Data-driven differential dependency network analysis identifies in a complex and often unknown overall molecular circuitry a network of differentially connected molecular entities (pairwise selective coupling or uncoupling depending on the specific phenotypes or experimental conditions) (Herrington, et al. 2018; Zhang, et al., 2009; Zhang and Wang, 2010; Zhang, et al., 2016). Such differential dependency networks are typically used to assist in the inference of potential key pathways. Based on our previously developed Differential Dependency Network (DDN) method, we report here the fully implemented R and Python software tool packages for public use. The DDN2.0 algorithm uses a fused Lasso model and block-wise coordinate descent to estimate both the common and differential edges of dependency networks. The identified DDN can help to provide plausible interpretation of data, gain new insight of disease biology, and generate novel hypotheses for further validation and investigations. To address the imbalanced sample group problem, we propose a sample-size normalized formulation to correct systematic bias. To address high computational complexity, we propose four strategies to accelerate DDN2.0 learning. The experimental results show that new DDN2.0+ learning speed with combined four accelerating strategies is hundreds of times faster than that of DDN2.0 algorithm on medium-sized data (Fu, 2019). To detect intra-omics and inter-omics network rewiring, we propose multiDDN using a multi-layer signaling model to integrate multi-omics data. The simulation study shows that the multiDDN method can achieve higher accuracy of detecting network rewiring (Fu, 2019).


In the article the problem of occupational health specialist is present. The general characteristics of the psychological characteristics of professional doctors are discusses. The results of the study symptoms of emotional burnout in this field of activity as medicine are described. Offered appropriate preventive measures and ways of creating emotional competence of future specialist are analyzed. Conclusions are presented in relation to efficiency of application of training of forming of emotional competence of future doctor in the process of professional preparation of specialist. The article tells about the importance of emotions in human life. A brief review of the history of the study of this the emotional phenomenon is described. The physiological mechanisms of emotional burnout are examines. The emotional states, their function and impact on physical and mental health are considered. The emotional peculiarities of doctor emotional competence describe. The known techniques and methods of emotional training are generalizes. The psychological and educational components forming emotional competence of future medical psychologist are studied. Development of emotional sphere and the formation of emotional competence of doctors' psychologists is one of the areas of professional formation. The analysis of the problems professional identity formation specialist is present. The questions of medical training psychologists in medical schools of education are described. The emotional competence of personality of student assists socialization and professional becoming of future specialist.Reveals the main lines of research of the concept of emotional competence are presented. The concept of domestic and foreign researches is systematized. Studied and summarized statements of individual scientists, as well as methodological foundations of the study of the phenomenon of emotional competence. The among researchers emotional competence is no single opinion on the definition of this concept, its content, structure, as well as the factors that determine its development are revealed.The program of formation of emotional competence of future physicians is presented. A general strategy, structure, disclosed the basic principles, methodological approaches and content of the correctional program, aimed at the formation of emotional competence of students of the future doctors. The results of the pilot study of the effectiveness of the program. It is concluded that the development of emotional competence medical students can be formed by introducing in the educational process of special courses, training and educational training programs.


With the imminent widespread availability of digital video broadcasts and the subsequent increase in the demand for broadcast material, image sequence restoration is an increasing source of concern for both archivists and broadcasters. This paper presents a two stage technique for registering the lines in video data digitized from a noisy source. In such situations the horizontal synchronization pulses may not have the correct amplitude causing the loss of 'lock' in the digitizing apparatus. The effect is that the image lines are randomly shifted horizontally with respect to their true locations. This manifests as jagged vertical edges in the observed sequence, an annoying artefact. The algorithm presented here relies on a two-dimensional autoregressive (2D AR) model of the image to measure the line displacements using a multiresolution scheme.


We report the detection of iron K-absorption lines in the energy spectra of the superluminal jet source GRO J1655-40. We observed the source with ASCA on four occasions from 1994 through 1996. Significant absorption-line features were found at 6.63 ± 0.07 keV when the X-ray intensity was low (0.27-0.57 crab) and at 6.95 ± 0.10 keV when the intensity was high (2.2 crab). The former are interpreted as resonance absorption lines from helium-like iron and the latter are those from hydrogen-like iron, respectively. This gives direct evidence for the presence of highly ionized plasma in a nonspherical configuration in the vicinity of the black hole. The change of the ionization state of iron suggests that the plasma is photoionized by X-ray irradiation. The observed equivalent width (about 60 eV for the helium-like Kα line) and the ionization parameter ξ (~103) constrain the size of the plasma to ~1010 cm. The similarity of these properties to those of the other superluminal source GRS 1915+105 may imply some connection between the presence of such highly ionized plasma and the formation of relativistic jets.


CONTEXT
The etiological mechanism of bile acid (BA) effects on insulin resistance and obesity is unknown.

OBJECTIVE
To determine if plasma BA are elevated in human obesity and/or insulin resistance.

DESIGN
Observational study.

SETTING
Academic research center.

PARTICIPANTS
71 adult volunteers formed four groups: lean insulin-sensitive (BMI≤25kg/m 2, HOMA-IR<2.0, n=19), overweight/obese non-diabetic who were either insulin-sensitive (Obsensitive, BMI>25kg/m 2, HOMA-IR<1.5, n=11), or insulin-resistant (Obresistant, BMI>25kg/m 2, HOMA-IR>3.0, n=20), and type 2 diabetes (T2D, n=21).

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES
Insulin sensitivity by hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp, body composition by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry, abdominal fat distribution and liver density by CT and plasma BA.

RESULTS
In the Obresistant group, glucose infusion rate/fat free mass (GIR/FFM, an inverse measure of insulin resistance) was significantly lower, and visceral and liver fat higher, compared to lean and Obsensitive subjects, despite similar total adiposity in Obresistant and Obsensitive. Total BA concentrations were higher in Obresistant (2.62±1.5mmol/L, p=0.03) and T2D (3.36±2.26mmol/L, p=0.0004) versus Obsensitive (1.16±0.47mmol/L), but were similar between Obsensitive and lean (2.31±1.43mmol/L). Total BA were positively associated with waist circumference (R=0.245, p=0.041), visceral fat (R=0.360, p=0.002) and fibroblast growth factor 21 (R=0.341, p=0.004) and negatively associated with insulin sensitivity (R=-0.395, p=0.001), abdominal subcutaneous fat (R=-0.352, p=0.003), adiponectin (R=-0.375, P=0.001) and liver fat (Hounsfield units, an inverse marker of liver fat, R=-0.245, p=0.04). Conjugated BA were additionally elevated in T2D individuals (p<0.001).

CONCLUSIONS
BA concentrations correlated with abdominal, visceral and liver fat in humans, though an etiological role in insulin resistance remains to be verified.


Abstract. Verkasalo, M. (Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki, Finland). Recent trends in breast‐feeding in southern Finland. Acta Paediatr Scand, 69:89, 1980.—A retrospective study on breast‐feeding (BF) during 1962–77 has been carried out for the province of Uusimaa. The study was based on 35815 child health records kept by community health centres. Information was entered in 76% of the records, the percentage improving from 52 to 94 during the study period. The average duration of BF was observed to decline steadily from 2.3 months in 1962 to 1.7 in 1971, increasing thereafter to 3.6 months by the end of the study. A similar pattern of slow decline turning to a sharp rise by 1971 can be seen in the percentage of mothers beginning BF, and various time categories of nursing. The observed increase in BF is attributed to changing general attitudes, which are influenced by international trends and campaining by health authorities. Social benefits also play a role, as the increase in BF coincides with extensions of maternity leave from 2 to 7 months in the seventies. The results indicate a favourable response to efforts to promote BF and suggest that these efforts should be continued and intensified


Recent research outcomes of microorganisms in termite gut were summarized in this paper. It mainly stress at protozoan, fermentative bacteria, azotobacter, spirochete, homoacetogen, methanogen, and sulfate-reducing bacteria exist in its gut. They play very important roles in the digestion of lignocelluloses in termite gut.


Wireless local area networks (WLANs) have experienced great popularity in the past decade. There is no doubt that WLANs are prone to failures. In order to improve the quality of service (QoS), performance characteristics of such systems should be considered together with the system availability modelling and evaluation which are associated with failures and recovery. This paper presents an analytical model for perform ability modelling and evaluation of a WLAN. The spectral expansion method is employed for the exact solution of the analytical model considered. The proposed analytical model and its solution can be used to evaluate the perform ability measures of such systems efficiently and accurately. Various perform ability measures such as mean queue length and blocking probability are computed and presented.


This article is a book review of The Democratic Experience and Political Violence. The book was co-edited by David Rapoport, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles and Leonard Weinberg, Foundation Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. Today's global mantra? Conveyed by global mass media it is "democracy and free markets." Through democracy and free markets lies human salvation--or so we are told. Certainly there is room to question both aspects of the mantra as well as the necessity of their linkage. For example, free markets have never been free. Even if markets were completely free of formal and informal, de facto, counterfactual, and a-factual barriers, economic disparities between and among partners in trade and commerce would subvert freedom through generating relationships of exploitation and subjugation--an economic psychosexuality of sadomasochism. As another example, as free as markets might become, their very existence and nurturance might not best be contingent on democracy or on any specific political model. Or perhaps, as far as free markets might be a boon instead of a bane to human welfare, they might prop up variants of totalitarianism, authoritarianism, democracy, and various combinations and mutations--some well-articulated, others still to be conceived. Or perhaps, the reason free markets have never or will never be free is contingent on politics--i.e., any politics as articulated through political theorists including the variants of democracy. It is democracy that is the focus of Rapport and Weinberg. At Issue is the aspect of the global mantra that reifies democracy as both prophylaxis and cure to human violence within nation-states. To the discerning reader, however, the Issue soon becomes how to account for the development of the global mantra given the extremely ample historical data that should have been both prophylaxis against and cure for the mantra. The elaboration of historical data found in The Democratic Experience and Political Violence originates from a 1997 conference wherein participants and then others noted what might charitably be termed an ignoring or discounting and less charitably an active reluctance and aversion to considering democracy as begetter of violence. What follows are preceis of the chapters--each supported by theory and/or data in examining the democracy-violence connection. Rapoport and Weinberg explore democratic elections, conceive elections as a mode of political succession, contrast electoral with hereditary modes of succession, and note the aspects of each that seem to require contestation and stimulate the option of violence. The reader might well note that this chapter sets the stage of employing a welcome "seeing is believing" standard for the consequences of democracy. Finn, Professor of Government at Wesleyan University, explores the inevitability that particular groups-that may be extrapolated to social, economic, ethnic, ideological, and any other performative entity that may be stigmatized--are excluded from the electoral, political process in a democracy. Of special 1 Editor: Democracy and Violence Published by Scholarly Commons, 2001 International Bulletin of Political Psychology 2 contemporary interest is the exclusion of professed or suspected anti-democratic groups that may employ violence whether or not they are excluded or included and even if they are chosen by "the people" as electoral winners. Of great interest and value is Finn's appendix on selected constitutional and statutory provisions for electoral exclusion, pp. 70-74.) Guelke, Professor of Comparative Politics, Queen's University, Belfast, describes and compares three 1996 democratic elections--viz., the Israeli general elections, the Northern Ireland forum elections, and the Western Cape (South Africa) local elections. Violence permeated them all--be it political violence, its threat, or fear of it. Moreover, violence seems to affect not just the actual vote but also campaign behavior, attitudes of the electorate, interpretations of the vote, and the essential public discourse of democracy. Philpott, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, analyzes the political construct of self-determination that has been and continues to be publicly embraced by so many socially constructed groups--albeit in a manner that leaves universal human rights behind and approaches a malignant or pathological narcissism, if not an outright psychopathy or sociopathy. Although self-determination is almost always linked with the construct of democracy, it is frequently associated with political leaders who have something very different in mind and is differentially construed by leaders of representative democracies. Self-determination, unfortunately, has a long track record of legitimizing violence during its quest and afterwards. Crenshaw, John E. Andrus Professor of Government, Wesleyan University, describes the military intervention of India as guarantor of a peace settlement in Sri Lanka's still ongoing ethnic civil war. Although not technically an example of violence within a democracy, the intervention can be seen as violence within a national grouping of Indian and Sri Lankan Tamils. Moreover, contending interest groups within democratic India, international ethnic groupings professing democratic leanings, and democratic Sri Lanka--as well as the larger strategic and even moral interests of democratic entities-have too often influenced decision-making that instigates and exacerbates violence. Israeli, Professor of Islamic, Middle Eastern and Chinese History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, describes the responses of Western democracies to what he and political authorities of these democracies term "fundamentalist Islamic violence" both within and external to these entities. The reader of this chapter may wonder whether Western democracies are capable of resolving political violence while retaining democratic essentials and are incapable of coherently construing democratic essentials of political violence. The reader also can profitably integrate this chapter with that of Finn's on political exclusion. Simons, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, presents a seemingly optimistic analysis of the absence of "widespread identity-based communal violence" in the United States. However, the reader might note that many other aspects of violence are well-represented within the United States democracy including what can be termed the insidious and omnipresent disciplinary and punitive features of organizational life that may render one bereft of one's soul even as the body remains intact. Also, some readers might wonder whether there is a tradeoff in democracy between communal and other variants of political violence. Barkun, Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University, analyzes the "radical right" in the United States as it justifies violence in the name of democracy within a nation-state that also justifies violence in the name of a democracy that--some readers might posit00is de facto controlled by "the right." 2 International Bulletin of Political Psychology, Vol. 11, Iss. 6 [2001], Art. 2 https://commons.erau.edu/ibpp/vol11/iss6/2 International Bulletin of Political Psychology 3 Ultimately, the psychological dynamics characterizing both levels of violence and violence justification may appear to be equivalent. Sprinzak, Founding Dean, Lauder School of Government, Policy and Diplomacy, Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, describes extremism--especially militant messianism--and violence in Israel. He traces the longitudinally concurrent development of Israeli democracy and of Jewish political violence within and proximal to Israel. An intriguing conclusion is that violence is not an aberration of democracy or an indicator of democracy's weakness but a reinforcer of the democratic essence. Korbonski, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, traces tensions towards violence and towards political violence in Eastern Europe from the post-World War era through the disestablishment of the Soviet Union and beyond. A close reading of this chapter seems to suggest that increasing ethnic homogeneity within democracies or within entities attempting to become democratic may facilitate democracy and minimize violence. Can this too easily be taken as a prescription or rationale for ethnic cleansing in the service of democracy? In addition, what is posited as trauma generated by World War II and the post-War Communist takeovers in Eastern Europe may have significantly modified collective attitudes, perhaps even national characters, that, in turn, facilitated non-violent political change towards democracy. Here democracy may seem founded on an intensely violent foundation and to require transfusions of violence. Le Vine, Professor of Political Science, Washington University, St Louis, presents a counterfactual analysis of the proposition that democracy may require increments of violence to preserve itself. This proposition is attributed by Le Vine to former United States President Thomas Jefferson and may already be shared by readers who have read the previous chapters in this book. Le Vine strongly marshals theory and data against the proposition and the reader can benefit from studying his annex depicting so-called free democracies' crises of legitimacy and violent challenges (pp. 287-292). Eubank, Associate Professor, University of Nevada, and Weinberg engage in counterfactual analysis of the contentions that "civic communities" must be well-established to support a viable democracy; that these "communities" require long incubation periods; and that democracy is, therefore, likely to fail when violence and authoritarianism have been previously well-established. In the context of Italy, these authors contend that r


We propose a novel shape-changing technique called Filum, which makes it possible to alter the shapes of textiles to better suit the requirements of people and the environment. Using strings and various sewing methods, ordinary textiles can be automatically shortened or shrunk into curved shapes. We demonstrate a series of novel interactions between people and textiles via three applications.


The issue of boundary determination of therapeutic waters, thermal waters and brines deposits. A b s t r a c t. Therapeutic waters, thermal waters and brines are considered as minerals and their exploitation is regulated by the act of geological and mining law on 9 June 2011 (Journal of Laws 2011 No 163, Item 981, as amended). It means that the term "deposit" is applicable for them. However, the specific of groundwaters is significantly different than of other minerals this is why determination of their boundaries brings many difficulties especially with regard to existing legal framework. The regulations do not take the renewability of groundwater resources and groundwater flow into account. In the article several issues connected with the lack of understandable rules referring to boundaries determination of brines, therapeutic and thermal waters were presented as well as some problems that occur due to various interpretation of the regulations. Some suggestions on the regulations changes were presented which may lead to solve the problem.


The International Business Environment (IBE) has been argued to be the essential context for international business (IB) studies and the distinguishing factor from other management studies and studies of large enterprises. Two content analysis show that many papers published in top tier IB journals either lack reference to any dimension of the IBE or tend to be uni-or bi-dimensional when addressing the IBE; it is not a surprise that the cultural dimension is the most often used. We suggest that: (a) there is need to developed more uni-and multi-dimensional environmental constructs; (b) a more holistic view of the IBE provides richer insights on the actual complexity underlying IB research. Future studies that provide more comprehensive models of the IBE that overcome the usual broad classifications of the international environment as undefined and uncontrollable factors are warranted to advance conceptual and empirical research. manuel Portugal Ferreira Professor da Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Leiria, Portugal email@example.com Dan Li Professor da Kelley Business School, Indiana University – IN, Estados Unidos. firstname.lastname@example.com stephen Guisinger (In memoriam) Professor da School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas – TX, Estados Unidos Fernando A. ribeiro serra Professor do Departamento de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina – SC, Brasil firstname.lastname@example.com Recebido em 15.04.2007. Aprovado em 29.05.2009 Avaliado pelo sistema double blind review Editor Científico: Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello 038-050 (282-294).indd 282 7/20/09 4:02 PM 282-294 • jul./set. 2009 • n. 3 • v. 49 • São Paulo • ©RAE • 283 Manuel Portugal Ferreira • Dan li • stePhen guisinger • FernanDo a. ribeiro serra ISSN 0034-7590 the many dimensions of the environment over the past years. Noticeably, although there has been a diffuse debate on the nature of IB as a discipline (PENG, 2004; TUNG & WITTELOOSTUIJN, 2008), and on whether it is running out of steam (BUCKLEY, 2002), when looking inside to acclaim and critique the discipline no one has yet examined the role of the IBE in shaping and driving research. Nor has any study examined the extent to which the IBE has been included in prior extant publications in the major IB journals. Therefore, we ask whether the discipline as a whole moving away from the study of international business to the study of management of international operations. Specifically, we examine how and to what extent have the international business environments been used in extant IB research in top tier journals. To answer this question, we adopted the content analysis method which has been used in the literature to assess the evolution of research. In the first content analysis study, full-texts of 889 papers published in one top tier IB journal were examined. In the second content analysis, we confined the content analysis to the titles and abstracts of the papers published in the three top IB journals. Two main conclusions were drawn: first, many papers lack reference to any dimension of the IBE; second, research tends to be uni-or bi-dimensional. muLTIDImeNsIoNALITY oF THe IBe The IBE is multidimensional. By multidimensional we mean that the understanding of only a few variables will not be enough to capture the complexity of the IBE. The added environmental complexity of operating across geographies is not only a major source of uncertainties, but also a distinguishing factor from studies of management of large scale enterprises. Moreover, the interactions among environmental dimensions increase this complexity and make it more arduous to disentangle the specific effects of each environmental factor. By using only one environment dimension in our studies, we obtain only a fragmented view of the complexity associated to managing foreign operations, evaluating international strategies, location, entry mode, entry timing, management of foreign subsidiaries, and so forth. Each of the multinational enterprises' (MNEs) decisions, whether concerning their capabilities, strategies or structural forms, is dependent on many environmental dimensions simultaneously. While, in some cases it is possible that one of these dimensions predominates, this is not generally the case. INTroDuCTIoN Dating back to the origins of the international business (IB) discipline, scholars such as Vernon (1966), Fayerweather (1960), and others, have articulated the importance of the international business environment (IBE) in international business studies. For example, Nehrt, Truitt, and Wright (1970, p. 109) suggested almost four decades ago that international business research is "concerned with the interrelationship between the operations of the business firm and international or foreign environments in which the firm operates", and that "more attention is being devoted to the environment of international business". Guisinger (2000, 2001) argued that the IBE is the central element that established IB as a distinct discipline because the IBE is the idiosyncratic feature that distinguishes IB research from other management areas, and from studies of management of large-scale enterprises. In this regard, the IBE emerges as a dominant context that bounds IB studies. As Boyacigiller and Adler (1997, p. 398) argued: "by definition, IB is contextual. It specifically includes the external international environment in which firms conduct business; that is, the international context in which firms are embedded. It is precisely the nature of this embeddedness in an external international environment that has distinguished IB from other areas of management


The work presented here describes the genomic analysis of the maize plant-isolated endophytic strain Enterobacter asburiae B6_18 from Northwest Province, South Africa, for potential maize plant growth-promoting traits. ABSTRACT The work presented here describes the genomic analysis of the maize plant-isolated endophytic strain Enterobacter asburiae B6_18 from Northwest Province, South Africa, for potential maize plant growth-promoting traits.


The primary objective of this cross-cultural investigation is to compare patterns in student responses to an empirically scrutinized character education measure administered to students in four school districts in Florida with students in a school in Kenya. In this way, the generalizability of findings for scale scores could be compared across cultures. To this end, we conduct a mean structure analysis using structural equation modeling to observe whether multivariate mean differences exist among the factor structures underlying student responses. The results suggest that while students at a school in Kenya rated their school higher on the four scales, overall the latent scores for students within school districts in the United States appear higher. Thus, with respect to the underlying construct of character, this character education measure evidences some multicultural bias at the level of the latent scores. Based on these results, it is concluded that the character education measure does not completely yield generalizable results across cultures. Character education represents a vibrant stream of educational research and practice. In 2007, the most recent systemic review of character education research to date, researchers attempted to establish a more coherent picture of what is effective in character education (Berkowitz & Bier, 2007). These researchers were able to incorporate 64 empirical studies, three meta-analyses, and two literature reviews demonstrating positive effects of 33 character education programs. The federal government supported this movement through grants from the Department of Education and, from 1995 to 2005, 45 states were awarded funding for partnership initiatives. Additionally, from 2004 to 2009, 20 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam shared $79.9 million in grant funding to promote character education in the school (Office of Safe and Healthy Students, 2011). Despite the upsurge of interest in character education since the 1980's (Berkowitz & Bier, 2007), there is a dearth of empirical studies dedicated to the measurement of character education, particularly those using sophisticated analytical procedures capable of detecting whether one common factor such as character underlies measures of kindness, caring, respect, responsibility, fairness, and Correspondence concerning this article should be directed to Stephen A. Sivo, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Parkway, Orlando, FL 32816; firstname.lastname@example.com. Copyright 2017 by the National Association of School Psychologists, ISSN 1938-2243 honesty. There is a need for sound tools of measurement in the field of character education to compare findings across studies (Snyder, 2014). Therefore, this study is designed to determine whether differences exist between students attending four school districts in Florida and a school in Kenya. Such a comparison may provide some evidence of cross-culture generalizability relative to character education. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Whereas multiple definitions of character education exist, in a broad sense the phrase character education at one time referred to almost anything that schools might try to provide outside of academics, especially when the purpose is to help children become good people (Robinson, Jones, & Hayes, 2000). In a narrow sense, the term denoted a particular style of moral training, one that promoted instruction and indoctrination of specific values (Kohn, 1996, p. 429). Thus, at the heart of character education was a belief that there are specific virtues that should be a part of education for all students. From this point, the field spread in different directions. Kohn (1996) emphasized the need for character education to broadly address the desire to help children become good people. The heart of the character education movement concerns teaching values and moral virtues. So, the term character is less controversial than such terms as morals and values and brings a more ''old-fashioned concept to mind which evokes a set of internal qualities that have always been admired as hallmarks of goodness, virtue, and moral maturity'' (Kirschenbaum, 1995, p. 21). Contemporary thinking about character education has seen many philosophical shifts of emphasis as the term has evolved throughout the centuries and recent decades (Walker, Roberts, & Kristjánsson, 2015). Although critical theory is still emerging, Walker and colleagues (2015) defined most recent trends in the philosophy of character education by what they called ''the flourishing pupil'' (p. 84). The flourishing pupil can be understood by the following three principles: (a) the ascension of virtue ethics within the field of moral philosophy, (b) the reemergence of Aristotelianism in educational philosophy, and (c) the positive psychology movement's proposed paradigm shift from a disease model to a wellness-based model of human flourishing. Likewise, they believe there are three contemporary themes that further characterize the flourishing pupil: (a) the teleology of human flourishing as a primary aim of education, (b) virtues as being inherent and worthwhile ends in themselves and essential for human flourishing, and (c) recognizing that all education is unavoidably value laden and therefore character education cannot be subsectioned into special classes that explicitly focus on such themes. The goals of education broadly, then, are inherently tied into the goals of character education more specifically (i.e., the development of good character traits). The goal of character education, from the standpoint of the flourishing pupil, is not overly individualized, as if individual students occupied social environments devoid of cultural and political influences. Instead, virtue can only be aspired to under the right conditions. Character education includes systemic change in symbiotic relationship with individual change. Thus, taking into account school climate is essential to any theory of character education and, by logical extension, its measurement.


Abstract Background Chronic abdominal pain is the most common complaint of patients with gastrointestinal disorders. Its treatment is of limited efficacy as the pathophysiology is poorly understood. The gut microbiome has been shown to affect host physiology, including the neural system function, and growing evidence suggests that it plays an important role in pain perception. Gut microbiota produces a large variety of molecules that can regulate pain perception, such as histamine or bioactive lipids. Phospholipid mediators (PLM) are signaling molecules linked to neurogenic pain as by-products of inflammatory processes in mammals. But it is unknown whether bacteria can produce PLM and whether they play any role in visceral hyperalgesia. Purpose To investigate whether PLM are present in stool of patients with chronic abdominal pain, and whether they have potential to induce visceral hypersensitivity. Method Stool samples from 27 patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) were collected both during periods of severe and minimal/no pain. The fecal concentration of two PLM (lipid A and lipid B) was determined by ELISA. The passage of lipid A and lipid B through the intestinal barrier was determined ex vivo using Ussing chambers and in vivo by their intracolonic instillation, and their levels assessed in the serosal compartment and the serum, respectively, by ELISA. We used primary cultures of sensory neurons from the dorsal root ganglia (DRG) of conventional mice (SPF) to study the neuronal activation in vitro. Calcium mobilization in DRG sensory neurons was measured by an inverted fluorescence microscope using a fluorescent probe Fluo-4 (1mM) after stimulation with different concentration of lipid A or lipid B. Visceral sensitivity in vivo after intracolonic instillation of combined lipids A and B was evaluated by colorectal distension. Result(s) The concentration of lipid A (p=0.001) and lipid B (p=0.002) in stool was significantly higher in IBS patients when experiencing severe abdominal pain compared to periods of minimal pain. The concentration of lipid A (p=0.03; p=0.07) and lipid B (p=0.018; p=0.018) in the serosal compartment and in the serum, respectively, was higher compared to the control condition. The percentage of neurons responding to lipid A or lipid B was significantly higher compared to the control condition, at all tested concentrations. Finally, combined lipid A and lipid B induced visceral hypersensitivity within 10 minutes (p=0.0433) and 90 minutes (p=0.0020) after intracolonic instillation. Conclusion(s) Our data suggest that PLM can be found in stool of patients with abdominal pain, that they cross the colonic barrier and increase visceral sensitivity. Further studies are needed to ascertain whether gut bacteria produce these PLM and investigate the precise mechanisms by which PLM induce hyperalgesia. Please acknowledge all funding agencies by checking the applicable boxes below CIHR, Other Please indicate your source of funding; Weston Family Foundation Disclosure of Interest None Declared


Introduction: Xanthelasma palpebrarum refers to lipid deposition that occurs on eyelids and inner canthi. It may be associated with certain systemic conditions. Present study was done to know / understand about the relationship between xanthelasma and lipid profile. Material and Methods: In this type of Case control study, 30 cases with Xanthelasma palpebrarum and 30 healthy individuals of similar age group were selected. All cases and controls underwent clinical examination and fasting lipid profile study with written consent. A detailed history was taken from the patients about the lesions, with respect to age of onset, duration of lesion, progression of lesion etc. All cases underwent lipid profile study in empty stomach. Result: Total cholesterol levels were increased in 53.34% (16cases) as compared to 10 controls (30%), making it highly significant, triglycerides levels were increased in 19cases (63.34%) as compared to 8 controls (26.67%) . No significant relationship was observed with respect to other cholesterol parameters. Conclusion: This study showed that there is a significant elevation in total cholesterol and triglycerides in Xanthelasma palpebrarum patients as compared to controls, thus making lipid profile compulsory for all patients with Xanthelasma.


Abstract Manns U. & Anderberg A. A.: New combinations and names in Lysimachia (Myrsinaceae) for species of Anagallis, Pelletiera and Trientalis. — Willdenowia 39: 49–54. — Online ISSN 1868-6397; © 2009 BGBM Berlin-Dahlem. doi:10.3372/wi.39.39103 (available via http://dx.doi.org/) New combinations are proposed for species of Anagallis, Pelletiera and Trientalis in accordance with the results of phylogenetic analyses of the Lysimachia complex, based on molecular and morphological data. These three genera as well as Glaux and Asterolinon, for the species of which names in Lysimachia are already available, have been found to be derived, specialized groups that have evolved within Lysimachia. The present classification therefore does not reflect our current understanding of evolutionary relationships within the Lysimachia complex. Merging all the genera in Lysimachia is here considered better than splitting the latter into several smaller genera. For Anagallis crassifolia and A. filifolia new names are validated and for A. alternifolia and A. pumila the names change since their epithets have already been used in Lysimachia. Lectotypes are selected for A. filifolia, A. filiformis, A. kingaënsis, A. monelli, A. schliebenii, A. serpens and Pelletiera verna, and a neotype is designated for A. foemina.


Using the CRCW PRAM model, we describe a language recognition algorithm for an arbitrary grammar in the class of BCPP grammars 9]. (BCPP grammars, which admit ambiguity, are a generalization of both the NTS grammars 14] and Floyd's bounded context (BC) grammars 4].) Using n processors, the algorithm runs in time O(h log n) (O(h) in the case of an unambiguous grammar), where n is the length of the input string x and h is bounded above by the height of the tallest parse tree for x. Estimating that h 2 O(log n) in the usual case, this yields a running time of O(log 2 n) (O(log n) in the unambiguous case).


A general framework to define symmetry and chirality measures is introduced. Then, we present a chirality measure (the chiral index) based on an extension of the Wasserstein metric to spaces of colored mixtures distributions. Connections with Procrustes methods and optimal RMS superpositions are outlined. The properties of the chiral index are presented, including its use as an asymetry coefficient of d-variate distributions. Relations with graph automorphisms groups and applications to chemistry are mentioned. Some maximally dissymetric or maximally chiral figures are presented. Several open problems are listed.


The CHIME (chemical Th-U-total Pb isochron method) dating on monazite was carried out for two foliated granites from a dextral ductile shear zone in the vicinity of Gangjin area, which is considered to be a southern extension of Sunchang shear zone. The result gives emplacement age of the medium-grained biotite granite and the coarse-grained biotite granite as (MSWD=0.21) and (MSWD=0.57), respectively. Microtextures of quartz and feldspar observed in the foliated granite are almost identical with those reported in Jurassic (ca 180 Ma) foliated granites from the Imsil-Namwon area of the Sunchang shear zone, and they constraint that the ductile deformation took place at temperature condition of . Assuming cooling curves of the foliated granites in this study are similar with those of Jurassic foliated granites from Imsil-Namwon area, dextral ductile shear in the Gangjin area would take place between 172 Ma and 150 Ma, about 10 Ma later than the previous estimation based on CHIME monazite ages.


Formation and properties of diacetyl reductase were studied. Gluconate, acetate , pyru vate lactate, citrate and succinate increased the enzyme formation. The initial pH of the medium favorable for the enzyme formation was 7.0 •` 8.0. The enzyme was partially purified about 65-fold. The optimum pH value for the ac tivity was 7.5 and the optimum temperature was 37°C. The enzyme was stable in the pH range of 7.0 to 8.0 and at the temperatures of 37°C and below. No metal ion which enhanced the enzyme activity was observed. Tris-HCI buffer reduced the enzyme activity.


In this paper, the equalization techniques for high-speed interconnect transceivers are discussed. Serial interconnect transceivers have been widely adopted for its high data transfer rate, low cost, good noise immunity and low EMI. Signal SNR can be severely degraded by transmission channel. Effects due to channel impairments and tradeoffs among different equalization techniques are discussed in the paper. Implementation examples of key building blocks for high-speed serial transceiver in deep sub-micron CMOS logic process are also introduced.


shape the reality. It would help readers to frame the picture of the field in a fair way. Choo's book sheds much feminist light on gendered identities and encounters by addressing the stories of migrant women with various statuses, family ties, and relationships. However, broader considerations would be worthy for future work. Chapter 7 points to the notion of antitrafficking from feminist perspectives which fostered the rights by claiming their victimhood. Stories were interpreted by the possible risks of human trafficking, which on the one hand reveal the struggles and exploitation of migrant hostesses in the sex industry but ignore the interweaved and interdependent relationships among hostesses, club owners, brokers, and American GIs, on the other. To assume that all women in the sex industry are victims is to fail to look at their agency and the diversity of their living strategies. It would have been helpful to put the lens on different characters about how they rely on and negotiate with each other; this would help readers see the chains in the community and the nuanced power dynamics related to their positions. Also, additional work would help tie Choo's arguments to globalization of labor trade, family ties, decision-making, and the diaspora in migrant workers' lives. This is important for readers to see the big picture of how global changes affect migrant workers' movement. In sum, the chapters in this book individually provide rich insights by looking into different women's journeys and coherently convey the idea of decentering citizenship. For the countries receiving migrant workers, it is crucial to reexamine the policies and the gaps between ideal formulation and practical reality. This book uncovers the unknown distress and insistence in the adventure of migrant workers; it takes students, researchers, scholars, and activists forward on their journey, with the potential to break the existing views of the world, and makes significant changes. In this respect, it is recommended as a must-read.


Increasing the strength of the matrix material rather than increasing stiffness is frequently the primary objective when designing composite materials. This is typically the case when the matrix is made of brittle, low-strength material. the resilience of this matrix substance Usually, it is determined by the initial flaws in the raw material. Depending on the microstructure of the composite material, these flaws or fissures may be large or minor. The orientations of the foil fibers, which can be customized to improve the performance of the laminate, have a significant impact on the properties of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) laminates.
This study's goal is to look at how matrix cracking affects the mechanical characteristics of FRP chips. The presence and absence of exterior cracks are examined in unidirectional glass fiber reinforced polymer strips. Samples were manually cast using plastic molds constructed in accordance with ASTM standards. It were able to comprehend the impact of external cracking on composite materials through the mechanical tests that were conducted since it causes the material to weaken. Consequently, it is seen as a location where tensions are concentrated.


At present Chinese gross of human resource is great but the diathesis is not high.the management exists that the collocation of the configuration is not in reason etc.Entering WTO brings lots of effect for exploitation of the human resource.We should transfer idea in time,establish the new management mechanism of the human resource in order to advance the management level of the human resource.


Dialogical Inquiry in Critical Literacy: A Staff Development Intervention Study by Michelle M. Truman Dr. Thomas W. Bean, Examination Committee Chair Professor of Literacy Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas This study systematically examined the journey of a group of eight elementary school teachers and their administrator as they explored the social, political, and cultural world of critical literacy and its relationship to teaching. This expedition included using texts as social tools, which facilitated participants? critical reflections of personal beliefs and practices. Through dialogical inquiry, they also investigated the societal, historical, and political elements that comprised their own cultural and historically situated identities. Truman collected data through ethnographic methods, and she chose four case studies from the artifacts, writing samples, transcriptions of discussions, observations, and interviews. The four participants included were from a wide diversity of race, class, perspectives, and experiences. Through analysis of the case studies, the following findings emerged: (a) Zurie had a significant impact on her pedagogical practices, (b) Jo experienced validation and deepening of previously held beliefs, (c) Beverly made personal discoveries regarding her identity.


Leaf spot is a common disease of cassava in Indonesia and other tropical countries. The present study aims to determine two isolates isolated from leaf spot of cassava in Indonesia using a molecular phylogenetic analysis based on internal transcribed spacer (ITS) rDNA sequence and morphological examination. The results showed that the two isolates belong to Clarohilum henningsii. This study revealed the phylogenetic position of C. henningsii from Indonesia, where in the previous studies, it has been reported as Cercospora cassavae, C. manihotis, C. henningsii, or Passalora henningsii based on morphological examinations.


ICCMPM-2023 brings in lot of cheers, encouragement and motivation in the minds of faculty, researchers and young students of Ethiraj College. Achieving this in association with ISCA is a great moral and academic support. Involvement of the teams comprising College management, advisory committee and invited speakers is very impressive.


Land issues have the potential to, and actually do generate a lot of
conflicts and controversies in rural communities. In Northern Ghana, certain
dilemmas, animated controversies, and conflicts about land rights, the
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ABSTRACT Motivated by the popularity of 'Run away from Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou' saying in China this paper tests the determinants of subjective well-being (SWB) of long-term migrants and the extent to which migrants make optimal locational decisions in terms of SWB. China's cities are divided into 4 core first-tier cities, 15 new first-tier cities, and non-first-tier cities (94 in the sample) reflecting different levels of economic opportunity and amenities. Migrants can only be observed in their present location. Hence, we use a semi-parametric marginal treatment effect method to compare actual and counterfactual SWB outcomes. Results shows that migrants' SWB is greater in non-first-tier cities than first-tier cities; the determinants of SWB differ for male and female migrants; and, female migrants with urban hukou are typically better off in the four core first-tier cities as well as other first-tier cities. Overall, there is thus a marked gender differences in migrants' optimal locational choice. From a productivity and social cohesion perspective, these results make it imperative that public policy in China addresses the gender and spatial sorting imbalances that arises from differences in SWB determinants and optimal location as ever more educated young people join the labour force.


The invention discloses an electronic cigarette by the utilization of a straight glass tube fixing technology. A cylindrical protrusion section is arranged at the bottom of a dripping nozzle, an annular groove used for containing a seal ring is formed in the side face of the cylindrical protrusion, and an annular groove for containing a silicon rubber gasket is formed in the radial face of the shaft shoulder of an upper cover, and the outer diameter of a thin shaft of the front section of the upper cover is equal to the inner diameter of an air guiding tube. The outer diameter of a straight glass tube is equal to the outer diameter of the upper cover. One end face of the straight glass tube is matched with the radial face of the shaft shoulder of the upper cover, and an annular groove for containing the silicon rubber gasket is formed in the matched end face of the straight glass tube. An annular groove for containing a silicon rubber gasket is formed in the other end face of the straight glass tube. An annular groove for containing the silicon rubber gasket is formed in the radial face of the shaft shoulder of a lower cover, and the outer diameter of the lower section of the lower cover is equal to the outer diameter of the straight glass tube. The manufacturing technology of the electronic cigarette can be effectively improved, and meanwhile the mouthfeel can be improved in the using process.


Background: Joint hyper-resistance is a common symptom in cerebral palsy (CP). It is assessed by rotating the joint of a relaxed patient. Joint rotations also occur when perturbing functional movements. Therefore, joint hyper-resistance might contribute to reactive balance impairments in CP. Aim: To investigate relationships between altered muscle responses to isolated joint rotations and perturbations of standing balance in children with CP. Methods & procedures: 20 children with CP participated in the study. During an instrumented spasticity assessment, the ankle was rotated as fast as possible from maximal plantarflexion towards maximal dorsiflexion. Standing balance was perturbed by backward support-surface translations and toe-up support-surface rotations. Gastrocnemius, soleus, and tibialis anterior electromyography was measured. We quantified reduced reciprocal inhibition by plantarflexor-dorsiflexor co-activation and the neural response to stretch by average muscle activity. We evaluated the relation between muscle responses to ankle rotation and balance perturbations using linear mixed models. Outcomes & results: Co-activation during isolated joint rotations and perturbations of standing balance was correlated across all levels. The neural response to stretch during isolated joint rotations and balance perturbations was not correlated. Conclusions & implications: Reduced reciprocal inhibition during isolated joint rotations might be a predictor of altered reactive balance control strategies.


Nanorods of Ni/Fe complex metal hydroxides precursor were fabricated by a microemulsion method. The nanorods were 20~30 nm in diameter and 600~1000 nm in length, with amorphous structure. Ni/Fe composite oxides were obtained by calcinations of Ni/Fe complex metal hydroxides precursor. At 500 °C, the sample retained the morphology of the nanorods, with the same diameter to the precursor and the length shortened to 300~400 nm. The crystal phase was composed of NiO and dispersed amorphous Fe2O3. When the calcination temperature was higher than 500 °C, the morphology of the nanorods of the precursor were collapsed to nanoparticles, and the crystal phase transformed to the mixture of NiO and NiFe2O4.


System is a structure that operates within the relevant field with minimum error enabling attainment of an end-product as intended. It is only natural to encounter disruptions or deviations in human-induced systems. Nevertheless, any system targeting the training of individuals is a sensitive structure that should be designed meticulously since it is a long-term effort where consequences may significantly and directly affect the lives of the individuals within the system. The primary goals of the Turkish education system are clearly stated in the Basic Law of National Education. Although there are several formative studies such as curriculum design or system amendments within the system in compliance with these main goals, there are also certain obstacles or factors that adversely affect the achievement of these goals. This current study aims to identify and reveal the key problems that are preventing the achievement of the intended goals for the Visual Arts courses within the Turkish education system. Within this framework, identified problems are discussed from the perspective of decisions taken at the National Education Councils on teaching hours and permanent staff application, lack of physical spaces such as workshops and classrooms, teacher training, and employment, followed by a set of recommendations for possible solutions.


The laminar burning velocity uL and laminar flame thickness δL are the most important parameters of a reacting mixture characterizing globally the complex processes in a combustion wave. Their accurate knowledge is important for practical purposes, as well as for the modeling of chemical kinetics and turbulent combustion. The flame thickness is commonly used for estimation of the characteristic flow time within the flame (sometimes considered as a characteristic chemical reaction time) in a Karlovitz number [1]


A reaction to Rondec@ is reported. The patient p resented wtih a gitation and hallucinations and responded promptly to a trial of physostigmine. The clinical picture and prompt resolution of symptoms with physostigmine strongly suggest that the reaction was to the antihistamine component of the medication. Carbinoxamine maleate is a member of the ethanolamine class of H1 antihistamines and has been available since the early 1950's. Rondec@ is a commonly prescribed preparation, available commercially as drops (1 ml contains 2 mg carbinoxamine maleate, 25 mg pseudoephedrine hydrochloride), syrup (4 mg carbinoxamine maleate and 60 mg pseudoephedrine hydrochloride per 5 ml), tablets (4 mg carbinoxamine maleate and 60 mg pseudophedrine) and T R sustained release tablets (8 mg carbinoxamine maleate, 120 mg pseudoephedrine). The few reported


The aim. To identify the features of the postoperative period in patients with chronic dacryocystitis and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) after endoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR), depending on the degree of compensation of DM. Materials and methods. The study involved 30 DM2 patients with chronic dacryocystitis who underwent endoscopic endonasal DCR according to standard methods. The patients were divided into groups according to the degree of compensation of DM2: 6 patients with compensated, 7 patients with subcompensated and 17 patients with decompensated DM2. The results of the operation were evaluated after 2 months, 6 months and 2 years. In addition to standard methods, ophthalmic examination included nasolacrimal duct probing, lacrimal duct lavage, and endoscopic examination of the nasal cavity. Results and discussion. The efficiency of endoscopic endonasal DCR in decompensated DM2 after 2 months (58.8 ± 11.9 % of patients) on average was 1.4 times, and after 6 months (52.9 ± 12.1 % of patients) and 2 years (41.2 ± 11,9 % of patients) – it was 1.5 times less than that in subcompensated and compensated DM2 (p < 0.05). In patients with decompensated DM2, tearing was observed in 41.2 ± 11.9 % of patients after 2 months, in 47.1 ± 12.1 % of patients after 6 months and in 58.8 ± 11.9 % of patients after 2 years post-op, which was, on average, 2.7 times, 2.1 times and 1.5 times more often than that in subcompensated and compensated DM2, respectively (p < 0.05); there were no significant differences between the values (p > 0.05). Conclusions. Features of the postoperative period in patients with chronic dacryocystitis after endoscopic endonasal DCR depend on the degree of compensation of DM2. The efficiency of endoscopic endonasal DCR in decompensated DM2 after 2 months is on average 1.4 times, and after 6 months and 2 years it is 1.5 times less than that in subcompensated and compensated DM2. Keywords: type 2 diabetes mellitus, degree of compensation of diabetes mellitus, chronic dacryocystitis, efficiency of endoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy, features of postoperative period.


Despite this rather high incidence, the number of manuscripts on adult primary hypospadias repair is rather low. Most men with undiagnosed or untreated hypospadias probably do not seek correction as they probably do not find it necessary to correct a mild anomaly. A recent study analyzed how the penis should look according to lay persons. The quite interesting results show that laypersons find the position and the shape of the meatus the least important in the aspect of the penis.


Neural network compression and quantization are important tasks for fitting state-of-the-art models into the computational, memory and power constraints of mobile devices and embedded hardware. Recent approaches to model compression/quantization are based on reinforcement learning or search methods to quantize the neural network for a specific hardware platform. However, these methods require multiple runs to compress/quantize the same base neural network to different hardware setups. In this work, we propose a fully nested neural network (FN3) that runs only once to build a nested set of compressed/quantized models, which is optimal for different resource constraints. Specifically, we exploit the additive characteristic in different levels of building blocks in neural network and propose an ordered dropout (ODO) operation that ranks the building blocks. Given a trained FN3, a fast heuristic search algorithm is run offline to find the optimal removal of components to maximize the accuracy under different constraints. Compared with the related works on adaptive neural network designed only for channels or bits, the proposed approach is applicable to different levels of building blocks (bits, neurons, channels, residual paths and layers). Empirical results validate strong practical performance of proposed approach.


Objective To discussion the clinical significance and serum levels of MMP-9,TIMP-1 and TNF-α in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus(SLE).Methods The serum MMP-9,TIMP-1 and TNF-α were measured by sandwich ELISA in 40 patients with SLE and 30 healthy controls.Results The serum level of MMP-9 was significantlv higher in patients with SLE compared with those in healthy controls(P0.01).The serum level of TIMP-1 was significantly higher in patients with SLE compared with those in healthy counrols(P0.05).There was no significant differences of serum TNF-a level between patients with SLE and healthy controls.Conclusion MMP-9、TIMP-1 and TNF-α may be involved in the pathogenesis of SLE.


Various stereotypes and cultural influences said to be associated with eating disorders were examined in a nonclinical population. The Eating Attitudes Test, The Family Functioning Scale, and a background questionnaire were administered to high school students (N = 284). Sex, frequency of contact with peers concerning dieting, involvement in activities associated with a specific body type, and poor school achievement were found to predict attitudes and behaviors associated with eating disorders. The impact of social influence was discussed with implications for intervention.


The building located in Regional Police of Central Java is included in a state building that should meet the requirement of Occupational Safety and Health (K3) and have rescue facility from the disaster or emergency situation based on the required National Standard of Indonesia (SNI) . The fire in Regional Police building of Central Java in 2015 was caused by electricity installation, so the new Regional Police building was built. However, there is no research and study about the fire standard after it was built. The research was aimed at analyzing the reliability level of building safety system in Regional Police building in Central Java as the fire protection system. The type of the research was observational descriptive study in which the actual situation is describe d and interpret ed without the treatment or intervention on the research variable. The subjects of this research were the staffs of o ffice s ervice b ureau ( y anma) as well as f acility and i nfrastructure b ureau ( s arpras) of Regional Police in Central Java. The data were collected using observation sheet with the standard guideline of Pd-T-11-2005-C concerning the safety checking of the fire in the building by Public Works Department of Republic Indonesia and the interview guideline of building reliability component. The result of this research shows that the score of safety reliability in Regional Police building in Central Java is 8 5 , 19 % and is included in good category. Nevertheless, the improvement is required in the sub-component of active protection system which is included in poor category.


The aim of this investigation was to identify suitable parental lines of vetch (Vicia sativa spp.) from Turkish and ICARDA germplasm, with appropriate morphological and phenological characters, for generating low %w w-1 g-L-Glutamyl-b-cyano-L-alanine toxin cultivars, using infrared nitrile screening, dendrogram clustering, and Pearson correlations. A significant inverse relationship between seed-mass and %w w-1 g-L-Glutamyl-b-cyano-L-alanine was observed in 13 semiprostrate lines of V. sativa. No corresponding seed-toxin, seed-mass relationship was observable in 41 lines of V. sativa subsp. sativa of erect habit. Accordingly, the possibilities for the incorporation of the low toxic compound in small-seeded semiprostrate V. sativa lines into larger seeded erect V. sativa lines, via a Mendelian crossing program, was investigated. The limitations to this conclusion are also discussed.


Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is becoming an  increasing common treatment modality for a variety  of diseases. Kidneys  are recognized as a target organ of acute and  chronic graft-versus host disease (GvHD).Glomerulopathy significantly limits patient life-time. Acute kidney injury occurs on average in 100 days after  HCT in 15 – 73% of patients due  to treatmentrelated toxity and radiation. Chronic GvHD is associated with chronic kidney disease. The majority of CKD after  transplantation is idiopathic syndrome, thrombotic microangiopathy and  nephrоtic syndrome.


In this paper, the main purpose is to describe the development and use of three flowcharts for identifying types of isomers and naming coordination compounds. The first flowchart is designed to hel...


The dynamical dielectric response of a condensed system of molecules with permanent electric dipole moments is studied. We start from the dynamical extension of the Onsager theory developed by Nee and Zwanzig, but generalized so as to be applicable at high frequencies. Specifically, we retain inertial terms and introduce relaxation effects in a way valid in a high frequency limit. The dielectric function obtained incorporates a diversity of both collective and single‐particle behavior, consistently, over the entire range of frequencies below those of intramolecular excitation. It is noteworthy that not only is a collective mode, or dipolar plasmon, exhibited, but that its frequency is also a resonance of the single‐dipole motion. The properties of the dielectric function are analyzed and illustrated in detail, and specific applications are made to water, to hydrogen chloride, and to chloroform.


actually pertain to vision—to how one looks at things—is less than certain. in fact, in some instances, it is clear that the focus is not "viewing" at all. it is the notion of "verbal viewing" that plays the most critical function throughout P.'s book, and it is the one "mode" that demands justification. While there can be little disagreement with the claim that language "triggers" the imagination (p. 217; cf. p. 329), the idea that this is a form of "viewing"—and more than a metaphor—requires justification rather than mere assertion. much of this revolves around the paragone of text and image, and the author's explicit belief in the "the limits of the visual . . . and . . . the superiority" of literature (p. 203). But does reading a description of viewing constitute the same experience as actual seeing? This seems to be a central claim: "a mode of viewing within the text" (p. 198); "the text's scenes of viewing" (p. 298); discussion of Callimachus revolves around "the act of viewing the statue he describes (p. 183; cf., similarly, p. 204). The proposition is pressed to extremes: "While experiences of enargeia or phantasia can be generated by literary or artistic representation, provoking secondary forms of vision such as that experienced in the 'mind's eye', they can also constitute the primary visual experiences that inspire such verbal or visual representations in the first place" (p. 231). One wonders whether this too counts as an epiphany.


The utility model relates to a crude oil associated gas flashing and separating device. The crude oil associated gas flashing and separating device comprises a test separator, a crude oil flashing separator and a crude oil storage tank. The upper end of the test separator is provided with a natural gas outlet, the lower end of the test separator is provided with a hydrocarbon-removed crude oil outlet communicated with the flashing separator through a throttling valve, an electric heater is arranged in the flashing separator, the upper end of the flashing separator is provided with a flashing gas outlet, and the crude oil outlet in the lower end is connected with the crude oil storage tank. Rich associated gas in the crude oil is recycled through throttling pressure reducing and flashing separating, and the crude oil is stored more safely. The crude oil associated gas flashing and separating device is simple in structure, convenient to operate, high in safety and especially suitable for recycling single-well crude oil associated gas.


The crystal structure of potassium hydrogen diaspirinate [bisacetylsalicylate], KH[C6H4(OCOCH3)CO2]2, has been determined by X-ray analysis. The monoclinic cell, comprising 4 molecules, has a= 26·63, b= 7·207, c= 10·68 A, β= 116·24° and belongs to the space-group C2/c. The structure, which is isomorphous with that of the acid rubidium salt described in the preceding Paper, has been refined by anisotropic least-squares analysis to an R-value of 9·9% for 2731 reflexions. Each potassium ion lies on a two-fold axis and makes contact with an oxygen atom from each of six different aspirinate residues, and each aspirinate makes contact with three different potassium ions. The acidic hydrogen atom is involved in a very short hydrogen bond, with O⋯O = 2·455 ± 0·005 A, which connects two aspirinate residues across a centre of symmetry. The significance of such (apparently) symmetrical O⋯H⋯O bonds is discussed. The dimensions of the aspirinate residue agree well with those found in the rubidium isomorph; they are compared with corresponding dimensions of the molecules of aspirin and of salicylic acid.


In order to supply a basis for uniting the reference value standard of Chinese healthy adult and young people's whole blood contrast viscosity,a research is made about relationship between the reference value and five geographical factors.It is found that altitude is the main factor affecting this reference value.As the altitude increase gradually,the reference value also increase gradually,the correlation is quite obvious.Applying the method of mathematical regression analysis,two regression equations are given out.If geographical values are obtained in some areas,the reference value of Chinese healthy adult and young people's whole blood contrast viscosity of this area can be reckoned using regression equations.


This paper is to demonstrate that the microfluidic-based single cell chip can be applicable to study micro-gram level amount of ginsenosides on daunorubicin uptake in multidrug resistant (MDR) leukemia cells. Pure ginseng compounds are very hard to obtain and can only be obtained at a trace amount (mini grams level). This small amount sometimes is not enough for traditional methods to evaluate the MDR effect of these compounds. Here, the microfluidic single cell analysis method was used to evaluate the MDR effect of several ginsenosides. In this paper, we tested two ginsenoside compounds: 20(S)-Ginsenoside Rg3 (Rg3-S) and 20(R)-Ginsenoside Rg3 (Rg3-R)and found that Rg3-S provided a stronger effect on enhancing the intracellular accumulation of anticancer drug in the single MDR cancer cells.. KeywordsCancer cell, Fluorescence, Ginsenosides, Microfluidics.


The neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay is a hypothetical rare nuclear decay, which can be used for determining the neutrino-mass scale. The scheme to use this decay for determining the neutrino-mass scale is one of few limited methods possible to determine that. Nuclear matrix element of this decay is an important input to this method, and this matrix element cannot be determined by experiment. I examine the validity of the transition density used for calculating the nuclear matrix element by comparing the experimental data and my calculated result of the charge-change strength functions of $^{48}$Ca and $^{48}$Ti. The nuclear wave functions are obtained by the quasiparticle random-phase approximation. A new idea is proposed on the transition operator for this strength function, and the data of those nuclei are reproduced well consistently. Reduced half-life of a few nuclei to the neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay are shown.


State equations are obtained for a multimachine power system including the stator and network transient terms which are commonly neglected. Results are shown for the transient stability of a 5-machine system and the accuracy of commonly used approximations is indicated.


T HREE developments within recent years have emphasized the significance of the social sciences in modern life and the importance of reviewing their recent trends, and especially of appraising the increasing sweep and power of their applications in the modern world. The first was the planning of A Century of Progress: The Chicago International World's Exposition, I933. The second was the appointment in i9Z9 and the work of the President's Research Committee on Social Trends. The third was the financial depression and the resulting confusion of recent years. A simple statement concerning each of these three developments will serve as an introduction to a series of general discussions of the increasing sweep and application of the social sciences to problems of modern civilization. The present paper together with Professor Beard's discussion of "Recent Social Trends" and Professor Rice's notes on "Statistics in Relation to Recent Social Trends in the United States" are in the way of introduction to further discussions begun in this issue by L. L. Bernard's article on "The Historical Development of the Social Sciences" Shelby Harrison's notes on "Social Surveys," and James Ford's notes on "Trends in Housing."


A high-resolution 3-dimensional model of the photospheric magnetic field is essential for the investigation of magnetic features such as sunspots, pores or smaller elements like single flux tubes seen as magnetic bright points. The SIR code is an advanced inversion code that retrieves physical quantities, e.g. magnetic field, from Stokes profiles. Based on this code, we developed a program for automated inversion of Hinode SOT/SP data and for storing these results in 3-dimensional data cubes in the form of fits files. We obtained models of the temperature, magnetic field strength, magnetic field angles and LOS-velocity in a region of the quiet sun. We will give a first discussion of those parameters in regards of small scale magnetic fields and what we can obtain and learn in the future.


Evidence to solve clinical problems may be drawn from sources as diverse as individual clinical experience, the clinical experience of one's colleagues, physiological research, observational studies, randomized clinical trials (RCTs), and meta-analyses. The strongest evidence comes when RCTs that examine patient-important outcomes are summarized in cumulative meta-analyses. An alternative to using evidence for solving clinical problems is to rely on expert recommendations from, for example, textbooks or review articles. Unfortunately, differences among experts are common, and there are delays and sometimes discrepancies between accumulating evidence and recommendations. Antman et al. provided a vivid illustration of this issue for a common medical problem, treatment of myocardial infarction. These investigators conducted cumulative meta-analyses and surveyed expert recommendations that were made as the evidence accumulated.1 The first RCT of thrombolytic therapy for patients with myocardial infarction, conducted in 1965, enrolled 23 patients. The small sample size implies a very wide confidence interval around the estimate of treatment effect (odds ratio [OR], 0.5; 95% CI, 0.5-1.7; P . .05). As more trials were conducted, the confidence interval around the estimate from the cumulative meta-analysis narrows. By 1973, 10 RCTs had enrolled a total of 2,544 patients, showing a definite mortality reduction with thrombolytic agents (OR, 0.7; 95% CI, 0.6-0.9; P , .01), and by 1986, almost 22,000 patients had been randomized, and the relative-risk reduction was highly statistically significant (OR, 0.78; 95% CI, 0.69-0.90; P , .00001). Although the evidence supported thrombolytic therapy from the early 1970s onward, experts did not routinely endorse thrombolytic therapy in textbooks and peer-reviewed articles until the late 1980s.1 Variability in recommendations persisted into the early 1990s; some suggested routine thrombolytic therapy, whereas others continued to recommend restricted use for specific indications. Similar discrepancies between accumulating evidence and expert recommendations can be found in hepatology. In the 1980s and 1990s, evidence from RCTs showed that nonselective b-blockers could prevent initial variceal bleeding; but expert opinion ranged from recommending routine use to failing to mention b-blockers. In 1995, D'Amico's metaanalysis confirmed that nonselective b-blockers reduce the risk of first bleeding with a trend toward lower mortality.2 Evidence-based practice provides a way to address common medical problems without relying on variable expert recommendations.3-7 In this concise review, we will outline the principles of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and show examples of how EBM can be applied to hepatology.


Insulin which is important for normal regulation of glucose metabolism is secreted directly into the blood by the pancreas. When blood glucose increases to a high concentration after glucose intake, insulin secretion also increases. Then, during the succeeding hours, when blood glucose concentration and insulin secretion decrease, the blood glucose concentration goes back into normal level. Insulin resistance is to prevent the efficient uptake and utilization of glucose by cells. Therefore blood glucose concentration increases, cell utilization of glucose falls under insulin resistance circumstance. In this study, interaction between plasma glucose and insulin was analyzed by using Stolwijk and Hardy's model for healthy and insulin resistance conditions. Similar results to clinical studies were observed during simulations that the blood glucose concentration in the insulin resistant state is higher than in the healthy state.


The work focuses mainly on sustaining the release of Cefuroxime axetil by formulating them in to matrix tablets by using various matrix materials alone/ or in combination with ethyl cellulose (bees wax, lanatte wax, guar gum, xanthan gum, ethyl cellulose). The formulated tablets were subjected to evaluation by in vitro release studies. The release kinetics of the matrix tablet was also investigated in the work.


Abstract Family therapy as a field has increasingly recognized the importance of families' cultural backgrounds in understanding family systems and conducting effective therapy. Although some families' ethnicities fade with assimilation and time, even families who consider themselves marginally Jewish are often deeply influenced by Jewish cultural background. Purely statistical studies of Jewish characteristics are hampered by significant differences in Jewish sample populations (such as Eastern European and Mediterranean Jews) and the inadequacies of current measuring techniques. This article links Jewish cultural traits to specific elements of Jewish history, traditions, and theology; helps familiarize family therapists with the implications of a Jewish cultural background for families entering family therapy; and provides suggestions for treatment interventions.


I see no changes all I see is racist faces Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races We under I wonder what it takes to make this One better place, let's erase the wasted Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right 'Cause both black and white is smokin' crack tonight And only time we chill is when we kill each other It takes skill to be real, time to heal each other And although it seems heaven sent We ain't ready, to see a black President, uhh It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact The penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks But some things will never change. 2Pac "Changes"


In this paper In this paper the It presents a modern design solutions used in trailers for the transport of agricultural produce from the field to the storages. There were described the construction of trailers with a device for picking up crop, large loader trailers, shipping trailers and vehicles to transport cattle feed.


Complex congenital heart diseases (CHD) often present as multiple cardiac lesions. The presence of one anomaly should stimulate the physician to perform a comprehensive assessment and look for other associated anomalies.1 Multimodal imaging may be necessary to diagnose such associated lesions as single imaging may occasionally miss them. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) and transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) are complimentary to each other. Routine use of TEE during intraoperative period may help us to refine diagnosis, detect the missing components and guide effective surgical repair. We present one such case where diagnosis and management were optimized by multimodal imaging.


Even current OCR technology has made significant progress with the help of deep learning, rapid identification algorithms for specific information in documents still need elaborate design. In this paper, a lightweight operating framework based on deep neural network is established to deal with the extraction of date and time information from paper worksheets used in transformer station. In the framework, YOLOv4-Tiny is employed to detect the locations of the dates and the time in document images which are mixed with printing and handwritten fonts. Since the handwritten dates in pictures are difficult to segment, a novel lightweight CNN named MobileDateNet is proposed that can recognize the date serially without segmentation. The experimental results show that the identification accuracy of the whole framework reaches 92.1% at the average running speed of 36.5 FPS on an NVIDIA 3090 GPU, ensuring the recognition accuracy and the operating efficiency.


The Editorial submission by Tait et al. attempts to give a perspective on ISAT almost 5 years following trial closure. It unfortunately adds no new scientifically sound information to the debate about the management of aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage, which has been previously rehearsed in a large number of editorials and comments in mainstream journals. – 9 ISAT was a randomised controlled trial (RCT) designed to compare a neurosurgical and endovascular treatment policy using clipping or coiling, and therefore did not just compare the two treatment procedures. It was a pragmatic trial and reflected management of aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage in participating centres during the trial period. It meets published guidelines on RCTs, which are poorly understood by most clinicians. The published results clearly demonstrate an advantage of coiling over clipping in the study population and have produced a dramatic change in management of aneurysmal SAH with some centres reporting a coiling rate of over 90%. The authors correctly identified the main data pertaining to ISAT recruitment; however, they fail to mention that the patients randomised into ISAT represent a selected subgroup with characteristics thought to represent a good chance of neurological outcome following surgical clipping. The fact that there was better outcome for coiling in this subgroup is therefore important. Given that so many patients were deemed ineligible for entry, one is unable to generalize the results to the entire population and application to practice must be limited to those whose characteristics match those randomised in ISAT alone. This has been clearly recognised by ISAT authors. Many management decisions, therefore, still rely on data from observational studies. These studies claim better outcomes for coiling in posterior circulation aneurysms, aneurysms in older patients and in patients in poorer grade when compared with clipped controls. There is also pressure from the patient for less invasive surgery. It is therefore understandable that increasing numbers of aneurysms are being treated in this way. The potential for aneurysm recurrence and rebleeding following coiling is of concern, and because of this coiled aneurysms undergo rigorous imaging follow-up in most centres. Clipped aneurysms have never been subject to the same rigorous follow up despite the fact that clipped aneurysms do rebleed. In ISAT there is no significant difference between rebleeding rates in the clipped and coiled groups at 1 year. There is, however, a difference between rebleeds in these groups prior to treatment with a difference in time to primary treatment of 1.7 and 1.1 days, respectively. This fact is important and does not weaken the study, which is comparing a treatment policy. Indeed, it is an important observation as delays in treatment may relate to lack of resource and this should therefore remain in the analysis. Some surgeons still prefer to delay clipping in certain clinical situations, for example, in the presence of severe vasospasm. This may not be a problem with coiling. Also with vascular neurosurgical subspecialisation there are decreasing numbers of surgeons available to clip. This may have had a further effect on timing of neurosurgical interventions. The authors correctly state that the functional improvement in patients between 2 and 12 months is more pronounced in the clipped group with a 2.6% reduction in number of dead and dependent in the coiled group compared with 6% reduction in the clipped group. This is almost certainly due to slower recovery rates in clipped patients and will therefore not be sustainable. There is no evidence that this is due to rebleeding in the coiled group and data about


By synchrotron radiation micro-beam XRF analysis of multiple cases of fetal hair,the changes of Pb content in the birth period can be understood,even the daily changes of Pb content can be detected.Therefore,by analyzing the curves of Pb in hair,a certain period of Pb exposure history can be tracked.


Bacterial infections can cause significant clinical complications in patients undergoing Peritoneal Dialysis (PD). This study aimed to determine bacterial infection's clinical and psychosocial outcomes in PD patients. A prospective observational study enrolled 150 PD patients through non-probability sequential sampling. Demographic information, duration of PD, previous infections, and laboratory results were collected. Bacterial infections were identified through routine cultures of PD fluids, and antibiotic susceptibility was determined using the disc diffusion method. The average age of PD patients was 52.3 years, with 42% men and 58% women (p<0.05). Staphylococcus aureus infected 22 patients (14.67%), whereas Streptococci infected 18 patients (12%) (p<0.05). Antibiotic susceptibility assays determined that Staphylococcus aureus was 77% sensitive to vancomycin. Seventy-five patients (50%) on PD for more than 19 months encountered infections. Among the infected group, 90 patients (60%) recovered without complications, while 5 (4.2%) died. The study revealed a significant correlation between bacterial infections in PD patients and clinical symptoms, antibiotic resistance patterns, and disease duration. These findings highlight the importance of enhanced patient monitoring and evolving treatment strategies to improve patient outcomes.


Abstract Although Rhopalosiphum padi L. was common on cereals and Gramineae in Ontario, only a small number of R. fitchii (Sand.) were found on one grass plant in 1961. Fundatrigeniae of R. padi from Prunus virginiana L. and of R. fitchii from Crataegus spp. and Malus spp. were transferred to oats and wheat on which alienicolae of R. padi multiplied rapidly, but R. fitchii very slowly. R. fitchii transmitted all but one of the isolates of barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) that R. padi transmitted to Clintland 60 oats, but fewer test plants became infected, the incubation period for symptom development was longer and symptoms were less severe when R. fitchii was the vector. Both species infected more test plants after a 5-day than after a 2-day acquisition feed on the virus source. It appears that R. padi, a common and efficient vector of BYDV, has frequently been mistaken for R. fitchii which is not common on cereals and not a highly efficient vector. A dosage concept is proposed to explain differences in vector efficiencies of R. padi and R. fitchii. It is also suggested that strains of BYDV become 'adapted' to transmission by a vector species.


Three types of ${\mathrm{Ni}}^{+}$ centers produced by x-ray irradiation in ${\mathrm{RbCaF}}_{3}$ have been studied by EPR spectroscopy. All of them have tetragonal symmetry in the crystal cubic phase and their electronic ground orbital. They have been found to be similar to those recently reported in ${\mathrm{KMgF}}_{3}$ and ${\mathrm{K}}_{2}$${\mathrm{MgF}}_{4}$. One of them (${\mathrm{Ni}}^{+}$-I) is placed in the center of an elongated octahedron of six fluorine ions. The other two (${\mathrm{Ni}}^{+}$-II and ${\mathrm{Ni}}^{+}$-III) are associated with neighboring fluorine vacancies. The use of these centers as probes to study the structural phase transitions in ${\mathrm{RbCaF}}_{3}$ has also been investigated. From the tilting of the gyromagnetic tensor of ${\mathrm{Ni}}^{+}$-II centers, the temperature dependence of the order parameter for the 195-K phase transition has been measured and a value of the critical exponent \ensuremath{\beta}=0.26 has been obtained. It has not been possible to get any information about this phase transition from the other ${\mathrm{Ni}}^{+}$ centers. The 50-K phase transition has no detectable effect on the EPR spectra of any of the ${\mathrm{Ni}}^{+}$ centers. The spin-Hamiltonian parameters for the three ${\mathrm{Ni}}^{+}$ centers have been obtained and an estimation of the ${\mathrm{Ni}}^{+}$-${\mathrm{F}}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}}$ distances has been made using the isotropic part of the superhyperfine interaction parameters.


The purpose of this study was to set up specific attitudinal objectives of Practical Arts subject in elementary school education. The population of this study consists of the teachers of elementary schools in Daegu. 400 teachers were sampled for this study. As for the data collection instruments, the questionnaire for teachers' attitudinal objectives of Practical Arts subject all of which were developed by the researcher, were respectively employed. Also the questionnaire for students was composed of five sub-categories including curiosity, cooperativeness, accuracy, criticalness, and spontaneity. The findings of this study were total of 35 attitudinal objectives of Practical Arts subject was established, which were classified into five categories including curiosity, cooperativeness, spontaneity, criticalness, and accuracy. Appropriateness and validity of attitudinal objectives of Practical Arts subject showed a significant difference. The conclusions drawn from the results of this study were the attitudinal objectives of Practical Arts subject require a very explicit statement in behavioral terms so that the learning objectives can be easily attained by students.


This paper presents a framework for a rule-based chatbot, 'Arogi' for pre-screening gynecology and obstetrics patients. Chatbots are the software programs that automate repetitive tasks and enable users to easily access relevant information. These are being prominently used in e-healthcare to efficiently provide first-level support. The proposed framework presented in this paper aims to pre-screen patients of gynecology and obstetrics using questionnaires. It also keeps a record of the symptoms reported by patients in order to address patient-centered communication barriers. The idea is to overcome personal barriers that frequently prevent patients from initiating consultation with the appropriate healthcare providers in a timely manner. The chatbot's performance has been evaluated by nine doctors from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), India. The team of doctors have rated "Arogi" positively and perceived it as beneficial for both healthcare professionals and the broader female community. According to the feedback provided by the doctors, the framework will be enhanced by adding more features, improving the algorithm and extending knowledgebase as a part of future work.


Peat has been known for its high compressibility, low shear strength and high-water content. Moreover, when it comes to dry season, peat can easily be burnt leaving the large amount of carbon into the atmosphere also causes significant damage to peatland ecology. Based on these, peat burning remains are used as fly ash and it is expected to improve the strength of peat soils alongside to be environmentally safe. Laboratory tests were carried out according to that condition. A study on the influence of fly ash addition in peat soils was done by comparing the result from CBR (California Bearing Ratio). Different percentages of fly ash (i.e. 15, 20, and 25%) were added into peat soil at optimum moisture content amidst 5% of Portland cement for each sample with a variety of curing time of 2 hours, 1 day, 3 days, and 7 days. Changes were observed in specific gravity, acidity, and the microscopic structure. The CBR test results show that the peat gained strength due to the addition of fly ash, with the optimum result of 5.36% for unsoaked condition and 6.35% for soaked condition. Furthermore, according to the results, the peat soil can be used as a subgrade.


Converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into more valuable chemicals is of great interest in recent years. This is one potential solution to the two problems behind the significant increase of CO2: global warming and limited fossil fuel resources. One technical effort is to develop CO2 involved photoelectrochemical approaches for solar fuel production. Using water as both an electron donor and a proton source would mimic the photosynthesis in plants. In the presence of water, however, the semiconductor photocatalyst generally suffers from low product selectivity and quantum efficiency. On the other hand, metal complex catalysts have shown high product selectivity and current efficiency in electrochemical reduction of CO2. Combining them as a co-catalyst with a semiconductor photocathode would improve the selectivity and efficiency. This article highlights the most recent progress in hybrid catalyst systems for photoelectrochemical reduction of CO2. It also provides the prospective discussion of factors that affect the catalyst and cell performance as well as the future challenges.


Glandular Odontogenic Cyst (GOC) is a rare developmental odontogenic cyst with unique histopathologic features. It is included in the World Health Organization (WHO) histologic typing of odontogenic tumors under the terms glandular odontogenic cyst or sialo-odontogenic cyst. The aim of this article is to report two cases of GOC that occurred in the anterior maxilla in young male patients. The origin, clinical, radiographic and histologic features and treatment of the GOC are also discussed.


Foreword, Professor Newman, Association in Manhattan for Autistic Children. 1. Applied Behaviour Analysis: A Parents' Perspective, Barbara Hanna, Mary O'Cahan, Hillary Johnston and Laura McKay. 2. Applied Behaviour Analysis and Autism: The Therapy of Choice, Ken P. Kerr. 3. Functional Analysis, Ian Taylor. 4. The Story of Colin, Laura McKay, Mickey Keenan and Karola Dillenburger. 5. What do we Want to Teach our Children? Parents from the PEAT Group and Ken P. Kerr. 6. Conclusion and the Way Ahead, Mickey Keenan, Ken P. Kerr and Karola Dillenburger. References. Index.


Mini lecture, a new teaching resource, short and swift, conforms to the current development trend of education. From the perspective of second language acquisition theory, this paper discusses application of mini lecture in College English teaching mode and its second language acquisition.


Caesarean section surgery often causes psychological problems in patients, namely fear that has an impact on anxiety which can cause a decrease in the condition of reproductive disorders, disruption of blood flow, comfort, pain. Personality image, and the way people see themselves affects the psychological aspect. A realistic and consistent self-image will also give them a steady capacity for awareness, which will help them succeed in life. In the research conducted, this type of Analytical Descriptive was applied through a cross-sectional approach. The independent variable in this study is body image. The dependent variable applied to the study uses stress levels. The study population was all patients who underwent Caesarian Section (SC) deliveries at PKU Muhammadiyah Sekapuk Hospital. Part of the research sample was secaria patients, non-probability sampling technique with purposive sampling of the study sample. The sample size is 24 post-cesarean section (SC) patients. statistical test using spearman rank. The body image of post SC patients at PKU Muhammadiyah Sekapuk Hospital is dominated by negative 70.8%. The stress level of post SC patients at PKU Muhammadiyah Sekapuk Hospital is quite dominant at 45.8%. The results of the Spearman rank test p = 0.008 <0, there is a link between body image disturbance and the stress level of post SC patients at PKU Muhammadiyah Sekapuk Hospital


This paper introduces the structure features and installation methods of CONTIROD rolling mill, and discusses the structure form and installation methods of the motor for rolling mill.


AbstractFabric-reinforced cementitious matrices have raised a great interest for the external strengthening of historical masonries, representing a valid alternative to fiber-reinforced polymers. As the effectiveness of an external reinforcement firstly depends on the bond performance, this paper presents an experimental investigation, through double-shear tests, on the bond behavior of cement-matrix-based composites reinforced with three different textiles, namely, carbon, polybenzoxazole (PBO), and glass. Textiles and matrix specimens were experimentally tested to correlate mechanical properties of the constituent materials with the global response of the composites. The results of bond tests highlighted that PBO-fiber- and glass-fiber-based composites better exploit the mechanical properties of the textile. Observation of the failure mechanisms highlighted that debonding phenomena occur at the fiber–matrix interface. Furthermore, the effective anchorage lengths were estimated. The values of fracture en...