s of Books in the Field of Slavic and Baltic Philology, Literature, History, and Archaeology Published by Scandinavian Slavists and Baltologists 2001 Margaréta Attius Sohlman, Tro och tanke i Europas mitt brytpunkter och gränsöverskridanden (Beliefs and Ideas in the Centre of Europe: Convergences and Bordercrossings in the Religious and Cultural Landscape of Eastern Europe), Stockholm 2001,188 pp. This book is a broadening of previous works by the same author (e.g., Bokstavens makt over slaviska själar. Boktryck och läsning frân medeltid till Peter den store, Stockholm 1994). Focus lies on a few prominent junctures of history where eastern and western cultural and religious traditions meet in Eastern Europe and attempts are made to deepen the understanding of the European heritage reflected in the encounter between Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant traditions. Icons and books, especially, have comprised the empirical basis for illuminating the rise and development of the meeting between eastern and western thought as they are expressed in religion and culture. The book gives a survey of encounters between East and West in myth, history and literature, an outline of the geographical, demographical and cultural geographical map of Europe, followed by an overview of medieval people and belief in Central Europe and a presentation of Central European countries, their history, religion and culture. Then follows an analysis of the art of printing in Central Europe: Vilnius is depicted as a centre for printing and education, a description of the Slovakian city of Prešov as a place where political, cultural and religious practices converge. Canada's role as destination for dissident Slovaks and Ukranians is shortly discussed. Finally, icons and church buildings are presented as reflecting the meetings between East and West. The icon in eastern central Europe may be considered as a reflection of such meetings. In the 15th and 16th centuries the purely Orthodox icon tradition flourished artistically in these regions, the Byzantine origins were still obvious: iconography was austere. But influences from the West became more visible: e.g. western High Gothic influences in the engraved ornament in the icon's background and in Slovakian icons from the 17th century onwards exist deep dimensions with pastoral backgrounds and sculpturally rounded figures with rosy cheeks — unknown elements in earlier Orthodox iconography. Grammars were printed in the western Slavic districts at an early stage. Ideologically and culturally they had a great impact, based as they were on scholastic rationalist views, where an analytical way of thinking was central and ideas of Humanism and Renaissance were present. Grammars and other pedagogical literature were distributed eastwards in to the Orthodox world of ideas, where the Orthodox Church up to that time had had sole control of people's religious and intellectual education; a western break in in the Orthodox world. Ingunn Lunde, Verbal Celebrations: Kirill ofTurov's Homiletic Rhetoric and Its Byzantine Sources (= Slavistische Veröffentlichungen, 86), Wiesbaden 2001, 301 pp. The book provides a comprehensive account and analysis of the function of rhetoric in Kirill ofTurov's (late 12th century) cycle of festal sermons, against the background of the Byzantine homiletic and rhetorical tradition. It consists of two parts. Scando-Slavica Tomus 48, 2002


Hitherto I have been in the habit of referring the Gyracanthus spines commonly occurring in the Borough Lee Ironstone to G. formosus or tuberculatus of Agassiz, being disposed to believe in the specific identity of those two forms, as has already been suggested by Messrs. Hancock and Atthey, and hinted at by Agassiz himself. In fact, the salient point of difference between the two is the greater extent of the tuberculation of the ridges in the latter, while in the former it is principally seen on the proximal parts of the ridges, which, as they converge towards the anterior middle line of the spine, become first simply undulated and then smooth. The original figured specimen of G. tuberculatus is from the Coal-measures of Sunderland; that of G. formosus is from the same formation at Dudley; but though Agassiz refers to it as occurring also at Burdiehouse, in Midlothian, and Burntisland in Fifeshire, it seems to me very doubtful if these Calciferous Sandstone specimens are really the same. And certainly the study of a large quantity of additional material from Borough Lee has convinced me that the species of Gyracanthus characteristic of this Ironstone of Carboniferous Limestone age is specifically different from both formosus and tuberculatus.


In this study, different single-pol and quad-pol parameters to highlight building damages from the time-series SAR data were reviewed and the effects of the polarimetric diversity and temporal resolution in detection of damaged urban areas were investigated. Experimental results showed the necessity of baseline time-series data constructed before the earthquake to detect damaged areas using single-pol SAR data, and the shorter the time gap between the baseline time-series data and the onset of earthquake, the more effective to detect the building damages. On the other hand, the use of quad-pol damage indicators associated with characteristic scattering mechanisms in urban areas can reduce false-alarms in natural changes and improve detectability in building-damaged areas despite of relatively longer temporal baseline.


To detect partial discharge (PD) signal from internal defects or particles in gas insulation system (GIS), both couple capacitor (CC) and acoustic emission (AE) methods are applied in the examinations. According to the measured data, we need to distinguish whether it is PD or particle impact signal. From the CC measurement we can determine whether discharge occurs in one of the GIS chambers or not and tell what chambers are possible related to the events. By AE sensors, we can further confirm that whether it is the chamber of PD or particle impact occurred. If there is no discharge events measured from the CC sensors, the AE sensors would be stuck on the chamber to further determine whether particle impact occur in the chambers or not. The signals of particle impact received from the online measurement of GIS are verified through the inspection results of opening.


Tempe is a fermented food specialties and one of Indonesia's population.In general, raw material for making tempeh is soybeans. Soybean prices in the market fluctuate, because Indonesia still imports soybeans from the United States. Soybean prices are rising on world markets caused soybean prices in the country also increased, including processed products . In Indonesia, tempe-making has become a cottage industry. Tempe contains many nutrients needed by the body such as proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and mineral . Some research indicates that nutrients tempe easier digested, absorbed and utilized in the body. This is because the fungi that grow on soybeans hydrolyze complex compounds into simpler compounds that are easily digested by humans. In general, raw material for making tempeh is soybeans . In this study, making tempeh uses raw materials that seeds of jackfruit (Artocarpus Integra Merr). In general, consumption of jackfruit seeds just by boiling it. Tempe is aided by the addition of tempeh or tempeh fungus (Rhizopus oligosporus), at a temperature of 25 ° -37 ° C with an incubation time ± 60 hours or 3 days. The formation mechanism of germination tempeh, some carbohydrate compounds are needed in order to start the spore swelling can occur. The swelling was followed by protrusion of the tube exit kecambahnya, when available sources of carbon and nitrogen from the outside and annosa sugars glucose and xylose. Keywords: Tempe, Jackfruit Seed, levels of carbohydrates, protein content, fat content .


A close‐talking, noise‐canceling microphone has been developed which responds to the second order of the pressure gradient and which has only one diaphragm. Since there are four sound pressures involved in a second‐order gradient microphone, it has been deemed necessary in the past to have four surfaces for the four pressures to act upon. This microphone has sound entrances to the two surfaces of a single diaphragm spaced and oriented in such a manner as to produce the second‐order effect, thereby increasing the signal‐to‐noise ratio over that obtained in a first‐order gradient microphone. Mathematical analyses are made of the microphone first as a purely theoretical microphone with infinitesimal spacing of the sound entrances, then as a microphone with dimensions between sound entrances which are practical for use in a microphone of this type.


Reunion houses a large variety of ichneumon wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Three of them were first described in 1846 by G.A. Brulle: Eriborus pallipes (Campopleginae), Netelia melanopus (Tryphoninae) and Xanthophenax xanthomelas (Pimplinae). The first two are both common and variable in coloration, though their original French written description is too laconic to depict this intra-specific variability. Here are therefore proposed their redescription in order to help further identifications.


A key issue in logistics is the efficient management of a vehicle fleet servicing a set of cus- tomers with known demands. Every vehicle route must start and finish at the assigned depot, each cus- tomer is to be visited by a single vehicle and vehicle capacities must not be exceeded. These are the con- straints for the capacitated vehicle routing problem (VRP) whose objective is usually the minimization of the travel distance. When every customer has an associated time window, we are dealing with the ve- hicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW), an NP-hard problem extensively studied. In the static VPRTW, all the problem data are given. A more challenging subject is the dynamic VRPTW (DRVPTW) where routes must be periodically up- dated because of new service requests. In DVRPTW, the information on the problem is time-dependent since the data are in part given a priori and in part dynamically updated. As a result, the best solution must be periodically revised. There are two classes of DVRPTW solution methodologies: the immediate assignment that updates vehicle routes as soon as a new service request is received, and the deferred assignment retaining the new service calls for a cer- tain time period before dispatching them all at once. The latter type has been adopted in this paper. At the time of revising their routes, the vehicles are al- ready on duty and some nodes have already been visited. The remaining old customers that have des- ignated vehicles are either being serviced or awaiting service. The customers to be considered in the DVRPTW include not only old customers still to be serviced but also new visit requests. The DVRPTW is tackled by solving a series of static VRPTW prob- lems, with each one being defined every time the in- put data is updated. The approach assumes that each vehicle will start its new route at the location where it is servicing or to which it is traveling.


Use of ivermectin for producing a topical pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of rosacea, the composition is in the form of an emulsion consisting of: a) an oily phase comprising fatty substances, b) at least one ivermectin surfactant emulsifier, c), d ) a mixture of solvent (s) and / or agent (s) propenetrating (s) for the active ingredient which are SELECTED two from propylene glycol, ethanol, isopropanol, butanol, n-methyl-2-pyrrolidone or DMSO, polysorbate 80 and faith noxietanol, and containing propylene glycol, e) and water.


OBJECTIVE To compare the pattern of hepatitis B virus(HBV) infection among the Korean nationality,the Han nationality of Yanbian,China and Korean of Kyunggi do of Korea. METHODS The determination of HBV infection from Sep. 1996 to Sep. 1997 was carried out by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay . RESULTS The age adjusted rates of the overall HBV infection, HBsAg, Anti HBs and Anti HBc were 77.0%, 7.2%, 49.2% and 54.0% in the Han nationality, 77.0%, 12.0%, 57.6%, and 69.7% in the Korean nationality and 78.6% , 4 .1%, 62.5% and 60.9% in Korean, respectively. CONCLUSION There have a different of HBV infection and its pattern between the different regions and ethnic groups.


We present a precise analysis to test hypothetical models involving sterile neutrinos beyond the standard flat-ΛCDM cosmology with the CMB observations from the Planck mission and BAO measurements. This analysis shows that adding the locally measured Hubble parameter H0  = 73.00 ± 1.75 km s−1 Mpc−1 to the data removes the need for the informative physical $m_{\mathrm{ sterile}}^{\mathrm{ thermal}}$ prior in CMB constraints of $m_{\nu ,\mathrm{ sterile}}^{\mathrm{ eff}}$. Under the constraints from the data containing the locally measured H0 we obtain an upper limit $m_{\nu ,\mathrm{ sterile}}^{\mathrm{ eff}} \lt 0.306$ eV scale mass for the massive sterile neutrino, and an upper limit Σmν < 0.214 eV scale mass for the three degenerate massive neutrino (95 per cent confidence level). We also obtain the value σ8  = $0.81^{+0.05}_{-0.06}$ (95 per cent confidence level), which is in compatibility with the constraints from Planck 2015 CMB data at the 1σ level. We find that introducing parameter $m_{\nu ,\mathrm{ sterile}}^{\mathrm{ eff}}$ to the model of cosmology reduces the σ8 value and moves it closer to the obtained value for this parameter from the KiDS-450 analysis. Our results show that the locally measured Hubble parameter can increase constraints on σ8 values.


The empirical dataset of surveyed sand bar volumes in Marble Canyon on the Colorado River downstream of Glen Canyon Dam is analyzed. A subset of the empirical dataset is established based on bar and survey date consistency, resulting in the calibration dataset. The sand bar calibration dataset is represented by both the mean and median of the sand bar volume. A conceptual model describing erosive and depositional processes for sand bars in Marble Canyon is described. A series of model formulations (termed Model V0 through V5) are developed and Model V3 is selected based on model performance calculated as the normalized sum of squared errors and adjusted R-squared. Confidence intervals are developed for the parameters and for the predicted bar volumes coinciding with calibration data survey dates. Median and mean versions of Model V3 show similar percent improvement over the model V0 performance (86% for median, 89% for mean). The prediction confidence intervals contain 19 of the 28 observed bar volumes for both the mean and median V3 models. Deposition and erosion trends between survey dates are correctly predicted 25 out of 28 times for both the mean and median V3 models. The mean V3 model tended to perform better in the vicinity of high flow experiments (HFEs) as compared to the median V3 model.


BACKGROUND
Patients with diabetic nephropathy have a high risk of cardiovascular disease and end-stage renal disease. Dual blockade of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) with both ACE inhibitors (ACE-I) and angiotensin II receptor blockers may offer therapeutic advantages.

METHODS
Based on three double-blind randomized cross-over trials, we analyzed the short-term effects of dual blockade of the RAS on cardiovascular surrogate end points in 51 type 1 diabetic patients with diabetic nephropathy.

RESULTS
Compared to ACE-I, dual blockade of the RAS decreased albuminuria 37% from 558 mg/24 hour, and lowered 24-hour blood pressure 7/5 mm Hg from 137/76 mm Hg (P < 0.01). In addition, dual blockade lowered total and LDL-cholesterol 0.3 from 5.4 mmol/L and 3.1 mmol/L, respectively (P < or = 0.01). The antialbuminuric response to dual blockade of the RAS was influenced by the insertion (I)/deletion (D) polymorphism in the ACE gene.

CONCLUSION
Dual blockade of the RAS may offer additional cardiovascular and renal protection in type 1 diabetic patients with diabetic nephropathy. Determination of the ACE/ID genotype may help identify patients particularly sensitive to such therapy.


Vigna, M. S. & Kristiansen, J. 1995. Mallomonas fuegiana (Synurophyceae), a new species of silica scaled chrysophytes from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. — Nord. J. Bot. 15: 439–442. Copenhagen. ISSN 0107–055X.

During the research project "Cryptogamic Flora of Tierra del Fuego", a new species of Mallomonas has been found. It is described here as M. fuegiana, and is placed in the section Torquatae, close to Mallomonas schwemmlii and M. dickii.


Objective
To observe the effect of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) on functional recovery and walking ability of patients with knee joint after total knee arthroplasty (TKA).

Methods
Fifty patients undergoing elective TKA were randomly divided into two groups (n=25 each), treatment group and control group. Both groups received conventional rehabilitation mainly including rehabilitation education training, muscle strength, range of motion, standing balance training, physical therapy after TKA. The treatment group also applied PNF techniques. Knee function and walking ability of the patients were assessed by the American College of Surgeons Hospital (HSS), the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) and the 6-minute walking test (6MWT) before treatment and after 4 weeks of treatment.

Results
After 4 weeks of treatment, the HSS scores of the treatment group and the control group were (91.6±5.3) and (86.8±4.4) respectively, which were significantly higher than those before treatment (52.7±4.8 and 53.1±4.9), with statistically significance (t=4.126, t=2.722, P<0.01). The scores of functional and stability of the knee after treatment in the treatment group were (19.4±1.3) and (9.1±0.8) points respectively, which were better than those in the control group [(16.2±1.4) and (8.4±1.4)], the differences were statistically significant (t=2.049, t=2.029, P<0.05). The BBS scores of the two groups were (54.4±1.9) and (50.5±2.1)respectively, which were significantly higher than those before treatment [(46.7±3.1) and (46.5±2.2)],with statistically significance (t=2.523, t=2.169, P<0.05). Compared with the control group, the improvement of BBS score in the treatment group was significant (t=2.498, P<0.05). The 6MWT scores of the two groups were (655±51) and (580±56) respectively, which were significantly higher than those before treatment [(397±35) and (402±42)], with statistically significance (t=8.256, t=7.649, P<0.01). Compared with the control group, the 6MWT score of the treatment group improved significantly (t=2.579, P<0.05).

Conclusion
Postoperative patients with TKA in rehabilitation training by using PNF technology can promote knee joint function recovery, improve patient balance function and walking ability.

Key words:
Arthroplasty, replacement, knee; Rehabilitation; Proprioception; Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation


With the recent increase and awareness of natural rubber latex protein allergies, it is very important for all health care workers to understand and recognize the need to decrease and/or eliminate latex exposure in the rubber gloves and other rubber products for those individuals who are allergic to natural rubber latex. This study is based on a series of Lowry method of protein analysis. The field latex was concentrated by centrifugation method. A laboratory scale latex centrifuge machine (model SPL-100, Satio Separator Ltd, Japan) with a capacity of 5 liters was used for concentrating the latex. The process increased the solid content in rubber latex from 29% to approximately 60%, and also reduced the percentage of nonrubber content. The experimental results of UV spectrophotometer (UV-2401PC, Shimadzu Corporation, Japan) showed that rubber films of higher TSC percentage got significant amount of water leachable protein. Furthermore, they showed different protein content for different dipping time in water. Another experiment was carried out for irradiated latex of different doses. The change of protein content was significant. Index Term-immunoglobuline, irradiated latex,


During the production and printing process, the contrast of the original figure was altered, and several control lanes in Figure 9, page 547, were inadvertently blocked out and therefore appear white instead of the same grey as the background in other lanes. The affected lanes were: A, Cortex: E16; C, P4: K2, Adult: K2; TED15: K1, and K1 + ABC. The corrected figure and legend are reprinted on the following page.


The paper refers to the development of computer model, which allows to iteratively calculate the maximum power capacity of the three-phase overhead or cable power line. The model considers two factors, which coexistence is known for complicating estimations of the power, consumed by the load, namely: impedance of the grid voltage source and static load characteristics (VI or VAR curves). The modelling of the load as current source, which current is a function of the voltage magnitude at the power line output, allowed to consider static (V-I) characteristics of the load. The model was implemented in the Simulink environment, which iterative nature of calculations allows to converge the grid output and load input voltages and currents after the transient, and therefore to consider parameters of the steady-state operation as sought-for solution.


This research aims to knowing its rise or fall forecasting sales of entrance tickets which is conducted by  UPT.Kebun Raya Unmul Samarinda 2015. As a basis in this study the authors take theories and concepts of experts of economics associated with the theory of the budget,forecasting.as for as the base support this research is forecasting,marketing. In the research it is presented by hypothesis that is "it is suspected ases by forecasting sales tickets which is conducted by UPT.Kebun Raya Unmul Samarinda           2015 the experience of increase. From data result which dihim also writer in the research,writer calculate sale  entrance tickets UPT.Kebun Raya Unmul Samarinda From year 2010 reaches 2014.after calculate and know turnover entrance ticket,writer use analyzer in the form of statistic use formula method Least Square. Form result calculate which performed by writer to forecast entrance ticket UPT.Kebun Raya Unmul Samarinda for year 2013 Rp.1.143.902.700 and year 2014 Rp.1.295.510.000 the experience of increase 9,04% from sale year 2013.while for forecasy of year 2014 Rp.1.295.510.000 and year 2015 Rp.1.499.785.378 the experience of increase 12,02% for sale of year 2014


In order to examine the irregular wave forces on a small diameter cylinder, laboratory experiments have been conducted on water particle velocities and wave forces with various kinds of irregular waves. As the results, it is indicated that the time variation and the spectral distribution of wave forces can be calculated adequately from the water level variations by using the methods proposed by Reid' and Borgman' respectively. Moreover, with respect to the irregular wave forces on a large diameter cylinder, a new calculation method was shown by means of applying Reid's linear filters' to MacCamy and Fuchs's diffraction theory'.


A threat can be anything that causes potential damage to the network system. These threats can turn out to be a attack to the system. Threat may occur in any forms like viruses, outright attack, and phishing attack from hackers to gain information. Such attacks put a user's system and also business system at risks. Cyber security aims at the protection of system from attacks like unauthorized network access, intrusions attacks etc. This paper presents a novel architecture model based on machine learning for the prediction of Cyber security malware that requires execution in a sandbox environment. In order to prevent the attackers from infiltrating the system Machine Learning approach is adapted.


Given that our ability to remember is inherently limited, one "solution" is to artificially enhance memory. Here I discuss four general approaches that have been developed to augment human long-term memory: nootropics agents, brain stimulation, mnemonic strategies, and external aids. The former two have only been recently developed in the field of systems neuroscience, and have become the focus of ethical debate. For example, some ethicists question the propriety of artificial memory enhancement in healthy individuals. As I demonstrate here, all four methods have been considered ethically suspect at one time or another. In medieval times, the use of mnemonics was considered immoral by many, and even the use of written texts as memory aids has been suggested as producing the appearance of knowledge, void of actual knowledge. Here I present a summary of each approach, beginning with those that fall within the scope of systems neuroscience, and discuss considerations critical to each of their respective ethical debates.


We present high-level ab initio calculations for the global adiabatic potential energy surfaces of the ground state (X 2A′) and several excited states (A 2A′, B 2A″, C 2A′, D 2A′, and Ẽ 2A″) of LiFH, including the valleys leading to Li+HF and LiF+H. The ab initio calculations were carried out using the multireference singles and doubles configuration interaction method with 99 reference configuration state functions (CSFs) for the 2A′ states and 39 reference CSFs for the 2A″ states. The basis set consisted of 140 contracted Gaussian functions, including specifically optimized diffuse functions, and calculations were performed on a dense grid of ∼3500 nuclear geometries which allowed us to construct an accurate analytic representation of the two lowest-energy LiFH potential energy surfaces. An analytic 2×2 quasidiabatic potential energy matrix was obtained by fitting physically motivated functional forms to the ab initio data for the two lowest-energy adiabatic states and explicitly including long-rang...


: Winter persistent aerosol pollution frequently occurs in the Sichuan Basin (SCB) due to its 13 unfavorable weather conditions, such as low wind, wetness, and cloudiness. Based on long–term 14 observational data analyses from 2015–2021, it was found that the four representative stations in the 15 SCB often simultaneously experienced PM 2.5 pollution accompanied by variations in meteorological 16 conditions above 850 hPa, which indicates a connection between regional winter air pollution in the 17 SCB and large–scale synoptic patterns. The dominant 850 hPa synoptic patterns of winter SCB were 18 classified into six patterns using T–model principal component analysis. Pattern 2, characterized by 19 an east high west low (EHWL) pressure system, and Pattern 5, featuring a low trough (LT), were 20 identified as key synoptic patterns for the beginning and accumulation of pollution processes. Pattern 21 1, characterized by a strong high pressure in the north, was the cleanest pattern associated with 22 reduced PM 2.5 concentrations. The EHWL and LT patterns were associated with a remarkably high 23 cloud liquid content, which was attributed to upper southerly winds that introduced humid air and 24 converted aerosols into fog/cloud drops. Clouds reduce solar radiation through reflection and 25 scattering, resulting in more stable stratification and aerosol accumulation. This cloud radiation 26 interaction (CRI) is more pronounced in the LT pattern due to denser isobaric lines and stronger 27 southerly winds than in the EHWL pattern. Numerical simulation experiments using WRF-Chem 28 showed afternoon upper–level heating and morning surface cooling forced by the aerosol radiation 29 interaction (ARI) and evening strong surface cooling influenced by valley winds in the SCB. With 30 wet and cloudy synoptic forcing, CRI directly affects the stability of the boundary layer and is 31


We read with interest Drs. Krans and Patrick's1 recent discussion of opioid use in pregnancy, which highlighted the current opioid epidemic in the United States and its effect during pregnancy. We agree that this is an area of significant public health concern that can have serious consequences for both maternal and fetal health that may extend well beyond the perinatal period. We are concerned that our prior efforts may have been incorrectly cited as reference for the statement, "Opioid detoxification or withdrawal in pregnancy is not recommended as a result of associations with decreased neonatal birth weight, illicit drug use relapse, and resumption of high risk behaviors." Contrary to the implications of the statement, our prior work has demonstrated consistent success with a standardized approach to patient detoxification published in three different patient cohorts spanning several decades.2–4 To be explicit, our work has not shown increased high-risk behavior in those women undergoing detoxification. In fact, more than half of the women enrolled in the program are successfully weaned from substance use before the delivery—the result of which is significantly lower neonatal abstinence scores, neonatal intensive care admissions, and duration of hospitalization. In fact, we have demonstrated a near-linear dose-dependent relationship between methadone dose and subsequent neonatal abstinence scores as well as hospitalization.3,4 Furthermore, newborn birth weight was higher in those who completed detoxification compared with those on maintenance.2 We emphasize that our methadone detoxification program extends beyond wean of a daily methadone dose. Our program consists of a multidisciplinary approach that includes physicians, dedicated nurse practitioners, social services, case management, and counseling—an approach similarly stressed by the authors. Although many choose methadone maintenance, our policy of multidisciplinary detoxification in well-selected women has been shown to provide consistent success, and we continue to stand by this approach.


Objective To study the effects of KB_R7943,a potent inhibitor of the Na+_ exchanger, on rats to inhibit ischemia/reperfusion induced arrhythmia in comparison with that of verapamil.Methods Isolated whole atria and aorta strip were obtained from rats, the change of heart rate, tension contraction of atrial and vascular smooth muscle were recorded. KB_R7943 on ischemia/reperfusion induced arrhythmia were studied both in isolated and in anaesthetized rats.Results KB_R7943 did not depress Hr and contraction of atrial and vascular, however, it significantly attenuates the incidence and the duration of ischemic reperfused induced ventricular arrhythmia. Conclusions KB_R7943 suppresses I/R_induced arrhythmias, but there were little effects on normal cardiovascular function of rats.


The non-enzymatic glycation of proteins is an oxidative-dependent process inhibited by phenolic compounds. This study investigates the effect of extracts of pomegranate fruit and its various parts (aril, peel, and membrane) on the in vitro glycation of albumin. Extracts were analyzed for phenolics content, FRAP antioxidant capacity and their effect on fructose mediated glycation of bovine serum albumin. Compared to a control fruit, apple, whole pomegranate fruit exhibited a much higher total phenolic content and antioxidant potential. Pomegranate decreased glycation by 80% at a phenolics concentration of 2.5 μg gallic acid equivalents (GAE)/ml; apple, at this concentration, inhibited protein glycation by only 20%. Pomegranate membrane exhibited the highest total phenolics content and antioxidant potential compared to the aril and peel. At 2.5 μg GAE/ml, the membrane fraction decreased glycation by 85% compared to the aril (42%), and peel (75%). Pomegranate membrane also produced the greatest decrease in glycation when incubated at the same antioxidant capacities. These results demonstrate that the inhibitory activity of pomegranates was concentrated in the membrane and is attributed to ellagitannins, potent inhibitors of the glycation process.


The ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system includes a predetermined TGC characteristic is automatically selected or calculated at the start of the diagnostic procedure. Automatic TGC circuit, when activated by the physician, and analyzes the current image data so as to calculate an adjustment value for a given TGC characteristic. The ultrasound system may generate a TGC curve labeled indicating the predetermined TGC characteristic which has been changed by any manual improvements made by the automatic adjustment and the physician. In the preferred embodiment, automatic TGC changes, so as to automatically improve image quality, with automatic overall gain and dynamic range adjustment.


Liquid scintillation counting is the most popular method to measure the tritium concentration in the aqueous solution Low level liquid scintillation counting took much time with a lot of doing to distill off the impurities in the sample water before mixing the sample with the liquid scintillation cocktail. In the light of it, we investigated the possibility of an alternative filtration method for sample purification. In Japan, the tritium concentration in the environmental water has become very low, and the samples have to be treated by electrolysis enrichment with a liquid scintillation analyzer. Using the solid polymer electrolyte enriching device, there is no need to add neither any electrolyte nor the neutralization after the concentration. If we could replace the distillation process with the filtration, the procedure would be simplified very much. We investigated the procedure and we were able to prove that the reverse osmosis (RO) filtration was available. Moreover, in order to rationalize all through the measurement method, we examined the followings: (1) Improvement of the enriching apparatus. (2) Easier measurement of heavy water concentration using a density meter, instead of a mass spectrometer. The concentration of water samples was measured to determine the enrichment rate of tritium during the electrolysis enrichment.


Papillary variant of squamous cell carcinoma is a rare lesion, which occurs in many organs, including the larynx. In the present case, a 55-year-old male presented to our hospital with complaints of intermittent, increasingly severe laryngitis and hoarseness, recently progressing to voice loss, with long-term history of smoking. We received a biopsy measuring 1×8×2 cm. Microscopy revealed a cellular tumor comprising of papillary pattern with multiple mitosis. Microscopic and immunohistochemical findings confirmed the diagnosis of papillary variant squamous cell carcinoma. Although papillary variant squamous cell carcinoma of larynx is rare, however, we should be aware of this entity because it comes with good prognosis.


Variable Speed Limits and Ramp Metering are key tools that can help in influencing conditions on congested freeways. Their individual use in improving safety of particular locations on a freeway corridor has been shown to be effective. This study extends that logic to include both these strategies working in tandem on a large stretch of freeway. Micro-simulation study is undertaken to show the effects of each of these strategies in positively affecting surrogate measures of safety on a congested stretch of Interstate 4. Best case scenarios are identified to show the effective implementation strategies and benefits are compared for different cases. The coordinated strategy is also compared to the effectiveness of each of the individual strategies of Variable Speed Limits and Ramp Metering both in terms of reducing the risk of crash and improvement in traffic parameters such as speeds and travel times.


Constance Lebrun Crown. All Lebrun papers, including a series of transcribed interviews, will eventually be preserved at the Archives. Peter Krasnow has given a first group of papers documenting his career from 1920 to 1975. Born in the Ukraine, he emigrated to the United States in 1907, finally settling in Los Angeles, where he built a house next to his friend Edward Weston. Krasnow has lived there since 1922. Emerson Woelffer moved West in 1959 and quickly established himself as one of the area's leading Abstract Expressionist painters. His loan consists of correspondence with Robert Motherwell, Buckminster Fuller, and Paul Jenkins, among others. In contrast, Louis Goodman, a little-known Los Angeles artist, was a pioneer of the California assemblage movement. In addition to papers relating to his art, this gift includes material on Goodman's inventions and his association with the American Rocket Society. Jose Moya del Pino was a prominent San Francisco artist in the 1930s and '40s. Born in Spain, he was commissioned to copy forty-one Velazquez paintings for an official tour of America. With the fall of the Spanish government in 1927, the tour was abandoned and Moya settled in California. Though much of his correspondence deals with this project, also included are sketchbooks and preliminary drawings for murals. Also of note are two groups of historically interesting catalogs and brochures. One group, once part of the reference library of San Francisco's Grabhom Press, includes twenty-four catalogs documenting early exhibitions given by the San Francisco Art Association, the Portland Art Association, and the Los Angeles Modem Art Society. The Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles has given a small group of material published during its first six years (19181924). This represents a first effort to document the history and contribution of West Coast art schools.


In spermiogenic nuclei of the cephalopod mollusc Sepia officinalis histones are replaced by a precursor‐protamine molecule, which is later converted into protamine. Simultaneously, spermiogenic chromatin undergoes a complex structural change. Somatic‐like chromatin belonging to the earliest spermatid is progressively reorganized into: (a) granules of 20 nm diameter, (b) fibres of 30–35 nm, and (c) fibres of 40–50 nm. In the final phases of spermiogenesis these fibres of 40–50 nm join to form larger structures of condensed chromatin, and lastly, the uniformly packed chromatin in the sperm nucleus. Using specific antibodies for mono‐ and hyperacetylated forms of histone H4, in this work we show that the first structural remodelling of chromatin (from somatic‐like organization into 20 nm granules) is given concomitantly with a massive mono‐acetylation of H4 (acetylation in lysine 12), whereas the structural remodelling from 30–35 to 40–50 nm fibres is produced simultaneously with hyperacetylation of H4 and the nuclear removal of histones. J. Cell. Biochem. 102: 1432–1441, 2007. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


The technology of (Pb,La)(Zr,Ti)O3 (PLZT) ferroelectric cathode is introduced. Stable emission current and high current density are obtained from it driven by positive high-voltage pulses with a repetition rate of 80 Hz. Proximity-imaging techniques are used to record the electron beam spot shape.


Th e aim of the paper was to elaborate experimentally and try-out in the clinic a method permitting to remove necrosis foci aft er their formation but before the development of pyoseptic complications in the pancreas and parapancreatic cellular tissue using low-frequency ultrasound. Technique of the low-frequency ultrasound used for removing necrotic lesions in the pancreas and parapancreatic tissue aft er their formation was elaborated through the experiment on 22 pancreatonecrosis dogs and tried out in 207 patients with acute destructive pancreatitis. Th e lethality as it was found accounted for 52,2% in conventional surgery and decreased with low-frequency ultrasound using up to 30,3%.


Field experiment was carried out to judge the mode of iron application and growth regulators on the performance of direct seeded upland rice varieties under rainfed condition at the Research Farm, Department of Agronomy, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, during rainy seasons of 2001 and 2002. Two varieties (ZHU-XI-26 and NDR-97) and three growth regulators (control, paclobutrazol and cycocel) were combined to give six main plot treatments whereas five subplot treatments were modes of iron application (control-M0), 25kg FeSO4 ha-1 as basal (M1), 1.0% foliar spray (10kg FeSO4 ha-1) and 1.5% (15kg FeSO4 ha-1) at 25 and 35 days after sowing (DAS), respectively (M2), 15 kg FeSO4 ha-1 based +1.0 10 h-1 foliar spray 15DAS (M1) and foliar spray of 0.1% Fe EDTA at 25 and 35 DAS (M4) were laid out in a split plot design with 3 replications. The available marked products of growth regulators paclobutrazol (cultar) and cycocel (lithocin) were applied @ 100ppm each at 20 and 40DAS through foliar spray. The variety ZHU-XI-26 performed better than NDR-97. Growth regulator paclobutrazol increased grain yield significantly over cycocel application. Among the mode of application, 15kg FeSO4 ha-1as based+ 1.0% (10 kg ha-1) foliar spray 35DAS though at par with foliar spray of 0.1% Fe EDTA at 25 and 35 DAS produced higher yield than other modes of application.


Floral differentiation is induced by low temperatures and enhanced by autumn and winter drought. Antioxidant enzyme activities, hydrogen peroxide concentration, leaf water content, maximum photochemical efficiency of PS 2 (F v /F m ) and SPAD value in Litchi chinensis Sonn. cvs. 'Nuomici' and 'Feizixiao' during the chilled and drought-induced floral differentiation from Nov. to Feb. 2006 were studied, with the aim to show the physiological changes during the stress-induced floral differentiation. The results showed that the SPAD value indicating chlorophyll concentration increased before and then decreased after the emergence of panicle primordia in 'Nuomici', while in 'feizixiao' SPAD values slowly rose during the period. Leaf water content in both cultivars decreased to the lowest level when panicle primordia emerged and increased thereafter. F v /F m decreased with the drop of temperature, and were higher in 'Feizixiao' than in 'Nuomici'. Activities of SOD and POD in the two cultivars increased at first and then decreased before panicle primordia emerged. But after that, the enzyme activities in 'Nuomici' increased and remained at stable levels, while that in 'Feizixiao' increased to a high level but decreased thereafter. APX activity in 'Nuomici' increased during the whole stage while in 'Feizixiao' it increased then decreased but still remained at a higher level. On the whole, APX activities in the floral induction stage were lower than those in the panicle developmental stage. A sudden increase in H 2 O 2 concentration in the two cultivars was found when panicle primordia emerged. H 2 O 2 concentration before panicle emergence in both cultivars was lower than that after panicle emergence.


Thin-film transistors (TFTs) with zinc oxide channel layers were fabricated through a simple and low-cost solution process. Precursor solution concentration, annealing temperature, and the process were controlled for the purpose of improving the electrical properties of ZnO TFTs and analyzed in terms of microstructural scope. The fabricated ZnO films show preferential orientation of the (002) plane, which contributes to enhanced electron conduction and a dense surface. The results show that the TFT characteristics of the film are clearly affected by the microstructure. The optimized TFT operates in a depletion mode, shows n -type semiconductor behavior, and is highly transparent (>90%) within the visible light range. It exhibits a channel mobility of 9.4 cm^2/V·s, a subthreshold slope of 3.3 V/decade, and an on-to-off current ratio greater than 10^5. In addition, the result of N_2 annealing shows the possibility of improvement in electrical property of the ZnO TFTs.


Hyperbole, one of useful figures in rhetoric, is not limited by the objective realities.However,it expresses the writers'original feelings actually by the fuzzy words in artistic thinking which seem not so accurate according to the facts.It helps readers require the interest in aesthetic recreating in the psychic space.It also helps writers express more deep emotional information in the certain words,which improves the expression efficiency.The paper will illustrate these aesthetic effects of hyperbole so that we could learn more aesthetic value about this figure. [


Previous research into communication between care workers and care home residents with dementia has not utilised the experience of healthcare professionals who work with people with dementia on a daily basis. Previous research mostly consists of observational studies and the assessment of care worker training programmes. No study has yet attempted to establish the efficacy of isolated communication strategies, recommended by healthcare professionals, and administered by care workers within a residential care setting. This thesis first presents the thematic analysis of 16 semi-structured interviews with healthcare professionals who have experience of working with people with dementia. The participants discuss the personal characteristics required in a healthcare professional to facilitate communication, the verbal and non-verbal strategies they use and the organisational factors which can impact the delivery of communication as desired.

Two of the recommended strategies, alpha commands and pacing an interaction, were then analysed experimentally. Three care worker-resident dyads were videoed during morning care routines in an ABAC design. Resident communicative behaviour was measured using an amended version of the Positive Response Schedule (PRS) (Perrin, 1997), the Resistiveness to Care Scale (RTC-DAT) (Mahoney et al., 1999) and compliance. It was found that the conditions containing a significantly higher percentage of alpha commands produced significantly higher PRS scores. This was shown within each dyad and across the dyads (r=+0.65, p<0.05). The results for the pacing condition were inconclusive as the residents responded quickly after instructions were given. This exploratory study found a significant effect of alpha commands on the communicative behaviour of care home residents with dementia. The implications for future research and care worker training are discussed.


The pod trichome densities of eight soybean lines and one pub- lic variety were determined, and the associated aspects of bean leaf beetle, Certoma trifurcata (Forster), feeding behavior on soybean pods were inves- tigated. Three-seeded soybean pods were removed from the top and the bot- tom of the plants of selected lines. The pods were divided into seven sections, starting from the peduncle and ending at the pod tip. Circular areas within each section were delineated, and the number of trichomes in each circle was determined. Data were analyzed for differences in trichome numbers among lines, within plant regions, and among sections of pods. The tri- chome density for different lines ranged from 495 to 924 trichomes/cm 2 . Pods from the top of the plant had higher trichome densities than pods from the bot- tom. Soybean pod sections nearest the pod tip had the highest trichome den- sities, and the sections nearest the peduncle had the lowest. Free choice feeding assays were conducted in the laboratory with three-seeded pods from all lines. Field-collected adult bean leaf beetles were allowed to feed for forty-eight hours. The percentage of the surface damaged per pod section was estimated. Bean leaf beetles showed a stronger tendency to feed on pods at the pedun- cle end and the sections nearest it. These pod sections had significantly lower numbers of trichomes. Areas with the highest trichome densities had the low- est percentage of beetle damage. Lines HC83- 193-5 and HC83- 123-9 and the experimental cultivar "Anderson Velvet" had the greatest resistance to over- all pod damage.


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Distributed dataflow systems like Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop enable data-parallel processing of large datasets on clusters. Yet, selecting appropriate computational resources for dataflow jobs — that neither lead to bottlenecks nor to low resource utilization — is often challenging, even for expert users such as data engineers. Further, existing automated approaches to resource selection rely on the assumption that a job is recurring to learn from previous runs or to warrant the cost of full test runs to learn from. However, this assumption often does not hold since many jobs are too unique. Therefore, we present Crispy, a method for optimizing data processing cluster configurations based on job profiling runs with small samples of the dataset on just a single machine. Crispy attempts to extrapolate the memory usage for the full dataset to then choose a cluster configuration with enough total memory. In our evaluation on a dataset with 1031 Spark and Hadoop jobs, we see a reduction of job execution costs by 56% compared to the baseline, while on average spending less than ten minutes on profiling runs per job on a consumer-grade laptop.


With eddy current testing in a homogenous field it is often spoken about hindrances that are represented by cracks to eddy currents that cannot flow so as in non-defective material. Such homogenous condition can be met with the magnetizing in a very long coil. If however the coil is short the field is not homogenous any more and especially with testing of ferromagnetic materials the magnetic leakage field may not be neglected. The demagnetizing effect of eddy currents can be seen also in magnetic leakage field. By proper arrangement of primary and secondary coil it is possible to get more information. It is given in the article how the longitudinal and the transverse cracks can be detected in the proposed arrangement of primary and secondary coils. If the arrangement of coils with the eddy currents testing is not a standard one it is very important to understand the physics of the new arrangement to be able to interpret the results properly. A very useful tool is the mathematical treatment of field equations. The numerical methods are often applied, since Maxwell equations are rather complex partial differential equations and there are usually real and imaginary components of the field to be taken into account. There are main ideas given how to solve more complicated problems. The actual concrete results will be compared with practical experiments.


Activation of iNKT cells controls the development of tolerogenic dendritic cells in NOD mice. Here we show that the combination of iNKT cell activation and transfer of antigen‐loaded DC can reverse diabetes in the NOD mouse model. To examine whether class I restricted antigens derived from innate immume receptors can be used with DC, an immunodominant H60 minor histocompatibility (H) antigen‐derived peptide presented by H‐2Kb MHC class I was loaded into bone marrow‐derived DC and used to treat diabetic NOD mice. Notably, concurrent treatment of NOD mice with H60‐loaded DC and the iNKT superagonist α‐GalCer resulted in long‐term remission of 64% of cyclophosphamide (CY)‐induced diabetic NOD mice. Reversal of diabetes requires both iNKT‐based therapy and CD1d expression by the infused DC because only 10% of recovery of glycemic control was noted when CD1d(−/−)‐DC where infused or iNKT activation was not included. To investigate the resource of islets regeneration, we use RIP‐CreER; Z/AP bi‐transgenic NOD mice. We find that most insulin positive cells express HPAP in the islets of non‐diabetic bi‐transgenic NOD mice, but very few insulin positive cells express HPAP in the islets of reversed bi‐transgenic NOD mice. Hence, self‐tolerance and subsequent β‐cell function can be restored in overtly diabetic mice via the modulation of antigen‐loaded DC and iNKT cells, and islets regeneration may be mainly the result of differentiation of pancreatic progenitor cells.


This paper investigates the relationship between equity fund's cash flow and stock returns, using VAR approach based on daily analysis. The empirical results are summarized as follows. At the bullish market, there exists negative feedback trading while pure equity funds' cash flow have no effect on subsequent stock returns. Therefore the reasoning that pure equity funds' cash flow could distort stock market is rejected. In case of equity funds, the results are not different. However at the bearish market, there exists negative feedback trading in pure equity funds, but positive feedback trading in equity funds. The effect that causes funds' cash flow to distort stock market is still rejected.


I has long been recognized that intravascular administration of iodinated contrast can precipitate an abrupt decline in kidney function, particularly among patients with underlying chronic kidney disease (CKD). This iatrogenic complication, contrast-associated acute kidney injury (CA-AKI), has been associated with increased risk for serious adverse outcomes, including shortand long-term mortality, progressive decline in kidney function, and need for dialysis. However, these observed associations, which derive principally from retrospective observational studies, have not been confirmed to be causal. Most commonly defined by small increments in serum creatinine levels, CA-AKI may simply be a marker for, rather than a mediator of, these adverse outcomes. Regardless, providers' fear of precipitating CA-AKI is believed to be at least part of the reason that patients with CKD are considerably less likely than those without CKD to undergo clinically indicated contrast-enhanced procedures for such conditions as acute coronary syndrome. The seminal study of this phenomenon by Chertow and colleagues (1) reported that patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction who had CKD were approximately 50% less likely to undergo coronary angiography than those without. Moreover, patients with CKD who had angiography were half as likely to die in the next 12 months than those who did not. Given these findings, which have been replicated in other studies, as well as the absence of data confirming a causal association of CAAKI with adverse outcomes, clinically indicated diagnostic and interventional procedures that require intravascular iodinated contrast should be done in patients with CKD, albeit with implementation of evidencebased preventive care.


I am as flattered by Turner's engagement with my article as I am surprised by his representation of it. His interpretation, and suggestion that I am drawing attention away from structural issues, is rooted in a paradigm which is inadequate to the task of properly describing how life course processes are integral to general social arrangements. In this response I will again illustrate what I see as some major flaws in the assumptions of age stratification and generational conflict theorists. Some of Turner's expressed concerns lie at something of a tangent to the arguments I advanced in my paper, and I will not address them here. Instead I will attempt to clarify my position on what a.ppears to be our mutual concern: the place of age and generation within a more adequate theory of inequality and stratification. In my paper I took issue with the assumptions and arguments of age stratification and generational conflict theorists. These writers see age and generation related self interest as underpinning a growth in age based conflict. The dimensions of such conflict are seen to cleave around people's current relations to work and welfare In these approaches the claims of particular (welfare) groups appear as problematic yet other aspects of resource distribution (rewards to employment) do not. It was my argument that the approach of age stratification theorists undertheorizes the coherence of work and welfare processes. ln consequence it misspecifies the processes which give rise to age and generation related inequalities, and may mislead as to the nature of social change. Further, because it treats the claims of welfare groups as uniquely problematic, the approach adds momentum to an ageist set of assumptions which hold general currency. In his response to my paper Turner re-asserts the salience of intragenerational cohesion and inter-generational difference in shaping consciousness and action in efforts to secure social advantage. I remain unconvinced by the argument or the examples intended to demonstrate its validity. The argument of generational consciousness, solidarity and conflict appears to draw on a metaphor of class consciousness and action. However, the processes seen to place generations in positions of mutual antagonism are not clearly specified. Age stratification theorists have not satisfactorily demonstrated that generations share interests which put them at odds with members of other generations. This may be the case in


This article describes the transition of MOL, the Hungarian Oil and Gas Company, from a state-owned enterprise to a privately owned regional-multinational company and outlines its growth to become a leading player in the CEE region. It also illustrates how the company went through the internal restructuring process before and during its acquisition period. Over three distinct development phases it then emerged as a new species in the CEE, as a "regional multinational". The case also gives valuable strategic insights into the oil industry of the majority of CEE countries.


The first synthesis of cribrostatin 6 (1), a dark blue cancer cell growth inhibiter was achieved in ten-steps from 2,4-diethoxy-3-methylphenol (8), utilizing a catalytic hydrogenation which induces an intramolecular transfer reaction.


The first author wish to thank "Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds" of the Limburgs Universitair Centrum. The second author thanks to FWO-Vlaanderen. We acknowledge support from Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme P5/24-Belgian State-Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs.


This paper put forward two schemes of experimental teaching for computer forensic: one is based on simulative scenes;the other is based on allocating class hour.It introduced the experimental operating ways of each scene in the first scheme,and gave a project's experimental content of teaching plan table in the second scheme.Finally,it proposed that both experimental teaching schemes should be carried quickly into execution and should be improved in the future.


The true significance of policy articulations by appellate courts lies in the behavioral responses of relevant parties below. Actions consistent with the intent of appellate sources is dependant on effective communication between message source and message recipient. Limiting focus to the U.S. Supreme Court as an appellate source, two measures of effective communications are developed. These measures incorporate two dimensions of comprehension difficulty: message structure and the familiarity of the reader with constitutional language. The article also suggests 13 hypotheses pertaining to relative communicative success or failure, several of which are tested briefly.


Council were held successfully one week earlier (see related story). "Steve Blackstock destroyed the election successfully," said Hyer. "When Blackstock learned that both Wiess and Lovett did not have election ballots by 11:30, he decided that there could not be a fair election, so he stopped the election in Baker. He deliberately failed to fulfill his duty." According to Blackstock, the Honor Council at-large election was not well publicized. Since Hyer failed to contact seven of the eight election representatives Monday night, most of the colleges did not have the election ballots at 11:30 Tuesday morning, when the election was scheduled to begin. Blackstock said that he called the SA office Tuesday morning and found that the Honor Council at-large election was to be held Tuesday. "After I picked up the ballots I called the SA office between 10:30 and 11:30," said Blackstock. "Five colleges did not have ballots by 10:30. Wiess and Lovett did not pick up their ballots by 11:30. So I withheld the ballots because I was sure that the election would have been postponed." Lovett and Wiess oegan the election at 11:50, after the election representatives from each college picked up the ballots. Said Blackstock, "I would have held the election if I thought that we could pull it off. 1 did not want to run the election if the results were not going to be used. Running a second election means that we would have a lower voter turnout, and we do not get good results. So at 11:30 1 decided to hold the ballots." Academic deans have withdrawn a coherent minor proposal they put forth in early March. The plan, formulated in response to a request from president George Rupp, was recalled after being submitted to faculty forums and the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee for consideration. A memorandum issued by Professor of English Alan Grob charged that under the proposal students would receive an "eccentrically skewed" education, and called the minor "a profoundly flawed concept". Faculty reaction to the plan was probably the reason for its withdrawal. Rupp asked for the deans' report to open debate on ways to implement the coherent minor requirement he suggested last fall. Addressing the faculty, their proposal stressed that only 25 percent of the deans favor existing distribution requirements. Complaints about the present system listed by the report include students taking distribution courses pass/fail, substituting advanced placement for classes, …


Eucalyptus plantations are the major raw material resource for the medium density fiberboard(MDF) industry in Southern China.To explore the new application of Eucalyptus MDF,the authors used a newly developed organic fire retardant to treat the Eucalyptus fiber.They investigated the effect of fire retardant usage,resin content,and hot pressing time on the fire retardant and mechanical properties of the MDF.Results showed that the main mechanical properties of the MDF samples met the requirements of the national standard GB/T 11718-2009,MDF samples is the flame retardant material.


The invention provides a decentration optical system comprising at least five optical surfaces. The optical surfaces are each decentered with respect to an axial chief ray in the Y-Z plane in the XYZ coordinate space, and at least one surface is decentered in the X-Z plane orthogonal to the Y-Z plane. At least two of the multiple optical surfaces are rotationally asymmetric surfaces, and at least one of the at least two rotationally asymmetric surfaces is a rotationally asymmetric surface having an X odd-numbered degree term.


In order to inhibit fungal contamination of virus-free potato in vitro plants in rapid propagation and reduce the loss,plating medium inhibition was applied to study the impact on inhibiting penicillium with three kinds of herbal fungicides,including Sophora flavescens,Chinese medicinal herb and Heinong No.1 during tissue culture to inhibit the contamination in test tubes and realize rapid propagation.The results showed that penicillium was inhibited best in medium added with Heinong No.1.The inhibition rate reach 100.0%.


This paper expounds the significance of the construction of the academic achievement database of university institutions, the main academic information contained, as well as the key points and difficulties in the construction process. Taking the construction of the academic achievement database of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology as an example, this paper summarizes the experience, thereby providing reference examples for the establishment and improvement of institutional academic achievement database in the future.


By using the pre-column derivatization reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography,the efficiency of 1-deoxynojirimycin(DNJ) isolation from silkworm powder prepared with different pre-treatment methods was investigated.The obtained isolate was examined for their inhibitory effect to HeLa tumor cells.The results showed that,in the ultra-low temperature freeze-dried,heat-dried and vacuum condensation and decoction combining with ultra-low temperature freeze-dried,silkworm powder samples,DNJ content was 0.494 9%,0.383 9% and 0.607 6% respectively.DNJ content in the freeze-dried samples with particle sizes of 0.15,0.25 and 0.425 mm was 0.494 9%,0.321 5% and 0.089 5%,respectively.In the isolate obtained from dilute acid immersion and cation exchange resin,DNJ content was as high as 1.08%.The silkworm powder isolate with concentration of 40 mg/mL had inhibition efficiency of 92.27% to HeLa tumor cells,being able to eliminate tumor cell proliferation completely.The results implied that,vacuum condensation and decoction combining with ultra-low temperature freeze-drying,ultra-fine grinding technology and dilute acid immersion and cation exchange resin could improve the isolation efficiency of DNJ from silkworm powder remarkably,and the silkworm powder isolate containing DNJ had significant inhibitory effect to the growth of HeLa tumor cells.


In this paper, for the first time, the record high-performance top-gated graphene technology platform is used for electrostatic discharge (ESD) physics exploration while investigating the implications of various design and technology options. Impact of diffusive versus ballistic carrier transport on the failure mechanism in top-gate as well as back-gate graphene FET (GFET) is investigated. A unique contact limited failure in graphene transistors is reported. Physical insights on current saturation in GFET and unique step-by-step failure in dielectric capped transistors are presented for the first time. Moreover, device degradation under ESD timescales and its implications on current saturation are revealed. Finally, the influence of various top-gate designs on the ESD performance is reported. New physical insights and matured GFET technology has eventually enabled record high ESD robustness.


Symmetric Self Electro-optic Effect Device's (S-SEED's) basic structure and operation principles are described. Based on its purely capacitive model, the relationship between bit rate and bias/input optical power/input wavelength of S-SEED all-optical buffer is obtained by theoretical analysis. S-SEED all-optical buffer operation bit rates with different biases, input optical powers and input wavelengths are compared. The results reveal that S-SEED buffer bit rate could be effectively enhanced with a low bias or a high input power, and different input wavelengths almost have no influence on its bit rate.


Stream interace driver for Windows CE is a simple and basic device driver model。 This paper exemplifies the GPIO drive of S3C2410,indicates some functions should be in-cluded in its drive and how to be called in application.Then,this paper settles the problems of controlling four leds .


With rapid urbanization, Low Impact Development (LID) is promoted as an alternative to Conventional Drainage (CD), seeking a natural solution for current urban water problems. The positive effects of LID were the main theme of recent LID researches, but this project aims to deeply explore the hidden troubles about the extreme peak runoffs influenced by LID city on catchment scale. In this research, the SUPERFLEX conceptual model was adapted to a rural-urban semi-distributed model to simulate the current rainfall-runoff relationship of the catchment where San Antonio city is located in. Besides, the model expressions of 4 representative LID practices (bioretention cells, vegetated swales, green roofs, and permeable pavements) were devised under SUPERFLEX framework. To deal with the prediction uncertainty, three urban development scenarios in 2040 and five LID implementation scenarios were designed for San Antonio city. And their influences on the basin peak runoffs will be quantitively studied. Research result shows that, the urban runoff tended to swing between extreme flood and extreme drought in the reference situation; And next, the infill urban development strategy, which means developing the vacant or undeveloped land within an existing community, was more helpful on peak runoff and total runoff volume control than sprawl urban development strategy with the same population growth; Thirdly, the bioretention cells, vegetated swales, and permeable pavements had similar good performance on peak runoff reduction, which can be mainly ascribe to the stormwater infiltration process. As for the retention of total runoff volume, the bioretention cells, permeable pavements, and green roofs perform better than vegetated swales since the rapid water transportation character of vegetated swales decrease the water residence time for infiltration; The runoff reduction function of LID practices performs effective on the large peaks in dry and normal seasons, but it will be restrained significantly in flood season. According to model result, the rural peak runoffs happened 6.5 to 15.5 hours after the urban peaks. And for 4 LID implementation scenarios in which 15% of urban grey areas is covered by LID practices, the urban peaks are delayed between 0.5 and 2.5 hours. And for the scenario with the LID cover areas as 50% of the urban grey areas, the time lag of urban peaks varies from 0.5 to 6.5 hours. For this scenario, since the obvious time delay of urban peaks, more stack of urban and rural peaks is caused by the time approaching of urban and rural peaks, which causes the increases of two total basin peaks in flood season from 3.57 to 3.65 mm/d and from 6.35 to 6.47 mm/d respectively. In conclusion we may say that the stacking effect of LID implementation on total basin runoff is limited in the case of San Antonio basin, partly due to the fact that only a small part of this basin is urbanized.


Many design practices rely heavily on visual and enacted representations, and service design is no exception. Sounds are an inevitable part of a service. As an integral part of a servicescape, they provide cues for action and and signal how we interact with the environment. This study explores how auditory representations can be used for the purpose of developing a more holistic and nuanced understanding of service experience through a conceptual exploration that integrates literature with empirical insights. The study contributes to the growing knowledge about service design by suggesting that auditory representations can be approached from the perspectives of sense-making, design work practices and creating auditory representations. It is also argued that these perspectives are implicated by and have implications for ontological, epistemological, and methodological dimensions in service design.


Even distribution and descent of raw materials in the blast furnace stack ensure uniformity of gas flow and improve the fuel rate. To improve the smelting efficiency in the low shaft furnace, the distribution patterns of various raw materials were determined in a previously designed and fabricated half scale model of the actual 12-15 tonnes per day low shaft furnace. The angle of repose of the individual raw material composing the burden and the composite burden were measured. The distribution behaviours were mapped separately with individual constituent composing the burden and also with a few typical composite burdens employed during smelting trials, with or without admission of air blast. The charging device of the low-shaft furnace consists of two drums, the undirectional rotation of which feeds the raw material to the furnace, unlike the conventional blast furnace where the charging device consists of small and big bell. In the scaled model the direction of rotation of the charging drum was alternately reversed to assess its effect on the distribution pattern. The denser and small particles remained at the place of fall inside the model while bigger particles rolled down the slope forming the final contour. The variations in ore quality showed a difference in the type of contours obtained. (Mr. K.N. Gupta, Scientist, Dr. A.B. Chatterjea, Scientist, National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur)


Introduction: The Need for Good Estimates White-collar project management is beset with problems imposed from the outside: not enough people assigned to the project, over-ambitious deadlines, last-minute scope changes, and unpleasant technical surprises. But not all problems can be blamed on outside forces; many come from within the project. Those from within frequently originate in a plan that was poorly put together. In such plans lurk poor recognition of what needs to be included in the technical work, poor assessment of risk, poor estimation of the effort required to accomplish the recognized work, and poor consideration of how to schedule the effort. Good estimation is one of the key elements for building a robust plan that enables adequate management of the project.


A Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) is a strategic planning tool including a long-term vision for the urban mobility system that aims to achieve a set of environmental, economic and social objectives. This is supported by a definition of actions aiming to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the mobility system and to ensure its integration with urban and territorial development. In addition, the SUMP approach encourages closer cooperation between the various institutional levels, as well as a strengthened collaboration between neighbouring urban areas.


There is provided a method for preparing a biaxially oriented polyester sheet or web, with improved antista tic properties, comprising the steps of (i) stretching said polyester sheet or web first in one direction and second in a direction perpendicular thereto (ii) coating said hydrophobic polyester sheet or web, either before stretching or between said first and second stretching operation, on one or both sides, with a transparent antistatic primer layer, wherein the coating composition of said transparent antista tic primer layer comprises (1) a dispersion of a polythiophene with conjugated polymer backbone and a polymeric polyanion compound and (2) a latex polymer having hydrophilic functionality. The primer layer is coated from an aqueous composi tion and does not show a substantial change in resistiv ity depending on relative humidity or wet processing.


The present invention provides a geomagnetism and WIFI-based positioning methods, apparatus and system, the positioning method comprising: obtaining a mobile terminal sensor data, the sensor data includes gyro data, acceleration data and geomagnetic data; if the gyroscope by determining whether the mobile terminal is straight, and determining the distance of movement of the mobile terminal exceeds a predetermined threshold by the acceleration data, in accordance with the WIFI data set exceeds the preset threshold time period obtained by the geomagnetism positioning the mobile terminal. The present invention achieves high-accuracy positioning of the mobile terminal and the geomagnetic WIFI, since the positioning process without human intervention, thus greatly reducing labor costs; In addition, the mobile terminal by positioning with high precision tracking, the mobile terminal obtains the high-precision positioning position, the positioning location obtained embodiment may also produce high precision indoor map information thus embodiments of the present invention.


Following the recent Local Elections and subsequent Full Council and Committee meetings, Warwick District Council's Executive, Portfolio Holders and Committee Chairmen have been confirmed


Evidence exists to indicate that the dietary compos! tion influences salivary a-amylase concentrations. The ingestion of a carbohydrate diet is associated with high levels of a-amylase vhd Le a protein diet reduces the a-amylase concentration. a-Amylase is secreted in response to B-sympathetic stimulation and this action is mediated by the activation of acinar adenylyl cyclase with a resulting increased intra-cellular cyclic AMP. Adenylyl cyclase activity is demonstrable histochemically and cytochemically along the basal plasma membrane of the acinar cells. Using a fluorescent antibody technique, gastrin producing cells were detected only in gastric antrum and proximal duodenum. No such cells were evident in salivary glands or oral mucosa. Biochemically, salivary gland adenylyl cyclase activity was stimulated by isoproterenol, prostaglandins and NaF. However, cyclic AMP production was inhibited by gastrin. Physiological studies in humans reveal that low i.v. doses of pentagastrin inhibit a-amylase eecnetdon while larger dOBeB (>1.0 I'gfKgjHr) have no effect. The conclusion is that a negative feedback system operates. with dietary proteins stimulating gastrin release which in turn decreases the cyclic AMP level in salivary glands. This mechanism diminishes salivary a-amylase


When a group of boys they were no more formed a secret society of sophomores in the College of William and Mary one hundred and fifty-five years ago did they have clearly in mind the type of lad they wished for a colleague? What were they like, those boys of 1776, who chose for a Secret" mottO ФсХоаофса BiovKvsepvrJT^. Did they remember a passage in The Republic: "He said, 'But who are the true philosophers? ' 'Those/ I said, cwho are lovers of the vision of truth? y " Or, bold secret venturers, were they mindful of a passage in Colossians: "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ"? Long before those boys entered their colleges the word "philosophy" seems to have connoted for many what it meant to Francis Bacon: "It is true that a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." Some eighteenth century writers appear to have had in mind a kind of contemporary French rationalism when they used the term. Smollett in 1749 translating Gil Bias wrote: "Our mistress is also a little tainted with philosophy." In 1790 Hannah More said: "Philosophy, as unbelief has lately been pleased to call itself, will not do nearly so much mischief to the present age as its great apostles intended." And in 1795 Edmund Burke seemed to be suspicious of the French philosophy of his day: "He is certainly a man of parts; but one who has dealt too much in the philosophy of France." In 1 801


Abstract Gypsophila huashanensis Y. W. Tsui & D. Q. Lu (Caryophyllaceae) is an endemic herb species to the Qinling Mountains in China. In this study, we characterized its whole plastid genome using the Illumina sequencing platform. The complete plastid genome of G. huashanensis is 152,457 bp in length, including a large single-copy DNA region of 83,476 bp, a small single-copy DNA region of 17,345 bp, and a pair of inverted repeat DNA sequences of 25,818 bp. The genome contains 130 genes comprising 85 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes, and eight rRNA genes. Evolutionary analysis showed that the non-coding regions of Caryophyllaceae exhibit a higher level of divergence than the exon regions. Gene site selection analysis suggested that 11 coding protein genes (accD, atpF, ndhA, ndhB, petB, petD, rpoCl, rpoC2, rps16, ycfl, and ycf2) have some sites under protein sequence evolution. Phylogenetic analysis showed that G. huashanensis is most closely related to the congeneric species G. oldhamiana. These results are very useful for studying phylogenetic evolution and species divergence in the family Caryophyllaceae.


This study aimed to identify to what extent the accounting departments at the Universities of Jordan contribute to improving the structure of financial reports through the support which the teaching staff at the Accounting Departments of the Universities of Jordan lend to the need for tackling developments and enhancing the structure of financial reports in the aftermath of the international financial crisis, and teaching and stressing in the accounting courses the importance of factors affecting the quality and improvement of financial reports. These factors include quality features of the accounting information, sufficiency of the accounting disclosure in the financial statements, effectiveness of auditing committees, tendency towards e-auditing, governance in companies, implementation of standards for preparation of financial reports, and e-publishing of accounting information. In order to realize the objectives of the study, the researcher has designed a questionnaire which was distributed to a sample of the teaching staff members along with the employees of the accounting departments at both public and private universities in Jordan during the academic year 2012/2013. Some (200) questionnaires were distributed via the e-mail to the study sample, and the number of questionnaires returned and approved for the purposes of statistical analysis was (138) questionnaires, i.e. 69% of the questionnaires distributed. According to the analysis of questionnaire responses, several conclusions were reached, including the following: - Availability of scientific efficiency and practical experience on the part of the teaching staff members of the accounting departments, and this in fact qualifies them to contribute to improving the structure of financial reports; - Teaching staff members' support of the need to address developments and enhance the structure of financial reports in the aftermath of the international financial crisis;- Incorporating into the accounting courses the factors that actually affect the quality and improvement of the structure of financial reports. Nevertheless, teaching and highlighting the importance of these factors vary according to e-publishing of accounting information and the tendency to adopt e-auditing.


PETERGay died inManhattan onMay 12, 2015. A professor at Columbia and Yale, Gay was one of the preeminent cultural and intellectual historians of his generation. His enormous output of scholarship, on subjects as varied as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Sigmund Freud, Victorian sexuality and modernist art, testifies to the range of his erudition and his restless urge tomake his views known. Hewas the recipient of numerous awards, honorary doctorates, and other distinctions, including the National Book Award in 1967 for The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, the Gold Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1996, and the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis in 1999. After retiring from Yale he became the founding Director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers, a post he held from 1997 to 2003. He remained extraordinarily productive as a scholar well into his eighties, publishing essays, articles, and books, including a massive history of modernism. His final book, Why the Romantics Matter, appeared last year. Peter Joachim Fröhlich was born into a secularized Jewish family in Berlin in 1923. His father co-owned a firm that arranged for themanufacture of inexpensive versions of high-end porcelain and glassware, which were then sold in department stores and specialty shops. Described by Gay as a "self-made man," Moritz Fröhlich was born in 1894 in the predominantly Polish village of Podjanze in Upper Silesia and received only an eighth-grade education before embarking on a business career.1 Despite his middle-class standing, Gay's father was a lifelong supporter of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and a pronounced secularist, views he passed onto his son. Gay's mother Helga was born in Breslau in 1900 and married Fröhlich at the age of twenty-two. Peter, their only child, was born the following year. Gay would characterize himself as quiet and studious, a "a most tractable boy" who enjoyed playing alone and only rarely got into trouble.2 The rise of the National Socialists to power in 1933 overturned the Fröhlichs' middleclass existence and eventually forced them out of Germany. Peter, who was subjected to


The aim of trust prediction is to infer trust values for pairs of users when the relationship between them is unknown. The unprecedented growth in the amount of online interactions on e-commerce websites has made the problem of predicting user trust relationships critically important, yet sparsity in the amount of known (labeled) relationships poses a significant challenge to the usage of machine learning techniques. This paper presents a community detection approach which leverages the network of available trust relations and rating similarities to compensate for the lack of labels. The key insight behind our framework is that trust values from the central community members can be used as a predictor for relationships between other community members. Here we evaluate the usage of two community detection algorithms, one of which works merely on the trust network while the other one uses both. Our algorithm outperforms other existing trust prediction methods on datasets from the wellknown product review websites Epinions and Ciao.


Background Within the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators (HCQI) Project up to 21 countries participated in calculations of 6 indicators on care for chronic conditions. Those so-called Health Promotion, Prevention and Primary Care Indicators originally had been introduced by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and rely on the principal diagnoses of an adult hospitalization stored in a hospital administrative database. 2007 age-sex standardized asthma admission rates varied considerably across the countries and ranged from 17 (Italy) to 120 (United States) admissions per 100,000 population (OECD mean: 51). It was concluded that asthma outpatient treatment was not optimal in countries reporting higher rates. Germany provided the third lowest asthma admission rate of 21 (Health at a Glance 2009 OECD Indicators. http://www.oecd.org/health/healthataglance). As data collections from various countries can differ in, e.g. coding responsibility, incentives for coding, and implementation of coding guidelines, international variations cannot exclusively be explained by differences in health system performance. This study aimed to calculate asthma admission rates separately for all 16 Federal States of Germany, assuming national comparisons are not biased by these factors. Methods Using the 2009 nationwide Diagnosis Related Groups statistic we calculated age-sex standardized asthma admission rates according to the OECD HCQI Data Collection Guidelines. Results Among all adult hospitalizations (15 years or older) we found 14,399 admissions with a principal diagnosis code of asthma. Related to the corresponding population of 70,779,623, the crude rate is 20.34 admissions per 100,000. Age and sex standardized rate is 20.20 (95% Confidence-Interval, 19.86-20.54). Among the 16 Federal States of Germany age-standardized rates ranges from 7.62 in Berlin (95% CI, 6.17-9.08) to 20.26 in North Rhine-Westphalia (95% CI, 19.13-21.39) among men and from 16.15 in Berlin (95% CI, 14.07-18.23) to 36.70 in Bremen (95% CI, 29.89-43.98) among women, respectively. Conclusions Prevention Quality Indicators calculated on national hospital administrative databases might be a useful tool to identify national variations of asthma admission rates reflecting areas with differences in outpatient care. Reasons for the differences found, e.g., a varying regional density of primary care providers or regional differences on asthma prevalence are in focus of further investigations.