Purpose The aim is to calibrate the national standard for diphtheria antibody human immunoglobulin by the collaborative study to replace the previous national standard.MethodsThe potencies of the national standard for diphtheria antibody were assayed against the international standard for diphtheria antitoxin equine(lot:9897/762)by passive hemagglutination method.The reconstituted solutions of diphtheria antibody national standard were stored at 4℃ for 6 months and the freeze-dry national standard for diphtheria antibody was stored at 4,25,37℃ for 6 months for stability studies.ResultsThe potency of diphtheria antibody is 0.4 HAU/ampoule.The results of stability studies showed that the preparation was very stable.All the other items met the requirements for national standard of China.ConclusionThe national standard for diphtheria antibody human immunoglobulin can replace the previous national standard.


The degradation of the natural world undermines efforts to eradicate poverty, scientists warn and note that the only chance for global prosperity for all countries is to recognize the fight against poverty as an environmental challenge. The most important driver for achieving environmental sustainability is the fight against poverty. It is generally accepted that poverty is a consequence of environmental degradation. On the basis of the materials from 77 constituent entities of the Russian Federation the authors determined that the provided regional action plans to achieve the national goal of halving the poverty level is not sufficient and propose the additional list of measures to achieve this goal. The authors propose the methods for calculating the target value of the poverty level indicator (the level of the population with incomes below the subsistence level and the distribution of target persons across the constituent entity of the Russian Federation.


Objective: Despite the strong relationship between sugars, mutans streptococci levels and caries, relatively, little research has been carried out on one of the factors that may influence sugar intake; namely sweet preference. The objective of the present study was to explore the association between sweet preference and the levels of dental caries in 6-12 yearold schoolchildren in Hamedan. Materials and Methods: Samples of both sexes (n=362) were randomly selected. Children's preference for sugar was measured using a modified version of the Sweet Preference Iventory, which assessed their preference for 5 different concentration of freshly prepared sucrose/tea solution: 0.075M, 0.15M, 0.3M, 0.6M, and 0.9M. Five thermos flasks were filled with the five different concentrations of tea and color-coded. The children were asked to taste, one after another and select the most palatable solution. Then, caries experience was assessed according to WHO guidelines. Socio-demographic information was collected based on a simple questionnaire. Results: Three hundreds and twenty of the children completed all aspects of the research. 64 of them were permanent teeth caries free and 51 were milky teeth caries free. Mean DMFT was 0.61 (SD=1.14) and dmft 3.9 (SD=3.12). The majority of the children (41.4%) preferred the two highest concentrations (0.6, 0.9) and 15% of them preferred the highest sweetness level (0.9M).The moderately sweet solution (0.3M), was selected by 30.9% and only 12.4% and 15.3% preferred the less sweet solutions respectively (0.075M, 0.15M). Conclusion: There was no statistical relationship between sweet preference and dental caries.


Many grasshopper species feed on dead insects, including other grasshoppers. We observed the responses of grasshoppers to newly available grasshopper cadavers at sites in southwestern Montana. Cadavers were first fed upon by grasshoppers within a mean of 5 min of their placement at one site and within 13.7 min at another. Species differed in the propensity to be the first to arrive at and feed on newly available cadavers. Melanoplus packardii Scudder were relatively more common in samples of the first grasshopppers to arrive at and feed upon cadavers than they were in sweep samples of the local grasshopper communities. Ageneotettix deorum (Scudder), in contrast, were relatively less abundant in samples of feeders than in the community and frequently did not respond to nearby cadavers. The time that elapsed before a cadaver was fed upon by grasshoppers was negatively correlated with soil surface temperature across a range of 16 to 64°C. The rate at which the cadavers were consumed was positively correlated with temperature. At lower temperatures, the rate of cadaver discovery was probably constrained by lower rates of locomotion. At temperatures >50°C, feeding was constrained by thermal stresses that were partially overcome by postural adjustments and microhabitat selection. We discuss the mechanisms by which differences among species could arise and the relationship of the results to our previous study of aggression among grasshoppers at cadavers.


The purpose of this article was to talk about the developed software product. Also, the article reflects the issue of relevance and technological capabilities of the IT world in the direction of virtual educational software. The work also raises the issue of gamification and the industry of serious games. Various analogs of applications and studies in the field of use and evaluation of the practical benefits of such programs are discussed. This article describes the development of a software package for virtual physics laboratories for studying a school physics course. In the course of work on the application, the Unity game engine was used to model 3Ds Max 3D objects. Laboratory works corresponds to the school physics course and fully implements the necessary functionality. Each of the laboratory work of the complex is described in detail and reflected in the form of screenshots. It also describes how to use the Leap Motion controller.


Numerical nonlinear algebra is a computational paradigm that uses numerical analysis to study polynomial equations. Its origins were methods to solve systems of polynomial equations based on the classical theorem of B\'ezout. This was decisively linked to modern developments in algebraic geometry by the polyhedral homotopy algorithm of Huber and Sturmfels, which exploited the combinatorial structure of the equations and led to efficient software for solving polynomial equations. Subsequent growth of numerical nonlinear algebra continues to be informed by algebraic geometry and its applications. These include new approaches to solving, algorithms for studying positive-dimensional varieties, certification, and a range of applications both within mathematics and from other disciplines. With new implementations, numerical nonlinear algebra is now a fundamental computational tool for algebraic geometry and its applications.


How to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act Sec. 508 requiring closed captioning on video used for instructional purposes.


Wilting of the skin is one of the inain storage problems with somne varieties of apples. It occurs when the fruit loses between 7 and 10 per cent. of its original weight (2). The loss in weight is due principally to the loss of water in transpiration and to a lesser extent to the loss of carbon in the respiration process. A thorough understanding of the factors influencing transpiration is therefore of great value from practical as well as theoretical points of view. The rate of transpiration of fruits is influenced by external and internal factors. While considerable work has been done on external factors (9) such as temperature, humidity and movemiient of the air, not much is known about the internal factors or those contributed by the fruit itself, influencing the rapidity of water loss. MAGNESS (6), HINTON (4), and PIENIAZEK (10) investigated the effect of maturity on the rate of transpiration of apples. More attention, however, was given to the physical characters of the skin. W. H. SMITH (13) founid that the thickness of cuticle is not necessarily positively correlated with the rate of transpiration of Cox Orange Pippin apples. BELL (1) made a detailed study of the protective layers of Red McIntosh apples, while MARKLEY (7) and HULME (5) devoted their attention to the layer of waxy coating on the surface of the cuticle. This layer is very thin in comparison with the thickness of the cuticle and it is difficult to measure even under high magnificationi. It differs from cuticle in its chemical composition and its physical properties (7). E. R. SMITH (12), ROBINSON (11) and MARSHALL et al. (8) on the Pacific Coast demonstrated that severe washing treatments greatly increased the rate of water loss from apples, by dissolving the layer of surface wax. CLEMENTS (3) found the apple lenticels to be open while on the tree, and gradually closed in storage. He made no attempts to measure and compare the rates of lenticular and cuticular transpiration. Material and methods


Abstract Generalising and re-using knowledge learned while solving one problem instance has been neglected by state-of-the-art answer set solvers. We suggest a new approach that generalises learned nogoods for re-use to speed-up the solving of future problem instances. Our solution combines well-known ASP solving techniques with deductive logic-based machine learning. Solving performance can be improved by adding learned non-ground constraints to the original program. We demonstrate the effects of our method by means of realistic examples, showing that our approach requires low computational cost to learn constraints that yield significant performance benefits in our test cases. These benefits can be seen with ground-and-solve systems as well as lazy-grounding systems. However, ground-and-solve systems suffer from additional grounding overheads, induced by the additional constraints in some cases. By means of conflict minimization, non-minimal learned constraints can be reduced. This can result in significant reductions of grounding and solving efforts, as our experiments show.


In early 1989, the consultancy grouping of Sogreah of France and CECI of Taiwan were commissioned by the Taiwanese government to carry out a major engineering port study related to the Taiwan Area Deep Water Port Development Project (DWPD). The work was completed in June 1990, examining the feasibility of developing a new deep harbor for heavy industries on the northern and western coasts of Taiwan, in one or more of five preselected sites. This article, written by project managerial personnel, describes certain aspects of the study, discussing the economic development of Taiwan and traffic projections, the requirements of three main potential users of the proposed deepwater port, and the method used to compare alternative schemes.


We aimed to combine evidence from all heart failure trials that have investigated the effects of drugs with blood pressure lowering properties to assess (1) the extent to which such drugs reduce blood pressure in heart failure, (2) the association between the net change in blood pressure between treatment arms and cause ‐ specific outcomes, and (3) whether treatment effects (efficacy and safety) vary according to baseline blood pressure. We conducted a systematic review and meta ‐ analysis including randomised clinical trials of drugs with blood pressure ‐ lowering properties in patients with chronic heart failure with at least 300 patient ‐ years follow ‐ up. We included a total of 37 trials (91,950 patients) and showed that treatment with drugs with blood pressure ‐ lowering properties resulted in a small but significant decrease in systolic blood pressure in patients with heart failure with no evidence that the efficacy and safety of those drugs varied according to baseline blood pressure. Condensed abstract The relationship between blood pressure and clinical outcomes remains poorly understood. This systematic review and meta ‐ analysis combined evidence from randomised clinical trials of drugs with blood pressure lowering properties in patients with chronic heart failure. It showed that treatment with those drugs achieved a small but significant reduction in systolic blood pressure with no evidence that the efficacy and safety of those drugs varied according to baseline blood pressure.


Summary The composition and digestibility of ungrazed rape and of rape selected for similarity to that chosen by grazing wethers were determined. The composition of the rape consumed by these wethers was deduced from the content and digestibility of proximate constituents of the faeces. The digestibility of dry matter declined with delayed sowing and grazing. The digestive capacities of three wethers, for rape, were almost identical; a fourth was 2% lower. The digestibility of selected rape was only 0.4% higher than that of ungrazed rape and the difference was not significant. The composition of selected rape was intermediate between that of ungrazed and grazed rape. However, the latter was markedly lower in ether extract and crude protein and higher in crude fibre. Hand selection of rape similar to that chosen by the grazing wethers was thus only partly successful. The digestibility of leaf was little more than 2% higher than that of stem plus petiole, a smaller difference than was expected. Despite real ...


Introduction Murder in Los Angeles Bundy and Rockingham The Chase Frenzy in L.A. The Greatest Story Ever Metamorphosis The Race Card Judge Ito and the Media The Great Camera Debate Media Wars The Trial of O. J. Simpson Firestorm Exposed House of Mirrors The Journalists The Fuhrman Trial The Black and White Press Closing Curtain Judgment Day Aftermath Prologue Index


Loss of productive topsoil by erosion with time can reduce the productive capacity of soil and can significantly affect soil physical and hydraulic properties. This study evaluated the effects of reduced topsoil thickness and perennial switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) vs. a corn (Zea mays L.)–soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] rotation on soil bulk density (ρb), saturated hydraulic conductivity (Kₛₐₜ), soil water retention, and pore size distributions. The experiment was conducted at the University of Missouri South Farm on a Mexico silt loam (a Vertic Epiaqualf). Plots with the corn–soybean rotation and switchgrass were established in 2009 with four replicates. Twenty-seven years after establishment, plots with selected topsoil thickness were grouped into four treatments (TopA [4 cm], TopB [11 cm], TopC [22 cm], and TopD [36 cm]). Undisturbed soil cores, 76 by 76 mm, were collected by 10- cm depth increments from the surface to the 40-cm depth. Results showed that soil under switchgrass had 53 and 27% higher macroporosity (>1000- μm diameter) and coarse mesoporosity (60–1000-μm diameter), respectively, than row crop management. This led to 73% greater Kₛₐₜ and 11% higher water content at saturation than row crop management. Thicker topsoil treatments (TopC and TopD) had consistently lower ρb and greater Kₛₐₜ than the shallow topsoil treatments (TopA and TopB) for all sampling depths. These results imply that switchgrass production systems significantly improve soil hydraulic properties, particularly in eroded claypan landscapes.


Background: The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet (rich in fruit (F), vegetables (V), low-fat dairy, and fiber, and reduced in saturated fat and cholesterol) lowered blood pressur...


SUMMARY Certain samples of potato tubers have been found to contain an interfering sub stance which is estimated as alcohol by the micro-method of Friedemann and Klass (1936) as modified by Saifi (1940). This non-alcohol material can be removed by washing the alcohol-distillate with purified heptane. Both alcohol and the interfering non-alcohol material were shown to accumu late in potatoes held in nitrogen. In earlier work (Saifi, 1940; Barker and Saifi, 1951) the micro-method of Friedemann and Klass (1936) was modified for use in estimating alcohol in potato tissue. The method finally adopted, for convenience of reference called method A, was as follows. The clearing agents (20 ml. 10 per cent, sodium tungstate and 20 ml. 10 per cent, mercuric sulphate dissolved in 2N sulphuric acid) were added to 20 g. potato tissue, as frozen powder, and the mixture left for 4 to 6 hours at room temperature with occasional shaking. This period allowed equilibrium to be attained between the alcohol content of the tissue and the solution. The alcohol was then distilled from an aliquot of the super natant solution, the alcohol-distillate oxidized with alkaline permanganate, and the residual permanganate titrated with thiosulphate. The final oxidation and titration procedure were as described by Friedemann and Klass. The method is thus not specific ; any volatile substance which is not retained by the clearing agents and which reduces alkaline permanganate would be in cluded in the estimation. The term alcohol as used throughout the note does not, therefore, necessarily signify only ethanol. Method A gave consistent results with the stocks of potatoes tested in 1939 and 1940 and the recovery of ethanol added to the tissue was 98-0;ti-o per cent. Later, however (i.e. in 1950), variable figures for alcohol content were obtained with the potatoes then in use, particularly with samples which had been held in nitrogen for about 25 days at io° C. Moreover, re-distillation from lime and mercuric sulphate, as recommended by Friedemann and Klass for certain tissues, gave a distillate which appeared to contain more alcohol than the original distillate. Passing the distillate before condensation through a trap, containing saturated sodium hydroxide and mercuric chloride (Kozelka and Hine, 1941), gave similar results. This was evidence that, in addition to alcohol, some non-alcohol material was being oxidized by the alkaline per manganate. The problem of removing the interfering material appears to have been Journ. of Experimental Botany, Vol. II, No. 5.


Differences in weed seedling emergence patterns due to agronomic management practices, such as tillage, have implications for weed competition and weed management strategies. The effect of different tillage systems, including conventional (CONT), minimum (MINT) and zero tillage (ZT), on the emergence pattern of different weed species was evaluated in a field experiment. Seedling emergence of Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koel., Echinochloa colona (L.) Link, Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn., Ageratum conyzoides L., Eclipta prostrata (L.) L. and Portulaca oleracea L. was greater under ZT compared with the other two tillage systems. MINT had greater emergence of E. colona, E. indica and A. conyzoides compared to CONT, while the emergence of D. ciliaris, E. prostrata and P. oleracea was similar between these two systems. The results will facilitate improved decision making with respect to the timing of weed control and contribute to the development of integrated weed management practices for dry seeded, rainfed rice.


Aims. New or refined methods for determining instantaneous scalar and vector pattern speeds from a restricted domain are developed, for applications in N-body simulations or in galaxies. Methods. The general feature used throughout follows from the fact that the time-derivative of a function of the coordinates is linearly proportional to its rotation rate and its particle velocities. Knowing these allow in general to retrieve the instantaneous pattern speed vector by linear optimization. Similarly, if an invariant function depends both on the position and velocities, then its instantaneous rotation vectors in space can be retrieved. Knowing the accelerations allows to find rotation in velocity space. Results. The first 3 methods are based on the assumed rotational invariance of functions at each point in space or velocity space: 1) The 6D invariant function method measuring the pattern speed vectors in space and velocity space, 2) The differential/regional 3D Tremaine-Weinberg method evaluated over high signal to noise ratio regions, 3) The 3D Jacobi integral method yielding the potential pattern speed. Extensions to derive the rotation center position, speed and acceleration are introduced in 1) and 3). The last 2 methods are based on the assumed invariance of average functions of the particle coordinates. 4) The moment of inertia methods by using the derivative of the singular value decomposition, 5) The 2D Fourier method (3D for m = 2 mode) giving the mode rotation speeds. Pattern speed accelerations are also derived in 4) and 5). Conclusions. Depending on the available data, the different methods provide a choice of approaches.


Briefly,this article tells of incline construction process in Dounan Mn-mine. It can save time at 2 d and speed at 90 m,by using elevation control of small section incline against pseudo dip method in construction method with benefit of 270 000 yuan.


1. Contributors 2. Introduction: Searching for the categorization of spatial entities in language and cognition (by Aurnague, Michel) 3. Part I. Spatial Entities and the Structures of Languages: Descriptive Work 4. A taxonomy of basic natural entities (by Vandeloise, Claude) 5. On the spatial meaning of contre in French: The role of entities and force dynamics (by Borillo, Andree) 6. The prepositions par and a travers and the categorization of spatial entities in French (by Stosic, Dejan) 7. The linguistic categorization of spatial entities: Classifiers and other nominal classification systems (by Grinevald, Colette) 8. The expression of semantic components and the nature of ground entity in orientation motion verbs: A cross-linguistic account based on French and Korean (by Choi-Jonin, Injoo) 9. Part II. Spatial categorization in language and cognition: Psycholinguistic and developmental studies 10. Categorizing spatial entities with frontal orientation: The role of function, motion and saliency in the processing of the French Internal Localization Nouns avant/devant (by Aurnague, Michel) 11. Containment, support, and beyond: Constructing topological spatial categories in first language acquisition (by Bowerman, Melissa F.) 12. Static and dynamic location in French: Developmental and cross-linguistic perspectives (by Hickmann, Maya) 13. Precursors to spatial language: The case of containment (by Hespos, Susan J.) 14. The sources of spatial cognition (by Lecuyer, Roger) 15. Part III. Characterizing categories of spatial entities: Formal ontology 16. From language to ontology: Beware of the traps (by Varzi, Achille C.) 17. The temporal essence of spatial objects (by Muller, Philippe) 18. Part-of relations, functionality and dependence (by Vieu, Laure) 19. Objects, locations and complex types. (by Asher, Nicholas) 20. Language index 21. Subject index


Waste elimination is one of the most effective ways to increase the profitability of any business. Processes either add value or waste to the production of a good or service. The seven wastes originated in Japan, where waste is known as "muda." "The seven wastes" is a tool to further categorize "muda" and was originally developed by Toyota's Chief Engineer Taiichi Ohno as the core of the Toyota Production System, also known as Lean Manufacturing. To eliminate waste, it is important to understand exactly what waste s and where it exists. While products significantly differ between factories, the typical wastes found in manufacturing environments re quite similar. For each waste, there is a strategy to reduce or eliminate its effect on a company, thereby improving overall performance and quality.


This study assesses the current metadata practices and trends in Association of Research Libraries (ARL) libraries, based on the survey Metadata conducted in spring 2007 (SPEC Kit 298: Metadata), a collaborative effort with the staff at the ARL. The survey investigates how metadata has been implemented in ARL member libraries: what kinds of projects or initiatives have been undertaken, what types of digital objects are associated with metadata, who are creating metadata, what schemas and tools are used to create and manage metadata, and the organizational changes and challenges resulting from the adoption of metadata in the libraries. The author summarizes her observations of the findings and the main themes that emerged from the metadata practices in libraries. She assesses the changing context of metadata creation and management and the evolution of metadata workflow and best practices in libraries. The author also discusses the roles and responsibilities of metadata professionals and the implications of metadata practices for the library and information community.


Various types of in situ sea surface temperature (SST) measurements have dominated during different periods of the satellite era. Their corresponding errors should be characterized to curtail the nonuniformities in calibration and validation of reprocessed historical satellite SST data. SSTs from several major in situ platform types reported in the NOAA in situ Quality Monitor (iQuam) system have been collocated with NOAA‐17 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and Envisat Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) satellite SSTs from 2003 to 2009, produced by the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) program. The standard deviations of errors in iQuam in situ and nighttime satellite CCI SSTs estimated using triple‐collocation analyses are 0.75 K for ships, 0.21–0.22 K for drifters and Argo floats, 0.17 K and 0.40 K for tropical and coastal moorings, 0.35–0.38 K for AVHRR, and 0.15–0.30 K for AATSR. The distribution of in situ and satellite errors in space and time is also analyzed, along with their single‐sensor error distributions.


For a single-agent model with a non-additive monotone outcome function, Matzkin (2003) showed some scale normalization of unobserved shocks is necessary for nonparametric identi…cation.1 In comparison, we show that normalizing the distribution of the buyer's private signals is necessary for identifying our game-theoretic model, where the vector of outcomes (V;D; Y;X;X ) reported are rationalized by strategic interaction between contractors and the buyer in monotone psPBE. To do so, we need to use a two-step approach that is qualitatively di¤erent from Matzkin (2003). We …rst characterize how players'equilibrium strategies vary with model parameters. Then we show how distinct sets of model parameters could generate the same distribution of outcome (V; Y;D;X;X ) in equilibrium. We say two models are observationally equivalent if they imply the same distribution of V; Y;D;X and X in symmetric psPBE. Suppose the actual data-generating process is f ; ; a; FCjX ; FX ; ~ Xg. Consider an alternative model 0 f 0; 0; a0; HCjX ; HX ; ~ Xg such that (i) a = a0, = 0 and = 0; (ii) FCjX=x = HCjX=x for all x 2 X ; and (iii) FX ; ~ X(x; ~ x) = HX ; ~ X(x; h(~ x)) for all x; ~ x and some increasing and di¤erentiable function h : e X ! T R. In other words, all structural elements in and 0 are identical, except that the procurer's private signal in 0 is an increasing and di¤erentiable transformation of that in . Note the support of the private signal in 0 (denoted T ) is allowed to di¤er from that in .


Out of the multiple emerging Wireless Communication Technologies for IoT applications, LoRaWAN projects a significant role with its specific advantages such as low power, long range communication protocol enabling large scale wireless networks with single hop. This paper presents the application of LoRA technology in ehealthcare, especially for maternity and neonatal care. The Proposed System interfaces the Maternal Monitoring System (MMS) and Traffic Monitoring System (TMS) using a LoRa Gateway to support the reduction in Maternal Death Rate. The MMS available in the ambulance measures the vital parameters of a maternal woman such as body temperature, pressure, glucose level, pulse rate and movement of the fetus and are communicated to the hospital for the pre-planning of labour/emergency ward according to patient's conditions. In the meantime, regulation of traffic in the stipulated path to the hospital is also ensured. The performance of the system is evaluated and reported for real time execution.


This chapter traces the transformation of global intellectual property protection. The classical Convention regime, epitomised by the Paris Convention protecting industrial property and the Berne Convention protecting copyright, dominated the international IP scene for about a century. Other norm sets have become relevant for IP more recently. These often strengthen IP rights or grant them complementary protection and include international investment agreements (IIAs), predominantly in the form of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and investment chapters in trade treaties; the protection of property ownership as a fundamental right; private regulation of IP; and IP-specific counter-norms. Ultimately, this transformation of global IP law necessitates a broadening of the constitutional discourses relevant for IP. Constitutional pluralism, new constitutionalism, and societal constitutionalism represent the main currents of such global constitutional discourses.


among politicians (including Marx) to see criminals, prostitutes, ragpickers and the destitute in general as inhabitants of another world, and even as waste matter, incapable of inclusion among human categories. Subsequent chapters are equally rewarding. Overall, there is so much of value in this book that the present reviewer became increasingly sorry that it should be so esoteric in its terminology and hence unlikely to appeal to anyone but the specialist in modern 'discourse'.


In this contribution, we use infrared solar occultation measurements performed by the ACE-FTS (Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment – Fourier Transform Spectrometer) instrument onboard the SCISAT-1 Canadian satellite (Bernath et al., 2005). Since its launch in August 2003, this spectrometer has been in continuous operation with no significant degradation of its performance, and global measurements are available from late February 2004 onwards, spanning now more than a decade.


T his is a presumptuous statement, written by a person who wishes he were familiar with all the research in this area, by one who, for this purpose, would welcome some "absolutes" which could make communication simpler, by one who perceives the research on the gifted as being distressingly spotty. Even though the area of the gifted can boast of the only major truly longitudinal study of exceptional children, and a few other outstanding ones of lesser scope, the bulk of studies have resembled rifle shots or ill-aimed shotgun blasts, rather than well-thought-out firing patterns. Individual researchers and academic and public pressures being what they are, such sportiness is inevitable. Fundamental theory anchorage has been limited, or too often totally lacking. Even certain fundamental educational realities and psychometric concepts have been overlooked or ignored. Certain social realities. perhaps because of their complexity, subtlety. or elusiveness, have been disregarded. Many researchers in the area, because of geographic or conceptual provincialism. have realized less from their efforts than they should. But there are streaks of light in the east. The teacher or administrator will find here few specifics which research has revealed about the gifted. There is an urgent need for a synthesized and integrated summary of research in this


Swift delivery of quality seeds to farming communities is a fundamental step in mainstreaming the value chain of orphan crops. The objective of this study was to characterise seed production and delivery systems of the orphan Kersting's groundnut (KG) [Macrotyloma geocarpum (Harms) Maréchal & Baudet] and their influence on seed quality in Benin. A survey was conducted among 305 farmers from the major KG growing areas in Benin. A total of 60 seed samples were collected from different sources (farmer own seed, local markets and agro-dealers) for quality tests. The results showed that seed sources, acquisition modes and perceived quality differed significantly (P<0.01) among gender groups and with farming experience. Majority of farmers (74.93%) perceived seeds acquired from the local markets and seed stored in non-hermetic conditions as of poor quality compared to seeds sourced from their own stock and stored in hermetic conditions. Yet, the seed quality analysis revealed no differences (P<0.05) among the sources and storage methods. Less than 20% of the tested samples met the national quality standards suggesting an important quality constraint in the current system which may justify the reported low yield and crop failure.


Maxillary lateral incisors are only second to third molars, when it comes to variation in the form or morphology. Since the upper lateral incisors play an important role in the appearance of smile, any abnormality in their appearance or their complete absence, always attracts a great deal of attention. The prime objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of peg shaped and missing permanent maxillary lateral incisors in a Pakistani population. The total sample size for this study comprised of 650 patients (N = 650) belonging to both genders (Males: 350; Females: 300) and the age range of the participants was 18-25 years. The routine pre-orthodontic records were obtained. The intra oral clinical and radiographic examination was performed for peg and missing maxillary lateral incisors. Data were collected and analyzed statistically using chi-square test. The male participants had greater percentage of missing maxillary lateral incisors as compared to the females, but the difference was not statistically significant (p-value = 0.398). Females had greater prevalence of peg lateral incisors as compared to their male counterparts, but the difference was not statistically significant (p-value = 0.274). Maxillary lateral incisors are one of the forward-facing important tooth to achieve the pleasant smile and ideal occlusion. The peg shaped and missing maxillary lateral incisors leads to tooth size discrepancies, therefore they must be considered in orthodontic diagnosis and treatment planning. Clinical article (J Int Dent Med Res 2019; 12(4): 1416-1420)


Motor imagery (MI) is a typical BCI paradigm and has been widely applied into many aspects (e.g. brain-driven wheelchair and motor function rehabilitation training). Although significant achievements have been achieved, multiple motor imagery decoding is still unsatisfactory. To deal with this challenging issue, firstly, a segment of electroencephalogram was extracted and preprocessed. Secondly, we applied a filter bank common spatial pattern (FBCSP) with one-vs-rest (OVR) strategy to extract the spatio-temporal-frequency features of multiple MI. Thirdly, the F-score was employed to optimise and select these features. Finally, the optimized features were fed to the spiking neural networks (SNN) for classification. Evaluation was conducted on two public multiple MI datasets (Dataset IIIa of the BCI competition III and Dataset IIa of the BCI competition IV). Experimental results showed that the average accuracy of the proposed framework reached up to 90.09% (kappa: 0.868) and 81.33% (kappa: 0.751) on the two public datasets, respectively. The achieved performance (accuracy and kappa) was comparable to the best one of the compared methods. This study demonstrated that the proposed method can be used as an alternative approach for multiple MI decoding and it provided a potential solution for online multiple MI detection.


This paper proposes a novel system to automatically determine the sports type of a sports game by conducting keywords spotting on short fragments (around 10 minutes) of a sports game. In this system, we first develop an audio segmentation module as a front-end to separate announcers' speech efficiently from the complex sports audio stream. Then we employ speech recognition technology on these speech segments to extract keywords as the features of each kind of sports. Finally, based on the KWS (keyword spotting) results and the specific keywords we defined for each kind of sports, the classification is conducted based on a score ranking strategy. In order to improve the classification accuracy, acoustic model adaptation and language model adaptation are performed to improve the KWS results. MAP (Maximum A Posterior) adaptation is employed for acoustic model and a keyword-frequency-based adaptation method is proposed for the language model adaptation. Both adaptations give significant improvements to the KWS results. By integrating all the techniques, a sports type determination accuracy rate of 92.2% is achieved on the test set consisting of 154 fragments from 17 game programs of ten kinds of sports.


Background:  Apoptotic cell death is a prominent feature of human atherosclerotic plaques. When the apoptotic remains of a cell are not efficiently removed, inevitable leaking of the cell content occurs, inciting an inflammatory reaction. Since human atherosclerotic plaques show signs of both apoptosis and inflammation, we questioned whether cells induced to undergo apoptotic cell death are efficiently removed.


: Start-ups operate in a highly competitive environment, surrounded by companies that offer similar products and services. In this context, collaboration between competitors has been found to help companies reduce risk and share costs, resources and expertise. Despite its relevance, coopetition (i


A device for the in situ generation and detection of hydrogen peroxide is presented for application to the automation of enzyme immunoassay and application to blosensors. It photochemically generates and electrochemically detects H 2 O 2 in aqueous, buffered solutions. The electrochemical signal is attenuated in the presence of the enzyme catalase (EC 18.104.22.168), for which H 2 O 2 is a substrate


Fabric is one of the key and vital design factors in fashion design. However, selection of relevant fabrics is rather complex for designers and managers due to the complexity of criteria at different levels.

In this paper, we propose a new fabric recommendation model in order to quickly realize fabric selection from non-technical fashion features only and predict fashion features from any fabric technical parameters. This approach is extremely significant for fashion designers who do not completely master fabric technical details. It is also very useful for fabric developers who have no knowledge on fashion markets and fashion consumers.

The proposed fabric recommendation model has been built by exploiting designers' professional knowledge and consumers' preferences. Concretely, we first use fuzzy sets for formalizing and interpreting measured technical parameters and linguistic sensory properties of fabrics and then model the relation between the technical parameters and sensory properties by using rough sets. Next, we model the relation between fashion themes and sensory properties using fuzzy relations. By combining these two models, we establish a hybrid model characterizing the relation between fashion themes and technical parameters.

The proposed model has been validated through a real fabric recommendation case for designer's specific requirements. We can find that the proposed model is efficient since the averaged value of prediction errors is 8.57%, which does not exceed 10% (generally considered as allowable range of human perception error).

The proposed model will constitute one important component for establishing an intelligent recommender system for garment design, enabling to support innovations in textile/apparel industry in terms of mass customization and e-shopping.


Understanding how momentum anisotropies arise in small collision systems is important for a quantitative understanding of collectivity in terms of QCD dynamics in small and large collision systems. In this letter we present results for small collision systems from the newly developed parton cascade ALPACA, which faithfully encodes the AMY effective kinetic theory. ALPACA reproduces quantitatively previously know results from a calculation in the single-hit approximation for small values of the coupling. We discuss in detail how such a comparison is to be carried out. Particularly at larger coupling a generic differences between the two approaches becomes apparent, namely that in parton cascades particles interact over a finite distance while in direct integrations of the Boltzmann equation the interactions are local. This leads to quantitative differences in the extracted values for the elliptic flow coefficient, but also raises questions of a much more fundamental nature that are worth exploring in the future.


Protein consumption has been the subject of study in countries such as the United States, who have determined parameters that determine the sufficient requirement of consumption for this macronutrient. The parameter that is used to determine the needs of the majority of the population is known as Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) that determines the protein requirement that covers 98% of a healthy population...


A very rare case of congenital deformity with hindlimbs turned back on the fetal head and per-vaginum delivery aided by fetotomy is reported.


This paper presents a particle filter for object tracking using the combination of shape and texture features. Local descriptors contribute to estimation by filtering out some irrelevant observations, making it more reliable. We introduces an online feature adaptation mechanism that enables to automatically select the best set of features in presence of time varying and complex background, occlusions, etc. Experimental results on real-would videos demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.


It is shown that keeping track of history allows significant improvements in the realistic model of communication complexity of dynamic network protocols. The communication complexity for solving an arbitrary graph problem is improved from Theta (E) to Theta (V), thus achieving the lower bound. Moreover, O(V) is also the amortized complexity of solving an arbitrary function (not only graph functions) defined on the local inputs of the nodes. As a corollary, it is found that amortized communication complexity, i.e. incremental cost of adapting to a single topology change, can be smaller than the communication complexity of solving the problem from scratch. The first stage in the solution is a communication-optimal maintenance of a spanning tree in a dynamic network. The second stage is the optimal maintenance of replicas of databases. An important example of this task is the problem of updating the description of the network's topology at every node. For this problem the message complexity is improved from O(EV) to Theta (V). The improvement for a general database is even larger if the size of the database is larger than E.<<ETX>>


Boston reformer Elizabeth Peabody, though duly respectful of the awesome intellectual and bureaucratic authority wielded by St. Louis School Superintendent William Torrey Harris, had no hesitation in arguing with him. In 1877, Harris wrote that the Froebel kindergarten, which he had introduced into the St. Louis school system in 1873, would have to be "Americanized" in order to meet the needs of American children. Peabody responded indignantly, "I hope . . . that you will distinctly say that by Americanizing it you do not mean departing from Froebel's principle. . . .Froebel in his lifetime specially recognized the fact that the spirit of society in America was more coincident with his system than that of his Fatherland. He thought of emigrating to establish it here." Historians of American early childhood education such as Michael Steven Shapiro often picture the Americanization of the kindergarten chiefly as a movement away from its German counterpart in response to uniquely American conditions. However, this process did not show American rejection of foreign influences, but rather the continuing relationship of German and American cultures. Although the American kindergarten developed differently from its German counterpart, German influences were important at each stage in its development from 1856 to 1914. German and American kindergarten activists stayed in contact, visited each other, and often used the differences in their situations and ideas as a basis for cross-cultural dialogue.


By adopting the ambitious set of seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) incorporated into the UN's 'Transforming our world; the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development'1, the member states recognised that it was no longer 'business as usual'. In order to achieve these goals in the time frames set, fundamental transformation of how the world lives, works and thinks is necessary. All sectors of society are needed to cooperate and work together to achieve them. Since universities, and particularly research-intensive universities, are enablers of transformation through a number of roles, their participation is critical. In particular, they provide development of new tools and technologies; build capacity through education and equipping future leaders; foster independent and critical thought-leadership; and have the convening power to stage platforms for discussion and debate by a range of stakeholders. The University of Cape Town (UCT) established the Minerals to Metals Initiative (MtM) in 2007 in recognition of the need for interdisciplinary research in minerals beneficiation. This paper discusses how this Initiative provides a platform for sustainable development through minerals and metals, and is playing a pivotal role in this area.


Abstract The aim of this study is to identify the factors affecting behavioural intention in buying energy-efficient household products in Malaysia. The extended Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) was tested in this research. Five hypotheses were tested using data derived from 336 residences in Malaysia. The hypothesized model incorporates knowledge and reasonable price into the conventional (TPB) model. Multiple regression analysis was used to examine the relationship between the independent and dependent variables. The results of the multiple regression analysis show that attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control, knowledge and reasonable price have significant and positive effect on energy-efficient household product buying intention among residences in Malaysia. This research results provide insights for companies for promotion of green technological products and in strategizing to motivate residence in Malaysia to embrace green consumption behaviour.


A variety of theoretical approaches, having different but overlapping energy ranges of applicability, are applied to investigate charge transfer processes for collisions of atomic ions with atoms and molecules. The methods include quantal molecular-orbital close-coupling, classical trajectory Monte Carlo, and continuum distorted wave methods. Recent collision systems studied include S(+4) + H, S(+4) + He, N(+7) + He, H2O, CO, and CO2, O(+q)(q = 1 - 8) + H, H2, and S(+q)(q = 1 - 16) + H2. The database effort is concentrating on astrophysically important reactions of atomic ions X(+q)(X=H-Zn, q=1-4, and selected higher charges) with H, He, various metal atoms, H2, and other selected molecular targets. Existing data, much of it produced by us, has been compiled and critically evaluated. Data for many reactions missing in the literature are estimated using the multichannel Landau-Zener approximation. Fits to cross sections and rate coefficients using standard functions are provided as well as tabulations of the raw data. The database is available on the World Wide Web at cfadc.phy.ornl.gov/astro/ps/data.


The present invention dosage regimen of emergency contraception, the pharmaceutical compositions for the same purpose, a process for the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions used and their pharmaceutical compositions for levonorgestrel for the manufacture of the same purpose. According to the present invention, emergency contraception the use of levonorgestrel as active ingredient is characterized by administering a single dose containing levonorgestrel 1.5 ± 0.2 mg as an active ingredient 72 hours after intercourse. Pharmaceutical compositions for emergency contraception according to the present invention, in each dose, usually, additives for the formulation promoting or formulation provided are pharmaceutically customary are well known excipients, diluents agents, flavoring additives, containing, as active ingredient only levonorgestrel 1.5 ± 0.2 mg in a mixture of flavoring and stabilizers.


Dear Editor, An 82-year-old woman, with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), was referred to us with a painful reddish swelling on the right-hand side of the genitalia. She had been administered 10 mg/d tofacitinib (TOF) (a Janus kinase [JAK] inhibitor), 4 mg/wk methotrexate (MTX), and 5 mg/d prednisolone for RA. She started feeling a painful sensation on the right-hand side of the genital region, 4 days prior to the first examination. General examination revealed a body temperature of 38.6°C, blood pressure of 117/60 mm Hg, and heart rate of 100 bpm/min. Physical examination revealed a painful reddish swelling in the pubic area (Figure 1A). Neither fluctuation nor snow-ball crepitation was palpable. Blood examination revealed a white blood cell count of 11 600/mm3 and C-reactive protein (CRP) level of 9.53 mg/dL. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography detected gas (arrows) and an increased adipose tissue accumulation extending from the right labia majora to the right lower abdomen (Figure 1B). TOF and MTX were discontinued. Meropenem and clindamycin were administered, and an incision into the lesion was performed. Symptoms worsened rapidly and became serious; blood pressure dropped to 87/47 mm Hg on day 2, and a tremendously painful reddish swelling with CRP level of 30.76 mg/dL developed on day 3. Emergent debridement was performed on day 3 (Figure 1C). Deep brown, nonviscous, and foul-smelling liquid was excreted during debridement. Blood and pus culture tests were unable to detect infectious organisms. Anaerobic cultures were performed on blood but not on pus from the wound. The reddish swelling spread to the proximal right thigh on day 4 (Figure 1D) but resolved on day 6. The lesion was washed daily and gradually developed into reddish granulation tissue without signs of infection. The granulated wound was sutured on day 23 (Figure 1E), and the recovered lesion persisted for 7 months (Figure 1F). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of Fournier's gangrene (FG)1 during administration of a JAK inhibitor. The case appeared to be a less serious manifestation when first examined; however, serious clinical features developed immediately after the withdrawal of TOF. The JAK family is involved in the immune-related intracellular transduction of signals from extracellular cytokines via receptors. TOF is an inhibitor of JAK protein activities, mainly JAK1 but also, less potently, JAK2 and Tyk2.2,3 TOF administration can lead to serious infections, as it blocks type I interferons and interleukin-6 via the inhibition of JAK1.3 JAK signaling is involved in inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.4 TOF can inhibit airway neutrophilia stimulated by inhaled lipopolysaccharides, the predominant component of gram-negative bacterial cell walls.5 JAK inhibitors can potentially suppress inflammation due to infection by gram-negative bacteria. In this case, withdrawal of TOF probably led to severe inflammation, which manifested as necrotizing fasciitis. We report a case of FG that initially mimicked pubic cellulitis in an elderly woman administered a JAK inhibitor and other immunosuppressive agents. Accumulation of cases of necrotizing fasciitis during the administration of JAK inhibitors would be highly beneficial for characterizing the clinical course of this clinical entity.


in this paper, Reasons for bridge-head bump are presented; change the thickness of slab, the filling materials used for embankment, and the vehicle speed so as to conduct a comparative analysis by ANSYS FEM software. The corresponding changes of slab's displacement and internal force, settlement and stress of foundation are analyzed, and a method for solution of bump is proposed in this paper, and this result can provide reliable reference database for design and construction.


This paper addresses the issue of applying moral limitations to modern scientific research and who or what has the authority to do so. It examines two opposing positions on the issue: (1) that moral authority over scientific research should be held by society and (2) that moral authority over scientific research should be held by the scientific community. This argument centers around the nature of societal and scientific morality, and how allowing either to hold authority would affect the progression of research. Overall, it concludes that moral authority over scientific research must come from within the scientific community.


The French doctrine of counter-revolutionaty war, conceived during the Indo-China and Algeria's colonial wars, has been thought according to the representation of « a red and green deterioration », that is the union of Communists and colonized peoples. This representation that combines Communists and colonized peoples justified the use of the military technique by the police force.


Description This is a analysis toolkit to streamline the analyses of minicircle sequence diversity in population-scale genome projects. rKOMICS is a user-friendly R package that has simple installation requirements and that is applicable to all 27 trypanosomatid genera. Once minicircle sequence alignments are generated, rKOMICS allows to examine, summarize and visualize minicircle sequence diversity within and between samples through the analyses of minicircle sequence clusters. We showcase the functionalities of the (r)KOMICS tool suite using a whole-genome sequencing dataset from a recently published study on the history of diversification of the Leishmania braziliensis species complex in Peru. Analyses of population diversity and structure highlighted differences in minicircle sequence richness and composition between Leishmania subspecies, and between subpopulations within subspecies. The rKOMICS package establishes a critical framework to manipulate, explore and extract biologically relevant information from mitochondrial minicircle assemblies in tens to hundreds of samples simultaneously and efficiently. This should facilitate research that aims to develop new molecular markers for identifying species-specific minicircles, or to study the ancestry of parasites for complementary insights into their evolutionary history. ***** !! WARNING: this package relies on dependencies from Bioconductor. For Mac users, this can generate errors when installing rKOMICS. Install Bioconductor and ComplexHeatmap at advance: install.packages(``BiocManager''); BiocManager::install(``ComplexHeatmap'') *****.


Systems from smartphones to supercomputers are increasingly heterogeneous, being composed of both CPUs and GPUs. To maximize cost and energy efficiency, these systems will increasingly use globally-addressable heterogeneous memory systems, making choices about memory page placement critical to performance. In this work we show that current page placement policies are not sufficient to maximize GPU performance in these heterogeneous memory systems. We propose two new page placement policies that improve GPU performance: one application agnostic and one using application profile information. Our application agnostic policy, bandwidth-aware (BW-AWARE) placement, maximizes GPU throughput by balancing page placement across the memories based on the aggregate memory bandwidth available in a system. Our simulation-based results show that BW-AWARE placement outperforms the existing Linux INTERLEAVE and LOCAL policies by 35% and 18% on average for GPU compute workloads. We build upon BW-AWARE placement by developing a compiler-based profiling mechanism that provides programmers with information about GPU application data structure access patterns. Combining this information with simple program-annotated hints about memory placement, our hint-based page placement approach performs within 90% of oracular page placement on average, largely mitigating the need for costly dynamic page tracking and migration.


TH E P R O B L E M of providing adequate library space on university campuses is an increasingly difficult one. The growth in the size of student bodies and the frequent use of source material by larger and larger numbers of students have forced a rapid expansion of university libraries. New buildings have had to be constructed, and too often these buildings have soon become crowded. Because of the architectural standards of modern academic institutions, the cost of a campus library building is much higher than that of a building constructed off the campus for storage purposes only. On some campuses it is not possible to provide land area for a continually expanding library. Furthermore a library building, constructed for work and study as well as for book storage, is not so efficient as a storehouse because a much larger percentage of the stack area must be used for corridors, aisles, etc. Shelf space is lost because a working collection must be arranged by subject and some empty space reserved for an expansion of each subject. In the autumn of 1940 a study was made to investigate the possibilities of a storage and distribution center which would house the little-used books of cooperating libraries in the Middle West. Some forty libraries were visited, thirteen of them of university status. As a result of the study it was concluded that a deposit library—that is, a well-equipped warehouse with library facilities—could be successfully established on a cooperative basis by those libraries interested in participating. A plan for cooperative low-priced storage is not new. In 1902 it was suggested by President Eliot of Harvard University and in recent years it has interested, among others, President Hutchins of the University of Chicago and Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the Harvard University Library. At the present time the Boston Public Library, the Boston Athenaeum, Harvard University, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other institutions in New England have established the New England Deposit Library. This library, which is a cooperative book storage house leasing space to members, is in process of construction. Cooperative book storage has many incidental advantages aside from the cheap housing of little-used books. Today there are thousands of books seldom, if ever, used within individual libraries. If these


Malaria is well known seasonal epidemiological disease prevailing all over the world.   The cerebral malaria is the major health problem in the hill tract tribal of Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh. The study has been conducted in the tribal population in Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh for a period of three years in four mandals. The prevalence of the decease has shown vide variation based on the topography and socio-economic status. The results indicated that geo-ecological conditions to some extent are responsible for the health conditions of the tribal communities.


Interfacial Water
The structure of water within a nanometer of an electrode surface is known as the electrical double layer. This layer creates a strong electrical field that can affect electrochemical reactions. Velasco-Velez et al. explored the structure of the electrical double layer at a bare


There is by now a large literature on the topic: "Armed Forces and National Modernization." Since the 1960s, to the rather general and speculative treatment of the subject has been added significant cross-national aggregate data studies that attempt to correlate military rule with various socioeconomic and political indicators.' There is also a growing number of in-depth case studies that explore the nature of military rule and the consequences of military rule. Although these case studies are uneven and still suffer from the difficulty of carrying out interviews with officers, noncommissioned officers, and enlisted men, not to say carrying out systematic surveys of armed forces personnel, many make important contributions to our knowledge of military regimes.2 There have also been a number of recent attempts to make comparative studies of a limited number of military regimes in order to look at common themes and to try to isolate critical variables through the methodology of comparative case studies.3 In this last category it is welcome that serious attempts have been made to treat civil-military relations in communist systems in a comparative perspective, for although we have had available for some time studies of the military in individual communist systems, especially the Soviet Union and China,4 studies that compare communist systems with one another and/or with developing countries have been of more recent vintage.5 Finally, the 1970s continued to abound in works that attempted to provide analysis of military regimes in whole regions6 or that even more broadly examined the phenomena of military rule in historical and contemporary perspectives.7 Work carried out in the 1970s refined knowledge about civil-military relations and military intervention, rule, and extrication. The availability of specialized journals devoted to the study of armed forces, such as Armed Forces and Society and the Journal of Military and Political Sociology in the United States, gave further impetus to scholarly work.8 But it does not seem to me that the work of the mid-1970s and early 1980s alters general conclusions in the study of the military and modernization, although this work does point us in some new directions. We had come to realize that defining modernization as a dependent variable remained highly contentious. Much of the literature has been addressed to asking: what are the impacts of the military as ruler or as important actor and interest group of national modernization. Various analysts defined modernization in their own fashion, some stressing quantifiable variables such as industrialization, GDP structure or rate of growth, ratios of animate to inanimate energy sources. Others stressed quantifiable variables pertaining to social structure-levels of literacy, ur-


As technological evolution progresses of cybercrimes, continually develops new attack types, tools and techniques that allow attackers to penetrate more complex or well controlled environments, and produce increased damage and even remain untraceable. IT security experts engages in behaviour-based malware analysis in order to learn about previously unknown samples of malicious software (malware) or malware families. For this, they need to find and categorize suspicious patterns from large collections of execution traces. The factors affecting the cybercrime have different laws of treatment in different countries that often overlook aspects of the problem and investigation in the depth of the issues with different methods, are playing key role . Not only the method of fighting against the cybercrime but also the juridical issues and technical challenges involved in fighting cybercrime may not be understood. Ethical aspects are often set aside as shown by the various battles government have taken recently to address the cybercrime issues.


2018 N.o 150 pp. 85-93 Abstract EU-NATO relations have long amounted to a beauty contest. In reality, the EU and NATO are very different organisations: the former is an actor, the latter is an instrument. Taking this into account, and leaving behind the often emotional and ideological debates, an effective division of labour can be designed for the three key functions of security and defence: strategy, operations, and capabilities. The result can be a European pillar of the European allies and partners of NATO – which also make up the EU – that contributes to collective defence while achieving strategic autonomy for expeditionary operations. The questions remains whether such a pillar should eventually also seek strategic autonomy in territorial defence. Eventually, a new NATO could emerge: a US-EU alliance. Resumo As Relações UE-NATO: Uma Perspetiva de LongoPrazo


Type B aortic dissection endovascular treatment has a history more than 10 years. More and more hospitals attempt to develop this technology. In the initial development of endovascular treatment experience and lesson of type B aortic dissection,technology to carry out early we should pay attention to the following several points. Full attention to preoperative vascular evaluation and measurement,To accurately choose the proximal landing zoon,Don't easily covering the left subclavian artery,The reasonable choice of graft length,The reasonable selection of distal diameter of graft to prevent rupture,pay attention to perioperative blood pressure management,Strengthen the long-term follow-up. In a word,grasping the technical points will help to shorten the learning curve,avoid misunderstanding in treatment and improve the safety of operation.


The tree row volume model is a method for adapting dosage and spray volumes to tree crops. The method can potentially facilitate the comparison of field efficacy trials and can contribute to fanners'effective and rational use of plant protection products. It has been developed and applied in pome fruit but not yet in stone fruit. Stone-fruit orchards vary considerably in tree size, tree shape and distance between tree rows. Based on 700 detailed measurements of stone-fruit trees in south-eastern France, in southern Germany and in Switzerland, a multiple linear regression was computed that allows the calculation of tree row volume from the height and maximum width of the tree crown, and the distance between tree rows. Seasonal increases of tree row volumes in stone-fruit orchards were most pronounced in May and June, and the increase was usually greater in young orchards than in older ones.


The positive effects of intergroup contact have been verified by a variety of research studies. Recently, new proceedings and contexts different from traditional face-to-face contact have been proposed, including the contact that takes place in computer-mediated communication (CMC). This particular channel of communication presents clear advantages over "real" interactions due to its ubiquity, accessibility and multimodal nature. Nevertheless, there is a lack of empirical research in corroborating effects of intergroup contact in CMC. The primary purpose of this thesis study was to verify the impact of CMC-intergroup contact on negative attitudes toward an ethnic minority in Spain. Two studies based on the Social Identity Model of Deindividuation Effects (SIDE), the Social Information Processing (SIP) Theory, and the Intergroup Contact Theory, were carried out. Using a focus group methodology, the first study analyzed what schematic representations of ethnic minority groups exist in Spanish society; while the second study analyzed the impact of a stereotype disconfirming behavior on the negative attitudes toward an ethnic minority group in an experimental CMC setting. The results of the first study indicated that the Latin American group, among other stigmatized minorities, is the most socially accepted ethnic group by members of the Spanish majority due to shared cultural similarities, even though it is commonly associated to illegal immigration: this implies a better intention for contact compared to the worst evaluated minorities, such as gypsies. On the other hand, the second study used a software application so as to simulate a virtual group collaboration in which visual anonymity and disconfirming behavior were manipulated. One Latin American confederate in each group (made up of Spaniards) was instructed to show a stereotype confirming or disconfirming behavior. Participants were depicted by an ostensible photo (personalized condition) or by their national flag (anonymous condition). The analysis revealed that confederates acting in a disconfirming way were more attractive and prototypical than those who confirmed stereotypes; however, contrary to expectations, confirming behavior reduced stereotyped perceptions more than disconfirming behavior. Also, negative attributions were reduced more when confederates behaved in a confirming manner in anonymous groups. Additional tests pointed out a mediating role of perceived attraction towards the Latino confederate in reducing prejudiced beliefs, but only in the anonymous condition; furthermore, perceived prototypicality of the confederate in terms of the local group influenced prejudice reduction more than his disconfirming behavior. Explanations for the obtained results are offered as well as the practical and theoretical implications for this particular line of research.


When Pseudomonas testosteroni is grown in a medium containing a mineral base, casein hydrolysate and 0.35mM testosterone, three induced enzymes appeared (3α-hydroxysteriod; NAD-oxidoreductase, 3α-enzyme; 3(or 17)β-hydroxysteroid: NAD-oxidoreductase, β-enzyme; 3-ketosteroid : Δ4-Δ5-isomerase, isomerase).

In the same culture the ratios

remain constant in all experiments with testosterone as well as in many other assays with various steroids. Using testosterone as an inducer, the ratio α/β= 1.2 and α/i = 12 were obtained 2 1/2 h after the enzymes has appeared. However, if one compares the number of enzyme molecules in a single bacterial cell, the number of 3 α-enzyme molecules is 2.5 and 24 times greater than the number of β-enzyme and isomerase molecules, respectively.

We have found that certains steroids are capable of inducing preferentially the 3α-enzyme. Among these compounds we have studied non-natural structuires bearing more or less substitued acidic side chains. We have observed a relationship between the structure of the side chains and the inductive force for specific enzymes.

The synthesis of the inducers was carried out by means of the Reformatsky reaction on 3-oxo (5α) and 3-oxo, 4-ene steroids. The assays show that: a) the compounds with side chain –CH2–COOH and –CH(CH3)–COOH produce a decrease of the proportion of the β-enzyme (1.6 < α/β < 2.4) so that a cell has 4 times less β-enzyme than 3α-enzyme molecules. This result is independent of the amount of 3α-enzyme and agree with an overall decrease of β-enzyme as shown by other experiments. These structures slightly reduced the proportion of isomerase (15 < α/i < 20);

a) the compounds with the side chain –CH2–COOH and –CH(CH3)–COOH produce a decrease of the proportion of the β-enzyme (1.6 < α/β < 2.4) so that a cell has 4 times less β-enzyme than 3α-enzyme molecules. This result is independent of the amount of 3α-enzyme and agrees with an overall decrease of β-enzyme as shown by other experiments. These structures slightly reduced the proportion of isomerase (15 < α/i < 20);

b)the compounds with a –C(CH3)2–COOH side chain suppress all inducing effects for three enzymes.

These results show that the synthesis of the three induced enzymes is not as coordinated as it first appeared. We are currently isolating mutant cell.


Firstly,the C4.5 algorithm and the classification algorithm based on ant colony optimization algorithm were discussed.Then,the steps of the data preprocess and J48 were given,and the classification algorithm based on ant colony optimization algorithm was added into the WEKA interface.Finally,these two algorithms were applied to diagnosis breast cancer,and the classification accuracy was assessed by 10 fold cross validation.The results show that,using these two algorithms,the accuracy rates are 75.7% and 78.5±1.25%,and the classification accuracy of the classification algorithm based on ant colony optimization algorithm is high and applicable for breast cancer diagnosis.


Background: Clinical usefulness of short-term education for long-term glycemic control has been unclear in patients with type 2 diabetes. Objective: To conduct a one week education program, incorporating a clinical path with group education and a team approach, for inpatients with type 2 diabetes and assess the effect of our program on short- and long-term glycemic control in these patients. Methods: Changes in hemoglobin A1c (A1C) values of 29 patients were serially examined for 3 years after discharge at completion of the education program, and findings were compared with those of 22 patients with diabetes who did not participate in the program. Results: A1C values of patients in the education group at the first and third year after discharge were maintained at lower levels than those of patients in the control group. The proportion of patients with A1C values less than 7% was greater in the education group than in the control group during the first and third years. No significant differences in the number of hospital visits were noted over 3 years, and no significant difference between the 2 groups was found in the ratio of patients receiving drug therapy to those supported by a diet/exercise regimen only. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that a one week in-hospital education program contributes to improvement of short- and long-term glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes.


The economic spillover effect from technology self-reliance of NSSS(nuclear steam supply system) by Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute was evaluated. Both production spillover effect and value added spillover effect were estimated by using Input-Output table. The production spillover effect from...


The purpose of the research is to study the theoretical approaches to interpretation of functions of the territorial autonomy institution in a multinational state. The author reviews the literature and the functional features of the territorial autonomy institution in the multinational state. As a conclusion, the article corroborates a hypothesis that the autonomy is a political institution, which secures the preservation of ethno-political balance in the multinational states and takes into account their ethno-regional specificities.


The 8th Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference by the Association for Cultural Studies (ACS), Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 17-21 June 2010.


The sensor array for identification of corn juices was optimized for the key technical issues of automated quality evaluation of corn juices.The inherent relationship among the response signals of sensors was analyzed by the factor analysis,and the sensors of the array were divided into 6 categories according to the correlation coefficients and the component plot in rotated space,and combined into 12 different sets of sensor array.Because the decision boundary surface of the probabilistic neural network can be arbitrary complex,the decision boundary surface built at selected smoothing parameter 0.01 characterizes the impact differences of the data acquired by different sets of sensor array on the identification results.Selecting the sensors named S4,S2,P2,P3,S6 and S7 to build a new sensor array to identify 7 kinds of corn juices.The identification accuracy rate for corn juices by the optimized sensor array was 98.016%,which was higher than 94.444% by the non-optimized one.


A novel diagnostic technique, angular filter refractometry (AFR), has been developed to characterize high-density, long-scale-length plasmas relevant to high-energy-density physics experiments. AFR measures plasma densities up to 1021 cm−3 with a 263-nm probe laser and is used to study the plasma expansion from CH foil and spherical targets that are irradiated with ∼9 kJ of ultraviolet (351-nm) laser energy in a 2-ns pulse. The data elucidate the temporal evolution of the plasma profile for the CH planar targets and the dependence of the plasma profile on target radius for CH spheres.


With the devaluing of the skills of morphological taxonomists misidentification of parasites appears to be increasing. In this paper examples from the acanthocephalan literature are reported. The need for morphological taxonomic expertise is emphasised including the importance of examining specimens.


By means of the intelligent five-hole pitot tube,the exhaust structure influence from the lower port d1,the slotted area ratio a and the slotted position on the flow field distribution were investigated.Experimental results show that,an exhaust structure with diversion cone benefits centrifugal separation;with the enlargement of lower port d1,the gas rotation intensity slows down and the centrifugal force to particle separation decreases;the gas rotation intensity slows down with the reduce of slotted area.The slotted position also influences flow field distribution.


The experience of treatment of 117 patients with a combined spleen trauma that was accounted for 45,3% of all victims with a spleen trauma for the investigated period is analyzed. In 53 (45,3%) cases the spleen trauma was combined with a craniocereberal trauma, in 65 (55,6%) – with a breast trauma, in 15 (12,8%) – with diaphragm damage, in 14 (12,0%) – with fractures of pelvis bones, in 5 (5,3%) – with fractures of various departments of a backbone, in 9 (7,7%) – with damage of kidneys, in 1 (0,8%) – with rupture of an urethra and in 29 (24,8%) – with a trauma of upper or lower extremities of various character. The middle age of a sick person is 28,0±12,8 years, 83 patients were a male, 34 – female. The laparotomy was made to 114 patients. 28 (24,6%) of them had spleen damages of III-V degree (by AAST). ISS was equal to 36,0±9,6 points. Splenectomy was made to 26 patients, 1 – resection of the and 1 – suturing of the spleen. The lethality was accounted for 28,6%. During performance of abdominal operation insignificant spleen damages (I-II degrees by AAST) were detected at 86 patients. 42 (36,8%) of them had damages of 2 and more organs of a stomach. ISS was equal to 36,2 ±6,6 points. At 11 (26,2%) patients of this group a spleen was managed to keep. 8 (19,0%) patient died. At 44 (38,6%) patients only insignificant spleen damages of I-II degree were detected after laparotomy performance. ISS was equal to 29,7±6,9 points. The spleen was kept at 9 (20,5%) patients. There were not lethal outcomes.


This communication reports the majority‐carrier properties and room‐temperature photoluminescence of InxGa1−xAs (x≂0.53) doped with Si and Sn, grown on InP substrates by molecular beam epitaxy. The peak doping levels attainable with Si and Sn are established, and comparison is made with dopant behavior in GaAs. The effects of Si‐doping level on photoluminescent yield are reported.


Predation by introduced stoats is now considered a major threat to the population viability of several New Zealand endemic bird species. Historically stoat research and management has focused on beech forests and little is known about the ecology of stoats in the alpine grasslands occurring above the natural altitudinal limit of beech forest. Several stoat control operations in beech forest valley floors in southern New Zealand assume that adjacent montane areas act as a barrier to stoat immigration. Stoats were live-trapped and radio-tracked in alpine grasslands above the Borland Burn, Fiordland National Park, during the summer and autumn of 2003 and 2004. Seventeen stoats were radio-collared and home ranges were estimated for 11 of them. These home ranges were used in a compositional analysis which showed that these stoats spent significantly more time in alpine grassland than in adjacent beech forest. Range cores calculated for six of these stoats were located high up in alpine grassland and contained very little beech forest. This means that montane areas that contain alpine grasslands are unlikely to be barriers to stoat immigration; rather they may be a source of dispersing stoats that reinvade control areas. Also, endemic animal species that inhabit alpine grasslands could be at risk from stoat predation. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


In 1991, the Matabeleland AIDS Council (MAC) in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, established a peer education program for industry workers. To date, workers from 45 companies, particularly manufacturing companies, have participated in the program. Program goals include prevention of the spread of HIV and promotion of a supportive response to co-workers known or suspected to have HIV infection or AIDS. MAC first contacts senior management to get company support. It then helps personnel and training management staff develop each company's program. MAC negotiates free time for the 5-day initial training course of peer educators and for the quarterly follow-up meetings. Workers complete questionnaires so MAC can determine training content and materials required. Management and workers choose workers to be trained as informal resource persons. The criteria for the non-paid peer educators are that they be permanent employees, good communicators, literate in English, highly motivated, and persons trusted and respected by their co-workers. The peer educator/worker ratio is 1-2/100. The task of peer educators is dispelling misconceptions and myths and creating on-going discussions about HIV/AIDS both in and outside the workplace. MAC also trains nurses in 16 companies in AIDS counseling and methods of training peer educators. MAC conducted an evaluation of the peer educator program in 1994 in 15 companies. 13 companies either did not have an AIDS policy or did not address AIDS in its general health policy. 91% of workers had received written materials. 74% attended drama or video sessions, 66% received condoms. 30% asked a peer educator personal questions. Between 1992 and 1993, distribution of condoms increased from 25,776 to 49,392. Workers have adopted a positive attitude towards persons with AIDS. Many peer educators have taken up AIDS related-community work. Business leaders acknowledge the benefits of the peer educator program.


The invention discloses a thickening agent for printing, which comprises the following components in parts by weight: 10-15 parts of etherified guar gum, 60-70 parts of sodium alginate, 30-50 parts of sodium carboxymethylcellulose, 20-30 parts of carboxymethyl starch, 12-20 parts of polyacrylic acid thickening agent blending stock, 10-20 parts of bentonites and 200-400 parts of water. The preparation method of the thickening agent comprises the following steps of: adding sodium alginate and sodium carboxymethylcellulose powder to water, and mechanically stirring till a solution is transparent and clear without a block; then adding the etherified guar gum, the carboxymethyl starch, the polyacrylic acid thickening agent blending stock and the bentonite, uniformly stirring, and standing to bulk the mixed solution so as to obtain the printing thickening agent. In the preparation process, with the bulking of the paste material, the sodium carboxymethylcellulose forms three-dimensional net structure among macromolecules of paste material or at the joints of molecular chain segments because of intermolecular attraction; moreover, besides a macromolecular chain hydration layer, a large amount of water is wrapped to form a gel state, so as to generate very high structural viscocity; therefore, a printing fabric has a clear outline.


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Background: Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency. An appendicectomy is considered the gold standard of treatment for acute appendicitis because of the potential risk of disease progression to perforation, gangrene and peritonitis. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of complications in patients diagnosed with acute appendicitis.Methods: A total number of 70 patients were studied with various symptoms of acute appendicitis and their complications, all patients were presented to PESIMSR, Kuppam from December 2016 to June 2018. Clinical assessment , investigations like WBC counts, X-ray erect abdomen, USG abdomen and pelvis and management were recorded. The incidence of complications were studied. The cases of appendicular mass was treated conservatively, except for those who do not respond to antibiotics.Results: During this study period, among 70 patients aged between 5-45 years, male were 53 and female patients were 17 and 11 patients belong to pediatric age group and 59 patients aged more than 18 years. The commonest complication was postoperative surgical site infection (20%) found in perforated appendix patients in our study. Around 76% of the patients developed complications. Among the female patients diagnosed with acute appendicitis, appendicular perforation being the most common complication and it was the postoperative surgical site infections in males.Conclusions: Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency. Open appendicectomy is the most commonly done procedure in our hospital. The commonest complication is postoperative surgical site infection (20%) found in perforated appendix patients in our study.


Chameleon hash function equips with several special properties and is widely implemented to construct chameleon digital signatures. In this research, we take the advantages of chameleon hash and attribute based cryptography to present an attribute based chameleon hash function. The new presented function not only inherits the properties of chameleon hash, but also adds the new features brought by attribute based cryptography. By proof, the attribute based chameleon hash function achieves the essential security properties. The proposed scheme can be used be construct attribute based chameleon signature in the future.


Let N be a connected, simply connected two-step nilpotent Lie group and K a compact subgroup of Aut(N), the group of automorphisms of N . Let δ denote a unitary equivalence class of irreducible unitary representations of K. In this paper, we give an explicit formula for spherical functions of type δ for the semidirect K ∝ N .


Background:  Although most patients with atopic dermatitis (AD) show high total and allergen‐specific serum immunoglobulin E (IgE) levels, a small subgroup of AD patients have normal total IgE levels and negative serum allergen‐specific IgE. This subgroup has been termed 'intrinsic' AD (IAD) as a counterpart to 'extrinsic' AD (EAD). However, the difference of chemokines between IAD and EAD has not yet been evaluated.


ABSTRACT This study investigated the conflict structure in the 2018 mega-event of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Conflict theory was used as the main theoretical underpinning of the mega-event. A survey was conducted to collect the data. The participants were individuals over the age of 20 who resided in Gangwon Province. This study analyzed the data using confirmatory factor analysis, a correlation matrix, and path analysis. The results suggested that conflicts were caused by negative perceptions of the impact of the mega-event. In addition, the conflicts could be classified into conflicts of interest and conflicts of values. This research demonstrated that the conflicts influenced residents' negative attitudes. In particular, the strongest influences were exerted by environmental perceptions and conflicts of values. These results can be regarded as baseline data when staging events or establishing related policies, as they present specific information about the causes, types, and outcomes of conflicts.


The onset of non-linear convection in a porous layer saturated by a shear-thinning liquid is studied. The Carreau-Yasuda model is utilized for modeling the behavior of the working medium. Constant fluxes of heat and mass are defined on the horizontal surfaces of the cavity, while the vertical sides are assumed adiabatic. The parallel flow approximation and the finite difference approach are used to conduct the investigation analytically and numerically, respectively. The linear stability inspection of the convective and diffusive circumstances is carried out by taking into account an infinitesimal perturbation. The theory of linear stability is employed to determine the critical Rayleigh number for the motion from the rest state, Hopf bifurcation, and the transition from the stationary to oscillatory convection. Overall, the Carreau-Yasuda rheological parameters have a significant impact on the thresholds of convection. The most interesting findings of this study is highlighting the existence of a bi-stability phenomenon, i.e., the existence of two steady-state solutions, which was not observed before in non-Newtonian fluids convection.


ABSTRACT It has been well documented that spaceflight has adverse effects on many tissues and systems throughout the body. Although this phenomenon is well documented, relatively little research has been done in the area of the female reproductive system. If spaceflight has harmful effects on the female reproductive system, the migration of the human species into space would be greatly compromised. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of spaceflight on the thickness of the apical mucin layer in the vaginae of mice, as changes in this layer could have detrimental effects on sperm survival and, therefore, a profound impact on the animal's ability to reproduce. This study examined the thickness of the vaginal mucin lining from female mice that were exposed to 13 days of spaceflight and their concomitant controls. The tissues were stained using a technique commonly used to localize and analyze mucin varieties. The tissue was qualitatively analyzed for the type of mucin produced (i.e., acidic, neutral, acidic/neutral mixture). Further, the tissue was quantitatively analyzed for the amount of mucins produced by measuring the thickness of the mucin layer. The results of this study indicate that spaceflight causes a thickening of the mucin lining of the vaginal canal. The results further indicate being housed in an Animal Enclosure Module also caused a thickening of the vaginal mucin layer — presumably due to internal cage environmental factors — but this effect was not as pronounced as that seen in the spaceflight mice.


The most probable assumption is the conclusion that the artist had affective organic psychosis as atypical form of manic-depressive psychosis with continual bipolar course. Clinical trends are proved to be true by organic changes in brain, stereotype of development and prognosis for the disease. Genetic, parturitional, toxic, circulatory, metabolic and malnutritional factors are among aetiological factors. Predisposing factors closely intertwine with initiating agents therefore mental disorders proceed adversely and in progression. Suicide intentions and attempts are observed during the whole illness course. Motives of protest, a call for help are replaced by the firm decision to depart this life. Van Gogh's suicide keeps within a clinical picture of his mental disorder.


The present invention relates to a method for isolating of phenolic phytochemicals from plant material as well as a food additive obtainable by this process.


A method for measuring the electrical equipment through the high resistance (R1) of the current circuit configuration, which includes a current mirror circuit (1), in which a first branch (T1) connected in series in a high resistance electrical equipment a second branch connected to the evaluation circuit (3,4,5). The high-resistance electrical equipment in particular a catalytic converter in an internal combustion engine λ sensor (R1), the resistance value in the order of several MΩ and operating at the high operating temperatures of about 400 deg.] C. Therefore, it must be measured in a few nA to μA order of a few small current. Since the current mirror circuit capable of generating a current equal to the flow through the first branch and electrical equipment (R1) in the second branch (I


Aiming at properties deterioration of 10CrNi3MoV steel after hot work,heat treatment technical test of cycle quenching was performed,and mechanical properties test,microstructure observation and estimation of grain size were carried out.The results showthat a new quenching and tempering technology,austenitizing at835℃ for2 h and austenitizing at820℃ for2 h and then tempering at 630℃ for 3 h,can effectively refine grains of the steel,therefore a better matching of strength and toughness can be obtained.


Solid-state light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) have received intense scientific attention since they show advantages of simple device structure, low-voltage operation and compatibility with air-stable electrode metals. To further improve device performance, enhanced electroluminescence (EL) from localized surface plasmon resonance in LECs incorporating gold nanourchins (NUs) at the anode is demonstrated. With gold NUs, peak device efficiency of LECs can be enhanced by 35%. The proposed technique is a simple and feasible way to improve device performance of LECs.


Our starting point is the authoritative judgement by Marius B. Jansen, Professor Emeritus of Japanese History at Princeton University, in his The Making of Modern Japan: 'The story of the struggle ...


At present,ARP Trojan Horse attacks campus network frequently,causing the instability and interruption of the network.This article analyzed the defects of ARP protocol and the principle of ARP Trojan Horse attacks.Also it studied the security system for campus network and devices of guarding against ARP Trojan Horse attacks.


By sonication of cells,high-centrifugation,twice DEAE-cellulose chromato-graphy and Sephadex G-100 separation,a cytochrome c_3 with a single protein bandon SDS gel electrophoresis was isolated and purified from Rhodopseudomonascapsulata N-3 and some of its characteristics were studied.The absorption spectra showed peaks at 405,525nm in the oxidized state but at 417,520 and 545nm inthe reduced state.The molecular weight was calculated to be about 13,000 daltonsby means of gel filtration on Sephadadex G-100 or polyacryamide gel electrophoresisin the presence of SDS.The minimum molecular weight calculated from amino acidanalysis was 13,495 daltons in agreement with the values obtained by gel filtrationor gel electrophoresis.By coulometry at a fixed potential the midpoint redoxpotential was measured as -364mV.The number of electrons transferred permolecule was 2 as calculated by Nernst's Equation.Cytochrome c_3 gave ESRsignals in the oxidized state at a low temperature(77K) at around g=2.581,2.203and 1.715,but on reduction gave no signal.


The authors of this article reviewed the contents of the logical-probabilistic approach to the analysis of cyber security of automated control systems of technological processes. The essence of this approach is that the system as a certain structure describing as a topology of interconnected elements. The interrelation of the investigated elements describing by functions of the algebra of logic forming the system of Boolean equations. Authors justifies using of methodology of reliability assessment and risk analysis of technical systems cybersecurity, they also give recommendations on the choice of methods of analysis of the technical risks. Risk analysis of modern technical systems is a complex problem of system analysis, which involves the use of appropriate software tools. Examples of methods for quantitative risk analysis in the ARBITR software environment are introduced in this article. It means that a software implementation of the technologies of the attack trees to describe the potential threats and attack methods that implement these threats, is possible by reducing the functional capabilities of software intended for reliability analysis of complex systems. There is example of recording of common cause failure in the reliability analysis of redundant systems in the analysis of functional safety. The authors provides an example software implementation of attack trees for web-accessible automated control system of technological process.


The article discusses the results of a study of emotional intelligence in students of a pedagogical university. The authors presented the views on the concept, the essence and the structure of the emotional intelligence regarding psychological science. Emotional intelligence is considered as one of the basic determinants of an efficient pedagogical activity.


The need for high stacked NAND package is driven by solid state drives. Customers generally want more NAND density per package placement. Stacking chips into the vertical or third dimension (3-D) has evolved into the stacking of packages to meet the marketing needs. The advantages of stacking packages rather than chips is that the packages inside can be fully tested and ensure known good part prior to stacking. The development and evaluation work of 64DP packages was accomplished through close co-working of multi-teams especially assembly, product engineering and quality engineering. This paper describes the challenges in the process development, reliability testing; and failure modes observed during the qualification.


Slaughtering productive cow is commonly practiced, eventhough it is not in accordance with government program to increase livestock population in Indonesia. Ovarium from slaughtered cow contains genetic materials that have not utilized properly. The purpose of this paper is to review ovarian utilization collected from abattoir through in vitro fertilization technology. The best procedure of ovary preservation from abbatoir to the laboratory, oocyte collection techniques are required to produce qualified embryo. Transportation of ovary to laboratory requires proper temperature and time. Slicing method obtains high quantity and good quality of oocyte. The quality of oocytes collected from abattoir as good as those taken from live animal. Ovaries that previously as waste product can be used for in vitro production of embryos and livestock genetic material resources.