpose of the research herein presented. Enhanced moisture sorption and antimicrobial properties were conferred upon regular commercial gauze. Nanoparticles of microcrystalline chitosan and complex chitosan/alginateNa/Ca were used in the modification. A method was elaborated for the preparation of polymeric materials with a particle size below 1 µm by means of an ultrasonic reactor (Hielscher UP 200S). Modified commercial dressing materials were obtained charecterised by a largely increased absorption capacity, thus easing the transportation of moisture to the outside of the dressing and providing an environment optimal for wound healing. Thanks to the internal surface developed and adequately selected composition, the modified cellulosic materials exhibit antibacterial and antifungal properties.


Flow shop scheduling with sequence-dependent setup time is the most complicated case of scheduling of jobs. The operational cost of machines is related to the setup time required for processing of jobs on different machines. To express the randomness probabilities are associated with processing times of different attributes on given machines. The objective is to schedule n-jobs on m-machines to minimise operational cost of machines subject to minimum total elapsed time of jobs in a flow shop whenever the setup times on machines are sequence-dependent. As the problem is NP-hard, a heuristic algorithm is proposed to find the latest time so as to reduce operating time and hence the operational cost with minimum makespan. A numerical example is also given to substantiate the algorithm.


Abstract Agriculture is an important livelihood activity in the Himalayan regions. Our previous studies revealed the presence of diverse diazotrophic assemblage in indigenous red kidney bean (RKB) rhizospheric soil from two different locations of Western Indian Himalaya, namely S1 (Chhiplakot, 30.70◦ N/80.30° E) and S2 (Munsyari, 30.60◦ N/80.20° E), selected on the basis of real-time PCR analysis. In this study, two 16S rRNA gene clone libraries (SB1 and SB2, respectively) were constructed using the same rhizospheric soil samples for assessing the total bacterial diversity and their community structure. A total of 760 clones were obtained, with ∼54-59% of these sequences belonging to the phylum Proteobacteria. While sequences belonging to Bacteroidetes, Chloroflexi, Acidobactria, Planctomycetes, Firmicutes, Nitrospira, Gemmatimonadetes, Cyanobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, OD1, OP11 and Actinobacteria were encountered in both the soils, sequences belonging to bacteria from the classes Chlorobi and BRC1 were only detected in the S1 soil. Both the libraries showed similar bacterial community compositions, with Pseudomonas (∼33-34%) as predominant genus. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that all the clone sequences were clustered in different bacterial groups as per their resemblance with their respective phylogenetic neighbours. Major clusters were formed by Gammapreoteobacteria followed by Bacteroidetes and Alphaproteobacteria. A good fraction of the clone sequences has no resemblance with existing groups, thereby suggesting the need of culture-dependent studies from Himalayan regions. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first major metagenomic effort on Himalayan RKBs rhizobacteria revealing fundamental information that needs to be explored for functional studies.


As for the research methodology, we used sample of cashmere of goats, from some soums of Khentii province. We formulated the definition that is expressed by the values of different experiments of 4 factor analysis of variance. When we calculated, we used the formulation of 4 factor analysis of variance. Fibre diameter of goats of Khentii aimag that went under the research fluctuated between 13.70-18.10μm, average was 115.63±0.005μm; female goats' fibre diameter fluctuated between 13.7-18.10 μm and average was 15.66±0.13 μm; while male goats' fibre diameter fluctuated between 13.8-17.40 μm and average was 15.60±0.005 μm. Fibre length of goats that went under the research fluctuated between 3.57-7.13μm; average was 5.13±0.004cm; female goats' fibre length fluctuated between 3.73-7.00cm and average was 5.01±0.005; while male goats' fibre length fluctuated between 3.57-7.13cm and average was5.23±0.004cm. In terms of the percentage of effects of each factor: the factor "Soum"'s effect percentage was 2.5%, and the effect percentage of the factor "Goat sex" was 1.23%, factor "Goat age" was 59.1%, and factor "Fibre length" was 20.14%, and factor "inter-reaction of all factors"'s effect percentage was 16.33%. Among these factors the strongest effect factor was the goat's age. Journal of agricultural sciences №15 (02): 159-165, 2015


In the broadband communication, channel impulse response usually exhibits sparse behavior (i.e.. many nearly zero taps). This paper considers the channel estimation of the sparse channel for broadband multiple input multiple output-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems. Three algorithms for MIMO-OFDM sparse channel estimation are presented and compared: least square channel estimation (LSCE), constraint least square channel estimation (CLSCE) with ideal delay estimation, matching pursuit based channel estimation (MPCE). Mean square error (MSE) performances an also analyzed. Simulation results show that MPCK has better performance than LSCE and is very close to CLSCE under the high SNR, and also MPCE does not require the a priori of channel. Using the MP-based channel estimator, the detection performance is nearly optimal.


Many efforts have been devoted to studying the
inhibitory effect of Salvadora persica (Miswak) on oral microorganisms. However,
information regarding its antibacterial activity against other human pathogens is
rare. Particularly, against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter
baumannii and Enterobacter cloacae. The purpose of this piece of work was to evaluate
the antioxidant power and in vitro antibacterial activities of Salvadora persica extract against the three bacterial clinical isolates mentioned above.
Therefore, the action of Salvadora persica extract on the three germs, studied via the aromatograms
method, has given an inhibition zone 20, 18 and 14 respectively on Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii and Enterobacter cloacae. The methanol extract of Salvadora persica using Soxhlet has given an output of 19%. The antioxidant evaluation,
which was performed using the DPPH (1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl-hydrazyl), free
radical scavenging method, indicated that the methanol extract showed good
antioxidant efficiency (IC50 = 15.47 mg/ml) compared to ascorbic acid with
(IC50 = 0.097 mg/ml).


Note: Proc. of the Workshop on Theory of Fusion Plasmas, Varenna, Italy, August 1987, CEC EUR 112336 EN, 47 - 68 (1987) Reference CRPP-CONF-1988-004 Record created on 2008-05-13, modified on 2015-09-29


By using spectroscopies under high pressure, we determined the volume changes associated with protein folding of reduced cytochrome c from the unfolded state to the native state. The pressure dependence of the equilibrium constant for the denaturation and the folding rate revealed that the volume change for the protein folding and the activation volume for the native state are negative. Such negative volumes can be accounted for by a decrease in volume resulting from the dehydration of hydrophobic groups, primarily the heme group, and the dehydration is mainly induced in the formation of the transition for the native state. We, therefore, propose that dehydration can compensate for the decreased entropy in the formation of protein structures, entropically promoting the protein folding reactions.


European evidence−based nutritional recommendations to the treatment and prevention of diabetes mellitus are now available. They were adopted also by all relevant Diabetes and Nutrition Associations in Germany: Deutsche Diabetes−Gesellschaft (DDG), Deutsche Adipositas−Gesellschaft (DAG), Deutsche Ge− sellschaft für Ernährungsmedizin (DGEM) und Deutsche Gesell− schaft für Ernährung (DGE). A nutrition teaching system for dia− betes−educators as well as a nutrition−guide for persons with diabetes were developed on the basis of these evidence−based recommendations to support a uniform approach to the imple− mentation of nutritional therapy in diabetes throughout Ger− many. Nutrition plays a key role in the treatment and prevention of diabetes mellitus; it is effective as well as cost−efficient.


In this paper, we build on our recent efforts to build a Neural Speech Recognizer (NSR) for Quranic recitations that can be utilized by individuals regardless of their gender, age, or experience. In our previous papers, we presented the Quran recitations by females and males (QRFAM) dataset, which is a large benchmark dataset of audio recordings made by male and female reciters from different age groups and proficiency levels. Along with this dataset, we created several baseline NSR systems based on Mozilla's DeepSpeech model using different subsets of the QRFAM dataset for training, validation and testing purposes. In this work, we present our efforts to optimize and improve these baseline models. We show how to improve the WER by up to $27.34{\%}$ compared to prior work.


Unexplained gravitational potentials in deep space have been generally attributed to dark matter. This paper explores an alternative that unites the concepts of dark matter and dark energy. The concept of congenital gravitational structure ('structural gravity') is introduced and the possibility that antimatter experiences anti-gravity is discussed. Among other things, the conjectures predict the phenomenon of 'inverse gravitational lensing' and possible examples are identified — in particular as associated with the peculiar galaxy known as Hoag's Object. The conjectures also offer possible explanations for a number of poorly understood phenomena, including: the antimatter cloud; the dark matter halo; the vacuum catastrophe; counter-rotating galaxies; the distance to the cosmic horizon; and, large scale cosmic features. Although the ideas are mainly discussed at a conceptual level, the proposed model makes a number of testable predictions.


Under the condition of high speed emulsion,nano-cologne essence capsules were prepared by complex coacervation method using chitosan and sodium alginate as wall materials,and cologne essence as center material.Experiments were conducted to investigate into the effects of pre-crosslinking agent type,cross-linking agent type and cross-linking temperature on the shape,size and distribution of capsules,which were characterized by means of TEM and laser particle size analyzer.The results show that nano-cologne essence capsules could be obtained by using TPP and CaCl2 as pre-crosslinking agent,glutaraldehyde as cross-linking agent and 35 ℃ as cross-link temperature.The nano-cologne essence capsules were regularly spherical,had uniform particle size distribution with average particle wet size 160 nm and dry size 80 nm.TG analysis shows that the initial decomposition temperature of the nano-cologne essence capsules was higher than 200 ℃,showing their good thermal stability.UV-Vis test shows that the loading rate and loading efficiency of the nano-cologne essence capsules were 34.3% and 87.2%,respectively.


We review the operating principles and performance of optical pulse processing systems exploiting the powerful combination of Kerr-nonlinearity based optical switches and tailored optical pulses (e.g. square, parabolic and saw-tooth) produced using superstructured fibre Bragg gratings.


As the core technology of next generation network, IMS supplies the standards and perfect methods to lay out the new service and converge between the traditional network and telephone and mobile network. IMS also provides the operators with a set of network system and new service means. Analyzing IMS system structure and combining the features of network convergence, this paper puts forward a network convergence plan based on IMS and fixed-mobile convergence.


Little attention has been given to involving the deaf community in distance teaching and learning or in designing courses that relate to their language and culture. This article reports on the design and development of video-based learning objects created to enhance the educational experiences of American Sign Language (ASL) hearing participants in a distance learning course and, following the course, the creation of several new applications for use of the learning objects. The learning objects were initially created for the web, as a course component for review and rehearsal. The value of the web application, as reported by course participants, led us to consider ways in which the learning objects could be used in a variety of delivery formats: CD-ROM, web-based knowledge repository, and handheld device. The process to create the learning objects, the new applications, and lessons learned are described.


Introduction. The vegetation which is the subject of this paper is found on extensive areas of wet heath-land in south-eastern England. What will be called the central associes is a community dominated by Molinia caerulea and Calluna vulgaris, and in which Erica tetralix is usually abundant. The bases of dead Molinia shoots decay rather slowly in the wet habitat and thus there are built up tussocks of varying height, which are an important rooting medium both for the Molinia itself and for the Ericaceae. Under varying conditions any one of these plants may increase in importance at the expense of the other two. As would be expected, increase in Calluna is the usual accompaniment of transition to drier sites, and the change from wet-heath to Callunetum is commonly marked by the entry of Erica cinerea, Ulex minor and Deschampsia flexuosa. Relatively greater abundance of Erica tetralix is found in transitional stages between the central associes and valley-bog communities dominated by Sphagnum spp. In other wet situations Molinia assumes complete dominance. It has then a markedly tussocky habit, the tussocks reaching 30 cm. and sometimes much more in height; and Myrica gale is often associated with it. The wet Molinietum is frequently seen in the bottoms of sloping valleys cut into the sides of plateaux, and in other situations where the ground-water may be supposed to have appreciable flow. The association of Molinia with moving ground-water is well known; it was described on the Yorkshire moors by Jefferies (1915) and on Scottish moors by Fraser (1933). Transitions of the central associes to a rather drier type of Molinietum are also found. In this, tussock building is less pronounced, but there is no ciearly marked distinction between the drier and wetter types of Molinietum; they grade imperceptibly into one another. But whereas at the wet extreme the growth of pine and birch invaders is extremely stunted, and the development of woodland seems impossible, the drier Molinietum is readily colonized by vigorously growing Betula spp., especially B. pubescens. Molinia may also dominate considerable areas of dry heath. But this quite distinct community, in which there is no accumulation of dead shoot bases, and which includes


Objective To investigate the association of serum homocysteine(Hcy) and C-reactive protein(hs-CRP) concentration and the of patients with different types of acute cerebral infarction.Methods Of sixty patients,30 cases had acute lacunar cerebral infarction(group A) and 30 cases had acute non-lacunar infarction(group B).Blood samples were taken in the next morning after admision and serum contents of Hcy and hs-CRP were detected.The differences of Hcy and hs-CRP were compared between two groups.Results Serum concentrations of Hcy and Hs-CRP were significantly lower in group A than those in group B\[(18.6±5.7) mol/L vs.(23.5±6.5) mol/L and (4.2±1.3) mg/L vs.(5.7±1.8) mg/L\](P0.05).Conclusion The serum cocentrations of Hcy and hs-CRP are related to the severity of disease in patients with acute cerebial infarction.


Abstract As one of the most vital pointers of the air quality, PM2.5 has a great influence on the sustainable development of the environment and economy in China. To evaluate the PM2.5 pollution risk (PPR), we considered the danger of the hazard (H), the exposure (E), and vulnerability (V) of the hazard-affected body from the modern disaster comprehensive risk perspective. We tried to introduce the three-dimensional Archimedean copula method to assess the PPR from the Eight Comprehensive Economic (ECE) zones to the whole region in China. The analysis results show that: (i) the PPR is monotone increasing with the H, E, and V; (ii) the H and V have more direct impact on the PPR than the E, and the three aspects need to be considered simultaneously in the risk assessment; (iii) although all regions can achieve the daily average concentration limit (H < 35) except the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, it is difficult for the half of the ECE zones to maintain good air quality (H < 15) since the high probability risk.


The improvements made over the years in automotive transportation field are significant, between them the most relevant is the one related to autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and regards several aspects as performance, comfort, low emission but especially safety. Such aspect represents the one that mostly motivated research studies because according to international data roadway accidents is among the first ten causes of death in the world, in order to outline the importance of this problem it can be considered that every year all over the world roadway incidents cause between 20 and 50 millions of injured people wich from an economical point of view costs at least to an amount corresponding to 90% of global GDP (gross domestic product). In most cases the reason that causes an accident is human mistakes, that is why it is useful to equipe vehicles technologies and systems so to achieve the goal of correct as much as possible human mistakes. It is expected that since 2035 there will be a quantity of autonomous vehicles of 75% then the economic impact on automotive sector since 2030 is expected to be around 71 billion with a global market of 44 million vehicles.