This document presents an FM radio based multistatic passive radar receiver platform utilizing Software Defined Radio (SDR). This platform consists of circular eightsensors antenna, radio frequency (RF) frontend hardware and SDR (GNU Radio). Two Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) were used as the RF hardware. During the research, reconfiguration of the USRP's FPGA was required – modification of Digital Down Converters. The second stage of processing consists of the Multichannel Digital Beamforming and computing RangeDoppler surfaces and is implemented on a PC executing GNU Radiobased code. The performed recordings of realworld FM radio signals show correct operation of our experimental receiver platform. The recorded signals will form a basis for our future research: solution of the problems of mutual coupling and reflections from static objects.


Seventy-four of the papers that were presented at the conference are included in Part 2 of the proceedings. A separate abstract was prepared for 8 of the papers. The remaining 66 papers were not in scope for the data base.


The digital transformation process challenges the traditional approach to network services demanding agility and flexibility in all stages of service management. Using Orchestration, Automation and Virtualisation (OAV) as technology drivers, the activities undertaken by the Network Services Evolution and Development task (Task 2) of the Network Technologies and Services Development Work Package (WP6) of the GÉANT project are focusing on helping the community tackle service transformation in an interoperable way by proposing a high-level architectural blueprint. The work on the Service Provider Architecture platform showcases a solution that follows the proposed concepts and principles.


A boundary element method designed for solving the symmetric Generalized Wagner formulation is presented. The flow field is parameterized with analytical functions and can describe the kinematics at any free surface or body location using a small set of parameters obtained from a collocation scheme. The method is fast and robust for all deadrise angles, even for flat plate impacts where classical boundary element methods usually fails. The method is easy to implement and is easy to apply. Given a smooth body contour the only additional input is the requested accuracy. There is no mesh involved. When solving the temporal problem we exploit the analytical distribution of free surface velocities and apply an integral equation formalism consistent with the Wagner formulation. The output of the spatial and temporal scheme is a set of functions and parameters suitable for fast computation of the complete kinematics for any impact trajectory given the position of the keel and the body velocity. The method is developed to be combined with seakeeping programs for statistical impact and whipping assessment.Copyright © 2013 by ASME


An account is given concerning the ordinal and familial diversity of Glires (Mammalia) of the early Palaeogene in Holarctic and African regions. For the early Ypresian to early Lutetian period, no less than 17 families of Rodentia have been recognized. The different kinds of chewing observed in early Glires illustrate how early on some key adaptations were acquired.


This article considers the role of the public will in The Federalist, arguing that its two primary authors offered differing and conflicting accounts of the precise cause of factionalism and the manner in which the public will could safely be accommodated within the constitutional system. Alexander Hamilton believed that demagogic leadership was responsible for stirring up the otherwise politically apathetic citizenry into factional groups, while James Madison saw factionalism arising naturally, without any impetus from poor leaders. As such, they put forward differing constitutional remedies: Hamilton focused on unifying the public around the person and policies of a strong executive, while Madison relied on the environment of a carefully crafted and limited legislature capable of refining the public will. In this article, I offer a new perspective on the longstanding but often forgotten question of Publius's "split personality." I argue that it helps to inform the theoretical origins of the political rift between Hamilton and Madison in the 1790s and that it provides a framework for understanding contemporary questions about polarization, demagoguery, and institutional balance.


When we maintain that an anthropologist offers `thick descriptions' of the life of people, do we mean that it is in any way descriptive? Or, instead, that it is purely interpretative, like the creative reading of a text by a literary critic? According to Gilbert Ryle, who invented the term, a `thick description' is just a `thin description' made complex by the addition of adverbial information. According to Clifford Geertz, the anthropologist has no access to `thin descriptions', he deals with conflicting views and interpretations given by the participants of `social discourses' and has to address a permanent `confusion of tongues'. Contemporary use of this term appears to rest upon a hidden conflict between two philosophies of anthropology.


The article is devoted to the opposition of the language of war and the language of peace which proves the tendency of language militarization manifested in active use of military terms, military metaphors, in wide typology of war. There is a certain shift in understanding and treating the meanings of the lexeme «war» from armed conflict to struggle, actions and competition to solving urgent problems, questions in different spheres of social life: economics, politics, medicine, sport, food, etc. Pragmatic meanings of war metaphors, military lexis, are connected with the definition of modern reality as the war and aggressive struggle against everybody and everything in which politicians, businessmen, ordinary people are not interested in joint solution of problems. In such conditions the language of peace is loosing its position. Peace is the conception, based on creation, not on negation, on useful and productive actions.


Room temperature vulcanizing (RTV) silicone rubber has been widely used to coat porcelain insulators to render water repellency to prevent formation of water filming on the surface and thus to suppress the leakage current and consequent flashover. The hydrophobicity is maintained even after a layer of contamination has built-up on the surface. This has been attributed to the diffusion of the low molecular weight (LMW) silicone fluid from the bulk to the surface of the RTV and then on to the surface of the pollution deposits. It has been reported that there was a reduction in the quantity of LMW polymer chains on the surface of an aged RTV specimen when compared to a virgin specimen. This paper explores some of the factors governing the lifetime of the RTV coating. Alumina trihydrate (ATH) filler and various formulations were used. The content of LMW silicone fluid and the diffusion of LMW from the bulk to the surface were determined in RTV coatings having thicknesses from 0.17 to 0.99 mm, ATH particles from 1.0 to 75 /spl mu/m and different carrier solvents, by using extraction techniques in analytical hexane. The roles of the LMW content and the diffusion process in the lifetime of the coating were evaluated for different formulations of RTV.


Mg alloys have excellent strength to weight ratio but their use is limited by their poor room temperature formability. The underlying hexagonal closed pack structure results in a highly anisotropic deformation; basal deformation is easily activated, whereas high stresses are required to accommodate the deformation along <c> axis. We study the atomic-scale mechanisms of Mg nonbasal deformation modes that involve <c + a> slip and twinning. Our study includes two aspects: accurate modeling of defect structures and interactions with solutes and investigation of solute strengthening. The core structures of <c+a> edge and screw dislocations in Mg are computed using density functional theory (DFT). Both types dissociate into two 1⁄2<c+a> partials on the second-order pyramidal planes. We show that earlier <c+a> core structures based on embedded-atom method are artifacts of the interatomic potentials and are not accurate. The DFT core structures are used for further investigation of solute effects. In addition, solute strengthening of twin dislocation motion along an existing twin boundary in Mg-X (X = Al, Zn) is investigated using a new Labusch-type weak pinning model. New features emerge in the application of the model because of the very small Burgers vector of the twin dislocation. The strengthening is not large, e.g., a strength of ≈10 MPa is predicted for the AZ31 alloy, but the analysis does predict larger strengthening of twinning compared with basal slip at room temperature and various concentrations. The predictions are compared with existing experimental data and are shown to agree well with the experiments. The methods discussed here, can be applied to a wide range of defect calculations with chemistry change, guiding towards a well-informed design of materials on an accurate foundation.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the clinical implications of the case of AM and the ruling that the Mental Health Act no longer has primacy over other legislation in certain treatment situations. Design/methodology/approach – Critical case analysis and discussion. Findings – The Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards could be used more widely, and in preference to the Mental Health Act, but this may cause problems to clinicians and other decision makers such as Mental Health Tribunals. Originality/value – This case and its findings have not been widely discussed in academic or clinical practice literature.


A novel concept of thorium once-through fuel cycle for CANDU-type reactors is proposed. The main innovation of the concept is described, including segregation of enriched uranium from thorium to al...


Objective To study the level of isolate-Calcinm and the prognosis after calcium supplement in neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy(HIE). Method Calcium was supplied for three days in group with isolate-calcium≤0.9 mmol/L,and levels of plasma calcium and clinical condition were observed.Results After therapy,the patients got increased plasma isolate-calcium and reduced seizure.Conclusion The more servious HIE,the lower level of plasma isolate calcium.Calcium supplement is helpful to relax clinical seizure and to improve the clinical conditions as well as mortality.


For an active beamforming array, standard definitions for efficiencies and system temperature are not available. We use noise considerations to generalize the single-antenna conventions for aperture efficiency, spillover efficiency, radiation efficiency, and system temperature to arrays. The treatment leads to a new noise matching efficiency that quantifies the effect of mutual coupling on amplifier noise. Numerical results for a phased array feed indicate that the noise increase caused by mutual coupling can be significant.


Multifunctional drug delivery systems with favorable compatibility, high selectivity and efficiency are appropriate candidates for future medical applications. For this purpose, a multifunctional nanocomposite that enables selective magnetic resonance imaging and anticancer therapy by encapsulating hydrophobic superparamagnetic nanoparticles and chemotherapeutic agent doxorubicin with a novel biodegradable pH-activated polymeric carrier was synthesized. The as-synthesized amphiphilic polymer has excellent biocompatibility and pH-responsivity. The obtained nanocomposites selectively release the encapsulated drug and magnetic nanoparticles in mildly acidic endosomal/lysosomal compartments due to the degradation of the pH-responsive bonds, resulting in a change of imaging signal and cancer therapy. Furthermore, when compared with the nanocomposites without a targeting moiety, as studied from over-expression of the folic acid receptor tumor cell culturing, the conjugates with folic acid showed a significantly more potent targeting capability.


Objective:To investigate the level and its clinical significance of urine soluble E-cadherin (sE-CD)in patients with bladder transitional cell cancer(TCC). Methods: The sE-CD was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in the urine samples of 11 normal control, 31 patients with TCC and 17 patients with benign urologic disease. Results:The level of urine sE-CD in patients with TCC was higher than patients with benign disorder of urinary system and normal control. There were significant correlation between sE-CD level with the tumor grade and stage, but no significant correlation with the magnitude and number of the tumor. Conclusions:The higher expression of sE-CD in urine is very closely linked with the biological behaviors of bladder TCC, and The detection of urinary sE-CD play an important role in the early diagnosis of bladder TCC.


Using adequate strategies, we localize the spectrum of a class of differential operators. We consider the conditioning of the pseudo-spectrum for a family of nonselfadjoint convection-diffusion operators defined on an unbounded open set of [Formula: see text].


This paper presents the wind-power model for generation adequacy assessment. Both wind-power and system load depend on time of a year and show their periodic nature with similar periods. Therefore, the two quantities have some probabilistic relations, and if one of them is given, the other can be decided with some probability. In this paper, the two quantities are quantized by k-means clustering algorithm and related probabilities among the cluster centers are calculated using sequential wind-power and system load data. The proposed model is highly expected to be applied for generation adequacy assessment by Monte-Carlo simulation with state sampling method.


As the basis of determining the safe driving situation of the vehicle,and the fundamental of active risk avoidance control,the determination of the safety distance is one crucial part of the automotive collision warning/collision avoidance(CW/CA) system.Based on the optimal trajectory planning strategy,an obstacle avoidance solution was proposed by means of longitudinal velocity adjusting and emergency lane change movement.The safety distance model based on emergency lane-change vehicle motion was put forward,and the influence from the different vehicle speed adjusting time on vehicle trajectory and safety distance was analyzed.The validity of the model was demonstrated by the simulation results for statistics obstacle avoidance situation.


The present invention provides a laser annealing equipment. The laser annealing device is disposed within the process chamber and the process chamber comprising a chamber window that is passed through a laser beam, includes a chuck (chuck) having a top surface on which a substrate is loaded. Here, the chuck is smaller than the width of the loading board width. By this, it is possible to prevent during the laser annealing process, which chuck is damaged.


The operation and management of urban mass transit network put forward higher requirements for last trains' transfer connection. Based on the analysis of coordination relationship and timeliness of accessible routes, this paper puts forward a dynamic passenger volume distribution method according to the generalized travel cost. Then the connection optimization model of last train departure time is built to increase accessible passenger volume and reduce passengers' transfer waiting time of all OD pairs for last trains. Finally, the validity and rationality of this model and algorithm is verified with numerical analysis.


This text thinks that JIANG Ze- min proposed opinions that reflect the essential law of the science and technology using the basic concepts of dialectical materialism and historical materialism.The followings are the contents of his opinions:Firstly,hold the development trend of science and technology all-sidedly,Secondly,abundantly appraise and highly summarize the social influence of science and technology,Thirdly,pay close attention to and deeply explain about the ethics value of science and technology,Fourthly,think highly of and give full play to the skilled personnel's key effect.


Archives of Medicine and Health Sciences / Jan-Jun 2014 / Vol 2 | Issue 1 115 current existing policies for the welfare of the disabled ranging from incompletely developed nongovernmental organization's (NGO's) directory that are working in the field of disability; poor implementation of community-based rehabilitation programs owing to ineffective involvement of self-help groups; nonexisting mental healthcare homes or residential rehabilitation centers under supervision of district level Panchayati Raj institutions; nonexistence of a barrier-free environment; and no research activities in key domains (viz. sociocultural aspects of disability, development of social indicators to analyze the education status, a comprehensive mechanism to generate statistics about the employment status, to identify the causes of different types of disabilities, and promote genetic research to minimize the incidence of disability).[10]


. In this paper, we investigate a two-point boundary value problem for first order implicit differential equations. By using the monotone iterative technique, we obtain the extremal solutions for this problem, from the lower and upper solutions.


Abstract. The IgG and IgM components of RhD antibody were separated using Sephadex G‐200. The pure samples were tested for antibody activity using the Technicon haemagglutination instrument. A significant enhancement was found in IgM antibody activity in the presence of the proteolytic enzyme bromelin. While this enhancement effect occurs to some extent in all determinations of serum Rh antibody, it assumes greatest importance when large amounts of IgM are present.


Photoacoustic ophthalmoscopy (PAOM) is a novel imaging technology that measures optical absorption in the retina. The capability of PAOM can be further enhanced if it could image mouse eyes, because mouse models are widely used for various retinal diseases. The challenges in achieving high‐quality imaging of mouse retina, however, come from the much smaller eyeball size. Here, we report an optimized imaging system, which integrates PAOM, spectral‐domain optical coherence tomography (SD‐OCT), and autofluorescence‐scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AF‐SLO), for mouse eyes. Its multimodal capability was demonstrated by imaging transgenic Nrl‐GFP mice that express green fluorescent protein (GFP) in photoreceptors. SD‐OCT provided guidance of optical alignment for PAOM and AF‐SLO, and complementary contrast with high depth‐resolution retinal cross sections. PAOM visualized the retinal vasculature and retinal pigment epithelium melanin, and AF‐SLO measured GFP‐expressing in retinal photoreceptors. The in vivo imaging results were verified by histology and confocal microscopy. (© 2013 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


Yttrium iron garnet (YIG) thin films were deposited on c-plane sapphire substrates under atmospheric pressure by a mist CVD technique, and their chemical composition and optical properties were examined. The thin films deposited at 450 °C showed an [Y]/[Fe] ratio of 0.57, indicating the deposition of yttrium iron oxide, while the molar ratio of [Y]/[Fe] in the precursor solution was set at 1.5. A thermodynamic model was developed to explain the reaction paths of the YIG thin film fabrication process using thermogravimetric differential thermal analysis (TG-DTA) results. The model indicates that the decomposition rate of yttrium acetylacetonate [Y(acac)3 ∙ nH2O] was much lower than that of iron acetylacetonate [Fe(acac)3], providing a plausible explanation for the large difference between the composition ratio of the thin films and that of the precursor solutions.


This paper presents the results of a study where the effects of introducing code reviews in an organisational unit have been evaluated. The study was performed in an ongoing commercial project, mai...


This case study aimed to apply the values-engaged approach to evaluate the impact of the Self-Regulated Strategy Development writing program (SRSDP) on the Grade 5 students, including the application of writing self-regulated strategy, writing motivation, and writing performance. The participants consisted of 26 Grade 5 students from the same class. The SRSDP had been implemented for 12 weeks. During the research period, based on the core perspective of values-engaged approach to evaluation, the researchers, particularly concerned with the experience and perception of those least well-served students. The data were collected through quantitative and qualitative approaches, composing of the Scales of Writing Self-Regulated Strategy, Writing Motivation, and Writing Performance, students' worksheets, feedback sheets, and group focused interview. Quantitative Data analyses included descriptive analysis and dependent sample t -test. Qualitative data analyses consisted of organizing data, coding data, and analyzing and interpreting data. The study found that SRSDP provided remarkable positive influences on lower-level and middle-level students' writing performance and their application of the application of writing self-regulated strategy. SRSDP also brought wonderful writing and learning experiences to the lower-level students. Based on the findings, the conclusion and discussion were also made in the study.


Mass media coverage of genetic engineering is considered as an essential cause of the public image which this technology has. Because most people have only few experiences with this technology, the influence of journalists, who report on genetic engineering, seems to be obviously high. Which attitudes do these journalists have? How do they inform themselves? These and other questions are to be answered by a standardized survey among German journalists. For the first time the results of this study reveal the methods of investigation and source selection of 'genetic engineering journalists' and afford an insight into the journalistic climate of opinion on genetic engineering and its applications. There is clear evidence of an altogether positive global judgement of journalists reporting on this technology, which finds support in their immediate professional social environment.


In many recent applications, data is plentiful. By now, we have a rather clear understanding of how more data can be used to improve the accuracy of learning algorithms. Recently, there has been a growing interest in understanding how more data can be leveraged to reduce the required training runtime. In this paper, we study the runtime of learning as a function of the number of available training examples, and underscore the main high-level techniques. We provide some initial positive results showing that the runtime can decrease exponentially while only requiring a polynomial growth of the number of examples, and spell-out several interesting open problems.


Abstract The U.S. Supreme Court has recently been tasked with determining—both metaphorically and literally—whether in matters of marriage equality and religious freedom, those within society can have their cake and eat it too. This came to the fore in Masterpiece Cakeshop (2018). In most of scholarship which has followed, the respective parties' rights in this case are parsed in terms of rights to religious expression and free speech (on the one hand), and a statutory right to non-discrimination (on the other). By approaching this matter through a primarily philosophical (rather than legal) lens, I aim to present a new perspective. Where cases involve same-sex marriage, it is argued that both sides are predicated upon religious or conscientious convictions. This is established through a philosophical argument, which examines the nature of the marital promise to love and seeks to demonstrate how this promise entails a characteristically religious sort of belief.


In order to ensure timely arrival of the emergency relief workers, try to eliminate the accidents, save the injured and achieve the minimum loss of the accident and maximum social benefit, this paper, on the basis of the principle of e-ergonomics, analyzes the structure and features of the expressway emergency rescue system, and sets up a index system for evaluation index of emergency rescue system from such three aspects as accident inspection, rescuing plan and device management. Through theoretical analysis and expert consultation, the author determines the importance degree of all the influential factors and conducts evaluation index for the emergency rescue system with the help of step analysis and fuzzy analysis. The author, after actual evaluation for the emergency rescue system on Shaanxi expressways with this method, has obtained a comprehensive value of 77.96, which accurately goes with the actual conditions of the province, and forcefully confirms its practicability.


The prevalence of giardiasis among dogs in the three major cities of Russia was estimated. Of 422 dogs studied by ELISA 29.6% were infected. The praziquantel, pyrantel, febantel combination (Drontal® plus) has been tried for treatment. High efficiency of treatment was demonstrated.


The Ganxuan pecan(Carya illinoinensis Koch.) cultivars,grown in Jinping selected fruit varieties demonstration farm of Xiajiang County of Jiangxi Province,show good economic characteristics.We summarize a full set of planting techniques,especially the techniques for pruning named "inverting side,main stem,multi-level,and opening-style" and for configuring pollinating cultivars have been successfully popularizing and applying in certain areas,and the good effects have been gained.All of these planting techniques can be utilized by pecan growers.


In radiation therapy, tumor tracking is a challenging task that allows a better dose delivery. One practice is to acquire X-ray images in real-time during treatment, that are used to estimate the tumor location. These informations are used to predict the close future tumor trajectory. Kalman prediction is a classical approach for this task. The main drawback of X-ray acquisition is that it irradiates the patient, including its healthy tissues. In the classical Kalman framework, X-ray measurements are taken regularly, i.e. at a constant rate. In this paper, we propose a new approach which relaxes this constraint in order to take measurements when they are the most useful. Our aim is for a given budget of measurements to optimize the tracking process. This idea naturally brings to an optimal intermittent Kalman predictor for which measurement times are selected to minimize the mean squared prediction error over the complete fraction. This optimization problem can be solved directly when the respiratory model has been identified and the optimal sampling times can be computed at once. These optimal measurement times are obtained by solving a combinatorial optimization problem using a genetic algorithm. We created a test benchmark on trajectories validated on one patient. This new prediction method is compared to the regular Kalman predictor and a relative improvement of 9:8% is observed on the root mean square position estimation error.


Motto:The East is a career.(Benjamin Disraeli, Tancred)The East is waiting to be understood by the Western races, in order not only to be able to give what is true in her, but also to be confident of her own mission.(Rabindranath Tagore, East and West)I lived all the time with my memories of India. Wherever I went, whatever house I might visit, I would be required eventually to talk about India.(Mircea Eliade, Autobiography)When we think about the Orient, we already have in mind a "difference" between "us" - the Westerners, and "them" - the Easterners. For many centuries we were "defined" as civilized, Christians, white. Meanwhile they were seen as savages, having too many Gods to count, and too many colors and customs. They are "exotic", we are "normal".Orientalism, as a term, was coined (and it is very well known because of) by Edward Said, the famous writer, in 1978, in his bestseller called Orientalism\ According to him, he first "Orientalists" were 19th century scholars who translated the writings of "the Orient" into English, based on the assumption that a truly effective colonial conquest required knowledge of the conquered peoples. This idea of knowledge as power is present throughout Said's critique. By knowing the Orient, the West came to own it. The Orient was passive; the West was active.Said observed thatThe Orient was Orientalized not only because it was discovered to be "Oriental" in all those ways considered commonplace by an average nineteenth-century European, but also because it could be - that is, submitted to being - made Oriental2.The Orient exists for the West, and is constructed by and in relation to the West. When speaking about India, the situation is even more difficult. For a European, India will always be a wonderful land, with legends and amazing stories, with marvelous places to see and interesting people to meet; a mysterious place filled with wisdom and holiness. During times, European travelers were trying to find in India the "exotic" and the "holy", but also the power - cultural or economic - they never gained in their countries. As remains true even today, India has always attracted the world's greatest minds in search of the Absolute or for knowledge or for commerce or even for pleasure.Almost from earliest times in Europe the Orient was something more than what was empirically known about it. [...] As a discipline representing institutionalized Western knowledge of the Orient, Orientalism thus comes to exert a three-way force, on the Orient, on the Orientalist, and on the Western "consumer" of Orientalism3.Many European scholars became interested in Orientalism and traveled into India or China or Middle East in search for Absolute and new interpretations of the universe. Among these scholars we can find the Romanian bom historian of religions, Mircea Eliade. He was not, of course, the first Romanian to put his foot on Indian soil, but he was the first that started a national exaltation regarding India, and this was possible because his famous novel, Maitreyi (Bengal Nights4).Beginning with Mircea Eliade, India (and the Orient) received an important place in hearts of the Romanians. His story and encounter with India motivated many young scholars to take the road to Orient and to learn new things, to improve their knowledge and to create something new5. As for Eliade, he arrived in Calcutta on New Year's Eve of 1928, and he settled at Mrs. Perris's pension, on 82 Ripon Street. Years later, he remembered his Indian episodes, and also what that period meant for him:In the autumn of 1928, a few weeks after having taken my Licence es Lettres, I left Bucharest for India, and returned in January 1932, with a suitcase overflowing with notebooks and folders. I called it my storehouse, for everything was there: descriptions of temples, monuments, and slums; narratives of Himalayan adventures and discoveries; my first, awkward translations from Sanskrit, as well as detailed reports of intimate experiences, discussions with my professor and guru, Surendranath Dasgupta6, with Tagore7, and with any number of yogis and sadhus from Benares, Hardwar, and Rishikesh. …


Globalization and the climate change issue have divided the world economy into two broad categories - namely 'green' and 'indigo' economies. The developed economies of the North, which are increasingly using cleaner technology to minimize pollution and are relocating dirty industries to less developed countries, are becoming 'green' at the expense of the developing economies of the South, which are gradually turning 'indigo' by absorbing growing amount of industrial pollutants (including nuclear radiation). In the name of development, a variety of programs have been taken up, in recent past, at various sphere to accelerate the integration of local informal economic activities with the globalized economy. National Urban Renewal Mission, launched by the Indian government, is one such program. This paper analyzes different secondary data to understand the dynamics of this sweeping integration process and explores a holistic schematic structure that explains this paradigm shift to an alien unsustainable economic model.


The roles of macrophyte in constructed wetland and the selection principles of macrophyte for constructed wetland were summarized,and the growth characteristics,acclimatization and function of four different plants in the constructed wetland treatment system were discussed.Subsurface flow constructed wetland(SFCW) and biological filter bed(BFB,one without plant as the control plot) used for treatment of polluted river water were analyzed.The results showed that in wetland gravel bed,C.flaccida and Vetiveria zizanioides grew very quickly and their removal efficiencies for pollutants were satisfactory.So they could be chosen as a fast start-up constructed wetlands system.Cyperus slternifolius grew quickly and its coverage was nearly 100%.Cyperus papyrus grew very slowly and could not acclimatize environment.At HRT of 13 h,the system operated steadily,the removal rates of CODMn,TP,TN and NH■■-N averaged 3.1%,2.0%,12.7% and 5.2% respectively by macrophyte.The removal efficiency of turbidity by macrophyte was not observed.With high resistance to shock loading,SFWC was capable of treating more pollutants at HRT of 13 h.


Objective: To investigate the protective effect of a-lipoic acid on type 2 diabetic nephropathy.Methods: After the diabetic rats models were induced by intraperitoneal injection of streptozotocin,the diabetic rats were divided into non-diabetic group(NC),diabetic group(DM),lipoic acid treatment group(DM + ALA),(n = 7).After 12 weeks,we checked blood glucose,lipids,24-hour urinary protein level,and took the rat kidney,and determine oxidative stress parameters in tissue homogenates.Results: After 12 weeks,compared with the DM + ALA group and the DM group,blood glucose,blood lipid levels were no significant differences(P0.05),24-hour urinary protein excretion difference had statistically significance(P 0.05);Compared the DM group with the NC group,the MDA increase,GSH and SOD reduced,Compared the DM + ALA with the DM group,MDA reduced,GSH and SOD in increased,the differences were statistically significant(P 0.05).24 hours urinary protein excretion was negatively correlated with the level of GSH,SOD,positively correlated with the level of MDA,The differences were statistically significant(P 0.05).Conclusion: a-lipoic acid can improve the oxidative stress status in type 2 diabetic rats and delay diabetic nephropathy progress.


Nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) is an appealing control method as it allows to control multi-input multi-output processes while taking constraints into account. It is based on successively solving open-loop optimal control problems. Although NMPC schemes may naturally exhibit a certain degree of inherent robustness, an explicit consideration of process uncertainties is preferable, particularly for processes with increased demands on safety. This is achieved by treating the optimization involved with NMPC as a min-max formulation that considers the worst-case combination of unknown process parameters such as reaction rates in chemical processes [1]. The resulting semi-infinite programming problem is solved approximately by a first-order expansion of the inner maximization problem as recently proposed in [2]. It is demonstrated how this method offers a systematic way to design safety margins for the controller. Furthermore, information about the stochastic nature of the uncertain parameters, coming, e.g., from state and parameter estimation, can be incorporated on-line. The proposed robustified NMPC scheme is then applied to the model of an exothermic batch reactor to avoid thermal runaways. These can lead to severe accidents and damages to the equipment and are very sensitive towards uncertain parameters. The example shows the benefit of a robustified NMPC scheme and underlines the general advantages of modelbased control, where the desired control task can conveniently be formulated by appropriate path constraints and cost functions.


BIM is the core of construction information technology in the current construction industry, and also the main information means in the whole construction cycle, however, BIM has many defects in practical application. The lack of building completion information in the BIM model and the current lag of building information are the main reasons for restricting the intellectualization and digitalization of the construction industry, Thus, the building construction stage is not smooth, and the later operation and maintenance are difficult. Therefore, by referring to the reverse engineering technology of manufacturing industry, this paper expands the building information into real-time and accurate building information by means of Digital twin technology, and reversely guides the construction, operation and maintenance of buildings. Finally, the effectiveness of the strategy discussed in this paper is proved by the actual case analysis.


A series of studies of the flow through the various components of hydrodynamic machinery is in progress in the Hydraulic Machinery Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology. Observations have been made on an impeller patterned after the Grand Coulee design. The impeller was operated as an isolated unit hydraulically free of the casing. The flow pattern at the discharge has been determined quantitatively for one flow rate, and a head-capacity curve for the impeller has been obtained. This paper constitutes a report on the findings up to the present.


Sentiment Analysis refers to analyzing text in order to determine the sentiment or opinionthat the text is supposed to convey. In this article, the text that is being analyzed are Amazonproduct reviews taken from Kaggle's Amazon Reviews Dataset, and the predicted sentiment iswhether or not the reviewer liked or disliked the product.


OBJECTIVE:To observe the expression of the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) induced by hypoxia-responsive elements (HRE) in SPCA1 and A549 lung cancer cells exposed to hypoxia, and examine the toxicity of the promoter to control expression of HSVtk-mediated gene-directed enzyme prodrug therapy (GDEPT) to kill lung cancer cells. METHODS: Transient transfected cells with EGFP-constructs were exposed to hypoxia 24 h after transfection. Relative EGFP fluorescence was measured by a flow cytometer; HSVtk-constructs were transfected into hypoxic SPCA1 and A549 cells, then the cells were exposed to media containing ganciclovir (GCV) for 24 h. Two days later, the cell growth rate was detected by MTT assay. RESULTS: Compared with the corresponding oxic sample, the folds of induction of EGFP expression levels in hypoxic SPCA1 and A549 cells transiently transfected with the pDNA.HRE.EGFP plasmid were 2.02±0.23 and 2.37±0.24-fold; the cell survival of SPCA1 and A549 cells transiently transfected with the pDNA.HRE.HSVtk plasmid in hypoxia and GCV exposure group reduced by (29.9±1.60)% and (42.83±2.57)%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The promoters constructed are responded to hypoxia. The addition of GCV to hypoxic treatment significantly reduces plasmid-transfectesd cell survival.


"We cannot allow Brussels to turn Germany into a country of compact car drivers!" Erwin Huber said angrily in February 2007.1 The European Commission had just proposed a regulation that would force manufacturers to reduce the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of new cars below a certain threshold. And Huber, at the time Bavarian Minister of State for Economics, Transport and Technology, was worried this new regulation would hurt the German car industry.


Fifteen years ago, document delivery was a cottage industry looking for its niche in the information marketplace. It has grown exponentially as publishers, clients, and vendors grapple with the future of article-based information delivery. The history of document delivery is discussed from a business perspective, and the author examines the most important factors in choosing the best document vendor. Assisted and frustrated by rapid advances in technology, document delivery has matured. The industry has seen large corporations acquire individually owned enterprises, infusing capital and supporting growth to keep pace with client demands. From the perspective of a document delivery pioneer, a number of key issues are examined. Fundamental in the new order is intellectual property. Today's vendor must negotiate with primary publishers, reproduction rights organizations (CCC, CANCOPY etc.), and authors in an attempt to work within the new and evolving copyright paradigm. Scanning and imaging technology, photocopying, hardware, software, and cost analyses are among the other factors evaluated for their influence on document delivery.


In Taiwan, the research about Lau Shang's(劉向) "Shuo yuan" (說苑)is only limited in the author and the description about and comment on the modified words of the book. Although there are plentiful theses and journals discussing the content and ideas of Shuo yuan in China, no scholars discuss and analyze them from the perspective of the fable. In addition, fable researches mostly focus on Pre-Qin, Tang Song and Ming Quing. Few people get access to the fables in Western and Eastern Han, which should have a lot to be discussed and researched. Third, this thesis discusses and analyzes the incentive of writing "Shuo yuan" and its fable characteristics from the angle of the fable, for the purpose of demonstrating its position in the Western and Eastern Han fables and making clear Lau Shang's political and social ideas of Han This thesis focuses on Lau Shang's "Shuo yuan." and is composed of the summary on the autobiography of the author, discussions of the content of "Shuo yuan" through fable theories, such as metaphor object, morals and the types of metaphor object, and the introduction to the ideas and the social background in Han Research methods are Autobiography Research Method, Information Analysis Method and Inductive Method. This thesis begins with the background of Lau Shang and his time to why he wrote Shuo yuan and the skills he used, and then uses fable theories to discuss the structure and content of Shuo yuan. Finally, I conclude the value and effect of it. The thesis is composed of six chapters. Chapter 1 pointed out my research motivation, purpose, the introduction to the achievements of predecessors, the definition of fable, my research scope and methods. Chapter 2 analyzes the fable type and the structure of Shuo yuan and then analyzes it by morals. Chapter 3 indicates the intention to make fables and skills in Shuo yuan. Chapter 4 analyzes the ideas that the author wanted to convey, including advising emperors and mocking courtiers. Chapter 5 talks about The Views of Nature and Human and Noble Characters in Shuo yuan and analyzes Lau Shang's Views of Nature and Human , Noble Characters and the development and inheritance of Confucianism. Chapter 6 concludes the literal values and effect of Shuo yuan and finally pointed out the result of the research and future research directions. The result of this research indicated that Lau Shang, who was part of Han royals, used this book to advise the emperor with his loyalty to Han. He wanted to provide the emperor with a method to save the country, advised courtiers not be afraid to give suggestions to the emperor and asked them to be loyal to Han government permanently. In addition, Lau Shang's Shuo yuan reflected the social culture and indicated his ideals about ruling the country. Shuo yuan therefore became one of the representative works advising emperors in Western and Eastern Han. Readers can be motivated and remember the lessons by history stories.


Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, all aspects of our country have made remarkable achievements. Behind this success is not only the sweat of hundreds of millions of people, but also the strong spiritual support of the people. The spiritual power and political thinking of contemporary college students are the main driving forces for social development. In the new period, how to improve the ideological and political education of college students has become the main research topic of colleges and social development. Compared with the limitations of classroom teaching in colleges and universities, the practice of ideological and political teaching in colleges is more in line with the reality of modern society, and it is also easy to approach the ideology and politics of college students. With the continuous development of science and technology in China, great changes have taken place in the teaching mode of ideological and political majors in China's universities. University-level informationization can be used plus the latest campus and social information can be obtained. This article analyzes and studies the informationization of teaching management in colleges and universities.


Purpose. There is growing evidence that psychopathic (dissocial) personality disorder is associated with violence. The purpose of this paper is to consider the role of psychopathy in clinical assessments of risk for violence.

Arguments. Risk assessments are conducted for the purpose of preventing, not predicting, violence. Yet, most research on risk for violence is conducted and interpreted within the framework of a simplistic prediction paradigm, thus underestimating the practical importance of risk factors. Despite this bias, violence predictions based on psychopathy are only slightly less accurate than predictions that cognitive behavioral therapy will reduce symptoms of depression or cardiac bypass surgery will reduce angina pain; and more accurate than predictions that smaller class sizes will lead to improved academic achievement or cardiac bypass surgery will reduce mortality.

Conclusion. Information about psychopathy can be used to make relatively accurate predictions of violence. Of course, decisions concerning if and how such information should be used are another matter. The paper concludes with recommendations concerning the appropriate role of psychopathy in violence risk assessments and avenues for future research.


The present invention relates to a system and a method of controlling the multimedia playing based on combining a mobile termination and a home gateway. The system contains a home gateway, a mobile terminal, a portal server, a business proxy, a business management server, an external content server and a playing device. The mobile termination visits the portal server to choose multimedia content for order programming by the mobile network or by the home gateway; the portal server sends the ordering program requirements of multimedia contents containing the mobile terminal marks and multimedia content addresses to the business proxy; the business proxy sends the multimedia content addresses to the corresponding home gateway after receiving the order programming of the multimedia content; the home gateway acquires the multimedia content from the external content server through the received address and plays the multimedia content; and users can send the play controlling order to the home gateway by the mobile termination. According to the present invention, users can order the programs of the multimedia content and control the displaying of the multimedia content on the home gateway.


Superficial benign cutaneous pigmented lesions that commonly present to the dermatologists and plastic surgeons have been treated by many conventional modalities such as dermabrasion, depigmenting creams as well as several types of lasers. Many of these treatment modalities lack specificity of injury, which has meant that normally pigmented and even non‐pigment containing structures such as collagen as well as the hyperpigmented lesion itself have all been indiscriminately destroyed. This has resulted variously in hypopigmentation, hyperpigmentation, in addition to scar formation in some cases.


An analysis of the distribution and abundance of Chaetognatha species from the Gulf of Mexico during April–May 1986 is presented. Zooplankton samples were collected at 43 stations from the southwestern and eastern regions of Mexico's Exclusive Economic Zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Species richness and abundance were higher in the southwestern stations located at the platform slope. The rank of Importance Value (IV) shows 3 groups of species; the first group included Flaccisagitta enflata, Mesosagitta minima, Serratosagitta serratodentata, Krohnitta subtilis, Pterosagitta draco, Sagitta bipunctata, and Krohnitta pacifica which were the most widely distributed species during this period. Density data were classified and analyzed by Morisita's similarity index, depicting 2 large groups of sampling stations along with a third group made up of 5 stations. Two stations were distinct from the others because of the low species richness and because only 2 species with high densities were present. Simpson's dominance index showed low values throughout the study area. Densities of chaetognath species did not differ significantly between day and night samples. Gulf and Caribbean Research Vol. 13, 51–57, 2001 Manuscript received July 14, 2000; accepted February 9, 2001


The nonlinear modification of the electron distribution function caused by the interaction with a resonant electrostatic field is studied analytically using a perturbation analysis. This interaction produces tail heating and for a limited range of parameter values can form a bump in the distribution, which may lead to emission of secondary waves. These results are applied to the ionosphere's F and upper E regions in the context of ionospheric modification experiments using ground-based powerful HF transmitters. An analytic study is made of the second-order modifications produced on the fast tail electron distribution function of a nonuniform plasma subjected to resonant excitation by wave sources. The source models considered can represent excitation by external electromagnetic waves propagating obliquely to the plasma density gradient, mode-conversion of electrostatic whistlers, beat of two transparent electromagnetic waves, and direct conversion from ripples in the density profile.


Single-atom catalyst emerges as a highly promising platform for heterogeneous catalysis, especially in the applications of clean energy conversion, storage and utilization. To understand the associated mechanisms, great efforts have been made to examine the bonding and oxidation state of single-atom catalysts before and/or after catalytic reactions; however, such assignments without sufficient information for dynamic evolution often lead to overlooking the underlying mechanisms. In this work, we report the first direct observation for the charge transfer and bond evolution of single-atom Pt/C 3 N 4 catalyst in photocatalytic water splitting using synchronous illumination X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (SI-XPS). Specifically under light excitation, we observe the Pt-N bond cleavage to form Pt 0 species and the corresponding C=N bond reconstruction for the first time, while these features could not be detected on the metallic Pt decorated C 3 N 4 catalyst. As expected, a significant enhancement of H 2 production activity (14.7 mmol·h -1 ·g -1 ) is achieved on single-atom Pt/C 3 N 4 catalyst, 20 times higher than that of metallic Pt-C 3 N 4 (0.74 mmol·h -1 ·g -1 ). These findings bring new insights for depth understanding of single-atom catalysts during catalytic reactions at the atomic level.


Abundance and biomass of benthic macroinvertebrates from shifting sand areas in the bed of the Sand River in central Alberta, Canada, were examined for 1 yr. Macroinvertebrate density ranged from 12 000 to 78 000 individuals/m2, but total biomass was low (50–490 mg/m2 dry mass) due to the small size of most organisms. The interstitial larvae of two chironomid species (Robackia demeijerei and Rheosmittia sp.) contributed a mean of 80.6% biomass and 92.8% of total number of macroinvertebrates. Total annual secondary production of these two species (752.0 ± 144.5 mg∙m−2∙yr−1) was used as an estimate of total secondary production of benthic macroinvertebrates in shifting sand areas. Both R. demeijerei and Rheosmittia sp. exhibited larval growth and development rates much slower than those reported for comparably sized species in other habitats. Food or frequent disturbance may limit the growth of these species. Although unit area biomass and production were low relative to other lotie habitats, shifting sand ...


The most important motives of creative self-development of students in learning based on their rating of importance are: the desire for creative freedom in the educational-cognitive activity; the desire to periodically update their knowledge through independent work in the library; the desire to develop the ability to conduct experimental research work; the desire to have fellowship and to this end it is good to learn; the perceived need to become a teacher - master and to this end to acquire in-depth knowledge and develop teaching abilities.


We have demonstrated that passive self-injection control is very effective in a CW Ti/sup 3+/:Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/ laser to produce high efficiency (/spl eta//spl sim/15%), narrow-line, two-wavelength emission. Light reinjection is achieved with an original high-resolution two-wavelength selector combining an interference wedge and a grazing incidence grating. The device operates outside the main nonselective laser cavity; thus avoiding insertion losses and optical damage problems. A 1.5 W, background free, total output power has been obtained simultaneously at two narrow laser lines (fwhm: 8 pm), independently tunable over 50 mn. The two laser lines can be emitted in a single beam or in two separated beams. Self-injection wavelength control has been demonstrated both for linear and for ring laser cavities. In the latter case, unidirectional behavior is also obtained in the same way. Single-step (5s/sup 2/S/sub 1/2/-5P/sup 2/P/sub 1/2,3/2/) and two-step (5s/sup 2/S/sub 1/2/-5p/sup 2/P/sub 3/2/-5d/sup 2/D/sub 3/2,5/2/) excitation of atomic rubidium vapor has been performed with our original laser device. >


In southwestern China karst rocky desertification (a process of land degradation involving serious soil erosion, extensive exposure of basement rocks, drastic decrease of soil productivity and the appearance of a desert‐like landscape) results from irrational land use on the fragile, thin karst soil. Soil particles in the Guizhou karst plateau were accumulated predominantly from residues left behind after the dissolution of carbonate rocks, and the thickness of the soil layer is related to the amount of argillaceous substances in the lost carbonate rock. This paper examines the spatial distribution of karst rocky desertified (KRD) land in Guizhou Province, and relates it to the different assemblages of basement carbonate rocks.


I t is our great pleasure to introduce the first part of this special issue to you! The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) has completed 75 years of remarkable service to the signal processing community. When the Society was founded in 1948, we couldn't imagine, for instance, how wireless networks of smartphones would be able to connect us easily at all times, or that an image processing algorithm would be able to detect cancer in a few seconds. Those are just simple examples of the immense technological progress over the past 75 years, which became possible thanks in great part to the dedicated work of professional members of the SPS.


The purpose of this communication is to present a simple method of exposure of the hip joint for the insertion of an artificial femoral head in patients who have fracture of the femoral neck or osteoarthritis of the hip, many of whom are old or feeble. For fractures of the femoral neck, the prevalent view seems to be that operation should always be undertaken unless the patient is moribund or suffering from advanced senile mental change (Williams and McLean 1952). Hitherto it has been thought that a rapid extra-articular nailing operation disturbs the patient least. Replacement of the femoral head by a prosthesis, through the exposure described here, is considered to be no more dangerous than an extra-articular nailing operation. In the treatment of osteoarthritis of the hip, many patients are over seventy years of age and the natural tendency is to avoid the risk of surgery. Replacement of the femoral head by way of this lateral intermuscular approach proves not to be a severe ordeal. Essentially, the surgical approach advocated here is a modification of that described by Watson-Jones (1936), in which neither muscle nor tendon is divided.


In this covid pandemic situation retailers are finding a better option for their e- commerce businesses to boost up. This project will definitely help them to achieve a great marketing strategy with the help of the internet and it also has a wide scope. This web-based application will help the user to try clothes online right sitting at your home. This application uses OpenCV python for identifying the user's body and to superimpose the clothes selected by the user. This will help the user to have the benefit of trying each and every attire they may like and also don't waste their time by physically going through the shops. This is a user- friendly application that uses HTML + CSS+ JavaScript for the frontend which is open source and easy to use also it uses OpenCV which contains some inbuild functions which is easily accessible on the backend process. The net price of the current similar application is around 2.7 lakhs. So, working on such a project will help us on understanding of OpenCV website development structure of image processing. This application has a wide scope in the future as the e- commerce business has boosted up to 66% in the past 5 years.


The degree of dispersion of a random variable can be described by the variance, which reflects the distance of the random variable from its mean. However, the time complexity of the traditional variance calculation algorithm is O(n), which results from full calculation of all samples. When the number of samples increases or on the occasion of high speed signal processing, algorithms with O(n) time complexity will cost huge amount of time and that may results in performance degradation of the whole system. A novel multi-step recursive algorithm for variance calculation of the time-varying data series with O(1) time complexity (constant time) is proposed in this paper. Numerical simulation and experiments of the algorithm is presented and the results demonstrate that the proposed multi-step recursive algorithm can effectively decrease computing time and hence significantly improve the variance calculation efficiency for time-varying data, which demonstrates the potential value for time-consumption data analysis or high speed signal processing.


[Objective]A new rice bacterial blight resistance germplasm (Y238) was identified from the wild rice species Oryza rufipogon and the resistance locus was transferred to the cultivated rice to breed near-isogenic line. Molecular mapping of the resistance gene was earned out to put it into practical use in the future. [Method] The resistance gene Xa30(t) in Y238 has been introduced into JG30 by cross, backcrosses and selling. A BC6F2 population was used for molecular mapping of Xa30(t), and Bulked Segregant Analysis (BSA) was adopted to survey SSR, EST and STS molecular markers. [Result] Four markers, RM1341, V88, C189 and 03STS displayed polymorphism between the susceptible-pool and resistant-pool. By analyzing the 303 individuals of the BC6F2 population with the mentioned four markers together with their resistance phenotypes, the gene Xa30(t) was mapped on the long arm of rice chromosome 11. Linkage analysis revealed that RM 1341, V88, C189 and 03STS located on the same side of Xa30(t), with genetic distances of 11.4cM, 11.4cM, 4.4cM and 2.0cM respectively. [Conclusion] The near-isogenic line CBB30 harboring a new rice bacterial blight resistance gene Xa30(t) was developed. Four molecular markers RM1341, V88, C189 and 03STS that link gene Xa30(t) were detected, and Xa30(t) was mapped on the long arm of chromosome 11.


The association between the IUD and pelvic infections ectopic pregnancies and deaths from spontaneous septic abortions as well as the etiologic role of the IUD in its association with these syndromes is discussed. The risk of developing pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is 3 times greater for IUD users than for nonusers. IUD users also have a 3-fold higher risk of spontaneous abortion a 50-fold higher risk of death from septic spontaneous abortion and a 6-20 times greater risk of ectopic pregnancy should pregnancy occur with the IUD in place. Pelvic infection may result from ascending genital infection. The PID may be the cause of both spontaneous abortion and ectopic pregnancy incidence. Studies are cited to illustrate all these increased risk factors. It is recommended that young nulliparous women particularly those with a history of PID should be warned of the increased risk of subsequent morbidity mortality and possible subfertility. It is further recommended that the IUD should be removed if possible when pregnancy occurs. IUD users suffering with abdominal pain should be checked for ectopic pregnancy.


The whole genome sequence of Dolosigranulum pigrum isolated from the blood of a patient with interstitial lung disease was sequenced with the Pacific Biosciences RS II platform. The genome size is 2.1 Mb with 2,127 annotated coding sequences; it contained two clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated proteins (Cas) systems. Dolosigranulum pigrum is a Gram-positive, catalase-negative, bacterium distinguished as a new genus among Gemella-like organisms from human infections (1). It is facultative, anaerobic, and commensal of the oral cavity implicated in several disease conditions rarely. We performed whole genome sequencing (WGS) of D. pigrum due to the lack of high-quality genomes in the NCBI database. A Gram-positive coccus was isolated from the blood of an 82-year-old male. The patient had chronic hypoxemic respiratory failure due to interstitial lung disease, and had been hospitalized for pneumonia when the blood cultures that grew this organism were observed on blood-chocolate agar. The organism was identified as D. pigrum based upon conventional biochemical tests and 100% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to a D. pigrum isolate deposited in the NCBI GenBank database. DNA from the bacterial culture was extracted using the Promega Genomic DNA Wizard kit. WGS was performed using Pacific Biosciences RS II Single-Molecule Real Time (SMRT) sequencing technology. A 10 kb library was prepared according to the manufacturer's protocol using AMPure PB Beads (Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, CA). A total of 5 g of genomic DNA was sheared using g-Tubes from Covaris (Woburn, MA). The DNA was concentrated, end-repaired, and ligated to hairpin adapters from PacBio. The loading concentrations for the libraries were 0.0075 nM and 0.0125 nM. The template was loaded into SMRT cell v3 using a Mag Bead kit. Sequencing was performed using two SMRT cells and a 360-min movie was acquired from each SMRT cell. The sequence data were assembled by using the Hierarchical Genome Assembly Process 3.0 (HGAP 3.0) in SMRT Portal v2.3.0. After quality-filtering and trimming, 38,985 raw subreads were generated of an average length 11,676 bp totaling 455,194,279 bp. The genome was assembled into three contigs of total length 2,121,027 bp. The maximum contig length was 2,097,175 bp with an average coverage of 167.3 . The G C content of the genome is 39.6%. BLASTn of the 16S rRNA gene sequence from the assembly against the NCBI reference RNA sequences (refseq_rna) database showed 99% similarity to D. pigrum strain R91/1468. The neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree Received 14 March 2017 Accepted 16 March 2017 Published 4 May 2017 Citation Mukhopadhyay R, Joaquin J, Hogue R, Fitzgerald S, Jospin G, Mars K, Eisen JA, Chaturvedi V. 2017. Complete genome sequence of Dolosigranulum pigrum from a patient with interstitial lung disease using single-molecule real-time sequencing technology. Genome Announc 5:e00317-17. https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.00317-17. Copyright © 2017 Mukhopadhyay et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Address correspondence to Vishnu Chaturvedi, email@example.com. PROKARYOTES


Objective:To explore the mechanism of the toxic effect of bongkrekic acid(BKA),morphologic changes of hepatocyte and brain tissues of intoxicated mice are observed.Methods:BKA of various doses was injected into the peritoneal cavity of mice,after 2 hours,the liver and brain tissues of mice were taken,morphologic changes were observed with microscope and electron microscope.Results:BKA mainly injured the mitochondria of hepatocyte,neuron,neuroglial cells of intoxicated mice.The mitochondria showed swelling and vesicular degeneration with distortion and disappearance of inner cristae;the cycle gap of nucleus around of neuroglial cells increased width;expand and appear vesicular in clearance around capillary of blood-brain barrier,the severity of the injury of mitochondria increased with the dosage of BKA increase.Conclusion:The toxic effect of BKA on hepatocyte and brain tissues of intoxicated mice is mainly to injure the inner membrane system of mitochondria as a result of the functional disturbance of mitochondria and the cause of hypoxia and cell death.


To the Editor.— The current dance fad known as "break dancing" is characterized by spinning and tumbling movements supported by the arms, spinning toplike on the back, and forming a bridge supported by the head and heels. The surmise that "breaking" is likely to result in occasional injury is a correct one. We have seen what appears to be a specific injury related to break dancing and note several other injuries that have been treated by local practitioners. Report of a Case.— An 11-year-old boy complained of pain in the midback. His mother observed swelling in the area, and he was taken to a practitioner in Mexico, who aspirated blood from the mass. The patient was then brought to the University of California, San Diego, Medical Center. Physical examination results were normal except for swelling of the area between and adjacent to the dorsal spine of T-10 to L-1 measuring


Network coding is a technique that allows information flows to be encoded while routed across a data network. It was shown that network coding helps increase the throughput and reduce the cost of data transmission, especially for one-to-many multicast applications. An important direction in network coding research is to understand and quantify the coding advantage and cost advantage, i.e., the potential benefits of network coding, as compared to routing, in terms of increasing throughput and reducing transmission cost, respectively. Two classic network models were considered in previous studies of coding advantage: directed networks and undirected networks. The study of coding advantage in this work further focuses on two types of parameterized networks, including bidirected networks and hyper-networks, which generalizes the directed and the undirected network models, respectively. With proper parameter setting, more realistic modeling of networks in practice can be achieved. We prove upper-bounds and lower-bounds on the coding advantage for multicast in these models. Some of our bounds are new and unknown before, some improve upon previously proven bounds, and some answer open questions in the literature.


Desorption of H2O films ranging from 53 nanometres to 101 micrometre thicknesses have been investigated using a quartz-crystal microbalance (QCM) and temperature-programmed desorption. Three desorption stages are observed belonging to amorphous solid water (ASW), stacking disordered ice I (ice Isd), and hexagonal ice I (ice Ih). The desorption of ASW is only visible for the ≥10 μm films and is separated from the ice I desorption by 10–15 K and has an associated desorption energy of ~64 kJ mol. The desorption energy of the 53 nm film was found to be near 50 kJ mol as also noted in the literature, but with increasing film thickness the desorption energy of ice I rises until reaching a plateau around 65–70 kJ mol. The reason for the increased desorption energy is suggested to be due to molecules unable to desorb due to the thick covering layer of H2O and possibly re-adsorption. Before complete desorption of ice I which occurs around 220 K for the 100 μm film, a two-stage ice I desorption is observed with the QCM for the 10 and 20 μm films near 200 K. This event corresponds to the desorption of ice Isd as corroborated by X-ray diffraction patterns collected upon heating from 92–260 K at ambient pressure. Cubic ice is not observed as is commonly stated in the literature as resulting from the crystallisation of ASW. Therefore, ice Isd is the correct terminology for the initial crystallisation product of ASW.


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Summer bird populations were studied in ten sites: two heathlands, two maritime pine Pinus pinaster plantations, one, four, seven and 13-year-old eucalypt Eucalyptus globulus plantations, one climax oak Quercus robur woodland, and a farmland area in northwestern Galicia, Spain. The farmland and oak wood contained the greatest number of species (24 and 17 respectively) while the one and four-year-old eucalypt stands contained the fewest species (four and six respectively). Avian density was highest in the oak wood (93 birds/ 10 ha) and lowest in a heathland site, the four and one-year-old eucalypt stands (26,13, and seven bird/10 ha respectively). The wren was the most widespread and dominant species occurring in all study areas except the one-year-old eucalypt stand. Mean bird species diversity for the four eucalypt stands was significantly lower than mean bird species diversity for the other wooded habitats. The avian communities of the heathlands, maritime pine and eucalypt plantations, in contrast to the oak wood and farmland, show an excessively high dominance of one species. Using avian dominance as a biological index of habitat perturbation suggests that over half the landscape (4000 km2) in northwestern Galicia is suffering from chronic stress. The newest stress to the avifauna in a long history of land exploitation by man is the importation and cultivation on grand scale of eucalypts. Balancing this tendency, traditional, small-scale farming on the mountainous terrain leads to the development of many tiny parcels whose average size is 0.28 ha; this in turn creates much 'edge' in hedgerow which serves to maintain a relatively rich avian species diversity in farmland.


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by Reto Rieder and Dr. Sonja-Lara Bepperling Zurich, Switzerland "Only airborne aircrafts return a profit; aircraft on the ground cause costs and underlie various risks" [Ref. 1]. This quote describes the actual drive to examine occurrences and accidents within the air traffic domain. During the last few decades, ticket prices for air transport services declined enormously; therefore, the cost pressure from the airlines — especially low-cost carriers — has led to a fierce competition. Hence, this pressure rolled off to the handling agents and suppliers. The effect becomes manifest in short turnarounds, less ground time (and, therefore, less time for ramp processes), more distinctive peaks with complex transfer relations with short connection times for passengers and bags, more traffic on the tarmac, manpower shortage, etc. Therefore, the processes on the ramp are becoming more complex and, thus, the risk of incidents arises. This paper tries to highlight some general results that came out of a master thesis at ETH Zurich, which evaluated and classified ground operation occurrences at Zurich Airport [Ref. 1]. As a theoretical background, the Heinrich Triangle is assumed. Based on this model, the following main question is addressed: Is the Heinrich Triangle applicable for ground operations at airports?


ABSTRACT This article is a case-based theoretical exercise designed to investigate the role that ethics, culture, and artistry play in scientific illustration. In this article, the author theorizes a visual model of cultural interplay and scientific illustration in the creation of scientific knowledge and argues that scientific illustrations work as epistemological devices because they are culturally mediated constructions imbued with personal, organizational, and disciplinary trust, and shaped by the embedded cultural worldviews.


In this work, we are using Voltage Scaling as energy efficient technique to make energy efficient MBCCS. In MBCCS, whenever voltage or current of battery will under the threshold level the battery will continuing the charge if more than voltage or current threshold then battery will invoke Ring Overcharge Alarm. In Voltage Scaling, we scale down supply voltage from 1V to 0.1V, where 0.9V, 0.8V, 0.7V, 0.6V, 0.5V, 0.4V, 0.3V and 0.2V are intermediate supply voltage value. There is 92.72%, 87.50%, 98.77% and 68.24% reduction in Clock Power, Logic Power, Signal Power and IO Power on 1 THz device operating frequency when voltage is scale down from 1V to 0.1V with step size of 0.1V.


Spent coffee residue is a by-product of coffee processing and its disposal is a matter of concern. Coffee residues, however, have been reported to be useful as fertilizer, animal feed, and fuel. Chemical analysis has shown that phenolic compounds, which are responsible for antioxidant and antimicrobial activities, still remain in spent coffee residues. This study aimed to investigate the antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of spent coffee residue extracts. Spent coffee residues of two coffee cultivars 'Arabica' and 'Robusta' were extracted either with water +/- microwave power or with 70% ethanol +/- microwave power. The coffee residues extracted with water in combination with microwave power (800 watt, 30 s) had a significantly greater (P<0.05) total phenolic content than those extracted with solvent only. Likewise, the strongest ability to scavenge DPPH was detected in coffee residues extracted with water in combination with microwave power. Extracts of 'Robusta' spent coffee residue had more total phenolic content, and showed greater antioxidant activity than extracts of 'Arabica'. Both 'Arabica' and 'Robusta' extracts had no antimicrobial activity against two postharvest pathogens: Colletotrichum sp. and Lasiodiplodia theobromae.


WRKY transcription factors play important roles in the responses to abiotic stresses, seed dormancy, seed germination, developmental processes, secondary metabolism, and senescence in plants. However, molecular mechanisms of WRKY transcription factors-related abiotic stress tolerance have not been fully understood.In this investigation, transcription factor AtWRKY57 was introduced into cell lines of rice (Oryza sativaL.), tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), and white pine (Pinus strobesL.) for characterization of its function in salt stress tolerance. The purpose of this investigation is to examine the function of AtWRKY in a broad sample of plant species including monocotyledons, dicotyledons, and gymnosperms.The experimental results demonstrated that heterologous expression of transcription factor AtWRKY57 improves salt stress tolerance by decreasing Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substance (TBARS), increasing Ascorbate Peroxidase (APOX) and Catalase (CAT) activity under salt stress. In rice, overexpression of transcription factor AtWRKY57 enhances expression of Ca2+-dependent protein kinase genesOsCPk6andOsCPk19to counteract salt stress.These results indicated that transcription factor AtWRKY57 might have practical application in genetic engineering of plant salt tolerance throughout the plant kingdom.


Childhood obesity and inactivity is a significant public health problem that also has economic consequences. Therefore, economists have a role to play in identifying their potential impact. The influence of childhood background on outcomes can usefully be divided according to the effects of family, school and peers. Schools have been promoted as a potential arena to combat the increasing childhood obesity rate. This study analyses whether increasing physical activity in the school context can contribute to health improvement exploring four different types of interventions. We address the issue using a unique longitudinal data set of 1087 (BMI) and 1047 (fitness) schoolchildren who attend 37 state schools in the Municipality of Aalborg, Denmark. The effect is identified using a randomised experiment that creates an exogenous increase in physical activity. Surprisingly, we find that the interventions did not have the expected impact on schoolchildren's health, and the scant evidence we have points towards a negative effect. We pay particular attention to possible explanations for this lack of results. Our analysis suggests that the interventions had a heterogeneous impact on children's health when only parts of the distribution are considered. Even more convincing are the results, which indicate that schoolchildren engage in compensating behaviour implying a crowding-out of leisure-time activity. Consequently, a supportive cost-benefit case might exist if parental behaviour is assumed to be affected by school-based interventions. JEL codes: I14, I12, C18


Eucommia ulmoides is an endemic plant in China,and has large amount of resources.Chlorogenic acid is rich in Eucommia ulmoides leaves.In this paper,researches are conducted into the variation characteristics of chlorogenic acid content in the leaves of Eucommia ulmoides,under the influence of seasons,tree age,slope aspect,storage time,drying methods.The research conclusions can provide theoretical support for industrialization of chlorogenic acid's extraction from Eucommia ulmoides leaves.


A specific and sensitive method had been developed to rapidly separate and determine 4 tobacco-specific nitrosamines(TSNAs),including N'-nitrosonornicotine(NNN),4-(N-methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone(NNK),N'-nitrosoanatabine(NAT) and N'-nitrosoanabasine(NAB),in mainstream cigarettes smoke by employing ultra-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry(UPLC-MS/MS).Total particulate matters in mainstream smoke were trapped by cambridge filter pad under standard smoking condition,extracted by using ammonium acetate buffer as solvent,cleaned up on solid phase extraction(SPE),and then analyzed by UPLC-MS/MS with positive electrospray ionization(ESI) under multiple reaction monitoring(MRM) mode.The supersonic extraction time,experimental conditions of UPLC and MS were also optimized.Under the optimal conditions,the calibration curves showed good linearity for 4 TSNAs in the concentration ranges of 0-400 μg/L with correlation coefficients above 0.998.The limits of quantitation(LOQ) were between 0.08 and 0.15 μg/L(S/N=10),and average recoveries ranged from 72% to 104% with RSDs of 3.8%-9.7%.The method was sensitive,rapid and accurate,and was suitable for the determination of TSNAs in mainstream cigarette smoke.


Structure of communicative abilities is determined based on integrated approach, their components are revealed on psychophysiological, psychological and socio-psychological levels. Features of senior adolescents communicative abilities are investigated, high-communicative, medium-communicative and low-communicative adolescents are characterized. Factor analysis in all groups of adolescents allowed us to define some mechanisms of communicative abilities development such as activity, collectivist orientation, great need to communication, success motivation, affiliation motivation and emotional stability.


Electrical characteristics of a typical vehicle horn are determined by its resistance and inductance. The inductance is affected by factors such as the magnetic circuit, current magnitude, eddy currents and material properties. The mechanical characteristics of the vehicle horn are also affected by its material properties, the horn structure and its natural frequency. Mechanical and electrical parameters change during the operation of a vehicle horn. Therefore, it is difficult to predict the vehicle horn performance and hence, its design. In this study, firstly, the electrical and mechanical system of a vehicle horn are mathematically modeled. Secondly, the electrical and mechanical parameters are calculated using the finite element analysis method. Thirdly, to predict the operating characteristics of the vehicle horn, the electrical/mechanical system equations are solved by applying the parameters obtained from the finite element analysis. Finally, the simulation results and experimental results are compared and verified.


Quasifree scattering data are presented on the $sup 24$Mg(p,p$alpha$)$sup 20$Ne reaction for two pairs of quasifree angles for an incident proton energy of 100 MeV. (auth)


With the gradual complexity of our electricity consumption information, there are many metering terminal manufacturers at present, and the use of equipment vulnerability to steal electricity has brought huge economic losses to the power grid. Therefore, how to authenticate the metering terminal and how to ensure the reliable storage of the power data is an urgent security problem. As a decentralized distributed storage peer-to-peer trusted network, blockchain is highly transparent, decentralized, trusted, unchangeable, and anonymous. It provides a reliable solution to solve the above problems. This paper introduces a metering terminal trusted metering access system for power distribution and consumption scenes. All power information and transaction information are stored in blockchain, ensuring the reliability of metering data and minimizing security risks. The simulation experiment proves that using the blockchain as a trusted data platform can effectively guarantee the trusted access of the metering terminal.


The article presents material about the life and work of V. R. Malkin, who worked at the Ural Federal University for more than 40 years and he is the founder of the Ural School of Sports Psychology. The article uses interviews with students and colleagues of the scientist, analyzes his organizational and scientific activities and considers his contribution to the development of international cooperation. The analysis of the research of the scientist V. R. Malkin shows a wide range of his research interests in the field of sports psychology development.


Linear arrays with sensors at integer locations are widely used in array signal processing. This paper considers arrays where sensor locations can be rational numbers. It is demonstrated that such rational arrays have some important advantages over integer arrays. For example, they offer more flexibility and reduced DOA estimation error when a limited number of sensors are to be distributed in a fixed aperture. Sparse and coprime rational arrays are introduced to achieve this. Extensive Monte-Carlo simulations demonstrate that rational arrays can perform close to CRB even at low SNR and a small number of snapshots compared to the integer arrays. Furthermore, they can resolve the closely spaced sources and provide smaller MSE for almost all two-DOA configurations. Next, if the signals are impinging from a restricted spatial scope, rational arrays can better utilize this information and place sensors over a larger aperture while still maintaining unique identifiability property. Results on steering vector invertibility of general rational arrays and unique identifiability with rational coprime arrays are provided. In order to do this, some rational extensions of integer number theoretic concepts such as greatest common divisor and coprimality are required, which are introduced as well. The theoretical results are further extended to arbitrary arrays where sensor locations may even be irrational.


In recent years, the risk of mutual funds has become difficult to assess. Therefore, the rule for investment diversification for mutual funds was established to prevent assumption of unforeseen risk by investors. Some papers stated that the rule for investment diversification affected price formation. However, we cannot find previous studies to discuss that it affects the investment performances of investors. In this paper, we investigated how the rule for investment diversification affected investment performance of investors in financial markets where two types of investors who followed the rule and did not follow it participated at times of stable, crashing, and soaring markets by using agent-based simulations. As results, we found that the investment performances of investors who followed the rule were worse than those of investors who did not follow it in a soaring market. Moreover, large numbers of investors with the rule for investment diversifications may impede all market participants from realizing gains.


This experiment was designed to determine if a sensory reinforcer would impart secondary reinforcing properties to another stimulus. A decrease in sound intensity (Sound OFF) was the sensory reinforcer. Sound OFF was paired with a light stimulus over several trials. By extinction testing it was found that this pairing procedure had resulted in the acquisition of secondary reinforcement. This shows that sensory reinforcers do not differ from the conventional rewards based on organic needs with respect to the ability to impart reinforcing properties to other stimuli. It is argued that these results are not in agreement with the information hypothesis of secondary reinforcement. The data were accounted for mainly in terms of Kelleher's conditioning model.


We prove that all nontrivial finite subgroups of derived automorphisms of K3 surfaces of Picard number one have order two and give formulas for the numbers of their conjugacy classes. We also obtain a similar result for the subgroups which are finite up to shifts. This in turn shows that such a K3 surface admits an associated cubic fourfold if and only if it has a derived automorphism of order three up to shifts. These results are achieved by proving that such a subgroup fixes a Bridgeland stability condition up to $\mathbb{C}$-actions. We also establish similar existence results for curves, twisted abelian surfaces, generic twisted K3 surfaces, and standard autoequivalences on surfaces.


Objective To investigate the effect of Rhizoma Paridis on primary cancer cells isolated from the ascites or pleural fluids of patients with metastatic cancers.Methods Primary cancer cells were isolated from the malignant pleural effusion and ascites of 25 patients.Compared with culture cell lines,the response of these cancer cells to Rhizoma Paridis and chemotherapeutic agents commonly used in clinic were determined by CCK8 assay.Quantitative RT-PCR was used to examine the level of survivin mRNA.Results The primary cancer cells isolated from effusions showed sensitivity to Rhizoma Paridis with 50% inhibiting concentration(IC50) values of 82.33 μg/ml,similar to the IC50 in established cell lines.Patients with colon cancers were significantly more resistant to Rhizoma Paridis than patients with other cancers(P0.05).Eight cases of cancer cells resistant to Rhizoma Paridis had increased tolerance to docetaxel,cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil.Significant down-regulation of survivin in cell lines and in primary cancer cells after the treatment of Rhizoma Paridis was observed(P0.05).Conclusions This study shows Rhizoma Paridis might have the potential anticancer effect on primary cancer cells.


A series of questionnaire were respectively conducted among the students with different English levels in our research on the purpose to probe into the status of teachers' writing assessment model and students' needs.The results indicate that it is necessary to carry out a reform in teachers' writing assessment model according to students' English level and their needs to improve the effect of teachers' feedback and students' English output with the help of database.


The mobile Internet and location-enabled mobile devices have become increasingly popular, inspiring a new type of communication network. This near-me area network (NAN) focuses on communication among wireless devices in close proximity, creating a new kind of application domain. This article introduces NAN and reviews existing applications and challenges.


The paper gives an overview of the philosophical positions regarding Plato's so-called unwritten doctrines and the systematic goal of his philosophy. One group of commentators (especially the Tübingen school with Hans Krämer and Konrad Gaiser) argues that in these doctrines Plato has a closed (finite) concept of philosophy, while another group, in the tradition of Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher and August Wilhelm Schlegel (for example, Ernst Heitsch, Margarita Isnardi-Parente and Wolfgang Kullmann), denies the philosophical relevance of the unwritten doctrines and favours an open (infinite) concept of philosophy which they find mainly in the dialogues. The author discusses and criticizes H. Krämer's position and tries to show that a third position between finitism and infinitism is possible, that is, an approximation of the presupposed truth, a position anticipated in the "scepsi costrutttrice" of Luigi Stefanini's "Platone". Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: http://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-109176 Published Version Originally published at: Ferber, Rafael (1993). Hat Plato in der "ungeschriebenen Lehre" eine "dogmatische Metaphysik und Systematik" vertreten? Einige Bemerkungen zum Status Quaestionis. Méthexis, Revista Argentina de Filosofia antigua:37-54.


The System identification (SI) black box method is used in this study to obtain the mathematical model of a fiber braided bending actuator (FBBA) using MATLAB Simulink. Data from the system input and output are used by the black box method. Thus, the voltage supplied to the electro-pneumatic regulators and the position (angle) of the FBBA system are used to collect input–output data in this study. In the system, PRBS generators are used to generate an input signal for the electro-pneumatic valve. The auto-regressive with exogenous input (ARX) model is chosen. As the controller for the FBBA position system, PID with the Genetic Algorithm (GA) tuning method and auto-tuned tuning method is proposed. The reference angle, simulation, and actual test are compared. The mathematical model gained from the SI method is verified through the simulation and test result of the position control. It was found that the model obtained through SI able represent the actual plant.


Variable generation from chromatograms is conveniently accomplished using unsupervised rather than manual techniques. With unsupervised techniques, there is no need for selecting a few peaks for manual integration and valuable information is quickly and efficiently collected. The generation of variables can be performed by using either peak searching or moving window (MW) strategies. With a MW approach, the peaks are ignored and many variables, only part of them carrying information, are generated. Thus, variable generation by MWs should be followed by data compression to generate the variables to be further used for classification or quantitation purposes. In this work, unsupervised processing of chromatograms was performed by MWs followed by principal component analysis (MW-PCA). The principal components were selected and used as input variables for class prediction by linear discriminant analysis (LDA). Both simulated and real chromatograms were used to study the influence of both the window width and the degree of overlapping of consecutive windows on the quality of the predictions (estimated as the percentage of correctly classified chromatograms by leave-one-out). Hence, the quality of the variables generated by MW-PCA was inferred. For this purpose, a series of chromatograms containing a few peaks and belonging to four classes or categories were generated. Extra virgin olive oils of four pure cultivars were also used. In this case, a gas chromatograph provided with a flame ionization detector was used to obtain the chromatograms of fatty acid methyl esters. Windows within a wide range of moderate widths provided similar performances, and the quality of the predictions always increased with the degree of overlapping of consecutive windows. Thus, for MW-PCA variable generation, moderately wide and largely overlapped windows are recommended.


Assessment of dynamic stability in a modern power system (PS) is becoming a stringent requirement both in operational planning and in on-line operation, due to the increasingly complex dynamics of a PS. Further, growing uncertainties in forecast state and in the response to disturbances suggests the adoption of risk-based approaches in Dynamic Security Assessment (DSA). The present paper describes a probabilistic risk-based DSA, which provides instability risk indicators by combining an innovative probabilistic hazard/vulnerability analysis with the assessment of contingency impacts via time domain simulation. The tool implementing the method can be applied to both current and forecast PS states, the latter characterized in terms of renewable and load forecast uncertainties, providing valuable results for operation and operational planning contexts. Some results from a real PS model are discussed.


Objective To study and analyze the target rate of blood glucose before and after diabetes standard management in community. Methods 830 diabetes patients in community from January 1,2013 to December 31,2013 were selected as the study objects and divided them into treatment group and control group,the treatment group was given diabetes standard management,the control group was given traditional management,target rate of blood glucose before and after management were compared. Results Fasting bloodglucose(FBG) of patients after standard management and blood glucose 24h after dinner were more stable than traditional management,and target rate of all indicators were relatively higher. Conclusion Diabetes standard management can make the blood glucose more stable,having wide application values in clinic.


Abstract In this article, we introduce a new type of projective modules, called the weak w-projective module. By using this type of modules, we give a homological characterization of Krull domains. More precisely, it is shown that an integral domain is a Krull domain if and only if every submodule of a projective module is weak w-projective.


Associate Pastor Ryan Haack knows what it means to overcome personal limitations and brokenness—which is why he has devoted his life to helping others find freedom in Christ. He and his wife, Julie, are on the ministry team of The Journey, a Foursquare church in downtown Madison, Wis.


A highly practical method for the synthesis of fluorinated benzimidazoles was developed by CuI/TMEDA-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of N-(2-haloaryl)trifluoroacetimidoyl chlorides with primary amines. The present double amination process tolerates the presence of Cl, Br, or I substituent at the 2-position of the phenyl group.


A geographic information system (GIS) was developed in Martinique, to perform soil zoning for the revival of the production of Coffea arabica var. typica.
Pioneer in the cultivation of coffee in the Caribbean since 1720, today Martinique plays no role in the coffee industry. In addition, due to its rarity on the island, the edapho-climatic requirements of Coffea arabica had to be defined based on the world literature. The digital data (isohyets, isotherm, geomorphology) was obtained from Martinique's institutions with expertise in the production of environmental data (IRD, IGN, Meteo- France, DEAL Martinique, CTM)1. These data have been processed with a SIG software: QGIS version 2.8.1. During the investigations, the rainfall represented a factor limiting any possibility of production of Coffea arabica var. typica in the future. By removing the pluviometry from the set of parameters, we can visualize the areas that might be acceptable to this culture. With the forecast of the National Meteorological services for the 2071-2100 period under the new climate requirements, we carried out an agroclimatic zoning which also showed us the impossibility of producing this coffee in the future.


The authors report the fabrication of heterojunction light emitting diodes (LEDs) based on two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal ordered n-type ZnO nanomesh and p-type GaN. The 2D ZnO nanomesh array was prepared by employing polystyrene spheres as a template. When a forward bias was applied to the LED, a strong ultraviolet (UV) electroluminescence peaked at 385 nm can be observed. The peak deconvolution revealed three emission peaks at 370, 388, and 420 nm. The origin of these emission peaks will be discussed. In addition, the LED was capable of exciting a red phosphor to convert UV light into red light.