Exponentially growing yeast cells showed a drastic shrinkage when irradiated in water suspension (but not in buffer) with broad‐band near‐UV radiation. This was clearly seen soon after irradiation in size‐distribution curves measured by a Coulter counter. This early shrinkage was observed at a near‐UV fluence where the survival enters a region of exponential decline after a large shoulder. We further observed the formation of a distinct band in a density‐gradient‐centrifugation profile, presumably corresponding to the near‐UV‐affected cells. A survival test showed that the cells making up this band were dead.


. Observation of the early stages and subsequent study of the genitalia revealed that, in addition to P. semirosea and P. coprea, three new species are involved in the P. semirosea complex in Mexico and Central America. P. semirosea and P. coprea are redescribed and lectotypes are designated. P. boudinoti and P. valverdei are described from northeastern and southern Mexico, respectively, and P. wini-fredae from Costa Rica and Panama. Type specimens are figured and male and female (when known) genitalia of the five species are illustrated. Species distribution is discussed and mapped. The immature stages ofP. semirosea , P. boudinoti and P. valverdei are described with reference to larval food preferences in the laboratory.


Solar energy is a renewable energy that can be transformed into electrical energy using solar modules. Solar energy efficiency is not optimal because it has non-linear characteristics when irradiation, temperature, and load are shifted. Therefore, solar modules require electronic technology to enhance the power generated. In order to obtain optimal power, the system requires a Maximum Power Point Tracker (MPPT), which includes an algorithm to track the maximum power of a PV module. Several algorithms are used in the MPPT system. The Perturb and Observe (P&O) algorithm is the most straightforward, but the given response when the irradiation change is not excellent. The modified P &O algorithm employs parameters dI and B to maximize the output power. The DC converter in this system uses a buck converter. Two model systems are tested: a system with a P&O algorithm and a modified P&O algorithm with irradiation testing. The simulation results show that the two algorithms can improve the output power. The P&O and proposed algorithms have an efficiency of around 87% when irradiation changes, producing more significant power. The output power yielded by the proposed algorithm has slight oscillations and delivers more significant power when there is various irradiation.


Dating anxiety may significantly impair the formation of romantic relationships. Given the clinical importance of dating anxiety, understanding underlying cognitive features is imperative to determine appropriate treatment. Research on romantic relationship termination and partner choice suggests individuals with dating anxiety, in addition to fearing rejection, may fear rejecting potential romantic partners. This study examined the relation between dating-specific fear of negative evaluation (DFNE), fear of positive evaluation (FPE), and fear of rejecting others (FRO) to identify potentially relevant cognitive factors to dating anxiety. We found that FRO and FPE were significantly and positively related to DFNE. We also found that FRO had a significant relation to DFNE after accounting for FPE. Implications of our findings are discussed.


A herpetological survey in the Syrian coastal region revealed more than 25 specimens of mountain vipers, genus Montivipera. Environmentally surprising are new records below 6QQ m elevation on both sides (west and east) of the Syrian coastal mountain range. Morphological characters of size and colour pattern corroborate previous genetic results that relate Syrian coastal mountain vipers closer to M. bulgardaghica from southern Turkey than to M. bornmuelleri from the mountains of adjacent Lebanon and Mt. Hermon. The new records not only confirm the historic and only known location near Slanfah, but also extend the distribution considerably, approaching current borders with Turkey in the north and Lebanon in the south. The new records are discussed in respect to morphology, habitat with climate associations, and conservation.


The purpose of this study is to trace the change of tallness standard in the 1960-1970s with Office Buildings in order to analyse properly the office buildings situated in the different times. For this reason, the study goes through examination of the diverse vocabulary related to the recognition of tallness, verifies conditions for tall buildings, collecting the clues from the magazines and newspapers. The results of this study are as follows; Firstly, Criteria for judging tallness in office buildings was formed in the mid 1960's in the compromising way between land value rise and technique innovation to pursue the economic feasibility. Secondary, visual sign, sense of emergency and administrative expediency each have their own criteria for tallness and imply the complex cognition of tallness between the professional group and the public. Finally, that gap between them tends to be larger as time because the criteria from visual sign is apt to increase easily.


Background— Little is known about the association of kidney dysfunction and outcome in acute severe hypertension. This study aimed to measure the association between baseline chronic kidney disease (estimated glomerular filtration rate), acute kidney injury (AKI, decrease in estimated glomerular filtration rate ≥25% from baseline) and outcome in patients hospitalized with acute severe hypertension. Methods and Results— The Studying the Treatment of Acute Hypertension (STAT) registry enrolled patients with acute severe hypertension, defined as ≥1 blood pressure measurement >180 mm Hg systolic and/or >110 mm Hg diastolic and treated with intravenous antihypertensive therapy. Data were compared across groups categorized by admission estimated glomerular filtration rate and AKI during admission. On admission, 79% of the cohort (n=1566) had at least mild chronic kidney disease (estimated glomerular filtration rate <60 mL/min in 46%, <30 mL/min in 22%). Chronic kidney disease patients were more likely to develop heart failure (P<0.0001), non–ST-elevation myocardial infarction (P=0.003), and AKI (P<0.007). AKI patients were at greater risk of heart failure and cardiac arrest (P≤0.0001 for both). Subjects with AKI experienced higher mortality at 90 days (P=0.003). Any acute loss of estimated glomerular filtration rate during hospitalization was independently associated with an increased risk of death (odds ratio, 1.05; P=0.03 per 10-mL/min decline). Other independent predictors of mortality included increasing age (P<0.0001), male gender (P=0.016), white versus black race (P=0.003), and worse baseline kidney function (P=0.003). Conclusions— Chronic kidney disease is a common comorbidity among patients admitted with acute severe hypertension, and AKI is a frequent form of acute target organ dysfunction, particularly in those with baseline chronic kidney disease. Any degree of AKI is associated with a greater risk of morbidity and mortality.


Bulk thermal conductivity of soybean, determined by the transient heat flow method, exhibited positive linear correlation with moisture content. The bulk thermal conductivity values increased from 0.1157 to 0.1756 W/m-K in the moisture range of 8.1 to 25% d.b. Further, thermal diffusivity of soybean, computed from the values of thermal conductivity, specific heat and bulk density showed linear increase from 2.94 x 10 -4 to 3.07 x 10 -4 m 2 /h in the specified range of 8.1 to 25% d.b. moisture content.


Songs lie at the centre of popular music's Intellectual Property framework. They represent the starting point for the industry's two most important creative products: the live performance or the recorded audio artefact. In the early 20th century, US and European copyright conventions were established whereby two separate objects could be 'owned': the song and the sound recording, the latter being a derivative work of the former. This state of affairs, where 'song' and 'track' are separate copyrights, remains at the industry's administrative core, and has led to awareness among creators of the economic benefits of 'keeping a slice of the publishing'.
However, in real-world songwriting and production situations it is not always easy to ascertain who contributed to 'writing the song' and who acted as an arranger, performer or producer. Inferring creative contributions from the audio artefact itself is fraught with methodological challenges; from a listener's point of view, there is no experiential distinction between song and track. Drawing on the theoretical work of Moore, McIntyre and Csikszentmihalyi , together with interviews with professional songwriters and the author's own experience as a songwriter and expert witness forensic musicologist, this paper argues that the artificial administrative distinction between 'song' and 'track' is simultaneously a constraint upon creators and a silent driver of creative practice itself.


The lack of specificity of the spraying equipment commonly used in olive orchards is a
remarkable problem, for not allowing farmers to apply adjusted pesticide doses to their trees, making necessary to spray very high liquid volumes that increase the environmental pollution risk. In this context, three prototypes were specially developed to increase the application efficiency in olive orchards with isolated trees, which represent 98% of the olive harvested area in Spain.


There has been a phenomenal increase in the utility of text classification (TC) in applications like targeted advertisement and sentiment analysis. Most applications demand that the model be efficient and robust, yet produce accurate categorizations. This is quite challenging as their is a dearth of labelled training data because it requires assigning labels after reading the whole document. Secondly, the people labelling the documents may not agree on a particular categorization. Therefore, pre-labelled data from a different source, domain, or a user may be used to augment (or replace) the train data. This results in the difference of distribution between the train and test sets. Additionally, with time, the distribution of the test set may change as well. This change in distribution between the train and test sets violates the inductive inference hypothesis that is underlying any machine learning (ML) prediction model, with some ML models being more sensitive towards this phenomenon than others. The performance of support vector machines (SVM) (which is one of the most successful classifiers for TC) degrades drastically in such scenarios. Therefore, in this paper we propose a novel and efficient method that uses terms-based discriminative information space to train SVM for scenarios where distribution shift exists between train and test sets. Our results on eight different train and test pairs from four different domains suggest that the performance gain achieved by SVM trained in the discriminative information space is significantly greater than the performance of SVM trained on the input feature space. Moreover, the methodology is simple, effective, and fast with a small and tunable memory footprint.


Background: In January 2021, the city of Concepción in Chile suffered a second wave of COVID-19, while in early April 2021, all of Chile was facing the same situation. This generated the need to modify and validate a methodology for detecting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in saliva, thereby expanding the capacity and versatility of testing.Methods: People who came to the health center in Concepción city to perform a test of real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) from a nasopharyngeal swab (NPS) specimen were invited to participate in this study. A total of 131 participants agreed to sign an informed consent and provide saliva and NPS specimens to validate a methodology in terms of sensitivity, specificity, and statistical analysis of the Ct values from RT-PCR.Findings: Calculations pertaining to the 127 participants who were ultimately included in the analysis were the following: sensitivity at 94·34% (95% CI: 84·34%-98·82%) and specificity at 98·65% (95% CI: 92·70%-99·97%). The saliva specimen showed a very similar performance to NPS as demonstrated with the diagnostic parameters.Interpretations: This RT-PCR methodology from the saliva specimen is a highly sensitive and specific alternative as compared to the reference methodology, which uses an NPS specimen. This modified and validated methodology is intended for use in the in vitro diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2, which provides health authorities in Chile and local laboratories with a real alternative for RT-PCR from NPS.Funding Information: Health Public Institute of Chile.Declaration of Interests: All authors declare no competing interests.Ethics Approval Statement: The study had the authorization of the Scientific Ethics Committee of the Health Service of Concepción, Chile Number 20-01-02. Parents or legal guardians for volunteers under the age of 18 signed the informed consent.


Hereditary
sensory neuropathy type I is an autosomal dominant disorder that affects the
sensory neurons. Three missense mutations in serine palmitoyltransferase long
chain subunit 1 cause hereditary sensory neuropathy type I. The endoplasmic
reticulum, where the serine palmitoyltransferase long chain subunit 1 protein
resides, and mitochondria are both altered in hereditary sensory neuropathy
type I mutant cells. Employing a transfected neuronal cell line (ND15), we have identified and
confirmed altered protein expression levels of ubiquinol cytochrome C, Hypoxia
Up regulated Protein 1, Chloride Intracellular Channel Protein 1, Ubiqutin-40s
Ribosomal Protein S27a, and Coactosin. Additionally, further 14 new proteins
that exhibited altered expression within V144D, C133W and C133Y mutants were
identified. These data have shown that mutations in SPTLC1 alter the expression of a set of proteins that may help to
establish a causal link between the mitochondria and ER and the "dying back" process of dorsal root
ganglion neurons that occurs in HSN-I.


Abstract The temporary nature of residency in the Gulf has given fewer legal and political rights to the Indian migrants, while not completely rendering their affection to their chosen 'home,' cultivated with their historical, cultural, and familial ties to the region. While existing literature has delved into the working conditions and political scenario that surround the immigrant workforce from Kerala residing in the Arab Gulf countries, most have not paid attention to the second-generation of these immigrants who have continued to stay. More specifically, the second-generation of these immigrants struggle to identify themselves in a complicated environment that does not permit them the possibility of naturalising into citizens or culturally assimilate, while their 'Non-Resident' status questions their innate cultural immersion into the native environment. Meanwhile, social media has offered a discursive space where possibilities for belonging in multiple communities emerge for the second-generation Malayali living in the Gulf. On the contrary, governments in the Gulf are attempting to rediscover and redefine their sense of self or national identity, while trying to find alternative means to deal with the dependence of foreign labour. Therefore, this study is a descriptive narrative which aims at understanding the formation of identity by second-generation migrants from Kerala and the terms that constitute their subject positions in regard to the transforming and modernising Gulf. Further, it aims to investigate possibility of physical or virtual spaces with the use of social media by these migrants which helps ponder on the larger questions of belonging and identity.


This study proposed a track control system for an autonomous solar-powered surface vehicle. In order to increase the ability of navigational distance over 600 miles, the control system was developed by according to international standard of track control system for a ship. Effectiveness of developed system was confirmed by benchmark simulation results.


The invention relates to a method for preparing starch phosphate by using sodium tripolyphosphate and belongs to the field of preparation methods of food additives, particularly modified starch. The method for preparing starch phosphate by using sodium tripolyphosphate comprises the following steps: dissolving sodium tripolyphosphate in water; adding starch and stirring and adjusting the pH value to 7-11 by using a 5% sodium hydroxide solution; uniformly mixing at room temperature; then, neutralizing by using hydrochloric acid; filtering and washing; drying at 40-50 DEG C till the water content is 10-15%; then, heating to 90-130 DEG C for thermal reaction; and after reaction, filtering and drying to obtain a white powder product, namely starch phosphate. The preparation method provided by the invention has the characteristics of being simple in process, strong in operability, low in cost, suitable for industrial production and the like. Through measurement, under the optimal condition, the degree of crosslinking of the prepared starch phosphate can reach 3.49 at highest. According to the preparation method provided by the invention, after phosphatization is carried on starch by using sodium tripolyphosphate, a mixture of starch phosphate monoester and starch phosphate diester is generated, wherein percentage compositions vary along with change of reaction conditions.


In a Banach lattice or the hermitian part of a C*-algebra, every element a admits a decomposition a = a+ − a− such that and N(−a) = ‖a−‖, where N is the canonical half-norm of the positive cones. In general ordered Banach spaces, this property is related to the order structure of the duality map and the metric projectability of the positive cones, and it turns out to be equivalent to an "orthogonal" decomposability.


The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of core preparation using high-speed handpiece on the retention of cast post and cores luted with glass ionomer cement and tested at 3 different times post cementation. 60 extracted single-rooted human teeth were selected. Root canals were prepared but not obturated. 60 Cast post and cores were then fabricated and luted with glass ionomer cement. Specimens were randomly divided into 2 groups of 30 each. One of these groups (3o teeth) had their cores prepared fora 4-minute period using diamond bur in a high-speed handpiece. This group was then further divided into 3 groups ( 10 teeth) and each subgroup was tested at 3 different time points (15 minutes, 1 hour, and 24 hours post cementation) while the other group of 30 teeth remained unprepared and divided similarly into 3 groups (10 teeth) to serve as controls. The forces required for vertical dislodgment of posts from their prepared post spaces were recorded using a universal testing machine. Data were statistically analyzed using two-way and one-way ANOVA and the Student's t-test. The retention of the posts significantly increased (from 100 N-to-25 1N) with delaying the time of testing (P<0.0001). In addition, the prepared groups had statistically significant reduction in post retention than the unprepared groups at 15 minutes and at 1 hour (P<0.05). Conclusion: Core preparation 15 minutes and 1 hour after post and core cementation significantly reduced post retention statistically.


The Japanese deep-sea drilling vessel "chikyu" (Japanese term for earth) is getting ready to undertake the task of drilling to the mantle (Hornyak, Tim, 2005, The Biggest Dig, Scientific American, v.293(4), pp. 910.). The vessel is equipped with drill pipes that are 9.5 krn long and is expected to penetrate through some 7000 m of the crust at the selected location of Nakai Trough off Japan's Pacific coast with a relatively thin veneer of crust and where the mantle is also higher due to tectonic reasons. The technology of such drilling naturally incorporates all that is known about deep drilling in oil technology. Coresamples of the curst-mantle boundary and mantle will provide the first opportunity to geologists to study the insitu mantle-rocks in contrast to all the earlier studies on such mantle rocks brought to accessible crustal levels by tectonovolcanic processes. The Centre for Deep Earth Explorat~on (CDEX) of Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology operates the ship and the project of mantledrilling forms a part of the long term Ocean Drilling Program with the chief participants of Japan, the U.S. and the European Union.


PURPOSE: A location tracking method using a wireless LAN(Local Area Network) signal, portable signal transmission apparatus, and server thereof are provided to enable other user to search the current location and the moving route of a specific user by recording and collecting the location information of the specific user in real time. CONSTITUTION: A portable signal transmission apparatus(110) transmits a GPS(Global Positioning Service) radio wave signal received from outside. A location tracking server(120) creates log information. Latitude-longitude coordinates corresponding to the GPS radio wave signal are stored in a specific user account of the specific portable signal transmission apparatus. A terminal(140) receives the log information from the location tracking server.


N. J. Shackleton was a scientific explorer who developed ways to extract climate data from the sea floor and found that the periodic appearance of ice sheets is governed by Earth9s orbit.


The frequency of the exciting current affects the design of hardware circuit and quality of reconstructed images in electromagnetic tomography. According to the skin effect and skin depth formula of high frequency current, the law of the exciting frequency for different test objects is concluded. The advantage of electromagnetic tomography is introduced simply. The relationship curve between the exciting current frequency, conductivity and the skin depth is draw, from which the frequency scope for common test object is given. With the same test object, the same position, and the same orientation, different reconstructed images are obtained in different exciting current frequencies. It can draw a conclusion that the metal medium need the low frequency to excite, KHz or smaller, on the contrary, biological tissues and moisture contents need high frequencies, MHz or higher.


We present X-ray fluorescence measurements of biopolymer chitosan [C H NO ] and chitosan cross-linked with 6 11 4 n ethylene glycol diglycidyl ether (EGDE). Changes in the fine structure of resonantly excited O K a X-ray emission spectra (XES) of unmodified chitosan are attributed to the excitation of non-equivalent oxygen sites belonging to –OH, –O– functional groups. The comparison of the nonresonant nitrogen K a XES of unmodified chitosan cross-linked with EGDE does not show any differences, which excludes the model of chemical structure according to which EGDE is linked to chitosan via the amine group.  2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PACS: 78.70.En; 71.20.Rv; 87.14.-g


Postpartum hemolytic uremic syndrome is an unusual condition of obscure origin that manifests with hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia and acute renal failure after delivery. We describe a case of 28 year old woman referred to our hospital in view of severe renal failure, 24 hours after the delivery by caesarean section for scar rupture and placental abruption. She was in a delirious state and had anuria, severe anemia and moderate thrombocytopenia. After many diagnostic dilemmas, a final diagnosis of hemolytic uremic syndrome was made. Aggressive treatment with plasma exchange in conjunction with hemodialysis was started. Fresh frozen plasma was used for replacement and four consecutive plasmapheresis sessions were instituted. Simultaneously steroids and anti-hypertensive drugs were given. Two weeks later, quick clinical and laboratory response was noted. There was significant improvement in renal functions along with resolution of signs of active hemolysis. This case collaborates with the ideal scenario involving prompt diagnosis and early aggressive treatment with plasma exchange in a postpartum hemolytic uremic syndrome patient.


In connection with deep drilling for oil and gas in North Ust-Urt and on the Buzachi Peninsula, data have been obtained on the composition and thickness of the Cretaceous sediment in more than 50 exploration areas. The thickness ranges from 720 m at Sorbulak and about 900 m in the Karazhanbas and Severo-Buzachi areas to 2050 m at Kabanbay and 2056 m at Begesh. The Lower Cretaceous sediments here consist of clastic rocks. Only among the Valanginian clayey deposits are a few thin beds of limestone present. The Hauteriv is also composed largely of clays; some sandstone is present, however. Much of the Lower Cretaceous is represented by alternating members of variegated clayey and sandy rocks of the Barremian. The Aptian is very persistent. Its lower part is represented by sandy rocks, and the upper by clayey. The Upper Cretaceous sediments consist of a lower clastic unit of Cenomanian and early Turonian age and an upper carbonate unit of Turonian, Santonian, Campanian, and Maestrichtean age.


We describe the design, synthesis, and fluorescent profile of two environment-sensitive dyes in which an electron-donating group is conjugated to an electron-accepting unit via a pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole ring system. The maximum emission wavelength (λem) of these donor-donor-acceptor (D-D-A) pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrroles was found to be very sensitive to the environment (a bathochromic shift of about 100 nm in polar solvents). The longer emission wavelength in polar aprotic as well as hydrophilic solvents compared with that in low-polarity hydrophobic solvents was due to an ICT character of the excited state. The Stokes shift increased in both cases following the polarity differences, reaching ∼7000 cm(-1) in MeOH for the compound possessing a cyano group and dimethylamino groups at the periphery. Interestingly, the two-photon absorption responses were also found to be quite sensitive to solvent polarity with an increase by a factor of about 2 on going from an apolar solvent to a highly polar protic or aprotic solvent.


The most closely related paper to this analysis is Johnstone and others (2010). Similar to our paper, it analyses in a cross-country setup the effect of broad policy measures on climatechange mitigating innovation. Our analysis however benefits from a much more recent sample, a more precise technological classification and more standardized policy indicators, namely the environmental policy stringency (EPS) indicator published by the OECD. This allows us to better capture the dramatic increase in clean innovation of the early 2000s, but also the flattening and partial reversal since 2010.4 Our analysis relies on the environment-related technology (ERT) classification proposed by Haščič and Migotto (2015). However, rather than relying on all ERT technologies, we focus on the climate change mitigation technologies related to energy. These are among the technologies with the biggest potential for emissions reductions and most closely targeted by climate-related policies. Unlike the technologies investigated by Johnstone and others (2010), they include not only renewable energy, but also technologies related to improved efficiency in energy generation, transmission and distribution. In addition, we use a technological specification proposed by Dechelepretre and others (2017) to look more closely at technologies related to electricity. The classification has the advantage of not only identifying clean technologies, but also dirty as well gray one, where the latter are innovation that improve the environmental impact of dirty technologies (e.g. biofuel, waste incineration plants). This allows us to study the relative benefits from tightening environmental policies for these different types of technologies, as well as the impact on electricity innovation overall.


Objective To evaluate the dingnosis va lu e of ultrasonography in the exanination of injured hollow viscera.Metho ds 48 cases were exanined by the gray-scale,color doppler and high-freq ue ncy probe.Results Among 48 cases,there are 16 cases with expansion or moving slowly,21 cases with,abdominal juice accumulation,14 cases with juice accumulation among the intextinal wall,18 cases with air acculmulation around t he bowel.Conclusion summing up many means of ultrasonic examinatio ncan increase the rightrate in the diagnosis of injured hollow viscera.


This paper describes the further investigation into the capabilities of the already established noncontact optoacoustic method to measure temperature profiles in cell cultures during controlled heating. The technic is scalable in spatial and temporal resolution. The intra and extracellular medium is heated by a thulium laser (wavelength 1.94 μm; power up to 25W). With a second Q-switched thulium laser (2.01 μm; up to 3 mJ) the sample medium temperature is simultaneously probed in the dish (20 mm diameter) via the photoacoustic effect. The pressure waves emitted due to the thermoelastic expansion of water are measured with an ultrasonic hydrophone at the side of the dish. The amplitudes of the waves are temperature dependent and are used to calculate the temperature/time course at 10 locations. Temperatures of up to 70°C with a heating power of up to 25 W after 5 s were measured, as well as lateral temperature profiles over time. Measurements in water show temperature fluctuations likely due to thermal convection and water circulation. Since measurements in agar do not show similar temperature fluctuations, this theory seems to be confirmed. In conclusion optoacoustics can serve as a real-time non-contact technique to determine temperature changes in cell and organ cultures as well as in vivo and during hyperthermia based therapies.


Abstract:
 Age-associated telomere shortening in oocytes and granulosa cells is considered a sign of ageassociated decline in oocyte quality. The present study examined the effect of aging on telomere lengths (TLs) in bovine oocytes, embryos, and granulosa cells, as well as the relationship between the TLs in oocytes and granulosa cells. TL was directly assessed by real-time PCR, using a telomeric standard of 84 bp length TTAGGG, repeated 14 time). TLs in immature oocytes derived from early antral follicles (EAFs) and antral follicles (AFs) as well as for in vitro matured oocytes derived from aged cows (>120 months) were shorter than their respective counterparts in younger cows (20–70 months, 0.45-, 0.82-, and 0.84- fold, respectively, P < 0.05). Telomeres elongate extensively during embryo development until the blastocyst stage (4.2-fold, P < 0.05); however, TLs in the blastocysts did not differ between the two age groups. TLs in the granulosa cells of both AFs and EAFs were shorter in aged cows than in younger cows, and showed a positive correlation with TLs in oocytes (r=0.66, P < 0.05). In conclusion, aging affects TL in oocytes, and the TLs in granulosa cells and oocytes are correlated.


ion [39, 20] The main idea behind abstraction is to attempt to simplify the system (creating the abstracted model), which, if a temporal property holds on the abstracted system, then it also holds on the concrete system. Abstraction has been looked at from a MAS point of view by simplifying the local states, the local protocol and the local evolution function of each agent [22], the result being that, if a temporal epistemic formulae holds on the abstracted MAS, then it also holds on the original MAS. A basic introduction is also available in the form of my Masters' Individual Project Outsourcing Report , which is available from http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/∼avj05/outsourcing.pdf


Farrell introduced the general class of graph polynomials which he called the family polynomials, or F -polynomials, of graphs. One of these is the cycle , or circuit , polynomial. This polynomial is in turn a common generalization of the characteristic, permanental, and matching polynomials of a graph, as well as a wide variety of statistical-mechanical partition functions, such as were earlier known.  Herein, we specially derive weighted generalizations of the characteristic and permanental polynomials requiring for calculation thereof to assign double (res. triple) weights to all Sachs subgraphs of a graph. To elaborate an analytical method of calculation, we extend our earlier differential-operator approach which is now employing operator matrices derived from the adjacency matrix. Some theorematic results are obtained.


Modern progress in the use of electronic methods in measuring instruments, systems, and devices creates an opportunity to modernize and intensify the means of control in the field of physical culture. Today, the process of modernization of physical education is evolutionary and is based on the introduction of new achievements, positive experience in this field of knowledge, and aggregate judgments on an interdisciplinary basis. At the same time, this process involves significant changes due to current trends in technology development. Issues related to the study of the peculiarities of the functioning of the central nervous system and the effectiveness of various activities based on the establishment of the time of motor response to date have been studied in great detail. The state of complex sensorimotor reaction is currently the subject of research in various fields of knowledge: psychology, physiology, inclusive pedagogy, physical education, and sports. Given that in practical terms motor responses are an indirect objective indicator of the maturity of different parts of the central nervous system, issues of their control arise as a result of intensive development of various fields of knowledge at the intersection of sciences, namely psychophysiology, physiology of higher nervous activity, neuropsychology, etc.


To find the optimum process parameters in the rheocasting process, we investigated the morphology and size of primary solid phase for various pouring temperatures and a different holding time in the semi-solid region. The semi-solid slurry of Al alloy was produced in a precisely controlled slurry maker with a multiplex type slurry cup. The microstructure of the interrupt-quenched semi-solid slurry during isothermal holding was observed, and the morphology of primary solid phase was examined. The morphology of the primary solid phase was coarsened with increasing pouring temperature and holding time, and the initial morphology of primary solid phase was not largely changed as the isothermal holding time increased up to 10 min. Therefore, the morphology of the primary solid phase in semi-solid slurry was considered to affect the initial microstructure that appeared at the solidification start time.


This article examines the employment of undocumented workers by Los Angeles manufacturers of automobile parts. It suggests that this is part of a broad trend towards primary labor market erosion. The labor force is termed transitional because it is seen as facilitating firms during the current period of industrial change. Insight into the role of these workers is derived from eight case studies representing 926 workers. Regressions on the determinants of wages and the percent undocumented in the workplace are developed from 21 firms and 2,321 workers.


The origins of individuals or families who moved to Glamorgan from Cornwall during the Industrial Revolution are often unknown, as official records did not appear until 1838 and often the older parish registers are incomplete. This study is concerned with the study of the origins of one such family, called Morley, which was well established in Glamorgan by the mid-nineteenth century. In 1848 in the parish of Michaelston-super-Avon, Thomas Morley, a roll turner in the Copper Miners Tinplate Company located there, married an Anne Pierce who came from Ludgvan in Cornwall. The lineal descendants of their large family, and the antecedents of his family, have been discussed in detail previously, but very little is known about the origins of Anne's family in Cornwall. This account attempts to correct this omission by exploring her antecedents using the accepted English genealogical practice of tracing the family by following the sequence of family Christian names. This process has enabled the antecedents of her family to be unearthed in southwest Cornwall. Her father, John Pearce (M)1 has been unequivocally identified as a miller from Ludgvan, who was born in 1766 and died in 1827. He married Margaret Winnan of St. Erth in 1800 and they had nine children most of whom were born in Ludgvan. Tracing the identity of John's father has proved more difficult, as there are several possible candidates born in the expected timeframe. With, it is thought that he was a William Pearce of Gulval who married Elizabeth Gilbert of Helston in 1765. His father in turn was a John Pearce (L) who married Triphosa Donithorne of Gulval in 1727 and they had nine children. The identity of John's father has not been established with the same degree of certainty and there are two possible contenders, both called John Pearce (K), one born in Lelant in 1692 and the other born in Paul in 1699. On balance, it is thought that the person born in Lelant was the antecedent of John (L) and it is suggested that his father in turn was a John Pearce (J) who was also born in the same parish.


A subgroup $H$ of a finite group $G$ is said to be an $\mathscr{H}C$-subgroup of $G$ if there exists a normal subgroup $T$ of $G$ such that $G=HT$ and $H^g \cap N_T(H)\leq H$ for all $g\in G$. In this paper, we investigate the structure of a finite group $G$ under the assumption that certain subgroups of $G$ of arbitrary prime power order are $\mathscr{H}C$-subgroups of $G$.


The separation of runoff into different components, typically some "event" (or "new") water as opposed to some "baseflow" (or "old") water, is a task that has been attracting hydrologists for decades. The ability to separate runoff sources has implications for our understanding of hydrological processes and to predict changes due to e.g. deforestation or urbanization. Although the methodology has notably evolved during the years, the most conventional and widespread application involves a two-component separation achieved through stable isotopes or electrical conductivity measurements. Use of this approach is based on a strong assumption that is difficult to test in the field: the signatures of the two end-members either do not change during the event or their variations can be taken into account. By using extensive numerical tests, this contribution explores the limits of this assumption. Results highlight the importance of considering the timevarying contribution of soil water, which is not event-water nor baseflow, and show that the method can easily lead to incorrect estimates when the above assumption is not met.


The analysis of skeletal injuries proportion in the structure of статьи с этим ключевым словом', kind='ключ'>polytrauma in the статьи с этим ключевым словом', kind='ключ'>age aspect among victims, who were treated in the Ternopil university hospital for the period of 2008-2012, has been carried out. It has been found that concomitant skeletal injuries were present in the vast majority of patients 72.1 %. And those of working статьи с этим ключевым словом', kind='ключ'>age were 77.6 % 114 out of 147 patients with multiple organ injuries and статьи с этим ключевым словом', kind='ключ'>skeletal trauma, predominantly males. Also there has been carried out the rank analysis of severity of patients' condition depending on the volume of blood loss (статьи с этим ключевым словом', kind='ключ'>Allgower index) in статьи с этим ключевым словом', kind='ключ'>age and sex aspects. It has been found that, regardless of статьи с этим ключевым словом', kind='ключ'>age group and статьи с этим ключевым словом', kind='ключ'>gender, in most victims in the sample under study (93.6 % of 204 patients with статьи с этим ключевым словом', kind='ключ'>polytrauma), at admission shock index was ≤ 0.8 that indicates the amount of blood loss of up to 10 % of blood volume. However, it is worth noting that in men with статьи с этим ключевым словом', kind='ключ'>polytrauma it was detected more severe hypovolemic shock, also in men incidence of статьи с этим ключевым словом', kind='ключ'>polytrauma was higher than in women. The proportion of the affected men whose статьи с этим ключевым словом', kind='ключ'>Allgower index ≥ 1.5, amounted to 5.9 % (3rd ranking place), and among women there were no such patients fixed.


The article examines the usage of the Russian word игра ( play/game) and the English word sport, which had originally the same meaning in the source language. It is proved that sport can be considered a concept that reflects the specific nature of the modern Russian national thinking.


AbstractThe homeland security system is a concept born to prevent the threat of terrorism and all types of crime in the urban city structure of the developed world. The power and economy of the globalized world paved the way for safe cites to attain sustainable development through communication technologies and modern strategies. In post '9/11' scenario the world encountered with the threat of terrorism that forced the endangered countries to launch collective efforts against the growing threat of terrorism. The homeland security strategy is a multi-faced task to provide safety and security to our cities and sustain its development. It encompasses the basic principles of partnership, convenience, sharing network, transparency and follow-up. Pakistan is in dire need to opt such strategies of safety and security to sustain its economic development and its citizens' security. The study will discuss a proposed strategy of homeland security for Pakistan keeping its focus on both approaches security and safety. It also studies the U.S., U.K. and the Indian models of homeland security.Key Words: Security, terrorism, safety, city, Pakistan, counter-terrorism, homelandHomeland Security: PakistanDomestic Dimensions of Pakistan's SecuritySecurity is the only conception through which, the national security problem can be approached. It consists of not only military, but also political, economic, social, humanitarian and human rights and ecological aspects. Security emerged as one of main concerns of the contemporary world but due to its complexity and seamlessness the concept remained neglected. The notion of security is conceptually weak or undefined that needs the support of other approaches as Realism and Liberalism. It is a difficult concept as compare to other concepts of social sciences as power, justice, peace, equality and freedom due to its ambiguity. It has to be defined under an area of concern rather than a precise condition. The element of security has been defined by W.B. Gallia as an 'essentially contested concept' due to its relational attitude with other factors and un-rationality of meaning and application. As Buzan explains that security is a relational phenomenon, it involves not only the capabilities, desires and fears of individual states, but also the capabilities, desires and fears of the other state with which they interact. He further explains that,"If the security of each is related to the security of all, then nothing can be fully understood without understanding everything. The reality of security interdependence is unavoidable. Consequently, the only hope of defining manageable subjects for study that neither lose, nor succumb to, the vital sense of whole, is to find a hierarchy of levels within the holistic perspective. Each of theses levels must identify durable, significant, and substantially self-contained features of the security problem" (Buzan & Rizvi, 1986:5).According to United Nations, security is a condition in which states consider that there is no danger of military attack, political pressure or economic coercion that they are able to pursue freely their own progress. Another perspective by Michael H. H. Louw of security to include a nation's traditional defence policy and also the non-military actions of a state to ensure its total capacity to survive as a political entity in order to exert influence and to carry out its internal and international objectives (Malik, 2003:2-3).Pakistan's domestic security concerns are defined by its vulnerabilities and threats to its existence due to its geopolitics, location, political instability, economics and history. It is multi-nation state comprising on four distinct nationalities; it is extremely difficult for them to agree on what is national? There fore, Rizvi identifies three interlinked components of the state, ideology, the sovereignty/territory and the political institution to understand Pakistan's national security structure. …


The present study shows experiences of a non-experimental, descriptive, quantitative research. The objective of this research was used to assess the level of stress among international students (n=374). Simple linear and multiple regression was used as the method of data analysis. The results revealed that international students experience significant personal, academic, psychological, and slight environmental stress factors in their daily life.


Saint Francis University has assessed the Swallow Farm property located in Shade Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania as a potential wind power development site. Saint Francis worked with McLean Energy Partners to have a 50-meter meteorological tower installed on the property in April 2004 and continues to conduct a meteorological assessment of the site. Results suggest a mean average wind speed at 80 meters of 17 mph with a net capacity factor of 31 - 33%. Approximate electricity generation capacity of the project is 10 megawatts. Also, the University used matching funds provided by the federal government to contract with ABR, Inc. to conduct radar studies of nocturnal migration of birds and bats during the migrations seasons in the Spring and Fall of 2005 with a mean nocturnal flight altitude of 402 meters with less than 5% of targets at altitudes of less than 125 meters. The mean nocturnal passage rate was 166 targets/km/h in the fall and 145 targets/km/h in the spring. Lastly, University faculty and students conducted a nesting bird study May - July 2006. Seventy-three (73) species of birds were observed with 65 determined to be breeding or potentially breeding species; this figure represents approximately 30% of themore » 214 breeding bird species in Pennsylvania. No officially protected avian species were determined to be nesting at Swallow Farm.« less


Drilling combined clamp for flange series workpieces is a combined clamp which is used for drilling equal division holes at same round or different round on the flange series workpieces, the drilling combined clamp for flange series workpieces is characterized in that a left and a right angle irons are symmetrically mounted into a key groove at the X-axial direction of an end tooth dividing disc and are fixed, a middle hole location plate is mounted and fixed between the left and the right angle irons, a spring sleeve is mounted into a middle hole of the middle hole location plate, a rib-contained angle iron is mounted into a key groove at Y-axial direction of the end tooth dividing disc and is fixed, a square support, a key groove folding plate, a connecting plate and a vertical type drill plate are mounted on the rib-contained angle iron and are fixed, a counter bore drilling template is mounted on the square support and is fixed, a corner support and a key groove location iron are mounted on any cross groove at all around of the end tooth dividing disc axial center, the corner support can select a revolving support saddle or a rotating support, and positioning pins are mounted at the end tooth dividing disc center. The drilling combined clamp for flange series workpieces has the advantages of reducing the repeated design and the repeated assembly of the combined clamp, saving the time, enhancing the work efficiency and improving the product quality.


In this article we discuss sparse matrix algorithms and parallel algorithms, as well as their application to large-scale systems. For illustration, we solve the linear-quadratic regulator (LQR) problem and apply balanced truncation model reduction using either parallel computing or sparse matrix algorithms. We conclude that modern tools from numerical linear algebra, along with careful investigation and exploitation of the problem structure, can be used to derive algorithms capable of solving large control problems. Since these approaches are implemented in production-quality software, control engineers can employ complex models and use computational tools to analyse and design feedback control laws.


Let G be a graph of order n,and let a,b and k be integers such that 1≤ab and 2≤k≤「b/a?.Denote the minimum degree of G by δ(G).If δ(G)≥a,n≥(a+b)(k(a+b)-2)/b,and(|N_G(x_i))∪N_G(x_2)∪…∪N_G(x_k)|≥an/(a+b) for any independent subset{x_1,x_2,…,x_k} of V(G),then G has a factor.


Latin America is more democratic today than in the recent past, yet in places also far more violent. Parts of the region suffer the world's highest crime rates, and a widespread sense of insecurity fuels calls for tougher policing. Understanding the origins of this problem, and suggesting ways out of it, is Mark Ungar's aim in this ambitious and insightful book.


The article deals with the organization of active visits at health facilities providing primary health care in the outpatient setting. Holding, keeping active visits and monitoring of their implementation are particularly relevant in light of the principle of priority of prevention in the field of public health protection. The inclusion of a special column "active visits" in the form of №30 "Information about the medical organization" approved by Order of Rosstat "On approval of statistical tools for the organization of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, federal statistical observation in health care", indicates an increase in monitoring the implementation of active visits. Analysis of the major defects in the organization of active visits and description of organizational measures aimed at their elimination, will improve the provision of district doctors, therapists Primary health care at home, which is almost thirty percent of the volume of care provided in an outpatient setting.


Dr. Gregori M. Kurtzman, DDS, MAGD, shows how to use products from Tokuyama Dental America, Inc., to create esthetic, simple direct restorations.


The technologies of bakery production with the use of multi-component ready-made bakery mixtures are considered to be perspective for developing a wide range of bakery products. In terms of nutrition physiology, it is important that mixtures contain ingredients with useful substances in order to make products with prophylactic and functional orientation. It is acknowledged that characteristics of raw materials can change during the process of storage. That is why this article studies the change in the characteristics of «Chernyaevskaya» bakery mixture based on bioactivated wheat grain during the process of storage and the correlation between the period of storage and the quality of grain bread. As a result, it has been found that after 6 months of storage the titrated acidity of the mixture practically did not change; water-storage capacity, volumetric weight, and angle of repose were increasing. It is certain that after 6 months of storage total bacteria content of the mixture was slightly increasing, water activity and its antioxidant activity decreased. The evaluation of the quality of «Chernyaevskii» bread baked with the use of 6 months stored «Chernyaevskaya» mixture has demonstrated that its quality practically did not change if compared to the bread baked of non-stored mixture. It is recommended to store the bakery mixture during 6 months. Moreover, resource-saving technology of the grain bread based on «Chernyaevskaya» mixture will allow one to use plant raw materials rationally.


Background  Irritable bowel syndrome is the most common disorder diagnosed by gastroenterologists. Although several randomized‐controlled trials have assessed the therapeutic role of antidepressant drugs, there is insufficient evidence to support their use.


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PREMISE OF THE STUDY
Informative markers are required for assessing the diversity of Amborella trichopoda, the only species of its order, endemic to New Caledonia and considered to be the sister species to all flowering plants. Therefore, expressed sequence tag (EST)-based microsatellite markers were developed. •

METHODS AND RESULTS
Fifty-five microsatellite loci were characterized in 14896 putative unigenes, which were generated by assembling A. trichopoda ESTs from the public sequence database. Seventeen markers revealed polymorphism in 80 adult shrubs from three populations. The number of alleles per locus ranged from two to 12, with a total of 132 alleles scored. The mean expected heterozygosity per population ranged from 0.336 to 0.567. •

CONCLUSIONS
These markers offer an appropriate amount of variation to investigate genetic diversity structure, gene flow, and other conservation issues.


The article expounds continuity of carbonating technology, and complication of activates, and fabrication of activating technology, and usualness of activating temperature, and fabricating of drying technology, and engineering of the system, and so on, these should become the main developing direction of the producing technology of super-fine calcium carbonate in our country. At the same time, the article discribed the current state of producing technology of syper-fine calcium carbonate, using continuous bubbling carbonating method rebuilding current carbonating technology, and expounds the perfect method of high-purity carbon dioxide.


A new modeling method based on soft sensing technique for Chinese traditional medicine production process is proposed. Principle component regression is applied to eliminate influence of dependence among variables on modeling and decrease the dimension of data. Online measurement is realized by this new method.


Feminist language researchers typically assume that gender is relevant to any interaction. Conversation analysis offers an interesting challenge for feminists to show how and that the pervasiveness of gender is achieved in talk-in-interaction. The aim of this article is to make a step towards understanding the interactional mechanisms underling the omnirelevance of gender in daily life. The present study draws upon the practices and principles of conversation analysis, particularly the notions of repair and membership categorization devices, to examine recordings of children's interactions. Evidence that supports the claim that the organization of repair may be implicated in the (re)production of gender is presented.


A review of the results of recent experiments on the effects of radiation on ion exchange media is presented. The results described include pH changes. gas generation. agglomeration of organic ion exchange resins and corrosion of mild steel in contact with ion exchange media.


This protocol describes the preparation of stocks and buffers for inexpensive, convenient, and scalable DNA and RNA purification from aqueous solutions by solid-phase reversible immobilization (SPRI) on carboxylated paramagnetic beads. It also describes how to validate the effectiveness of the mixes before use. The bead mixes described in this protocol are drop-in substitutes for AMPure XP and RNAClean XP beads (Beckman Coulter), but at about 1/100 of the cost (~$0.55/mL vs. $15–$70/mL at current Canadian prices). DOI dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.bnz4mf8w PROTOCOL CITATION Philippe Jolivet, Joseph W. Foley 2020. SPRI bead mix. protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.bnz4mf8w


We study periodicities of dark mottles and grains observed in high spatial and temporal resolution ${\rm H\alpha}$ 2-D intensity and velocity images, obtained with the Multichannel Subtractive Double Pass (MSDP) spectrograph at THEMIS in Tenerife, Canary Islands. Intensity and velocity variations of individual mottles and grains, as well as of large regions containing a substantial number of these structures are examined with a wavelet analysis which provides the temporal distribution of periods and with a randomization method that gives the respective probabilities associated with them. The wavelet analysis, which shows that velocity variations are the dominant ones, results in a wide range of periods, from 100 to 500 s, with variable probabilities. However, it strongly indicates the presence of a predominant period of ~5 min seen in both dark mottle and grain oscillations. We suggest that differences in periods found in individual mottles as well as in averages of regions containing these structures are due to the topology of the local magnetic field which can affect oscillatory processes. We report for the first time oscillations of dark grains which are more likely vertical structures "anchored" in the photosphere. The analysis supports further the suggestion that dark mottles and grains are the same structures, the only difference between them being their respective inclinations to the line-of-sight.


Traditional Chinese music has undergone trials and tribulations. To date, traditional music has been gradually improved, preserved, and passed down, both in terms of theoretical works and traditional music varieties. However, the current state of traditional music is still a cause for concern. Whether it is scholars engaged in the study of traditional music, universities, or local government agencies, there are still areas that need to be improved individually. The need to cultivate a future audience for traditional music and to make full use of new media such as the Internet is a priority at this stage. The emergence of any new technology is bound to have some impact on the existing social system, and the emergence of artificial intelligence is no exception. Due to the limitation of technology, only a small number of basic applications have been developed, and it is the future mission of research workers whether they can develop more advanced products for music lovers to experience on the basis of ensuring the basic maturity of these applications. In this paper, we introduce the convolutional deep belief network model based on the restricted Boltzmann machine and apply the convolutional deep belief network algorithm to the music melody recognition. Firstly, it was pretrained by an unsupervised greedy layer-by-layer algorithm. Then, the network parameters were fine-tuned by a supervised network training method, and the recognition ability of the model was improved by adjusting the network parameters. The experimental results show that the recognition effect of the system is more obvious under the condition that the length of music samples is 3 s, and the recognition effect is better when the number of model layers is 2 than that when the number of layers is 1.


Here Ccof denotes the category of finite partially ordered sets and left cofinal maps. Recall that the simplicial set M is characterized by the following property: for any finite nonsingular simplicial set X, maps from X into M can be identified with finite polyhedra E ⊆ |X| × R∞ for which the projection map E → |X| is a fibration. In what follows, we will abuse notation by ignoring the embeddings into R∞ and simply identifying maps X →M with the corresponding PL fibration E → |X|. The first observation is that γ is surjective on connected components. To prove this, it suffices to observe that every finite polyhedron X is PL homeomorphic to the nerve of a finite partially ordered set P . In fact, we can take P to be the set Σ(X) of simplices taken with respect to some chosen triangulation τ of X (so that the canonical triangulation of N(P ) can be identified with the barycentric subdivision of the triangulation τ). The preceding observation can be carried out in families. Let us first introduce a bit of terminology.


It should not be inappropriate to compare two contemporary novels of approximately the following description: One novel relates the disillusions of a young provincial in Paris, the other the disillusions of a small-town man in Munich. The two novels center around the historic period of 1848. The two heroes have literary and artistic gifts, but prove more or less failures. Each of the two young men becomes interested in four women and each is incapable of making a definite choice for himself. Each fights a duel, exactly in the middle of the novel, and nobody knows exactly why. The two novels give practically complete life-stories of the extravagant heroes, and give into the bargain a full—if sometimes disguised—account of the authors' views on painting, literature, philosophy, religion, and politics.


The "Guide to the International Archives and Collections at the IISH, Amsterdam" (GIA), edited by Atie van der Horst and Elly Koen, was first published in 1989. Since 1990, a description of recently acquired archives and collections as well as major accruals to archives received by the IISH has been published annually in the IRSH to keep this survey up to date. From 1994 on, a list of microfilms of archives or collections held in other repositories, of which the IISH has received a copy, was added to this survey. In September 1999, a new edition of the GIA will be published by the IISH. The recently acquired archives and collections as well as major accruals to archives received by the IISH over 1998 are included in this new edition. Therefore, no GIA supplement over 1998 is published in this volume. Information on this new GIA edition can be obtained from Stichting beheer IISG, Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT Amsterdam, The Netherlands; tel: + 31 20 668 58 66; fax: + 31 20 665 64 11; e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.


This paper introduces the development strategy of one embedded system based on ARM9 series processor-S3C2410 and the sheared operating system-Linux,explains in detail the design of USB interface and Ethernet interface,at last,gives out the application program structure and the program flow.


We study the synchronization of bursting cells that are coupled through both excitatory and inhibitory connections. We extend our recent results on networks of Hindmarsh–Rose bursting neurons [Belykh et al., 2014] to coupled Sherman β-cell models and show that the addition of repulsive inhibition to an excitatory network can induce synchronization. We discuss the mechanism of this purely synergenic phenomenon and demonstrate that the inhibition leads to the disappearance of a homoclinic bifurcation that governs the type of synchronized bursting. As a result, the inhibition causes the transition from square-wave to easier-to-synchronize plateau bursting, so that weaker excitation is sufficient to induce bursting synchrony. We dedicate this paper to the memory of Leonid P. Shilnikov, the pioneer of homoclinic bifurcation theory, and emphasize the importance of homoclinic bifurcations for understanding the emergence of synchronized rhythms in bursting networks.


Background Cold atmospheric-pressure plasma (CAP) has been considered a promising strategy for anti-cancer treatment. Traditionally, CAP was employed to kill cancer cells or tumor tissues by direct irradiation. However, CAP has some disadvantages such as infiltration capacity and storage convenience. Recently, plasma-activated medium (PAM) was used as an alternative strategy to treat cancer cells or tumors. The novel PAM approach has potential as an anti-cancer therapy. Objective To reveal the global activation of signaling pathways in oral cancer cells induced by PAM. Methods Oral squamous cell line SCC15 were treated by PAM and gene expression profiles were evaluated by using RNA-seq. Functional analyses were employed to reveal the global responses of SCC15 cells with PAM stimulation. QRT-PCR and Western blot were carried out to validate the expression levels of selected genes. Results More than 6G clean data per sample were obtained in PAM-treated SCC15 cells. A total of 934 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified and GO analysis implicated the deep involvement of biological process. KEGG mapping further clustered 40 pathways, revealing that "p53 pathway" was significantly enriched. SCC15 cells were commonly used as a p53-null cell line. Therefore, the enriched p53 pathway-related genes in our analysis might be activated by other stimulators, in a p53-independent manner. Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) was also performed to evaluate changes at the gene-sets level. The results demonstrated not only the high engagement of "p53 pathway" but also the involvement of novel pathways such as hypoxia pathway. Conclusions The present study elucidates the transcriptomic changes of PAM treated SCC15 cells, containing highly enriched DEGs involved in "p53 pathway". Our analysis in this work not only provides genomic resources for future studies but also gives novel insights to uncover the molecular mechanism of PAM stimulation.


Introduction: Ovarian malignancy represents 5th most common cause of cancer death in females and they account for 2nd leading cause of death from cancer of the female genital tract. Though they are treatable and sensitive to anticancer therapies, they are usually detected when they have spread beyond the ovary. Objective: To know the overall incidence of malignant ovarian tumours among all ovarian tumours. To report the age incidence, presentation, gross and microscopic features of various histomorphological types of malignant ovarian tumours which help the clinician in the anticipation of malignancy before its spread beyond the ovary. Methods: This is a clinicopathological retrospective study where clinical details of all ovarian tumours which were diagnosed as malignant were obtained. The regressed bits were subjected to histopathology processing and staining. Results: In our study, we noted overall malignancy was14.70% among all ovarian tumours. Most commonly seen in the age group of 51-60 years and most commonly presented with either lump or pain in the abdomen. Grossly they are solid and 95.5 % are primary in origin. Among the primary ovarian malignant tumours, 69% were surface epithelial tumours. Conclusion: The solid component in an ovarian tumour may represent the malignant nature of tumour with the increasing age of women. Surface epithelial malignancy was more common in the old age and germ cell tumours were seen in the younger group. Preoperative diagnosis of malignant tumours can be done by radiological, serological and clinicopathological findings which help in the reduction of mortality.


The energy spectra and angular distributions of neutrons from the Be/sup 9/(d,n)B/sup 10/ reaction have been investigated at deuteron energies of 0.5, 0.8, 1.O, 1.2, 1.4, and 1.6 Mev. The excitation curve for this reaction indicates a resonance /. The angular distribution corresponding to an excited state in Bio with excitation energy E/sub x/ = 3.62 Mev points to the existence of a stripping mechanism. The angular distributions of reactions involving the formation of compound nuclei are appreciably distorted on passage through a resonance. (auth)


Objective To investigate the efficiency of ropivacaine PEG-PLA microspheres for sciatic nerve block in rats. Methods Eighty Wistar rats w ere randomly divided into four groups( n = 20,each) and w ere treated w ith 0. 2 mL of 0. 9% saline( control group),10 mg of PEG-PLA( PEG-PLA group),0. 2 mL of 0. 5% ropivacaine( ropivacaine group) and 10 mg of 10% Rop-PEG-PLA microspheres( Rop-PEG-PLA group),respectively. The incision pain models w ere produced as described by Brennan. Mechanical thresholds and thermal latencies w ere measured at 24 h before incision and at 2,4,8 h,as w ell as 1,2,3,5 and 7 d after incision. Expression of c-fos protein in the spinal cord w as determined by immunohistochemistry at 2 h and 2 d after incision. The ropivacaine concentration in plasma of ropivacaine group and Rop-PEG-PLA group w as detected by HPLC analysis. Results Behavioral testing and c-fos expression in PEG-PLA group show ed no significant difference compared w ith those in control group( P 0. 05). The thresholds and latencies in ropivacaine group and Rop-PEG-PLA group w ere significantly higher than those in control group at 2 h after incision( P 0. 05). Expressions of c-fos protein were suppressed in ropivacaine group and Rop-PEG-PLA groupat 2 h after incision,compared w ith that in control group( P 0. 05). The duration of anti-hyperalgesia effect( 3 d vs 2 h) and ropivacaine concentration in plasma( 8 h vs 4 h) in Rop-PEG-PLA group w ere longer than those in ropivacaine group,and c-fos expression in Rop-PEG-PLA group w as low er than that in ropivacaine group at 2 d after incision( P 0. 05). Conclusion Single administration of ropivacaine PEG-PLA microspheres for sciatic nerve block provides effective analgesia for postoperative pain for 3 d.


This chapter discusses the role of classification societies in their capacity as recognized organizations (ROs) acting on behalf of maritime administrations to ensure that ships, old and new, meet their obligations under International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulations and standards. Another aspect of the role of classification societies is to ensure that ships are designed, constructed, and maintained in compliance with the standards set by the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS). The chapter helps to that the IMO acting alone cannot provide all the answers to all of the issues regarding ocean governance. After all, the Organization relies heavily on the active participation not only of its Member States but also on those intergovernmental international organizations (IGOs) and non-governmental international organizations (NGOs) that are affiliated to it. In many situations, they have the specialized expertise and experience required to ensure that whatever regulations are adopted by the IMO are practicable.


Objective— We studied the effect of valgus malalignment on knee osteoarthritis (OA) incidence and progression. Methods— We measured mechanical axis from long limb radiographs from the MOST Study and the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) to define valgus limbs (>1° valgus) and examined the effect of valgus vs. neutral (neither varus nor valgus) on OA structural outcomes. Posteroanterior x-rays and knee MRIs were obtained in subjects at the time of the long limb x-ray and at follow-up examinations. Lateral progression was defined by an increase in joint space narrowing (on a semiquantitative scale) and incidence as new lateral narrowing in knees without x-ray OA. We defined lateral cartilage damage and progressive meniscal damage when WORMS (MOST) or BLOKS (OAI) scores for cartilage or meniscus increased at follow-up. We used logistic regression with adjustment for age, sex, BMI and Kellgren and Lawrence grade and used GEE to evaluate the effect of valgus vs. neutral alignment on disease outcomes. Results— We studied 5046 knees (881 valgus) from MOST and 5953 knees (1235 valgus) from OAI. In both studies, all strata of valgus malalignment including 1.1 to 3° valgus were associated with an increased risk of lateral disease progression. In knees without radiographic OA, valgus alignment above 3° was associated with incidence (for example in MOST, adjOR = 2.7 (95% 1.1, 6.8)). Valgus 3° or more was also associated with cartilage damage on MRI in knees without OA (for example in OAI, adjOR = 5.9 (95% CI, 1.3, 30.3)). We found a strong relation of valgus with progressive lateral meniscal damage. Conclusions— Valgus malalignment increases the risk of knee OA x-ray progression, incidence and of lateral cartilage damage. It may cause these effects, in part, by increasing the risk of meniscal damage. A u t r p t N I H u t r p t N r p


Abstract : Experiments with two submersed aquatic macrophytes, Myriophyllum spicatum L. and Hydrilla verticillata (L.f.) Royle, grown on 40 different sediments from 17 geographically widespread North American lakes, indicated tenfold and twentyfold declines in growth with increasing sediment organic matter up to a concentration of about 20 percent dry sediment mass. Poor growth was obtained also on inorganic sediments with a sand fraction exceeding 75 percent dry sediment mass. Diminished growth on organic sediments occurred at low values of sediment density, and on sands at high values of sediment density. Differential centrifugation of organic sediment, facilitating an increase in sediment density with no change in organic matter content, stimulated Hydrilla growth, indicating that sediment density rather than organic matter content was most influential in regulating growth. Macrophyte growth and nutrient accumulation in shoots were closely correlated, but essentially unrelated to concentrations of nutrients in shoots. Additions of phosphorus and iron in combination to organic sediments with nitrogen supplied in the overlying solution resulted in significant growth increases in Hydrilla, suggesting that diminished growth on unfavorable sediments was caused by multiple nutrient limitation. It is further postulated that variations in the ability of different aquatic macrophytes to cope with infertility or other factors associated with unfavorable sediment composition may influence the species composition of aquatic macrophyte communities.


Existing learning systems for health prediction require batch-wise data or sub-text along with data to begin the learning process. These techniques are slow in learning and require more time to achieve a commendable accuracy. The techniques also provide less scope for adaptation to varying data. Since health parameters change dynamically, there is a need to reduce false positives. In this paper, a Regression Based Adaptive Incremental Learning Algorithm (RBAIL) is proposed. The novel RBAIL algorithm performs regression on the vital parameters such as Heart Rate, Blood Pressure and Saturated Oxygen Level to predict the abnormality. It also validates the data before learning, thus reducing the probability of a false positive. The proposed algorithm has been validated with varied data and is observed to provide increased accuracy in prediction and adaptability to fluctuating data. Simulation over real world data sets is used to validate the effectiveness of this algorithm.


Translator's preface Introduction: ecosophy T - from intuition to system David Rothenberg 1. The environmental crisis and the deep ecological movement 2. From ecology to ecosophy 3. Fact and value: basic norms 4. Ecosophy, technology, and lifestyle 5. Economics within ecosophy 6. Ecopolitics within ecosophy 7. Ecosophy T: unity and diversity of life Bibliography Index.


Abstract-Adaptive algorithm especially plays the impor- tant role in adaptive signal processing, and various tech- niques has been proposed until up to now. In adaptive algorithms, both fast convergence characteristics and the reduction of the number of computational requirements per sample time are required. This paper presents a new block adaptive algorithm based on the projection onto one di- mensional space as that is relatively satisfied with these requirements. Since the proposed algorithm makes its esti- mation quantity to distance of the coefficient vector in the unknown system and coefficient vector in the estimate sys- tem, step size of the proposed algorithm can be optimized to update coefficient vector of the estimate system.


As the City of Houston's Bureau of Air Quality Control embraced new policies, technologies, and rhetorical strategies, they simultaneously moved through Lukensmeyer and Torres's "four levels of public involvement," which include the information, consultation, engagement, and collaboration levels (Lukensmeyer & Torres, 2006). Because of the technical and scientific nature of air quality inspections, increasing public involvement, especially the involvement of those in a predominantly African American and a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood, has been a challenge. This article describes the Bureau's journey through the information level, where the Bureau opens public access and participation in the investigation and reporting process; the consultation level, where Bureau staff go door-to-door in poor and minority neighborhoods collecting citizen feedback regarding perceived environmental hazards; the engagement level, where the Bureau conducts monthly environmental meetings with neighborhood residents; and the collaboration level, where citizens are taught to collect evidence of environmental violations.


Two-dimensional direct stability analysis and numerical simulation are used to identify and characterize the primary instability of the flow around two tandem cylinders with different diameters. The ratio of the diameter d of the upstream cylinder to the diameter D of the downstream cylinder is varied from 1.0 to 0.4, while the distance L from the center of the upstream cylinder to the front stagnation point of the downstream cylinder is varied from 1.0 D to 8.0 D. Three typical spacings are chosen to describe the different scenarios observed, and the results for each configuration are described in detail. Three different unstable modes are identified, and the structural sensitivity and nonlinear characteristics of each mode are investigated. The results show that when d/D = 0.6 and [Formula: see text], the migration of the eigenvalues corresponding to the most unstable modes can be observed for a range of Reynolds numbers. This is ultimately shown to be caused by the transition of the unstable mode. At the same time, this mode transition changes the core region of the instability mechanism. Moreover, two different mechanisms that lead to vortex shedding in the gap between the two cylinders and a secondary bifurcation behavior of the flow around the downstream cylinder under a specific configuration are observed. To obtain a more comprehensive view of the first instability, a transient growth analysis of the flow is also performed, and the critical Reynolds number in each case is discussed.


This research paper specifically investigated Business Education students' evaluation of the benefits and challenges confronting Student Industrial Works Experience Scheme (SIWES) in Edo and Delta States. Two research questions were raised to guide the study and were answered descriptively. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study. The population of the study comprised 941 Business Education students and the proportionate stratified random sampling technique was adopted in selecting a sample size of 188 Business Education students for the study. The instrument used was the structured questionnaire and it was validated by experts in the field. The test re-test method of reliability was used in ascertaining the reliability of the instrument and it yielded a co-efficient of 0.87. The mean and standard deviation were used in analyzing the data collated and some of the findings include: SIWES has great benefit especially in equipping Business education students with skills and that funding is a major challenge confronting SIWES. One of the major recommendations advanced in this paper was that there should be more funding of the scheme by the government in order for it to be more effective. Keywords : Business Education, SIWES and evaluation


This research was conducted to determine the effect of emotional intelligence on the performance of employees of PT Mopoli Raya, Pematang Jaya District. The population in this study were 345 employees. Using the Slovin formula, the number of respondents taken was 78 employees. The data in this study were obtained from the results of distributing questionnaires to 78 employees in the workplace of PT Mopoli Raya, Pematang Jaya District. From the results of data analysis, it was found that the value of t sig. emotional intelligence variable of 0.077 compared with alpha of 0.05, there is no significant effect of emotional intelligence on the performance of employees of PT Mopoli Raya, Pematang Jaya District. The results of testing the coefficient of determination obtained that the coefficient of determination (R) variable emotional intelligence of 0.009. This means that the independent variable only has an effect of 0.9% on the dependent variable.


SUMMARY The indiscriminate use of the drugs for the treatment of mammary gland infections can leave residues in cow milk destined for consumption. The objective of this study was to evaluate the persistence of antibiotic residues in milk of lactating cows with and without mastitis after intramammary treatment with gentamicin. Twenty Black and White Holstein cows, 10 with mammary quarter inflammation and 10 without inflammation diagnosed by the California Mastitis Test, were selected. Gentamicin sulfate was administered by intramammary infusion into each quarter once daily. The treatment was performed after afternoon milking and repeated for 3 days. After application of the last antibiotic dose, milk samples were collected from the mammary quarters and collecting balloons over a period of 6 days for the detection of antibiotic residues by the Delvotest ® SP. The microorganisms most frequently isolated from milk samples of cows without and with inflammation were Corynebacterium spp.(48.27% and 38.46%, respectively), Streptococcus spp.(13.79% and 46.15%), and coagulase-negative (24.14% and15.38%).The Staphylococcus aureus isolates were resistant to neomycin and coagulase-negative staphylococci were resistant to oxacillin and penicillin G. Antibiotic residues were detected after the withdrawal period established by the manufacturer of the drug in 44.4% and 55.5% of samples collected from cows without and with inflammation, respectively, and in 20.0% and 40.0% of collecting balloons . Milk producers in Brazil should be advised to perform tests for the detection of antibiotic residues before releasing milk for consumption and the veterinary pharmaceutical industry should reevaluate the withdrawal period of intramammary administered antibiotics.


The manufacturing process of cylindrical tubes, made by mixing epoxy resin with inorganic materials has been studied, producing samples by the method of spillage of the mixture into a mold consisting of two PVC pipes of different diameters. The use of different mold release was evaluated in order to determine what would be the best in your application as well, especially given the ease of removing the sample after curing the composite. The samples produced had a surface with a high degree of polish and your wall devoid of visible defects.


Abstract : Efforts concerned a program to analyze and evaluate the support system responsible for keeping certain tactical communications equipment operational in the hands of the military user, particularly (a) allocation of available maintenance resources by echelon, (b) economics of fifth-echelon activity, and (c) establishment of float requirements. The equipment subjected to this analysis consists of four medium- to highdensity tactical communications items. The first and highest density of the four is the tactical f-m vehicular communications unit, usually designated the AN/GRC-3-8 series. The second piece of equipment is a tactical a-m radio designated the AN/GRC-19. The third item is the air-to-air and air-to-ground f-m tactical communications equipment, netting with the previously mentioned AN/GRC-3-8 series, usually designated the AN/ARC-44. The last item is the TT-4, a teletypewriter. (Author)


This paper discusses the sorts and main features of electronic periodical, analyses the influence of electronic periodical on traditional library service, and puts forward some countermeasures for library work.


Portal hypertensive enteropathy is referred to the mucosal changes secondary to portal hypertension which is characteristic of intestinal vascular ectasis.Sometimes it is asymptomatic,and sometimes it results from the intestinal hemorrhage and anemia.Up to now,there is no standard criteria for the diagnosis and treatment of portal hypertensive enteropathy.Generally,the intestinal vascular ectasis observed in endoscopic examination in portal hypertension patients can arrive at the diagnosis.Drug treatment,endoscopic therapy,and interventional therapy can be performed when necessary.To know more about the disease,a standard grading system to classify the endoscopic appearance and the severity of the disease is necessary to be proposed.


A series of polysilicate-containing boron composite inorganic polymer flocculants are prepared by introducing aluminium salt,ferric salt and borax into polysilicic acid.The interaction among all parts is observed by infrared spectrum.There are peaks of Si—O—B,Al—O—B,Fe—O—B,Al—O—Si,Fe—O—Si in the infrared spectra,which confirm that there are interaction between Si,B,Al3+,Fe3+,and the polynuclear hydroxy complexes,and the interaction is mainly affected by molar ratio of Al/Si,Fe/Si.


Mobile devices as smart phones or PDA are common devices in our daily life. Museums and art galleries are provided with some electronic guides in order to do more pleasant the visit to the exhibition. Our research group has been working in designing and developing mobile software for art museums based on PDA. The problem studied in this paper is to prove the suitableness of using PDA instead of the traditional electronic guides. It is interesting to know how to use these devices as a medium to guide and improve the visitors' experience. Before presenting the components of our solution we introduce the important items and concepts by means of our conceptual model.


Xenia, Ohio, had a population of 8706 at the time of the 1910 census; of this population 2052 were negroes. The water comes from two sources. The older supply is pumped from a plant called the Springfield Pike station, which furnishes a mixture of surface and ground water. This has been shown to be of poor quality on several occasions, and on this account a hypochlorite disinfecting equipment was installed in 1914 to treat it. The second source is a group of drilled wells at the so-called Cincinnati Pike station, which furnishes water that has always been regarded as good from a sanitary viewpoint. As a rule about two-thirds of the total supply is furnished by the drilled wells, but during dry weather this source does not yield as much water as normally and at such times the quantities of water from the two stations become more nearly equal. There were only two cases of typhoid fever in Xenia in 1917 and there were none in 1918 up to August 27. A case was reported on that day and with the exception of August 28 and September 17, new cases occurred every day until September 18, when the last one was reported. There were forty-four cases in all, quite generally distributed throughout the city in proportion to the density of the population. All were within the district supplied with water and the only case in a home without a connection with the street mains was that of a woman who used the public water supply where she worked. The city water supply is used by most of the residents of the city, and there are very few wells in service. The milk used by the persons taken sick came from six dealers, from groceries and restaurants, and in five cases from cows kept by the patients. Two cases used only condensed milk. The ice cream that had been used by five-eighths of the cases came from many different sources and the same was true of the fresh vegetables used by those who were taken sick. No case had eaten shell fish within the incubation period. Only eleven cases resided in homes where other cases occurred and there were eight cases where no typhoid fever


The piezoelectric nanogenerator (PENG) depends upon the piezoelectric material for the conversion of mechanical stress into useful electrical energy. Development of piezoelectric material compositions starting from ceramic oxides, polymer, and...


Information security nowadays have shifted from the more traditional computer and network security, to software security and malware analysis. Especially with the cloud computing era and IaaS, PaaS ...


The decomposition, electron transfer, and protonation of oxygen molecules are typically assumed to be the rate‐limiting steps of the oxygen reduction reactions (ORR), and the activation energy barriers of these reactions can be surmounted using catalysts. In this study, the physical rate‐limiting step of the ORR consists of the adsorption of gaseous oxygen molecules at the liquid–solid phase boundary, indicating that the formation of a gas–liquid–solid triple‐phase boundary (TPB) is important for accelerating the ORR kinetics. This is experimentally confirmed by analyzing the ORR in aluminum–air batteries. Moreover, the formation of a TPB using the hierarchical pores of sparked reduced graphene oxide is demonstrated, which serve as the cathode, and the remarkable electrochemical performance of the fabricated battery is presented. These findings can be used to accelerate the ORR kinetics by maximizing the TPB, particularly in aluminum–air batteries.


The paper introduces Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern in hybrid traffic simulation modeling based on Multi-Resolution Model (MRM). It designs the architecture of Hybrid Traffic Simulation System (HTSS) based on MVC pattern. And it bases the data structure model of HTSS in memory and the table structure model of HTSS in spatial database with Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Entity-Relationship (ER). In addition, the paper presents three ways to resolve the consistencies of data and logic, which include data structure design, architecture design, and controller design in HTSS. Finally, a case is exemplified to prove that the architecture and structure are available in HTSS.


This paper presents an integrated 3D face scanning system using the structured light technique. A new pattern consisting of horizontal colored strips using the De_Bruijn sequence is designed in a manner that can ensure a minimal distance between any two strips of the same color. After illuminating the scene with this pattern, a first image is taken and used to obtain 3D information. To detect the strip centers in the captured image we use a smoothing Gaussian filter with a large kernel applied to the V component in the HSV color space. The size of this kernel is computed separately for each column. Then, a connection algorithm is used to connect the isolated points in the detected strips. The next step is to determine the colors of these detected strips. For this purpose we exploit the fact that the resulting strips are connected. Firstly, we use the H component of the HSV color space to determine the color of the easy sets of pixels in these strips. Then, we apply a region growing algorithm to assign the colors to the remaining pixels. Finally, each connected and colored part of strip is matched to a strip in the projected pattern and triangulated with its corresponding one in the projected pattern to generate the 3D model. Using the concept of connected strips we exploit the information from several columns to take the decision in each column, which enhances the robustness of the method used here versus the existed ones. A second image of the scene without illumination is obtained and used to add the texture to the reconstructed 3D model. Experiment results show an accurate 3D resolution with this


The manuscript containing the service of St. Lazar Hrebeljanovic was
 presented to the Russian Tsar in 1550 by the abbot of the Hilandar monastery
 Paisius. We currently know only two manuscripts containing hymns to the
 Saint Lazar: RNB, Kir.-Bel. 586/843 (eighth decade of the 16th century) and
 RBB, f. 379 ? 66 (mid- 17th century). The older source is more complete. It
 includes stichera of Small and Great Vespers (on Lord I have cried and
 aposticha), stichera at the Litya, stichera at the end of Psalm 50,
 aposticha of Matins, as well as exapostilarion and theotokion. In addition,
 there are indications that two canons have been performed (a total of 31
 hymns). In the younger source the chanting repertoire is much smaller -
 there are only doxastika and , stichera at the end of Psalm 50 (a total of 6
 songs). The doxastika presented in these manuscripts have different musical
 variants.


The American Architectural Hislorian Carl Condit wrote of ihe Reliance Building, "If any work of the structural arl in the nineteenth Century anticipated the future, it is this one. The building is the Iriumph of the structuralist and funclionalist approach of the Chicago School. In its grace and airiness, in the purity and exactitude of its proportions and details, in the brilliant perfection of ils transparent elevations, it Stands loday as an exciting exhibition of the potenlial kinesthetic expressiveness of the structural art."' The Reliance Building remains today as the "swan song" of the Chicago School. This building, well known throughout the world and lisled on the US National Register of Historie Places, is presenlly being restored. Phase I of this process which addresses the exterior building envelope was completed in November of 1995. The design/builder of the project was McCIier/UBM, a joint venture of a Chicago based Architectural and General Contracting firms. Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. of Chicago acted as facade Consultant and was responsible for the investigation and restoration of facade elements including the terra cotta and Windows. Phase II, which will address the interior, is sei to begin as early as 1997.


One of the problems when designing an aircraft is flight time estimation. When we design the aircraft, in general, calculating the maximum takeoff weight becomes the priority. The longer flight time required by the aircraft, the more batteries should be added. More batteries mean the payload capacity of the aircraft is decreased. On the other hand, adding more weight will increase the requirement of using more powerful motors. We need to take into our account, that using powerful motors should be calculated carefully because the current consumption is also increased. This problem is circling in the same situation, without any real solution to overcome the problem. As unmanned aircraft has become a critical part of human life for example in surveillance, agricultural, and medicine delivery mission, obtaining the optimum and efficient flight time is vital. In this research, we propose a novel approach of maximum takeoff weight calculation that is needed when designing the aircraft by looking at the complete map of motor specifications. The goal of this paper is to help any aircraft user from hobbyist to professional to determine whether their aircraft design is feasible.


The article uses the lens of design theory to conceptualize Dirk Smit et al's "reading the tradition against tradition" as a case of theological re-design of the doctrine of election. In analogy to creatio originalis and creatio continua , it introduces a distinction between electio originalis and electio continua . It argues that theological conceptual redesign, which turns the doctrine of election from an instrument of violence and separation into an instrument of peace and hope, might not only be in the spirit of the biblical "swords to ploughshares," but might itself constitute a way of doing election as participation in the electio continua .


Cardamom thrips, Sciorlirips cardamomi  Rmk. (Thripidae : Thysanoptera) is the most  important pest on cardamom (Siddappaji and  Rcddy, 1972; Chakravarthy and Khan, 1987;  Thyagaraj ct. al., 2000A, 2000B). Larvae and  adults of the greyish brown thrips feed from inside  the bracts, perianth, unopened flower buds,  peduncle and in the spindle of sheaths. Thrips  infestation causes formation of corky  encruslations of capsules (locally called kuyji)  resulting in their malformation and reduction in  size. Such capsules lack aroma and seeds within.  Thrips infestation also results in shedding of  flowers and young capsules. Thus, thrips incur  qualitative as well as quantitative losses in  cardamom. Our main objective was to assess  these.  P-l a malabar type cardamom grown in 1.5  ha plot at Zonal Agricultural Research Station,  Mudigere (13°7' 29" 75° 37' 35" 982 M msl)  Karnataka


The invention discloses a broad-frequency pressure-variable pressure pulsation attenuator which comprises a shell, end caps, elastic diaphragms and orifice plates. The two ends of the shell are used for being connected with a water inlet pipe and a water outlet pipe respectively, the side wall of the outer portion of the shell is evenly provided with multiple cavities in the axial direction and the circumferential direction, each cavity is divided into an upper cavity body and a lower cavity body through one elastic diaphragm in the corresponding cavity, the upper end of each upper cavity body compresses the corresponding elastic diaphragm through the corresponding end cap so as to seal the corresponding cavity, the upper cavity bodies serve as gas pressure cavities, the lower cavity bodies serve as energy storage cavities, and energy storage device holes are machined in the side wall of the shell so that the energy storage cavities can be communicated with the inside of the shell; the inside of the shell is axially provided with multiple round orifice plates provided with inclined through holes, the orifice plates are located between two axially adjacent energy storage device holes, and the surfaces of the orifice plates are axially perpendicular to the shell. A diaphragm device energy storage set is effectively combined with an orifice plate pulsation attenuator, so that attenuation can be carried out on pressure pulsation of different frequencies and pressures, broad-frequency pressure-variable pressure pulsation attenuation can be achieved, and the attenuator is suitable for various pressure application occasions.


In this paper there is investigated the existence, smoothness and approximation properties of a solutions of a class of degenerate loaded equations of non-classical type.