Purpose:To determine the diagnostic value of detection of carcinoembryonic antigen mRNA (CEA mRNA), CEA and CA19-9 for diagnosis and differential diagnosis of malignant or benign hydrothorax. Methods:The groups included 76 cases of malignant hydrothorax group and 58 cases in benign hydrothorax group from whom specimens of chest fluid were obtined. CEA mRNA was detected by reverse transcriptase-nested primer-polymerase chain reaction (RT-NP-PCR). CEA and CA19-9 were detected by magnetic antibody immunoenzymetric assay (MAIA). Results:The positive rates of CEA mRNA, CEA and CA19-9 were 78.9%(60/76), 52.6%(40/76) and 55.3%(42/76) in the malignant hydrothorax group, and 8.6% (5/58), 5.2%(3/58) and 3.4%(2/58) in the benign dropsy of chest group respectively. There were significant differences in the positive results of CEA mRNA, CEA and CA19-9 between benign and malignant hydrothorax(P0.001). The specificities of CEA mRNA, CEA and CA19-9 to diagnose the malignant hydrothorax were 91.4%, 94.8% and 96.6%. Their sensitivities were 78.9%, 52.6% and 55.3% respectively. The specificities and the sensitivity of the combined three items were 90.8% and 82.8%.Conclusions:CEA mRNA, CEA and CA19-9 positive rates were higher in malignant hydrothorax with CEA mRNA being the highest. CEA mRNA,CEA and CA19-9 are very helpful in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of benign or malignant hydrothorax. The combination of the three items can enhance the sensitivity further.


The 1° and 2° antibody response of adjuvant arthritic rats to a soluble mycobacterial lipoprotein preceded the development of arthritis. In contrast, delayed hypersensitivity reactions to PPD paralleled disease activity. Treatment with immunosuppressive agents indicated that complete suppression of disease in the noninjected paw could occur without effect on the humoral response, but the delayed skin reaction was suppressed at all doses. It is suggested that the humoral antibody response to mycobacterial antigens may have relevance to the regulation of the disease.


With its so-called Masterplan for Medical Education ("Masterplan Medizinstudium") 2020, the German government together with the federal states intends to develop measures with the aim of enabling a more targeted selection of study applicants, increase the orientation towards practice, and strengthen the primary care aspects throughout the studies [Shaping Germany's Future, coalition treaty between CDU, CSU and SPD, retrieved 30.1.2016]. In the internet, one can already find a variety of statements as well as suggestions for according measures by the Medical Faculty Association (MFT), German Medical Students' Association (bvmd), German Medical Association, German physicians' union (Marburger Bund, Hartmannbund), as well as some societies within the Association of Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (AWMF). These various perspectives paint a multi-faceted and partly contradicting image of recommendations. However, what most of these recommendations have in common is that they are not based on scientific evidence. More targeted selection of study applicants


— The increasing demand for renewable energy from sources such as wind and solar has attracted the researchers to study the behavior and attributes of these energy resources in more depth. One of the important aspects of renewable energy resources is their uncertainty/unpredictability. To have a balance between the power demand and generation, it is important to know how much power could be generated in the grid at any time to avoid shortage/loss in the grid. The power generated by solar arrays mainly depends on the availability of the solar radiation (beside other factors). Since the solar radiation is unpredictable and depends on the weather condition, prediction of the output power for the solar arrays is desirable. In this work, a comprehensive analysis of the time series data as well as prediction of the output power using different regression techniques is performed. The data is collected from the NCRC solar array installed in Ann Arbor, MI. A novel approach that model by combines time series data and linear regression is developed and is found to produce the best result with the lowest error. The proposed linear regression model uses the observed values of the output as one of the predictors, along with other selected features (e.g., temperature) to predict the output.


Objective To establish the experimental periodontitis model with root furcation infection of lower premolars in Beagle dogs by intramuscular injection of glucocorticoid and orthodontic elastic ligation in dental cervix,and to provide the animal experimental model for regeneration of periodontium.Methods Four Beagle dogs were selected and randomly divided into two groups: glucocorticoid-ligation group and ligation group.High glucose regimen was used during the whole experiment in both groups.The periodontal clinical index and X-ray examination of experimental tooth were recorded on 7d,and 1,3,6 months.Results The periodontitis appeared more severe with calculus Ⅲ° and significant tooth mobility in glucocorticoid-ligation group,exposure of root furcation Ⅲ-Ⅳ°;at the same time,calculusⅠ° and no significant tooth mobility,and root furcation exposureⅡ-Ⅲ° in ligation group was noticed.In both groups horizontal alveolar bone resorption could be observed by X-ray examination,and severe horizontal alveolar bone resorption appeared in glucocorticoid-ligation group.Conclusion Experimental periodontitis model with root furcation infection of lower premolars can be established by intramuscular injection of glucocorticoid and orthodontic elastic ligation in dental cervix,but glucocorticoid can aggravate the experimental periodontitis.


The area, where interaction of focused XUV laser radiation with solid surface takes place, can be divided according to local fluency into desorption region (if fluency is larger than zero and smaller than ablation threshold) and ablation region (if fluency is equal or larger than this threshold). It turned out that a direct nanostructuring (e.g. imprinting diffraction pattern created on edges of windows of proximity standing grid) is possible in the desorption region only. While for femtosecond pulses the particle (atom/molecule) removal-efficiency η in the desorption region is very small (η < 10%), and hence, it can be easily distinguished from the ablation region with η ~ 100%, for nanosecond pulses in desorption region this η rises at easily ablated materials from 0% at the periphery up to ~90% at the ablation contour and, therefore, the boundary between these two regions can be found with the help of nanostructuring only. This rise of removal efficiency could be explained by gradually increased penetration depth (due to gradually removed material) during laser pulse. This is a warning against blind using crater shape for fluency mapping in the case of long laser pulses. On the other hand it is a motivation to study an ablation plum (or ablation jet) and to create a knowledge bank to be used at future numerical modeling of this process.


Commentary Multiple steps and prerequisites may cause delay and variability in the recognition and treatment of febrile seizures and febrile status epilepticus. Among the challenges are identification of patients at risk of febrile convulsive status and detection of febrile seizures and febrile status epilepticus. If symptoms are noted by nonmedical personnel, including parents or caretakers, seizures and febrile status epilepticus need to ideally be recognized as such. Families either need to bring the patient to medical attention or may need access to acute treatment options and need to know how to apply treatment, and then contact medical providers to determine further work-up and care as indicated. Medical service providers, be it emergency medical services (EMS), emergency department (ED), primary care, or neurologist, may need to have febrile status rescue medications available and need to be able to give initial treatment, recognize treatment failure, and escalate treatment when initial interventions are not effective. Seizure Detection and Recognition While the percentage of parents who do not bring their children with febrile status epilepticus to medical attention for prolonged periods of time may be minimal, there are occasional families who elect to wait. Deterrents and distractors from medical care may vary, including limited awareness of acuity and emergency, access to emergency care, long wait times, or relatively more urgent competing family tasks among others. Mutual collaboration to provide children with better access and families in need with better education of this emergency is crucial. Cardiologists and stroke specialists have demonstrated that time to treatment in myocardial infarct patients ("Time is muscle") or stroke patients ("Time is brain") can be improved. This education may also include education regarding varying seizure symptoms and interventions. Despite best intentions and counseling though, seizure onset may occur unwitnessed. To date, there are no clear guidelines regarding the role of novel seizure detection tools, baby monitors, actigraphy sensors, movement sensors, smart clothing, or cameras and other devices detecting seizures, while some of these techniques may benefit patients at risk, allowing easier detection by parents or medical care providers (1).


A method for controlling output from a photovoltaic array comprises changing electrical connections between photovoltaic panels in the array in response to changes in parameters related to a selected power transfer objective. Examples of power transfer objectives include matching array impedance to changes in electrical load impedance, outputting power at a maximum power point value, and maintaining array output voltage within the input voltage range of an inverter during changes in temperature, illumination, or other parameters affecting photovoltaic panel output. Photovoltaic panels adapted for reconfigurable electrical connections to other photovoltaic panels, referred to as intelligent nodes, are electrically interconnected according to the disclosed method in combinations of serial and parallel circuits selected according to measured and calculated values of parameters related to the selected power transfer objective. A photovoltaic array operating in accord with the disclosed method may be rapidly reconfigured to adapt to changes in measured parameters or changes from one power transfer objective to another.


In 1933, Konstantinas Raicinskis, a student of the Theologo-Philosophical Faculty (Department of Philosophy) of Kaunas University, wrote the diploma paper "Mathematical Methods in Logic", and was conferred the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy.
 It was the first paper in Lithuania on mathematical logic. It consists of two parts: a general and a special (theory of properties). The paper discussed a number of important questions of mathematical logic. The problem of formalizing intensional relations between concepts is of peculiar interest. Konstantinas Raicinskis suggested a new method which envisaged different symbols for the content and the form of a concept, the concept as a whole being expressed by a combination of the symbols. The aim of the method was to make formalization in logic more complete.


GLOSSARY OF NAMES GLOSSARY OF TERMS FOREWORD ORIGINS AND EARLY EXPERIENCES AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION THE DAUDZAI PROJECT THE PERSONAL DIARY OF A UN CONSULTANT IN JAPAN LETTERS FROM SRI LANKA - THE MAHAWELI GANGA PROJECT TRANSITION FROM THE CIVIL SERVICE TO THE AGA KHAN FOUNDATION AKRSP HIS HIGHNESS THE AGA KHAN'S VISION OF AKRSP MY INTRODUCTION TO AKRSP THE AGA KHAN RURAL SUPPORT PROGRAMME: GOALS AND OPERATING PRINCIPLES PROGRAMME IMPACT & THE NUMBERS GAME PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION AT AKRSP WOMEN, EQUITY AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE NEW MANAGEMENT PARADIGM DR. AKHTER HAMEED KHAN SECTION III: SCALING UP AND REPLICATION SCALING UP AND REPLICATION Annexes: Correspondence with the Government A CASE STUDY OF ADVOCACY WITH THE GOVERNMENT SAPAP AND ANDHRA PRADESH


A scripting model may include links to web based services by including an interface associated with each web based service. The interface may perform various functions used to exchange information with a web based service, such as discovery, addressing, connection, configuration, authentication, and other functions. The web based service may be used in a similar manner as a local service within the scripting model, including automatic memory management, bounds checking, data translation, and other features of scripting.


PEN fibres are well known for their high performance properties, resistance, and good tensile properties. Their potential markets are the packaging, film and fibre markets. For tyre yarns in particular, the response to dynamic deformations at elevated temperatures is interesting. The ultimate modulus of PEN fibres is substantially higher than that of polethylenetrephtalate (PET). However, in the amorphous domains of PEN, the rotation of the naphthalene rings induces conformational transitions, which negatively influence the dynamic mechanical properties (Militký, 1999)

The main aim of this contribution is to measure and characterize the dynamic mechanical spectra of PEN fibres. These spectra are obtained at various levels of pre-straining. The analysis is based on the real part of the dynamic modulus and on an evaluation of the loss tangent. The simple model of dynamic behaviour based on the standard linear viscoelastic body is presented. The special apparatus for measuring dynamic behaviour under various types of deformation (tension, compression, bending, shearing) is described in detail.


We describe results of a case study whose intent was to determine whether new techniques for hardware/software partitioning of an application's binary are competitive with partitioning at the C source code level. While such competitiveness has been shown previously for standard benchmark suites involving smaller or unoptimized applications, the case study instead focuses on a complete 16,000-line highly-optimized commercial-grade application, namely an H.264 video decoder. The several month study revealed that binary partitioning was indeed competitive, achieving nearly identical 2.5x speedups as source level partitioning, compared to a standard microprocessor. Furthermore, the study revealed that several simple C-level coding modifications, including pass by value-return, function specialization, algorithmic specialization, hardware-targeted reimplementation, global array elimination, hoisting and sinking of error code, and conversion to explicit control flow, could lead to improved application speedups approaching 7x for both source level and binary level partitioning.


Triploidy has been induced in many salmonid species by application of different methods to newly fertilized eggs to prevent extrusion of the second polar body (Galbreath and Samples, 2000). The induction of triploidy in salmonids may attend to avoid the reduced growth and survival losses associated with sexual maturity in normal fish. This problem can be inhibited by producing non-maturing fish with triploidisation, in this regard production of sterile fish is to be useful to the fish industry. There were different methods that were known to triploidy induction such as, heat or cold shock, hydrostatic pressure and chemical treatment. It is also known that the most popular method is thermal (heat) shock. Different parameters like duration of thermal exposure time, shock temperature and initiation time of shock (Felip et al., 2001), species∕strain susceptibility (Moffett and Crozier, 1995) and many physiological factors (Diaz et al., 1993) can affect the triploid yields. Several methods were reported for the ploidy identification such as, electrophoresis of proteins and examination of morphology (Liu et al., 1978), counting of nucleoli (Howel and Black, 1980), measurement of nuclear and cellular size of erythrocytes (Purdom, 1993). Also direct methods include chromosome counting by karyotype analysis and DNA content determination by flow cytometry (Thorgaard, 1983). Erythrocyte size from the blood smear is the most suitable


Allergy is an increasing problem in the western world affecting up to 25% of the population, leading to a decreased quality of life for the individuals and increased medical costs for society. Allergy is a complex disease and all the factors involved in the development of the disease are not yet established. The aim of this project was to identify differences in metabolic patterns in maternal and umbilical cord blood in relation to allergy development at one year of age. A second aim was to analyse differences in the metabolome between mothers, fathers and their newborn children and to investigate differences in metabolites in the childrens' arterial and venous umbilical cord blood. The project was performed on data from 52 families participating in the NICE-cohort using multi- and univariate statistical tools.
Usingmultivariatemodellingitwasnotpossibletodetectglobaldifferencesbetween allergic and non-allergic children, possibly due to only seven out of the 52 children included developing allergy by the age of one year. Univariate models which examined each metabolite separately found several metabolites, mainly amino acids and monosaccharides, differed significantly between allergic and non-allergic children.
Whencomparingsamplesfrommothers,fathersandchildrenitwasfoundthatmothers generally had higher amounts of α-tocopherol and fatty acids (mainly oleic-, linoleic- and linolenic acid) compared to paternal and infant samples, while infant samples contained high amounts of amino acids (mainly, glycylvaline, lysine, phenyalanine and tryptophan). The comparison between metabolic pattern in arterial and venous cord blood found that arterial blood contained more mono- and disaccharides (mainly deoxy galactose, glucose, sorbose and galactose) while venous blood contained more organic acids (including α-ketoglutaric acid and glutamic acid).
Due to the low number of allergic children in this ongoing, no conclusions could be drawn about a specific metabolic pattern in relation to allergy. Hence, larger studies are needed to investigate the metabolic relationship to allergy development. Differencesbetweenmothersandnewbornsreflectsdifferencesintheircatabolic/anabolicstates. Arterialandvenousdifferencesmayindicatewhatsubstratesarebeing preferentially used by the newborn baby.


: The Internet of Things operates in vital areas and involves people, objects, and networks. Indeed, it ensures the interconnection and exchange of critical information that does not tolerate flaws. A successful attack on an object in one of these fields will cause fatal damage. Therefore, securing IOTs requires particular attention to the used protocols. It is essential to choose adapted protocols to the requirements of the objects and provide maximum security. Authentication is the first entry to IOTs that must be optimal and secure, without encumbering objects with limited capacities. To address this issue and to avoid concentration points, we present an improved authentication protocol based on the Blake2 hash function and the distribution of calculating OTP function. We will then evaluate, in terms of spatial and temporal complexity, the improvement brought to the IOT authentication process by the proposed process. We will prove that the use of these technics ensure a secure authentication that consumes less time and less memory.


Probiotics play many physiological functions,such as immune regulation,epithelial barrier formation and cell proliferation in the intestines.The recent researches showed that probiotics could regulate the level of reactive oxygen species(ROS) in the gut,which may be the important mechanism of probiotics to play the physiological functions.Probiotics can stimulate the release of ROS in the intestines,as signaling secondary messengers to regulate the intestinal redox process.Meanwhile probiotics can eliminate the excessive ROS released by intestinal cells to prevent the intestinal damage caused by ROS.This paper reviewed howprobiotics regulate the level of ROS in the gut,and perform both immunity and antioxidant functions.


The invention discloses a method for processing waste acid water discharged by a system for preparing sulfuric acid from lead or zinc smelting flue gas. The processing method comprises the following steps: taking soot obtained by collecting dust from the flue gas of lead or zinc smelting enterprises as a neutralizer; adding the neutralizer into the waste acid water discharged by the system for preparing the sulfuric acid from the lead or zinc smelting flue gas for stirring so as to be subject to neutralization reaction; after the neutralization reaction, controlling the pH value of the solution to be 4.5-6.0; carrying out filter pressing on the solution obtained after the neutralization reaction; and returning filter residue obtained after filter pressing to a lead system, and sending the obtained filter liquor to a zinc system or taking the filter liquor as a raw material for recovering zinc sulfate. In the technical scheme of the invention, the soot obtained by collecting the dust from the flue gas of the lead or zinc smelting enterprises as the neutralizer for the waste acid water discharged by the system for preparing the sulfuric acid from the lead or zinc smelting flue gas; in terms of the lead or zinc smelting enterprises, taking the soot the neutralizer lowers the cost for processing the waste acid water, improves the economic benefits of the enterprises, and simultaneously solves the problem existing in the process of returning the soot obtained by collecting the dust from the flue gas of the lead or zinc smelting enterprises to the system to serve as an ingredient.


In 1763, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were called upon by the colonial proprietors of Pennsylvania and Maryland to demark the long disputed boundary that eventually came to bear their name. During the ensuing four years, Mason and Dixon cleared a line (visto) eight or nine yards wide through the virgin forests of the western frontier, crossed the Allegheny Mountains, and set 500 pound monuments every mile along the way. While it is true that Mason and Dixon accomplished the task of establishing and marking the complex boundary between the Penn's and Calvert's, it can hardly be said that they did it alone. This tremendous undertaking required the skills and labor of a large work party. During the late summer of 1767, as many as 115 men were employed as ax-men, instrument bearers, cooks, tent keepers, shepherds and even a milkmaid. The journal of the survey that was kept by Charles Mason contains a wealth of information pertaining to the measurements and astronomical observations taken during the course of the survey. Little is mentioned in his journal about the men who were employed for the work or of the tremendous undertaking necessary to clear the lines for the surveyors to perform their observations. Moses McLean, a colonial surveyor, was hired as the Steward of the survey and was charged with the management of the work force necessary to accomplish this tremendous undertaking. McLean, who along with his brothers Archibald, Samuel and Alexander had been involved only a few years before with the difficult task of surveying the 12-mile radius northern boundary of the present day state of Delaware. McLean kept detailed ledgers of the names of those employed, their time and wages as well as daily receipts and expenses. From these ledgers, we are able to gain insight into the magnitude and complexity of surveying Mason and Dixon's Line.


How gender operates is a key factor in the ways in which physical education is organized, taught and experienced by students and teachers. This essay highlights the gendered contours of the history of physical education development in Hong Kong, its Chinese heritage and its colonial foundations – the persistent influence of British approaches to physical education teacher education and the promotion of sport. The paper is a collaborative work between Chinese-born and Western scholars. It examines the relative influences of Chinese attitudes towards gender roles and the active, sporting body and the continued impact of Western approaches to physical education and sport in a post-colonial society.


Objective To observe effects of using artificial tears for dry eye syndrome after Excimer Laser Subepithelial Keratomileusis.Methods Total 734 patients (1447 eyes) treated with LASIK were divided into two groups according to using Tears Naturale Ⅱ or not. Tear tests were observed before and after surgery and contrasted between two groups.Results Tear tests of Tears Naturale Ⅱ group were better than that of control group, and postoperative tear tests of two groups were worse than that of preoperative tests.Conclusion It is needed and effective to use artificial tears for dry eye syndrome after Excimer Laser Subepithelial Keratomileusis.


Summary.

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The fore-limbs of Xenopus laevis are freed from their brachial sacs at the onset of metamorphosis in response to an endocrine stimulus.

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The disappearance of the tissues overlying the young limbs is not a result of mechanical pressure exercised by limb growth, nor is it aided by stresses created by changes in head shape during metamorphosis. Mechanical pressure resulting from movements of the limbs hastens their liberation, but the thinning and perforation of the overlying tissues can take place in the experimentally contrived absence of the limb.

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Metamorphic changes in the branchial chamber, in particular the involution of larval structures, can play no part in initiating the perforation process in this species. It is suggested that the role of substances released by degenerating gills in inducing opercular perforation in the normal metamorphosis of other Anuran species has not been satisfactorily established.

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The process of fore-limb liberation in the precociously induced metamorphosis of young tadpoles is regarded as essentially similar to the equivalent process in normal metamorphosis. This consideration, taken with the results of some earlier workers, leads to a rejection of the claim that Anurau fore-limbs are liberated as a consequence of the histolytic properties of the secretion of glands in their skin.

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The only factor that may be regarded as universally effective in the perforation process is the specificity of the tissues concerned to atrophy in response to endocrine conditions at the onset of metamorphosis. It is suggested that this factor alone is responsible for initiating the process in Xenopus, and probably in other species as well.

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There is no justification for regarding the process of perforation as an example of double assurance.


Damage to a pipeline system and/or danger to pipeline personnel are potential electrical effects when there is an a-c transmission line in proximity to the pipeline (conduction of stray currents, ground currents, lightning) or parallel to the line (induced voltages). Fault conditions in the transmission line give momentary high voltages in pipes which are aboveground or electrically insulated by protective coatings. Damage may result to cathodic protection systems, coatings, or the pipe. High voltages are the result of combinations of a large number of factors. The complex relationships among these factors are set forth together with recommendations for avoiding or mitigating troublesome or dangerous situations.


N ATURAL PHILOSOPHY, OR NATURAL SCIENCE AS IT WAS SOMETIMES called, was the most widely taught discipline at the medieval university. For more than four centuries, virtually all students who obtained the master of arts degree had studied natural philosophy, and most undergraduates were exposed to significant aspects of it. What was natural philosophy for university students in the late Middle Ages? WHAT IS NATURAL PHILOSOPHY? In the broadest sense, natural philosophy was the study of change and motion in the physical world. In Chapter 3, we saw that it was one of Aristotle's three subdivisions of theoretical knowledge, or knowledge for its own sake. Natural philosophy was concerned with physical bodies that existed independently and were capable of motion, and therefore subject to change. In truth, Aristotle's natural philosophy was also concerned with bodies in motion that were themselves unchanging, as was assumed for all celestial bodies. In general, Aristotle's natural philosophy was concerned with separately existing animate and inanimate bodies that undergo change and possess an innate source of movement and rest. Because the domain of natural philosophy was the whole of nature, as the name suggests, it did not represent any single science, but could, and did, embrace bits and pieces of all sciences. In this sense, natural philosophy was "The Mother of All Sciences."


In order to induce rapid division of the bacterial cells and to stimulate the specific metabolic products of these cells, the researcher prefers to use natural culture medium as an alternative to the synthetic medium. This study aimed to stimulate the production of the prodigiosin (red pigment) in the bacterium Serratia marcescens that was grown on entirely natural components medium. To investigate the production of prodigiosin pigment in environmental isolates of Serratia marcescens, culture medium was prepared from powder by mixing the equal quantities of seven types of dry legumes : white bean, faba beans, mung bean, green peas, chickpea, black-eyed pea and red lentil, these legumes were available at low costs in the local mini markets in the city of Baghdad. Both of the liquid and solid forms of this medium showed remarkable ability for the stimulation of the pigment production after incubation under 25-28°C for 24h. The experiment was also performed by using only one type of the seven legumes for knowledge of each type of legumes individually to stimulate the pigments; pigment production was decreased and the color of the bacterial colonies was light red. The characteristics of this medium compared to other media that naturally prepared are: easily prepared, rarely contaminated due to its dry components and it is simply prepared as both liquid and solid forms because of its dehydrated ingredients. comparing to the commercial media; constituents of this medium are available at low costs and showed the effectiveness of pigments stimulation of Serratia marcescens in addition to enhanced bacterial growth.


Abstract : A Joint Resource Advances in weaponry and targeting have increased the burden of managing fire support operations, always a complex and exacting process. This difficulty, however, is being lessened greatly by automation. The Army advanced field artillery tactical data system (AFATDS) is about to make its third wave warfare debut. This state-of- the-art system supports the need for horizontal and vertical interoperability distribution of situational awareness information, and automation in the process of matching fire support weapons systems against high-payoff targets. From the field artillery digital automated computer of the 196Os to the tactical fire direction system (TACFIRE) of the 198Os and the initial fire support automated system of today, the field artillery community has been in the forefront in automated support for commanders in combat.


This paper analyzes the on-site quality control of municipal road asphalt pavement construction stage, and mainly discusses the construction quality control precautions from five aspects, including test section, construction preparation, paving, rolling, and special part treatment, to ensure the scientific nature of municipal road construction and provide excellent travel environment for people.


A high sulfur hydroxyl and xanthate-containing thiadiazole derivative( ESP) was synthesized in the text,and it's friction and wear performance of composition ESP in Corda 3970 were investing by four-ball tester. Results indicated that the synthetic additive can effectively improve the Corda 3970 base oil extreme pressure and antiwear performance,and along with the concentration increasing,the anti-wear and anti-friction performance increase at a given concentration range. The surface morphology and element distribution of worn steel ball surface were analyzed by using scanning electron microscopy( SEM),and it was found that the boundary film which containing S,O,N elements,is the main reason for the additive which possesses the tribological performance.


The expanding range of goods transported by trains requires improving the design of railway train cars and methods of placing and securing goods for transporting.The article proposes new means of securing goods on the basis of such research methods as methods of generalization, comparative analysis, problem statement, study of regulatory and legislative documents and results of activities.An overview of new means of securing cargo in rail transport, such as dunnage bag, polyester lashing, and anti-vandal lashing, gives an understanding of the need for a differentiated approach to solving problems of placing and securing cargo in different types of rolling stock, taking into account the state of the fleet of train cars, containers and half-cars.In this case, author innovations can be used in the transportation of goods not only by rail, but also by other modes of transportation.


The efficiency of delivering an ion beam to an inertial confinement fusion target depends on the ability to control the breakdown of the gas in the transport region. The gas in the reactor vessel must provide excellent charge neutralization and specified current neutralization to permit the beam transport and focusing to a <1 cm radius, spherical target. An interesting scheme for transport, using residual effective (or net) current for confinement, is the "self-pinch" mode. Here, we present recent self-pinch theory results and ideas for beam conditioning, focusing and transport in the self-pinch mode for the SABRE experiment. Results from the IPROP hybrid code are discussed.


"Whoever dies with the most toys," the bumper sticker reads, "wins." For all the profit-seeking and conspicuous consumption of the Gilded Age, it is unlikely that the upwardly mobile of the late nineteenth century would have openly declared such sentiments, even ironically. Elton John and Stevie Wonder may entertain the Hollywood rich and famous at a White House dinner for British Prime Minister Tony Blair with the refrain, "Money, that's what I want," but nineteenth-century ideology was more circumspect. As Irvin Wyllie and John Cawelti have demonstrated, past success ideals aimed at harmonizing moral and economic imperatives.' Those in the last century who preached that wealth was no vice and poverty no virtue did so because they believed there was transcendental ethical purpose in accumulation. Barely mentioning the sensuous pleasures of goods or the commanding power of money, success tracts concentrated instead on the moral virtues of wealth. Wealth in this rendition expanded human power, provided a means to alleviate suffering, and eventually gave, not took. When Emerson proclaimed that Man "is born to be rich," he had in mind precisely these ethical consequences of accumulation.2 Radicals, of course, saw no ethics in the pursuit by individuals of wealth. Such talk, they contended, was so much prattle designed to dupe the unwary into believing an oppressive regime of competitive acquisition was just. Capitalists' invocation of God and virtue was, they thundered, sheer hypocrisy, obscuring their own complicity in suffering. "The business of the Clerical Department of the Merchants' and Manufacturer Association is to justify the process of trade, and to preach to clerks and employees the slave-virtues of frugality, humility, and loyalty to the profit system," exclaimed Upton Sinclair in The Profits of Religion.3 If Sinclair saw manipulation, Judy Hilkey's Character is Capital, a study of 144 success manuals published between 1870 and 1910, finds manufacture of consent. Based on a 1980 Rutgers dissertation, the book treats the success manual-a pastiche of moral maxims, didactic narratives,


This chapter draws attention to an exceptional form of early modern autobiography, what is called in Spanish a traza , which means 'outline', 'sketch', or 'pattern' in reference to design. Also known as a discurso de la vida - literally, the 'discourse of one's life' - these were autobiographical statements from prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition delivered toward the end of their first, formal interrogation as potential heretics. Suspects deposing before the Holy Office held no monopoly on the use of this expression. What is more, such 'ego-speeches' came in all sizes and shapes. Some fill up numerous folios, while others barely reach a paragraph. They possess several characteristics in common, not least of which is their interest for present-day historians of early modern autobiographical expression. These two issues: the characteristics of these texts and their uses for historians -will be the focus of the chapter. Keywords: autobiography; discurso de la vida ; ego-speeches; Spanish inquisition; traza


A model-based refiner control system is operating on two lines of high-consistency refiners producing newsprint-quality thermomechanical pulp. The system uses factor network analysis to control flowline consistency, specific energy, pulp freeness, and long fiber content. Since implementation, the control system has reduced the amount of off-spec pulp by over 70% while reducing specific energy by 6%. The control system has also significantly reduced the use of kraft pulp on the paper machine. The mill estimates that the control system has produced overall savings of approximately US$ 1.4 million per year. Application : describes a model-based system that controls pulp consistency, refining energy, and pulp quality for a high-consistency refiner producing newsprint-quality TMP.


This study aimed to investigate parents' perception regarding changes of their children's behaviors after a psycho- diagnosis process. The research was accom...


This study proposes a measurable scale to gauge advertising effectiveness of digital signage. Gender study was performed on the constructs to supplement the findings. "Engagement" and "Involvement", two well-known constructs were used to find out the advertising effectiveness using digital signage. A real-time experiment was conducted and the survey data (N = 221) were analysed, presenting descriptive analysis and T-test analysis across all items among the constructs. The findings reveal that both "Engagement" and "Involvement" are significant contributors to advertising effectiveness in the context of digital signage. Findings also suggest that females tend to enjoy the advertisements more with higher degree of advertisement related experiences.


To the Editor:

We read with interest the article by Ramnemark et al1 reporting that patients developed hemiosteoporosis during the first year after severe stroke. These authors concluded that hemiosteoporosis occurred independently of any weight change after stroke. Other reports have indicated that bone mass or bone mineral density (BMD) is reduced in stroke patients on the hemiplegic side, reflecting both degree of paralysis and vitamin D deficiency.2 3 4 In these investigations, bone changes were determined by bone mass or BMD with x-ray radiodensitometry2 3 or dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry,4 without histologic assessment. However, the diagnosis of osteoporosis requires histological demonstration that both bone matrix and bone mineral area are lost. Ramnemark's report1 does not mention quantitative assessment of bone biopsy specimens. To our knowledge, histologically proved osteoporosis in patients after stroke has not been reported, although a well-established relationship exists between prolonged immobilization and osteoporosis in spinal cord injury.5

Our previous findings3 have shown lower …


This article briefly reviews recent process research on emotion in humanistic, cognitive, behavioural and psychodynamic psychotherapies. Cognitive therapy has traditionally shown less interest in emotional processes than the other therapies, but the interest of the others has not always borne fruit in empirical research. At the present time there is an interest in emotion research in therapy that cuts across all therapeutic modalities. Emotional processing and depth of experiencing, two heavily-researched emotion process categories of the behaviourists and humanists respectively, have been shown to have a robust association with outcome. There is accumulating evidence that both the in-session activation of specific, relevant emotions and the cognitive exploration and elaboration of the significance and meaning of these emotions are important for therapeutic change. Further research on emotional processes in psychotherapy is required. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


The present paper considers the questions of modeling and analysis of dynamical features of social networks taking into account evolutionary changes. A two-level approach to monitoring of social network dynamics and evolution is described, including the functionality of both levels. Possible practical interpretations and correlations with the customer-centric concept are mentioned.


This paper analyses the determinants of accessibility of insurance services in rural areas of Nigeria. The paper uses cross-sectional primary data sourced through a structured questionnaire from 384 respondents dwelling in rural areas of Katsina state. In analysing the data Logit modelling approach was used to find a significant positive influence of age, access to credit, educational attainment and availability of insurance services on access to insurance services. Moreover, the influence of income and gender are positive but statistically insignificant. Contrary, the study finds a significant negative influence of marital status on the accessibility of insurance services in rural areas. The study therefore concluded that deepening of insurance services in rural areas requires a special intervention taken into cognisance of religious viewpoint of these people. We recommended among other things, that while establishing micro-insurance in the rural areas of Northern Nigeria should be in conformity with the principles of Islam.


This study presents an experimental investigation on tool wear in machining Al 2219/15SiCp and Al 2219/15SiCp-3Gr (hybrid) composites at different cutting conditions with carbide, coated carbide, and polycrystalline diamond (PCD) tools. An attempt is made in the present investigation to study the effect of graphite incorporation in Al 2219/15SiCp composite on tool wear. The results reveal that the incorporation of graphite in Al 2219/15SiCp composite reduces tool wear at all cutting conditions. This is due to graphite, which reduces the coefficient of friction between tool and workpiece and between tool and chip interface. PCD tool performs better than carbide and coated carbide tools.


(A) halogeno -o- hydroxyl CD phenyl compound or non-halogenated hydroxyl CD ether compound; (B) phenol derivatives; (C) benzyl alcohol; (D) When a Dean-chloro-hexyl, and derivatives thereof; (e) a C (F) amphoteric surfactants; (G) Rocca vanilla Id trihalomethyl; (H) quaternary and multi-quaternary compound; Antimicrobial treatment method of a fiber material comprising inclusion complexes of the reactive cyclodextrin derivative that which applied to the textile material -, and (i) antimicrobial agents and fibers selected from the group consisting of thiazole compounds.


Throughout the 20th century slavery and forced labor for both Blacks and Whites continued in some rural areas of Brazil. The government authorities admit that despite a federal crackdown contemporary forms of slavery in which workers are held in unpaid coerced labor continue to flourish. A national survey conducted in 2000 by the Pastoral Land Commission a Roman Catholic Church group estimated that there were more than 25000 forced workers. Sworn statements by workers fleeing slavery are on file at the local office of the Pastoral Land Commission reporting incidents in which they went to the police in Maraba to complain of being held as slaves and were promptly returned by the police to the ranch from which they came. Timber and beef are two exports implicated in Brazil's slave labor market.


Abstract The effect of shear stresses and shear strains on microstructural development in transformation-toughened materials is studied with a procedure that treats the particles as a distribution of small, circular, transforming spots that surround the tip of a semi-infinite stationary crack. Microstructural simulations were conducted by incrementing a set of remote applied stresses consistent with a mode I K-field on a cracked plane containing untransformed spots. When a critical stress criterion was satisfied at a spot centre, that spot underwent a uniform stress-free transformation strain. Microstructures at crack-growth initiation show that the action of shear strains and the influence of shear stresses have an important effect on the size and shape of the region of transformed spots. The presence of shear can produce transformation zone shapes which are radically different from those predicted by the conventional continuum model of a dilatational strain triggered by a critical level of mean stress.


Among the FDA approved small molecule drugs (2005-2016) that are primarily metabolized by cytochrome P450 (CYP), 64% are primarily metabolized by CYP3A41. As the proportion of an individual drug's fraction metabolized through CYP3A4 increases, the risk for the drug to be a victim of an interaction with CYP3A4 inhibitors or inducers increases. Therefore, it is important to assess the extent of involvement of individual CYP enzymes in overall clearance for a scaffold early in discovery and mitigate the CYP3A4 mediated victim drug-drug interaction (DDI) risk, if warranted by the desired clinical profile of the drug. To mitigate the CYP3A4-mediated victim DDI risk in discovery, we analyzed the physicochemical properties of the CYP3A4 substrates and found that molecular weight was the property that provided the best separation of CYP3A4 substrates from other CYP substrates. In addition, neutral and basic compounds with MW ≥ 360 g/mol tend to be primarily metabolized by CYP3A4, whereas acidic compounds with MW < 360 g/mol are most likely to be primarily metabolized by other CYP enzymes. We then developed Support Vector Machine based on fingerprints (SVM-FP) and Deep-Learning (DL) models to predict if a molecule will be primarily metabolized by CYP3A4. Our models were trained on 2306 compounds, which is the largest training set among published models for this endpoint. Both models showed positive predictive values (PPV) > 80% in predicting a CYP3A4 substrate on a prospective testing set. Given the high PPV of the models, project teams can confidently deprioritize compounds predicted to be CYP3A4 substrates to avoid the potential liability of CYP3A4 victim DDI. Teams can then focus time and resources on synthesizing compounds that are predicted to have lower dependency on CYP3A4 metabolism and confirm that experimentally. Through such iterative in-silico-in-vitro learning circles, drug discovery teams can decide if metabolism through non CYP3A4 pathways could be achieved in the SAR of a chemical series to mitigate the CYP3A4 victim DDI risk.


In this paper, the influences of the external light injection on the chaotic carrier fundamental frequency of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) with optical feedback have been investigated. The results show that, for the fixed frequency detuning between the master laser diode and the slave VCSEL, the chaotic carrier fundamental frequency can be increased generally with the increase of injected strength; the chaotic carrier fundamental frequency can be improved significantly by adjusting frequency offset and injected strength. For the normalized injected parameter K is 330 and frequency detuning is 42GHz, chaotic output with 47.3GHz fundamental frequency can be obtained.


The principal parts of mean square errors for kernel estimates of the functions defining ARX-process are found. Parametric and nonparametric identification algorithms are compared.


The article highlights the problems that may occur during the initial period of acting education. Such personal qualities as imagination, attention, openness, relaxedness, communicability are of high priority in solving the problems of acting education. Special attention should be paid to communicability since its development allows providing the gradual shift from spontaneous everyday way of contact and communication to artistic communication and interaction on stage. The author researches the theoretical and methodological background of development of the communicability in professional acting training at theatre school and also offers a set of special exercises.


The ability to meet the demand for improved microprocessor performance is made difficult due to the simultaneous need not to increase power consumption. In order to meet these conflicting demands, IBM introduced a 90 nm dual stress liner CMOS technology to improve performance without increasing power consumption (Santiago et al., 2006). In IBM's 300 mm fab, this technology was introduced on multiple microprocessors, designed by different design groups with different architectures. These microprocessors, which were originally designed for a single liner technology, were optimized for systematic yield, power/performance; circuit limited yield (CLY), and random defect limited yield. The benefit of the dual stress liner technology is demonstrated in the power/performance characteristic of a dual core microprocessor and the successful technology ramp is demonstrated by yields of two microprocessors


In the context of a growth in both participatory democracy and responsible participation, rural decision-making in England has become increasingly complex over the past 30 years, fuelled by national polices relating to regionalism, citizenship and relocalisation. A survey of 'agents of rural governance' (ARGs) in the county of Gloucestershire, England, charts their recent growth, reasons for formation and perceived jurisdiction as well as examining complexities of decision-making relating to partnerships, networks and finance. The survey suggests that policies designed to 'empower' rural people can be seen to have clogged up rural decision-making processes sufficiently to have, effectively, disempowered many of them. The paper identifies and exemplifies six different types of 'clogging up' that impact upon rural decision-making: crowding, knotting, clouding, meandering, subverting and impoverishing. Whilst governmental proposals have been introduced in an attempt to rationalise this decision-making complexity, particularly through the Haskins Review and the English National Rural Strategy, other policy strands have conspired to make such decision-making essentially laissez faire.


With hybrid mode‐locking of an ion‐implanted semiconductor laser in an external cavity and subsequent chirp compensation, 290 fs pulses at 1.3 μm are generated. Due to the nonlinear chirp component, the time‐bandwidth product is a factor of 2.3 above the Fourier limit. Using a folded grating‐mirror cavity, the nonlinear chirp is effectively suppressed, leading to 1.6 ps pulses with a time‐bandwidth product only 12% above the theoretical limit. The influence of the cavity geometry upon the chirp is investigated in detail.


Introduction :  The aim of the study was to assess the quality of life (QL) in patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) on diagnosis, and after 1 month and 12 months of treatment with imatinib, and to identify therapeutic elements which significantly lower the QL in the patients. Materials and methods :  Assessment of QL was performed in adult patients diagnosed with CML hospitalized in the Department of Haematology, Department of Chemotherapy, and the Haematology Outpatient Clinic, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin (Poland). Quality of life was assessed with 2 questionnaires: EORTC QLQ-C30 and EQ-5D, while symptoms of depression were measured using the CES-D questionnaire. Quality of life was analyzed at 3 time points: on diagnosis (A1), after 1 month (A2), and after 12 months of therapy (A3). All groups of patients were treated with imatinib. Results :  Emotional functioning and global health status and subjective QL significantly improved from A1 to A3. Patients reported significantly less fatigue and pain. Symptoms of depression significantly reduced during treatment. The group of patients caring for others in serious illness had reported a higher index of depression. Patients without any academic degree or extra qualifications, and the group of patients caring for others in serious illness, had reported significantly lower cognitive functioning. Conclusions :  Measurement of various aspects of QL using the EORTC QLQ-C30 and EQ-5D questionnaires showed significant improvements after the 1 st  month of treatment compared to the state at diagnosis of CML. Due to high levels on the CES-D Depression Scale patients with CML do require constant psychological assistance and in some cases also psychiatric help.


Summary The effects of estrogen, or pro-lactin and STH, on mammary tumor induction by a single feeding of 20 mg of 7, 12-dimethyl-1,2-benzanthracene (DMBA) in ovariectomized Sprague-Dawley rat was investigated. After DMBA administration, mammary tumor incidence in sham-operated controls was 100%. In ovariectomized rats, DMBA failed to induce any mammary tumors by the end of 40 weeks. However, daily treatment with 1 or 10 μg estradiol, for 7 days before and after (total 14 days) DMBA administration, induced mammary tumors in 33 and 23% of rats, respectively. Similar treatment with 1 mg STH and 1 mg prolactin, twice daily for 14 days, elicited mammary tumors in 44% of the rats, while continuous daily treatment with increasing amounts of prolactin and STH for 75 days, resulted in a 66% incidence of mammary tumors. The average number of tumors per tumor-bearing rat was lower and mean tumor latency was longer in the ovariectomized rats given estrogen or STH and prolactin than in sham-operated controls. All tumors were mammary carcinomas. These results indicate that the 2 pituitary hormones, STH and prolactin, can induce mammary carcinogenesis in DMBA-treated rats in the absence of the ovaries. They also suggest that these 2 hormones, as well as estrogen, participate in the initiating and promoting phases of mammary carcinogenesis; and that the effects of estrogen may be partially mediated through stimulation of STH and prolactin secretion by the pituitary.


Power control technology and multi-user joint detection technology are the key techniques in order to improve capacity in the 3rd generation mobile communication systems which can get rid of near-far effect and multi-access interference.This paper proposes a novel asymmetric adaptive variable step power control algorithm in TD-HSUPA system to compensate the fixed step power control algorithm,because fixed step power control algorithm can't keep up with the fast fading signaling ideally.This algorithm takes into account delay performance and non-continuous transmission mode in TD-HSUPA system,and the next power control step is decided by the first three TPC commands.At the same time,the multi-user joint detection algorithm is introduced into the power control technology.By the simulation in the physical layer simulation platform of TD-HSUPA system,joint power control algorithm based on ZF-BLE is more effective on decreasing BER and the convergence of SIR than fixed step power control algorithm.


In order to better understand the problem of damages and diseases transmitted by ticks (Ixodidae) to cattle in Algeria, the author studied the seasonal features of their parasitic activity in the region of Tiaret (Algeria). From January to December, in a sample of 1240 cattle examined, 368 were infested by ticks, with a global cattle infestation rate of about 30%. The maximum monthly parasitic burden was five ticks per animal. Among 3975 ticks collected, 13 species were identified, with six species of the genus Hyalomma (66%) and three of that of Rhipicephalus (31%). The numerically dominant species was H. lusitanicum (20%), whereas H. excavatum and H. marginatum marginatum had the highest cattle infestation rates (13%). The three monotropic species, recognized as vectors of bovine piroplasmosis in Algeria, represented 37.4% of the total tick population. Among these, Rhipicephalus bursa represented 69%, Hyalomma detritum 28%, and Boophilus annulatus 3%. The semiarid climate of the region must have been less favorable to B. annulatus. The presence of R. bursa was shown to be all year round, whereas that of H. detritum was limited to about four months, because of a more prolonged wintry diapause of its preimagos. R. bursa predominance indicated that babesioses must have occurred more frequently in the region than theileriosis (caused by Theileria annulata ). The low tick burden observed and the numerous cases of piroplasmoses reported in cattle underlied the presence of an enzootic stability problem towards these diseases. Because of a potential infection risk during some periods of the year, notably in imported animal breeds, owing to adult tick predominance in the hot season and preimagos in the cold season, a preventive acaricide treatment can be applied in May and October


Numerical solution of hypersingular integral equations in curved crack problems is presented. The stress fields induced by two kinds of standard sets of force doublets are used as fundamental solutions. Then, the problem is formulated as a system of integral equations with the singularity of the form r -2 . Two kinds of unknown functions ar approximated by the products of the fundamental density functions and power series


We study the sources of long-run growth and wage gap in a North-South (N-S) model with trade and foreign direct investment (FDI). Although R&D is the engine of global growth, increased share of R&D spending need not be accompanied by higher growth rate, and vice versa. Although, investment is induced by productivity growth, investment-output ratio need not rise monotonically with productivity growth. Lower investment-output ratio may accompany higher productivity growth, so higher growth rate need not entail lower share of consumption. We argue that existing models may exaggerate or under-estimate the role of R&D in growth. We also show that higher growth rate is normally accompanied by greater N–S wage gap in the long run. The effect of country size on wage gap is generally ambiguous, depending on the direction and magnitude of scale effects in R&D. Both FDI and S-N migration may increase global growth rate and N-S wage gap.


It is an appreciated tradition in China that men of grand personality would combine scholarly research with his behavior;transform academic minds to personal morality.Through his personal academic research experience,Professor Pan has set a good example of a real educator.His personality will give all followers a wonderful model of how to add academic research to lives and how to unify scholarly research and personal behavior.We believe that Professor Pan is a man of grand personality who can help encourage following education researchers to transform academic minds to personal morality.


AbstractThe aim of this study is to understand what kind of features traditional Alawi music has in thecontext of its forms of performance and structural features, based on Alan Merriam's view "Music isa stereotype of activities, thoughts and objects in stereotyped sounds".For this purpose, those who have been both zakir and dede in cems since childhood and experiencedconstruction of the relationship between symbol and meaning in the tradition; Zeynel (Batar) Dede(70), one of the dedes of Celāl Ali Abbas Ocagi, who lives in Koyungolu village of Ovacik districtof Tunceli, was the main data source of the study and in-depth interviews with Alawism and musicwere held with him in December 2019. The interviews were described thematically and the semanticdimension of this music was tried to be illuminated within the scope of the themes that appeared.For the part of the study based on music analysis, the example of the Zaza verbal Shah Hatayi phrasecompiled from Zeynel Dede was set out and the semantic relationship of the Alawi-specific symbolswith the structural elements of the music was analysed through this phrase.In conclusion, based on the example of Zeynel Dede and in the context of the perception of therelationships established by the symbols, such as Haq-Muhammad-Ali, Yol, Hizir, Ahl al-bayt,Pir, Murshid and Karbalā with music, it has been observed that a common sense of history hasgained importance as the demonstrators built through music. It has been understood that the symbolsemerging in this context have turned into a form of stereotypical expressions in terms of theirrelationship with music and that such a reflection has brought ontological dimension to the culturalbalance transmitted from past to present in the triangle of symbol-perception-semantic world.Key words: Alawism, Music, Phenomenology


In this paper, a current sensorless adaptive secondary-side control is proposed for the series resonant converter, making it a good candidate for MHz 48 VRs. By means of varying AC equivalent resistance, the output voltage regulation is achieved by controlling the duty cycle of the synchronous MOSFET. A current sensorless adaptive digital control is proposed to control the current-type synchronous MOSFETs, which automatically compensates the delay caused by the current-sensor circuit and the gate driver, and also eliminates the current sensor in the power path. A hybrid control strategy is introduced to overcome the efficiency degradation caused by the secondary-side control.


When it comes to availability, Web site operators should take a page from Yogi Berra's playbook. When asked whether he would be dining at a famous restaurant, the legendary Yankee catcher said, "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." Likewise, if your Web site is too crowded with volume it can't handle, or suffers downtime for any reason, the "e" portion of your business is quickly closed.


As an emerging technology, the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) can promote the development of industrial intelligence, improve production efficiency, and reduce manufacturing costs. In IIoT, the improvement and progress of industrial production and applications are inseparable from data fusion, a process that realizes the collection, analysis, and processing of the massive IoT data generated by industrial equipment and applications. IIot demands a real-time, effective, and privacy-preserving data fusion process. However, the existing works need to train different learning models for data analysis, which cannot meet real-time requirements in IIoT. Meanwhile, the lack of defense against internal attacks and the difficulty to balance system performance and privacy protection hinder the effectiveness and privacy protection in the data fusion process. To solve the abovementioned problems, in this article, we propose a new transfer learning-based secure data fusion strategy (TSDF) for IIoT. The proposed TSDF consists of three parts, guidance based deep deterministic policy gradient (GDDPG) algorithm for task classification, transfer learning based GDDPG for grouping of task receivers, and a multiblockchain mechanism for privacy preservation. The experiment results show that TSDF can achieve high system throughput and low latency, providing privacy preservation in data fusion under various IIoT application environments.


The Partial Air Cushion Supported Catamaran (PACSCAT) is an innovative design which combines both the characteristics of hovercraft and catamaran. Further, it provides a high-speed and efficient solution with excellent performance, particularly for shallow water. In this paper, experimental and numerical method are carried out for research of motion attitude and resistance characteristics, which provide a reference for further research and hull optimization work. By model towing test and data interpretation, and the resistance, trim, and heave varying law with increasing speed is summarized. From the view of total resistance, the impacts of the cushion pressure and air flow on resistance performance of PACSCAT are analyzed. Based on the theory of viscous fluid mechanics, a numerical simulation method with high prediction accuracy is established. The flow field around and inside the hull is simulated, the simulating results show good agreements with the testing data. Finally, the effect of the cushion compartment improving the resistance performance is studied. The results show that the cushion compartment is significant for adjusting the pressure distribution of the air cushion. And the average resistance reduction ratio at the high-speed segment can even reach 22%.


A mechanistic study of direct selective oxidation of benzylic C(sp3)−H groups with peracetic acid, catalyzed by palladium complexes with tripodal amino‐tris(pyriylmethyl) ligands, is presented. The oxidation of arylalkanes having secondary and tertiary benzylic C−H groups, predominantly yields, depending on the substrate and conditions, either the corresponding ketones or alcohols. One of the three 2‐pyriylmethyl moieties, which is pending in the starting catalyst, apparently, facilitates the active species formation and takes part in stabilization of the high‐valent Pd center in the active species, occupying the axial coordination site of palladium. The catalytic, as well as isotopic labeling experiments, in combination with ESI‐MS data and DFT calculations, point out palladium oxyl species as possible catalytically active sites, operating essentially via C−H abstraction/oxygen rebound pathway. For the ketones formation, O−H abstraction/в‐scission mechanism has been proposed.


We investigate the dynamics of two Jordan Wigner solvable models, namely, the one dimensional chain of hard-core bosons (HCB) and the one-dimensional transverse field Ising model under coin-toss like aperiodically driven staggered on-site potential and the transverse field, respectively. It is demonstrated that both the models heat up to the infinite temperature ensemble for a minimal aperiodicity in driving. Consequently, in the case of the HCB chain, we show that the initial current generated by the application of a twist vanishes in the asymptotic limit for any driving frequency. For the transverse Ising chain, we establish that the system not only reaches the diagonal ensemble but the entanglement also attains the thermal value in the asymptotic limit following initial ballistic growth. All these findings, contrasted with that of the perfectly periodic situation, are analytically established in the asymptotic limit within an exact disorder matrix formalism developed using the uncorrelated binary nature of the coin-toss aperiodicity.


Novel structural configurations of a TFT-LCD (Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Display) which results in both fast response to input data and provides wide-viewing-angles. The structure of the device is comprised of one pixel electrode layer and two common electrode layers. The structure of the invention can be used with liquid crystal display television (LCD-TV) monitors that require both fast-response as well as wide-viewing-angle. In addition, other liquid crystal technologies which require high speed response would benefit from the TFT-LCD of the present invention.


Kane and Connell compared the accuracy of six toric IOL formulas and found that the Kane formula outperformed the others in predicting astigmatism outcomes following cataract surgery. This retrospective review included 823 patients (823 eyes) who underwent insertion of an Alcon SN6AT(2-9) IOL by the same surgeon during uncomplicated cataract surgery. The six toric formulas evaluated were Abulafia-Koch, Barrett, EVO 2.0, Holladay 2 (with total surgical-induced astigmatism), Kane, and Naeser-Savini. The dataset used in the study was not part of the development of any of the formulas. Both preand postoperative biometry were measured with the IOL Master 500 or 700. All calculations were performed using vector addition, and the predicted postoperative refractive astigmatism was determined for each formula. The post-op refractive prediction error was calculated as the vector difference between the predicted and actual refractive astigmatism. Main outcome measures were the mean and standard deviation of the prediction error and the percentage of eyes with a prediction error within ±0.50 D. According to post-op keratometry and measurement of the IOL axis, the Kane formula had the highest proportion (65.6%) of eyes with prediction errors not exceeding ±0.50 D. The next-best performers were Barrett (59.9%) and AbulafiaKoch (59.5%). Compared with the five other formulas, the Kane formula had a significantly lower absolute prediction error (p < .001) and variance in prediction error (p < .01). The percentage of prediction errors did not differ substantially for the Barrett (59.9%), Abulafia-Koch (59.5%), and EVO 2.0 (58.9%) formulas. This research is one of the largest published comparative studies of toric formulas and is among the first to include three newer formulas (EVO 2.0, Holladay 2, and Kane). Although the Kane formula compared favorably to the others, the authors encourage further comparisons of these and other toric IOL formulas.


Integrated dry photoresist and residue removal is increasingly being implemented over traditional dry resist strip and wet residue removal process flows. The primary motivation is to improve the wafer surface cleanliness after a cleaning module in order to improve device performance. A case study will be reviewed for the post tungsten etch cleaning module. Using the traditional cleaning sequence of dry/wet strip caused unacceptable titanium undercut and electrical leakage. The improved cleaning module for integrated dry resist and residue removal increased device performance, controlled the titanium undercut and reduced the time in the wet strip solvent bath by over six times. Additional benefits such as decreased defects and improved SACVD coverage were also results of the integrated cleaning module. A study of the original problem, the replacement process and optimization are provided with defect data, cross sections and electrical measurements.


THE question of how accurately the components of stock option plans are reported in proxy statements and annual reports is of great concern to investors. Without accurate reporting of this information one cannot calculate the true cost of employee compensation packages. Reporting requirements and standards for stock option plans are of relatively recent origin. The original two pieces of legislation, the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, were narrow in scope in that they applied only to securities traded on the national exchanges. The essence of the Securities legislation is that "full and fair" disclosure will permit the shareholder to protect himself. Obstacles are present, however, in the proxy system which prevent this legislation from being effective. This paper is concerned with the reporting requirements and standards for stock option plans of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The objective of this paper is to analyze proxy and financial statement disclosure for stock options. First, the requirements for disclosure as set forth by the two organizations is discussed. Then some samples of the present state of disclosure are given. In an attempt to obtain pertinent and useful data the author surveyed all industrial firms listed in the 1968 "Fortune 500." Proxy statements and annual reports, for the year 1967, were requested of these companies in the fall of 1968. Over ninety per cent of the companies responded to the request. Table 1 presents an analysis of the data received.


A mode-matching approach is presented for the analysis of substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) circuits. The numerical technique takes advantage of recently developed fabrication techniques employing rectangular-shaped via holes. Discontinuity models involving all-dielectric waveguides and sections with arbitrary numbers of vias are presented and combined into a powerful analysis tool which can be used straightforwardly for the design of SIW components. The influence of the overall substrate width on the circuit performance is investigated. It is found that the computational domain can be significantly reduced without impacting on the computed performances. A design example involving a back-to-back impedance transformer is presented. The results are verified by comparison with the commercially available field solver CST Microwave Studio.


The susceptibility to infections by Heterobasidion annosum (Fr.) Bref. was examined in a 28 - year - old tree species experiment in northern Jutland, Denmark. Silver fir (Abies alba Mill.), Caucasian fir (Abies nordmanniana (Stev.) Spach), grand fir (Abies grandis (Dougl) Lindl.), noble fir (Abies procera Rehd.), Japanese larch (Larix koempferi (Lamb.) Carr.), Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.), Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.), and Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) were planted after shelterwood felling of a mountain pine (Pinus uncinata Mill. ex Mirb.) stand that had been infected by H. annosum. Douglas fir and noble fir showed the greatest mortality due to H. annosum during the first 5 years after planting. At first thinning the highest incidences of butt rot were recorded in noble fir, Japanese larch and Sitka spruce, with 44%, 43% and 36% of the thinned trees infected, respectively. Silver fir and Caucasian fir were almost free from infections. Maximum extension of ...


The 21 century national health program of Japan and the World Health Organization health promotion agenda (World Health Organization, 2005; Shimanouchi, 1990) was used to structure our current project called Health Japan 21 (Japan Health Promotion & Fitness Foundation, 2000). Our strategy focused on encouraging individuals to take the initiative in improving their daily living conditions and supporting their efforts by providing a better environment where individuals can facilitate the social resources (L W. Green & M W. Kreuter, 1999; Japan Health Promotion & Fitness Foundation, 2000). In line with the goal of the WHO, St. Luke's College of Nursing explored its own approach toward the improvement of the environment with the establishment of a new facility for counseling and medical information service. The facility called LukaNavi has been operating by a team of the faculty and professional volunteers since 2004. As a result, in the first year of the LukaNavi operation, there were 360 visitors of which 237 received counseling (Hishinuma & Kawagoe, et al., 2005). The second year, the number of counseling sessions jumped to 838 (a 350% Naoko OKUBO et al.:Evaluation of Health Education Program for Active Citizens 55


Collective memory requires a shared experience and the deposition of the experience in a manner that can be recalled at a later time. Collective memory can be transmitted orally, stored in writings, films, museums and other memorial sites, and also in our DNA. Recent studies have demonstrated that humans, like all animals, are themselves collectives, consisting of the host and abundant and diverse symbiotic microorganisms. The total DNA of a human, referred to as the human hologenome, consists of about 19,000 host genes and eight million microbial genes. It is now accepted that the microbial genetic information plays an important part in the fitness and evolution of animals and plants. We discuss here how the hologenome, especially the microbial component, interacts with cultural memory and contributes to collective memory. One of the novel points is that the microbial gene pool responds to changes in the environment on the basis of the principle of use and disuse. As such, the microbiome is particularly wellsuited to serve as a vehicle for DNA-based collective memory.


Everolimus is the latest mTOR inhibitor immunosuppressive agent being used in whole organ transplantation. Everolimus (40–O hydroxyethyl sirolimus) is obtained by chemical modification of sirolimus and exhibits improved relative bioavailability and a shorter half-life when compared with sirolimus. It exhibits excellent efficacy and an acceptable safety profile. The clinical pharmacology of everolimus in the context of renal transplantation and an overview of completed clinical trials of everolimus in renal transplantation is presented.


In Shandong Province, the Jiaolai basin is made up of structural layers of pregeosyncline, geosyncline, platform and diwa. Actually, it is a diwa basin. All of the gold deposits are a product of diwa activity. The initial mobility period of diwa activity saw the formation of the Jiaolai basin and the deposition of the carbonaceous source rock in the first member of the Lower Cretaceous Laiyang Group. In the middle period, diwa activity strengthened, coarse clastic rocks were deposited, and metallization of organic matter formed gold bodies distributed along rock bed. In the late period, diwa activity further developed, a new ore collecting system telescoping in the previous gold ore zone was formed, and ore forming hydrothermal solution formed new gold deposits besides reforming former gold deposits. Finally, they make an outline of gold deposits of the Jiaolain basin.


Abstract Medulloblastoma (MB) is a malignant tumour of the cerebellum which can be classified into four major subgroups on the basis of gene expression and genomic features. Single cell transcriptome studies have defined the cellular states underlying each MB subgroup, however the spatial organisation of these diverse cell states and how this impacts response to therapy remains to be determined. Here, we used spatially resolved transcriptomics to define the cellular diversity within a sonic hedgehog (SHH) patient-derived model of MB and identify how cells specific to a transcriptional state or spatial location are pivotal in responses to treatment with the CDK4/6 inhibitor, Palbociclib. We distinguish neoplastic and non-neoplastic cells within tumours and from the surrounding cerebellar tissue, further refining pathological annotation. We identify a regional response to Palbociclib, with reduced proliferation and induced neuronal differentiation in the majority of the tumours. Additionally, we resolve in cellular resolution a distinct tumour "interface" where the tumour contacts neighbouring mouse brain consisting of abundant astrocytes and microglia and continues to proliferate despite Palbociclib treatment. Our data highlight the power of this approach to characterise the response of a tumour to targeted therapy and provide further insights into the molecular and cellular basis underlying the response and resistance to CDK4/6 inhibitors in SHH MB


For the purpose of reducing the invasion depth of solid phase and liquid phase of drilling fluid and improving the quality of drilling mud cake, polyacrylamide microspheres were successfully composed via reversed phrase emulsion method. The physical and chemical structures of the samples as well as the grain-size variation were investigated by Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and Laser Particle Size Analysis method (LPSA).The plugging performance of the samples were investigated by core plugging experiment and sand bed filtration experiment. TEM images show that acrylamide has been polymerized, the products consist of a lot of monodisperse microspheres with a size of about 1-6 μm. LPSA images indicate that the particle size of polyacrylamide microspheres vary with time and temperature regularly. The experiment that simulates rock strata with different permeability shows those polyacrylamide microspheres can produce effectively blocked to the core and sand bed and then it establishes the foundation for the next field test.


The backlight for a liquid crystal display, comprising: - a plurality of light sources for generating light; - a light guide plate (111) for converting linear, generated by the light source into planar light and for irradiating the light onto a LCD panel (141); - a plurality of optical patterns (115a, 115b) provided on the light guide plate (111) are formed and having different sizes, to transfer to the LCD panel (141) light incident evenly on the entire LCD panel (141); and - a scattering layer (139) for passing of the light guide plate (111) emitted light in a direction orthogonal to the LCD panel (141), wherein the light sources at least two light-emitting lamps (121, 127) and have a the light-emitting lamps (121, 127) on a first side of the light guide plate (111) is arranged and the other of the light emitting lamps (121, 127) on a second side of the light guide plate (111) is arranged to the first side the light guide plate (111) adjacent, wherein the light guide plate (111) is divided into a first (A), second (B), third (D) and fourth (C) region and in each of the areas optical pattern (115a, 115b) are formed having different sizes, wherein the first region (A) of the light guide plate (111), which is the lamp (121) on the next, with large optical patterns (115a) is provided, while the fourth region (C) of the light guide plate (111) furthest from the lamp (121) is removed, with small optical patterns (115b) is provided, wherein the second region (B) and the third area (D) with large optical patterns (115a) and little optical patterns (115b) are provided.


The Filosax dataset is a large collection of specially com-missioned recordings of jazz saxophonists playing with commercially available backing tracks. Five participants each recorded themselves playing the melody, interpreting a transcribed solo and improvising on 48 tracks, giving a total of around 24 hours of audio data. The solos are annotated both as individual note events with physical timing, and as sheet music with a metrical interpretation of the timing. In this paper, we outline the criteria used for choosing and sourcing the repertoire, the recording process and the semi-automatic transcription pipeline. We demon-strate the use of the dataset to analyse musical phenomena such as swing timing and dynamics of typical musical fig-ures, as well as for training a source activity detection system and predicting expressive characteristics. Other potential applications include the modelling of jazz improvisation, performer identification, automatic music transcription, source separation and music generation.


MISCONCEPTION #1 All usability research can benefit from eye tracking. One common belief is that any usability study will provide better insight if accompanied by eye tracking. However, a simple cost-benefit analysis of the insight gained versus the amount of additional time and resources that eye tracking requires will show that eye tracking is not always appropriate. In formative usability testing, the ratio of insight to cost for eye tracking is very small; most usability issues can be uncovered with traditional usability research. For example, if a study goal is to improve the overall user experience on a new website or to make instructions for a medical device easier to understand, eye tracking may be of little value. However, eye tracking will benefit studies that aim to answer specific questions that arose from previous testing (for example, Why are users struggling to find drug storage instructions on a package insert?). Eye tracking can also be useful in summative testing as it provides additional measures to help quantify the user experience.


This study explores the implementation of the green tourism (GT) in the tourist village in Bali using Penta Helix perspective. The data were collected through observation, interview and library research. The informants were determined using the sampling purposive method. The data were analysed using mixed method. The result shows that the GT has been well implemented in the tourist village, as shown by the following things: the tourist village has been developed by preserving the environment; the tourist village has been able to improve the vitality of the local economy; the tourist village has been able to maintain the cultural diversification; and the tourist village has been able to introduce new experience to tourists. The result shows that the environmental, the local economic, the culture and experience achievement contribute to the GT.


Since the idea of software reuse appeared in 1968, software reuse has become a software engineering discipline. Software reuse is one of the main techniques used to enhance the productivity of software development, which it helps reducing the time, effort, and cost of developing software systems, and enhances the quality of software products. However, software reuse requires understanding, modifying, adapting and testing processes in order to be performed correctly and efficiently. This study aims to analyze and discuss the process of software reuse, identify its elements, sources and usages. The alternatives of acquiring and using software assets either normal or reusable assets are discussed. As a result of this study, four main methods are proposed in order to use the concept of reuse in the software development process. These methods are proposed based on the source of software assets regardless the types of software assets and their usages. Keywords-Software Reusability; So ftware Library Build for Reuse; Reuse Alternatives


In this paper, we consider the following graph embedding problem: Given a bipartite graph G = (V1; V2; E), where the maximum degree of vertices in V2 is 4, can G be embedded on a two dimensional grid such that each vertex in V1 is drawn as a line segment along a grid line, each vertex in V2 is drawn as a point at a grid point, and each edge e = (u; v) for some u 2 V1 and v 2 V2 is drawn as a line segment connecting u and v, perpendicular to the line segment for u? We show that this problem is NP-complete, and sketch how our proof techniques can be used to show the hardness of several other related problems.


We prove the nonexistence of a circulant Hadamard matrix $H$ of order $n$, under technical conditions on the eigenvalues of $H$, when $n$ has only two odd prime divisors and in the general case. Main tool are appropriate properties of the $n$-th cyclotomic polynomial.


The success-run in a sequence of Bernoulli trials was considered in a large number of papers. W. Feller [4] concentrates his attention on the number of runs what find the principal application in the theory of test of randomness and tests of homogeneity. Many papers deal with random variable Zn introduced by Erdos and Renyi [2] (see also Erdos
and Revesz [3]), defined as the length of longest head-run during n coin tossings. They give the asymptotic estimations of that random variable if n
tends to infinity. The asymptotic estimation of the distribution of Zn was given by Antonia Foldes [5]. Note that in the theory of extremes in random sequences it is proved that in a sequence of random variables geometrically distributed the maximum linearly standarized do not have a limiting distribution (see [7], p. 26). In [1] the multivariate extension of the problem of the largest cube filled up by successes which may be found in a random lattice
in a cube of range n. The problem has very much of practical implications.
Our purpose in this paper is to show the recurrent formulas useful in the calculation of the distribution of the random variable Zn and in the method
of calculation of its expected value and also in the test of the accuracy of the limiting estimations.


We performed a perspective study to evaluate the role of MS during MWT in discriminating OSA patients with SW or sleepiness related near-misses accident (NMA). We enrolled 69 consecutive OSA patients (21F, mean age 51.2±11.9 yrs;AHI 36.4±27.4;ESS 9.6±4.6) that underwent MWT after the diagnostic PSG: 62.3% of patients reported EDS, 53.6% SW and 19.1% NMA. Table 1 shows the mean sleep latency at MWT, the mean MS latency, the mean number of MS during MWT separately for patients with or without EDS, SW and NMA, respectively. Of interest, excluding from the analysis the retired subjects, number of MS during MWT was associated to an increasing risk of SW (OR1.2, IC 1.02-1.41;p=0.031). However, when the presence of EDS was included this association disappeared. These preliminary data seems to suggest that MS detection during MWT is an useful tool in the evaluation of patients with SW. However, more data are required to determine the specific role of MS in the assessment of patients without EDS.


The Ar–Xe infrared laser has been investigated in several series of experiments carried out on the Naval Research Laboratory's Electra generator. Our primary goals were to optimize the efficiency of the laser (within Electra's capabilities) and to gain understanding of the main physical processes underlying the laser's output as a function of controllable parameters such as Xe fraction, power deposition, and gas pressure. We find that the intrinsic efficiency maximizes at ∼3% at a total pressure of 2.5 atm, Xe fraction of 1%, and electron beam power deposition density of 50–100 kW cm−3. We deployed an interferometer to measure the electron density during lasing; the ionization fractions of 10−5–10−4 that it detected well exceed previous theoretical estimates. Some trends in the data as a function of beam power and xenon fraction are not fully understood. The as-yet incomplete picture of Ar–Xe laser physics is likely traceable in large part to significant uncertainties still present in many important rates...


The office automation curriculum is my courtyard specialized fords the foreign language secret recipe in view of the Chinese language study to study high-level lives the start the characteristic curriculum, this curriculum start has made certain progress until now, but how to further carry on the educational reform to this curriculum, causes student's practice skill and the overall quality obtains a bigger promotion, is our each teaching classes teacher must face at present with the ponder question. This article in view of this question from the course content, the teaching method and inspection way several aspects has carried on the thorough discussion.


Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction Part I. Pre-Revolution, 1760-1789: 1. Christian political theory 2. The religious context 3. The political context 4. The philosophical context 5. Case study I: William Paley 6. Secularisation and social theory Part II. Revolution, 1789-1804: 7. The political and social context 8. Political theory and the rights of man 9. Social theory and the nature of man 10. Christianity, infidelity and government 11. Case study II: Samuel Horsley Part III. Post-Revolution, 1804-1832: 12. Political and social theory 13. Establishment and social control 14. Blasphemy and sedition 15. Case study III: William Hone 16. Emancipation and reform Conclusion Bibliographical appendix Bibliography Index.


The initiator of rough set reaches such a conclusion that "rough set is a extensive form fuzzy set".In this paper,we combine the fuzzy set theory with rough set theory by rough membership function and establish a relation between them.


Recently, researchers have been increasingly interested in collecting personal network data. Collecting this type of data is particularly burdensome on the respondents, who need to elicit the names of alters, answer questions about each alter (network composition), and evaluate the strength of possible relationships among the named alters (network structure). In line with the research of McCarty et al., the authors propose reducing respondent burden by randomly sampling a smaller set of alters from those originally elicited. Via simulation, the authors assess the estimation error they incur when measures of the network structure are computed on a random sample of alters and illustrate the trade-offs between reduction in respondent burden (measured with the amount of interview time saved) and total estimation error incurred. Researchers can use the provided trade-offs figure to make an informed decision regarding the number of alters to sample when they need to reduce respondent burden.


Integrated use of lime with organic and chemical fertilizers is considered as a good approach for sustainable crop production under acidic soils. Vermicompost (VC) and chemical phosphorus (P) fertilizer when used with lime play a vital role in enhancing productivity of acidic soils. Field experiments were conducted for two consecutive cropping seasons of 2015 and 2016 to evaluate the effects of lime, VC and chemical P fertilizer on yield and yield components of maize in Ebantu District, Western highlands of Ethiopia. The experiments were laid out in a randomized complete block design as a factorial combination of two lime rates (0, and 4 t CaCO3 ha-1), three VC rates (0, 2.5 and 5 t VC ha-1) and three chemical P rates (0, 20 and 40 kg P ha-1) which were replicated three times. Relevant crop parameters were measured following standard procedures. Tasseling days (102), silking days (109), highest leaf area index (5.91), plant height (3.48 m), cob length (47.83 cm), number of grain per cob (644) and above ground dry biomass yield (22 t ha-1) were exhibited by 5 t ha-1 VC and 40 kg ha-1 chemical P fertilizer with lime of 0 and 4 t ha-1 while the highest 1000-seed weight (508 g), grain yield (4.87 t ha-1) and harvest index (24%) were obtained at 2.5 t ha-1 VC and 40 kg P ha-1 with lime. Integrated application of organic and chemical fertilizers with lime amended the acidic soils and improved its fertility which in turn increased crop yields. Combined use of VC at 2.5 t ha-1 and chemical P fertilizer at 20 kg ha-1 with lime at 4 t ha-1 is economically optimum and could be recommended for reclaiming soil acidity and improve nutrients for maize as it enhanced grain yield and yield components of maize plant in strongly acidic soils for the two consecutive years pooled together.

 Key words: Maize yield, lime, Vermicompost (VC), phosphorus (P), integrated application.


"Do I have a body or am I my body?" Such trivial questions can suggest answers from different viewpoints about the meaning of body. According to K. Rahner, an anthropological theology must base on body, because any question of knowledge starts with "conversion ad phantasmata" in order to build up any further abstraction. When Rahner supposes that a Christian of tomorrow should be a mystique or no Christian at all, and then it makes a consequence for the meaning of body: on the one hand the mystical experience would be understood as an everyday life; on the other hand it is through awareness of body and dipping into transcendental experience. Thus, everyday bodily action like walking, working, eating, sleeping also can lead us into graceful depth of mystery. They are meaningful not only for life on the earth and but also for the quest of resurrection of body.John Paul II explores theology of body by the way explaining the doctrine of catholic faith on human being and its existence after the death. The pope takes the question raised in the Matthew gospel 9, 3-9 as the starting way into teaching the meaning of body. The teaching of body expands from the beginning of creation through the fall of Adam and Eve and the history of salvation which is following the resurrection. Thus human body accompanies the whole pilgrimage of human history despite of temporary "interruption" caused by death and serves as a gate opening to the eternity.Thus, human body either in Rahner's anthropological theology or in the teaching of Catholic doctrine, both play different roles and yet in complementary meaning.


This Element provides an overview of pre-modern and ancient economies of the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The region is widely known for its densely occupied semisedentary villages, intensive production economies, dramatic ritual life, and complex social relations. Scholars recognize significant diversity in the structure of subsistence and goods production in the service of domestic groups and institutional entities throughout the region. Here, domestic and institutional economies, specialization, distribution, economic development, and future directions are reviewed. The Element closes with thoughts on the processes of socio-economic change on the scales of houses, villages, and regional strategies.


There are nearly 15 million people around the world who have difficulty in speaking or communicating. Their only way of communication is through sign language. Hand gesture is one of the methods used in sign language for non-verbal communication. It is most commonly used by deaf & dumb people who have hearing or speech problems to communicate among themselves or with normal people. There are many recognized sign language standards that have been defined such as ASL(American Sign Language), IPSL(Indo Pakistan Sign Language), etc., which define what sign means what. ASL is the most widely used sign language by the deaf and dumb community. The deaf and dumb use sign language to communicate among themselves with the knowledge of the standard sign language. But they can't communicate with the rest of the world as most of the people are unaware of the existence and the usage of the sign language. This method aims to remove this communication barrier between the disabled and the rest of the world by recognizing and translating the hand gestures and convert it into speech


Aiming to simplify the solution process of elasto‐plastic problems, this paper proposes a reproducing kernel particle algorithm based on principles of parametric quadratic programming for elasto‐plasticity. The parametric quadratic programming theory is useful and effective for the assessment of certain features of structural elasto‐plastic behaviour and can also be exploited for numerical iteration. Examples are presented to illustrate the essential aspects of the behaviour of the model proposed and the flexibility of the coupled parametric quadratic programming formulations with the reproducing kernel particle method. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.