Background: The Macintosh (MAC) laryngoscope has been the gold standard for teaching intubation till date. This manikin-based study was conducted to determine whether McGrath™ videolaryngoscope (VL) (McG) is comparable to MAC laryngoscope as an educational tool for novice airway managers. Material and Methods: A randomised cross-over manikin-based trial was conducted in a group of 44 final-year medical students. After training for intubation with both laryngoscopes, the students were randomised to Group MAC or Group McG to decide which laryngoscope would be used first. The total time for intubation, number of attempts for successful intubation, ease of visualisation and ease of intubation were assessed. Results: The median time for intubation was 40 s (interquartile range [IQR] 16.5–93.5) for the MAC group and 35 s (IQR 17.5–54.5 s) for McG group (P = 0.22). First attempt success was significantly more in the McG group. Ease of visualisation and ease of intubation were significantly better in the McG group (P ≤ 0.05). Conclusion: The McGrath™ VL appears to be superior to MAC laryngoscope as an educational tool for training novice airway managers in endotracheal intubation.


The exact quantum S-matrices and conserved charges are known for affine Toda field theories(ATFTs). In this note we report on a new type of bi-linear sum rules of conserved quantities derived from these exact S matrices. They exist when there is a multiplicative identity among S-matrices of a particular ATFT. Our results are valid for simply laced as well as non-simply laced ATFTs. We also present a few explicit examples. PACS: 11.10.Kk; 11.55.Ds; 02.20.Tw


PURPOSE: Clinicians are often required to interact with visualization software during image-guided medical interventions, but sterility requirements forbid the use of traditional keyboard and mouse devices. In this study we attempt to determine the feasibility of using a touch-free interface in a real time procedure by creating a full gesture-based guidance module for ultrasound snapshot-guided percutaneous nephrostomy. METHODS: The workflow for this procedure required a gesture to select between two options, a "back" and "next" gesture, a "reset" gesture, and a way to mark a point on an image. Using an orientation sensor mounted on the hand as input device, gesture recognition software was developed based on hand orientation changes. Five operators were recruited to train the developed gesture recognition software. The participants performed each gesture ten times and placed three points on predefined target positions. They also performed tasks unrelated to the sought-after gestures to evaluate the specificity of the gesture recognition. The orientation sensor measurements and the position of the marked points were recorded. The recorded data sets were used to establish threshold values and optimize the gesture recognition algorithm. RESULTS: For the "back", "reset" and "select option" gesture, a 100% recognition accuracy was achieved. For the "next" gesture, a 92% recognition accuracy was obtained. With the optimized gesture recognition software no misclassified gestures were observed when testing the individual gestures or when performing actions unrelated to the sought-after gestures. The mean point placement error was 0.55 mm with a standard deviation of 0.30 mm. The mean placement time was 4.8 seconds. CONCLUSION: The system that was developed is promising and demonstrates potential for touch-free interfaces in the operating room.


An effective method was developed for identification of sweet potato virus disease( SPVD) resistance using artificial grafting virus scions in the field. The resistance of 12 sweet potato varieties was evaluated and the yield losses were estimated from 2011 to 2012. The results showed that survival of the scions was 100%,and 12 sweet potato cultivars were infected with diseases to different degrees after graft inoculation with SPVD and the disease index was between 51. 0 and 95. 2. The leaf chlorophyll content and vine length of sweet potato plants infected with SPVD decreased compared with those of healthy sweet potato plants,and grafting virus scions in the field was an effective method for identification of SPVD resistance. The tuber yield loss was in the range of 55. 1%- 97. 8%. It showed that the 12 sweet potato cultivars tested were susceptible to SPVD.


This paper explains the legal and social foundations for adolescents over the age of 16 and under 18 years of age are fully attributable under the precepts that establishes the ordinary criminal law at the time of the Commission of serious crimes, such as murder, robbery and sexual offences. It is not modify or extinguish system specialized for minors, but change the age of criminal responsibility, so that the ordinary criminal law, particularly the penalties for serious crimes may be imposed to those older than 16 years onwards. Is why research begins in the knowledge of the problem, its scope and rules that you can apply in your study, within the theoretical framework theoretical aspects that allow to scientifically support the subject deepens, it conducted an analysis of national instruments and international which is deemed applicable, and its true value within our legal system; that adolescents over the age of 16 and under 18 years of age are fully attributable precisely to reassure citizens life, coexistence, work, justice, equality, knowledge, freedom and peace, within a legal, democratic and participatory framework that ensures a social, economic and political order just. Finally reference is made to the elaboration of the framework law, in where the researcher submits a proposal in an effort to provide a legally supported the problems mention, and mainly incorporated into the criminal code the theme that the adolescents under 18 and over 16 years of age are fully attributable in crimes against life as part of the solutions raised at the beginning of the research


Building on the theoretical and research traditions of Jules Henry, Salvador Minuchin, Jay Haley, and Gregory Bateson, this study presents an analysis of metacommunicational statements taken from interviews with nine stepfamily couples regarding their experiences in building a stepfamily. Interviews were conducted with each spouse individually and with each couple jointly regarding the issues related to reorganizing their stepfamily. Analysis of the metacommunicational statements from the transcribed interviews revealed a "relationship dialectic" between the freely chosen marital relationship and the not‐so‐freely chosen stepparent relationship. The interview data revealed two relational tasks that the stepfamily couples attempted to accomplish in an effort to manage that dialectic. The first task was to establish the solidarity of the marriage in the minds of the children. This was attempted through clear statements to the children regarding the priority of the marriage and through efforts at maintaining...


In the new global economy, cyber-attacks have become a central issue. The detection, mitigation and attribution of such cyber-attacks require efficient and practical techniques to fingerprint malicious IP traffic. By fingerprinting, we refer to: (1) the detection of malicious network flows and, (2) the attribution of the detected flows to malware families that generate them. In this thesis, we firstly address the detection problem and solve it by using a classification technique. The latter uses features that exploit only high-level properties of traffic flows and therefore does not rely on deep packet inspection. As such, our technique is effective even in the presence of encrypted traffic. Secondly, whenever a malicious flow is detected, we propose another technique to attribute such a flow to the malware family that generated it. The attribution technique is built upon k-means clustering, sequence mining and Pushdown Automata (PDAs) to capture the network behaviors of malware family groups. Indeed, the generated PDAs are actually network signatures for malware family groups. Our results show that the proposed malicious detection and attribution techniques achieve high accuracy with low false (positive and negative) alerts.


In this paper, we introduce a novel and unprecedented solid fuel known as benzoic resin, which is equivalent to coal. Here, we focus on the ignition behavior of benzoic resin, and for this purpose, we have employed an induction heating plate equipped with a liquefied petroleum gas flame ignitor. Additionally, an analytical model was also developed to estimate the ignition rate of this solid fuel. Experiments were carried out for various induction heating surface temperatures, such as 70, 100, 130, 160, 210, 240, and 270 °C. The Fourier transform infrared spectral studies of benzoic resin exhibited two sharp peaks at a lower wavenumber. The calorific value of benzoic resin is found to be 26 004.92 kJ/kg, which is higher than lignite and bituminous coal, except anthracite. The ignition and volatile initial release temperatures were found to be 70 and 90 °C, respectively, where these values are better than the other coal types. Also, the electrical conductivity of benzoic resin was measured to be 1620 μs/cm,...


An experiment was conducted to assess the generation and development of strategic expertise during problem solving. 40 undergraduates solved four nontrivial logical-deduction problems in a 1-hr period. Even though the instructions were deliberately impoverished regarding strategic hints, orderly effective uniform strategies emerged near the outset of the problem-solving session, and they emerged at a faster rate than had been previously thought. The decision-making process underlying generation and development of strategy was nonMarkovian. The rapid emergence of expertise seen in this study seems to contrast with the view of strategic expertise implicit in much of the literature on problem solving, namely, that such expertise develops as a result of lengthy experience with the task.


This paper aims to investigate the impact that building design has upon the quality of life for residents of a care home who have dementia. To present a balanced perspective, carers within the care home also participate in the research.,A case study methodological approach was adopted using one care home, ten residents and five staff as a sample frame. During interviews conducted, participants were asked semi-structured questions on how building design features impact upon the quality of life of residents. Questions posed focussed upon key design principles that emerged from a detailed review of extant literature.,Building design for people with dementia must consider a complex array of features to provide a safe and habitable living space for residents and family members who visit. This living space must also be suitably utilitarian and provide a workable environment for staff. Hence, an appropriate balance between these two competing requirements must be attained, and often a tailor-made solution is required that fits the individual's level of dementia. Three prominent areas that study participants expressed a desire for were a safe environment; support for wayfinding, orientation and navigation; and access to nature and the outdoors.,The work reports upon the rarely discussed issue of building design for people with dementia and could be used by policymakers and construction firms to enhance their knowledge capabilities in this area. The research concludes with direction for future research which should seek to provide more evidence-based research vis-a-vis perception enquiry and extend this seminal work to a larger sample of care homes or people with dementia living at home.


This paper describes the usage of AdaBoost algorithm in Viola-Jones method of face detection. Viola-Jones is first object detection framework that provides competitive object detection rates in real-time. This framework is widely used in solving face detection tasks. The Viola-Jones method uses several technologies and algorithms. One of them is boosting algorithm AdaBoost, which is used to build classifiers cascades of objects.


China hosts some 55 ethnic minority groups, which together account for 8.41% of the Chinese population. These populations reside in predominantly Ethnic Minority Villages presenting great value and culture of their heritage, with living landscape, festivals, architecture and costumes, but the actual living conditions are very poor. Since the 1990s, China has adopted French concept 'ecomuseum', for the conservation of some ethnic villages to relieve the conflict between poverty and heritage conservation. ln short, this concept involves the creation of open-air museums keeping buildings and people in their original sites, with local communities serving as curators managing their own sites, which necessitates democracy in the conservation and interpretation processes. The concept seems ideal for the Chinese government, with its bilateral objectives of heritage conservation and poverty alleviation, without necessitating the relocation of any or buildings. However, does this concept really work? It remains unanswered and the subject of little academic research. In order to examine how successfully these ecomuseums are being managed, two projects has been selected for case studies - the Suojia Ecomuseum and the Nandan Ecomuseum. In-depth field studies have been conducted at the two ecomuseums, involving the methodologies of site observation, documentation and semi-structured interviews. This paper reviews the ecomuseum development in China, and then provides detailed critiques and overviews of the Suojia Ecomuseum and the Nandan Ecomuseum in terms of their backgrounds, management structures, programs and activities as well as pertinent issues. Based upon these descriptions, it is·identified that the two cases have different management structures and focuses: 1) the Suojia Ecomuseum has been under the management of government authorities whilst the Nandan Ecomuseum has been operated by local villagers, and 2) the focus of the Suojia Ecomuseum has been improving living conditions for the residents, while in Nandan Ecomuseum cultural inheritance has been operated as a core program. However, there is a lack of financial support in both cases. All these issues lead to a discussion that the Nandan Ecomuseum has made greater achievement in terms of being community-based. The conclusions are hence drawn as to the suggestions to Chinese ecomuseums--the sustainability and success requires local villagers as curators as well as external financial assistance. In addition, another and more urgent need is to pass the ethnic cultures and their values to the next generation.


With the continuous development of information technology,computer and network technology in all walks of life is increasingly widely used.Previous scientific computing,data analysis rely on high load manual work.While the web exploitation technology,database technology,electronic maps and a series of related technologies have emerged,the use of computers to analyze and process a variety of sequences data is more and more popular within the technical people.This paper uses ZedGraph chart controlware to achieve dynamic stress curve analysis of monitoring data,combined with Google Maps to achieve the visual presentation of the monitoring points,which greatly facilitates researchers to detect and analyze the formation of earthquake.


The group testing problem is to find by group tests all defectives in a given set of items each of which independently has probability p of being defective. The group testing problem originated wit...


This paper presents analyses of the texts published in the Composer Speaks section in the New Sound magazine, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of its continual publishing. It sums up the achieved results, and classifies the collected materials, with special emphasis on methodology issues concerning the status of the interview as a scientific method, indicating its importance in musicological research. The most significant results are viewed from this perspective, drawing attention to the value of the contributions achieved in the research of Serbian music and the development of Serbian musicology.


In this paper cumulative {sup 238}U(p,f) cross sections are given for 37 nuclides in the energy region 12.5 to 17.5 MeV and for four nuclides up to 30 MeV. Also, 11 independent cross sections are reported. A theoretical model for calculating such quantities is described. The calculated cumulative cross sections are in relatively good agreement with the experimental values, except in the region of symmetric fission, where the calculated values are smaller. The measured total fission cross sections are in good agreement with previous results. From the independent cross sections, the influence of the nuclear shell Z = 50 on the charge distribution of fission fragments can be seen clearly.


ABSTRACT In this article we present a new semilocal convergence analysis for the two step Kurchatov method by using recurrence relations under Lipschitz type conditions on first-order divided difference operator. The main advantage of this iterative method is that it does not require to evaluate any Fréchet derivative but it includes extra parameters in the first-order divided difference in order to ensure a good approximation to the first derivative in each iteration. The detailed study of the domain of parameters of the method has been carried out and the applicability of the proposed convergence analysis is illustrated by solving some numerical examples. It has been concluded that the present method converges more rapidly than the one step Kurchatov method and two step Secant method.


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PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to characterize and quantify the types of interventions made by an ambulatory care pharmacy team (ACPT), evaluate the financial impact of such interventions, and create a cost template for the interventions using the health system's intervention documentation system.

SUMMARY
We conducted a retrospective, single-center cohort study covering the period from July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2020. Eligible participants included patients aged 18 years or older who had an appointment at the ambulatory care clinic and received a pharmacy consult. Most patients were uninsured. Data collected included intervention types, specific interventions, the economic impact per intervention, the average cost avoidance per intervention, the total economic impact, and the total cost avoidance. The ACPT documented a total of 1,334 interventions during the 2-year study period. The 4 major categories of interventions included patient counseling, drug utilization review, medication therapy management, and drug information. Each category was further subdivided into subcategories, for a total of 18 distinct subcategories. The economic impact per intervention was approximately $30. The average cost avoidance was estimated to be $357.62 per intervention, with a total economic impact of $40,020 and cost avoidance of $477,065 for the study period.

CONCLUSION
Pharmacist interventions resulted in a significant amount of economic impact and cost avoidance for the health system. Using the data from the study, we created a cost estimate to indicate the value of each ambulatory care intervention by using the health system's intervention documentation system.


Many political philosophers argue that a principle of 'fair equality of opportunity' (FEO) ought to extend beyond national borders. I agree that there is a place for FEO in a theory of global justice. However, I think that the idea of cross-border FEO is indeterminate between three different principles. Part of my work in this paper is methodological: I identify three different principles of cross-border fair equality of opportunity and I distinguish them from each other. The other part of my work in this paper is normative: I argue that we should endorse only two of the three principles of cross-border fair equality of opportunity and that we should reject the third. Importantly, I think that we should reject the one version of transnational fair equality of opportunity that most advocates of such a principle appear to endorse.


The invention discloses a preparation method of copper nanoparticles with different particle diameters and relates to a metal nanoparticle. The invention provides a preparation method of copper nanoparticles with different particle diameters, which has simple, economic, environment-friendly process. The preparation method comprises the following steps: adding metal salt of copper chloride or copper acetate, a solvent, a protective agent, a complexing agent and a surfactant in a vessel in sequence, and stirring to obtain a mixture, wherein the protective agent is polyvinylpyrrolidone, polyvinyl alcohol, polyacrylic acid, or the like, the complexing agent is oleic acid, hexadecylamine, oleamide, or the like, and the surfactant is hexadecyl dimethyl ammonium bromide, sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate or the like; adding a reducing agent in the mixture for reacting, wherein the reducing agent is ascorbic acid, sodium formaldehyde sulphoxylate, sodium borohydride, or the like; cooling the reactant till the temperature is below 40 DEG C, then adding a precipitating agent, mixing, and centrifugally separating; then washing with the organic solvent, centrifugating, and extracting the precipitate; and then drying the precipitate to obtain red powder copper nanoparticles with different particle diameters.


We study the set of all strongly irregular points of a Brouwer homeomorphism which is embeddable in a flow. We prove that this set is equal to the first prolongational limit set of any flow containing . We also give a sufficient condition for a class of flows of Brouwer homeomorphisms to be topologically conjugate.


This article examines the U.S. Army's Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF) program from a scientific, ethical, and pragmatic viewpoint. CSF is one of the largest single applications of psychological research in history, intended to develop "resilience" in every U.S. Army soldier. I highlight several areas where the available information about the program either suggests the likelihood of specific problems, or is insufficient to allow the research community to evaluate the effectiveness of CSF independently of the claims made by its originators and assurances given by other non-disinterested parties. In particular, I question (a) whether a program based on resiliency training for school-aged children can hope to address the serious mental trauma, including PTSD, faced by soldiers deployed to war zones; (b) whether the instruments used to measure the performance of the program are reliable, valid, and appropriate for the circumstances in which they are being used, and (c) whether the design and delivery of the program takes sufficient account of the conflicting real-world demands placed on the individuals involved. I conclude that the program appears to have a number of potentially problematic aspects that require wider scrutiny from psychological researchers and practitioners. 1


The academic publication journal is an important carrier of achievement of academic research and study. It is, however, that the academic quality is a vital part of the learned journal. Only displaying the full role of the editor can ensure the academic quality of learned journals on the basis of abiding by the tactics of process "double-concealed name check" and "triple-check and approve system".


Since 1990 Indian banking mechanism is witnessing GoIs various reform oriented initiatives. Regulatory measures are being spruced up than ever to protect the banking client. Long ago people used to personally visit the branch for availing certain services and not now. More above are possible just through punching and clicking. Thanks to the digital initiatives taken by RBI and Bank Managements. Now anything and everything is possible as customer convenience is central to the digital initiatives about financial transactions. In such a changing milieu there is a necessity to introspect one's performance vis-a-vis others. As the market is divided between public sector and private a curiosity arises to gauge their performance. C-D Ratio, I-D Ratio, Number of bank offices, Deposit mobilization, No. of Employees, Business per Employee, Profit per Employee, RoA, NIM, Cost of Funds, Non-interest income are few variables considered for carrying out this study. Particularly, it aims to assess the progress of banking sector in India since its inception and understand how those select variables are affecting their bottom line and competitiveness? Whether Nationalized banks and Private banks differ significantly from each other or not? and who is to get the most share in the cake? Which banking variable determines their profitability at the most?. Population based study is conducted for the period of data concerning FY ending 2010 to 2015 about the subjects from RBI repository. Statistical tools revealed an alarming difference in Business per Employee was found between Nationalized banks & Private banks. Further in deposit mobilization private banks outweigh Nationalized banks.


In the system-level design of MPSoCs (Multi-Processor System-on-a-Chips), system designers start from describing functionalities of the system as processes and channels, and then decide mapping of them to various Processing Elements (PEs) including CPUs and dedicated hardware modules. A mapping decision is evaluated by simulation or FPGA-based prototyping. Designers iterate mapping and evaluation until all design requirements are met. We have developed two profilers, a process profiler and a memory profiler, for FPGA-based performance analysis of design candidates. The process profiler records a trace of process activations, while the memory profiler records a trace of channel accesses. According to mapping of processes to PEs, the profilers are automatically configured and instrumented into FPGA-based system prototypes by a system-level design tool that we have developed. Designers therefore need to manually modify neither the system description nor the profilers upon each change of process mapping. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of our profilers, a case study on MPEG4 decoder design was conducted.


OJSC "BELNIILIT" specialists have developed a method and an automatic device for monitoring and managing the quality of raw sand‑clay molding blend, which is based on the integrated control – compaction of the molding blend principles, measurement of humidity and strength in the raw state, measurement of temperature directly in the process of mixture preparation. The equipment is integrated into existing automated mixture preparation complexes manufactured by OJSC "BELNIILIT", it is possible to install on old design mixers.


The adenine base was liberated by the oxidative cleavage of the N-glycosidic bond of substrates (5'- and 3'-AMP, 5'- and 3'-dAMP) in the hemin-cumene hydroperoxide system, which was accelerated in the presence of 1-methylimidazole.


This paper proposes a move register circuit coordinated in-cell contact show boards that accomplishes low power activity, low coupling clamor, and high long haul dependability with eleven slight film transistors (TFTs) and two capacitors. A period division driving technique is used to keep the crosstalk of presentation signals into contact circuits, and two pre-charging hubs are utilized to alleviate the consistency corruption of yield signals brought about by various weights on draw up TFTs. The proposed circuit enacts a channel of the first pre-charging TFT just at showcase checking periods, which diminishes coupling clamors and power utilization. Moreover, an inward inverter is killed for contact detecting activities, bringing about a wide scope of edge voltage move pay and low power utilization. Flavor recreation results with a low temperature poly-silicon TFT demonstrate that the proposed circuit adjust for the edge voltage move up to 17 V. In a 60 Hz full-HD show with a 120 Hz contact detailing rate, the clamor dimension of the first pre-charging hub is 16.78 dB in the middle of 2.37 dB and 28.95 dB of two past circuits, and the all out power utilization for 160 phases is significantly diminished to 4.44 mW contrasted with past methodologies.


In this report, we investigated the antioxidant (peroxyl radical-scavenging and reducing capacities) and anti-osteoporotic activities of extracts and isolated constituents (1 - 16) from the rhizomes of Kaempferia parviflora Wall. ex Baker on pre-osteoclastic RAW 264.7 cells. Compound 5 exhibited significant peroxyl radicalscavenging capacity, with TE value of 8.47 ± 0.52 μM, while compound 13 showed significant reducing capacity, with CUPRAC value of 5.66 ± 0.26 μM, at 10.0 μM. In addition, flavonoid compounds 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and terpene compound 15 showed significant inhibition of tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP) in NF-κB ligand-induced osteoclastic RAW 264.7 cells, with values ranging from 16.97 ± 1.02 to 64.67 ± 2.76%. These results indicated that K. parviflora could be excellent sources for the antioxidant and anti-osteoporotic traditional medicinal plants.


The known range of the genus Triaenophorus in North America lies between 42°N. latitude (Indiana, U.S.A.), northward to 67°N. latitude (Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada), and from the lower St. Lawrence River northwesterly to Alaska. The southern limit of distribution of the genus appears to be closely related to the 70° July isotherm. An hypothesis of the origin and dispersal of the genus is given. From published records and personal communications, the genus is reported to occur in 32 species of fish.


Abstract: The position of the chairman of the foundation as the organizer of an educational institution requires the professionalism of the profession. This requires a new mechanism such as special education to become school principals. Therefore, the appointment of school principals, who have been based on long experience as teachers, should be equipped with special education for school principals. Panti Pamardi Siwi Ngrambe Vocational School is a top-level public education institution that plays a role in guiding the younger generation, especially to become servants who are able to carry out life's tasks in the world. the head of the foundation and the manager of general education, especially in these educational institutions, are responsible for the trust of parents to continue their unfinished education.  This study shows how the performance of the chairman of the Panti Pamardi Siwi Ngrambe Vocational School foundation has an effect on improving the performance of managers. The performance can be in the form of academic performance or non-academic performance. Academic performance is a performance related to the results of the evaluation of the principal, including the manager. Meanwhile, non-academic performance can be in the form of non-academic activities that are attended by the manager of Panti Pamardi Siwi Ngrambe Vocational School such as comparative studies, workshops and the like. Based on these efforts, the role of the foundation on the performance of the management of SMK Panti Pamardi Siwi 2 Ngrambe is currently quite satisfactory, both academic and non-academic.
Keywords: Panti Pamardi Siwi Vocational School 2 Ngrambe, Chair of the Foundation, and Education Manager.


There are a variety of occupational hazards around clinical nurses.Nurses must have strong skills and awareness of occupational prevention to guarantee the safety of their working environment.It is necessary to strengthen the occupational prevention education and training of student nurses during the school.


A new track-finding algorithm for use with the TOPAZ time projection chamber (TPC) has been developed. The logic not only finds the number of tracks, but also calculates their vertex positions. It takes care of the sector boundary crossing tracks. Test results for a prototype TPC trigger are reported. Vertex resolution of less than 10 cm (RMS) in the beam direction was achieved. >


Changes in the community size structure of Arctic copepods toward smaller and less fat individuals or species have been linked to environmental changes. The underpinning mechanisms are, however, poorly understood. We use a two‐step hurdle regression model to analyze spatially resolved, long‐term survey data of the Barents Sea mesozooplankton community along gradients of water mass properties, sea ice, and bottom depth. We test the hypothesis that reduced visual predation, and hence increased survival in dim habitats, explains the distribution of large copepods. We expect the presence and biomass of large copepods to increase with increasing bottom depth and the occurrence of seasonal ice‐cover. The patterns and drivers that emerge from our analysis support our hypothesis: in the Barents Sea large copepods were predominantly found in deep troughs that intersect the shelf south of the polar front, or at shallower depths in seasonally ice‐covered waters northeast of Svalbard. On the banks, large copepods are largely absent whereas smaller copepods appear to survive. Top‐down control provides one plausible explanation for these distributions. Large copepods survive where sea‐ice shades the water or deep habitats permit escape from visual predators through vertical migrations. However, when upwelled onto shallow banks or flushed out from below the ice they are decimated by visual foragers. Therefore, advection and topographic blockage of vertical zooplankton distributions are key mechanisms for the efficient energy transfer and productivity in subarctic and Arctic shelf seas. New prolific foraging grounds may open up for planktivores where the ice‐edge recedes under a changing climate.


As in all aspects of life and work, technology is making its presence felt with the introduction of electronic title in the Torrens system. Although the use of technology will provide greater access to information and faster registration, streamlining conveyancing, other issues arise. The effect on registration processes, conveyancing practice, the possibility of fraud and indefeasibility all need to be considered. This paper examines the practical and theoretical issues associated with the introduction of electronic title and greater reliance on computer information.


This paper explores wireless data technologies that can be used in wireless sensor networks. A method of choosing the wireless information transmission standard for short range networks is proposed in order to optimize the performance of the functional stability and also to analyze the benefits of processing, transmission, storage and usage of information by different information technologies that are used in wireless sensor networks. The basic characteristics of wireless sensor networks under the conditions of using different stacks of wireless data transmission protocols are investigated for a detection and estimation of observance of the property of functional stability. The wireless data standard selection method is focused on designing functionally stable communication networks.


AISI 4340 steel is an alloy steel of nickel, molybdenum, and chromium with medium carbon content. It is known for its high toughness and the ability of further enhancement in strength by applying heat treatment condition. It is used in aircraft landing gear, oil and gas drilling, automobile industry and general engineering industries to manufacture heavy duty gears, shafts, pins, spindles, couplings, chucks etc. As it is a hard to machine material so many researchers are taking keen interest to study the effects of different machining environments and machining aspects on the machining performance of 4340-grade steel. The present paper presents a comprehensive review on important aspects associated to machining of 4340 grade steel using different cooling environments and cutting tools. Experimental and theoretical observations for tool wear, surface roughness, tool life, residual stress, machining force and cutting temperature using different types of cutting inserts under distinguish cooling environments are also been discussed.


ABSTRACT Zeroing in on private garden plots, the article discusses the manner in which Germans portrayed themselves in relation to displaced persons (DPs) – former foreign workers, Allied prisoners-of-war (POWs), and concentration camp inmates – in immediate post-Second World War Hanover. Challenging the notion that a coherent narrative of German victimization truly emerged only in the 1950s, the article reveals how German gardeners already articulated loudly a discourse through which they sought to depict themselves as decent, hard-working sufferers, while portraying displaced persons as immoral and dangerous perpetrators. The plots of garden owners, as foci of German yearnings for Heimat, came particularly under threat. Germans cherished such sites, not only because they provided the opportunity for procuring additional sustenance amidst a post-war world of scarcity, but because they symbolized longings to inhabit a peaceful, productive, and beautiful space into which the most turbulent history could not enter, and upon which a stable future could be constructed. Only with the removal of DPs could Germans claim for themselves the status of victims, while branding DPs perpetrators, and reaffirm past patterns of superiority and inferiority in both ethical and racial terms. In so doing, Germans could realize the innocence integral for achieving Heimat and establish democratic stability after 1945.


Spaced-receiver observations of the 19·7 MHz radio emission from Jupiter during 1963 and 1964 demonstrate that many of the so-called bursts with quasiperiods of 1-10 sec are caused by the sweeping of an interplanetary diffraction pattern across the receiver by the motion of scattering irregularities in the solar wind. Measurements made on these scintillations include arrival time differences at spaced receivers, scintillation rate, angular position scintillation, and the width of the scattered angular power spectrum.


Traumatic amputation and lacerations of the auricle pose a special challenge to the facial plastic surgeon for several reasons. There is considerable variability in terms of injury location, severity, and etiology, all of which can affect the outcome of the patient's repair. Second, the complexity and visibility of the external ear anatomy creates a reconstructive challenge both in the immediate postinjury period and later, if a definitive reconstruction is necessary. Lastly, there are a multitude of reconstructive options with no gold standard technique showing consistent results. The auricle is susceptible to trauma due to its protrusion from the lateral aspect of the head, which increases its vulnerability to shearing injuries and lacerations. Injuries are most often caused by motor vehicle crashes, followed by fights, including human bites. 1 For the purposes of this article, we define auricular avulsion as loss of any portion or the entirety of the auricle, with no existing skin bridges or soft-tissue attachments to the head. The auricular anatomy is unique compared with any other structure in the body. The finely detailed architecture of the auricular cartilage creates the framework, but the ear relies on the perichondrium from its thin skin covering to provide its vascular supply. While the precise depressions and landmarks that define the anatomy of the auricle may be difficult for a layperson to describe, minor distortion can be perceived as disfig


The two civil wars experienced by Ivory Coast in a ten-year period have left a deep social and political division. With antagonisms exacerbated after the 2011 conflict, that confronted Laurent Gbagbo followers with Alassane Ouattara�s, the country tries to keep a level of equilibrium, as the beginning of the electoral process for the presidential term is getting closer in 2015. These will be decisive months, in which the small steps towards reconciliation will be measured. And all that before an important
international presence, headed by France and the United Nations� mission.


Limited studies have been conducted in understanding the mechanics of preflush stages in sandstone-acidizing processes. Among those conducted in this area, all efforts have been directed toward singular aqueous-phase scenarios. Encountering 100% water saturation (Sw) in the near-wellbore region is seldom the case because hydrocarbons at residual or higher saturations can exist. Carbonate-mineral dissolution, being the primary objective of the preflush stage, results in carbon dioxide (CO2) evolution. This can lead to a multiphase presence depending on the conditions in the porous medium, and this factor has been unaccounted for in previous studies under the assumption that all the evolved CO2 is dissolved in the surrounding solutions. The performance of a preflush stage changes in the presence of multiphase environments in the porous media.
 A detailed study is presented on the effects of evolved CO2 caused by carbonate-mineral dissolution, and its ensuing activity during the preflush stages in matrix acidizing of sandstone reservoirs. Four Carbon Tan Sandstone cores were used toward the purpose of this study, of which two were fully water saturated and the remaining two were brought to initial water saturation (Swi) and residual oil saturation to waterfloods (Sorw) before conducting preflush-stage experiments. The preflush-stage fluid, 15 wt% hydrochloric acid (HCl), was injected in the concerning cores while maintaining initial pore pressures of 1,200 psi and constant temperatures of 150°F.
 A three-phase-flow numerical-simulation model coupled with chemical-reaction and structure-property modeling features is used to validate the conducted preflush-stage coreflood experiments. Initially, the cores are scanned using computed tomography (CT) to accurately characterize the initial porosity distributions across the cores. The carbonate minerals present in the cores, namely calcite and dolomite, are quantified experimentally using X-ray diffraction (XRD). These measured porosity distributions and mineral concentrations are populated across the core-representative models. The coreflood effluents' calcium chloride and magnesium chloride, which are acid/carbonate-mineral-reaction products, as well as spent-HCl concentrations were measured. The pressure drop across the cores was logged during the tests. These parameters from all the conducted coreflood tests were used for history matching using the numerical model. The calibrated numerical model was then used to understand the physics involved in this complex subsurface process.
 In fully water-saturated cores, a major fraction of unreacted carbonate minerals still existed even after 40 pore volumes (PV) of preflush acid injection. Heterogeneity is induced as carbonate-mineral dissolution progresses within the core, creating paths of least resistance, leading to the preferential flow of the incoming fresh acid. This leads to regions of carbonate minerals being untouched during the preflush stimulation stage. A power-law trend, P = aQb, is observed between the stabilized pressure drops at each sequential acid-injection rate vs. the injection rates, where P is the pressure drop across the core, Q is the sequential flow rate, and a and b are constants, with b < 1. An ideal maximum injection rate can be deduced to optimize the preflush stage toward efficient carbonate-mineral dissolution in the damaged zone. An average of 25% recovery of the oil in place (OIP) was seen from preflush experiments conducted on cores with Sorw. In cores with Swi, the oil saturation was reduced during the preflush stage to a similar value as in the cores with Sorw. The oil-phase-viscosity reduction caused by CO2 dissolution in oil and the increase in saturation and permeability to the oil phase resulting from oil swelling by CO2 are inferred as the main mechanisms for any additional oil production beyond residual conditions during the preflush stage. The potential of evolved CO2, a byproduct of the sandstone-acidizing preflush stage, toward its contribution in swelling the surrounding oil, lowering its viscosity, and thus mobilizing the trapped oil has been depicted in this study.


The interest in High-frequency AC (HFAC) link converters has increased with the rise of renewable energies, the needed energy storage to complement energy production and electric vehicles. In this context, HFAC link converters have been proposed as an elegant multiport converter solution that allows connecting energy sources, energy storage, and electric vehicles with a single converter. The operating frequency at which the HFAC link will operate depends on the power to be transferred and the resonance time of this link. In this paper, three different methods for calculating the resonance time and their impact on the total frequency of the converter are investigated. By applying simplifications, this work demonstrates that accurate results are achievable while reducing the complexity of the calculation. Based on these simplifications, less complex analytical models of the converter can be derived.


Any person even vaguely conversant with contemporary European affairs knows how much "The German Question" still worries European elites. Contrary to all the public affirmations at various anniversaries that Europeans have committed World War II to memory, if not oblivion, one only needs to witness the passion in the reactions to Daniel Jonah Goldhangen's new book or listen to the worried voices of European officials (strictly off the record, to be sure) to realize that "The German Question" remains alive and well in Europe. Among the many books that have in one way or another once again made this question the focus of their attention, Richard L. Merritt's study merits particular praise on a number of counts: the meticulousness of the research, the elegance in language, the clarity of the presentation. Above all, however, the study deserves our attention because it poses perhaps the most fundamental questions pertaining to Europe's postwar order: specifically, Merritt asks how much, and to what extent, the Americans contributed to democracy's presence and eventual stability to a construct which—as the Federal Republic of Germany—has yet again emerged as Europe's leading power. In a period when the issue of systemic transfers has rightly become a major concern for political scientists, Merritt's study of the late 1940s attains theoretical relevance to contemporary problems such as, for example, the systemic transfer of West Germany's successful democratic institutions to the eastern parts of Germany, indeed to eastern Europe as well where the Federal Republic has assumed model-like characteristics in a number of key areas of politics and economics.


A flexible alligator forceps was developed as a new instrument for removal of heartworms in the pulmonary arteries without conducting thoracotomy. It was 570mm to 620mm in overall length, and 380mm to 430mm in length of the insertion part. The forceps measured 3mm in diameter, and was operated by flex-manipulation and grasping mechanisms. In 9 dogs, 81.1% (90/111 worms) to 100% (9/9 worms) of heartworms were removed from the pulmonary arteries after 4 to 33 manipulations. Injuries after treatment found at autopsy were only a few petechiae in the right atrium and/or tricuspid valve and scratches in the jugular vein.


The stability, in terms of minimum static energy, of axisymmetric annular liquid interfaces in axisymmetric containers is studied mathematically. The sufficiency of stability conditions based on the Jacobi accessory minimization problem with respect to volume conserving, "weak" perturbations is proved ·in two cases: Firstly, sufficient conditions for stability in the.general case of nonzero liquid-wall contact angle are considered. Secondly, the formal limit of these conditions, as the contact angle tends to zero is proved to be correct, provided that the curvatures of the unperturbed liquid-vapor inter face and the container wall are not equal at their contact lines.


In their article "Public Opinion on Cognitive Enhancement Varies Across Different Situations," Dinh et al. (2020) gave credence to the hypothesis that opinions about cognitive enhancement (CE) use ...


The download on the wing produced by the rotor wake of a tilt rotor vehicle in hover is of major concern because of its severe impact on payload-carrying capability. In a concerted effort to understand the fundamental fluid dynamics that cause this download, and to help find ways to reduce it, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is employed to study this problem. The thin-layer Navier-Stokes equations are used to describe the flow, and an implicit, finite difference numerical algorithm is the method of solution. The methodology is developed to analyze the tilt rotor flowfield. Included are discussions of computations of an airfoil and wing in freestream flows at -90 degrees, a rotor alone, and wing/rotor interaction in two and three dimensions. Preliminary results demonstrate the feasibility and great potential of the present approach. Recommendations are made for both near-term and far-term improvements to the method.


Interpolation Theory gives techniques for constructing spaces from two initial Banach spaces. We provide several conditions under which the restriction of a holomorphic map f : X0 +X1 → Y0 +Y1 to the interpolated spaces (using some specific interpolation methods), where f|X0 : X0 → Y0 is compact, is also compact and holomorphic.


This paper reports a study of Sphecidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) fauna of the Upper Kelkit Valley, one of the important natural areas of Turkey. In total, 316 adult sphecid specimens were collected by insect net from various habitats in Erzincan, Giresun, Gümüşhane and Sivas Provinces between 2015-2018. The specimens were stored in Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University Entomology Research Laboratory, Tokat, Turkey. Thirty-two taxa were identified. Of these, 12 species and subspecies are new records for the fauna of the study area, and Ammophila gussakovskii (Dollfuss, 2013) and Podalonia nigrohirta (Kohl, 1888) are recorded for the first time from Turkey. Currently, 34 species of five genera of Ammophilinae, 13 species and one subspecies of two genera of Sceliphrinae and 29 species and two subspecies of five genera of Sphecinae of Sphecidae, giving 76 species and three subspecies belonging to 12 genera, are known from Turkey. A distributional checklist of the Turkish Sphecidae is included.


Abstract We give sufficient conditions for the existence of almost periodic solutions of the secondorder differential equation u′′(t) = f (u(t)) + e(t) on a Hilbert space H, where the vector field f : H → H is monotone, continuous and the forcing term e : ℝ → H is almost periodic. Notably, we state a result of existence and uniqueness of the Besicovitch almost periodic solution, then we approximate this solution by a sequence of Bohr almost periodic solutions.


BACKGROUND
Palustrin-2CE2 and brevinin-2CE3 are antimicrobial peptides from Rana chensinensis. In R. chensinensis tadpoles, the expression of prepropalustrin-2CE2 and preprobrevinin-2CE3 increased with the developmental stage. In addition, the expression of the two genes was dramatically upregulated with stimulation by Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and the chemical lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The genomic organization of the two antimicrobial peptide genes was confirmed. Both prepropalustrin-2CE2 and preprobrevinin-2CE3 contain three exons separated by two large introns. Additionally, several presumed transcription factor binding sites were identified in the promoter sequence. Functional analysis of the promoter was performed using a luciferase reporter system, and further confirmed by yeast one-hybrid experiment and EMSA assay. The results indicated that the transcription factors NF-κB and RelA are involved in regulating the expression of prepropalustrin-2CE2 and preprobrevinin-2CE3. As amphibian populations decline globally, this study provides new data demonstrating how frogs defend against pathogens from the environment by regulating AMP expression. For amphibians, antimicrobial peptides are innate immune molecules that resist adverse external environmental stimuli. However, the regulation mechanism of antimicrobial peptide gene expression in frogs is still unclear.

OBJECTIVE
The two antimicrobial peptides, palustrin-2CE2 and brevinin-2CE3, are produced under external stimulation in Rana chensinensis. Using this model, we analyzed the gene structure and regulatory elements of the two antimicrobial peptide genes and explored the regulatory effects of related transcription factors on the two genes.

METHOD
Different stimuli such as E. coli, S. aureus, and chemical substance lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were applied to Rana chensinensis tadpoles at different developmental stages, and antimicrobial peptide expression levels were detected by RT-PCR. Bioinformatics analysis and 5'-RACE and genome walking technologies were employed to analyze the genome structure and promoter region of the antimicrobial peptide genes. With dual-luciferase reporter gene assays, yeast one-hybrid experiment and EMSA assays, we assessed the regulatory effect of the endogenous regulators of the cell on the antimicrobial peptide promoter.

RESULTS
The transcription levels of prepropalustrin-2CE2 and preprobrevinin-2CE3 were significantly upregulated after different stimulations. Genomic structure analysis showed that both genes contained three exons and two introns. Promoter analysis indicated that there are binding sites for regulatory factors of the NF-κB family in the promoter region, and experiments showed that endogenous NF-κB family regulatory factors in frog cells activate the promoters of the antimicrobial peptide genes. Yeast one-hybrid experiment and EMSA assay demonstrated that RelA and NF-κB1 might interact with specific motifs in the prepropalustrin-2CE2 promoter.

CONCLUSION
In this paper, we found that the gene expression levels of the antimicrobial peptides, palustrin-2CE2 and brevinin-2CE3, in R. chensinensis will increase under environmental stimuli, and we verified that the changes in gene expression levels are affected by the transcription factors RelA and NF-κB1. The yeast one-hybrid experiment and EMSA assay confirmed that RelA and NF-κB1 could directly interact with the frog antimicrobial peptide gene promoter, providing new data for the regulatory mechanism of antimicrobial peptides in response to environmental stimuli.


Abstract Air pollution has become a serious issue over the past few decades, and the transport sector is an important emission source. In this study, we model and simulate the dispersion of vehicle exhaust in a hypothetical city with a single central business district (CBD) in a complete day, deriving an average daily pollutant concentration, then use the distribution of wind direction over a year, to compute the distribution of average pollutant concentration in the city. All vehicles are assumed to be continuously distributed over the whole city, and the road network is relatively dense and can be approximated as a continuum. The model of Huang et al (2009, Transportation Research Part B, 43(1): 127–141) is used to describe the traffic flow that satisfies the reactive dynamic user equilibrium principle, and the pollution dispersion model is governed by the advection-diffusion equation. The complete model is composed of a coupled system of a conservation law, an eikonal equation and an advection-diffusion equation. The problem is solved by the efficient fifth-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory scheme for the conservation equation and the advection-diffusion equation, and the fast sweeping method for the eikonal equation with third order total variation diminishing (TVD) Runge-Kutta time discretization. The numerical results show a reasonable temporal and spatial distribution of vehicle density and pollution concentration.


This paper draws the career of an English merchant settled in Madrid at the beginning of 1630's who, at the middle of the following decade, had become banker of Philip IV. Suddenly interrupted his career due to the bankrupt of October 1647, Benjamin Wright proved to be a tenacious man during the rest his life in Spain. The reconstruction of his businesses
has been made on the basis of primary sources from different archives (notably Archivo Historico de Protocolos Notariales de Madrid and Archivo General de Simancas). These sources have allowed us to appreciate for first time with a certain degree of clarity into the complex world of the Spanish royal finances, the existing differences between the amounts of money Benjamin agreed to lend the king, and the money that was actually transferred to its final destination. Also the differences between the money Benjamin lent and the amounts he actually recovered. Along the paper, Microhistory and Economic and Social History often meet, and this produces a paradigmatic example of ascending social mobility in Seventeenth Century Spain.


BMY 1992;304:489-91 birthweight at term in the rural Tanzanian village of Ihula. BrJ Obstet Gynaecol 1989;96: 158-66. 14 Seidman DS, Ever-hadani P, Gale R. The effect of maternal weight gain in pregnancy on birthweight. Obstet Gynecol 1989;74:240-6. 15 Dawes MG, Grudzinskas JG. Patterns of maternal weight gain in pregnancy. BrJ Obstet Gynaecol 1991:98:195-201. 16 Altman DG, Hytten FE. Assessment of fetal size and fetal growth. In: Chalmers I, Enkin M, Keirse MJNC, eds. Effective care in pregnancy and childbirth. Vol 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989:411-8. 17 Newcombe RG. Development of obesity in parous women. J Epidemiol Community Health 1982;36:306-9. 18 Greene GW, Smiciklas-Wright H, Scholl TO, Karp RJ. Postpartum weight change: how much weight gained in pregnancy will be lost after delivery? Obstet Gynecol 1988;71:702-7. 19 Samra JS, Tang LCH, Obhrai MS. Changes in body weight between successive pregnancies. Lancet 1988;ii: 1420-1. 20 Rookus MA, Rokebrand P, Burema J, Deurenberg P. The effect of pregnancy on the body mass index 9 months post partum in 49 women. IntJI Obesity 1987;11:609-18. 21 BillewiczNZ,ThomsonAM. Body weight in parous women. BrJPrevSocMed 1970;24:97-104. 22 Cederlof R, Kaij L. The effect of childbearing on body-weight. A twin control study. Acta Psychiatrica Scand 1970;219 (suppl):47-9. 23 Taffel SM, Keppel KG. Advice about weight gain during pregnancy and actual weight gain. AmJ Public Health 1986;76:1396-9. 24 Palmer JL, Jennings GE, Massey L. Development of an assessment form. Attitude towards weight gain during pregnancy. J7 Am Diet Assoc 1985;85: 946-9. 25 Orr RD, Simmons JJ. Nutritional care in pregnancy. The patient's view. 1. Amount, type and sources of dietary advice and treatment. J Am Diet Assoc 1979;75: 126-31. 26 Hytten FE. Restriction of weight gain in pregnancy: is it justified? Journal of Human Nutrition 1979;33:461-3. 27 Campbell DM. Dietary restriction in obesity and its effect on neonatal outcome. In: Campbell DM, Gillmer MDG, eds. Nutrition in pregnancy. Proceedings of the tenth study group of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. London: RCOG, 1983:243-50. 28 Maclntyre S. The management of food in pregnancy. In: Murcott A, ed. The sociology of food and eating: essays on the sociological significance of food. Aldershot: Gower, 1983:57-72. 29 Hytten FE. Weight gain in pregnancy. In: Hytten FE, Chamberlain G. Clinical physiology in obstetrics. Oxford: Blackwell, 1980:193-233.


The broad area of education and social policy invites a wide range of scholarly research, analysis, exploration, and subjective pontification. In reviewing the area, we attempted to exclude only the last type of materials. The research on equality of educational opportunity is reviewed first, followed by materials relevant to church-school relations, federal aid to education, and international education. The concluding section includes studies of the public views of educators as well as matters related to academic freedom.


On the basis of the Clinic of Research Center of RAMS PRSRCH correction in the physical therapy rehabilitation capsule, along with traditional treatment were conducted in 30 adolescents with metabolic syndrome aged from 12 to 17 years (average age 15,0  0,3), among them there were 19 girls and 11 boys. Th e treatment signifi cantly decreased blood pressure and weight, regression of complaints.


Adequately designed and positioned surface textures are recognized as a promising way to increase load-carrying capacity and reduce frictional losses of journal bearings. The aim of this work is to analyze the local lubrication mechanisms of textures in journal bearings from microflow perspective, while considering the interactions between textures and the film formation in the whole bearing. For this purpose, hydrodynamic lubrication models of textured journal bearings are built. The results show that placing textures downstream of the high-pressure region leads to a reduced friction force, with a less severe loss of load-carrying capacity. The effects of textures on the load-carrying capacity include the positive micro-hydrodynamic pressure effect and the negative effect caused by the discontinuity of the high-pressure region. The micro-hydrodynamic pressure of textures can be generated on one hand by limiting pressure drop (cavitation) in the divergent gap and on the other hand by the inertia effect. For the friction, the vortex inside textures affects the friction force by influencing the maximum shear stress at the minimum oil film. In turn the vortex is influenced by the bearing lubrication film. The research provides the fundamental reference and theoretical basis for the design and optimization of textured journal bearings.


The mathematical model of ultrafiltration of the solution of high-molecular compound (HMC) is proposed. The model considers the change of gel formation point location as a result of membrane productivity falling owing to membrane surface pollution by formed gel. It has been revealed that the displacement of gel formation point produces gradual stoppage of pollution and stabilization of filtration process.


Refrigerated vehicles can not be neglected in cold chain. The research status of cool storage technology used in refrigerated vehicles was summarized, the advantage and deficiency of hydrated crystalline salt storage and organic matter storage were compared and analyzed. Moreover, the thermal performance of a new phase change material (PCM) including melting point and undercooling during the phase change process was investigated by step cool method, and the new PCM for A level refrigerated vehicles was prepared. The results show that melting latent heat of the cool storage material is 249kJ/kg, phase change temperature is −6.9°C, undercooling is 0.9°C, the material can be considered as an efficient cool storage material for refrigerated vehicles.


Background The positive psychology focuses on the improvement of well-being. A high degree of well-being can entail many positive aspects, such as better health, recovery from illness and a longer life. The Happiness Route is a positive psychological intervention with the aim of increasing the welfare of socially isolated people with health problems and low socio-economic status.
Objective This study focuses on the experiences of participants of the Happiness Route. It examines how the lives of the participants looked before participation in the Route Happiness, what important moments were during participation and what changes are noticed after participation. In addition, we look at the strengths and weaknesses of the intervention, according to participants.
Method In this study, ten female participants who have completed the Happiness Route, have been interviewed with semi-structured interviews, about their experiences with the Happiness Route.
Results Life before participation in the Happiness Route is described in terms of problems. After participating in the Happiness Route, positive changes were observed. Six strengths and four improvements have been appointed. The strengths are: use of a consultant, 'nudging', personal contribution, the activity provides distraction and the design. The improvements are about the questionnaires, the temporality, can't continue the activity and miscommunication.
Discussion The results of this study confirm what previous pilot studies showed. Participation in the Happiness Route delivers positive effects for participants, such as more social contacts and more self-esteem. The Happiness Route can be improved by paying more attention to finding an activity that can be continued without a budget. With new positive psychological interventions, it is advisable to use a consultant, to personally approach the participants and to give them room for personal initiative.


Within youth soccer high training and match loads warrant appropriate nutritional attention, although research assessing the nutritional intake and habits of youth soccer players is scarce. This thesis aimed to investigate habits and explore experiences of dietary intake methods in an English Premier League youth academy. Study one (Chapter 4) quantified the energy, macro and micronutrient intake of players from age groups under (U) 13 to U18 (7-day food diary, n = 59). Results showed players across all ages were in energy deficit, with low carbohydrate intake, and a large individual variability for micronutrient intake in comparison to current recommendations. However, under-reporting may have influenced these results. Study two (Chapter 5), a qualitative approach, explored nutritional habits (n = 15) with study one participants using one-on-one interviews. The U15 – U18s players consciously periodise their carbohydrate intake throughout the week; U18s stated this was to aid body composition. When discussing their participation in the previous food diary study, U18s expressed that a quicker, more user-friendly method would be desirable. The third study (Chapter 6), therefore, assessed the use of smartphone technology to record dietary intake. Fulltime youth soccer players (n = 22) recorded their dietary intake on a single training day, using a smartphone application and a photography method respectively compared to 24-hr recall. The 24-hr recall provided significantly higher energy and macronutrient intake in comparison to the smartphone methods. This data suggests smartphone technology was more effective in tandem with 24-hr recall. To conclude, youth soccer players are in dietary energy and carbohydrate deficit, with variable micronutrient intake when compared to current recommendations and traditional 24-hr recall is recommend if using smartphone technology. Further research for the accurate quantification of dietary intake and energy demands is required. Dietary advice provision for youth soccer to reach current nutritional recommendations is warranted.


Cylindro-conical vessels are widely used for the fermentation of ales and lagers. These fermentors have the advantage of shorter fermentation times and they provide that measure of flexibility so necessary in breweries which produce a number of brands. It is usual to use a bottom-cropping strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae as this results in easier yeast cropping, lower losses of bitterness and enhanced foam stabilities. Cylindro-conical vessels are not the cheapest of available fermentors but they allow the brewer to take maximum advantage of advances in technology.

The fast rate of fermentation in cylindro-conical vessels can lead to the practical difficulty of controlling foam formation. However, by optimizing temperature, α-amino nitrogen concentration, yeast concentration, pressure and dissolved oxygen level the rate of fermentation and formation of foam can be controlled. The ability to control foam height allows vessel contents to be increased. The foregoing applies to both normal gravity and high gravity fermentations in which fermentation times and yeast growth values can be brought within the same ranges.


Participants arrive at the laboratory in dyads. The experimenter needs to verify that the dyad members are unacquainted. The experimenter places each dyad in a room and seats the two participants across from each other. The experimenter informs members of each dyad that they will not interact or even see each other at the conclusion of the experiment. Participants are told that they will engage in a communication task, and they receive the following instructions:


THE EXPLOSION, AND ITS IMMEDIATEEFFBCTS. The explosion, in. the opinion of the mining experts who igave evidence at the inquest, arose. from shot-firing at the stone marked in the plan. This shot-firing ignited -coal dust, and produced the explosion.* The zone of explosion extended from about 100 yards -inbye of the stone to the pit mouth. The air-bridge carrying the return air across the intake -was destroyed, and all the doors between the intalke and -returm air-ways from this point to the shafts were broken -down. The ventilation of the pit was thu ashort-circuited, and the fan, which remained undamaged, at first simply -drew the air from one shaft to the other. The downcast 'shaft was damaged and not repaired until 11.30 a-m. The positions in which the bodies were found are shown in the plan. An attempt will be made to ascertain as far as ?possible the exact position of each of the men at the time -of the explosion and to trace their subseqtient movements. Nos. 1 and 2, who were brought up alive, say they were -sitting down a few yards from the downcast shaft, when -they were hurled into the shaft, and Jones (No. 2) was ,inned under the cage. Tovey (1) was found in a dazed condition, unable to caove or speak. (I was able later on to diagnose fracture -of the base of the skull.) His right hand was badly .crushed-three metacarpals were broken. The left side of tis face was scorched, and his hair was singed. Fine coal -dust had been driven into his face and bead. Jones (2). General bruising and simple fracture of both lbones of the right leg. He remained conscious throughout. Both these men had a good supply of air and showed no oymptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning. Wm. Cleavy (3). This man was stooping down fifteen ; ards from the shaft when the "blast " came. "I was knocked down, but was able to get up and go to the bottom of the shaft. I could not help the two men there, so went back to look for more help. I got lost in one of ,the passages between intake and return, and decided to stop where I was." He was found here by the first rescue party. His face and hair were slightly scorched, but he -sustained no other injurys Bodies 1-9 were found in a recess in which it was the usual custom of men to wait before going out. The men were all colliers and dressed. In all probability these six zmen were sitting down waiting to go out. The bodies all lay with. their heads towards the return, and presented more sign of violence than any of the others. All the -exposed parts-face and hands-were scorched. W. Brown (4) was-found lying under a fall. The top of 'iis head was completely crushed. The face was covered witb fine coal dust driven in; when this dust was removed all the signs of carbon maonoxide poisoning were -#een. Th% face and hands were scorched. Browa, could not have breathed after the stone had lallen oA to his head. He showed as well-marked signs -of carbon monoxide poisoning as any of the other bodies. The fall must, tlien, h*ve been delayed for some time after >*he explosion. I visited the place afterwards with Mr. W. N. Atkinson, EH.M. Inspector, and he was able to say, from tbe clean -surface of the fracture left by. the fall, that the stone had come down some time after the explosion. Jaqne8 Weeks (5). Left side of fsce crushed; malar and *inferior maxilla,bones-fractured; face and hands scorched; 'well-marked.signs of, carbon monoxide poisoning, from the ,effects of whicl he, died; * For details see the report by Messrs. W. N. Atkinson and F. A. Gray. s Majesty's.nswpectorsof Mines.' Upeast shaft Downcast shaft f


Aerospace and automotive industries dedicate a special attention to the developments of TiAl alloys, especially to those contributing to the advance toward structural application [1]. Joining technology will be required in nearly all applications of these alloys, processes that balance performance and cost need to be establish. The bonding of these alloys is very difficult due to their high reactivity and tendency to form brittle intermetallic phases. Several techniques are reported in literature to join TiAl [2]. Nevertheless diffusion bonding is the most promising technique as avoids hot cracking, the main problem of fusion welding process [3]. To diffusion bond TiAl alloys with less demanding conditions, the authors use an alternative approach that consist in the deposition of NiAl multilayers on the joining interfaces that modifies the interface, improving the diffusivity and reactivity by promoting nanocrystallinity and increasing the number of interfaces [4]. In this study, the characterization of the TiAl diffusion bonds assisted by NiAl multilayers was performed by scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), highresolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and analyzed by energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS). NiAl multilayers with a total thickness of 2.5 μm and a bilayer thickness of 14 nm were deposited by dc magnetron sputtering on TiAl surfaces. The bonds were produced at 900 oC during 60 minutes under a pressure of 5 MPa in vacuum. The diffusion bonding procedure and apparatus is described elsewhere [4]. AlNiTi and Al2NiTi intermetallics are identified in an interdiffusion area, Zone 1, and grow perpendicular to the interface as columnar grains, in the diffusion flux direction, with an average grain size of 534 ± 320 (Fig. 1 (a) and (b)). At the centre of the interface Ni and Al nanolayers transform into B2-NiAl equiaxed grains with an average size of 450 ± 254 nm. The transition between these two zones, Zone 2, shows nanometric B2-NiAl grains (114 ± 76 nm). HRTEM images and correspond FFT (Fig. 2) and EELS analyses revealed that nanometric Ti aligned grains compose the bonding line; these grains are probably the result of Ti segregation during cooling from the bonding temperature.


The ability to understand speech spoken by diverse speakers under a wide range of acoustic environmental conditions presents a central challenge to current theories of speech perception. Reverberation, background noise, and speaker variation all contribute to the heterogeneous acoustic realization of phonetic information from which listeners routinely derive linguistic information. Representations based on the detailed spectro‐temporal properties of speech (e.g., the sound spectrogram) are not sufficiently stable under such conditions as to provide a reasonable account of the processes by which the brain decodes spoken language. A new representational format for visualizing speech, based on the distribution of the modulation spectrum below 16 Hz (and which emphasizes modulation frequencies centered around 4 Hz) across critical‐bandlike channels, provides a high degree of stability under reverberant and low signal‐to‐noise‐ratio conditions. This modulation‐based representation appears to capture many essen...


A convex Frechet differentiable function is minimized subject to a certain hyperplane at a point if the function is minimized in all directions which are defined by a finite set of vectors. The proposed approach is different from the Lagrange multiplier approach. At the end of this paper, a linear program is formulated to solve the case when the above given convex function is quadratic.


The invention relates to a field effect transistor and a preparing method thereof. A grid electrode groove is formed by removing a virtual grid electrode and a grid oxidation layer below the virtual grid electrode, and a first silicon germanium layer is prepared at the bottom of the grid electrode groove; then, the quick thermal oxidation technology is conducted to partially convert a silicon substrate at the bottom of the grid electrode groove into a second silicon germanium layer, a local high migration rate channel is formed, and meanwhile the first silicon germanium layer is transformed into a silicon dioxide layer which can serve as the grid oxidation layer. The method for forming the local high migration rate channel is simple and practicable in technology, the production cost is lowered while the performance of a device is improved, and the method can be applied to the preparing technology of plane MOSFET or FinFET or TFET.


Aiming at the transient signal in the electric cable state examination,which is difficult to handle,application of the wavelet toolbox function is proposed.According to the voltage signal singularity produced by the fault signal,determine the location where the fault signal appears.Through the method of low frequency alternating voltage superimposition,the voltage signal produced in insulation branch deterioration is analyzed by the wavelet function.The test result indicates that the method can exactly determine the duration when the fault signal appears and judge the deterioration degree of cable insulation.Comparing with the traditional method,the characteristics of the wavelet band pass filter is applied to reduce the loss of the signal and simplify the hardware circuit of the test system.It is easy to realize and the results of test analysis is effective.


A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of magnesium and organic manures on yield and nutrient uptake of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) between 28th Aug 2019 and Jan 2020 in a farmer's field located at Achchandavilthan village of Srivillipudhur block, Virudhunager district, Tamil nadu. This experiment comprised of fifteen treatment with three replication involving magnesium in combination with organics.The results revealed that the application of MgSO4 at the rate of 50 kg ha-1 along with 250 kg vermicompost for 30 days (1:5 ratio) at critical stages of crop growth along with the Soil Test Crop Response (STCR) based N,P2O5 and K2O registered maximum nutrient uptake of major nutrients Nitrogen (14.25, 23.60 and 43.50 kg ha-1), Phosphorus (6.25,7.80 and 10.34 kg ha-1), Potassium (20.35, 34.50 and 47.45 kg ha-1) 40,70 DAS and harvest stage, secondary nutrient like Calcium(20.54, 33.21 and 69.21 kg ha-1), Magnesium (4.65, 5.75 and 10.50 kg ha-1) 40, 70 Day after sowing (DAS) and harvest stage and micro nutrient Iron (1185.6, 1975.6 and 4865.2 325.80g ha-1), Manganese (380.5, 530.2 and 792.3 325.80 ), Zinc (90.65, 155.72 and 325.60 325.80 ), and Cupper (90.62, 155.70 and 325.80 325.80 ) 40, 70 DAS and harvest stage of crop growth.


LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.
《玉燭寶典》是杜臺卿所撰作的民俗類類書,其中包含有杜臺卿自創的音注材料。長期以來這部分材料未得到學界重視,但通過對其進行爬梳,我們可以發現杜臺卿的語音特點。將這種語音特點與代表六世紀文學語言系統的《切韻》音系予以比較,尋找到其間的異同,進而可以看出杜臺卿時代的方言語音差異。
A Precious Canon of the Jade Candle (Yuzhu baodian), an encyclopedia of local customs compiled by Du Taiqing (6th c.), contains material from the pronunciation glossing system created by Du himself. This material, however, has long remained unheeded in relevant scholarship. In fact, an analysis will yield hints to reconstruct some characteristics of Du's phonetic system. These characteristics may be compared with the phonetic system of the Qieyun, which represents the literary language system of the sixth century, to show the similarities and differences between them. With these findings, one may see the phonetic differences of dialects in Du's time.


No musician did more to shape Iberian jazz than pianist Vicenç Montoliu i Massana (1933–1997), who was known simply as "Tete." Reflecting his fascination with the modernist aesthetics of mid-century jazz, Tete Montoliu was known for his quick fingering, his carefully crafted mix of lyricism and dissonance, his penchant for discordant crashes, and his development of highly original compositions. He boasted some 100 recordings spanning Denmark, Germany, Holland, Spain, and the United States, and performed with the most notable jazz luminaries, including Lionel Hampton, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Dexter Gordon, and Archie Shepp. Acknowledging and drawing musical inspiration from the Black American jazz form, Tete fashioned an adjacent critical space shaped by his experiences as a Catalan and a person with congenital visual impairment living under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Beyond Sketches of Spain: Tete Montoliu and the Construction of Iberian Jazz explores the artist's life, musical production, and international reception within a cultural studies framework. This book moves beyond mere sketches of Spanish nationhood to challenge conventional scholarly narratives and recover links between the United States, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, and Europe in the investigation of an impressive and often overlooked transnational modern jazz legacy. Eschewing Theodore Adorno's denigration of Black American jazz, a more compelling model is found in Fumi Okiji's notion of gathering in difference. In this work, Benjamin Fraser deftly mixes musical biography with urban history, spatial theory, and disability studies, fashioning a highly readable text for readers from all disciplines.


Change detection is one of the hot issues related to world observation and has been extensively studied in recent decades. The application of remote sensing technology provides inputs to systems for urban change detection primarily focus on the urban data user environment. Urban change detection refers to the general problem of monitoring the urban system and discerning changes that are occurring within that system that use to urban planners, managers, and researchers. Current methods based on a simple mechanism for independently encoding bi-temporal images to get their representation vectors. In fact, these methods do not make full use of the rich information between bi-temporal images. We propose to combine deep learning methods such as Convolutional Neural Network (U-Net) for feature extraction and Recurrent Neural Network (BiLSTM) temporal modeling. Our developed model while the validation phase gets 97.418% overall accuracy on the Onera Satellite Change Detection (OSCD) Sentinel-2 bi-temporal dataset.


We examine Okun's Law on the basis of new growth perspectives and in the context of the WWWForEurope project. By comparing Okun's work from 1962 with the latest IMF and OECD surveys, a connection is set up and Okun's theoretical framework is updated and its persistence is examined. In addition, the implicit logic of Okun's Law is stressed, and literature is reviewed from this point of view as well. Furthermore, the main implicit component of Okun's Law – productivity – is taken into account when discussing its breakdown in the WWWForEurope context. After applying the "difference method", we derive the conclusion that the Okun coefficients and intercepts vary substantially between countries.


Abstract : The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) is proposing to install a new fiber optic line to provide the required redundancy to the base s communication system from Building 8130 in the Service and Supply Area to the south electrical substation off Park Drive. The fiber optic line will be placed in a shallow trench excavated within the mow track or dirt roadway edge and along the New Santa Fe Trail corridor. All spoils from the trench will be stockpiled on the trail or road for backfilling the excavation. The crossing of Monument Creek will be accomplished by routing the fiber optic cable through a conduit attached to the footbridge. This will eliminate impacts to wetlands, floodplains, and Preble s Meadow Jumping Mouse habitat.


A combined fast RSA algorithm and its realization are described in detail in this paper, which is the combination of the improved algorithm of symmetry of modulo multiplication(SMM) and the recursive sums of residues(RSR). A digital signature scheme based on the combined fast RSA algorithm is proposed.


Chopin is a great Polish composer and pianist. His works has his own particular styles and charms. Vivid characteristics appear in his creating methode and in his feeling of life. At the same time, he is also a patriotic copser. In his works, there os a strong national feeling. He is the only composer and pianist whose creation comes from life,and that is the charms root of Chopin piano muaic.


 The paper is supported by RFBR grant 12-01-31417 Annotation. The paper describes the experience of using software emulators as a means of dynamic analysis of binary code tools. Emulator is considered as tracer of machine commands layer and as interactive debugging tool. It describes a mechanism of deterministic replay implemented in emulator QEMU. Deterministic replay is a process of recovery of program execution using a pre-recorded input. To replay process of program execution in virtual machine recording of all nondeterministic events to journal was implemented. Such events are indications of real time clock, messages from keyboard, mouse, sound and network cards. Currently the deterministic replay mechanism works in a modified version of QEMU 1.5 and supports x86 and ARM platforms. To solve the problems of binary code analysis tracing is used, but it slows down the system, so it is easier to do with deterministic replay. Trace is a sequence of executed instructions and processor state (including register values). Each group "executed instruction - values of registers" is called a trace step. Currently tracing is implemented for x86 and ARM platforms. Trace does not contain information about the read and written memory, so logging of hard disk drive accesses implemented.


An overview of the legal obligation of including certain information in contracts is the first objective of this study. Explored in the first and second parts of this study respectively are the legal domain and legal systems which concern the contract and the obligation for information. The value of a reference to the contract in question has been particularly highlighted in that it is necessary to determine the content and scope of the legal obligation with regard to information. The contract appears not only as a decision in which useful and agreed upon information is contained, but in addition, and above all, a space that modulates the obligation for information in the concreteness of its sturcutre. Concerning the influence of the legal system on the contract with regards to the obligation for information, one needs to underscore that the expression of the chronological order that links the obligation for information to the contract implies directly for a reevaluation of the distinction between the precontractual obligation and the contractual obligation for information.


Escherichia coli (E.coli) is a common bacteria that colonizes digestive truck of many organisms including humans and is important source of Vitamin K and B12. However, numerous strains of E.coli are pathogenic and cause severe infections and alimentary toxemia. The main source of E.coli infections is water. That is why monitoring the purity of water sources is extremely important for public health. Commonly used methods for E.coli detection are time-consuming. Noticeably faster and more sensitive method for E.coli detection is a PCR where even small copies of E.coli genome might be detected. Present study describe the preliminary results dedicated to E.coli detection by PCR.


General Electric Company, USA, and the Societe Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation (SNECMA), France, have formed a joint company to develop a "ten ton" high bypass turbofan engine for the commercial and military markets that are expected to exist in the late 1970's and the 1980's. Overall program management, marketing, engineering, production, and product support are elements that have been defined to make this program workable. This paper deals with the management of the engineering aspects of the development program and describes the division of responsibilities, interface definition and control, integration and communications, requirements and security aspects of the program. The program was started in 1971 and preliminary design activities were conducted for several years. Hardware design and development started in 1973 and now four engines are on test, two in the United States and two in France. Experience to date indicates that barriers of distance and language are being overcome and that this type of program can be successful.Copyright © 1976 by ASME


Background: IKK-2 activity is essential for cytokine mediated NFκB activation and subsequent expression of a wide variety of inflammatory genes. To investigate the role of IKK-2 signalling in lung epithelium we have developed a knock out mouse in which we have specifically deleted the IKK-2 gene in lung epithelial cells.
Materials and Methods: IKK-2 KO mice and littermate control animals were challenged with either nebulised Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or with Cigarette Smoke Extract (CSE). Cytokines and inflammatory cells were assessed in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid (BALF) and tissue inflammatory cells, markers of apoptosis and general pathology assessed histologically.
Results: BALF neutrophils were reduced by 63% at 4 hours and 67% at 8 hours following LPS challenge in the IKK-2 KO animals (P<0.001). Immunocytochemical analysis showed no difference in neutrophil numbers within pulmonary tissue between the groups or any evidence of increased apoptosis. BALF neutrophils were also reduced below control values in the IKK-2 KO mice in response to CSE compared to littermates animals (P<0.005).
Conclusion: Mice lacking IKK-2 in the pulmonary epithelium recruit fewer neutrophils into the airways in response to both LPS and CSE challenge, suggesting that the epithelium participates in airway inflammatory neutrophil recruitment in response to inflammatory challenge.


In many important political problems, citizens can directly participate in the political decision making through a referendum. These settings are often characterized by uncertainty over the future consequences of the decision, the possibility of learning about these over time, and the irreversibility of the decision once it has been made. In our model, a politician who may be biased (relative to the median voter) chooses the timing of the referendum. We analyze how the optimal timing decision depends on the political environment and the bias of the politician. We show that the power to schedule a referendum allows both positively and negatively biased politicians to implement decisions different from those preferred by the median voter.


The invention discloses a method for preparing iminodibenzyl. In the method, phosphoric acid is added into 2,2,-diamido-bibenzyl to form salt, and the salt is subjected to cyclization reaction to prepare the iminodibenzyl. The method is characterized in that after the phosphoric acid is separated from a product formed by the cyclization reaction of the 2,2,-diamido-bibenzyl, nitrogen is introduced to perform reduced pressure distillation, and the distilled iminodibenzyl is collected by a cyclone separator. The method for preparing the iminodibenzyl comprises the following steps of: adding the phosphoric acid into the 2,2,-diamido-bibenzyl to form the salt, performing the cyclization reaction to obtain iminodibenzyl, introducing the nitrogen directly, distilling under reduced pressure, and collecting the iminodibenzyl by the cyclone separator, wherein the product formed by the cyclization reaction is subjected to the steps of elutriation, recrystallization and the like. The method has a simple process, the yield of the product is improved, and the purity of the iminodibenzyl is over 99.0 percent.


Poster: "ECR 2011 / C-2077 / The Influence of Core Biopsy on the Assessment of Tumor Size in Preoperative Breast MRI" by: "K. E. Pengel1, C. Loo1, J. Wesseling1, K. Gilhuijs2; 1Amsterdam/NL, 2Utrecht/NL"


The author considers that innovation is urgent and necessary for every comany.Some ideas and method have been discussed in the paper.


In this article, Loukia Sarroub explores the relationships between Yemeni American high school girls and their land of origin. She also illustrates the tensions that often arise between immigrant students' lives and the goals of U.S. public schooling. Sarroub begins by providing historical background on Yemeni and Arab culture and international migration. Then, drawing upon a larger ethnographic study set in the Detroit, Michigan, area, she presents a case study of one girl's experiences in the contexts of home, school, and community in both the United States and Yemen. Throughout the study, Sarroub makes thematic comparisons to the experiences of five other Yemeni American high school girls. She uses the notion of the "sojourner" to highlight the fact that many Yemenis "remain isolated from various aspects of American life while maintaining ties to their homeland." Sarroub describes the relationships between Yemen and the United States as social and physical "spaces" from which high school girls' network...


In order to investigate the properties of soil adsorption complex (SAC) in the main soils of Ukraine, the interrelation of different parameters was determined through the multiple correlation-regression analysis. We revealed the input of variability in physicochemical characteristics of SAC to the variability in the equilibrium bulk density p of soils. A nonlinear multiple regression model of interdependence between the properties of SAC and the equilibrium bulk density was obtained from the analysis of the available statistical sample.


Abstract : The study aims include investigating specific mechanisms of adverse effects related to RBC storage age in critically ill patients. IRB approvals for the clinical sites participating in this study have been approved, and patient enrollment began in March 2011. Thus far, we have enrolled 37 patients, from whom samples have been collected, processed, shipped from Canada to San Francisco. We have begun HLA typing and this has been completed for 10 patients Day 0 samples so far. As there were delays in initiation of collecting patient samples, we have not begun coagulation and microparticle testing on the patient samples yet. Optimization work for the microparticle studies have built on related NIH-funded studies of in vitro properties of microparticles, refining the list of activation markers to be tested. The tests of patient samples will be performed in batches once enough samples have been obtained to minimize batch-to-batch variability in the testing results.


Computational Intelligence Machine Learning (CIML) is a mature discipline with a wide range of potential applications. Many state-of-the-art methods developed in CIML, however, remain unused outside the relatively small groups of researchers in which they originate. This can be attributed to lack of communication between disciplines, difficulty of use, availability, and limited understanding of CIML among members of other communities. Healthcare is a discipline that may particularly benefit from using CIML methods because of its complexity and significance. An effective methodology for collaboration between CIML and healthcare communities would create a beneficial opportunity for both sides. One possible methodology, based on automated advising, is described here in the context of the Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning Virtual Community. The community's main objectives are to unite efforts in the field, provide resources for researchers, educators, and the general public as well as reach out to other disciplines.


Self-concept has a topic of interest of many disciples such as theologians, philosophers, political scientists. James (1890) and Baldwin (1895) have analyzed the self in terms of its constituent parts such as traits, characteristics, aspirations etc. Self-concept, according to Guilford (1966), is not an inherited quality rather it is formed as a result of an individual's experience and interaction with his environment. It is a well accepted fact that every human being is an individual with his/her own unique characteristics and ways of responding and behaving. There are various ways of responding and behaving. It can be either positive or negative, can make one's life a happy one or a miserable, can make one a successful person or a failure. These facts are true for every individual in every sphere of life (Singh, 2009). The arena of sports has provided to man abundant opportunities to display his/her inherent desire to excel (Kaur, 2008). Edward and Marium (1967) have pointed out the experience of being challenged to the limits Abstract


The metal-ion uptake behavior of the chelating resin poly([(3-(methacryloylamino)propyl] trimethyl ammonium chloride-co-4-vinyl pyridine) has been investigated. The resin is obtained by radical copolymerization in a yield of 99.6%. The hydrophilic resin shows a high retention capacity and selectivity toward Hg(II) ions in the presence of Cu(II), Pb(II), Cd(II), Zn(II), and Cr(III) ions. A retention of Hg(II) higher than 99% is observed after 5 min. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 83: 2595–2599, 2002


Сonsiders the main problems of the state financial control which have led to the ineffective management of the economics and the public finance. The author proposes the resolution of these problems.