Objective To investigate the infection index of volunteer blood donors in Chengdu,to facilitate the prevention and control of disease transmission via blood,and To minimize blood scrap rate for the preservation of blood resource.Methods The blood test results of 501,608 voluntary blood donors from January 2011 to December 2013 were retrospectively analyzed using Tangshan 9. 0 software. Results The unqualified rate of blood sample was 5. 15%. The unqualified rates of HBs Ag,anti-HCV,anti-HIV,TP and ALT were 1. 56%,0. 91%,0. 30%,1. 71% and 1. 01%,respectively. In the descending order from high to low,the unqualified rates were HBs Ag syphilis ALT anti-HCV anti-HIV. Conclusion The unqualified rate of blood sample showed an upward trend. In order to guanratee the safety of blood,blood banks should enhance the application of health consultation before blood collection,develop more rapid screening projects,establish a fixed blood donor force and improve the management of blood quality.


It is often not feasible to measure percent body fat using precise methods such as dual‐emission X‐ray absorptiometry (DXA). Equations developed to estimate percent body fat in youth using measures that are feasible to collect in a variety of settings usually have been developed in focused samples and therefore have low generalizability.


Cascode configured D-mode GaN HEMT device performance is reported in this paper. The basic parameters of the D-mode HEMT will be covered as well as the integration of the cascode configuration into the PQFN package. Finally 500 volt 3.3 amp switching characteristics of the cascode will be discussed showing the excellent switching performance with voltage slew rates as large as 70 V/ns being measured.


World petroleum residue processing capacity has reached about 810 MMTPA. In the present petroleum refining scenario, the viability of a petroleum refinery strongly depends on the flexibility of processing heavy crudes and, in turn, heavy residues. Visbreaking is one of the major residue upgrading processes and constitutes about 33% of the total residue processing capacity. In the present communication, the published literature pertaining to the visbreaking process has been extensively analyzed and a state-of-the-art review has been written that includes the following: (i) the effect of feed properties on fuel oil stability; (ii) reaction pathways, mechanism, and kinetics; (iii) parametric sensitivity of the operating variables such as temperature, pressure, and residence time; (iv) different visbreaker designs, viz. coil visbreaker, coil-soaker visbreaker, soaker with internals, and high conversion soaker; (v) coking and fouling; (vi) estimation of design parameters, viz. gas holdup in high-pressure bubble column (soaker), gas holdup in sectionalized bubble column (soaker with internals), liquid-phase mixing and axial mixing in high-pressure bubble column, liquid-phase mixing and axial mixing in sectionalized bubble column, and weeping; and (vii) mathematical modeling of visbreaker, which mainly includes the coil and the soaker. An attempt has been made to get the aforementioned aspects together in a coherent manner so that the information is available at a glance and is expected to be useful to researchers and practicing refiners.


Lauri Karttunen has done groundbreaking work in theoretical and computational linguistics. The papers in this volume present new, state-of-the-art work building on his numerous contributions. The first part includes papers on formal semantics, the focus of Karttunen's early career to which he has returned in recent years. The second part provides a natural extension of his semantic work: the formal analysis of meaning and reasoning and the integration of the lexical and ontological components to enable reasoning by computational systems. The third part focuses on syntactic analyses, including the structure of non-finite clauses and sentence embedding predicates and factivity. The final part of the volume deals with finite state methods and grammars, reflecting Karttunen's extensive contributions to finite state theory and technology and its application to natural language.


The antigenicity of experimental Mycoplasma pneumoniae vaccines prepared from antigen grown in a medium buffered with N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N′-2′-ethanesulfonic acid was tested in young, adult males. Formalin-inactivated antigens from a high-passage strain and a low-passage strain at various dilutions (12 to 123 μg of N/ml) were injected intramuscularly in 1-ml doses. Antibody responses were tested by the metabolic inhibition (MI) technique. Sixty-five to 86% of the volunteers in all vaccine groups responded with fourfold or greater MI antibody rises, but only nine (39%) of 23 antibody-free subjects converted compared to 53 (88%) of 60 of those with pre-existing antibody. A booster vaccination did not increase the number of converters or enhance the geometric mean titers. The antigen concentrations of vaccines with 24 or more μg of N/ml appeared to be above the threshold needed for maximal antibody responses in the dose range tested. MI antibody rises could not be detected in sputa and nasal washings obtained from a small group of vaccinees. The results of this study suggest that the new vaccines offer little or no improvement in antigenicity in man over earlier inactivated vaccines.


To evaluate the outcome after surgery and radiotherapy for extensive nodal disease in patients with primary head and neck cancer.


A comparison of speech analysis based on human auditory processing and conventional LPC analysis is described. A comparison was made of the capabilities of these two types of parameters to recognize fourteen consonants extracted from Japanese consonant-vowel (CV) syllables spoken in isolation. Tree types of recognition algorithms were used: Dynamic time-warping with multiple template sets, hidden Markov models, and neural networks. The auditory system consisted of 35 channels, spanning from 100 to 5400 Hz, each of which consisted of a critical bandpass fittering process, a rectification process, an integration process, and a transformation into logarithmic form. A lateral inhibition process was also included in order to more closely simulate human auditory processing. The recognition experiments showed that parameters based on the features of human auditory processing are excellent for use in various types of speech recognition methods.


Block Qian-146 in Jilin oil field has underwent an high water content and high production stage after years of exploration.Gaotaizi oil layer in this block can be divided into five types of reservoir flow units including A,B,C,D and E type ranked from good to poor.The features of the reservoir flow units of main target series of layers are described through multi-parameter vague clustering method.The 40 and 39 layers mainly develop type A and B reservoir flow units,and 41,42 and 38 layers mainly develop type C,D and E reservoir flow units.The types and distributions of reservoir flow units of all layers show a high goodness of fit with original energy production which demonstrates that the difference among reservoir flow units is an important factor that control the oil distribution.The instill,extract,permeation and flow systems of all reservoir flow units are studied through comprehensive analysis of geologic features of reservoir and dynamic data during oilfield development.Five laws of the distribution of remaining oil in XII of Gaotaizi oil layer,thus one delineation well,two old district infill well are arranged in the estimation range of remaining oil distribution.After putting into operation,original energy production is 11.2 t/d,5.5 t/d and 8.6 t/d separately.


The invention discloses an on-line detecting method for laser welding T-type overlap joint gaps based on spectrum analysis. According to the on-line detecting method, aiming at the phenomenon that in the laser welding process of a T-type overlap joint, because the gaps between an upper plate and a lower plate are prone to being caused by welding deformation, test piece machining accuracy and others, the welding process is unstable, and defects are caused, the fluctuation frequencies of spectral line intensity of 500 nm-600 nm plasma spectrums along with time in the welding process are detected in real time, and the peak frequencies of plasma signal intensity under different gaps are calculated by using Origin software, so that the quantitative relation between the gaps and the peak frequencies is obtained, the gaps are detected, related parameters of welding are adjusted in time, and the gaps and the defects can be avoided. According to the on-line detecting method, a detecting system is simple in composition, high in interference rejection and good in engineering practicability, detecting light is high in signal intensity and accuracy, the laser welding T-type overlap joint gaps can be detected in real time, and the on-line detecting method is of great significance in actual production.


Predicting the success of startup companies is of great importance for both startup companies and investors. It is difficult due to the lack of available data and appropriate general methods. With data platforms like Crunchbase aggregating the information of startup companies, it is possible to predict with machine learning algorithms. Existing research suffers from the data sparsity problem as most early-stage startup companies do not have much data available to the public. We try to leverage the recent algorithms to solve this problem. We investigate several machine learning algorithms with a large dataset from Crunchbase. The results suggest that LightGBM and XGBoost perform best and achieve 53.03% and 52.96% F1 scores. We interpret the predictions from the perspective of feature contribution. We construct portfolios based on the models and achieve high success rates. These findings have substantial implications on how machine learning methods can help startup companies and investors.


ABSTRACT Combined free and forced convection in a rectangular cavity with a pulsating heat-dissipating electronic component is studied numerically. The cavity walls are adiabatic and the bottom component is cooled by an external throughflow of air. The present study simulates a practical situation in which periodic heat is generated in an electronic component as a result of its periodic input voltage. The effects of important parameters such as Rayleigh number, Strouhal number, and input voltage function on temperature field and heat transfer are investigated. The results indicate that, by increasing the Rayleigh number, the component heat transfer rate increases, and better cooling is achieved. The average Nusselt number and maximum temperature fluctuation amplitude depend strongly on the pulsation frequency. The results also show that, in comparison to the sinusoidal case, the step-input pulsation produces fluctuations with higher amplitude for maximum component temperature and average Nusselt number.


This paper investigates a secure energy efficiency (SEE) optimization problem in a multiple-input single-output (MISO) underlay cognitive radio (CR) network. In particular, a multi-antenna secondary transmitter (SU-Tx) simultaneously sends secured information and energy to a secondary receiver (SU-Rx) and an energy receiver (ER), respectively, in the presence of a primary receiver (PU-Rx). It is assumed that the SU-Rx, ER and PU-Rx are each equipped with a single antenna. In addition, the SU-Tx should satisfy constraints on maximum interference leakage to the PU-Rx and minimum harvested energy at the ER. In this CR network, we consider the transmit covariance matrix design with the assumption of perfect channel state information (CSI) at the SU-Tx. In addition, it is assumed that the ER is a potential passive eavesdropper due to broadcast nature of wireless transmission. On the other hand, we consider the worst-case scenario that ER's energy harvesting requirement is only satisfied when it performs only energy harvesting without intercepting or eavesdropping information intended for the SU-Rx. We formulate this transmit covariance matrix design as a SEE maximization problem which is a non-convex problem due the non-linear fractional objective function. To realize the solution for this non-convex problem, we utilize the non-linear fractional programming and difference of concave (DC) functions approaches to reformulate into a tractable form. Based on these techniques and the Dinkelbach's method, we propose iterative algorithms to determine the solution for the original SEE maximization problem. Numerical simulation results are provided to demonstrate the performance of the proposed transmit covariance matrix design and convergence of the proposed algorithms.


The method involves requesting, by a location determining equipment connected to a mobile terminal, to send an identity of a service cell to the terminal. The identity is sent by the mobile terminal to the location determining equipment. The received identity and location of the terminal are stored by the equipment. The equipment requests the terminal to obtain frequency/color code pairs, corresponding to sub zones of cells, at the proximity of the terminal and send the pairs in a message sent to the equipment during the identity sending step. Independent claims are also included for the following: (1) a cellular communication system (2) a location determining equipment associated to a mobile terminal in a waking state in the cellular communication system.


A convenient method for the syntheses of non‐1‐ynitols 8a–8d, by chemoselective addition of (trimethylsilyl)‐propargylmagnesium bromide at the anomeric center of a 1‐unprotected sugar, in the presence of 3‐C′‐halide and 3‐C′‐silyl functions in the side chain is described. In addition, an efficient method for the synthesis of 3‐C′‐hydroxymethyl sugar 3 via the addition of C1 silyl Grignard reagents to ulose 1 and subsequent oxidation by the Fleming‐Tamao method in excellent yields is reported. Also, a suitable acid‐catalyzed isomerization of the 1,2‐O‐isopropylidene group to the 2,3‐O‐isopropylidene group (5a–5f), to get access to the anomeric center, in good to excellent yields has been depicted.


Objective. To provide a method of differential diagnosis of the main forms of primary hyperaldosteronism (PHA) based on the high effective liquid chromatography (HELC). Design and methods. We evaluated 98 patients with PHA and with essential hypertension (EHTN). Aldosterone and plasma renin activity were measured by radioimmunoassay, renin levels by immunoassay. The blood levels of cortisol (F), cortisone (E), corticosterone (B), 11‑deoxycorticosterone (DOC), 11‑dehydrocortitocosterone (A), 11‑deoxycortisol (S), 18‑hydroxycorticosterone (18‑OH-B), the urinary excretion of free cortisol (UFF), free cortisone (UFE), 18‑hydroxycorticosterone (U18‑OH-B) were measured by HELC. Dexamethasone test, saline infusion test, postural test, computed tomography of adrenal glands were performed. All PHA patients underwent adrenal vein sampling (AVS). Results. PHA patients had higher blood levels of B, DOC, 18‑OH-B and urinary excretion of U18‑OH-B than EHTN patients. Moreover, patients with aldosteroma had combined excess of blood B, DOC, 18‑OH-B and urinary excretion of U18‑OH-B, patients with idiopathic hyperaldosteronism (IHA) showed a reduction of F/E and B/А blood ratios and UFF/UFE urine ratio. The blood levels of B, DOC, 18‑OH-B and urinary excretion of U18‑OH-B showed the highest sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of PHA. Patients with aldosteroma showed higher levels of B and 18‑OH-B, higher ratios B/А, B/F and 18‑OHB/F in the adrenal vein blood at the tumor side as compared with those in patients with IHA. Conclusions. B, DOC, 18‑OH-B blood levels and U18‑OH-B urinary excretion determined by HELC are informative and reliable indicators for early diagnosis of PHA. The use of HELC method in a complex examination of PHA patients is necessary in case of aldosterone-renin ratio between 30 and 50 ng/dl per ng/(ml per hour) and in case of borderline values of lateralization coefficient at AVS.


Taking hawthorn and purple potato as materials,the processing technology,operational essentials and quality requirements for hawthorn-purple potato fruitcake are introduced in the paper. The pudding product has pleasant color and natural luster,nice texture,delicious flavor,proper sour and sweet taste,and chewy without stickiness so that it has a potential market for older and children.


we examined the maturaDonal trajectories of FA and MD of subcorDcal structures in males and females using a longitudinal dataset with high temporal resoluDon.


"Henry IV" and the tale of the prodigal son "King John" and the tale of the bastard son "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and the tale of the faithful friends "Measure for Measure" and the tale of the heroic sacrifice "All's Well That Ends Well" and the tale of the chivalric knight "Cymbeline" and the tale of the substitute bedmate.


Since 70s of the 20 century the vast majority of the nations began to reform their penal policy in order to reduce the sphere of imprisonment application and to create the system of alternative punishments. An active integration of the Russian Federation into the world community became a significant factor of the renovation of the penal legislation in the Russian Federation. Proceeding from the appearance of the new alternative kinds of punishment in theory a notion of the so called suspended sentences occurred. It was necessary to create a material basis for their practical implementation. The article deals with basic peculiarities and problems connected with the implementation of the suspended penal measures besides the author represents some recommendations concerning possible ways of the problems solution


way to get the attention of bureaucrats is to have a plan, in particular one which takes advantage of preferential location policies. The term "soft power" is now commonly used in plans and proposals circulated by China's film, TV, and animation sectors. There is a sense that if Japan and Korea can make waves in terms of cultural production, then it may be China's turn next. Understood this way, soft power is about national pride as much as export data. It goes without saying that the prospect of a Chinese Wave is intriguing to many Chinese. The unanswered question is, How will China manage, on the one hand, to generate a stream of content that satisfies the aspirations of party leaders concerned with maintaining national and cultural sovereignty and, on the other hand, lure entrepreneurs looking to broker a new Pan-Asian style that might prove attractive to audiences across the region?


This paper presents a study of the natural circulation heat transfer to water flowing under supercritical pressures. Flow oscillations occurred when crossing the critical state, both from the compressed liquid region and from the supercritical vapour region. The threshold was found to correspond to the outlet film temperature, being close to the transposed critical value. Differential pressure fluctuations with frequencies of 25–60 Hz were encountered. These vibrations are generated in the heated section and propagate in the system when resonance occurs. The heat transfer data, when compared with available forced circulation correlations, showed the need for a new correlation having smaller exponents of Reynolds and Prandtl numbers. This was attributed to the power-dependence of flow rate.


This thesis investigates the structure and thermal behaviour of LiBH4, NaBH4, KBH4, LiK(BH4)2, Ca(BH4)2 and Sr(BH4)2. LiK(BH4)2 is the first mixed alkali metal borohydride and was synthesised and characterised during this work. The crystal structures of these borohydrides were studied using variable temperature neutron and synchrotron X-ray diffraction. The synthesis of isotopically enriched samples of 7Li11BD4, Li11BD4, Na11BD4 and K11BD4 allowed high quality neutron diffraction data to be collected. Particular attention was paid to the exact geometry of the borohydride ions which were generally found to be perfect tetrahedra but with orientational disorder. New structures of Ca(BH4)2 were identified and the first crystal structure of Sr(BH4)2 was determined from synchrotron X-ray diffraction data. Solid state 11B NMR and Raman spectroscopy provided further information about the structure of these borohydrides. The thermal behaviour of the borohydrides was investigated using thermogravimetric analysis with mass spectrometry of the decomposition gas products. Hydrogen is the main decomposition gas product from all of these compounds but small amounts of B2H6 and BH3 were also detected during decomposition. Thermogravimetic analyses of Na11BD4 and K11BD4 were completed whilst collecting in-situ neutron diffraction data allowing information about structural changes and mass losses to be combined in order to better understand the decomposition process.


The animation movie Grave of the Fireflies directed by TAKAHATA ISAO, is no doubt a worldwide famous representative work. The first motivation of which is, first, in memory of the ending of war; second, to recall people's memory and thinking of the war.In the animation, the 14-year-old early youth, Seitai, and 4-year-old Setsuko lost their parents during the war. The tragedy that they strive for surviving from the ravages and ruins but they finally dies of hunger makes viewers feel sad, and the character of aunt ,who ever take the brother and sister in, however gives them sarcastic words, therefore becomes a typical frame of orphan-abusing bad step-mother.In memory of the sixtieth anniversary of the end of World War II, NTV produced TV opera in 2005, and the major characters was changed into the aunt, this change not only offers a defense from an adult people's point of view, for that during the war, everybody has no remaining strength of caring others, but also further stresses the cruelness of people's situation of merely caring themselves during wartime.Comparatively, Nosaka Akiyuki, the author of the original novel has ever deprived his own younger sister of food in the insufficient period of war, afterwards the sister died of undernourishment, which left an irremovable wound to Nosaka's heart.However, the most incomprehensible thing is that, both of Takahata Isao and Nosaka Akiyuki, have ever expressed that, they by no means wish to see that this movie becomes such a touching descriptive work of wartime orphan story. After an adoption and re-production, the creation "Grave of The Fireflies" has driven out from the original structure composed by the original author, from some descriptive levels. Furthermore, the article will research how the post-war Japanese group memory to the war is being re-built and transformed by the media.


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Parsimony analysis of endemicity (PAE) was used to assess patterns in the distribution of harpacticoid copepods (all freshwater species and stream species only) at global and regional scales. These analyses provided a focus for reviewing large scale patterns and processes in freshwater meiofauna.

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On a global scale, PAE suggested that large-scale biogeographical events have been most important in shaping present-day distributions in the Canthocamptidae. A small proportion (4%) of canthocamptid species were widespread (i.e. occurred in more than one biogegraphical region), suggesting that dispersal may also play a role in determining distribution at the species level. Global distribution patterns for other meiofauna suggest varying roles for dispersal and vicariant events. No consistent latitudinal trends in species diversity were evident, although a lack of distributional data for many regions, and uncertainty over the status of many cosmopolitan species, precludes more robust analyses. Molecular techniques should prove useful in identifying truly cosmopolitan taxa.

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On a regional scale, a PAE within Western Europe demonstrated a clear link between the distribution of canthocamptid species and the extent of the Last (Wiechselian) glaciation. Northern and southern areas of Europe contain distinctive harpacticoid faunas and the recolonisation of northern Europe appears to have been from the Balkans rather than other Mediterranean peninsulae. The high harpacticoid diversity in southern Europe, may reflect a lack of glacial disruption of groundwater habitats.

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A PAE of lotic data for harpacticoid copepods within the Holarctic reflected the global PAE for freshwater harpacticoids as a whole, but not the regional PAE. A high proportion of stream-dwelling harpacticoids are widespread species, but only one (Bryocamptus zschokkei) was found in streams across the Holarctic. Other cosmopolites were restricted to streams in Europe or North America, suggesting that species' niche requirements might differ among regions. There appeared to be some convergence in the composition of lotic copepod communities in terms of the number of species within genera.

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We conclude that large-scale processes inevitably have a major influence on the local composition of lotic meiofaunal communities, but that the relative importance of small scale vs. large scale processes is unclear at present, largely due to a paucity of suitable data.


A Master of Arts Thesis in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages by Hussam Al Sayed Al Zeini Entitled, "Investigating Classroom Management in Public High Schools in the UAE", August 2008. Available are both Hard and Soft Copies of the Thesis.


Crack is one of the mainly disfigurement of asphalt concrete pavement.Early cracks don't obviously effect the using properties of the pavement,but the enlarging will result in the structural damage to asphalt concrete pavement.Although the cause is complex,they can be sum up in two types: load crack and no-load crack.Temperature crack and reflect crack are the mainly types of no-load crack.From the view of the no-load crack,the forming mechanism of temperature contraction cracks,temperature grads crack and reflection cracks are particularly analyzed.Finally,temperature grads are thought to be the mainly cause that result in transverse cracks in the pavement,and reflect cracks are the compositive result of temperature cracks and semi-rigid base course cracks.


Abstract We present a geometric approach to defining an algebra G (M) (the Colombeau algebra) of generalized functions on a smooth manifold M containing the space D ′(M) of distributions on M. Based on differential calculus in convenient vector spaces we achieve an intrinsic construction of G (M). G (M) is a differential algebra, its elements possessing Lie derivatives with respect to arbitrary smooth vector fields. Moreover, we construct a canonical linear embedding of D ′(M) into G (M) that renders C ∞(M) a faithful subalgebra of G (M). Finally, it is shown that this embedding commutes with Lie derivatives. Thus G (M ) retains all the distinguishing properties of the local theory in a global context.


Abstract This approach analyses the legal and theological aspects of Manuel Ribeiro Rocha's bookEtiope Resgatado..., besides they political and economic backgroung. The author, a Portuguese priest and lawyer who lives in XVIII century Bahia, presents the circunstances of slavery in Africa and Brazil focusing its arguments on the legal status of the redemption of slaves, which would allow in the medium term their freedom. The Portuguese State could thus fulfill the Christian commandments, becoming an instrument of justice.


This will be our third year surveying soybean fields with seedling blight in an effort to identify what pathogen species contribute to stand loss in Iowa. This survey is part of multi-state projects funded by USDA NIFA and check-off funds from the United Soybean Board and the North Central Soybean Research Project. One goal of the research is to develop diagnostic kits that could be used to identify the causal organisms responsible for seedling blight in a field.


Domain wall structure and its effect on wall mobility have been studied in a thin, single-crystal garnet film of (YBiLu)/sub 3/(FeGa)/sub 5/O/sub 12/. The magnetic bubble was maintained in continuous circular motion in a rotating gradient experiment, and the measured tangential and radial drive fields were used to deduce the mobility and structure of the wall. Large changes in bubble winding number, such as S=-9 to S=13, were observed in the experiments. A model was developed to show how the experimental conditions used would not permit the simple addition of an unwinding Bloch line pair. State changes were thus accompanied by Bloch point injection, resulting in the observed winding number changes. The large number of Bloch lines had little effect on the mobility of the bubble, indicating that the number of Bloch lines was less than that required for a hard bubble. >


Objective To investigate the risk factors related to pulmonary thromboembolism(PTE)and/or deep venous thrombosis(DVT)in hospitalized patients based on analysis of the epidemiological data.Methods The clinical data of 483 cases with PTE and/or DVT admitted into Changhai hospital in recent 12 years were reviewed.The epidemiological data including tendency of incidence,demographic features,co-existing diseases,acquired risk factors and prognosis were analyzed.Results The mean male/female ratio was 1.45,and 1:1 in patients ≥50 years.The relapse rates of PTE and DVT were 11.8%(4/34) and 28.2%(124/439) respectively.Conclusion The incidence of PTE and/or DVT is rising year by year.Operation,trauma and fracture were main risk factors of PTE and/or DVT.Estrogen level seems to be related to PTE and/or DVT.


Freely access on publisher website Stick-frame residential construction is renowned for being leaky. Structural insulated panels (SIPs) theoretically resolve the issues with air and thermal leakage, but such construction systems are new to the Australian housing market. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which a steel-skinned SIP construction product could resolve air leakage and thermal performance challenges in five climate zones across Australia in 2015. All houses used the same steel SIPs as the main construction element (walls and roof). Airtightness and thermography tests were conducted in each house in winter to identify air and thermal leakage paths. The results show that even first-time users of this product can produce well-sealed homes, but there is a need to address thermal bridging (because of the steel componentry) and to consider the house as a whole system (not just walls and roof). The results of the study raise questions about thermography test procedures and airtightness regulations for naturally ventilated homes in warm-temperature climates. Addressing these issues will assist in the diffusion of innovative construction products and methods to enhance the energy efficiency of housing.


With the development of internet, traditional literature retrieval method has given way to modern information search method. The literature retrieval course, Retrieval and Utilization of Literature, is faced with the task of eliminating timeworn knowledge, renewing the contents and optimizing the system structure. This paper probes into the knowledge system of modern information search.


The Fire Control Systems fulfil the main role in the development of modern weapon systems. Nowadays it can be seen the intensive progress of exclusive parts, altered features and operating principles connecting with modern FCS. The paper deals with the marginal problem associated with the unique method of target acquisition system. Moreover, the characterization of the FCS from the perspective of its complexity is also presented in the paper.


Integration of nanostructured electrocatalysts into a 3D ordered assembly is beneficial for boosting their catalytic performance across various energy conversion applications. In this work, a self‐templated carbonization strategy for synthesizing heterostructures of transition metal phosphide@nitrogen/phosphorus dual‐doped carbon quasiaerogels (TMP@NPCA) is presented using a rationally designed precursor of a metallogel with Zn/M (M = Co, Fe, and Ni) bimetallic clusters (BMOG) and nitrogen/phosphorus chelate ligands. During the self‐templated carbonization, the Zn ions among the BMOG boost a simultaneous catalytic carbonization and activation process of the resultant TMP@NPCA, whereas the M ions offer a versatile self‐phosphating preparation of TMP nanoparticles (e.g., CoP, FeP, and Ni2P) within the TMP@NPCA. As a proof of concept, the TMP@NPCA catalysts deliver an excellent bifunctional catalytic activity and outstanding stability toward the oxygen reduction reaction and hydrogen evolution reaction, offering competitive advantages to achieve supreme bifunctional catalysis performance over the state‐of‐the‐art TMP catalysts for renewable energy conversion systems.


The state and results of activity of the Russianelite cause dissatisfaction in society. The acuteness of un-resolved social problems creates the requirement of thechange of the elite. However, its solution by a "revolution-ary way" or through "selection and placement of personnel"under conditions of a serious degradation of society itselfand the state seem unacceptable. A spiritual and moralrenewal of the whole society is needed, which supposes apersonal effort of every member. A special role should beplayed by socio-political leaders, who deeply understandthe historical traditions of the people and their responsibil-ity for their fate.


Samples for analysis of qualitative composition of the bottom fauna were taken from five sampling sites along 61.5 km of the Sava's course in Serbia during the period between 2002 and 2006. In this five-year period, samples were collected under conditions of high and low water levels at five standard localities in the Belgrade region. A total of 106 taxa were recorded, including 31 identified species/taxa of oligochaetes, 28 of chironomids, 11 of gastropods, and 11 of bivalves. The purpose of the investigations was to present the results of qualitative study of the bottom fauna communities with more detailed treatment of the Oligochaeta and Chironomidae communities in the Sava on the territory of Serbia. These groups, together with Nemaloda, Isopoda (two species), and Amphipoda (five taxa), were the most frequent in the bottom fauna. Other faunistic groups were less diverse and showed sporadic distribution. The index of participation of the recorded taxa in bottom fauna communities varies and generally depends on the substrate at the investigated locality. Faunistic similarity between localities was estimated according to calculated values of SORENSEN'S Quotient of Similarity (QS). The majority of recorded benthocenoses showed a medium level of faunistic similarity (QS = 41-60 %).


Consumer perspectives are a cornerstone of value‐based healthcare. Screening and diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) were among many of the rapid changes to health care recommended during the COVID‐19 pandemic. The changes provided a unique opportunity to add information about women's perspectives on the debate on GDM screening.


This article, based on the theory of the social construction of reality, aims to understand if the construction of the plan of transition towards the circular economy (dispositif de transition vers l'economie circulaire – DTEC) induces, in France, the institutionalization of a concept. The emerging concept of the circular economy (economie circulaire – EC) is situated in the context of debates on taking into account the impact of economic activity on nature (l'impact de l'activite economique sur la nature – IAEN). A corpus of French texts, participating in the DTEC since 2008, is the subject of a transversal contextualized analysis of discourse. The results show a diversified institutional job, in the theorization phase, without a common conceptualization of EC but converging on the need for a regulated territorial waste management policy. The institutionalization process is then discussed with the institutional change model. The interactions between institutional pressures to take the IAEN into account introduce the prospect of societal institutional change.


Practical REBCO and BSCCO-2223 tape-shaped wires are now manufactured on an industrial scale. They are a typical composite material consisting of superconducting layer/filaments together with functional components. These functional components affect directly the stress and strain dependences of the critical current. When applying an external stress R, the critical current Ic was measured. Then the external stress was reduced to R = 0 and the recovered critical current Icr was again measured. The tensile stress and strain dependences of both normalized critical currents divided by the original value, Ic/Ic0 and Icr/Ic0 were investigated. In general Icr/Ic0 recovered close to unity when the applied stress was low, but its recovering level decreased gradually with increasing applied stress. The definition of the reversible stress and strain limits was investigated and its validity was proved using the cyclic loading test. The original definition of reversible stress and strain limits of critical current relates to: (1) when releasing the applied stress and strain, the Ic shall recover to the original value, and (2) when applying the cyclic stresses, the Ic shall keep the original value. Here, as a practical definition for the reversible stress and strain limits, the tensile stress and strain at 99% recovery of Ic have been proposed. On the other hand, it was made clear that the stress and strain at Ic 95% retention are not valid for use commonly as a criterion of reversible stress and strain limits for both practical REBCO and BSCCO-2223 wires.


This Insight comments on the preliminary ruling in the case Fidenato et al. (judgment of 13 September 2017, case C-111/16), in which the Court of Justice excluded that Member States may rely on the precautionary principle enshrined in Art. 7 of Regulation 178/2002 to adopt emergency measures against the cultivation of GMOs, pursuant to Art. 34 of Regulation 1829/2003. The judgment confirms the strict interpretation of the conditions to adopt such measures, already provided by the Court of Justice in the case Monsanto SAS (judgment of 8 September 2011, joined cases C-58/10 and C-68/10), and the will of the EU to maintain full control over the management of scientific risk related to GMOs. At the same time, the ruling calls for some reflections on GMOs regulation in the EU, which has recently undergone some major changes in the sense of leaving much more freedom to Member States to ban the cultivation of GMOs when non-scientific risks are at stake.


on maternity leave. In March I gave birth to a beautiful little girl, Isabella. Her big brother Noah is just crazy about her. I started my financial career in the Netherlands as a business administrator for a large petrol-chemical engineering company. I worked in the Information Systems Group, responsible for preparing and controlling the IT budget. As I developed in this role, I gained valuable experience in purchasing, budgeting, and general day to day financial practices. I left the business administrator position to take on a greater challenge as a cost controller. In this job I was responsible for stream lining processes to minimize the costs. I believe my experience in finance will enable me to be a contribut-


Sonication of a mixture of magnesium powder, 1,2-dibromoethane, aryl bromide and diethyl dicarbonate in THF followed by treatment with BF 3 .OEt 2 at room temperature afforded aryl ester with reasonable yield. A series of aryl bromides were investigated and transformed to their corresponding aryl esters under the reaction conditions.


Progress in the provision of Meteorological Service is reviewed. Examples are drawn from the experience of the Meteorological Service of Canada. A plea is made for the separation of fact from fancy in meteorological publications publishing articles derogating the accuracy of meteorological forecasts.


In the ethnic areas, it is the inevitable selection of national political development to draw and erosion from three ways of ideology,achievement,system--There isn't stability and development of the politics in minority without the Chinese national consciousness and economic achievement,without standardlizing and procedurlizing the national regional autonomous system.\;


A theoretical treatment for the flicker noise of a p‐n junction at a high injection level has been given. It is shown that the spectral intensity is inversely proportional to the current.


We compute the one-loop expectation value of light-like polygonal Wilson loops in super-Yang–Mills theory in full superspace. When projecting to chiral superspace, we recover the known results for the tree-level next-to-maximally-helicity-violating scattering amplitude. The one-loop maximally-helicity-violating amplitude is also included in our result but there are additional terms which do not immediately correspond to scattering amplitudes. We finally discuss different regularizations and their Yangian anomalies.


La resistenza al cambiamento. Validita della versione italiana della scala di oreg (2003) - The aim of the study is to propose the Italian version of the multifactor resistance to change scale (RTC) developed by Oreg (2003), and to examine its psychometric properties. The research was conducted via self-administered questionnaires on a group of 324 adults, men and women, currently employed. Correlations were computed between RTC and measures of personality factors (Big Five), sensation seeking, need for cognitive closure, emotional control, cognitive abilities, and political orientation. Then, the correlation between RTC and social desirability was computed. Moreover, differences in RTC scores between sub-groups with a different amount of change experiences were analysed. Finally, via multiple regression analysis, the best predictors of RTC were identified. RTC factorial structure, made up of four first-order factors and a single second-order factor, was supported by confirmatory factor analysis results. The internal consistency was also acceptable. RTC measure was negatively correlated with extraversion, agreeableness, emotional stability and openness (Big Five), sensation seeking, and emotional control. The correlation between RTC and need for cognitive closure was high and positive. The correlation between RTC and social desirability was week and negative, and no correlations at all resulted between RTC, cognitive ability and political orientation. Participants with a high number of change experiences had a lower RTC scores when compared with those with a low number of change experiences. Finally, need for cognitive closure was the most important predictor of resistance to change score.


A liquid-core liquid-cladding optical waveguide based on thermal gradients across laminar flow was built with the laminar flow of water in a stainless capillary tube placed in a heat source. Its characteristics were studied with both experiments and a computational fluid dynamics simulation, firstly showing that it had the nature of a graded index optical fiber.


Originally published by Duke University Press in 1992, this book examines Strauss's life and work from a number of approaches and during various periods of his long career, opening up unique corridors of insight into a crucial time in German history. Beyond the enlightening introduction by Michael Kennedy, individual essays use Strauss's creative work as a framework for larger musicological questions such as the tension between narrative and structure in program music, the problem of extended tonality at the turn of the century, stylistic choice versus stylistic obligation, and conflicting perspectives of progressive versus conservative music.


The recent fall in oil prices on the international market seems an opportunity to arise the debate about the institutions' reforms in Algeria. In this context, the state is no longer able to continue its dependence on the oil revenues; but it should negotiate seriously with the productive economic sector. The attempt of this strategy is to mobilize the unused resources and establish a real and an efficient business organization. The new institutional economics offers an insight of the institutions quality and the governance in conducting the economic development. Moreover, the process of the institutional reform in Algeria began in the late 1980s. The diagnosis has presented a success of the reforms that targeted the stabilization of the economy, as evidenced by macroeconomic performance of the economy since 2000s. However, the real boom seems stuck in the status quo because of the latent structural reforms of the economy. This paper highlights the impact of the budget constraint considered as an opportunity to deepen the reform process and encourage the productive investment. Keywords: institution, governance, budget constraint, Algeria


Tantan granitoids are Late Triassic–Early Jurassic age intrusive rocks that are quite extensive and can be partially found in Sungai Manau Sub-district, Merangin Regency, Jambi Province. Tantan granitoids are found in the Barisan Hills physiography, a magmatic arc line on Sumatra Island. Tantan granitoids are interesting to observe to explain rock formation. The petrographic and XRF analyses can provide insight into the intrusive rock type, its relationship to the tectonic framework, and magmatism. The trend of potential mineral resources can be interpreted based on the granitoid-type approach. The Tantan Granitoid Intrusion has two types of rocks: granite and quartz monzodiorite. Granite and quartz monzodiorite are sub-alkaline magma types, with the granitoid type being I-type metaluminous, which tends to have potential with base metal minerals associated with hornblende minerals from observations or petrographic analysis. Based on the TAS diagram of Na2O+K2O vs. SiO2 shows that the sub-alkaline magma type is a calc-alkaline series type in the K2O vs. SiO2 diagram and a calc-alkaline type in the AFM diagram. This data analysis shows that the tectonic formation of the Tantan Granitoid magma was formed from orogenic results in the form of a Continental Arc. This type can be associated with Meso-Thetic subduction activities against the West Sumatra Sundablock during the Late Triassic–Early Jurassic. Structures in the study area include northwest-southeast trending horizontal faults, including Batang Tantan Fault, Tiangko Fault, Sei Tengko Fault, and Serik Fault, then northeast–southwest trending regional faults, and relatively downward trending faults, namely Serik Fault and Betung Fault. The formation of fault structures is believed to result from subduction tectonic processes during this period.


OBJECTIVE
To report the incidence of pharmacy-related burglaries and robberies and characteristics of pharmacies where such crimes have occurred using recent data from Rx Pattern Analysis Tracking Robberies & Other Losses (RxPATROL), a national Web-based information clearinghouse on pharmacy-related theft of prescription medications and over-the-counter products.

DESIGN
Descriptive, nonexperimental study.

SETTING
United States between 2005 and 2006.

PARTICIPANTS
Not applicable.

INTERVENTIONS
Not applicable.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES
Number of pharmacy theft reports received; incident type, date, and location; point of entry; and pharmacy security features.

RESULTS
Between 2005 and 2006, 202 pharmacy burglary and 299 pharmacy robbery reports from 45 different states were filed with RxPATROL. More than 70% of pharmacies reporting such crimes lacked a security camera. Among those reporting a burglary, 60% lacked dead bolt locks, a solid exterior door, a motion detector device, or a safe or vault for storage of controlled substances. Burglars most often obtained access to the pharmacy via the front door.

CONCLUSION
RxPATROL is a Web-based tool that can assist pharmacies and law enforcement in collaborating more effectively to combat and prevent pharmacy-related crimes.


The Kuroshio Extension System Study (KESS) provided 16 months of observations to quantify divergent eddy heat flux (DEHF) from a mesoscale-resolving array of current- and pressure-equipped inverted echo sounders. KESS observations captured a regime shift from a stable to unstable state. There is a distinct difference in the spatial structure of DEHFs between the two regimes. The stable regime had weak downgradient DEHFs. The unstable regime exhibited asymmetry along the mean path with strong downgradient DEHFs upstream of a mean trough at ;1478E. The spatial structure of DEHFs resulted from episodic mesoscale processes. The first 6 months were during the stable regime in which fluxes were associated with eastward-propagating 10‐15-day upper meanders. After 6 months, the Kuroshio Extension underwent a regime shift from a stable to unstable state. This regime shift corresponded with a red shift in mesoscale phenomena with the prevalence of ;40-day deep externally generated eddies. DEHF amplitudes more than quadrupled during the unstable regime. Cold-core ring (CCR) formation, CCR‐jet interaction, and coupling between ;40-day deep eddies were responsible for asymmetry in downgradient fluxes in the mean maps not observed during the stable regime. The Kuroshio Extension has prominent deep energy associated with externally generated eddies that interact with the jet to drive some of the biggest DEHF events. These eddies play an important role in the variability of the jet through eddy‐mean flow interactions. The DEHFs that result from vertical coupling act in accordance with baroclinic instability. The interaction is not growth from an infinitesimal perturbation, but from the start is a finite-amplitude interaction.


In atrial fibrillation (AF), uncoordinated and rapid activation of the left atrium results in futile contractions of the left atrium leading to left atrial wall stunning; as a result, severely reduced left atrial wall motion in conjunction with blood stasis in the left atrium favors local thrombus formation which subsequently increases the risk of systemic thromboembolism and stroke. Major risk factors for the development of stroke in AF patients are congestive heart failure, hypertension, age, diabetes mellitus and, most importantly, prior stroke which are combined in the CHADS2 risk-assessment score. In order to provide optimal care, a riskbenefit assessment with respect to the mode of anticoagulation in a specific patient has to be performed on an individual basis. There is strong evidence that moderateto high-risk patients should be treated with oral anticoagulation and for these patients, and a target INR (international normalised ratio) of 2.0–3.0 may offer the best degree of anticoagulation for optimal stroke prevention while keeping the risk of major bleeding complications at a minimum; in contrast, only low-risk patients or patients with contraindications to oral anticoagulation are considered to profit from acetylsalicylic acid therapy alone for stroke prevention. However, if a good INR control cannot be reached despite best efforts from both the patient and physician, oral anticoagulation may provide little overall benefit as compared to platelet inhibition. This article reviews risk-assessmentas well as treatmentstrategies for patients with atrial fibrillation with special attention to the recently published ACTIVE-W (Atrial fibrillation Clopidogrel Trial with Irbesartan for prevention of Vascular Events) trial and its implications.


Abstract The essential oil of Otostegia michauxii Briq. growing wild in the Fars province of Iran was obtained by hydrodistallation and analyzed by GC and GC/MS techniques. Forty-five components representing 97.9% of the total oil were identified. The main components of the oil were dillapiole (23.9%), 2-methylbenzofuran (12.9%) and α-pinene (8.1%).


Dentists frequently are confronted with the task of constructing a crown to fit a clasp and rest of an existing removable partial denture. The use of self-curing acrylic resins in developing the pattern will simplify the fabrication and will give a finished casting with greater accuracy. The instances in which such construc tion is necessary can be grouped into two broad categories: (1) when there remains a large amount of surface contour, even though it may be greatly undermined, and (2) when much of the surface is missing. The procedure will vary for each situation. TECHNIC USED W H E N M UCH


Purpose – To define availability importance measures in order to calculate the criticality of each component or subsystem from the availability point of view and also to demonstrate the application of such importance measures for achieving optimal resource allocation to arrive at the best possible availability.Design/methodology/approach – In this study the availability importance measures of a component are defined as a partial derivative of the system availability with respect to the component availability, failure rate, and repair rate. Analyses of these measures for a crushing plant are performed and the results are presented. Furthermore, a methodology aimed at improving the availability of a system using the concept of importance measures is identified and demonstrated by use of a numerical example.Findings – The availability importance measure of a component/subsystem is an index which shows how far an individual component contributes to the overall system availability. The research study indicates...


The military in Latin America has been extensively involved in pandemic relief operations. This paper analyses the impact of militarization of pandemic relief operations on human rights. It argues that not all militarization is equally harmful to individuals in the region. When troops assume responsibilities regarding medical care and logistical support, human rights violations do not follow. When involved in policing the stay-at-home orders, the extent of human rights violations is explained by the level of operational autonomy the military has in public security operations. The more autonomous the military, more likely abuses are to occur. Additionally, military exposure to judicial prosecution for human rights offenses contributes to the explanation. After gathering original empirical evidence from 14 Latin American democracies on military presence in pandemic relief, we draw our inferences from process tracing on four comparative case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and El Salvador.


We provide an estimate of the score function for rank regression using compactly supported wavelets. This estimate is then used to find a rank-based asymptotically efficient estimator for the slope parameter of a linear model. We also provide a consistent estimator of the asymptotic variance of the rank estimator. For related mixed models, the asymptotic relative efficiency is also discussed


Witches' broom disease, caused by the fungus Moniliophthora perniciosa, is one of the main diseases of cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) and is responsible to severe economic losses in the production areas. Recently, expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from cacao-M. perniciosa interaction were obtained and differentially defense-related genes expressed during the cacao-M. perniciosa interaction were identified. Among them, a Selenium-Binding Protein (TcSBP) was found. In other organisms, SBP genes are related to the increase of plant defenses against abiotic and biotic stresses; in rice the SBP gene was successfully used to increase the plant resistance to Magnaporthe grisea by plant transformation. Here, in silico characterization and expression analysis of TcSBP were developed. Search on the Cacao Genome Database revealed the presence of only one SBP sequence of 4774 pb in length located on the chromosome 4. The TcSBP ORF is 1431 bp in length and encodes a protein of 476 amino acids which does not contain any signal peptide. Prediction of possible post-translational events allowed the identification of several glycosylation, phosphorylation and acetylation sites. The comparison of TcSBP sequence with SBP from other organisms using the BLASTP tool revealed identity from 62% to 91% and allowed the identification of specific conserved regions. The expression analysis of TcSBP in meristems of cacao plantlets varieties Catongo (susceptible) and TSH1188 (resistant to M. perniciosa), inoculated or not with M. perniciosa, was obtained by RT-qPCR using 3 biological and 3 experimental replicates. qPCR analysis of TcSBP gene was conducted using the standard settings of the ABI PRISM 7500 and the System of Sequence Detection software. The TcSBP relative expression was analyzed with the comparative Ct method (2-??Ct) using malate dehydrogenase and actin as endogenous reference genes, and noninoculated plants (control) as calibrator. The relative expression of TcSBP was significantly increased 8 and 15 days after inoculation in the resistant variety TSH1188 compared to susceptible Catongo. These data suggest the possible role of TcSBP in cacao resistance to M. perniciosa. This study is the first step to better understand the role of TcSBP in cacao resistance as well as for the development of control strategies of the witches' broom disease (e.g. using plant transformation). Work supported by FAPESB, CAPES, EMBRAPA, CNPq, FINEP/Renorbio and CIRAD. (Texte integral)


The pre- and post-scission neutron multiplicities have been extracted for the 220,222,224 Th nuclei for the excitation energy range of 40 MeV to 64 MeV using the National Array of Neutron Detectors (NAND). The Th isotopes are populated from the fusion reaction of 16 O+204,206,208 Pb systems in order to investigate the dynamics of fusion-fission reactions using the neutron multiplicity as a probe. The theoretical calculations were performed using the Bohr-Wheeler fission width as well as the dissipative dynamical fission width from Kramers prescription. It is observed that the Bohr-Wheeler fission width underestimates the pre-scission yields to a large extent. A large amount of dissipation is required in the Kramers width to fit the observed pre-scission neutron multiplicities.


Life situation dilemmas were presented to Ss who were to advise the central character in the situation as to what would be the lowest acceptable odds for success of a riskier, more attractive outcome. In the first session, the effects of familiarizing oneself with arguments pro and con were measured. In the second session, 10 days later, these same Ss were presented with manipulated norm information from the first session prior to taking the dilemma questionnaire again. Ss who were given (false) information that the group had been rather risky in the first session tended to shift toward risk, while those given feedback that Ss had been quite cautious, tended to shift toward caution, while a group given no feedback from the first session fell in between these two groups. The study was interpreted as supporting the hypothesis that information about others' choice is sufficient for risky shift to occur.


In this study, we investigated the role of toll-like receptor (TLR) and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways involved in the tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α and interleukin (IL)-6 expression after stimulation with purified protein derivatives (PPD) or native 38-kDa protein antigen (Ag) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv in human primary monocytes. Both PPD and 38-kDa Ag significantly induced TNF-α and IL-6 in human primary monocytes. MAPK [extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) 1/2 and p38] are rapidly phosphorylated in human monocytes stimulated with the PPD or 38-kDa Ag. Both p38 and ERK 1/2 activation are essential for PPD- or 38-kDa-induced TNF-α and IL-6 production. The inhibition of TLR2 and TLR4 by specific antibodies significantly abrogated the 38-kDa-induced secretion of TNF-α and IL-6, whereas blockade of TLR2, but not TLR4, was responsible for the PPD-induced TNF-α and IL-6 production in human monocytes. Collectively, these data suggest that the PPD and 38-kDa Ag differentially interact with TLR2 and TLR4, which in turn mediate an essential role for the early inflammatory immune responses during human tuberculosis.


The coal structure deformation attributed to actions of tectonic stresses can change characteristics of nanopore structure of coals, affecting their CO2 adsorption. Three tectonically deformed coals and one undeformed coal were chosen as the research objects. The isotherm adsorption experiments of four coal specimens were carried out at the temperature of 35 °C and the pressure of 0 to 7 MPa. Nanopore structures were characterized using the liquid nitrogen adsorption method. The results show that there exist maximum values of excess and absolute adsorption capacity, which increase with increasing coal deformation degree. As the degree of coal deformation increases, the pore volume and specific surface area present an obvious increasing trend in the case of micropores, exhibiting an increase at first (cataclastic coal and ganulitic coal) and then stabilization (crumple coal), in the case of mesopores, and showing a gradual decrease in the case of macropores. The mesopores are the key factor of CO2 adsorption of tectonically deformed coals, followed by the micropores and the limited effect of macropores at the strong coal deformation stage.


The new model of green development is not only key for China's development, but also will be very important to the future of the whole world. On the road to green development, China will encounter many challenges such as population growth, the rise of mass consumption patterns, gross output expansion, and industrial structure transition to heavy industries, and rapid urbanization. However, at the same time, the setup of market system, enlarging openness, improvement of awareness of protecting environment and the rise of knowledge economy, also provide opportunities for the future of green development in China. In the last, the article provides some countermeasures and policies for green development of China in the 21st century.


SOHO (SUMER/CDS) observed an eruptive prominence on May 1,1996, associated with a CME observed by LASCO. We investigate the physical conditions of this prominence in order to quantify velocity, temperature, and density. SUMER spectra in Si IV and O IV lines are used to obtain Doppler-shift images of the prominence. The prominence shows large-scale red and blueshifted regions, revealing a large helical structure with a global twist. In addition, fine structure analysis shows multiple components in the line profile, suggesting integration of many threads along the line-of-sight with a large dispersion of velocities (±50 km s −1 ).


Abstract Social work educators who are balancing the congruent roles of teacher and social work practitioner and the contrasting roles of student and teacher face unique challenges that have not been captured in the literature. This paper represents an experiential account of three doctoral candidates who were teaching while simultaneously occupying the roles of full-time students and social work practitioners. We propose that examining boundary management between teachers and students in the context of these three roles and the implicit or explicit epistemology articulated in carrying out these roles will highlight the complexities of maintaining a comfortable relational stance with students.


An in-depth study of mountaineer Joe Simpson, Admiral Richard Byrd, Charles Lindbergh, and others and how they coped with prolonged, solitary ordeals.


During the planning process of the new campus of Xianning professional technology college,through the consideration of the essential significance and ultimate aim,this paper expounded the possibility of the mountain and water resource's reservation.Based on the site's natural feature,it pays attention to the four urgent questions,and then puts forward the ecological strategies: establishment of the ecological security layout,architecture spatial layout of high density,and road system changing with the topography.


Immunotoxins, composed of a monoclonal antibody conjugated to a protein toxin, mediate cell death through novel cytotoxic mechanisms. Anti-B4-blocked ricin (anti-B4bR) recognizes CD19-positive cells, which includes most B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs). Previous Phase I clinical studies of anti.B4-bR, using both bolus and continuous dosing regimens, demonstrated no safety or efficacy advantage to the continuous infusion regimen. This Phase II trial in 16 patients with relapsed CD19-positive NHL was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of anti-B4-bR when administered at the previously established maximum tolerated dose using a daily bolus for a 5 consecutive days schedule. Serum pharmacokinetics were measured in selected patients. Tissue samples of involved lymph nodes and bone marrow were also obtained from a portion of patients for determination of anti-B4-bR penetration into tissues. Toxicity was similar to what has been described previously for anti-B4-bR and consisted mainly of reversible elevations of hepatic transaminases and mild to moderate thrombocytopenia. No sustained clinical responses were documented. Pharmacokinetic measurements demonstrated that serum levels compatible with 3 logs of cell kill in vitro could be sustained for several hours in most patients. Immunohistochemical analysis of tissue samples provided some insight into the low efficacy. The immunotoxin could be detected in three of the four bone marrow aspirate samples but in only two of the seven lymph node specimens. Thus, anti-B4-bR, using a single daily bolus for a 5 consecutive day schedule, is not an active agent in relapsed NHL. Poor penetration into certain sites of disease may be one explanation for its lack of efficacy. Received 4/1/98; revised 8/20/98; accepted 8/26/98. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked advertisement in accordance with I 8 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact. I Supported by ImmunoGen, Inc. 2 To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Hematology/ Oncology Unit Cox 2, Massachusetts General Hospital, 100 Blossom Street,Boston, MA 02114. Phone: (617)724-1134: Fax: (617) 724I 137; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. INTRODUCTION The ultimate failure of chemotherapy to cure patients with B-cell NHL3 can be attributed to a combination of tumor cell resistance and an inability for all patients to tolerate the toxicities associated with current therapies. Ample room remains to develop non-cross-resistant therapies with lower toxicity profiles. MoAb-based therapies may offer the ability to target and kill tumor cells specifically via novel cytotoxic mechanisms. The recent introduction of the IDEC-C2B8 MoAb for the treatment of relapsed low-grade B-cell NHL offers hope that the promise of MoAb therapy is finally being realized. ITs, consisting of a MoAb conjugated to a potent protein toxin, obviate the need for the MoAb to mediate cytotoxicity (1). One such IT is anti-B4-bR, composed of the murine antiCD19 MoAb and blocked ricin toxin (2). The CD19 antigen is an attractive target for the treatment of B-cell NHL, because it is present on >95% of cases (3). It is also expressed throughout normal B-cell development, is the earliest detectable pan-B cell antigen, and lacks demonstrable expression on other normal tissues. Furthermore, normal hematopoietic stem cells do not express CD19 and thus would not be expected targets of the anti-B4-bR IT. The toxin moiety itself consists of covalently modified ricin toxin, in which the high-affinity galactose-binding sites of the B-chain are blocked to minimize nonspecific binding while retaining the membrane translocation function (4). The A-chain remains unmodified and serves as the cytotoxic component of the anti-B4-bR conjugate, inactivating the 605 ribosomal subunit and thus disrupting protein synthesis, leading to cell death (5). Extensive in vitro studies using B-cell NHL cell lines have demonstrated the ability of anti-B4-bR to kill greater than 5 logs of malignant cells, through specific antibody-antigen binding (2, 6). This in vitro cytotoxicity is both time and dose dependent, such that with a 30-mm exposure at a concentration of 3 flM, <1 log of cells is killed, whereas a 5-h exposure resulted in equal cytotoxicity at < 1 nM (7). Subsequent preclinical severe cornbined immunodeficient mouse tumor xenograft models confirmed in viva efficacy, using a single daily bolus for a 5 consecutive day schedule and achieving serum levels ranging from 0.7 to 3.6 nM (8). The first human Phase I study. using an identical 5-day bolus schedule, treated patients with B-cell neoplasms with escalating doses of anti-B4-bR (9). The MID was reached at a total dose of 250 xg/kg, with a DLT of reversible 3 The abbreviations used are: NHL. non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: MoAb. monoclonal antibody; IT. immunotoxin: anti-B4-bR, anti-B4-blocked ricin: MTh. maximum tolerated dose: DLT. dose-limiting toxicity: VLS, vascular leak syndrome: CNS, central nervous system: LBM. lean body mass: HAMA. human anti-mouse antibody: HARA, human antirat antibody; FNA, fine-needle aspirate. Research. on April 19, 2017. © 1998 American Association for Cancer clincancerres.aacrjournals.org Downloaded from 2600 Phase II Bolus Anti-B4-bR in Relapsed B-Cell NHL grade 3 elevation of hepatic transarninases. Other observed toxicities included thrornbocytopenia, fatigue, and a mild VLS. One complete response and two partial responses were observed. A follow-up study used a 7-day continuous infusion in a similar population of patients to determine whether efficacy could be increased and toxicity decreased with this alternate schedule (7). The DLT was defined by grade 4 elevations of hepatic transarninases and grade 4 thrombocytopenia. Additional toxicities included fever, malaise, nausea, and headaches, as well as manifestations of VLS. Despite a higher MTD (total dose, 350 jig/kg), the response rates were similar between the continuous and bolus infusion schedules; thus, there appeared to be no demonstrable benefit to continuous infusion IT serotherapy. Studies suggest that the efficacy of ITs may be limited by impaired penetration of these large molecules into sites of poorly vascularized, bulky disease (10, 1 1). The present Phase II study was performed to: (a) determine the efficacy ofbolus dose anti-B4-bR delivered at the previously established MID in patients with B-cell NHL; (b) measure the pharmacokinetics of anti-B4-bR; and ( ) determine whether anti-B4-bR can penetrate into sites of disease by obtaining tissue samples of bone marrow and accessible lymph nodes after therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Anti-B4 MoAb, Blocked Ricin, and Anti.B4-bR. The anti-B4 MoAb is a murine IgGl and was prepared as described previously (3, 12). The synthesis ofblocked ricin toxin has been detailed elsewhere (4). The anti-B4-bR IT was prepared as outlined previously (2, 7, 9). Two lots of anti-B4-bR were used in this study (lot nos. P0192F05 and P0192J06). Patient Selection. Patients were eligible for this study if they were between the ages of 18 and 65 and had a B-cell NHL that had relapsed from conventional primary or salvage chemotherapy regimens. Patients with low-grade histology must have failed at least one chemotherapy regimen, and patients with intermediateor high-grade histology must have failed at least two prior chemotherapy regimens. Tumor cells from all patients were required to demonstrate reactivity to either the anti-B4 MoAb (by flow cytometry or immunoperoxidase staining), the anti-B I antibody, or the L26 antibody, because it had been demonstrated previously that tumor cells that express the B 1 antigen also express the B4 antigen (3). Tissue for antigen analysis could come from the time of initial diagnosis, at relapse, or at the time of consideration for enrollment on study. All patients had to have evaluable disease by physical exam, radiographic studies, or bone marrow exam. Patients were required to have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0 to 2. At least 3 weeks had to have elapsed since any prior therapy. At protocol entry, all patients were required to have a total bilirubin 2.0 mg/dl, aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase S3 times the upper limit of normal, serum creatinine 2.0 mg/dl, hematocrit 25%, platelet count 50,000/pA, and absolute neutrophil count 5O0/ j.l. Patients were excluded for any history of CNS infection, CNS infiltration by tumor, or CNS irradiation 3000 cGy. Patients could not be receiving corticosteroids and had to be without evidence of uncontrollable infection, including a positive HIV serology. Patients could not have clinically significant cardiac or pulmonary disease. The clinical protocol was approved by the institutional review boards of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA), and all patients signed an informed consent approved by these committees. Study Design. Eligible patients were treated in the outpatient clinic at either the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute or Massachusetts General Hospital with daily bolus doses of antiB4-bR, administered over 1 h via a central venous access line, for 5 consecutive days. Patients were dosed according to calculated LBM or actual weight, whichever was lower. LBM calculations were made based upon the following equations: LBMtcmaic = 45.5 kg + 2.3 x (height in inches above 5 feet) LBMmaic 50.0 kg + 2.3 x (height in inches above 5 feet) Doses and schedules were not modified during the 5-day cycle. The first three patients were treated at 40 i.g/kg LBM/ day, a dose 10 .g&g LBM/day below the MTD established by a prior study (9). This lower dose was used because the formulation of anti-B4-bR had changed since the prior study. Subsequent patients were all treated at 50 gig/kg LBMJday. Patients were eligible for retreatment at the same dose on a


The power system round the globe functions at highly loaded conditions resulting in poor voltage profile, voltage instability and high system losses. Electrical power increment and difficulties in providing required capacity provide a spur to appoint a Distributed Generation (DGs) and Static VAR Compensator (SVC) option. DGs and SVC integration ameliorate voltage profiles, system efficiency, Voltage stability and power quality and to lower system losses, while neglecting consequential venture in transmission and distribution systems. The device does not work satisfactorily if it is placed in any random location in the system therefore It is necessary to determine the optimal location of the devices (DG and SVC), as the computational time requirement can be reduced by performance analysis of the device at weaker bus location. In the present work on an IEEE 14 bus system, the weak bus identification is determined by pioneering and ingenious approach called Revamp Voltage Stability Indicator (RVSI). The optimal allocation of the device has been done based on its performance assessment at different identified weak bus locations using 3 different indices Voltage Profile Improvement Index (VPII), Line Loss Reduction Index (LLRI) and Revamp Voltage Stability Indicator (RVSI). The Electrical Transient Analyzer Program (ETAP) software is being used for the load flow analysis of the IEEE 14 bus system.


This is a preliminary study in the selection of Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) site in Batam's Barelang area to support industrial growth in the area in the future. The initial site selection was conducted in 2015 and 2017 in the pre-survey phase, considering hydrogeological aspect. The results of previous research showed four potential areas, namely Pasir Panjang Beach, Tanjung Batu, Dapur 3 and Tanjung Rame. The hydrogeological aspect plays an important role in the consideration of site acceptance. This is related to the consideration of potential flow of radioactively contaminated groundwater seepage in the site area, in the event of a potential release. The acceptance of the NPP site from the hydrogeological aspect is based on the site's permeable geological formation and porosity condition, where groundwater can be stored. The purpose of the study was to assess the potential site in Galang Subdistrict, Batam City based on hydrogeological aspects which include surface geology, groundwater productivity and rock porosity. Research methods include primary and secondary data collection, literature review and ranking analysis. The results showed that Tanjung Batu, Dapur 3 and Tanjung Rame could be chosen as the potential sites for NPP based on the hydrogeological aspect. The three regions have surface geology in the form of sandstone, clay and claystone rock with medium rock porosity level and medium groundwater productivity. Pasir Panjang Beach is less preferable because it has a high porosity of rocks with the productivity of aquifers is being spread widely.


Fig. 1: Medium range measuring (temperature and rel. humidity) in a straw bale wall (wood framing) in a house in Junkershausen Straw bales represent a very old building material which has been replaced over the ages by more "modern" materials such as bricks and concrete. In recent years the natural construction material straw with its advantageous characteristics has been rediscovered in Europe, helped by an increasing tendency towards sustainable building and its contribution towards environmental protection and good living and room climate which is of ever-increasing importance nowadays. However, the way towards a house of HD (= high density) straw bales is still hindered with many obstacles. A large number of investigations have be-


Abstract This paper describes a neural network that can be used as a virtual sensor for measuring particulate matter (PM) emissions of a medium or heavy-duty diesel engine. The neural network is stable across a broad range of engine operation points. The input parameters are chosen based on the PM formation mechanism, physical knowledge of the process and an insight of the underlying physics. The results show that neural network models could predict the particulate matter successfully with R2 above 0.99 with 5 inputs only.


4522 Background: Unresectable BCs, though uncommon, have a high mortality rate due to few effective available chemotherapies. BCs are known to express EGFR and increased angiogenesis in BC tumors h...


In contrast to the well-studied shopkeepers, little empirical evidence exists on the locational patterns of artisans in transforming urban spaces. By GIS mapping a dataset on Brussels construction entrepreneurs (c. 1830–1930), long-term changes in their patterns of spatial clustering and dispersal become clear, showing which urban areas provided advantageous conditions for artisans to thrive, but also how and when these conditions subsided. While confirming earlier observations of a broad scattering of artisans throughout the city, the analysis also shows how remarkable clusters emerged in cheap, densely built, both central and suburban neighbourhoods. The importance of clustering decreased over time, however. Confronting locational patterns with their potential underlying causes shows that planning policies for the renewal of urban infrastructure and the resulting dynamics on the real estate market acted as the first drivers of urban de-industrialization, affecting the displacement of artisans from inner cities since at least the late nineteenth century.


An exploratory study is reported of the benzene-induced shifts in the n.m.r. spectra of a range of acetylated monosaccharides. The solvent-induced shifts have been shown to be configurationally dependent and certain trends can be traced. The new results are discussed in terms of a model involving 'benzene–solute association.'


This chapter starts with a brief account on the importance of C-H activation strategy in the modern research interest. In this context, Intense research activities by several research groups in this area have resulted in the development of some very useful protocols for regioselective Csp2-H activation through transition metal catalyses, however, corresponding Csp3-H activation is still in its infancy. The benzyl group being an important motif in organic syntheses, its direct activations has been achieved by using either hetero-atom chelated transition metal catalyst or non-directed oxidative activations. In spite of impressiveprogress made in this area, the reported protocols are far frombeing environmentally benign as they either require moisture-sensitive and expensive metal catalysts or special structuralrequirements along with excessive use of chemical oxidants.Therefore, further research in this area is still warranted. With this endeavor, we envisioned an unprecedented benzylic CH bond activation protocol via photoredox


Abstract Nicotine is an addictive drug whose popularity has recently increased, particularly among adolescents, because of the availability of electronic nicotine devices (i.e., "vaping") and nicotine e-liquids containing additives with rich chemosensory properties. Some efforts to understand the role of these additives in nicotine reward suggest that they increase nicotine reward and reinforcement, but the sensory contributions of additives, especially in their vapor forms, are largely untested. Here, to better understand how a fruit-flavored (i.e., strawberry) additive influences nicotine reward and aversion, we used a conditioned place preference (CPP) procedure in which nicotine and a strawberry additive were delivered as a vapor to male and female adolescent mice. We found that nicotine vapor alone can lead to a dose-dependent CPP when using a biased design. The strawberry additive did not produce CPP on its own, and we did not observe an effect of the strawberry additive on nicotine vapor-induced reward. Nevertheless, mice exposed to nicotine plus strawberry additive vapor had higher plasma cotinine concentrations, which did not appear to reflect altered nicotine metabolism. Instead, by directly measuring vapor sampling through respiration monitoring, we uncovered an increase in the amount of sniffing toward strawberry-containing nicotine vapor compared with nicotine vapor alone. Together these data indicate that chemosensory-rich e-liquid additives may enhance the perceived sensory profile of nicotine vapors rather than the reward value per se, which leads to overall increased nicotine exposure.


As part of a programme investigating the design of new airplanes the aeronautics and automatics engineers are studying aircraft and systems which would operate with greatly reduced stability margins and would, as a result, be totally dependent on computer control for the safety of a flight. Therefore these computer systems generally used to provide active control are required to have efficient diagnosis systems. A fuzzy dual diagnosis system for the command of a commercial airplane is presented.


There are challenges associated with measuring regional variations in health care expenditures across health care systems in the United States. In some cases, regional measures do not provide enough guidance to individual health care systems with regard to accountability – one hospitals system may attribute their region's high costs to another system across town. As well, residents of some regions, and patients in some hospitals, may be sicker on average than in others, and risk adjustment is often problematic. Finally, when we observe differences in spending across regions or hospitals, we don't always know why – what are the components of spending on otherwise similar patients that account for higher levels of reimbursements? In this paper, we address each of these three issues. First, we use "forward-looking" one-year disease cohorts at the hospital level for low-variation conditions such as hip fracture, acute myocardial infarction, and stroke to measure representative risk- and price- adjusted costs and outcomes, and to compare these measures with "backward-looking" measures of end-of-life expenditures. Second, we find that many problems associated with risk adjustment methods such as the hierarchical condition categories (HCCs) are less when using these cohorts, since these patients are all quick sick, making biases less dramatic. Using a 100% sample of Medicare enrollees during 2007-09, we find remarkable variation in risk-adjusted Medicare expenditures across hospitals, variations that are highly correlated across disease categories. Much of the difference is the consequence of post-acute care, such as home health care, readmission rates, and nursing home care. Disease-specific mortality was less well correlated within hospitals, poorly correlated with spending, and (unlike costs) are more sensitive to HCC risk-adjustments.


The historical development of control education in Turkey is outlined, and its structure is described. The courses and research opportunities available at various universities are described. Developments are of both scientific importance and industrial relevance.


The summer of 2004 provided another occasion for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland to host a workshop on monetary economics, broadly defined to include theoretical and quantitative work on money and monetary policy, as well as research on banking, payment systems, and related issues. Twenty-six papers were presented over the course of two weeks. Below we summarize some key contributions of the presentations and try to tie them together whenever appropriate. Although classifying the papers by topic is somewhat arbitrary, we arrange the summaries under the following headings: Foundations of Monetary Theory; Money and Other Assets; Pricing; and Money, Banking, and Payments.


In addition, de facto a third form of dumping exists: Non-market economy dumping. Where a non-market economy is under investigation, dumping may be established in a special manner. In all three cases, the establishment of dumping nominally2 is a technical mathematical exercise, which focuses on facts, notably the prices and costs of merchandise in two separate markets. If dumping and resulting injury are found, anti-dumping duties may be imposed to offset or prevent injurious dumping in the importing country market. Anti-dumping duties therefore are defensive (and not punitive) in nature. Systematic price dumping assumes separation of markets and existence of a closed home market, through governmental or market activity. These conditions should make parallel imports impossible. It is perceived to be "unfair" not to allow competition in one's home market, yet to benefit from the openness of other markets to sell at low prices there. This perception of unfairness can be said to form the current basis for most anti-dumping legislation, although the ADA itself does not label dumping as "unfair" and the WTO carefully avoids that assertion. However, price differentiation as a pricing policy (as often used within domestic economies) is a widely used instrument to introduce products to new markets (however, the effect of such a policy is often balanced by parallel imports). Similarly, temporary sales below fixed costs (but above variable costs) are common in many industries during downturns in the business or product cycle. Therefore, it is important that key substantive concepts of the ADA are applied appropriately. Furthermore, some ADA rules may need to be revised to better reflect business realities in a globalized economy. In the areas of price and cost dumping, current WTO rules leave too much leeway for dumping to be found and anti-dumping measures to be applied in circumstances where systematic dumping does not take place (and, indeed, where domestic competition laws would not find objectionable conduct). We characterize such dumping as incidental dumping. A finding of incidental dumping, as opposed to systematic dumping, may result from various factors, including, but not limited to:


is able to accommodate the 20-40 fold volume change observed during foaming as well as minimize interference by the skin on the foam surface. Adapted to follow modulus rise in a Rheometrics System Four rheometer, the influence of edge effects and fixture compliance was studied by testing different cup radii and gap heights with strain and frequency sweeps on a low viscosity polydimethylsiloxane and a shaving cream foam. The evolution of storage ( G' ) and loss ( G &dquo;) moduli during foaming was measured on a typical slabstock foam formulation at 2.0 and 4.2 g water per 100.0 g polyol. Four regions were identified during the foaming process: 1. Bubble nucleation; within the initial 30 s of reaction; 2. Liquid foam, a solid-like plateau in G ' ; 3. Phase separation which leads to rapid modulus rise and cell opening; and 4. Foamed elastomer, where the final (foam) modulus is reached.


Here, we employ first-principles methods to expand the set of functional materials known as ferroelectrics and antiferroelectrics. We use known compounds, whose properties have previously been overlooked, as the springboard for new materials. We first develop methodology to search for polar instabilities in known nonpolar and antipolar compounds and then use this technique to identify new members of the A2BX3 family. This methodology identities new Pb-free oxides and chalcogenides, with a wide range of band gaps, to be used as solid-state photovoltaics. Finally, we perform a cursory evaluation of how compositional tuning of oxide materials can adjust the difference in energy between ground and metastable states, to assess the likelihood of polarization switching. In total, we report on a targeted sets of new materials to synthesize and design routes to obtain ferroelectrics and antiferroelectrics with energetic barriers amenable to switching with an electric field.


Chinese legal system enjoys a long history.Legal system rdflects the social feature,cultural background and social idea of a country and a tribe.On the contrary,the social foundation and mental factors of a society has a great impact on the establishment of legal system of a country.The dictatorial political system,agricultural economy and culture,and Confucianism in Chinese history shape the special characteristics of Chinese legal system.,among them the contradictions reflected in legal system is particularly remarkable.These contradictions hinder the development of law,thus resulting in the backwardness of law.The contradictions of legal system in Chinese history are shown as follows:firstly,there is the contradiction between dictatorial politics and legal idea;secondly,there is the contradiction between rule by officials and rule by fair law;thirdly,there is the contradiction between moral principles and law's function to promote economic development.Some enlightenment is acquired from the contradictions of legal system in Chinese history.Legal system in Chinese history does not witness revolutionary change.Unless the feudal system was overthrown,politics was reformed,legal principles could be normalized and developed into science in the establishment of legal system;managing a country and safeguarding people's interests is the indispensable aim of legal system establishment;a society really ruled by law is human being's common pursuit,the natural result of human civilization development,and the ultimate goal of legal system development.


The On-Orbit Servicing (OOS) working group discussed legal and political implications of developing a commercial OOS industry. The group considered the benefits that OOS and Active Debris Removal (ADR) can offer the satellite industry, as well as potential disadvantages for international relations between space faring nations.

To gain an accurate perspective of stakeholders involved in such a process, the OOS working group held a mock hearing for OOS licensing, with members of the working group assigned to represent stakeholders. Working group members presented their cases at a simulated domestic regulatory panel, constructed of members representing various government ministers, to fully explore stakeholder views. The mock hearings explored the challenges faced by OOS and ADR entrepreneurs as well as the benefit of regulation. The groups highlighted recommendations to ensure the practicality of OOS and determine how best to encourage licensing and regulation of such activities, as summarised below.

1. The United Nations (UN) should provide regulatory guidelines for OOS and ADR.
2. Government agencies should license OOS. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has taken responsibility for licensing commercial space transportation in the United States and this should be extended to OOS/ADR missions to enable short-term advancement prior to further UN regulation.
3. Government should support OOS and ADR development to ensure continued demand. This includes leading by example on government satellites and potential launch levies to enable on-going ADR funding.
4. All stakeholders should prevent weaponisation of space through transparency of operations.
5. Nations should initiate international cooperation on ADR.

OOS and ADR will ensure sustainable use of satellites, particularly in LEO and GEO, for the coming decades. It is through transparency, economic stimulation and close monitoring that such endeavours will be successful.


Method of manufacturing a powdered milk compositions are disclosed. It said method comprising adding sequestering agents and rennet to calcium in the milk composition, a step of producing a processed milk, and forming the powdered milk to the treated milk. Powder non-fat dry milk products are also disclosed. The product may contain one or more milk proteins enzymatically modified by chymosin, denatured proteins by the chymosin will not coagulate. The product may also contain one or more sequestering agents to bind calcium ions in the powdered product.


Pascual Jordan Oxford: Pergamon 1971 pp xv + 202 price £5 Dirac's suggestion of several decades ago that there is a slow secular change in the gravitational constant is one that has still to be decided; it is one too that has great significance in modern cosmology as well as in modern physics. In this present volume, latest of Pergamon's monographs in Natural Philosophy, Professor Jordan of Hamburg considers the various lines of geophysical and astrophysical evidence that may be relevant in determining the question.


This chapter sets out the reactions to Article 5. It starts with contemporary Protestant reactions, focusing especially on Luther, Calvin, and Melanchthon. This section includes an account of all the Protestant objections, which are considered in the remainder of the book. Catholic reactions include Contarini, Eck, Gropper, Pflug, and Pighius, as well as reactions from Rome. The views of Sadolet and (especially) Pole are also considered. The chapter concludes with an account of modern assessments of the article, especially by Protestants. There is a stark contrast between the more positive assessment of Peter Matheson, for example, and the very negative approach of much German scholarship, as with Athena Lexutt.


The aim of the present pilot study was to investigate if it is possible to treat patients having panic disorder with or without mild agoraphobia in a brief, four-session format without losing clinical efficacy. Ten patients fulfilling the DSM-III-R criter


The study examined one teacher's perspective on teaching the same material in an online format and in a face-to-face format. The instructor's reactions varied in part as a function of the topic being taught. Some topics were seemed to be suitable in either format whereas others were better in one format or the other. The instructor noted that the class who had face-to-face interaction changed dramatically when they began these modules.


This study used the school cutoff methodology to examine the development of chiIdren's metalinguistic knowledge of the syntactic subject of a sentence. Two groups of children matched in age and background variables but differing in amount of schooling were tested at ages 5, 6, and 7. The children's task was to listen to a sentence and repeat either the subject or the subject and verb. The subject was a pronoun, a proper name, a 2-word sequence, or a 3-word sequence. Children at the age of 5 had difficulty accurately repeating the pronominal and longest subjects. Children's ability to isolate the pronoun improved as they became older, not as they became more schooled; in contrast, children's ability to handle the longest subjects improved as the children acquired more schooling


A great lot of uncertain factors are comprised in constellation communication system,so its performance must be synthetically evaluated.A synthetic performance evaluation system for constellation communication system is proposed according to its working characteristic and mission demand.Then,the course of effectiveness evaluation based on fuzzy theory and analytic hierarchy process is introduced in detail.Finally,with "Iridium" system as an example,the performance of constellation communication system is synthetically evaluated.The rationality of multi-level fuzzy combined evaluation theory is validated and it has a reference value for the evaluation of other communication systems.


For at least two months, the National Science Foundation has been poised to announce the establishment of what is probably the most anticipated and, many say, overdue technology policy body ever devised by the U.S. government—the Critical Technologies Institute (CTI). Nothing but white noise, however, has emerged from NSF during that time, and, upset, it blames the Pentagon for the inaction. The bureaucratic hassle seems oversized for something that will hire no more than 50 people. But CTI has generated lots of sparks since it was first conceived by Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D.-N.M.) in 1989. CTI is expected to be the technological nexus of the U.S. government—the place where the executive branch tracks globally important technologies and devises strategies to ensure U.S. strength in fields such as manufacturing of biotechnology products, electronic optics, and ceramics and composites. Bingaman included $5 million for CTI in the fiscal 1991 defense appropriations bill, essentially forcing ...


Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis is a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by early-onset chronic recurrent mucocutaneous infections with Candida albicans. It is associated with several endocrinopathies such as hypoparathyroidism, hypoadrenalism, and hypogonadism with or without other autoimmune diseases such as vitiligo, alopecia areata, pernicious anemia, and hepatitis. Here, we describe a case of chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis with polyendocrinopathy with unusual presentations and rheumatoid arthritis.