An activatable material and articles incorporating the same is disclosed. The activatable material includes at least three of an epoxy resin; a thermoplastic polyether; a blowing agent; a curing agent; and a filler. The activatable material is preferably used for sealing, baffling or reinforcing an article of manufacture such as an automotive vehicle (26).


This article makes an ontological diagnosis of lesbian experience. Lesbians argue that lesbianism is natural, liberating,,political, and creative. Lesbianism is natural because it springs from the primal desire for the mother. Viewing heterosexuality as oppressive, lesbianism frees the woman from the inexorable strictures of patriarchy. Politically speaking, even heterosexual women can resort to lesbian acts, when they are asphyxiated with patriarchy. Lesbianism, therefore, offers women a safe haven, free of male misogyny, and so gives women room to be independent and creative. These propositions are explored in relation to some of Audre Lorde's poetry.


Composite insulators in long-term operation are subjected to ultraviolet, electric field, moisture, temperature difference and other factors, which inevitably lead to aging. It is important to carry out prediction research on the lifetime of composite insulator so as to replace the aging and deteriorated insulators to ensure the normal operation of power grid. In this paper, the performance indicators with strong correlation with insulator life were selected by Poisson correlation analysis, and the operation lifetime was predicted based on BP neural network. The research results show that when nine performance indexes such as hardness, hydrophobicity, water diffusion leakage current and tensile strength are used to predict the lifetime of the insulator, the difference between the predicted and actual values is within 5%.


Male infertility is a disease of the reproductive system caused primarily by male factors includingdeficiencies in the semen, genetic and congenital conditions, anatomical, endocrine, functional or immunological abnormalities of the reproductive system, chronic illness and sexual conditions incompatible with coitus[1]. Worldwide approximately 8-12% of individuals trying to conceive are unable to do so, with the highest prevalence in Eastern Europe, North Africa, Middle East, Oceania and Sub-Saharan Africa[2].


In recent years, especially in 2007, to prevent the economy from overheating, China constantly adopted a number of macro-control policies. Based on the analysis of national economic policies, this paper puts forward specific measures to promote the sustainable development of Nanning's industrial economy, such as using land intensively, enhancing the construction of industrial parks, reducing energy consumption and emissions, and optimizing the industrial structure.


Seven complexes based on the ligands 4,6-bis(4-pyridyl)-1,3,5-triazin-2-ol (4-HOBPT) and 4,6-bis(3-pyridyl)-1,3,5-triazin-2-ol (3-HOBPT), namely, [Fe(4-OBPT)2(H2O)2]·6H2O (2), M(4-OBPT)(INA)(H2O) (M = Co(II) (3a), Fe(II) (3b), Zn(II) (3c), HINA = isonicotinic acid), [Co(3-OBPT)2(H2O)2]·H2O (4), and [M(3-OBPT)(NA)(H2O)]·0.5CH3OH (M = Co(II) (5a), Ni(II) (5b), HNA = nicotinic acid), have been synthesized under hydrothermal conditions and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The thermal stability and coordination model of the ligands are extremely dependent on the reaction temperature and the presence of metal ions. In the range of 90−120 °C, unique complexes 2 and 4 were obtained and the ligands are a N,O-bimonodentate coordination model. At 130 °C, complexes 3 and 5 were afforded in yields of 12−48% depending on the metal ions, in which both of the ligands act as a N,N,O-trimonodentate triangular ligand and the INA and NA anions are generated in situ by hydrolysis of the corresponding parents...


In this work, the effects of an addition of trace alloying elements, Fe and Cr, on the mechanical and electrical properties and corrosion resistance of Cu-3Ti alloy foils, have been investigated. The results showed that the individual addition of Fe leads to the formation of Fe2Ti intermetallic phase, which refines the grain size, in the solution-treated condition. With a combined addition of Fe and Cr, the formation of the (FeCr)2Ti phase and the precipitation of the β′-Cu4Ti phase resulted in increased hardness in the peak-aged condition. The ultimate tensile strength and yield strength of the peak-aged Cu-Ti-Fe-Cr alloy were 13% and 5.7% higher, than those of the Cu-3Ti alloy, respectively. The electrical conductivity of the peak-aged Cu-Ti-Fe-Cr alloy was 3.3% higher than that of the Cu-Ti-Fe alloy, due to the finer (FeCr)2Ti phase and the less residual Ti atoms, in the Cu matrix. The combined addition of Fe and Cr elements could improve the corrosion resistance of the Cu-Ti alloy. The Cu-Ti-Fe-Cr alloy foil could obtain the best integrated properties, and the hardness, ultimate tensile strength, and electrical conductivity were 357.1 HV, 1068 MPa and 12.5% IACS, respectively.


Because traumatic brain stem injuries are thought to imply a poor prognosis, these authors studied 188 patients with TBI and correlated their imaging findings with outcomes at 6 months. Brain stem lesions were found in 51 instances and 66% of these patients had a poor outcome, with those who had bilateral, posteriorly located, and hemorrhagic lesions having the worst outcome. Nonhemorrhagic brain stem lesions had the best outcome in this group of patients. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Traumatic brain injuries represent an important cause of death for young people. The main objectives of this work are to correlate brain stem injuries detected at MR imaging with outcome at 6 months in patients with severe TBI, and to determine which MR imaging findings could be related to a worse prognosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: One hundred and eight patients with severe TBI were studied by MR imaging in the first 30 days after trauma. Brain stem injury was categorized as anterior or posterior, hemorrhagic or nonhemorrhagic, and unilateral or bilateral. Outcome measures were GOSE and Barthel Index 6 months postinjury. The relationship between MR imaging findings of brain stem injuries, outcome, and disability was explored by univariate analysis. Prognostic capability of MR imaging findings was also explored by calculation of sensitivity, specificity, and area under the ROC curve for poor and good outcome. RESULTS: Brain stem lesions were detected in 51 patients, of whom 66% showed a poor outcome, as expressed by the GOSE scale. Bilateral involvement was strongly associated with poor outcome (P < .05). Posterior location showed the best discriminatory capability in terms of outcome (OR 6.8, P < .05) and disability (OR 4.8, P < .01). The addition of nonhemorrhagic and anterior lesions or unilateral injuries showed the highest odds and best discriminatory capacity for good outcome. CONCLUSIONS: The prognosis worsens in direct relationship to the extent of traumatic injury. Posterior and bilateral brain stem injuries detected at MR imaging are poor prognostic signs. Nonhemorrhagic injuries showed the highest positive predictive value for good outcome.


Reversible logic is promising as it can be applied to   different applications in low power like nanocomputing especially in quantum computing. Reversible logic is a technioue for power reduction. Reversible circuits are similar to digital circuits but they work using reversible logic gates. This study focuses on reducing the garbage output and ancilla inputs in reversible multiplexers, thereby reducing the power consumption. In this study two designs of Multiplexers are given. Design1 is using TwinSJ gate and AJ gate. 2:1, 4:1 and 8:1 multiplexers are built. In Design 2, a new gate (SJ gate) is built which functions as 2:1 multiplexer. It has 4*4 configuration.  The inputs are suitably configured so that it performs various logic functions. Using this SJ gate and other basic reversible logic gates, 2:1, 4:1 and 8:1 multiplexers are built.  In 2:1 multiplexer, Ancilla inputs are improved to '0' from 5 and garbage output has been reduced to 2 against 7 in existing design.  4:1 multiplexers are built with '0' ancilla inputs against 2 and 11 in existing designs. Garbage output of the proposed 4:1 multiplexer is 5 against 6 and 16 in existing designs.  8:1 multiplexer is built with 1 ancilla input and 11 garbage output against 2 and 12 respectively in existing design. This is designed using VHDL code - xilinx 14.7 for verification purpose and simulated on ISIM.


In order to design an automatic irrigation system based on STC12C5A60S2,the excellent,easy operated SIM300 is adopted as GSM module.With MCU as the core,it sends the data collected by the data senor after packing to the monitor terminal of the PC software by the ubiquity of GPRS network.The data is received and processed by the PC.Based on the data of the default parameters and corresponding parameters collected,the server sends corresponding command to the data spot.This system turned out to be economical and effective.This paper mainly introduces the design process of software.


The three-dimensional structure prediction problem consists in predicting the coordinates in the space for each one of the backbone and side chain atoms in a protein, given the linear sequence of amino acids that compose it. This problem plays an important role in protein design and prediction of biological functions. The importance, from a computational point of view, to infer the three dimensional structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence, is based on the cost relative to the time and effort involved in determining the structure of a protein by experimental techniques such as X-ray crystallography or nuclear magnetic resonance. This paper focuses on the Protein Side-Chain Packing Problem (PSCPP), which is a subproblem of the general structure prediction problem. Specifically, this problem consists in predicting the best conformation of a protein side-chain, given the amino acid sequence and the coordinates of the backbone atoms as input data. It has been shown that proteins side-chains tend to cluster in a limited number of conformations [6], known as rotamers. The rotamers are identified by the frequency of occurrences of the side-chain conformations in databases of protein structures, such as the Protein Data Bank (PDB) [2]. The total energy of a molecule can be expressed as the sum of energies from the pairwise interaction between its atoms and is used to evaluate the quality of rotamers assigned to the backbone of a protein. Then, the PSCPP can be formally defined as a combinatorial optimization problem where the objective is to choose a rotamer for each amino acid so that the total energy of the protein is minimized, this problem belongs to the NP-hard complexity class [1]. This paper proposes an experimental analysis of the highest accuracy that can be achieved with a particular rotamer library [5], in addition to understand how the number of interatomic collisions influences the quality of solutions predicted by an optimization algorithm. To perform the experiment 10 proteins randomly selected from among those proposed in the work of Corona [4] were used. Absolute accuracy is a measure of quality of solutions [5-8], and was used in [4] to present the maximum absolute accuracy achieved by the backbone-independent rotamer library [5]. The average results, over 770 proteins, were as follows: % = 99.6%, % = 93.0%, and % = 90.8%. However, the number of collisions was high. With this upper bound on the absolute accuracy that the backbone-independent rotamer library [5] can reach, it is in the interest of this work to know whether it is possible or not to reduce the number of collisions without strongly affecting the solutions quality. That is, we want to know how the absolute accuracy is affected by minimizing the number of collisions. In order to find the sequence of rotamers which minimizes the number of collisions, we use a variant of the CIS optimization algorithm [3] so as to remove atomic collisions from the conformation that obtained the maximum absolute accuracy of each protein and to which in this paper we call it Best. CIS is basically an optimization algorithm that solves the PSCPP and whose main characteristic is being a clash-detection guided iterative search algorithm. Thus, the experiment consisted in taking the solution of Best as the seed of the CIS algorithm in order to obtain the solution with the minimum number of collisions. As part of this work we also present the results obtained by the two best state-of-theart methods for PSCPP: OPUS-Rota [8] and SCWRL4 [7]. It is worth mentioning here that both methods use more updated rotamer libraries than the one analysed in this work. The following


The sloshing of fluid in an enclosed tank due to regular excitation in the horizontal, vertical and rotational modes is investigated through a numerical model. Finite element method with cubic spline and finite difference approximations has been adopted to simulate the fully nonlinear sloshing wave. Herein, the external excitations, including rotational oscillation, are built-in within the kinematic and dynamic free surface boundary conditions. The predictions from the present model are compared with those of Nakayama and Wazhizu due to regular wave excitation in the roll mode, whereas the results from the combined excitations were compared with the results of Chen and Chiang. The sloshing oscillation induced by different combination of tank motions has been subjected to frequency domain analysis. The results exhibited the occurrence of dominant peak at the natural frequencies of the system, irrespective of the excitation frequency for the rotational motion. There is nearly a twofold increase in the peak amplitude if sway and roll excitations are in phase. Sloshing amplitude decreases if the vertical and rotational excitations act together.


Over these last 15 years of democratic transformation, the fundamental goals of Polish foreign policy have remained clear and stable. The country needed to secure its independence and create an international environment conducive to developing a modern and competitive economy. This explains Poland's quest for full membership in both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU).


This paper examines the effects of gender differences in collaboration on research outcomes. We analyzed network characteristics of seventeen medical research institutions that are Clinical and Translational Science Awardees (CTSA) to determine if network connectivity characteristics have the potential to help mitigate the performance gap between the sexes. We determined betweenness centrality to identify well-connected researchers. Then we used clustering coefficient to determine how tightly connected their collaborators were with each other. We correlate these scores with productivity (number of total publications for each author), and h-index (the number of papers h for which an author has h citations). We also provide data on how network characteristics vary by role for each gender studied. Our results indicate that being well connected is more highly correlated with success for women than men for most of the institutions we studied. We believe these results can be leveraged to improve success rates for women in the future.


The paper investigates the current crisis and its major consequences in a shifting world. Originated from the USA, the crisis spread in the world and disturbed its power distribution. The emerging countries development of the last two decades illustrates the catching-up process. The findings also confirm the increased role of the Chinese economy today. The Chinese growth in comparison with the USA economic path is a mirror for the future world architecture. The consequences of the international financial crisis are focused on the fact that the developed countries will lose gradually their privileges in the shifting of economic power.


Cilia are microtubule‐based tiny organelles that protrude from the cell surface. In recent years, emerging evidence has shown that cilia are essential for many biological functions, and their defects result in a wide range of genetic disorders, termed ciliopathies. According to their motile properties, cilia can be classified as motile or primary (immotile) cilia. Motile cilia are essential for the movement of unicellular organisms, including Chlamydomonas, Tetrahymena, Trypanosoma as well as sperm. In metazoans, beating of motile cilia also facilitates fluid flow over epithelial cell surfaces. On the other hand, primary cilia function as cellular antennae that sense extracellular signals and transduce these signals into the cell, thus, regulating development and cellular physiology. To understand the pathogenic mechanisms of ciliopathies, it is of vital importance to learn the basic mechanisms underlying ciliogenesis, including the diversity and structure of cilia, ciliary signaling and other kinds of ciliary functions. This special issue of the Journal of Cellular Physiology focuses on the structure, assembly, and some of the varied functions of cilia. Despite being part of the cell membrane, the composition of the ciliary membrane is strikingly different. For instance, the ciliary membrane is enriched in a large variety of receptors essential for signaling transduction and cell behavior. The review from Dutta and Ray summarizes the composition, modification of ciliary membrane lipid, and discusses the influences of ciliary lipid composition on cilia growth and signaling. Being a specialized cellular antenna, cilia are essential for the transduction of variety of signals, including Hedgehog signaling. The review from Jin et al. (2022) explore the roles of prostaglandin signaling during ciliogenesis and development. Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) binds its receptor, EP4, on the ciliary membrane and activates downstream cAMP signals to promote ciliogenesis. Jin et al. (2022) outline recent advances in prostaglandin signaling during ciliogenesis, embryonic development and organogenesis. Motile cilia are essential for directional fluid flow as well as sperm motility, and ciliary motility defects are the major cause of the ciliopathy primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD). Mutations in a large number of genes encoding ciliary dynein arms or their assembly factors have been demonstrated to be causative of PCD. Qiu and Roy summarize recent findings in the cytoplasmic assembly of dynein arms, their transport into cilia via intraflagellar transport and axonemal docking. This review provides us with a better understanding on how cilia motility is regulated by dynein arms. Moreover, the review from Conde and Dean discusses the structural features of the flagellum in the African trypanosome, and the possibilities of targeting flagellar function to cure trypanosome infections. Finally, Maurya uses the Caenorhabditis elegans model to highlight mechanisms that underlie the enormous structural diversity of cilia. This special issue also contains five original research articles reporting studies of ciliary signaling and function in different organisms as well as human patients. Yang et al. (2022) report the role of Hippo signaling during retina development. Removal of YAP1, specifically in the retinal Muller cells, causes extensive late‐onset retinal degeneration, including cone and rod photoreceptors that have the highly specialized connecting cilium. Jin et al. (2022) studied the role of E2f4 during zebrafish intestine and otolith development. E2f4 regulates the expression of ciliary motility genes, thus, contributing to coordinated ciliary motility in the otic vesicles. Interestingly, E2f4 also participates in the differentiation of the intestinal epithelium. Stereocilia are a distinct class of actin‐based cellular protrusions, whose polarity is regulated by a true cilium, the kinocilium. Yan et al. (2022) report the role of BAIAP2L2 in the maintenance of stereocilia in the mouse cochlear hair cells. Cilia disassembly and cell cycle progression is closely related. For example, the centrosomal protein Trichoplein can promote cell progression through disassembly of cilia. Huang et al. (2022) show that deletion of Trichoplein induces G0 arrest in cultured cells. Strikingly, blocking the formation of cilia could not rescue cell cycle arrest, which requires the inhibition of Rb and p53 signaling. This study uncovers new data pertaining to the function of Trichoplein during cell cycle progression. Finally, Qiu et al. report several patients harboring mutations in the TMEM67 gene, a causative gene for human ciliopathies including Meckel‐Gruber and Joubert syndromes. Interestingly, these patients only exhibited high gamma‐glutamyl transpeptidase cholestasis and congenital hepatic fibrosis without typical symptoms of ciliopathies. These data add new information regarding the broad phenotypic spectrum that arises frommutations in TMEM67. We thank all the authors for their insightful contributions, and we hope that this special issue will appeal to researchers investigating fundamental aspects of ciliary biology as well as those engaged in more clinical aspects of how dysfunction of these organelles causes human disease.


Introduction 1. The Decision-Making Process under the LDP Administration and the DPJ's Plans of Reforms 2. The Hatoyama Government: Attempt at Creating a New Order 3. The Kan Government: Limits of Reforms 4. The Noda Government: Return to the Old Practices? 5.Summary and Conclusions


Road Safety Audit (RSA) is a relatively new tool for the North American transportation profession. It was developed by English and Australian road safety professionals as a process whereby safety is taken as an explicit consideration in the planning, design and operation of a transportation facility. This process, including the participants and their respective roles, has been well documented. RSA may be used on existing facilities (i.e., an in-service audit) but was primarily developed as a proactive safety tool to be used during the planning and design stages of a project. The design of a new facility, or the redesign of an existing facility, follows an established process which has been redefined and restructured over the years, as social and environmental impacts have become more prominent considerations in the delivery of transportation services. Current North American RSA initiatives have been mainly pilot projects that are carried out as an "add-on service" to roadway design. The pilots have been somewhat distinct from the design process, and efforts have focused on the elements of RSA, the RSA process, and the audit team. In short, these initiatives have used RSA in isolation from the design process. As RSA becomes an accepted part of a road project, an equally important consideration is how to successfully integrate the RSA into the regular design process to minimize delays and wasted resources. This paper describes the method of integrating RSA into the typical design process and provides some description of the benefits and drawbacks of the different stages of audits. The first two sections describe the RSA process and the design process, respectively. Both sections detail the process and the participants. The third section outlines the specifics of integrating the two processes, including a discussion on how the design process presents certain opportunities and constraints for RSA. The final section is a brief summary.


Background: Nigerians with Schizophrenic disorder are experiencing multiple relapses during the course of the illness. Relapse is disabling and  distressing, associated with progressive functional deterioration as well as worsening treatment response and clinical prognosis.
Aim: Thestudy aims to assess the prevalence and predictors of relapse among patients with Schizophrenia in North-western Nigeria.
Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive design was employed to conduct the study in Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Kaduna, Kano State  Psychiatric Hospital Dawanau, and Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Kware, Sokoto States. The Population of the study constitutes all patients with  schizophrenia attending the outpatient units of the Hospitals with a sample size of 464 patients a crossed the facilities. A purposive sampling  technique was used in the study to recruit respondents. Self -structure Questionnaire was the instrument for data collection. Data collected were  analyzed using SPSS Version 23 and presented using mean, standard deviation, frequency, and percentages. Regression analysis was used at a 0.05  level of significance to determine predictors of relapse..
Results: Findings revealed that from the year 2018 to 2020, the prevalence of relapse  among patients with schizophrenia is very high in the year  2020 with 71% relapse in Kano state, 40% relapse in Sokoto state, and 14% relapse in Kaduna state. The study shows that co-morbid illness, stressful  life events, and inadequate mental health services are predictors of relapse (p<0.05).
Conclusion: The study concludes that personal, social, and health facility factors are predictors of relapse among patients with Schizophrenia in  North-west Nigeria.
Recommendations: Emotional and social support like halfway home, assertive community therapy, self -help groups should be provided to patients  with schizophrenia, as these can play a vital role in their response to the ailment thereby reducing relapse and the prevalence of the  disease.


Phytochemical studies of plants native flora to explore the possibilities of the complex use of raw materials creation on its basis of new drugs has recently become a significant date. This is due to the high efficiency of biologically active substances vegetable raw materials and their low toxicity.
The object of the study was to sow-thistle herb of the field, gathered in the flowering period in the Kiev region (Near Kiev in 2014). Chromatographic study investigated extract was performed on Agilent 6890 gas chromatograph equipped with a mass spectrometer detector (model 5973). Using the method of gas-liquid chromatography with mass detection was analyzed this weed grass field. To identify the components using the component library of mass spectra and NIST05 WILEY 2007 in conjunction with programs to identify AMDIS and NIST. Identification of the study carried out by comparing the components of the mass spectra and retention times of the components. It identified 48 volatile compounds in the grass field sow-thistle.
Majority components volatiles sonchus oleraceus following compounds: n-heneykozan, n-trikozan, n-pentakozan, 1,2-benzendikarboksilovaya acid di-n-butyl Ester, 9 trikozan Z, 6,10,14-trimethyl-2-pentadekanon whose content is 366.7 mg/kg, 175 mg/kg, 86.9 mg/kg, 75 mg/kg, 54 mg/kg, 32 mg/kg feed respectively.


In this study, a boundary-layer bleeding and a twostaged fuel injection were applied to a scramjet engine for suppressing unstart transition and improving the thrust performance under Mach 6 flight conditions. Two different engine flow passes were examined, namely one with a 1/5 height strut and another with a full height strut. With the boundary-layer bleeding, the engine operated without unstart transition around at the fuel equivalence ratio of unity (Φ =1) for the both engine configurations. Especially for the engine with the full strut, the thrust increment from the no fuel condition (dF) increased to 2460 N, which was about 1.4 times as large as that of the case without the boundary-layer bleeding and maximum in our Mach 6 tests. It was confirmed that the boundarylayer bleeding suppressed the separation during the engine operation. Comparison of dF at Φ=1 between the both engine configurations indicated that the strut base was useful for the thrust surface in this test. The two-staged fuel injection was less effective for improving the thrust performance compared with the single-staged one with the bleeding.


The shaft rod ( 2 ) according to the invention has, at one of its narrow sides, at least one recess ( 21 ) which is later provided in the shaft rod and in which a reinforcing element ( 24 ) is glued. The material externally of the shaft rod forms securing zones ( 32, 33 ) which serve for the attachment of additional elements. The recesses are preferably applied in such a manner that hollow spacesfree from Eloxal coating are exposed which may be utilized as recesses into which reinforcing elements are glued.


Abstract In multibody system simulation for vehicle dynamics applications, it is often sufficient to consider a set of system equations in which the kinematics are linearized. On the other hand, care must be taken to model the flexibility of the system bodies correctly and to be able to introduce the highly nonlinear force laws appearing in multibody vehicle models into the simulation. A formalism meeting these objectives is presented here. Special care has been taken to incorporate geometric stiffening terms that result from nominal loads on the system. This formalism is the core of the vehicle dynamic simulation code MEDYNA.


Hexagonal e‐FexN phases with 2.02 200 Oe) for those phases with Tc above room temperature. The variation of the magnetic moment with composition is nonlinear.


There is interest in solid materials containing a high percentage of stored oxygen for use in emergency breathing apparatus for miners and as auxiliary oxygen sources for astronauts. In theory, the amount of available oxygen in calcium superoxide, Ca(O2)2 is higher than in potassium superoxide, KO2, and its availability during use should be unhindered by the formation of a low melting and hydrous coating. The decomposition of solid calcium peroxide diperoxyhydrate, CaO2.2H2O2 has been studied, using an apparatus which allows good control of the critical reaction parameters. Samples have been prepared showing apparent superoxide contents in excess of those previously reported and higher than the theoretical 58.4% expected from a disproportionation reaction.


Propellant acquisition vane (PAV) is a key part of vane type surface tension tank (STT) and is mostly used to transmit fluid under microgravity environment, its transmission performance will determine fluid management of STT. In present paper, a ribbon type PAV with hems on both sides is conceptually designed, and its transmission performance has been analyzed based on four configuration parameters of its section form, which are flat part breadth, hems' height, hems' angle and separation distance between PAV and inner wall of STT. The laws of the effects of four configuration parameters on PAV's transmission performance have been obtained and a set of most optimized configuration parameters has been given. Then transmission performance of the PAV whose configuration parameters of section form are the set of optimized parameters has been studied in-depth. Our results revealed that the optimized PAV is able to meet orbital demand of gas-free propellant completely during the end of STT's life under harsh microgravity environment. On the basis of analyzed laws, microgravity environment has been conducted by the hundred meters drop tower tests, so the model test system with PAV is established and the campaigns have as objective to test the PAV's fluid transmission performance under axial and lateral acceleration conditions. All these analyses and tests have been successfully conducted to demonstrate fluid transmission performance of such a PAV. According to present research, PAV with different section forms influences fluid transmission performance of STT remarkably. Thus, it is an effective way to control liquid transmission velocity by reasonably design of section form of PAV. Present research can not only provide a guideline for optimized design of new-style vane type fluid management assembly, but also present a new way for liquid control in space environment.Copyright © 2015 by ASME


In order to model the response of the Earth to a seismic source that is small both in spatial and temporal extent, it is convenient to use the moment tensor (MT). The MT is defined as the space and time integral of the stress-glut rate tensor, where the stress-glut tensor is defined as the difference between the stress predicted by the constitutive relation and the true stress that exists in the Earth (Backus and Mulcahy 1976a,b). Only in the source region is the stress glut non-zero (by definition). Using the MT has the advantage that the response is a linear function of the MT, facilitating the inverse problem, and the description of any source mechanism is condensed into the six elements of the symmetric MT. In this paper we review the standard methods for decomposing and interpreting the MT, and point out some of the assumptions and limitations involved.


We present a new problem on configurations of points, which is a new version of a similar problem by Atiyah and Sutcliffe, except it is related to the Lie group Sp(n), instead of the Lie group U(n). Denote by h a Cartan algebra of Sp(n), and the union of the zero sets of the roots of Sp(n) tensored with R 3 , each being a map from h R 3 ! R 3 . We wish to construct a map (h R 3 )n ! Sp(n)=T n which is equivariant under the action of the Weyl group Wn of Sp(n) (the symplectic Berry{Robbins problem). Here, the target space is the flag manifold of Sp(n), and T n is the diagonal n-torus. The existence of such a map was proved by Atiyah and Bielawski in a more general context. We present an explicit smooth candidate for such an equivariant map, which would be a genuine map provided a certain linear independence conjecture holds. We prove the linear independence conjecture for n = 2.


The open theory is an important part in Dengxiaoping theory. Practically it has guided China in making significant improvement in economic relation with foreign countries and in the whole social economy since the third Meeting of the eleventh Committee of CCP.Theoretically it has combined the experience summed up by our predecessors with the recent development of China and the world , thus put forward the leap in the open theory of socialistic countries.


We reveal a novel channel through which market sentiment influences how participants forecast stock returns: their optimism and pessimism affect how they interpret news about fundamentals. Although the rational expectations hypothesis and behavioral finance are irreconcilable on logical grounds, our findings thus highlight the relevance of the insights underpinning both of these milestone approaches. We also find that market sentiment influences stock returns highly irregularly, both in timing and magnitude, which supports recent theoretical approaches recognizing that economists as well as market participants face ambiguity about the correct model driving stock returns. JEL Classifications: G12; G14; G41; C58


This article brings the concept of incorporation as used in studies of citizenship into the analysis of the reception of ex-prisoners by non-governmental organizations (NGOs). I introduce the concept of 'prisoner incorporation' to illustrate the ways in which NGOs, tasked with reentry work through devolution policies, include ex-prisoners as citizens. I use data from policy and organizational documents, interviews with staff at 18 NGOs, and program observations to demonstrate that incorporation varies by religious and political orientation and the receipt of Department of Corrections (DOC) funding. I distinguish between NGOs focused on 'classic reentry', which emphasizes treatment and work-focused economic incorporation, and those focused on 'broader incorporation', in which domestic labor, culture, religion, and politics warrant the inclusion of ex-prisoners as citizens in particular communities. Based on the results, I reconsider arguments that NGOs have a limited ability to shape the citizenship of criminalized people.


Content-based image retrieval, which is based on the principle of extracting image features and visual similarity based on these features, has been an active research area for the last two decades. While several kinds of features can be used for retrieval, colour features are the most widely and most successfully employed, and are hence at the heart of various image retrieval engines. However, it is also known that colour is not a stable image cue as it depends on various confounding factors including scene illumination and device characteristics. In this paper we present solutions to this problem in the form of colour invariant features, i.e. features that do not change with a change of light, putting particular emphasis on colour invariance for uncalibrated images. We then look at the use of colour not for direct retrieval, but for image database visualisation and navigation, and present some colour-based image browsing systems which allow for intuitive and efficient exploration of large image repositories.


Trichotillomania is a morbid compulsive impulse to pull out one's hair, resulting in baldness and usually occurring as a manifestation of neurosis. Infrequently eyelashes or eyebrows may be involved. Most of the cases reported in the literature are adolescent or young adult females (Kumar et al., 1982). However, Home (1977) has reported an adult male, and Tiling (1975) had observed two cases with psychotic episodes. The present case is a young adult male patient of schizophrenic psychosis associated with trichotillomania.


This work introduces Nemo, a novel peer-to-peer multicast protocol that aims at achieving this elusive goal. Based on two techniques: (1) co-leaders; and, (2) triggered negative acknowledgments (NACKs), Nemo's design emphasizes conceptual simplicity and minimum dependencies (Anderson et al., 2002), thus achieving, in a cost-effective manner, performance characteristics resilient to the natural instability of its target environment. Simulation-based and wide-area experimentations show that Nemo can achieve high delivery ratios (up to 99.98%) and low end-to-end latency similar to those of comparable protocols, while significantly reducing the cost in terms of duplicate packets (reductions > 85%) and control related traffic, making the proposed algorithm a more scalable solution to the problem.


The agricultural lands surrounding the cities، including the city of Erbil، suffer a gradual decrease day after day due to the architectural crawl towards the surrounding agricultural lands using geographic information systems.
The importance of the topic is reflected in provoking the discussion about the danger of urban expansion at the expense of agricultural lands in order to avoid falling into problems related to planning and in order to take the necessary precautions.
The results of the study showed a significant decrease in the area of agricultural lands in the city of Erbil where the increase in the urban area in the examined area was a major reason for the contraction of agricultural lands in it as the percentage of wasted lands reached (6.77%) between 1990 and 2000 of agricultural lands, and it increased between 2010 and 2022 to (247.71%) and during the past 32 years, (325.04%) of agricultural land was lost.


The cumulative effects of urbanization on riparian corridors can decrease the quality of water entering local streams, and ultimately adversely impact drinking water reservoirs of local municipalities. As such, a GIS and remote sensing based analysis tool called the Water Quality Corridor Management (WQCM) model was designed to identify and pri-oritize highly functioning riparian ecosystems for the preservation of stream corridor conditions. Preservation priority among various riparian corridors is established in the model by analyzing five parameters associated with stream corri-dor conditions (vegetation type, erosion potential, surface slope, percent of the stream contained within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) 100-year floodplain, and amount of the stream corridor contained within a subwatershed); and each parameter is weighted and scaled based on what conditions are most important to protect. Because data associated with each parameter are readily available and easily manipulated via spatial analysis techniques, the WQCM model functions as a flexible methodology for predicting stream corridor conditions and allows watershed managers to identify potential preservation opportunities to ensure long term ecological functioning that protects water quality. These corridors can then also provide urban planners with potential natural spaces for urban dwellers, meeting multiple benefits requirements imposed by many municipalities.


【Sixteen patients with esophageal diverticulum operated on between July 1979 and September 1988 at the Department of Thoracic Surgery of National University Hospital have been studied. There were 2 cases of the pharyngoesophageal diverticula, 12 cases of the midesophageal diverticula, and 2 cases of the epiphrenic diverticula. Twelve cases of midesophageal diverticula consisted of 9 cases of pulsion type and 3 cases of traction type. There were 13 women and three men, whose ages ranged from 25 to 65 years with an average age of 45.5 years. Diverticulectomy alone in three cases, diverticulopexy with myotomy in two cases, and diverticulectomy with myotomy in 11 cases were performed. There were no deaths or morbidity and all patients have achieved marked improvement of their symptoms except four patients who had a concomitant hypopharyngeal carcinoma, had a postoperative recurrence in epiphrenic diverticulum, and had two cases of postoperative transient regurgitation which subsided spontaneously one and one and half year later.】


ABSTRACT Many college students struggle with symptoms of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that might affect their academic performance and overall well-being. This study sought to investigate the effects of a neurofeedback (NF) training protocol on college students' ADHD symptoms scores. Eleven college students with ADHD diagnoses were provided 16 sessions of NF and were assessed over the course of 8 weeks during the intervention as well as at a 4-week follow-up. Improvements were identified in levels of inattention, hyperactivity, and ADHD self-concept, over time, with no significant changes identified in impulsivity.


False imprisonment by state personnel is impure status crime,the essence of which is composed of the breach of duty and infringement of legal interests.It specially raises responsibilities breach of duty.In our criminal legal system,false imprisonment by state personnel has not individual sentence and charges,so that someone with status and someone without status could only be identified as joint offence of false imprisonment,whether someone with status influences someone without status or oppositely.The accomplice relation only affects penalty.


In the second half of the 18th - early 19th century some representatives of the Swedish nobility hatched plans for the creation of an independent Finland. One of them was Georg Magnus Sprengtporten, who joined the Russian Empire in 1786 and even became Governor-General of Finland (1808-1809). In the article about the daily life of a foreigner in the Russian service, the authors used both published materials and documents from various archives (GARF, RGIA, RGVIA).


Introduction Erich Pauer 1. The Japanese war economy as a 'planned economy' Nakamura Takafusa, University of Tokyo, Japan 2. The ideological background of the Japanese war economy: visions of the 'reformist bureaucrats' Ortrude Kerde, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany 3. Japan's technical mobilization in the second world war Erich Pauer 4. Women and the war economy in Japan Regine Mathias, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany 5. A new order for Japanese society: planned economy, neighbourhood associations and food distribution in Japanese cities in the second world war Erich Pauer 6. Drawbacks to controls on food distribution: food shortages, the black market and economic crime Anke Scherer, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany 7. National policy companies and their role in Japan's wartime economy Silke Susann Otto, University of Marburg, Germany 8. Wartime financial reforms and the transformation of the Japanese financial system Okazaki Tetsuji, University of Tokyo, Japan 9. The transformation of the Japanese economy Ito Osamu, Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan A short bibliographical note Erich Pauer Contributors


The gateway plays the essential role in wireless sensor networks, which is critical component in terms of sending and receiving data. The abnormal of gateway will have a great influence on data transmission and reduce the stability and reliability of network. The research described in the paper origins from equipment monitoring system based on the wireless sensor network system, which is deployed at Cold Rolling and Continuous Annealing line (CRCAL) in steel enterprises. The communication data of gateway state were analyzed with statistic method in cluster using the diagnosis node. Combining with the theory of multivariate statistical process control (MSPC), we propose a method of gateway anomaly detection based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Finally, the method is proved to be reliable and effective based on the actual data from field monitoring network system.


This paper studys the terms' categorization in the AFS theory and its application to data mining and also discusses the scheme and algorithms briefly,all of these work may be helpful to comprehend the AFS theory.


This paper discusses the temperature characteristics of folded-path acoustically-coupled SAWresonator-filters (i.e., filters that incorporate a U-path reflector within the intercavity coupler). In the standard filter on ST quartz the resonator cavities lie along the first-order temperature compensated X-direction, but the perpendicular transit within the U-path lies along a direction with a significant linear coefficient of delay. Results show that the complete filter has a significant phase but a relatively weak amplitude dependence on temperature. We have found that all firstorder temperature dependence can be eliminated, however, by incorporating a new three-bounce Upath that uses additional temperature compensated directions on ST-quartz. do considerably better than ST-X quartz by making use of the parallel filter concept developed by Browning and Lewis.l In our case, a new two-path intercavity coupler, which uses the temperature dependence of the standard U-path filter to interfere with a second electromechanical coupling path, has been developed. This combination provides a desirable higher-order phase versus temperature characteristic without adding significantly to filter complexity or area.


The author introduces the advantages of the metal fluorocarbon coatings,lists out the construction technological process of the fluorocarbon coatings combined with the concrete engineering example,deeply studies the concrete construction technology,puts forward the main technical index of the metal fluorocarbon coatings construction,gives the measures to ensure that the coating is no crack,points out that the popularization and application of the fluorocarbon coating must bring the good social and economic benefits.


Based on the similarity between the regularity for change of technical condition of vehicle and biological population, the paper proposes a simulation model for the overall technical state of system vehicle. First a state transition equation of vehicle service life and a transition equation of vehicle accumulated mileage to measure the number of retired vehicles in a system are established. Then based on the above information it can be calculated when the vehicle is retired and the quantity of retired vehicles. In the end, the paper verifies the practicability of this method through a case.


Background & Objectives: People while availing services at Integrated Counselling and Testing Centers (ICTC) face a lot of administrative and procedural problems which affect their level of satisfaction. This study was conducted at ICTC, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh; within the scope of a larger research evaluating the "Quality of Infrastructure and Services available to PLHA"; to analyze the user's perception about quality of services and factors affecting satisfaction level.  Materials & Methods: Exit interviews of 50 randomly selected ICTC clients were conducted with structured questionnaire containing five groups of questions and questions on waiting time and satisfaction level. A scoring system was devised. The satisfaction level was cross matched with group questions Results:  The mean group scores of five groups of questions were: Information, access & guidance for services (42.5%), Behaviour of counsellors (94%), Quality of counselling (77.28%), Physical facilities (65.5%), Confidentiality, discrimination and grievance redressal (67%). All respondents said that counsellors were respectful and 91% found the behaviour of counsellor supportive & helpful, 80% reported that they understood everything that counsellor said. Eighty percent rated satisfaction level as satisfactory or above (6% very satisfactory, 74% satisfactory), 18% indifferent and 2% very dissatisfied. Factors found to be associated with client satisfaction level were counsellor's response to the concerns and worries of clients up to their satisfaction (p=0.009), illumination in ICTC (p=0.04), knowledge of grievance redressal system (p=0.04) and total time spent in ICTC (p=0.03). Conclusion: This study provided user's perspective about ICTC service and revealed the factors associated with ICTC service satisfaction level. Better quality ICTC Services can be provided by addressing these factors.


The evolution of satellite communications from early times to current times is covered and the present trends are discussed in some detail. New developments taking place in the area of satellite technology and their impact on current and future applications of satellite communications are discussed. The article also covers development of satellite communications in India. Challenges for the next decades for satellite communications are highlighted and suggests areas in which it could be of great promise to the developing countries in the next millennium.


This is an analysis of migration expectations and information gathered from 142 men between the ages of 18 and 50 and living in Bolgatanga northern Ghana. The results indicate a significant potential for migration in that 72.5 percent of those interviewed want to go and work in the large cities in the south of the country and 81.7 percent intend to eventually go abroad to work. The existence of a growing network of family and friends for migrants already located in developed countries is noted. (SUMMARY IN ENG AND FRE) (ANNOTATION)


Extends work of Mahler (1975) and Kaplan (1978) to the diagnosis of couples' systems. Identifies 5 couple stages: symbiotic-symbiotic; symbiotic-practicing; practicing-practicing; Mutual interdepen...


Vertex cover is one of the best known combinatorial optimization problems. Treating each vertex as an intelligent rational agent, we model vertex cover problem under the framework of evolutionary game theory, where players have different rates of forming and breaking links, and such linking dynamics introduces a transformation of the payoff matrix. We propose an algorithm to solve the vertex cover problem of dynamic networks, and find that a better approximate solution to the minimum vertex cover of dynamic networks can be obtained by choosing proper parameters.


Again R has been calculated from plasma and saliva data. Table 2 lists the R values for the five healthy volunteers and their acetylator status. In summary, evidence is presented for the good correlation between saliva and plasma concentrations of SP and TSP following oral administration of sulphasalazine to healthy volunteers and patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Saliva data may be used with confidence to calculate certain pharmacokinetic parameters, to assess acetylator status and therefore to modify dosage regimens of sulphasalazine.


The paper covers a conceptual network-based intelligent management system of multi-storey parking equipment , focusing on various technological problems involved in design and advanced functions and performance. It provides a reference for further development of parking equipment management system.


My research aims to analyse how social innovation disseminates. Drawing on several qualitative studies carried out in collaboration with local stakeholders, the article identifies three processes of dissemination as well as the conditions under which innovations spread. It concludes by drawing attention to the diversity of observed institutional arrangements and the development of agreements at the local level.


In present report, we have developed Nb O photoelectrode sensitized with cocktail dye as sensitizer towards enhancement in efficiency. The 2 5 absorbance spectrum of pristine organic dyes viz. coumarin 343 (C343) and mercurochrome (MC) along with mixture of C343 and MC (cocktail) dye was recorded using UV-visible spectroscopy. The performances of Nb O based photoanode were characterized using photocurrent 2 5 density-voltage (J-V) measurement and the comparison of output photovoltaic performance for C343, MC and cocktail dye were discussed in detailed. Cocktail dye sensitization shows enhancement in short-circuit current density (J ) due to the complementary absorption of the two sc pristine sensitizers. The value of open circuit voltage (V ) for device sensitized using cocktail dye comes between the individual V for pristine oc oc dye sensitized devices. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) was studied to understand the charge transfer. Based on EIS measurements, the increased efficiency value of the solar cell with the cocktail dye sensitized photoanode can be attributed to suppression of charge recombination at Nb O |dye|electrolyte interfaces and enhancement of electron transport in the photoanode along with the longer electron 2 5 lifetime. The overall conversion efficiency reaches 0.70% for cocktail dye sensitized device.


—The cerebroventricular system of spinal‐sectioned cats was perfused with artificial cerebrospinal fluid after the intraventricular administration of [3H]tryptophan, and the perfusate was analyzed for [3H]5‐HT. At the end of the experiment the relative contents of [3H]5‐HT in regions lining the cerebroventricular system (caudate nucleus, septum, hypothalamus) were essentially the same as the endogenous 5‐HT contents. Electrical stimulation of the midbrain raphé did not alter the efflux of total radioactivity but significantly increased the efflux of [3H]5‐HT. The addition of potassium to the perfusing CSF also increased the efflux of [3H]5‐HT, while additions of d‐amphetamine, apomorphine or l‐DOPA were without effect.


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The design of wideband high resolution frequency synthesizer is challenging.A DDS-driven PLL would alleviate the complexity of the loop design,and in the mean time obtain a competitive performance compared to traditional analog methods.In this paper,the realization of the reference source is discussed in detail,where AD9956 DDS chip was presented and analyzed,optimization solutions were given for better spurious performance.


LLNL Internal Dosimetry Program - The new procedure satisfies the requirement to determine {sup 235}U/{sup 238}U ratio in bioassay urine samples. MDA - The L{sub C} and MDA{sub 95} for {sup 235}U are well below the required detection limit of 0.00035 {mu}g/L. Turn around time - Analysis of 10 samples plus 2 QCs can be completed in one work day (8 hours).


The purpose of this study was to explore how a president`s will to sports affects the sports policy. Roh Tae-woo, Kim Young-sam, Kim Daejung and Roh Moo-hyun were the presidents who finished their service since the direct election system. Those presidents discussed different sports policies in their sports-related speeches and by looking at those speeches. The speeches on sports were analyzed. The results are presented as follows. First of all, a sports-related speech of each former president since the direct election system appeared to have differences to basic policy of a nation established by a ruler. In case of President Roh Tae-woo and President Kim Young-sam, they basically focused on policy stance of a concerned government in the speeches and there found differences between that policy and sports policy which were being conducted at that time. On the contrary, however, President Kin Daejung and President Roh Moo-hyun made an attempt to relate the sports policy to the policy stance of their administrations. In consideration of what has been studied the above, the sports policy of the president would not have much influence on policies during the time of each president. After all, unless a president has a strong will to enforce certain policies, not to speak of the sport policy, all those fields in Korea will face with different results from what the president has formulated as to the fields. The sports policy by the former presidents since the direct election has been associated with basic policy of a concerned administration. However, most of the administrations were concerned more about international sports event while they failed to create efficient results from a sports for all policy. Since the direct election system was introduce, every presidents came up with new ideas for sports policy field such as physical education, welfare of sportsmen, national competitiveness improvement of elite sports, sports industry vitalization and South-North sports exchanges. However, the sports field would not need more of those new ideas any more but it suggests that the administration make plans to be sustainable and practical in the medium and long term. Not only that, a tentatively named sports offics which will be in charge of sports affairs only should be organized while revision of sports act is discussed as a priority.


Abstract : The object of this research, development, and fabrication program was for the production of interlayer sheet material. This interlayer material consisting of a copolymer of 99 part of ethyl acrylate and one part of vinyl polysiloxane was developed under Air Force Conract 33(600)-22723 and is described in WADC TR 54-57. This developmental work was undertaken between 15 June 1954 and 15 June 1955. Attempts to mill and calender the interlayer material were unsuccessful. This necessitated the production of interlayer sheets by casting between glass plates. Thermal polymerization was substituted for ultraviolet polymerization for quality production purposes. Sheets produced by this method, however, were optically imperfect. An adhesive as required for laminating the interlayer sheet to glass or plastic. Residual traces of the parting agent, however, prevented good lamination. Seven 0.200 inch by 37 inch interlayer sheets varying in quality were submitted. Recommendations are given for methods of improving the optical quality of future interlayer sheets. (Author-PL).


Title: Diagnostic support and molecular characterization of known and unknown bacterial and viral pathogens as well as detection of biological toxins. Description: WHO's 13th General Program of Work (GPW13) sets the 'triple billion' goal and WHE is responsible for '1 billion more people better protected from health emergencies'. Under the outcome 2.2 Epidemics and pandemics prevented, this activity aims to advance WHO's work on Output 2.2.1: Research agendas, predictive models and innovative tools, products and interventions available for high-threat pathogens in collaboration with RKI with its contribution to diagnostics, innovative tools and products.


In view of the fact that there aren't any physical property interpretation criterions of the valid gas grit available and the needs of the calculation of reserves and the geology model building,in the case of collating and stipulating the different kinds of the gas grits once more,we adopt the gas testing method,the gas and oil occurrence method and the experience method of average,from different angles to ensure the physical property interpretation criterions of the gas bearing formation thickness,and refer actual flow condition to gain the physical property interpretation criterions of the different kinds of gas grits in Lamadian oilfield.


This paper presents a different approach to the work developed by Cruz and Sarmento (2005), where the same problem was studied in the frequency domain. It concerns the same sphere, connected to the seabed by a tension line (single point moored), that oscillates with respect to the vertical direction in the plane of wave propagation. The pulsating nature of the sphere is the basic physical phenomenon that allows the use of this model as a simulation of a floating wave energy converter. The hydrodynamic coefficients and diffraction forces presented in Linton (1991) and Lopes and Sarmento (2002) for a submerged sphere are used. The equation of motion in the angular direction is solved in the time domain without any assumption about its output, allowing comparisons with the previously obtained results.Copyright © 2005 by ASME


Various subjective parameters have been tried in the past for determination of sex from human skull. In the present study, different cranial suture measurements were taken form 95 adult human skull of both sexes, belonging to the inhabitants of state of Orissa in a recent state while conducting the post-mortem examination during the period 1998 to 2000. It was found that there were significant difference in coronal suture length and height between the sexes and relying on these parameters sex can be determined up to 83.2% accuracy in our study. Basing on this result, it is possible to determine sex with given degree of probability from the coronal suture length for a particular height.


Objective: Asian culture venerates elderly people. It was hypothesized that elderly suicides would be proportionately lower in Asian societies than in English‐speaking countries (ESC).


Surface finish, especially the surface finish of functional features, and build time are two important concerns in additive manufacturing. A suitable part deposition orientation can enhance the surface quality of functional features and reduce the build time. This article proposes a novel method to obtain an optimum part deposition orientation for industrial-grade 3D printing based on fused deposition modeling process by considering two objective functions at a time, namely adaptive feature roughness (the weighted sum of all feature roughnesses) and build time. First, mesh segmentation and level classification of features are carried out. Then, models for evaluation of adaptive feature roughness and build time are established. Finally, a non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II based on Compute Unified Device Architecture is used to obtain the Pareto-optimal set. The feasible of the algorithm is evaluated on several examples. Results demonstrate that the proposed parallel algorithm obtains a limiting solution that enhances the surface quality of functional features significantly and reduces average running time by 94.8% compared with the traditional genetic algorithm.


The Chinese foreign minister has said that his country would prefer 'an agreement on principles' which would provide a basis for a settlement of the Sino-Indian border dispute. This is indeed a constructive proposal which is worth exploring.


objective of the study is to contribute to our understanding of which innovations are patented – and which are not – by analyzing the patenting decision for circa 800 Finnish innovations. The data is drawn from the Sfinno database compiled at VTT Innovation Studies. With the help of econometric methods, the study seeks to shed new light on the question of how the propensity to patent an innovation is affected by the characteristics of the innovation, the market, and the innovating firm. The results should be of obvious interest to those who depend on patent data in drawing conclusions about innovation and technological change. The finding that larger, i.e. more novel and significant, product innovations are patented more frequently than smaller ones should be comforting news from the perspective of using patents as an economic indicator of innovation since it implies that large innovations enter the patent indicator at a relatively high probability. However, the study also points to the weaknesses of patent data by demonstrating that the propensity to patent varies significantly across firms and technologies. For instance, the evidence in favor of the hypotheses on the presence of economies of scale in the patenting activity and on the relatively high propensities to patent in startup ventures suggests that patents are a rather problematic measure of innovations in the context of testing the Schumpeterian hypotheses.


Continuation of application No. 09/049,759, filed on Mar. 27, 1998, now Pat. No. 6,204,331, which is a continuation in-part of application No. 08/870,585, filed on Jun. 6, 1997, now abandoned, which is a continuation of application No. 08/556.237, filed on Nov. 9, 1995, now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of application No. 08/542,793, filed on Oct. 13, 1995, now abandoned, which is a continuation in-part of application No. 08/070,510, filed on Jun. 1, 1993, now abandoned. Provisional application No. 60/042,117, filed on Mar. 28, 1997.


The optimum distribution of origins and destinations which minimizes the sum of the costs of travel between origins and destinations and the cost of location of those origins and destinations is derived for a linear city. It is assumed that the cost of travel is directly proportional to, or proportional to the square of, the distance between origin and destination. It is also assumed that the rent per unit area is proportional to a power of the total number of origins and destinations per unit area. The model is calibrated to data for London and Sydney and Comparisons made to the actual population distributions for these cities. /A/


As a kind of statically-indeterminate point-support structure, the irregular-plate bridge (IPB) is extremely sensitive to the settlement of pier columns, and the stress of the plate is complicated. Because of the limitation of environmental conditions, the newly-built subway circular symmetric shield tunnel needs to pass the pier foundation of the IPB perpendicularly. To control the engineering risks, the pier settlement value must be known, and measures should be taken to reduce the settlement. This paper takes the project of the Beijing subway circular symmetric shield tunnels passing the existing IPB of the Guang'anmen Bridge as an example. First, the stress characteristics and settlement control standards of the IPB are analyzed, and then the technical scheme of synchronous jacking and key points of risk control during the construction of the shield passing the IPB are put forward. The relationship between the excavation face pressure of the shield tunnel and pier foundation settlement, and the ground settlement, are then analyzed. Finally, structural cracking after construction is analyzed, and the analysis shows that synchronous jacking technology can effectively control the settlement value of the subway tunnel passing the IPB. The technology is a feasible method for controlling the safety of a tunnel passing through a sensitive, statically-indeterminate bridge, and this work is a successful experience for similar major risk projects.


The Pandemic brought huge problems in the global community not only in the economic sector but also it has a psychological impact to idle individuals who lost their jobs. Amidst the Pandemic Situations there are also helpful groups who are willing to devote and spent their time in conducting Free International Webinars. IDYM Foundation Philippines and in collaboration with the International Human Rights Movement Philippines (IHRM-Phils, Inc) will be conducting series of International Webinars which will tackle about Human Rights, Educational Technology related issues, and Research Related topics that can help our shape up our individuals and make them more productive and think of other ways to survive from the pandemic we are facing right now. The purpose of this study is to strengthen the collaboration between other NGOs or Civil Society Organization in this time of pandemic that we can work together to support our community in other ways such as by giving free webinars that will help shape their futures


This paper explains the problem of the journey of Islamic law towards positive law in Indonesia in the perspective of legal politics Mahfud MD with the aim of actualizing Islamic law in the present in the Indonesian context. With a normative legal approach, analytical descriptive, this paper concludes that the actualization of Islamic legal politics in the thinking of Mahfud MD can be done through two approaches. The first is the cultural approach that massively Islamic law directly interacts with the culture and traditions that apply and develop in certain societies. Through acculturation of culture, Islamic law can adjust adaptation and dialogue with various social societies with a variety of traditions dynamically without losing theirauthenticity as humanitarian teachings. Both substantive approaches prioritize the spirit of Islamic universalism by not formalizing Islamic law positively both in law, local regulations and so on. Thus the actualization of Islamic law politics Mahfud MD is an offer to the formulation of Islamic law with the positivation of Islamic law in Indonesia through an elaborative approach combining cultural approaches and substantive approaches to real Indonesian law. Keywords: Actualization, Islamic Law, Political Law, Mahfud MD


The requirements of logo,packaging,transport and storage of the products of LPG and DME of national standards and industry standards were analyzed. DME was basic to use the related standards,specifications,equipments of LPG,which could meet the productive design requirements. It suggested that the related products and storage transportation equipment of DME should be dedicated to loading and unloading. The mixed fuel of DME and LPG should not store too long,and it should be chosen specially for the seal materials.


The bio-diversity of endemic genera may present the endemism in a certain flora and is the foundation of conservation of bio-resources, especially metaplasm resourcea.Based on Flora of China and her Provinces and field survey, after statistics and analysis, the paper deals with the bio-diversity and characters of genera endemic to China different scale and concludes as follows: 1.There are 8 families and 269 endemic genera(containing 610 species and variety) dominated by mono-and oligo-typic genera more than 90%, of which a great number are rare,precious and endangered plants.2. All these genera fall into 78 families among them Tropical distribution pat-terns 27 families, Cosmopolitan , Temperate, East Asia-North American and China's respectively 20,13,10 and 8 families.3. The richness of genera in each province is divided into 12 classed.The highest is in Yunnan with 130 genera,more than 190 species and appearing a graduaIIy declining trend toward all directions,but it is obviouslv declined in northern China 4 The similarity of gen-era between any two provinces is divided into 9 levels with similarity coefficient from 0 to 90%。The highest is between Gansu and Shaanxi.5. There are 8 abundance centres which are the rather higher diversity locations in every geography region. 6 The areal differences of diversity are close relationship with the geologic ̄(-), geomorphologic ̄(-)and climatic patterns.


We investigated current-induced DW motion in asymmetric interfacial multilayered Tb/Co wires for various thicknesses of magnetic and Pt-capping layers. It is found that the driving mechanism for the DW motion changes from interfacial to bulk effects at much thick magnetic layer (up to 19.8 nm). In thin wires, linearly depinning field dependence of critical current density and in-plane field dependence of DW velocity suggest that the extrinsic pinning governs field-induced DW motion and injecting current can be regarded as an effective field. It is expected that the high efficiency of spin-orbit torques in thick magnetic multilayers would have important implication for future spintronic devices based on in-plane current induced-DW motion or switching.


Murugan Ramalingam, Marian F. Young, Vinoy Thomas and Carl G. Simon, Jr. Polymers Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA Ceramics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA Current Address: Nanoscale Materials & Biointegration, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA


Pre-regulation channel sinuosities of the meandering rivers of the Pannonian Basin are analysed in order to define a mathematical model to estimate the influence of the bankfull discharge and the channel slope on them. As a primary database, data triplets of slope, discharge and sinuosity values were extracted from historical and modern datasets and pre-regulation historical topographic maps. Channel slope values were systematically modified to estimate figures valid before the river regulation works. The bankfull discharges were estimated from the average discharges using a robust yet complex method. The "classical" graphs of Leopold and Wolman (1957), Ackers and Charlton (1970b) and Schumm and Khan (1972) were compiled to a set up a theoretical surface, whose parameters are estimated by the real values of the above database, containing characteristics of the Pannonian Basin rivers. As a result it occurred that there is a two-dimensional function of the bankfull discharges, which provides a good estimation of the most probable sinuosity values of the rivers with the given slope and discharge characteristics. The average RMS error of this estimation is around 15% on this dataset and believed to be the effect of the non-analysed changes in the sediment discharge and size distribution.


We draw on self-determination theory and research on religious orientations to investigate motivations associated with collective narcissism—a belief in in-group greatness that is underappreciated by others—versus secure in-group identity, an unpretentious positive regard for the in-group. Four surveys examined these associations focusing on different social identities: personally important groups (Study 1, N = 212), nationalities (Study 2, N = 196), and religious groups (Study 3, N = 1,690; Study 4, N = 399). In Studies 1, 2, and 4, self-determined motivations were associated with secure in-group identity, whereas non-self-determined motivations were related to collective narcissism. In Studies 3 and 4, intrinsic religiosity was related to collective narcissism and secure in-group identity, while extrinsic personal religiosity was associated with collective narcissism only. Results indicate that collective narcissism is motivated by seeking external and internal rewards.


(01; 24) chill roller stand (21) for cooling a guided through the material web (22) having a plurality of cooling rolls which are partially wrapped around by the material web (22), characterized in that at least one of the cooling rolls (01; 24) an insulated cooling roll (01 ) (with a cylindrical base body 02) and a heat transfer medium leading outer body (04, 07, 17), wherein the outer body (04, 07, 17) the base body (02) surrounds at least at its outer surface, and wherein the base body (02) and the outer body (04, 07, 11, 17) are thermally insulated from each other, that one or more insulated cooling rollers (01) are arranged at the start of a web run of the cooling roll stand (21) and that in the web running further at least one air knife (29; 31) disposed is, over which the material web (22) runs across.


Exploring the sometimes-heated exchanges found in the letters of Paul, Calvin Roetzel compares Paul's Jewish background and the cultures of his converts. Roetzel brings alive Paul's intriguing and sometimes enigmatic personality, making his theology as accessible and engaging to Christians today as it was to Christians living in the first century.


Abstract The contribution Michel Foucault's thoughts on power, in particular his ideas of subjectivity, freedom, and action, might have to the study of design's ontological shaping of people is an emerging field of inquiry in the academy. Using a Foucauldian lens, this paper presents findings from semi-structured interviews with iPhone® users that speak to the ways Apple consumers are constituted into Apple subjects by what I refer to as "the Apple Way." The ineradicable relationship between discourses of design and consumerism and their imperative to "better" human life is presented as a starting point. The iPhone as a technological device that "makes life better" for Apple consumers is critiqued; data reveals an uneasy reliance people have on the iPhone for their everyday life.


In this reported work, Knuth's balancing scheme, which was originally developed for unconstrained binary codewords is adapted. Presented is a simple method to balance the NRZ runlength constrained block codes corresponding to ( d , k ) constrained NRZI sequences. A short marker violating the maximum runlength or k constraint is used to indicate the balancing point for Knuth's inversion. The marker requires fewer overhead bits and less implementation complexity than indexing the balancing point's address by mapping it onto a ( d , k ) or runlength constrained prefix, such as when applying Knuth's original scheme more directly. The new code construction may be attractive for future magnetic and especially optical recording schemes. In fact the current optical storage media, such as the CD, DVD and Blue Ray Disc, all attempt to achieve some suppression of low frequency components of the constrained codes, by exploiting a limited degree of freedom within the set of candidate ( d , k ) words.


tendency for false positive results to arise owing to "sticky serum" or "ccross reactivity." This problem with specificity can now be overcome by using such tests as the western blot or the polymerase chain reaction. In the study ofBrennan and colleagues 2-5% of the 96720 blood donors initially were positive for HTLV-I; only 35 of those were positive on one of two enzyme linked immunosorbent assays (but not true positives) and only five were truly infected with HTLV-I.' Of these five, four were white women with sexual contact as a risk factor, and one a drug misuser. The authors argue that selective screening based solely on ethnic origins would not exclude HTLV-I infection. Additionally, they discuss the risks of blood borne HTLV-I infection and developing diseases against the costs of screening and counselling, as well as the cost per infection prevented and diseases contracted. Screening does not seem to be cost effective in Britain at present. Nevertheless, the issues of what other countries are doing, consumer protection, and product liability make the decision to screen blood donors non-selectively extremely complex. The incidence of infection in Britain so far is too low and the incubation time too long to justify screening all blood samples. As far as product liability and consumer protection are concerned, achieving zero risk is impossible given the remote chance that a seronegative specimen may give a positive result on testing with the polymerase chain reaction and that testing every specimen in this way could be prohibitively expensive. Meanwhile, the situation should be kept under regular review. Trends in seroprevalence may be more important indications for action than absolute values. AG DALGLEISH Head Department of Cellular and Molecular Sciences, Division ofOncology, St George's Hospital Medical School, London SW17 ORE


Introduction: Genetic variation between individuals may include single nucleotide polymorphisms. These individual differences could change human phenotypes (such as skeletal structure, heart and lung size). Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) is a critical factor in growth and exercise-associated muscle development. In this study we analyzed the frequency of IGF-I rs35767 polymorphism in karate-Kas athletes to find whether there is a difference among professional, amateur athletes and non- Karate-Kas. Materials and methods: Two hundred and fifty-four athletes (95 professional Karate-Kas, and 159 amateur Karate-Kas) and 159 non-athletic healthy individuals participated in the current study. Following provision of informed consent, 2 mL of blood samples were taken. After DNA isolation, the genotyping frequencies of the IGF-I gene C/T polymorphism was assessed by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis. Statistical analyses carried out using SPSS software (version 20) and data with P 1) however, was not significant. Odd ratios of T/T and T/C genotypes compared to C/C in professional group versus controls were 1.125 (95%CI: 0.556 - 2.275) and 1.034 (0.538 - 1.984), respectively. Also, odd ratio of T/T and T/C in amateur group versus controls were 1.002 (0.535 - 1.876) and 1.256 (0.715 - 2.205), respectively. Conclusion: The IGF-I gene C/T polymorphism is not significantly associated with the physical performance´s levels of karate-kas athletes in Iranian population.


Highly inhomogeneous electronic structure of Pb(Ti,Zr)O3 sol-gel thin ferroelectric films with metal electrodes including a n-type semiconducting near-electrode layer and a p-n junction in the film's interior is revealed by means of a dielectric spectroscopy and photoelectric study. Charged oxygen vacancies accumulation near the electrodes is believed as a reason for a decrease of coercive field with decreasing a speed of a bias voltage variation during measurement of C-V dependences in Ni/PZT/Pt thin film structures. Slow capacitance relaxation and transient charging/discharging currents in laser ablated (Ba,Sr)TiO3 thin films with conducting oxide electrodes after a step voltage switching on and off are explained by the p-n junction formation due to the oxygen vacancy redistribution and near-electrode Schottky barriers charging/discharging processes.


Abstract: Arrhythmias are abnormal cardiac rhythms. According to WHO, in today's world 31% of deaths occur due to Cardiac Arrhythmia. Life-threatening arrhythmias including Ventricular Tachycardia (VT) and Ventricular Fibrillation are frequent causes of cardiac arrest (VF). The sinus node controls the heart's rhythm by triggering an electrical signal that goes through the heart, causing the heart to beat and circulate blood around throughout. The heart does not pump efficiently if there is too much electrical activity in the top or bottom chambers. Shortness of breath, fainting, an abrupt loss of heart function, and unconsciousness are the most common signs of Arrhythmia, which can result in death within minutes unless the victim receives emergency medical treatment to restart the heart. The purpose of this research is to use the CNN and VGG16 models in conjunction with data augmentation and picture pixel creation to diagnose cardiac arrhythmias using PCG signals. For greater efficiency, phonocardiography (PCG) is also investigated. The majority of arrhythmia detection and classification methods rely solely on surface ECG analysis. So, to improve the efficiency of heart diagnostics, an algorithm is devised that relates to wavelet analysis at several resolutions combining temporal and wavelet properties of Electrocardiogram and Phonocardiogram, as well as ElectrocardiogramPhonocardiogram interactions. We want to be able to classify phonocardiograms (PCGs) or heartbeat recordings. as "normal" or "abnormal" in order to identify individuals who will require further diagnosis. The main concept is to transform each cardiac sound recording (wav file) into a spectrogram image and train a CNN model on that picture. We will then be able to categorize a fresh PCG recording as normal or abnormal.


In this paper, we formulate and solve the problem of how to dynamically distribute network resources in third-generation mobile telecommunication systems, aiming to minimize the equipment maintenance and service provision costs. A mobility simulator was implemented in order to represent a hypothetical city, which was populated with different groups of users, whose mobility behavior and demand for different kinds of services was generated in order to simulate a typical 24-h day behavior. Given the generated demand at a certain period of time, a server allocation is made in order to attend it. This is done by modeling the system as an integer-programming problem and by, afterwards, running an optimization algorithm on it. The output from the optimization process was used to reconfigure the system by activating the selected servers and deactivating the others. The problem turned out to be NP-hard, so a heuristic method was necessary in order to solve it. We chose the Lagrangean relaxation technique to do the task, and obtained good results in terms of the solution proximity to the optimum. The performed experiments demonstrated the model's sensitivity to different kinds of parameters, such as user mobility, demand distribution over time and space, time of day, type of area where events occur, and the relation between fixed and variable costs of the system. A significant system cost reduction was also achieved. The proposed approach allows a personalized and demand driven resource distribution. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


In this paper, we analyze energy consumption characteristics of calculation runs with different implementations of the fundamental quantum chemistry method called Hartree-Fock in the popular quantum chemistry package GAMESS. The Hartree-Fock algorithms vary in how electron repulsion integrals are recomputed or stored in memory or disk. Based on our results, storing electron repulsion integrals in memory is shown to be more energy efficient if the storage bandwidth is equal to or higher than the speed of integral generation. Our theoretical models predict that the optimal strategy for improving energy efficiency for Hartree-Fock is to re-compute integrals with high angular momentum and store other integrals in memory or with the recent generation of solid state drives (SSDs). According to our results, the overall energy saving from storing low angular momentum integral in memory rather than re-computing them is 6-10 times for modern Intel® processors. It is, to the best of our knowledge, the first study to improve energy efficiency of Hartree-Fock by examining different options for storing various types of electron repulsion integrals.


A new equation of state for polymer solids is given by P = B0/4 98[(V0/V)7.14 - (V0/V)2.16 + T/T0] comparison of the equation of state with experimental data is made for six kinds of polymers at different temperatures and pressures. The results obtained shown that the equation is suitable to describe the compression behavior of solid polymers in the region without transition.


1. The distribution of transmittable parasites in group-living host species has been investigated in a number of studies. However, little is known about the distribution of parasites with indirect life cycles in this context. This study investigates the relationship between parasitism and shoal composition by looking at the distribution of Crassiphiala bulboglossa (Haitsma), a trematode worm which uses fish as an intermediate host, within and between fish shoals in a lake. In particular, tests aimed at establishing whether the parasite distribution was affected by parasite-assortative shoaling behaviour, host group size, host habitat characteristics, and other factors (such as species identity and body length) that potentially covary with parasite infection.

2. Overall, 34 fish shoals were caught. For each shoal member, the fish species was identified, its standard body length measured and its parasites (C. bulboglossa) counted. Three habitat characteristics were also recorded for each shoal: water depth and distances to shore and to vegetation.

3. Crassiphiala bulboglossa prevalence and load varied with fish species. Only 6% of the golden shiners [Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill)] were parasitized, whereas 24% of the killifish (Fundulus diaphanus (Lesueur)] and 98% of the white suckers [Catostomus commersoni (Lacepede)] were infected. Infected shiners and killifish had very low parasite loads, whereas suckers were heavily parasitized. Parasite prevalence within shoals was not correlated with the average body lengths of killifish and shiners in shoals (sample size was too small for testing in suckers).

4. Killifish shoals showed parasite prevalences significantly different from those expected under a null hypothesis that assumes assortment of fish between shoals by size and species but not by parasitism. In shiners and suckers, no evidence for non-random distribution of parasites among shoals was found, which may have been because of lack of statistical power.

5. Parasite prevalence was related to the number of conspecifics in a shoal for shiners but not for killifish.

6. There was no significant relationship between parasite prevalence and habitat characteristics in shiners and killifish.


The circuit of radiation meter is designed for determination areal thickness of carpets as a non-destructive test using beta particles measurement technology. The design is based on design of stabilized DC voltage for the operation of GM, junction transistor for normalizing the pulses of GM, programmable microprocessor for integration of the pulses, and monitor for obtaining the result of measuring. The collected electronic pulses were processed after programming the used microprocessor. The designed instrument gave good results for determination of areal density of carpets and has low power consumption. It was tested by beta particles emitted from Sr-90 man-made source. The source satisfies site security and human health. The system is simple to use. Linear relationship between logarithmic values of counting rates and areal thickness is obtained. This relationship is utilized for determination of the areal thickness of carpets and adjusting the amount of latex coating during the production.


Based on the theory of buyer's market and the data of Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listed companies, this study examines the relationship between CEO reputation and commercial credit finance in the enterprises of different control nature.The results show that there exists a positive relation between CEO reputation and commercial credit finance, this result showts in the central government-controlled enterprises.The local government-controlled enterprises and nonstate-owned enterprises.On this basis,the relationship between CEO reputation and commercial credit finance in the different monetary policy period is further studied.The results show that there exist a positive relation in the period of tightening monetary policy,but no correlation is found in the period of easy monetary policy.


We study the effect of disordered ripples on the conductivity of monolayer graphene flakes. We calculate the relaxation times and the Boltzmann conductivities associated with two mechanisms. First, we study the conductivity correction due to an external in-plane magnetic field $B_\parallel$. Due to the irregular local curvature found at graphene sheets deposited over a substrate, $B_\parallel$ can be mapped into an effective random magnetic field perpendicular to the graphene surface. Second, we study the electron momentum relaxation due to intrinsic pseudo magnetic fields originated from deformations and strain. We find that the competition between these mechanisms gives rise to a strong anisotropy in the conductivity tensor. This result provides a new strategy to quantitatively infer the strength of pseudo-magnetic fields in rippled graphene flakes.


This thesis deals with an elementary introduction to general relativity on a level understandable by secondary school students and graduates. It contains a review of available literature including its approach to the introductory level of relativity, a study text covering the necessary parts of classical mechanics, special relativity and subsequently basic ideas and conclusions of general relativity. A didactical analysis of the study text is also part of the thesis. The text presumes only basic knowledge of secondary school physics (mostly mechanics), therefore it is suitable for a wide range of readers amongst secondary school students and graduates. It can also be useful as a study material for secondary school teachers, who wish to enrich their teaching with more modern chapters of physics.


This article discusses the shift in professional development models from inspectional to collegial systems and the effect of this trend in a Saudi Arabian university context. Members of the professional development unit responsible for the supervision of over 200 teachers in a Saudi Arabian university were interviewed. After qualitative analysis, three themes emerged: (1) Teacher Resistance (2) Willingness to listen to teachers (3) Standardization. The themes are discussed with the focus on how they help us determine which models of supervision influence the participant supervisors the most.


The elaborated Rogowski coil with improved frequency characteristics is applied to measure partial discharge (PD) in XLPE cable. By selecting magnetic cores and optimizing chief parameters, the Rogowski coil has both wide bandwidth and high sensitivity. The coil was placed at the grounded wire of a 10 kV XLPE cable for measuring PD current. The cable was designed with an artificial defect of needlepoint pricked from the sheath. The results show that PD signals in XLPE cable can be detected by this coil with no distortion, and the real PD characteristics of needlepoint defect can be obtained from the PD signal.


The old China is long immersed in the Confucianism,which puts more attention to the humane administration than to the technology.This value leads to a deficiency of pragmatism education.The development of the commodity economy of the Ming and Qing begins to break through the bondage of the Confucianism,so folk course books emerge of vocational education.


In April of 1928 the Public Health Bureau (衛生局 weisheng ju, hereafter PHB) of the Shanghai Municipal Government organized its first hygiene campaign (衛生運動 weisheng yundong). The PHB held an opening ceremony at the Public Recreation Grounds on the 28th of April to kick off the two-day campaign. Close to 10,000 people attended the ceremony. The mayor of the city, commissioner of public health, and other notables all gave speeches. After the ceremony, attendees marched in procession through the city. Some marchers carried banners and posters with slogans and some exhibited large models of vermin. Over the course of the campaign period, famous medical doctors gave public lectures on health and hygiene, and some local entertainers gave performances on sanitary practices. The PHB sponsored public exhibitions at several locales in the city. These exhibitions displayed commercial goods related to personal hygiene, including soap, mosquito coils, disinfectants, and other household medicines. Shanghai residents swept city streets, scrubbed the floors of their work places, and cleaned their residences. 1 This study considers such hygiene campaigns held in Shanghai from the 1920s through the 1930s. 2 The hygiene campaign was one of the significant attempts of Shanghai's intellectuals and elites to create a healthy population and a sanitary city. Although private organizations had initiated the hygiene campaigns in the early twentieth century, when the Nationalists arrived in the city and opened the new municipal government, new


Background: Attempts have been made to recognize noninvasive markers for the identification of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Chemerin is a newly defined adipokine linked to insulin resistance and adipogenesis.
Objective: This study intended to evaluate the diagnostic ability of serum chemerin compared with NAFLD fibrosis score as a noninvasive marker for the diagnosis and grading of NAFLD.
Patients and methods: We enrolled 60 NAFLD patients and categorized them into 3 subgroups based on the fatty liver grade by ultrasound. Thirty healthy participants were recruited as a control group. ELISA method was used for serum chemerin levels measurement. Results: Serum chemerin levels were significantly higher in NAFLD cases than controls (p ≤ 0.001). Furthermore, these levels were positively correlated with the fatty liver grade (p ≤ 0.001). Serum chemerin was comparable to NAFLD fibrosis score as regards NAFLD diagnosis (p ≤ 0.001). Patients within the gray zone of NAFLD fibrosis score had a significantly higher serum chemerin levels in comparison to patients under the gray zone (p ≤ 0.001).
Conclusion: Serum chemerin is a promising marker for diagnosing and grading of NAFLD. More research is required to determine its definitive clinical benefit in patients with NAFLD.


The article presents the process of maintaining identity of Ucrainians in reference to polish law. This example indicates that regulations regarding minorities must be monitored constantly to avoid vanishing of unique culture. Only formation of appropriate legal system can lead to coexistence of diverse cultures on the same area. Europe has always been multicultural, but nowadays unifi cation of law is crucial.