On the afternoon of April 20, 1749, a force of between 400 and 600 armed men amassed on Caracas's central plaza. Entering the city under blue and white flags emblazoned with red crosses, to the sound of beating drums, the deployment comprised a cross section of Venezuela's socio-racial groups, social estates, and occupations. The men followed Juan Francisco de León, a cacao planter and small-town sheriff (teniente), and had shouldered their weapons as a popular protest "in the name of the city [of Caracas], the nobility, and the masses." Disregarding the potentially ominous specter of so many armed insurgents, Caraqueños instead welcomed León's troops with open arms. As one observer remarked, all in the city from shopkeepers "to the nuns give thanks to León, wishing him success and commending him to God."


In the context of top-color assisted technicolor (TC2) models, we calculate the contributions of the neutral top-pion π t to tγ and tz production via the processes ep → γc → tγ and ep → γc → tz at the HERA and THERA colliders. Our results show that the cross sections σtγ(s) and σtz(s) are very small at the HERA collider with √ s = 320GeV . However, in most of the parameter space, σtγ(s) and σtz(s) are in the ranges of 0.14pb ∼ 1.37pb and 0.13pb ∼ 1.35pb at the THERA collider with √ s = 100GeV , respectively. ∗E-mail:firstname.lastname@example.com


Drawing on insights from the medieval theologians Duns Scotus and Hervaeus Natalis, I argue that medieval views of the incarnation require that there is a sense in which the divine person depends on his human nature for his human personhood, and thus that the paradigmatic pattern of human personhood is in some way dependent existence. I relate this to a modern distinction between impairment and disability to show that impairment—understood as dependence—is normative for human personhood. I try to show how medieval theories of the resurrection of the body can provide, within this context, plausible accounts of what it might be for human persons to be redeemed.


The application of frying in vacuum to comestible industry becomes more and more popular nowadays and has broad prospects because of its advantages.Introduces emphatically the operating principle and technical traits of fryng process in vacuum.Makes an overall analysis of different devices for frying in vacuum,including the processes of heating,frying,deoiling and stirring,then a comparison is given to them.


Structured spatial point patterns appear in many applications within the natural sciences. The points often record the location of key features, called landmarks, on continuous object boundaries, such as anatomical features on a human face. In other situations, the points may simply be arbitrarily spaced marks along a smooth curve, such as on handwritten numbers. This paper proposes novel exploratory methods for the identification of structure within point datasets. In particular, points are linked together to form curves which estimate the original shape from which the points are the only recorded information. Nonparametric regression methods are applied to polar coordinate variables obtained from the point locations and periodic modelling allows closed curves to be fitted even when data are available on only part of the boundary. Further, the model allows discontinuities to be identified to describe rapid changes in the curves. These generalizations are particularly important when the points represent shapes which are occluded or are intersecting. A range of real-data examples is used to motivate the modelling and to illustrate the flexibility of the approach. The method successfully identifies the underlying structure and its output could also be used as the basis for further analysis.


Polarimetric Whitening Filter (PWF) can be used to filter Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture (PolSAR) images to improve the contrast between ships and sea clutter background. For this reason, the output of the filter can be used to detect ships. This work deals with the setting of the threshold over PolSAR images filtered by the PWF. The threshold is mainly determined by the statistics of the clutter. Many distributions according to the polarimetric covariance matrix such as Wishart, $\mathcal{k}$ -Wishart, $\mathcal{G}_{0}$ -Wishart, Fisher-Wishart, Beta-Wishart, IBeta- Wishart and $\mathbf{G\Gamma D}$ -Wishart have used to model sea clutter, whose probability density function (PDF), probability of false alarm (PFA) and the corresponding thresholds based on the PWF have also been obtained recently. In fact, the general inverse Gaussian (GIG) distribution can model many heterogeneous areas, which can also be used in the texture variable in the product model. In this paper, we deal with the PFA and the threshold in the case of GIG districted texture in the multivariate product model, which can be named $\mathcal{G}$ -Wishart model for the polarimetric covariance matrix. The PDF is derived in closed form with the Fox $\mathbf{H}$ function, and the PFA is derived in closed form with the multivariate Fox $\mathbf{H}$ function on special cases. The threshold is derived by the bisection method when the false alarm rate (FAR) is constant. Then, the correctness of PFA is proved by simulation. Finally, experimental results are compared using real data with $\mathcal{K}$-Wishart, $\mathcal{G}_{0}$-Wishart, Fisher-Wishart demonstrate that the derived forms and the constant false alarm rate (CFAR) algorithm based on PWF are valid and robust.


Costume and ornaments worn by people represent one of the most important aspects of cultural heritage, because ethnic characteristics remain intact for a long time. Old textile finds are widely represented in the archaeological material of Latvia, and many fragments of clothing have been found in Liv burials of the 10 t h -13 t h centuries. This material helps to characterize ancient costumes and their separate parts. The finds have led to a successful reconstruction of several ancient costumes. The present article provides an overview of textile finds in Liv burials of 10 t h -13 t h centuries.


The musical has been called "the most popular form of entertainment in the world." This work examines the subjects, themes, and contemporary relevance of Hollywood musicals through their long popularity, placing each show in historical and political context and analyzing it in detail. A chapter is devoted to how Gold diggers of 1933 (1933) and Stand Up and Cheer (1934) deal with the economic crises of the Depressions. Another addresses race issues by examining the prevalence of blackface minstrelsy in the 1930s and 1940s, looking at productions like Swing Time (1936) and Dixie (1943). Rock and roll culture, which started in the 1950s and threatened America with teenage sex and rebellion, is addressed through such hits as Girl Crazy (1943), Bye Bye Birdie (1963), and Grease (1978). The work also explores dance as a signifier of character, the geography of musicals (such as New York or "the South"), fantasy settings, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and the musical biopic (mentioning biographies of such figures as Ziegfeld, Cohan, Rogers and Hart, Cole Porter, and Jerorne Kern


1 Some of the more recent essays include: Putnam Aldrich, "An Approach to the Analysis of Renaissance Music," The Music Review, XXX (February, 1969), 1-12; Patricia Carpenter, "Tonal Coherence in a Motet of Dufay," Journal of Music Theory, XVII (Spring, 19173), 2-65; Imogene Horsley, "Fugue and Mode in 16thCentury Polyphony," Aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Music, ed. Jan LaRue (New York, 1966), pp. 406-22; Horsley, Fugue: History and Practice (New York, 1966), chaps. 3-7; Bernhard Meier, "The Musica Reservata of Adrianus Petit Coclico and Its Relationship to Josquin," Musica Disciplina, X (1956), 67-105; Meier, Die Tonarten der klassischen Vokalpolyphonie (Utrecht, 1974); Leeman L. Perkins, "Mode and Structure in the Masses of Josquin." Journal of the American Musicological Society (=JAMS), XXVI (Summer, 1973), 189-239; and Leo Treitler, "Tone System in the Secular Works of Guillaume Dufay," JAMS, XVIII (Summer, 1965), 131-69.


The research on the relationship between Chinese agricultural origin and climate change can be actively used as a significant reference for present human beings' response and adaptation to global warming.Conditions required for the origin of agriculture are:certain environmental premises,population pressure,appropriate landform,suitable climatic conditions for wild rice and millet,cultural background and inheritance of advanced harvesting and agricultural activities.According to the data of the environmental changes and those of archaeology,it can be known that during the period from the end of late Pleistocene to early Holocene China experienced a series of events of climate change.The climate change stimulated the formation and development of agriculture;the tremendous pressure of environment and population during the YD period brought about the existence of agriculture and the event of dramatically cold-dry variation 8.2 kaBP provoked the expansion of agriculture,turning it into the leading industry.Comprehensively analyzing the climate,vegetation,landforms and other natural factors during the agricultural origin,as well as the features of the geographic distribution of typical ruins from late Pleistocene to early Holocene,the authors consider that the area from the southern foot of the Taihang Mountains to the Fen-Wei River valleys in northern China is the cradle of millet farming,while that from the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtse to the northern foot of the Nanling Mountains in southern China is the origin area of rice farming..


This research aimed to examine the contribution of metacognitive awareness as a moderator in the relationship between self-efficacy and mathematical reasoning among education undergraduates during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The analysis included 184 undergraduate students in one public university around Klang Valley, Malaysia. The researcher distributes mathematics reasoning assessment, metacognitive awareness, and self-efficacy questionnaires to collect research data. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 25 analyzes the mediating influence of metacognitive awareness in the correlation between self-efficacy and mathematics reasoning. The findings revealed that undergraduate mathematics and science education students had better mathematical reasoning abilities than undergraduates of non-mathematics and science education. However, the result indicated that mathematics and science education undergraduate students have high metacognitive awareness and utilize more strategies in mathematics reasoning assessment. This research suggested that further analysis can measure other populations, such as secondary school students metacognitive awareness and self-efficacy in mathematics reasoning.


Abstract Despite the fact that LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) is used in a large number of cars, tests have not yet been carried out to ascertain how hazardous can be the release of LPG from the car when parked in enclosed garages. The problem applies to both public and industrial parking areas, especially in Poland, where more than 10% cars are fueled by LPG. The paper describes full scale experiments, which demonstrate conditions that may occur in a garage in the event of accidental LPG release from the car installation. Over the course of the tests, a series of six LPG spillage tests were performed to study emission time and flammable cloud formation depending on the accidental gap diameter. Additionally, to enable the visual observation of the gas dispersion and influence of the ventilation system the experiment was conducted using well visible CO2 gas cloud, produced from dry ice. The experiments have shown that without ventilation LPG can accumulate on the floor of the enclosed garage for a long time, which generates a high explosive hazard. However, good ventilation (especially jet fan systems) can quickly remove hazardous flammable LPG clouds. Moreover, very important for effective LPG detection is the location of detectors closer to the floor than is currently recommended - at a height of 30 cm.


Overwash hydrodynamics datasets are mixed in quality and scope, being hard to obtain due to fieldwork experimental difficulties. Aiming to overcome such limitations, this work presents accurate fieldwork data on overwash hydrodynamics, further exploring it to model overwash on a low-lying barrier island. Fieldwork was performed on Barreta Island (Portugal), in December 2013, during neap to spring-tides, when significant wave height reached 2.64 m. During approximately 4 hours, more than 120 shallow overwash events were measured with a video-camera (at 10 Hz), a pressure transducer (at 4 Hz) and a current-meter (at 4 Hz). This high-frequency fieldwork dataset includes runup, overwash number, depth and velocity. Fieldwork data along with information from literature were used to setup XBeach model in non-hydrostatic mode. The baseline model had variable skills over the duration of the overwash each 30 minutes. The baseline model was forced to simulate overwash with different nearshore morphology, grain-size and lagoon water level. An average decrease of about 30% overwash was obtained due to changes in the nearshore episode, performing better during the rising tide than during the falling tide. Model average number of events RMSE (root-mean-square-error) was 7 events morphology, mostly a small vertical growth of the submerged bar. The coarser and finer grain-sizes tests produced an 11% change in overwash, with less overwash on the coarser barrier. Changing lagoon water levels had a reduced effect on overwash hydraulics.


-- A Personal Computer (PC) based wave form generator for laboratory applications has been thought and developed which is generating Sine, Square and Triangular waves in the range of 1 Hz to 20 MHz. The generation, recording and monitoring of wave forms, controlled through USB Data Acquisition system (DAS) connected to computer which is having 14-bit ADC, 10-bit DAC and 12-I/O lines. In the present work National Instrument's USB DAS 6009, Maxim Company's Max038 waveform generator are used for Hardware development. Higher level Graphical language such as 'LabVIEW' is used to develop the software. The experimental study reveals that the developed system is quite suitable to perform laboratory applications accurately. The results obtained from system are in agreement with results of standard instruments.


CAD/CAM is used in modern dentistry to mill dental prosthesis. Roughness is a key factor for prosthesis sustainability. The tool/workpiece incli at on angle when cutting metallic materials is studied and well known. Unfortunately, few studies about the influence, on the roughness, of the tool/workpiece inclination angle when milling non-m etallic dental biomaterial blocks, are available. The influence, on the roughness, of the tool/workpi ece inclination angle when milling biomaterial blocks, with abrasive tool, by CAD/CAM has been stu died. Three orientations (0°, 60°, 90°) were tested on biomaterials blocks (Vita Enamic). The in fluence, of the inclination angle, on the roughness was tested for 4 feedrates (1000-2000-3000-4800mm/m in). The results show the roughness depends on the inclination angle. The feedrate has no effect o n he roughness, regardless of the inclination angl e. This suggests that a higher feedrate, and the tool/ w rkpiece inclination angle choice according to the desired roughness, can optimize the surface integri ty and production time. 22 Congrès Français de Mécanique Lyon, 24 au 28 Août 2015


S ince inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) was first described, many physicians and patients have been convinced that stress contributes to its etiology or to its clinical evolution. The older literature supporting this concept, anecdotal or at best retrospective, is hampered by methodological limitations that from an informed contemporary perspective can only add new questions: Are the researchers being fooled by recall bias arising from the patients' desire to explain their illness? To what extent do apparent associations arise from confounding by the stressful effects of the disease itself? Might the effects of stress be limited to functional components of IBD patients' symptomatology? Are there plausible pathophysiological mechanisms? In short, is the biopsychosocial model of IBD a scientific advance, or is it a holdover from 19th century folk notions of disease causality? Only recently has methodologically adequate research allowed us to begin to sort out these issues. Regarding the onset of IBD, early reports have not been confirmed: the first symptoms of the disease are not likely to be precipitated by life stress, nor is the probability of developing disease increased by severely distressing life experiences, such as the death of a child.1 However, prospective studies that largely eliminate confounding by recall bias and disease effects do support a role for psychological factors in the subsequent course of disease. Part of the effect of stress on IBD may be via factors that influence the patient's experience more than the disease itself: intensification of the "irritable bowel syndrome"-like symptoms that are common in these patients, or the hypervigilance to somatic phenomena that is typical of anxiety and depression. There also seems to be a potentiating effect on the inflammatory process itself. Ulcerative colitis (UC) patients in clinical remission are more likely to show endoscopic signs of activity if they have high perceived life stress,2 and patients under stress are more likely to experience an exacerbation over the next several years3,4; long-term or cumulative stress seems to be more important than acute stressful events.3,5 In Crohn's disease (CD), a condition where mind– body interactions are more difficult to study because of the often unremitting and distressing course of the disorder, recent prospective studies have reported that depression, and to a lesser degree anxiety and stressful life events, can lead to earlier and more frequent exacerbations.6,7 Exposing laboratory animals to psychological stressors can by itself induce bowel inflammation.8 Stress can have a strong potentiating effect on experimental colitis induced by chemical agents such as trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid, dinitrobenzenesulfonic acid (DNBS), or dextran sulfate sodium. One important study in rats demonstrated that previously healed DNBS colitis recurred if the animals were exposed to a subthreshold dose of DNBS coupled with mild stress.9 In this and other animal studies, an increase in gut permeability to intestinal antigens and bacteria10—a defect believed to be central also to the pathogenesis of clinical IBD—seems to be a key mechanism by which stress affects colitis. The immune system also plays a crucial role: stress caused recurrent inflammation in these rats only if the luminal contents that leaked through the mucosa encountered and activated previously sensitized CD4 cells.9 Another possible stress mediator that emerges from animal studies is modification of the intestinal flora, a source of antigens believed to stimulate IBD activity. Social stress in the form of separation from the mother has been shown not only to modify the gut bacteria of infant monkeys, but also to increase their virulence.11 The demonstration of corticotrophin-releasing factor in the colonic tissues12 of IBD patients indirectly supports the biological plausibility of a stress effect, reflecting animal models.13 Among other possible mechanisms, a role can reasonably be postulated not only for the effects of stress on gut permeability, but for the possible modification of the release of intestinal and systemic immune mediators such as TNF. While the best-known effects of stress on immune function are suppressive, stress is paradoxically capable of enhancing aspects of immune reactivity under certain circumstances.14 Acute psychological stress in the laboratory has in fact been shown to induce intensified systemic and mucosal proinflammatory responses in UC patients.15,16 There are also data to suggest that links between stress and inflammation may differ in biological subgroups of patients.17 Behavioral changes could also be important stress mediators; patients under stress are likely to smoke more cigarettes, consume more nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs, and neglect their regimen of prophylactic medication, all factors with wellknown potential to trigger IBD. Dietary changes and neglect of personal hygiene could possibly come into play as well. The acid test of an influence of psychosocial factors on From the Aventino Medical Group, Rome, Italy. Copyright © 2008 Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America, Inc. DOI 10.1002/ibd.20663 Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com).


We have examined in the previous Chapter, the utility of employing a beam of linearly polarized photons to study the photodisintegration of deuterons. Complementary to this, we present here a model independent theoretical study of the reaction employing polarized targets but with unpolarized photons. This is done in section 3.1. Since experiments [13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19] are underway on unpolarized deuterons using linearly polarized lasers, it should be feasible to study photodisintegration of polarized deuterons by linearly polarized lasers. Since aligned deuterons are expected to be present when they are embedded in external electric quadrupole fields, we also present under section 3.2, the photodisintegration of aligned deuterons by linearly polarized photons using the same formalism developed in Chapter 2.


Abstract: The spring 2019 issue of The Review of Faith & International Affairs brings together nine scholars to examine various issues contained within a general research question: does Samuel Huntington's 'clash of civilizations' paradigm help explain current Western governments' responses to Muslim migration and related security issues? The contributors seek to explicate both theoretical and empirical examinations of Huntington's 'clash of civilizations' thesis in relation to the West. Our initial premise is that in the quarter century since Huntington first aired his controversial framework, inter-civilizational 'clash' and 'dialogue' have become mainstream issues both in international relations and in many Western countries' domestic concerns.


Hodgkin lymphoma who was treated with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone, and rituximab (CHOP-R regimen) who developed speech and motor dysfunction. Magnetic resonance imaging identified white matter defects. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis did not identify JC virus (John Cunningham virus). An empirical diagnosis of rituximab-associated progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) was made. Recently proposed PML diagnostic criteria from the Neuro-infectious Disease Section of the American Academy of Neurology require evidence of clinical disease progression, imaging, and JC virus (histopathologically or in the CSF). If full criteria are not met, then alternative diagnoses need to be investigated. Access to relevant publications may not have been available in Romania, including our case series and review of PML. The product label also does not report this information. Although >300 individuals with rituximab-associated PML have been reported to regulatory authorities, the label does not report this. The label also does not describe that in the setting of a suggestive magnetic resonance imaging scan and a negative CSF evaluation for JC virus, a second lumbar puncture or a brain biopsy should be considered. Finally, emerging data have identified a low baseline PML rate in patients with lymphoma, but a 5-fold increased rate in patients treated with rituximab and chemotherapy. We thank Dima et al for reporting this case, thereby reinforcing the observation that the most available source of safety information is the product label.


The Croatian Science Foundation in 2015 started to found Croatian JOBSTEM research project and this paper will present and discuss important project findings related to low-performing students in STEM area. The project is focused on the STEM problem as a relatively new, emerging and socially very relevant research area in Europe. The main purpose of this study is to present empirical based findings about the major determinants of low students' performance in STEM subjects. The study has also important aim to present some possible ways in improving student STEM school performance, as we clearly demonstrate strength of some partial and full relations between teacher STEM efficacy and student STEM achievement. The present study therefore will provide empirical based date useful for improving effectiveness of educational system in one important area as a STEM. The study is based on the data collected during JOBSTEM research project, and JOBSTEM is four yearlong research project encompass longitudinal, experimental, and qualitative methodological approaches. The theoretical framework of JOBSTEM project presents existing research of structure and development of self- competence beliefs, vocational interests and career aspirations and the relations of these constructs with school achievement. The JOBSTEM project is based on the theoretical and empirical expectation that in order to understand the STEM problem a shift of focus towards a younger age and the earlier educational period is needed. The central point of the JOBSTEM is the development of students' self-competence beliefs, their relation with school achievement, and the effect of self- competence beliefs on vocational interests and choices in the STEM area. The JOBSTEM project is based on a longitudinal research design, where a total of 1920 primary school students and their parents/guardians from 16 schools, grouped in three age cohorts, has been followed longitudinally through three measurement waves. During a project, different research constructs related to STEM school achievement, student traits, parental traits, and students STEM professional interest are collected. We used all these constructs in describing low-performing STEM students in Croatian primary schools. In performed data analysis we conducted correlation and regression analysis for initial exploring the relation between variables of interest, and to initially explain how is possible to describe low-performing STEM students with different psychological traits, like IQ, personality traits, self-concept structure, and vocational and professional interest. In addition, with the aim to obtain more dipper understanding, and especially to explore longitudinal trends, and possible causal relations between the constructs we used structural equation modelling (SEM) and in particular the Cross-lagged structural equation models and Latent Growth Curve (LGC) models. Results suggest that low STEM school achievement can be moderately explaining by student's traits, where of significant importance are students general interest in STEM fields, and students gender. Students who have stereotype-consistent interests in STEM school subjects tend to be more successful and to perform better in school contexts. Male gender and better prior achievement in STEM- related school subjects are positively related to expected future STEM school performance.


Objective
To investigate the effect of nesfatin-1(NSF-1) on T-type Ca2+ channel currents in adult mouse dorsal root ganglion(DRG) neurons and possible signal transduction mechanisms involved.

Methods
We measured the expression of melanocortin 4 receptors(MC4-R) in mouse DRG by using western blotting analysis. The whole-cell patch clamp technique was used to record the effects of NSF-1 on T-type Ca2+ channel currents in small DRG neurons and several ligands were experimented to further clarify relevant signaling pathways.

Results
MC4-Rs were abundantly expressed in DRG neurons. NSF-1 enhanced T-type calcium channel currents in a dose-dependent manner in small DRG neurons in mice. NSF-1-mediated increment of T-type calcium channel currents was blocked by the MC4-R antagonist HS024, phosphokinase C antagonists GF109203X, and chelerythrine chloride, while the blockade of phospohokinase A PKI 6-22 elicited no such effects.

Conclusions
NSF-1 can enhance T-type calcium channel currents in small DRG neurons through an MC4-R-dependent PKC signaling pathway.

Key words:
Melanocortins; Calcium channels, T-type; Ganglia, spinal


Microsporogenesis and pollen development in one cytoplasmic male sterile line, namely, CMS-2 and in GA-induced male sterile plants of the variety EC-68415 was studied in comparison with the male fertile plants.


I agree with the statement of H. J. N. An− dreyev regarding the use in chronic radia− tion proctitis of argon plasma coagulation (APC) [1]. Chronic radiation proctitis is basically an ischemic disease where the mucosa is affected. Therefore, any further aggressive action against the overlying epithelium is to be avoided whenever possible. Argon coagulation destroys bleeding vessels [2] but also mucosa and submucosa, and therefore predisposes to later ulcerations which heal slowly, if ever. This is the reason I have proposed [3] an attempt at an electrocoagulation method for relatively selective coagulation of the bleeding vessels, with minimal damage to the mucosa. Low−intensity long−dura− tion electrocoagulation in fact leads to deeper coagulation, with a relatively se− lective concentration of the current in the blood vessels as they have lower im− pedance. Thus, the destruction of the di− lated vessels is optimal with minimal co− agulation of the overlying mucosa. This mechanism is even more effective when the current flows through a liquid meniscus between the electrode and the mucosa. This meniscus is formed by su− perficial tension when the electrode is slowly elevated from the surface, as I have described previously using a closed hot biopsy forceps [3]. The density of the current in the mucosa is even lower if a large 6−mm ball is used instead of forceps [4]. The telangiectatic region is scanned slow− ly, avoiding any blanching. If bleeding fails to disappear within a week, a further application is performed using a slower scanning speed. In my experience, this type of treatment is effective for bleeding and does not elic− it or worsen possible ulcerations.


The interplay between structural and electronic phases in iron-based superconductors is a central theme in the search for the superconducting pairing mechanism. While electronic nematicity is competing with superconductivity, the effect of purely structural orthorhombic order is unexplored. Here, using x-ray diffraction and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we reveal a structural orthorhombic phase in the electron-doped iron-pnictide superconductor Pr 4 Fe 2 As 2 Te 0 . 88 O 4 ( T c = 25 K), which is distinct from orthorhombicity in the nematic phase in underdoped pnictides. Despite the high electron doping we find an exceptionally high orthorhombic onset temperature ( T ort ∼ 250 K), no signatures of phase competition with superconductivity, and absence of electronic nematic order as the driving mechanism for orthorhombicity. Combined, our results establish a high-temperature phase in the phase diagram of iron-pnictide superconductors and impose strong constraints for the modeling of their superconducting pairing mechanism.


A robot arm includes a drive assembly and an articulated arm assembly pivotally connected to the drive assembly. The articulated arm includes a pivoting base link system, a wrist link system, and a first elbow link system rotatably connected to the base link system by a pair of upper arms and connected to the wrist link system by a pair of forearms, a second elbow link system rotatably connected to the base link system by another at least one upper arm and connected to the wrist link system by another at least one forearm, wherein the drive assembly is connected to at least one of the upper arms and the base link system to provide three degrees of freedom by driving the at least one of the upper arms and pivoting the pivoting base link system to position the wrist link system at a given location with a predetermined skew relative to an axis of translation.


Background: Smartphone use has recently increased, and smartphones do the most common daily tasks. Therefore, a lot of time spent on these devices can be associated with a bad posture that can lead to musculoskeletal pain. Thus, in this study we aim to raise awareness and assess the relationship between smartphone addiction/overuse and musculoskeletal pain among Taif University, KSA medical students.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at Taif University. The Problematic Use of Mobile Phones scale (PUMP scale) was used to estimate the level of smartphone addiction; meanwhile, Nordic Musculoskeletal Scale (NMS) was used to assess musculoskeletal pain. Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used to associate PUMP scores with demographic factors and Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ) items.

 Results: The study included 285 participants, of which 67.4% were males. The average PUMP score among participants was 62.3. Neck pain was reported by 61.1% of participants, upper and lower back pains were reported by 37.5% and 47.7%, respectively, and 41.4% reported shoulder pain. PUMP score was significantly associated with age (p=0.000), as the highest PUMP score was reported among the eldest age group (25 years or older), followed by the youngest (19 to 20 years). PUMP score was also significantly associated with neck pain (p=0.000), right shoulder pain (p=0.004), right elbow pain (p=0.030), right wrist pain (p=0.012), upper and lower back pain (p=0.000, p=0.000, respectively).

Conclusion: The study found an association between problematic phone usage and discomfort in the neck, upper back, and lower back. The research also found that those with higher PUMP scores had more significant discomfort on their right elbow and wrist than on their left.


[Objective] To analyze temperature variation law in Laibin during 1957-2012.[Method] By using meteorological observation data in recent 56 years,adopting linear regression,M-K mutation,wavelet analysis method,the temperature variation characteristics of Laibin in recent 56 years were analyzed.[Result] Nearly 56 years Laibin temperature was significantly increased warming trend especially more significant after 2012;The annual mean maximum,annual mean average,annual mean minimum temperature rose 0.36,0.68,1.07 ℃ respectively;Seasonal temperature rising rate order from high to low is autumn,winter,summer and spring;Summer and autumn temperatures rise trend is relatively obvious;Temperature abrupt climate change occurred in about 2000;The annual mean minimum temperature response to climate warming is the most obvious;Temp oscillation periods mainly are quasi-4 years and quasi-13 years.2012 is in the temperature oscillation period of increased telophase to decline initial.Temp oscillation period of spring,summer and autumn mainly is quasi-4,quasi-23 and qussi-8 years respectively.Winter has no obvious oscillation period.Spring and autumn temperatures of 2012 are all in the increased period.


Photovoltaic (PV) water pumping (PVWP) system is a promising application, specifically in developing countries with many regions not connected to the public grid. However, implementation of such PVWP systems is still limited due to low return on investment (ROI). During morning and evening hours, the available PV power is not sufficient to operate the water pumping system and thus hinders the utilization of the installed PVWP system at full potential. To address the above limitations, in this work introduces a cooperative irrigation-based PVWP (CI-PVWP) system with multi-input multi-output DC-DC converter-based inverter is proposed. The proposed CIPVWP has multiple functionalities like increased PV utilization during morning/evening hours, additional utilization of PV energy as battery energy storage, and maximum power point tracking under both uniform and partial shading/mismatching conditions. Numerical results depicts the satisfactory performance of the CI-PVWP system under various considered operational scenarios.


Regulatory relationships in financial markets exemplify the important and changing nature of transnational business governance interactions (TBGI) which involve reciprocal forces of influence between private and public regulators. We examine one key case of private governance in financial markets: the Credit Derivatives Determinations Committees (DCs) of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA). We find ISDA to be a particularly resilient private regulator in an environment subject both to the significant external shock of the global financial crisis and intense pressure on governmental actors to demonstrate that they are counteracting risk. Clearly, ISDA operates as a key gatekeeper in TBGI, appearing to have a form of 'regulatory licensing' power in the DCs. This power is derived in an immediate sense from the propagation of a web of contracts and norms established by market actors, the content of which is substantially derived from instruments such as the Master Agreement, set down by ISDA itself. Equally important, we find that this regulatory licensing capacity is ultimately backstopped by an implicit delegation from public actors, which lends additional legitimacy to the DCs.


The article gives the author's assessment of modern approaches of economists to the family and family relations. The study was based on the "new economic theory of the family", at the origins of which was the American economist G. Becker. The article notes that a purely economic approach to the family and family relations ignores the subjective element, makes the approach to love and altruism, as the initial elements of family relations, extremely reductive, not to mention the use of economic terminology (value, benefit, efficiency, rarity, etc.). to family law phenomena. As a conclusion, it is emphasized that the arguments of economists are very significant for taking into account the share of a spouse who does not work, but keeps a household, when dividing property during a divorce, when determining the amount of alimony, etc. However, outside of property relations, the economic approach does little to give both law and other humanitarian disciplines.


Iwate volcano, typical polygenetic volcano, located in the NE Japan is composed of two stratovolcanos, East Iwate and West Iwate. Groundwater flow system in and around this volcano is strongly restricted by the complex structure of volcano made by several times collapses of volcanic body (Kazahaya et al., 1998). Understanding the groundwater flow system is very important to evaluate the amounts and the influence range of the magmatic volatiles from volcanic body. In this study, we show the feature of chemical and isotopic compositions of the groundwater and thermal water which have collected from variety of depth and discuss the groundwater flow system and the supply of magmatic volatiles to the groundwater and thermal water in and around Iwate volcano in conjunction with the subsurface geological structure. Two big springs called Kanazawa-Shimizu spring and Oide spring with flow rates reaching 50000 tons/day are placed in the north and east flanks. The previous study of spring water shows that the shallow groundwaters in north and east flanks recharged at the summit area of Iwate volcano. The flow difference in the


B., aged twenty-seven years, a building contractor, of InnisfaiI, was admitted to the Innisfall District Hospital on February 23, 1955. He had fallen ill on February22 with headache,malaise,feverishness,sore eyesand anorexia. On examination, his temperaturewas 101'8°F., and his pulse rate 78 per minute; he hadlarge inguinal and axillary glands, and his eyeswere injected. No other abnormalitiescould be found on physical examination. The subsequentcourse of his Illness Is shown in Figure II; his temperaturefell to normal on the second day after admission, and he was dischargedon February27. His pulse rate rangedfrom 48 to 64 per minute during convalescence.


The temporal cholesterolemic patterns to skim milk powder (SMP) and reprocessed SMP (RSMP) diets were compared to diets containing casein or laboratory rat chow over a 24-day period. SMP was hypocholestetemic relative to casein in rats fed a 1% dietary cholesterol. Reprocessing of SMP resulted in an apparent loss of the relative hypocholesterolemic reponse of native SMP. Amino acid analysis of SMP and RSMP, showed only marginally lower lysine levels than casein; however, the Iysine/arginine ratio was higher in SMP than either in casein or RSMP. Available lysine content in SMP was higher than in RSMP, suggesting occurrence of nonenyzmatic browning reactions. Although a similar cholesterolemic response was observed in casein and RSMP, the available lysine content of these two protein sources were markedly different, suggesting that reduced available lysine alone was not totally responsible for the lower cholesterolemic response of SMP, relative to casein.


A matching in a graph G is a set M = {e1, e2, . . . , ek} of edges such that each vertex v ∈ V (G) appears in at most one edge of M . That is, ei ∩ ej = ∅ for all i, j. The size of a matching is the number of edges that appear in the matching. A perfect matching in a graph G is a matching in which every vertex of G appears exactly once, that is, a matching of size exactly n/2. Note that a perfect matching can only occur in a graph with evenly many vertices.


An overview of processing activities aimed at higher efficiencies and economical production were presented. Present focus is on low-cost process technology for higher-efficiency cells of up to 18% or higher. Process development concerns center on the use of less than optimum silicon sheet, the control of production yields, and making uniformly efficient large-area cells. High-efficiency cell factors that require process development are bulk material perfection, very shallow junction formation, front-surface passivation, and finely detailed metallization. Better bulk properties of the silicon sheet and the keeping of those qualities throughout large areas during cell processing are required so that minority carrier lifetimes are maintained and cell performance is not degraded by high doping levels. When very shallow junctions are formed, the process must be sensitive to metallizatin punch-through, series resisitance in the cell, and control of dopant leaching during surface passivation. There is a need to determine the sensitivity to processing by mathematical modeling and experimental activities.


The objectives of this research are to get the comparison betweenexperimental method using PAS and experiment with direct instruction to increasestudent`s achievement, and student`s character. Beside of that, this research alsoconducted to know the correlation between student`s achievement and student`scharacter. This research was done in SMA N 2 Medan. Population is all thestudents in SMA N 2 Medan which taken by purposive random sampling. Theresearch instruments are achievement test and non test in character form. Both ofinstruments have been validated. The research data analyzed by SPSS -16 forwindows and Microsoft Excell. The result data shows that (1) The student`sachievement taught by experimental method using PAS give higher significancedifference than experiment with direct instruction. It can be seen from the averageof gain and also proved with t-test, the normalized gain in experimental class is(0.72±0.15) and control class (0.48±0.18) at significant level I± = 0.05, Ha isreceived and Ho is refused where Sig. < I± (0.000 < 0.05), (2) The student`scharacter taught by experimental method using PAS have increasing value inevery meeting. It can be seen from the average value in student activity haveaverage 61.11% in first meeting, 85.83% in second meeting, and 86.38% in thirdmeeting. Then, student teamwork have average value 73.88% in first meeting,90.55% in second meeting, and 91.11% in third meeting.


A Library Guide for prospective/current/alumni students in the Library Technology, Archives & Digital Collections, and Digitization Certifcate Programs at Pasadena City College


This paper examines the current trends of corporations that have completed a Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) sustainability report. To gain an overview of the rapid growth in sustainability reporting the issues and trends that are analyzed are geographic locations of main headquarters, size by number of employees, size by market capitalization, sector breakdown and financial performance. The paper presents a mental model that builds on the theory of competitive advantage by Porter (1980, 1985, 1990). The mental model argues that sustainability can be the crystallization concept to build and retain intellectual capital through the development of stakeholder dialogue, corporate culture, corporate governance and corporate reputation. The paper proposes that the ability of corporations to blend sustainability into the creation of intellectual capital is a dimension that can be added to all three of the generic strategies developed by Porter (1980): low-cost leadership, product/service differentiation and market specialization to achieve competitive advantage. The corporation that can also implement sustainability indicators across what Porter (1980) called the horizontal strategy and both up and down the vertical chain may gain triple-bottom line benefits. These sustainability benefits are the initial steps towards the creation of a learning organization focused towards sustainable development.


A comprehensive heat and mass transfer study of three-dimensional stagnation-point boundary-layer flows with foreign gas injection was performed parametrically employing exact numerical solutions of the governing differential equations. Attention was directed primarily at convex shapes ranging from spheres to cylinders, but selected calculations were also performed for saddle shapes ranging up to the limiting case of equal magnitudes of adverse and favorable pressure gradients. The injected species were H, He, C, air, Ar, CO2, Xe. Thermodynamic properties were calculated assuming ideal inert gas mixtures and constant specific heats. Transport properties were evaluated with simplified mixing rules and hard sphere models. The results for all shapes and wall to total temperature ratios are correlated. Simple relations are derived for prediction of heat transfer and mass transfer conductance as functions of injection rates, molecular weights and specific heats.


We propose a time division duplex multiple-input multiple-output (TDD-MIMO) system with receiver matched to the transmit filter and channel, leading to a linear transmission system which diagonalizes the MIMO channel into its eigenspace, similar to joint transmit and receive filter optimization (joint Tx/Rx optimization), but without the need to perform the optimization at both sides of the link or to use feedback. We investigate different optimization criteria well known from linear precoder design and joint Tx/Rx optimization: transmit matched filter (TxMF); transmit zero-forcing filter (TxZF); transmit Wiener filter (TxWF).


The article is a sketch for a dogmatics of the Creator Spirit and contends that the Spirit's relation to the creation in general cannot be treated either without attention being paid to its trinitarian matrix or in the absence of some consideration of the human creation in particular. A christologically formed attempt is made to expand the Cappadocian theology of the Spirit as the creation's perfecting cause. This leads into some fragmentary remarks about the Spirit in relation to church, political order and culture more generally.


According to the widely existing job shop schedule with unrelated parallel machines in the actual manufacturing system, a static model with minimize makespan as optimization goal was established, considering precedence, machine-dependent and sequence-dependent setup times. Since basic ant colony algorithm usually has shortcomings such as long searching time, easy trapped into local optimal solutions, this paper puts forward a hybrid ant colony algorithm adopting elite strategy and maximum and minimum ant colony mechanism. Its performance is evaluated by comparing its solutions with genetic algorithm in the literature. The results indicate the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms the competitor.


The apparatus for the conversion of a-c to d-c power in various plants of the du Pont Company has included rotary converters, motor generator sets, and mercury-arc rectifiers. Operation and maintenance of this equipment since the company's first converters were installed in 1895 to present rectifier installations has provided much valuable experience and information.


This article has built a system of China's Advanced Manufacturing measurement indicators. By applying the datum from 2004 to 2013, we estimate the level of development and current status of China's Advanced Manufacturing (AM), and evaluate the measurement results by establishing Hierarchical Linear Model (HLM). We confirmed that China's Advanced Manufacturing is in the rapid development trend. And due to the difference of initial conditions in Advanced Manufacturing development there is a greater imbalance. In contrast, a region with poor initial condition of has a relatively fast development speed.


RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE ACTION OF HUMIC SUBSTANCES ON PLANT GROWTH AND ENDOGENOUS SYNTHESIS OF MAIN PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS Mora, Maria Veronica Department of Chemistry and Soil Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Navarra, 2010 Numerous studies have reported the ability of humic substances (HS) to increase shoot growth and affect root development and architecure. However, the mechanism responsible for these effects is poorly understood. It is possible that the shoot promoting effect of HS involves an effect on root H+-ATPase activity and nitrate root-shoot distribution that, causes changes in the root-shoot distribution of certain cytokinins, polyamines and abscisic acid. On the other hand, the effect of HS on root development must be related to the presence of plant growth regulators in their structure but the humic acid (HA) employed in this work, are not presence of phytoregulators in their structure. Also, HA application was associated with changes in nitric oxide (NO), indolacetic acid (IAA) concentration and ethylene production, as well as, an increase in root development and changes in their root architecture. Results obtained using inhibitors of auxin transport or action, inhibitors of ethylene biosynthesis or action, and a scavenger of NO indicate that the increase in the root concentration of these three phytoregulators caused by HA, does not play an essential role in the expression of the HA-induced macro-morphological root changes. Other factors, working in conjunction or independently of those HA-affected plant growth regulators, must be involved in HA whole action on root growth and morphology. Likewise, the increases in IAA and ethylene induced by HA are not mediated by the previous increase in NO, and the increase in ethylene root production is controlled by the concomitant increase in IAA root concentration. Finally, the bioactivity of HS on promoting plant growth must be related to the structure and not to the presence of phytoregulators, and HS may act as a regulator of hormonal balance with respect to plant growth.


The global fight which aims at attracting the intellectuals would represent the main engine of the advantage in what regards the competition, whetting the nations, the workforce and companies one against the other, as the intellectuals become more and more rare. More and more studies and statistical indicators show the existence of inconsistencies between employer needs and labor companies prepared by educational institutions, the requirements imposed by employers in the occupation became a topic of interest.


The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of agricultural land use and periods of hydrological variability on the environmental variables, as well as macrophyte and macroinvertebrate assemblages in lowland riverine wetlands. We compared two wetlands with intensive agricultural land use against two others with extensive livestock considered references for the region during a normal and a dry flow period. Nutrient concentrations were significantly higher in agricultural riverine wetlands. These wetlands exhibited higher relative coverage of floating anchored macrophytes and the absence of submerged vegetation. They showed significantly lower taxonomic richness and density of macroinvertebrates and a higher relative abundance of scrapers and predators. Wetlands of both land uses had a lower total density of macroinvertebrates and a higher proportion of tolerant desiccation taxa in the dry period. Particular differences between land uses, such as lower dissolved oxygen concentrations and lower macroinvertebrate diversity in agricultural wetlands, were found during the dry period. These findings indicate that the differences between land uses increased during the aforementioned period. This study provides evidence of the effects of the surrounding landscape and hydrologic periods in the environmental characteristics as well as the macrophyte and macroinvertebrate assemblages of the riverine wetlands studied.


Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between parenting attitudes and martial intimacy and was to examine the mediating effect of marital communication in order to provide effective help to improve marital intimacy of middle-aged married women who have difficulty in marital relationship. Method: The subjects of this study were 229 married women aged 40-59. Statistical analysis of this study was performed using the SPSS 18.0 program. Results: The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, Pearson `s correlation analysis was conducted to investigate the relationship between parenting attitude, marital intimacy, and marital communication and the results were statistically significant. Second, the three - step hierarchical regression analysis proposed by Baron and Kenny (1986) was conducted to examine the mediating effect of marital communication on the relationship between parenting attitudes and marital intimacy, it was confirmed that marital communication was partially mediated between parenting attitudes and marital intimacy. Conclusion: This study is meaningful in that it was confirmed that marital communication was partially mediated between parenting attitudes and marital intimacy.


In previous studies on a rat model of transient cerebral ischemia, the blood and brain concentrations of gadolinium‐diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (Gd‐DTPA) following intravenous bolus injection were repeatedly assessed by dynamic contrast‐enhanced (DCE)‐MRI, and blood‐to‐brain influx rate constants (Ki) were calculated from Patlak plots of the data in areas with blood–brain barrier (BBB) opening. For concurrent validation of these findings, after completing the DCE‐MRI study, radiolabeled sucrose or α‐aminoisobutyric acid was injected intravenously, and the brain disposition and Ki values were calculated by quantitative autoradiography (QAR) assay employing the single‐time equation. To overcome two of the shortcomings of this comparison, the present experiments were carried out with a radiotracer virtually identical to Gd‐DTPA, Gd‐[14C]DTPA, and Ki was calculated from both sets of data by the single‐time equation. The protocol included 3 h of middle cerebral artery occlusion and 2.5 h of reperfusion in male Wistar rats (n = 15) preceding the DCE‐MRI Gd‐DTPA and QAR Gd‐[14C]DTPA measurements. In addition to Ki, the tissue‐to‐blood concentration ratios, or volumes of distribution (VR), were calculated. The regions of BBB opening were similar on the MRI maps and autoradiograms. Within them, VR was nearly identical for Gd‐DTPA and Gd‐[14C]DTPA, and Ki was slightly, but not significantly, higher for Gd‐DTPA than for Gd‐[14C]DTPA. The Ki values were well correlated (r = 0.67; p = 0.001). When the arterial concentration–time curve of Gd‐DTPA was adjusted to match that of Gd‐[14C]DTPA, the two sets of Ki values were equal and statistically comparable with those obtained previously by Patlak plots (the preferred, less model‐dependent, approach) of the same data (p = 0.2–0.5). These findings demonstrate that this DCE‐MRI technique accurately measures the Gd‐DTPA concentration in blood and brain, and that Ki estimates based on such data are good quantitative indicators of BBB injury. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


A system and a method for creation and processing of personalized caller ringback tones are disclosed. The system provides a plurality of predetermined 'ready to use' caller ringback tones, where each message is a single caller tune track which contains a common name stored in a plurality of name formats, mixed with a plurality of background music pieces and with a personal greeting text which is recorded as a voiceover in a plurality of worldwide spoken languages and dubbed in the voices of professional voiceover artists and/or celebrities. The caller ringback tone is played instead of the ordinary caller ring tones, so that every caller will be welcomed/greeted in the event that the callee is busy and cannot attend the phone, or the callee is away from the phone.


The influence of strong self‐electric fields on the ion resonance instability is examined for a cylindrical nonneutral plasma column immersed in a uniform axial magnetic field B0ez. The analysis is carried out within the framework of a macroscopic cold‐fluid model, and electrostatic stability properties are investigated for the case of rectangular electron and ion density profiles. The parameter δ= (2ω2pe/ω2ce) (1−f) is introduced as a convenient measure of the relative strengths of the equilibrium self‐electric force and the magnetic force on an electron fluid element. (Here, ωpe is the electron plasma frequency, ωce is the electron cyclotron frequency, f=n0i/n0e is the fractional charge neutralization, and δ=1 corresponds to the maximum allowed charge density for radial confinement of the equilibrium configuration.) An important conclusion of this study is that the equilibrium self‐electric field can have a large influence on stability behavior. In particular, stability properties for δ≲1 differ subs...


The government of the Gambia has taken measures to improve access to early childhood education (ECE), leading to an increase in the gross enrolment rate from 36.4% in 2013 to 54.5% in 2019. Yet many children, especially those from the poorest households, still do not benefit from ECE services. Furthermore, ensuring the quality of the services is a major concern. According to a forthcoming costeffectiveness analysis (CEA) of Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres conducted by IIEPUNESCO, only 4% of pre-schoolers in the Gambia are ready for primary school. The study also found that among factors that could help improve early learning outcomes, good process quality, such as positive teacher-child interactions and child-centered and play-based pedagogical approaches, was decisive.


The Vantage cache-partitioning technique enables configurability and quality-of-service guarantees in large-scale chip multiprocessors with shared caches. Caches can have hundreds of partitions with sizes specified at cache line granularity, while maintaining high associativity and strict isolation among partitions.


For use in Completely-Inside-the-Canal (CIC)-type hearing aids, a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System- (MEMS-) based, electromagnetically-actuated microspeaker and capacitive directional microphone that can be tuned by metallic silver nanostructures. Precision mechanical options are provided for the devices developement for use in compact, low-power, and low-cost hearing aid applications and they address issues associated with the manufacture, fitting, and use of hearing aids. Results suggest that our micro-devices can help address a number of recurring manufacturer concerns and consumer preferences, including the need to decrease fabrication costs and total energy consumption, as well as strong consumer preferences for nearly invisible technology that functions reliably and can be precisely fit to patients' unique or changing hearing needs.


The FUTURE‐I study aimed to assess preliminary safety and effectiveness with the long‐term clinical and imaging follow‐up for the Firesorb (MicroPort, Shanghai, China), a thinner‐strut sirolimus‐eluting bioresorbable scaffold (BRS).


Although it was thought that survivors from an acute kidney injury (AKI) recovered kidney function completely, cumulative observational data have shown that AKI can cause end-stage renal disease directly, increase the risk of developing incident chronic kidney disease (CKD), and worsen an underlying CKD. These data have confirmed an association between AKI and an increased risk of permanent kidney damage, with subsequent development of CKD. However, many studies have focused on early injury following ischemic insult; the mechanisms of long-term injury remain poorly understood. Established and new data suggest that endothelial injury, loss of peritubular capillary volume, and chronic hypoxia affect structural changes after an ischemic insult. The repair process after acute kidney injury can be both adaptive and maladaptive. A maladaptive response includes persistent upregulation of proinflammatory and profibrotic signals and maladaptive cellular regeneration; this is thought to be one of the mechanisms leading to progressive renal injury and, ultimately, end-stage renal disease. The purpose of this brief review was to focus on recent advances related to the mechanisms of the progression from AKI to CKD. This review suggests that a new approach is required to manage AKI patients to prevent and/or arrest CKD progression.


Global warming is an important issue threatening agriculture and allied sectors with serious consequences on food production. Tomato being sensitive to temperature would be influenced by elevated temperatures under climate change scenarios. Physiological response of five tomato genotypes, Arka Vikas, Arka Saurabh, Abhinava, RF4A and 2195 to mild elevated temperatures at peak flowering and peak fruiting stages was evaluated in temperature gradient tunnel (TGT) facility. The increase in temperature above the optimal, caused reductions in net photosynthesis rate, transpiration and stomatal conductance with differences in response among the five genotypes. The reductions were large at peak flowering stage compared to peak fruiting stage. The Photochemical efficiency of PSII was also reduced at both peak flowering and fruiting stages due to increase in temperature. At peak fruiting stage, due to increase in temperature, leaf epicuticular wax content increased across the genotypes and higher total soluble sugars, reducing sugars and proline content contributed to increase in leaf osmotic potential. Overall, better performance of germplasm line 2195 and cv. Arka Vikas was observed under elevated temperature.


The defect of economic's liberalism study basic purpose isn't studying maximal wealth,but studying maximal wealth disagreeing with the object of life happyness.It's basic purpose,In fact,is to provide morality basis to capitalist's lustfulness.So it's study basic purpose lackes humanity.Old liberalism economic's theory on the liberity reduce people's liberity to animal's and canceal people's liberity by proving liberity originating from the reason being choice without necessity.New liberalism economic's theory on the liberity depreciate people's reason and avoid actually unfairment on freedom by freedom right according to rule.So this theory on the liberity is the theory object to liberity fundamentally.liberalism economic's view that demonstration is neutral is opion without ground with basic purpose to cover the essence it serve for the bourgeoisie.Iiberalism economics neutral idea about liberity is hypocritical theory partial to a bourgeoisie.D Iiberalism economics is pushing hand to financial crisis for it's deep ethics crisis,and ought to be criticized.


The experiment was performed in a green house at the Animal Science Department of the Pernambuco Federal Rural University (UFRPE) and aimed to study the nematicide and fertilization effects on the forage cactus cv. "Gigante" growth and production using propagative materials with clorotic symptom. The experimental treatments tested the addition or no of macronutrients, micronutrients and nematicide. It was used a complete randomized block design. Considering the primary cladode's number, no differences were found by F test. Significative differences were found to the total number of cladodes, secondary cladode number, cladode area, cladode area index and dry matter yield. The addition of micronutrients and nematicide did not influence the primary and secondary cladode number, cladode area, cladode area index and dry matter yield, and the mean values obtained were 1.56, 0.84, 811.11 cm², 1.15 and 42.73 g/pot, respectively.


We present a systematic study on the design of a novel GaN/AlGaN/GaN super-heterojunction Schottky diode. Through physics-based TCAD simulation, we discuss three important design aspects: 1) how to design a GaN/AlGaN/GaN structure to form a high-density 2-D electron gas and to scale it to multiple vertically stacked channels with less risk in reaching the critical thickness limited by the strain in epitaxy; 2) how to reach charge balance and how sensitive is the breakdown voltage with respect to the doping imbalance; and 3) how to ensure that the processes of depleting and accumulating electrons and holes in the structure are fast enough for practical power switching applications.


The goal of this study was to confirm that the protein, micronutrient content, and energy value of specialized food products made from local foods meet international quality criteria for the management of mild acute malnutrition. These local specialized food products are already consumed in nutritional rehabilitation facilities in Côte d'Ivoire under the supervision of the NNP (National Nutrition Program). The NNP-recommended procedures were used to manufacture the replacement flour formulations. These flours' physicochemical and nutritional properties were assessed using established procedures. Protein levels ranged from 11.19 to 18.12 % in 100 g of dry matter, carbohydrates from 51.5 to 73.9 %, lipids from 9.66 to 23.86%, and energy value ranged from 427.36 to 493.33 Kcal/100g. These flours fulfill macronutrient content quality criteria and may thus cover the protein and energy demands of children aged 6 to 59 months with mild acute malnutrition. They are, however, deficient in calcium, sodium, zinc, vitamin A, and vitamin D, with calcium contents ranging from 27.38 to 70.58 mg/100g, sodium contents ranging from 4.6 to 28.13 mg/100g, zinc contents ranging from 0.76 to 1.13 mg/100g, vitamin A contents ranging from 11.07 to 78.63 mg/100g, and vitamin D contents ranging from 0.11 to 0.48 mg/100g.


Background/Objective: The purpose of this study is to examine the managerial effectiveness levels of the academicians who work in the sports science faculty and School of Physical Education and Sports. Methods: In the study, a descriptive scanning method aimed at revealing the current situation has been used. For the purposes of this study, the academicians population of Turkey in the research universities working in sports science and sports colleges with the faculty of physical education, from which a sample is chosen, which is determined by simple random sampling method, which consists of volunteer academicians (n=178) working at the faculties of sport sciences and school of physical education and sports of universities such as Erciyes, Selcuk, Omer Halisdemir, Gaziantep, Dumlupinar, Usak, Karamanoglu Mehmet Bey, Firat, Suleyman Demirel, Sakarya, Balikesir, Gelisim, Esenyurt, Mugla Sitki Kocman ve Bingol universities. A managerial efficacy scale developed by Murry (1993) and implemented in the Turkish version by Ira and Şahin (2010) was used to measure managerial effectiveness. The obtained data was recorded with the package program "IBM SPSS 22". Kruskal Wallis analysis was applied as statistical process. Results: The level of managerial effectiveness of academicians is moderate and advanced, the level of managerial effectiveness is related to age, department, title and professional experience, and also there is a relation between the progress of age, title and professional experience of academicians and the development of managerial effectiveness. It can be assumed that this situation originated from the situations such as the maturity of academicians' knowledge and experience, efforts to improve their skills, the adoption of the management concept of modern life, self-evaluation and autonomy as well as being able to adapt to scientific, cultural and social changes. The development of managerial effectiveness perceptions and managerial skills of young academics can be supported by managerial development seminars. Determining the managerial perceptions of the faculty members who work in different faculties and higher schools may contribute to the updating of the managerial perspective. Article visualizations:


We have investigated the characteristics of photoluminescence (PL) from exciton-electron inelastic scattering in a GaAs (5.1 nm)/AlAs (5.1 nm) multiple-quantum-well structure. The excitation power dependence of PL spectra was measured in a wide temperature region from 10 to 285 K. We detected a PL band which appears with a threshold-like nature at each temperature. In a low temperature region below ∼80 K, the energy spacing between the threshold-like appearance PL band and heavy-hole exciton almost agrees with the exciton binding energy. This indicates that the PL band originates from well-known exciton-exciton inelastic scattering. In contrast, in a high temperature region above ∼90 K, the energy spacing continuously increases with an increase in temperature. The temperature dependence of the energy spacing is explained by a theoretical model for exciton-electron inelastic scattering considering energy and momentum conservation in the scattering process. Thus, it is concluded that the mechanism of the threshold-like appearance PL band related to exciton inelastic scattering changes with temperature. In addition, we confirmed that the exciton-electron inelastic scattering produces an optical gain using a variable stripe length method for PL measurements. (© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


Successfully implementing the practice of inclusion by differentiating instruction is dependent upon both the skills and attitudes of general education teachers. New general education teachers who are entering the field are particularly vulnerable to the demands and stress of the profession, and exemplary preservice teacher education programs must prepare pre service teachers to meet the needs of all students by giving them the skills to make appropriate lesson adaptations, accommodations and modifications. This study investigates the manifestation of differentiation for special education students in work sample lesson plans written by preservice teachers working toward an elementary school credential. The research examined the nature, characteristics, and types of instructional adaptations included in the work samples prepared by a sample of pre service teachers. Six themes surfaced from the study of the categorical data and the text taken directly from the lesson plans in the work samples. First, no evidence of purposeful planning for students with Individual Education Programs emerges in the sequence of the lesson plans. Second, accommodations written into the work sample lessons center around partner or group work. Third, preservice teachers have an undeveloped or inaccurate understanding about special education and its terminology. Fourth, preservice teachers tend to use multiple intelligences and the use of manipulatives for differentiation. Fifth, preservice teacher reflections focus on the teacher rather than student learning. Sixth, very little evidence of meaningful planning or differentiation for students with disabilities appears in the work sample generally.


This paper presents the design of a content addressable memory (CAM) cell. This cell utilizes a phase change memory (PCM) as a storage element and an ambipolar transistor for data comparison; the operation of the ambipolar transistor is controlled by voltage at the polarity gate. A memory core consisting of a CMOS transistor and a PCM is employed (1T1P). For the search operation, the data in the 1T1P memory core are read and its values are established by using a differential sense amplifier. The proposed CAM cell is simulated and compared with other nonvolatile CAM cells by using emerging technologies (such as MTJ and memristor). The simulation results show that as the proposed CAM cell operates on a voltage basis, it offers significant advantages in terms of power delay product for the search operation and reduced circuit complexity (in terms of lower transistor and storage element counts) compared with other designs found in the technical literature.


The invention discloses a graphene/carbon black thermoplastic resin master batch with high dispersibility and a preparation method thereof. The graphene/carbon black compound in the master batch is formed in an electrostatic self-assembly manner, and comprises 10-50% of graphene, 5-20% of carbon black, 0.5-10% of surfactant, 10-65% of carrier resin and 2-10% of assistant. The preparation method comprises the following steps: (1) compounding and dispersing graphene by adopting the surfactant to control the positive electricity of the graphene surface; (2) forming a stable graphene/carbon black compound from the modified graphene and carbon black with positive electricity through electrostatic incorporation in a self-assembly manner; (3) preparing the graphene/carbon black thermoplastic resin master batch with high dispersibility by matching with a solution blended process, a melt-blending method and an in-situ polymerization method; (4) adding the assistant to extrude and pelletize, so as to prepare the graphene/carbon black/thermoplastic resin master batch particles after processing the master batch. By adopting the obtained master batch, the problems of difficult charging of graphene powder, uneven dispersion, dust pollution, unstable product performance and the like are solved.


With the continuous improvement of administrative support's socializing reform in colleges and universities,some confinement factors appeared.This article finds and tells us how to solve the problems in this process from management thought transition,improving self-determination ability,building enterprise system of administrative support in colleges and universities,etc.


The initiation of microcracks and its connection with microstructure of WC-Co hardmetals have been studied by STEM. The microcracks in specimens are induced by high-frequency compressive fatigue. The causes of microcrack initiation are explained by traverse of slipping dislocations across sub-grain and WC/WC grain boundaries and the pile-up of dislocations near the boundaries. The reduction of substructure dimension is required to improve the alloy quality.


In the article the possibilities of filling of local budgets by income assessment are investigated. Specific principles of local taxation are offered: principle of mutual equivalence, territorial origin, equal tax loading on the different categories of taxpayers, minimum influence on cyclic oscillation of economy, accordance the rates of growth of receipts of government taxes, accordance the necessities of population and legal entities in territory and principle of independence. It is well-proven that, as local, to use an income tax beside the purpose. Tax on the profits of physical persons is possible to use only as tax rises to the state tax, or to get part of its breaking up with insignificant tax plenary powers. At taxation of legal entities it is necessary to use additional taxes, what would compensate local benefits which get enterprises. Among such direct taxes, for example, there can be a tax on profits, on the increase of cost.


A survey was conducted to investigate the indoor air pollution after room decoration within 7 districts in Harbin and such pollutants as formaldehyde, ammonia and benzene series were sampled and analyzed for over 100 houses. Of all the samples collected, 85.2% of formaldehyde, 53.1% of ammonia and 50.7% of benzene exceeded the standard criterion. Pertinent to the regional status in Harbin, a study was carried out to investigate into the effect of ventilation, photocatalysis and ozonization on the reduction of indoor formaldehyde and ammonia. Experimental results showed that extended ventilation had better reduction of formaldehyde than ammonia, obvious pollutants reduction might be achieved within 30 min of photocatalysis although fluctuated for ammonia, and no obvious reduction of formaldehyde and ammonia were observed in the case of ozonization.


The structures and isomerization of SiC2P species are explored at various levels. Thirteen minima are located connected by 19 interconversion transition states. At the CCSD(T)/6-311+G(2df)//QCISD/6-311G(d)+ZPVE level, the lowest energy isomer is a linear form SiCCP 1 whose structure mainly resonates between |SiCCP|• and |SiC•−C⋮P| with the former bearing somewhat more weight. The second and third low-lying isomers are cyclic cSiCCP 5 (with Si−C cross-bonding) at just 3.2 kcal/mol and cSiCPC 7 (with C−C cross-bonding) at 10.4 kcal/mol, respectively. All the three isomers 1, 5, and 7 possess considerable kinetic stability either toward isomerization or dissociation, and thus are expected to be observable. The calculated results are compared to those of the analogous molecules C3N, SiC2N, and C3P. Implications in the interstellar and P-doped SiC vaporization processes are discussed.


Objective To analyse the relationship between children urine fluoride level,time of water supply improvement and detection rate of dental caries in fluorosis areas after water supply improvement.Methods The following


climate change, extreme events, early warning systems, aquaculture, Nan River, Stochastic frontier Water management Discharges in the Nan River below Sirikit Dam are strongly influenced by dam operations as well as seasons and extreme climate events. While river-based cage aquaculture is able to cope with a range in flow conditions, extreme low or high discharges are detrimental as they damage cages and kill fish. Early warning information about flow conditions is important to fish farmers under these conditions. This study looked at the information fish farmers receive, how they respond to this information with actions to reduce risks of losses, and the impacts of taking action on warnings for farm performance. Data was collected from 303 fish farms. The findings showed that fish farmers received messages from multiple sources, but that the information provided was often difficult to understand or unreliable. Nevertheless, warning messages were seen as important to reduce risks and helped predict actions taken.


It is well known that posterolateral defects in the humeral head are associated with anterior dislocation of the shoulder and that they can cause acute dislocation. In general, defects in the humeral head are revealed in only in 50% of cases using the standard A-P view or the internal rotation view. For Stryker's notch view, the patients lies supine on the table with the cassette under the shoulder". The palm of the hand of the affected shoulder is placed on top of the head with the X-ray beam tilted 10 degrees toward the head and centered over the coracoid process. The image in Stryker's notch view is slightly distorted due to the angle of the film and X-ray beam. On radiographs from Stryker's notch view, the incidence of posterolateral defect is indicated in about 70% of cases. To achieve a clear and non-distorted notch on the radiograph, an anatomical study of the angle of the anatomical neck and retroversion of the humerus was conducted. Also, the X-ray beam angle in Stryker's notch view was angled 45 degrees to the long axis of the humeral shaft. The position used to determine a clear and non-distorted posterolateral notch is as follows. The patient lies supine with 135 degrees flexion of the shoulder joint and with the X-ray beam applied to the cathette under the joint vertically through the humeral head. Seven patients with a history of more than two shoulder dislocations were examined radiographically. The shoulders of these seven patients were investigated using Stryker's notch view and the new projection method at every 15 degrees of internal rotation from 0 to 60 degrees at 135 degrees flexion of the shoulder joint while in the supine position. The best method to obtain a well-defined and non-distorted posterolateral notch was to have the patient lie supine in a 135 degrees flexion and a 15 degrees internal rotation position. The X-ray beam is applied to the cathette under the shoulder joint vertically through the humeral head. Fig. 1 shows a typical radiograph of Stryker's notch view; one radiograph shows the patient lying supine at 135 degrees flexion and 15 degrees internal rotation and one at 135 degrees flexion and 30 degrees internal rotation. The clearest indication of the posterolateral notch is shown in the position of 135 degrees flexion and 15 degrees internal rotation. Using Stryker's notch view, posterolateral defects were seen in 5 out of 7 cases, with


OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES, PARIS. CAUTERIZATION IN POISONED WOUNDS. M. Parcbappe communicated a note on the effects of cauterization in virulent inoculation, in answer to the remarks of M. Renault, on the uselessness of this treatment in canine rabies. M. Parchappe failed to establish its prophylactic powers in the case of animal poisons, as all his experiments were with strychnine, a poison of a totally different nature. M. Hervier presented a memoir on the exhalation of carbonic acid in health and disease. (See a former number, p. 191, in which the conclusions are given among the articles in the " General Retrospect.") IODIDE OF POTASSIUM AS A REMIEDY FOR THE POISONOUS EFFECTS OF LEAD AND MERCURY. A paper by M. Natalis Guillot, on the use of iodide of potassium as a remedy for the poisonous effects of mercury and lead, was also read. The most interesting portion of the communication is that in which the author shews that the injurious effects of lead may be rapidly removed by small doses of the iodide, while a large dose appears to increase its poisonous properties. The experiments were made on dogs. Their explanation of the modes operandi of the iodide is, that it forms a soluble salt with the mercury and lead, which are thus readily eliminated. An interesting notice was also given of the existence of the practice of anwstbesia for operative purposes, as well as of hydropathy, among the Chinese, as early as the sixteenth century. USE OF THE PANCREATIC FLUID. M. Bernard presented his imporlant memoir on the uses of the pancreatic fluid. [This has been already published entire in a former number of this Journal.] Some other communications of trifling interest were also presented. THE PETITION OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF UNIONS IN ENGLAND AND WALES. The bumble Petition of the Chairman and Committee of the Medical Officers of Unions in England and Wales, and other Members of the Medical Pro. fession,


Scheduling in a downlink channel based on partial channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) is carried out through a multibeam opportunistic beamforming technique. A practical transmission strategy is presented where a minimum rate per user is required within a given time interval, to satisfy maximum delay restrictions for the user's application. The proposed strategy achieves these quality of service (QoS) restrictions at the same time as an opportunistic user selection is performed, so that the system multiuser gain is extracted while the QoS is satisfied. The system minimum-guaranteed throughput is then formulated in a closed form expression, and a throughput maximization is performed through the optimization of the number of transmitting beams, therefore exploiting the system spatial capabilities in the most convenient approach.


An inverter GMAW_P welding system is designed in which the microchip is adopted as the central controller through studying the GMAW_P welding process. The structure and working principle of the system and the makeup of the control circuit are discussed in detail. The method of improving the control precision and the system software are also introduced. The result shows that the system has simple structure and many adjustable parameters, which can control the GMAW_P welding process precisely.


Introduction. Three major groups of mantle-derived xenoliths in Miocene picrobasalts of the Vitim volcanic field were described (cf. Ashchepkov et al., 1994, Ashchepkov, Andre, 1998): (1) Group I (green) peridotites and pyroxenites, (2) Group II (black) pyroxenites, (3) pyroxene megacrysts and related pyroxenites. There are also reactional pyroxenites, metasomatic veins and differentiated pyroxenites, of which the mineral compositions are intermediate between three above groups, so called «transitional» pyroxenites (Fig. 1). We obtained ion microprobe data on minerals from pyroxenite xenoliths to consider differentiation paths of mantle melts and to highlight evolutionary features of mantle magmatic system. Results. We determined the types of «transitional» pyroxenites and related rocks as following: (la) Amphibole-phlogopite and phlogopite-clinopyroxene veins, often crosscutting garnet lherzolites. Amphand phi-bearing Vitim xenoliths are described in (Litasov Yu. et al., this volume). The origin of these rocks is in relation with reactional pyroxenites. (lb) Reactional ilmeniteand phlogopite-bearing garnet orthopyroxenites are found in contact with garnet lherzolite, as it is evidenced from composite xenoliths. Like the hydrous veinlets, they strongly change major element


Chapter 1. Definitions and Measurement Chapter 2. Youth Health Outcomes Chapter 3. A Sociohistorical Analysis of U.S. Youth Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Chapter 4. Conceptual Perspectives Chapter 5. Couch Potatoes and Wind-Up Dolls? Chapter 6. Biocultural Factors in Developing Physical Activity Levels Chapter 7. Youth Attitudes Chapter 8. Motivational Characteristics of Youth in Physically Active and Sedentary Behaviors Chapter 9. The Role of the Self Chapter 10. Youth With Movement Difficulties Chapter 11. The Family Chapter 12. Peers Chapter 13. Physical Activity Levels During the School Day Chapter 14. Organized Sport and Physical Activity Promotion Chapter 15. Community Extra-School Physical Activity Promotion Chapter 16. Living Environments Chapter 17. Economic Principles Chapter 18. Culturally Appropriate Research and Interventions.


Abstract The author, who is responsible for competition policy in the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, analyses the objectives, the regulatory approach, the substantive obligations and the strengths and potential shortcomings of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The contribution attempts to answer the question to which extent the DMA will deliver on its twin promise to increase contestability and fairness on digital markets.


In this paper, the intuitionistic fuzzy set and the triangular intuitionistic fuzzy number were displayed, as well as the intuitionistic fuzzy semi-parametric logistic regression model when the parameters and the dependent variable are fuzzy and the independent variables are crisp. Two methods were used to estimate the model on fuzzy data representing Coronavirus data, which are the suggested method and The Wang et al method, through the mean square error and the measure of goodness-of-fit, the suggested estimation method was the best.


To the Editor.— In answer to Dr G. S. Stretcher's request for information on the use of beta carotene in congenital porphyria (Archives114:1242-1243, 1978), I would like to bring to his attention two reports of the use of beta carotene in this disease. The first is by my colleagues and myself, in which we treated two children with some success, 1 and the second is by Jung, in which he reported improved light tolerance in an 18-year-old man, who had taken beta carotene for four years. 2 It would appear that beta carotene may indeed be effective in preventing the appearance of new skin lesions in congenital porphyria, if given in high enough doses. The dose should be adjusted for each patient, until no new lesions appear. Up to 300 mg/day can be given, but experience suggests that much lower doses are adequate. I, as well as Dr Stretcher,


2012 is the first year of the MOOC which has been highly concerned both in the academic area and educational word ever since its emergence. This paper explains the main features and the development process of MOOC, meanwhile introduces its development status and future trends in detail. And it summarizes current problems and gives reasonable suggestions in order to provide reference for the MOOC development.


Yuldashev, Renat Synthesis of Phase-Locked Loop: analytical methods and simulation Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2013, 50 p.(+included articles) (Jyväskylä Studies in Computing ISSN 1456-5390; 175) ISBN 978-951-39-5487-1 (nid.) ISBN 978-951-39-5490-1 (PDF) Finnish summary Diss. One of the main approaches for PLL analysis is the numerical simulation of the models on the level of electronic realization. It is a challenging task, because the frequency of oscillators in modern computers and communication systems can reach up to several gigahertz. However, the frequency of the loop bandwidth may be only multiple of kilohertz. This 3 to 6 order of magnitude difference in frequencies makes simulation of PLL very difficult. To overcome these difficulties, a special mathematical model of phase-locked loop, in which only slow time scale of signals phases and frequencies is considered. That, in turn, requires to construct mathematical model of all components of the PLL. One of the main components of the PLL is a phase detector, whose operation depends on the waveforms of considered signals. In this work a general approach for analytical calculation of phase detector characteristic for classical phase-locked loop for various signal waveforms is proposed. Obtained PLL and PLL with a squarer models allow to use phase-frequency model for PLL, thereby significantly reducing time required for numerical simulation.


The paper considers peculiarities of the translation of the so called "tell-tale" names, suggests a mechanism of revealing semantic incre-ments, puts forward a hypothesis on the differences between Russian and English word sound associations, describes an experiment proving the hypothesis, and proposes the necessity of taking into account word semantics while translating "tell-tale" names.


Author(s): Turchin, Peter | Abstract: A review of Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel (Princeton University Press, 2019)


Recently, Lee et al. proposed an improvement on Peyravian and Zunic scheme to make the protocol withstand the guessing attack. However, their scheme suffers from a denial of service attack. In this paper, we show that an attacker can easily prevent the normal use of communication facilities by performing the attack. We also propose an enhancement of the scheme to isolate such a problem.


Abstract Background  Earlier it was thought that osteoarthritis and osteoporosis were mutually exclusive but many studies now prove that these diseases coexist. This study was undertaken to assess the bone health in terms of mineral density and other markers among patients undergoing total knee replacement due to osteoarthritis. Methods  A total of 100 patients with advanced osteoarthritis undergoing total knee replacement and satisfying inclusion and exclusion criteria were selected. Detailed social, medical, personal, and family history was recorded. All participants underwent for dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scan (spine and both hips), X-rays (both knees and pelvis), Western Ontario and McMaster Universities osteoarthritis index (WOMAC) scoring, and serum levels of vitamin D, calcium, phosphorus, alkaline phosphatase, and Parathyroid hormone (PTH). Data collected and analyzed. Results  In total, 87% of total participants were females. Mean values for age, height, weight, serum vitamin D3, serum PTH, serum calcium, serum phosphorus, serum alkaline phosphatase, WOMAC score, and bone mineral density (BMD) score (T-score) were 65.35 years, 160.15 cm, 69.37 kg, 26.91 ng/mL, 48.02 pg/mL, 9.01 mg/mL, 3.40 ng/mL, 57.91 IU/L, 56.32, and −1.16, respectively. Conclusion  Osteopenia and osteoporosis seem prevalent in the Indian population with advanced knee osteoarthritis. Our findings do not support the hypothesis of inverse relation between osteoarthritis and lower BMD. The study reflected poorer bone health and lesser average age for Indian patients undergoing total knee replacement.


A well‐established feature of speech production is that talkers faced with both anticipated and unanticipated perturbations can spontaneously adjust the movement patterns of articulators such that the acoustic output remains relatively undistorted. Less clear is the nature of the underlying mechanism(s) involved. In this study we examined the production of static vowels and vowels embedded in a dynamic speech context in five subjects under normal conditions and a combined condition in which (a) the mandible was fixed via a biteblock, (b) proprioceptive information was reduced via bilateral anaesthetization of the temperomandibular joint, (c) tactile information from oral mucosa was reduced by extensive application of topical anaesthetic, and (d) auditory information was masked by white noise. Analysis of formant patterns revealed minimal distortion of the speech signal under the combined condition. These findings are unfavorable for a predictive simulation model which requires reliable peripheral informat...


The year 1993, by Jose Saramago, published in 1975, portrays a society invaded by a despotic foreign coutry, which oppresses the native population. The date indicated in the title, as opposed to the publication of the book, points to a catastrophic future, which associates the poem with the dystopian genre. The atrocities committed violate the civil rights of the inhabitants of the occupied country. Thus, The year 1993 provides a reflection on the relationship between the dystopian gender and the practice of policies in the name of human rights in a literary text.


Part 1 Principles of clinical pharmacology. 1 Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. 2 Clinical pharmacokinetics: dosage individualisation. 3 Influence of disease and age on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. 4 Drugs in pregnant and breast feeding women. Part 2 Aspects of therapeutics. 5 Primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. 6 Management of coronary artery disease and its complications. 7 Antimicrobial therapy. 8 Respiratory disease. 9 Drugs and inflammatory joint disease. 10 Cytotoxic drugs and immunopharmacology. 11 Corticosteroids. 12 Drugs and the reproductive system. 13 Drugs and gastrointestinal disease. 14 Drugs and the blood including anticoagulants and thrombolytic drugs. 15 Anaesthesia and the relief of pain. 16 Drugs and psychiatry. 17 Drugs and neurological disease. 18 Drugs and endocrine disease. 19 Travel medicine and tropical disease. Part 3 Practical aspects of prescribing. 20 Poisoning and drug overdose. 21 Drugs you may need in a hurry. 22 Prescribing and its pitfalls. Index


As a method for eliminating multiple access interference (MAI) in CDMA, blind space-time multiuser detection based on the Kalman filter will face the problem of numeric stability when used in 16bits or 32bits microprocessor or DSP. So a high performance blind space-time multiuser detection algorithm is proposed by introducing the U-D factor Kalman filter to estimate the optimal decision vector of the CDMA multiple-users receiver. This algorithm can converge rapidly, track in high accuracy and has satisfied numeric stability. Simulation results show that this algorithm can eliminate multiple access interference (MAI) efficiently and is robust to numerical calculation.


Colin Ward may be one of the few anarchist writers to have a larger readership outside of anarchist circles than within them. This is a testament both to his writing and to the rhetorical preferences of contemporary anarchist readers especially at a time when highly abstract and theoretical post-modern/anarchist hybrids have provided some footing for academic anarchists and their publishers. Ward described his approach to anarchism as one that is based on actual experiences or practical examples rather than theories or hypotheses. One of the major contributions of the journal Anarchy, under Ward's editorship was to take anarchist writing from the status of fringe or marginal commentary and to encourage a broader audience to take anarchist ideas on a variety of topics seriously. Ward's anarchist-sociology can serve as a wise sign-post for both anarchists and sociologists alike, to appreciate what is of greatest importance.Keywords: Colin Ward; sociological anarchy


With RDF becoming the de facto standard for representing knowledge graphs, it is indispensable to develop scalable subgraph matching algorithms over big RDF graphs stored in distributed clusters. In this paper, we propose a novel distributed subgraph matching method SP-Tree, using the Pregel model, to answer subgraph matching queries on big RDF graphs. In our method, the query graph is transformed to a variant spanning tree based on the shortest paths. Two optimization techniques are proposed to improve the efficiency of our algorithms. One employs RDF shapes to filter out local computations and messages passed, the other postpones the Cartesian product operations in the matching process to reduce intermediate results. The extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets show that our SP-Tree subgraph matching method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by an order of magnitude.