A system (1) safety for protecting an item of merchandise comprising: a keying device, namely a programmable key (5), a station (3) programming to generate a security code and for programming the security code the key (5), and a module (7) alarm binding article (9) of goods, being programmable said module (7) alarm code by the key (5) and being collapsible by key (5) after matching the security code programmed into the key (5) by the station (3) programming code programmed to the module (7) alarm via the key (5); in which the key (5) includes an internal timer (82) which automatically invalidates the security code in the key (5) after a preset period of time.


;asoned mathematical will be aware that a journey along a coastline, a river bank, or a mountain ridge can take an inordinate length of time if the wiggliness of the line is to be followed precisely. As was observed by Hugo Steinhaus in his celebrated book Mathematical Snapshots [Ste54], "When measuring the length of a river one comes across the problem of tiny meanders. Some countries have such winding rivers or mountain ridges as their boundaries. Using increasingly detailed maps and increasing the accuracy of measurement accordingly, it is possible to verify that the length will become as large as one wants it to be." In fact, Steinhaus wrote on this subject as early as in 1949 [Ste49a], [Ste49b]. Almost 20 years later, Benoit Mandelbrot posed the famous question, "How long is the coast of Britain?" [Man67]. As a mathematical model he proposed fractals reflecting the highly irregular and fragmented outline of a coast or river bank, and anaiysed their fractional dimension and self-similarity properties. In July 1996, when taking part in the Second World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts in Athens, we xdsited the National Archaeological Museum in an unsuccessful attempt to divert our thoughts from mathematics. Whoever enters the exhibition of wall-paintings from Akrotiri, Thera will be deeply impressed by the masterpieces from an ancient land destroyed by a volcanic eruption about three and a haft thousand years ago. The ancient town of Akrotiri was discovered by the Greek archaeologist Spyridon Marinatos in 1967. The dig revealed a number of houses richly decorated with wail paintings. One of the best-preserved masterpieces is the 20foot-long Frieze with the T~eet fromroom 5, The West House. But it was a beautiful scene in a miniature frieze known as Shipwreck, which was found in the same room, that immediately attracted our attention (Fig. 1). Just above the naked bodies of drowned men is a striking blue shape, which brings to mind a wave crushing into a rocky shore, perhaps the cause of the disaster. Or it may be an outline of the rocks themselves. 1 In any case, it looks very much like a fractai. The resemblance to von Koch's curve, Fig. 2, is remarkable. We cannot help wondering if the ancient artist could sense the fractal structure of the rocky shore of his native land surrounded with water. Is it but a coIncidence that the curve has been proposed as a mathematical model of the seashore and it is referred to as the Koch coastline [Man82]? The island of Thera (also known as Santorini) lies 70 miles north of Crete (Fig. 3). According to the ancient tradition, it used to be called Strongyle, the Round One. As a result of a volcanic upheaval in about 1500 sc, part of the island was submerged into the Aegean sea. Gigantic tidal waves and volcanic ashes contributed to the destruction of the Minoan civilization on Crete and the neighbouring islands, which were taken over by the Myceneans [Mar39]. Three and a half thousand


Disclosed is a swing hinge module for a portable communication device, which includes a first housing; a second housing opened from and closed onto the first housing by a hinge about a first hinge axis; a third housing disposed between the first and second housings, the third housing being rotated about a second hinge axis, which is separated from the first hinge axis and follows a vertical direction, so as to be disposed parallel to the first and second housings, the third housing folded or unfolded about a third hinge axis perpendicular to the second hinge axis; and a swing hinge module connecting the third housing to the first housing, so that the third housing can be rotated about the second and third axes. The swing hinge module includes: a shaft assembly having a first shaft providing the third hinge axis and a second shaft providing the second hinge axis and extending in a direction perpendicular to the first shaft; an upper hinge member engaged with the second shaft so as to be rotated together with the second shaft; a lower hinge member restricted by a mounting member so as to be coaxial with the upper hinge, the lower hinge member being independent from the movement of the second shaft; a resilient member disposed between the upper and lower hinge members, for applying a constant force when the third housing is swung; and a stopping means disposed between the upper and lower hinge members, for limiting the rotation angle of the second shaft.


S: The microbial community in the rumen of dromedary camel is predominated by lignocellulolytic anaerobic bacteria that make the greatest contribution in the digestion of poor-quality plant biomass. Consequently, camel rumen could be a promising source of lignocellulolytic enzymes with a wide range of applications, especially in bioenergy production. However, the majority of these bacteria were not cultivated and isolated, which represent a barrier towards the exploitation of this community in enzyme production. The goal of this study was to evaluate the endocellulase and endo-xylanase production ability of anaerobic bacterial community in the rumen of the camel. For that, rumen fluid from four camels fed Egyptian clover and wheat straw were inoculated into an anaerobic rumen bacterial media containing birchwood xylan, Filter paper, Wheat straw, Alfalfa hay as a carbon source. The maximum xylanase production was 1779.05 mU/ml at 7 days of incubation. Cellulose source impacted the cellulase yield and the highest production was 1389 mU/ml for the rumen samples incubated with Alfalfa hay for 48 hours. Our findings showed that anaerobic bacterial community in the rumen of the camel is an important source of fibrolytic enzymes.


The present study was carried out during kharif 2016 and 2017 to determine the effect of plant spacing on pod yield and incidence of rust disease (Uromyces vignae) in Yardlong bean. The treatments includes eight level of spacing (45x30 cm, 45x45 cm, 45x60 cm, 45x75 cm, 60x30 cm, 60x45 cm, 60x60 cm and 60x75 cm) arranged in randomized complete block design with three replications. Two years pooled data revealed that, the pod yield of Yardlong bean was significantly affected by the interaction of spacing and disease incidence. Significantly higher (15.04 t/ha) and lower pod yields (9.39 t/ha) were recorded with the closer spacing of 45x30 cm and wider spacing of 60x75 cm respectively. Correspondingly, the higher rust incidence (61.64%) was observed in closer spacing (45x30 cm). Whereas, the lower disease incidence of 33.86 per cent was noticed with wider spacing (60x75 cm). Even though higher disease incidence noticed in narrow spacing but the yield was highest due to higher plant population and it shows that pod yield per unit area depended not only on the performance of individual plant and severity of disease but also on the number of plants per unit area.


The thesis focuses on three different issues largely debated in the literature on health economics: the relationship between obesity and labor market outcomes, the moral hazard on health related behaviours caused by health insurance and the evaluation of an outreach initiative to engage and retain underserved individuals affected by HIV in primary care.
The first chapter, "Wages and Weight in Europe: Evidence using Quantile Regression Model" studies the economic side of the increasing rate of obesity by examining the relationship between obesity and wages using data for nine countries from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) over the period 1998-2001. We improve upon the existing literature by adopting a Quantile Regression approach to characterize the heterogenous impact of obesity at different points of the wage distribution. Our results show that i) the evidence obtained from mean regression and pooled analysis hides a significant amount of heterogeneity as the relationship between obesity and wages differs across countries and wages quantiles and ii) cultural, environmental or institutional settings do not seem to be able to explain differences among countries, leaving room for a pure discriminatory effect hypothesis.
The second chapter, "Does Health Insurance make you fat?", examines whether health insurance causes moral hazard in health behaviors associated with body weight. Health care expenditures among the obese are higher than those of normal weight individuals, and, in the absence of risk-rated premiums, individuals will be shielded from the incremental medical care costs associated with obesity. However, even when health insurance premiums are risk rated, individuals may make inefficient decisions with respect to eating and physical activity that lead to obesity. In this chapter, we develop a simple two period theoretical model of consumption, saving and preventive effort to characterize the health insurance externalities and show how the moral hazard effect can be neutralized by risk aversion. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) over the period 1989-2004 to empirically estimate the model and examine the relationship between employer-sponsored health insurance coverage and body weight as well as the relationship between health insurance and physical activity. We find little evidence to support the existence of important externalities in this market, questioning the desirability of government intervention as a response to rising rates of obesity.
The third chapter, "Does Retention in Care Increase Life Expectancy? Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of an Outreach Program", is a cost-effectiveness analysis of strategies used to engage and retain underserved HIV positive individuals in primary care in the US. The Outreach Initiative (2004-2006), funded by the Special Programs of National Significance (SPNS) served as the primary data source for this analysis. We developed a Markov model to predict the life expectancy of program participants based on changes in CD4 count, viral load, AIDS status, and Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART) adherence that occurred during six months of program participation. Through data extrapolated from clinical literature, we compare this intervention group to a hypothetical control group and found that program participants were predicted to live 1.415 year longer than non-participants, adjusting for quality of life. By incorporating program costs into the model, within the base-case scenario, each additional life-year gained costs $4,718 per person. Filling the void in HIV/AIDS research on costs and long term impacts of outreach interventions, this result suggests that the program is highly cost effective, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) thresholds for cost effectiveness analysis.


Ecuadorian gastronomy is rich in native products with nutritional impact properties; the research work seeks to use chaguarmishqui in fine chocolate shop for people suffering from diabetes; the work is based on field research through interviews with expert chefs and professional nutritionists, as well as focus groups applied to people suffering from type 1 diabetes. The research project entitled the use of chaguarmishqui with fine chocolate for people with diabetes seek to create different and nutritious foods that can be tasted by people who have been deprived of sugar and other additives commonly used in the chocolate industry; In the same way, it aims to include a healthier culture for those who chooses natural and regional foods. As a proposal, the work seeks to commercialize products made from chocolate and chaguarmishqui oriented to two segments, on the one hand, those people who suffer from type 1 diabetes and require special foods for their diet; and on the other, any person who chooses a healthier and more nutritious lifestyle.


Online auctions are a very popular method for buying and selling items on the internet. It is very hard to speculate the winning bid of any particular auction, since it is very dynamic in that the bid prices change from time to time until the close of the auction. The closing price of an auction is not known and is dependent on several factors such as the number of auctions selling the same item, the number of bidders participating in that auction, as well as the behaviour of every individual bidder. In addition, there can be numerous auctions happening simultaneously. To be involved in an online auction, a person has to decide which item he or she will bid on, at what price, and when to bid. Generally, this preparation takes time, and has no certainty of success. If the closing price of an auction is known, then the bidders only need to determine which auction to bid on and at what price. This paper explains one of the methods used in forecasting the closing price of an auction, the Grey System Theory. This method has been known to accurately speculate values in areas where the information is insufficient. We also compare this with another forecasting method, the Time Series. Evaluations on the effectiveness of these methods in speculating the closing price in online auctions is discussed and elaborated upon.


To analyse the controlling feature of checking the tablet weight at main pressure point in a high-speed rotary tablet press machine,some parameters in the course of production are affirmed and the thinking is raised which the self-adaptive fuzzy system can predict the error of tablet weight which is effected by the height of tablet at main pressure point.By means of gradient descent algorithm to train the Mamdani typed fuzzy system in order to ascertain the rational systematic parameters.On the basis of the relationship among the error of tablet weight,the error of main pressure and the error of tablet height at main pressure point,the test is made to acquire the training data and the testing data.The training data is used to train the fuzzy system,and the testing data is used to carry out the test and obtain reasonable result for verifying the feasibility of self-adaptive Fuzzy control used in the tablet weight being checked in order to realize error prediction and rejecting waste tablets.


The utility model discloses an otoacoustic detecting and analyzing device which comprises a central control unit, a sound production unit, a sound receiving unit, a signal amplification unit, an A/D converting unit, a power amplifier unit, a D/A converting unit, a display unit, a key board operation unit, a computer host machine unit and an USB interface unit, wherein the sound production unit is connected with the central control unit through the power amplifier unit and the D/A converting unit in turn, the sound receiving unit is connected with the central control unit through the signal amplification unit and the A/D converting unit in turn, the central control unit is directly connected with the computer host machine unit through the USB interface unit, peripheral storing, displaying, and operating units are omitted, resources as high speed operations and the like do not need, the equipment becomes smaller, reliable and power-saving, simultaneously analytical calculations with more accuracy and more items can be obtained through utilizing the strong operating, storing and managing resources of a computer, personal information and otoacoustic signals in each detection for the detected people can be stored, analyzed, and tracked for a long time. The utility model is very suitable for hospital clinical uses.


Research and development on underwater acoustic communications are in progress in our group. In January, 2010, we carried out the sea area experiment at near bottom in about 1,600m depth area using quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) and 8-phase shift keying (8PSK) modulation method. A wideband tilted toroidal beam transducer and a multi-channel combined decision feedback equalizer with 4-hydrophone array were applied for a transmitter and a receiver. Transmission rate of 80 k bit per second (bps) by QPSK was carried out at the transmission range of 840 m, and transmission rate of 120 kbps by 8PSK was carried out at the range of 620 m, using 80 kHz of carrier frequency.


The reciprocal impact of applied neuroscience and cognitive studies on humanities has been extensive and growing over the past 30 years of research. Studies on neuroaesthetics have provided novel insights in visual arts, music as well as abstract and dramatic art. Neuro-Art is an experimental concept in applied neuroscience where scientists can study the mechanistic pathways involved for instance in visual art through which creativity and artistic capacity might receive further empowerment. Based on the existing evidence, at least 3 large-scale brain networks are involved simultaneously when one is submitted to a creativity-related task. The question whether the key brain regions involved in visual art creativity can be identified and receive neuromodulation to get empowered prompted us to perform the present case investigation. Virtual reality and functional quantitative electroencephalography upon 2- vs 3-dimentional painting were employed to study cortical neurodynamics in a professional painting artist.


The article focuses on the problems of companies using modern Soviet brands in terms of marketing. It investigates the specificity of brand management in relation to the Soviet brand, determines the pros and cons of a recognizable corporate identity, and analyzes the strategy of brand extension, while maintaining the loyalty of regular customers.


A great deal of creative work was done in Doric architecture east of the Adriatic during the period ca. 565-490. The long narrow proportions of early Doric peristyles were progressively modified to produce 6×12, and even 6×11, plans; the exterior colonnade was sometimes rendered more spacious by making it "pseudodipteral"; and in the latter part of our period Ionic ideas and decorative details began to be imported into the Doric tradition. One important innovation was the trend toward more slender column proportions-an idea later taken up by the architects of Periklean Athens. In some cases too one or both of opisthodomos and interior columns were omitted; it was then possible to make the cella relatively larger and more spacious. Designs of this type, though generally not favored by architects of the second and third quarters of the fifth century, were enthusiastically adopted by fourth century builders. Most, if not all, of the middle and late Archaic innovations can probably be traced to Ionic influence. However, this influence does not always seem to have come directly from the eastern Aegean to the Greek mainland; for some of the new ideas evidently appeared first in Sicily and Magna Graecia, Korfu, and even Cyrene. Probably the architects of the Periklean age drew some of their inspiration from later Archaic Doric west as well as east of the Adriatic. Perhaps unfortunately, the use of taller and more slender columns, even when combined with relatively lower and lighter entablatures, substantially altered the height:width proportions of classical Athenian temple facades. The work of the "Theseum" architect gives us an interesting view of a single designer trying to find a satisfactory solution for some of the problems produced by the new style. Nevertheless these problems were sometimes hardly capable of solution within the traditional Doric framework. The next article in this series will deal with the boldly uncanonical solutions found in the work of Iktinos.


A new approach is proposed to recording of the groundwater data and knowledge. The program solution uses GIS technology, relational database, and graphical and textual documents in a user-friendly way, by making the access to data from other applications is within single central application.


We study in the present work a Mach 2.5 flow over a forward-facing step. The focus of the work is the flow ahead of the step, in particular, the unsteady interactions between the shock, the boundary layer and the separation bubble. The primary geometrical parameter in the problem is the ratio of the step height to the incoming boundary layer thickness, $h/\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}$ , which is kept fixed at 2. Results are presented from detailed particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements in two orthogonal planes to obtain a reasonable picture of the whole flow field. The mean velocity field in the central cross-stream or wall-normal ( $x$ – $y$ ) plane shows that the incoming boundary layer separates upstream of the step forming a large separation bubble ahead of the step, which can be relatively well resolved in PIV measurements compared to the compression ramp cases. Wall pressure fluctuation spectra close to the separation location show a dominant frequency ( $f$ ) that is two orders of magnitude smaller than the characteristic frequency of the incoming boundary layer ( $U_{\infty }/\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}$ ), consistent with low-frequency motions of the shock that have received a lot of recent attention ( $U_{\infty }$ $=$ free-stream velocity, $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}$ $=$ boundary layer thickness). PIV measurements in the wall-normal plane show large variations in shock position with time. The shock position measured from velocity data outside the boundary layer is found to be well correlated with the reverse flow area ahead of the step, and weakly correlated to structures in the incoming boundary layer. In contrast, the shock foot, determined from velocity data within the boundary layer, is found to be well correlated to the low- and high-speed streaks in the incoming boundary layer, in addition to the reverse flow area ahead of the step. Instantaneous velocity fields in the spanwise ( $x$ – $z$ ) plane parallel to the lower wall show that the shock is broadly two-dimensional with small spanwise ripples, while the recirculation region has very large spanwise variations. The spanwise-averaged shock location is found to be well correlated to the most upstream location of the recirculation region over a spanwise length ( $x_{r,min}^{sp}$ ). Instantaneous velocity fields show that when some part of the recirculation region is far upstream, the corresponding nearly two-dimensional shock is also far upstream. On the other hand, when $x_{r,min}^{sp}$ is relatively downstream, the resulting shock is also found to be downstream. Hence, the present results suggest that for the forward-facing step configuration, the large-scale streamwise motions of the shock are mainly correlated to the most upstream point of the recirculation region, which has large spanwise variations.


A reappraisal of population policies is deemed urgent due to the growing indications that the family planning approach by itself is inadequate. The 4 elements basic to such reassessment are: 1) Population 2) Economic growth is only meaningful if it enhances human development as well as material welfare; 3) Developed nations should offer development assistance wherever possible; but they must allow each nation to solve its development and fertility problems in its own way; and 4) Women must have greather freedom of choice in determining their roles in society.


Background: Artemisia ciniformis (A. ciniformis) belongs to the genus Artemisia and grows at northeast of Iran. The current phytochemical study was carried out on the most potent extract in cell-free antioxidant assays. Methods: Hydroethanolic extract of the aerial parts was fractionated using vacuum-liquid chromatography (VLC). The selected fraction from the previous cell-free antioxidant study was purified by semi-preparative HPLC. The structures of isolated compounds were identified using one- and two-dimensional NMR and ESIMS techniques. Results: Three identified compounds in this study were the known isomers of dicaffeoylquinic acid (DCQ), including 3,5- DCQ (isochlorogenic acid A), 3,4-DCQ (isochlorogenic acid B) and 4,5-DCQ (isochlorogenic acid C). Conclusion: The outstanding free radical scavenging potential in the hydroethanolic extract of A. ciniformis might be partly related to the presence of isochlorogenic acid derivatives.


This paper explores the usage of embedded technology in high speed quartz measuring apparatus. The system is built around a 32-bit embedded microprocessor,which controls all the necessary hardware such as Ethernet port,USB port and display u-nit,etc. A 16-MB Flash memory and 32-MB SDRAM memory are connected to the processor. The signal source of the apparatus is based on Direct Digital Frequency Synthesis technology. Four output channels are available from the signal source,and phase errors between different channels can be controlled by program. A CPLD unit is responsible for the control of the signal source and ADC. Embedded Linux Operation system is ported to provide abundant system service for the apparatus. Application of the apparatus is based on an embedded GUI. The apparatus works independently from PC.


Introduction. The article analyzes the main factors of the emergence and development of capital market imbalances during the intensification of financial globalization processes. The basis of financial globalization was the integration of various countries and macro-regions on the basis of common goals for the market development to fulfill the key functions of national economies to provide financial resources. As a result of further liberalization of international capital flows, the global financial system has become a channel for spreading financial instability. Materials and methods. The methodological basis of the study was made up of general scientific and special methods that allow to identify and substantiate global contradictions and current features of capital reproduction. Methods of economic analysis and synthesis, formal-logical method, synchronous and comparative (comparative) methods are used. The results of the study. Based on the analysis of trends in the development of capital markets, systemic contradictions affecting the course of natural processes of national economies financial development are identified. It is shown that the consequence of the disproportionate growth of financial capital is the withdrawal of liquidity from the material sphere - the sphere of production and circulation in the sphere of finance. The theoretical aspects analysis of the emergence of global capital market imbalances is carried out. An assessment of their impact on the global financial system and economic growth is given. It is proved that the negative consequences of economy financialization, bearing geopolitical risks, equally affect all countries without exception. The main result, representing an element of scientific novelty, is the diagnosis of the consequences of imbalances and the accompanying global financial crises. Discussion and conclusion. Persistent negative trends caused by the peculiarities of the process of increasing contradictions between fictitious and real capital, financial and material sectors of national economies, lead to increased systemic risks of the financial market functioning of the globalizing world economy. Against the background of a significant advance in the growth of monetary and loan capital in comparison with the real one, the structure of public capital is experiencing frequent banking and debt crises and the vulnerability of the world economy is growing due to the consequences of capital financialization.


In particular, we prove the solvability for (0.1) on co for 1 < q < n 2 when M is a pseudo-convex CR hypersurface of finite type in the sense defined in D 'Angelo [11] and c')co is the intersection of M with a flat hypersurface M0 (see Theorem 1 in Sect. I). Near a point Zo of finite type, we also show that there exists a neighborhood basis co of z0 such that (0.1) is solvable in co for any ct satisfying (0.2) (see Corol lary 1.1). We also obtain the interior regularity of the solutions for (0.1) in the Sobolev spaces and show that the range of (?b is closed in the Frechet norm L{p,q)(co, loc) (see Theorem 2 and Corol lary 2.1 in Sect. 1). Since the existence of the solution u of (0.1) was proved on co for any c~ satisfying (0.2) in co, Theorems 1 and 2 are semi-global results. When we assume that Mo is only Levi-flat and with a Stein ne ighborhood basis, then we prove that for any relatively compact subset co' c ~ co, there exists a u satisfying (0.2) in co' (see Theorem 3). We note that the local solvability for (0.1) was not known previously even on a small subset in co on general weakly pseudo-convex CR manifolds. In this paper we shall prove the


The visual query is a basic component of all analytic seeing and understanding visual queries is an essential part of the design of information visualizations. Simply put, a visual query is a process whereby a problem is addressed through a pattern search. It is an analytic visual act of seeing. For example, the visual queries for finding routes on a road map involve discovering connected lines connecting two map locations. A visual query on a weather map might be as simple as discovering the temperature by matching a color to a temperature key, or as complex as understanding the pattern of winds at a weather front. This talk will give an overview of the way visual queries fit within the visual thinking process as well as a look at the how designs can be optimized with visual queries in mind.


In this paper we study optimal control problems with bang-bang solution behavior for a special class of semilinear dyna- mics. Generalizing a former result for linear systems, optimality conditions are derived by a duality based approach. The results ap- ply for scalar as well as for vector control functions and, in particular, for the case of the so-called multiple switches, too. Further, an iterative procedure for determining switching points is proposed, and convergence results are provided.


Abstract Regular recreational reading offers benefits across a range of literacy outcomes, as well as supporting learning in other subject areas, offering cognitive benefits, and potentially fostering empathy. Therefore, increasing frequency of engagement in recreational reading can play an important role in addressing inequity in literacy outcomes once independent reading skill has been achieved. While previous studies address how to increase children's engagement in reading for recreation, few allow children's viewpoints to take primacy. The 2016 Western Australian Study in Children's Book Reading collected data from respondents across 24 schools, seeking to determine how educators and parents may best support young people to read with greater frequency. Interview participants from Years 4 and 6 were asked what would make them read more. The five recurring themes of finding engaging books, series adherence, challenge seeking, skill deficit, and time availability indicate optimal avenues for future research and educational intervention to foster increased engagement in reading.


This paper is based on a presentation to the Naval Occupational Medicine Conference in October 1984. While the paper was addressed primarily to members of the occupational medicine specialty, it covers the historical development of the specialty and discusses training in occupational medicine, community medicine and administration for all those outside the hospitals. It concludes that acceptance of the specialty by the profession is dependent on the implementation of a clearly identified training programme.


The aim of the present paper is to study the braking performance of Al-Si alloys (ADC12 & LM30) brake drums using a brake drum dynamometer test rig. The braking performance of the ADC12 and LM30 alloys is evaluated on the basis of experimental parameters such as coefficient of friction, rise in temperature, braking torque, rotational speed etc. The coefficient of friction as against the normal brake liners is evaluated. The rise in temperature at the inner surface, during the braking action, has been presented. The results indicated that rise in temperature of brake drum is in the range of 40-50 o C in both the alloys. The coefficient of friction was found to be in the range of 0.35-0.42 in both the Al alloys. It was observed that brake force and speed of the drum do not have any appreciable effect on the friction coefficient. Stopping distance after applying the brake was also calculated and it was observed that stopping distance reduces as a function of brake force. At a brake force of 20 N, the efficiency is increased to 80-85 %. It concludes that LM30 alloy performs better than ADC 12.


Short‐TE proton MRS is used to study metabolism in the human brain. Common analysis methods model the data as a linear combination of metabolite basis spectra. This large‐scale multi‐site study compares the levels of the four major metabolite complexes in short‐TE spectra estimated by three linear‐combination modeling (LCM) algorithms. 277 medial parietal lobe short‐TE PRESS spectra (TE = 35 ms) from a recent 3 T multi‐site study were preprocessed with the Osprey software. The resulting spectra were modeled with Osprey, Tarquin and LCModel, using the same three vendor‐specific basis sets (GE, Philips and Siemens) for each algorithm. Levels of total N‐acetylaspartate (tNAA), total choline (tCho), myo‐inositol (mI) and glutamate + glutamine (Glx) were quantified with respect to total creatine (tCr). Group means and coefficient of variations of metabolite estimates agreed well for tNAA and tCho across vendors and algorithms, but substantially less so for Glx and mI, with mI systematically estimated as lower by Tarquin. The cohort mean coefficient of determination for all pairs of LCM algorithms across all datasets and metabolites was R2¯ = 0.39, indicating generally only moderate agreement of individual metabolite estimates between algorithms. There was a significant correlation between local baseline amplitude and metabolite estimates (cohort mean R2¯ = 0.10).


A telerobotic system demonstration was developed for the Department of Energy's Accident Response group to highlight the applications of telerobotic vehicles to accident site inspection. The proof-of- principle system employs two mobile robots, Dixie and RAYBOT, to inspect a simulated accident site. Both robots are controlled serially from a single driving station, allowing an operator to take advantage of having multiple robots at the scene. The telerobotic system is described and some of the advantages of having more than one robot present are discussed. Future plans for the system are also presented.


This paper presents a modified radial basis function (RBF) neural network for pattern recognition problems, which uses a hybrid learning algorithm to adaptively adjust the structure of the network. Two strategies are used to attain the compromise between the network complexity and accuracy, one is a modified "novelty" condition to create a new neuron in the hidden layer; the other is a pruning technique to remove redundant neurons and corresponding connections. To verify the performance of the modified network, two pattern recognition simulations are completed. One is a two-class pattern recognition problem, and the other is a real-world problem, internal component recognition in the field of architecture engineering. Simulation results including final hidden neurons, error, and accuracy using the method proposed in this paper are compared with performance of radial basis functional link network, resource allocating network and RBF neural network with generalized competitive learning algorithm. And it can be concluded that the proposed network has more concise architecture, higher classifier accuracy and fewer running time.


Objective To evaluate the therapeutic effect and the clinical practicability of superficial femoral vein with ring in the treatment of primary deep venous insufficiency(PVDI).Methods Twelve limbs in twelve patients who were proved to be PDVI were treated by superficial femoral vein with ring.And they were also treated by the high ligation and ablation of great saphenous vein,ablation of superficial veins and ligation of perforator vein at the same time.Results The symptoms of all patients were alleviated with an average follow-up for 20 months.Caseswith ulcer were healed completely and no recurred.Conclusion Primary deep venous insufficiency treated by superficial femoral vein with ring is satisfaction.


Introduction It is a moot question among phytopathologists whether the organisms causing wilt of bean, Bact. flaccumfaciens, blight of bean, Bact. phaseoli, and pustule of soy bean, Bact. phaseoli sojense, deserve species rank or should be considered subspecies or varieties. Bact. phaseoli was described by SMITH (24) in i897. He (25) describes the symptoms of the disease caused by this organism as follows, stressing the localized lesions in the leaf and stem parenchyma: This is a disease of beans common on leaves, stems and pods, and confined principally to the parenchyma although the vessels also are involved, sometimes for a distance of several inches.


This essay investigates the construction of the notion of gewu (song and dance) by Qi Rushan (1875–1962), main advisor to the famous performer of female roles, Mei Lanfang (1894–1961), in his writings on Chinese opera/xiqu, taking contemporary Peking opera/Jingju as its epitome. Originally put forward as a theoretical basis on which to ground the new developments in the theatrical realm that he was trying to introduce, Qi's concept of gewu later became central to the scholarship and historical narrative of Chinese opera. This paper examines how Qi made use of the Confucian classics and pre-Song dynasty literature to invest the notion with historical depth in tracing back to antiquity the roots of the new (re-)emergence of synchronized performance of singing and dancing that he claimed was best illustrated in Mei's plays. This article also studies Qi's theoretical works in conjunction with the historiographical debates of the time. As such, it brings to the fore the influence of contemporary opera production and consumption on the formation of a new history of Chinese drama, and how the construction of a new aesthetic informed a new understanding of Chinese theatrical arts.


A new homologous series of SCLCPs containing the 4-cyanobiphenyl mesogenic group attached to the polymaleimide backbone through paraffinic spacers of two to eight methylene units have been prepared. All the polymers exhibit liquid crystalline behavior; specifically SAd- (or SC-) like and nematic phases are observed. The glass transition temperature decreases from 150 to 43°C on increasing spacer length. The isotropization temperatures exhibit an odd–even effect on varying the length and parity of the spacer, in which the odd members exhibit the higher values. This is attributed to the change in the average shape of the side chain as the parity of spacer is varied. The isotropization temperatures (>300–120°C) and the mesophase thermal stabilities (190–60°C) are high. Comparison is made with polymers containing the same mesogenic group attached to backbones of decreasing rigidity. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J. Polym. Sci. A Polym. Chem. 36: 2531–2546, 1998


Li Anshan's  History of Overseas Chinese in Africa to 1911 (New York: Diasporic Africa Press, 2012) This book explores early Chinese knowledge of and contacts with Africa through Chinese literature on Africa and current archeological evidence, suggesting Sino-African trade existed as early as the seventh century. Li provides readers with an uncomplicated history of Chinese in Africa, examining their story from multiple perspectives, using approaches and sources found in economic history, soci...


We present in this paper a voice conversion (VC) method for a person with an articulation disorder resulting from athetoid cerebral palsy. The movements of such speakers are limited by their athetoid symptoms, and their consonants are often unstable or unclear, which makes it difficult for them to communicate. In this paper, exemplar-based spectral conversion using Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is applied to a voice with an articulation disorder. In order to preserve the speaker's individuality, we use a combined dictionary that was constructed from the source speaker's vowels and target speaker's consonants. However, this exemplar-based approach needs to hold all the training exemplars (frames), and it may cause mismatching of phonemes between input signals and selected exemplars. In this paper, in order to reduce the mismatching of phoneme alignment, we propose a phoneme-categorized sub-dictionary and a dictionary selection method using NMF. The effectiveness of this method was confirmed by comparing its effectiveness with that of a conventional Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM)-based and conventional NMFbased method.


I n a postmodern era, museums in the Western world struggle with many issues, from securing enough money for basic operations to expressing their continued relevance as stewards of tangible culture in an increasingly digital landscape. On the spectrum of everyday to existential struggles, the complex question of how Western museums can fully embrace and express postcolonial theory seems to fall on the far end of the existential side. This question is (or can be) addressed in the everyday work and communication of the museum. The Postcolonial Museum presents 18 essays, largely focused on Europe (but exploring a wide variety of locations and topics), that embody the range of responses to postcolonial theory in the museum community. Postcolonialism is an offshoot of postmodernism. It analyzes how imperialism and the colonial drive of (primarily) Western European cultures (including the United States) have impacted civilizations that were brought forcibly under rule as well as the cultures that rule them. It uses this frame of analysis to look at issues of power, identity, and perception. Postcolonialism often focuses on the idea of the Other, those who are not of the dominant Western European cultural background who may be dominated by colonial rule. This theory is of particular relevance to museums, which exist to collect, preserve, represent, and interpret culture (usually) through tangible creations. Museums often recognize that they then also have an obligation to honestly collect, preserve, represent, and interpret the culture of Others and ultimately to (perhaps) erase entirely the practice of Othering in their activities. This book results from efforts in Europe to explore how such an outcome might be possible. How can museums—which are often still the guardians of objects taken in conquest, still beholden to institutions of power, and still so often staffed by those of or trained in the dominant culture—honestly, authentically, or fairly hope to do this? This volume comes about as one of the products of European Museums in an Age of Migrations (MeLa), a European research project focusing on analyzing and offering support to the museum community "in


This paper studies the corrosion phenomenon by taking three aspects into consideration. The first one is the use of a model, which allows interpreting by analogy the concept of standard potential of the electrode. The second one is an exhaustive analysis of the work of the iron-oxygen cell. It permits to show the significance of the different variables involved in the corrosion process. The last aspect studied is the development, and its basis, of mechanisms of anodic protection, which were analysed by examining the work of the magnesium-iron-oxygen cell. These three points have an extreme importance in teaching galvanic cells, as the strategies used by the teacher as well as the most important goal of the matter, which is to prevent the corrosion process.


In this research, an industrial spray dryer was used and the effects of atomizer speed on the physicochemical properties of milk powder, the textural and sensory characteristics of white cheese made from this milk powder were evaluated. For this purpose, whole milk was converted into powder by using three different speeds (10,000, 11,000, and 12,000 rpm). The results showed that by increasing atomizer speed in the spray dryer, the average size of casein micelle is significantly decreased (P < 0.05), whereas no significant effect is observed on the chemical properties of milk powder. White cheese characteristics indicated that by increasing atomizer speed, texture parameters, such as hardness, mastication, and gumminess were significantly reduced (P < 0.05). Sensory evaluation also revealed that the cheese samples prepared with dried milk produced at 12,000 rpm were highly accepted by the panelists. Overall, the findings suggested that 12,000 rpm is the optimal atomizer speed for milk powder production.


Silk fibers were chlorinated with methanesulfonyl chloride in dimethylformamide under mild conditions. The chlorination occurred mainly at serine residues, and β-chloroalanine was found in the hydrolyzates of the chlorinated silk samples using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and was quantified using high performance liquid chromatography. About 30% of serine residues could be converted into β-chloroalanine residues. Chlorinated silk fibers reacted under alkaline conditions with mercaptans containing other functional groups, that is, thioglycollic acid, 3-mercaptopropionic acid, β-mercaptoethylamine, and cysteine, which yielded S-carboxymethyl, S-2-carboxyethyl, S-2-aminoethyl, and S-2-amino-2-carboxyethylcysteine residues, respectively. The amino group contents of the samples treated with β-mercaptoethylamine were higher than ten times that of the original silk. The amino group-enriched silk fibers were treated with methyl gluconates, yielding silk fibers containing pendant oligosaccharide groups. No interaction was observed between these modified silk fibers and a lectin, concanavalin A.


In this paper, a 3-channel 8-bit analog HDTV (high definition television) image sampling and recording system is described in detail. It can grab images up to 1024/spl times/1024 pixels from a motion picture sequence (in the case of 2:1 interlaced scanning; 25 frames per second) with low error bit rate. Finally, the test result is presented.


The anatomy and histochemistry of the sympathetic nervous system in the cod were studied by osmic acid staining, cholinesterase staining and fluorescent histochemistry of ganglia and nerve fibres. Large bundles of fluorescent fibres from the sympathetic ganglia in the head enter the cranial nerves and run with these. These bundles are exceptionally large to the vagi, and the cod vagi may therefore be regarded as vago-sympathetic trunks. All the sympathetic ganglion cells contain specific (acetyl-) cholinesterase, although the degree of staining was variable. The vast majority of cells in the ganglion coeliacum and other anterior ganglia show specific fluorescence of variable intensity. Ganglion cells completely devoid of specific fluorescence are scarce in the anterior ganglia, but abundant in the posterior ganglia associated with the vesicular nerve. A separate and distinct bundle of medullated fibres leaves the sympathetic chain on the left side and spreads in the wall of the left posterior cardinal vein, presumably innervating the chromaffin tissue. Similar fibres on the right side are also present, but do not form a distinct nerve.


New measurements of the spin structure functions of the proton and deuteron g{sub 1}{sup p}(x, Q{sup 2}) and g{sub 1}{sup d}(x, Q{sup 2}) in the nucleon resonance region are compared with extrapolations of target-mass-corrected next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD fits to higher energy data. Averaged over the entire resonance region (W 1.7 GeV{sup 2}/c{sup 2}. This ''global'' duality appears to result from cancellations among the prominent ''local'' resonance regions: in particular strong {sigma}{sub 3/2} contributions in the {Delta}(1232) region appear to be compensated by strong {sigma}{sub 1/2} contributions in the resonance region centered on 1.5 GeV. These results are encouraging for the extension of NLO QCD fits to lower W and Q{sup 2} than have been used previously.


The trace elements in Chaenomeles lagenria were determined by FAAS.The results show that the content of Ca and Mg is abundant.The relations between these beneficial elements in body and health were discussed.


The experiment data has shown, that efficiency of plant protection has provided not only by structure, but also chemical formula of pesticide. Results of research done in 2006-2008 allow to confirm, that herbicide Lenok (chlorsulfuron, aqueous solution) are high efficient method of weed control on territory of Tver region.


spectrophotometer; the spectrum of the oxidized form was obtained using the IR No. 2 mode, where the undispersed spectrometer light source itself provided the illumination to convert the reaction center pigments. The CD spectrum was obtained using an instru- ment of our own design.8' 9 To obtain the CD spectrum of the photoconverted form of the reaction center preparation, we illuminated the sample from the side with visible light from a tungsten lamp filtered by a Corning 4-94 glass. The photomultiplier de-tector of the CD spectrometer was protected from scattered exciting light by means of two 2-64 filters, which permitted the measuring beam at wavelengths longer than 700 nm to pass with little attenuation. Bacteriochlorophyll was prepared by the method of Sauer, Lindsay Smith, and Schultz.10


ABSTRACT Communication for social change (CSC) research often addresses 'empowerment.' This paper argues that CSC must better incorporate trauma healing into the concept of empowerment, and thus into a revised model of social change. Data from a U.S. intimate partner violence intervention are used to provide evidence for the validity of, and usefulness of, such a revised model. Three broad theoretical arguments are offered regarding trauma within CSC: (1) trauma is rarely addressed outside peacebuilding interventions, but is relevant to other marginalized populations; (2) storytelling work has mostly focused on its politically empowering effects, and insufficiently on its healing effects related to trauma as a precursor to political empowerment; and (3) storytelling work almost always assumes an audience, but there is also value in internal communication – e.g. telling a story to oneself or journaling – when trauma has limited one's opportunities for communication.


This dissertation initiates a new direction in causal non-monotonic reasoning. We begin by reviewing commonly proposed and adopted principles of causal non-monotonic reasoning, and determine their suitability for characterising causal non-monotonic reasoning in a general sense. From this review, a significant gap in the literature is identified: research in causal non-monotonic reasoning has so far been focused on the re-use of familiar mathematics, and not concerned with the intuition that underpins human causal reasoning. To fill this gap, we propose a new approach to causal non-monotonic reasoning: one that is motivated primarily by the accurate representation of how humans typically reason with cause and effect in day-to-day life. We call this new approach Plausible Causal Reasoning (PCR). We propose some new principles that help characterise PCR, and define a new formalism for causal non-monotonic reasoning. The new formalism is shown to: satisfy each of our new principles; reason correctly with some important examples; and be well-behaved with respect to the standard properties used to determine the acceptability of logical reasoning mechanisms. We also indicate possible avenues of future work that would further develop this new approach to causal non-monotonic reasoning.


An all polarization-maintaining fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer for simultaneous measurement qf acoustic pressure and temperature is examined. Measurements by Farahi et al. (1990) indicate that the cross-sensitivity between temperature and axial strain may be significant for a polarization-maintaining fiber Fabry-Perot interferometer ; however, no one has examined the significance of cross-sensitivity for the Mach-Zehnder case. Sensitivities to acoustic pressure and temperature, and the cross-sensitivity generated by simultaneous disturbances are determined both analytically and numerically. The fiber's relatively high temperature sensitivity compared with its acoustic pressure sensitivity suggests that a short length of sensing fiber is sufficient for use as a temperature sensor with little or no interference from acoustic pressure. To measure acoustic pressure, however, a straight length of the fiber examined in this study is not sufficient. In practice, this sensing fiber could be coiled around a compliant cylinder or into a small diameter sensing element to enhance longitudinal strain and thus sensitivity. Results show that in either case, the cross-sensitivity is extremely small and can be ignored.


World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has dominated the sports entertainment industry for nearly three decades. Its merchandise has become a part of wrestling history, with fans using social media to share images that document their attendance at live events and their engagement with wrestling-related artifacts, such as event merchandise. Social media platforms such as Instagram provide a digital repository where fans can document their experiences while interacting with other fans.


Recent developements in our understanding of the fundamental nucleon-nucleon interaction are reviewed. Among the topics considered are (1) the so-called high-precision nucleon-nucleon potentials that emerged in the mid 1990s, (2) progress in the microscopic description of the intermediate-range part of the nucleon-nucleon interaction in terms of correlated pion-pion and rho-pion exchange and (3) efforts towards a quantitative descripton of the nucleon-nucleon interaction utilizing methods based on effective field theory.


There are 6 millions habitants in the Rio de Janeiro city, at 1182 km2. There are 157 Private Hospitals with 5958 in patient. The number of hospitals the small and medium business is very important to the economy, and most important for the private health. Those are the subjects of these study: Inquire the systems of financial management is used at the small and median importance hospitals, describe the similarity between those hospitals and compare the administration routines, and inquire the difference at those economy reality in the private health to become evident the comparative between the hospitals. After interview 23 medical management the results show: the goal is those managements have a very low performance at those questions: Financial responsibility, Management Autonomy, and tools to control all of these. So, the suggest a method of intervention, promising a better performance of the managements, as well as the hospitals. Those realities show an uncertain future of the small and median hospitals in front of the difficult found, like the dependence at Health Care. The study results are similar as the Chacon's founded (2005); however the reality evaluated was very different. We should show principally in spite of the differences between the management about ages, studies, formation and experience time the problems found and the solutions are similar even with realities different. That is, the medical managements don't have different feeling between an idea and a pattern of economic management.


The invention discloses a safety protection device of a smoke discharge pipe of a gas water heater. The safety protection device comprises a first electric conductor arranged on the smoke discharge pipe and extending along the axial direction of the smoke discharge pipe from the first end of the smoke discharge pipe to the second end of the smoke discharge pipe. The first end is the interface end for the smoke discharge pipe and the gas water heater. The second end is the tail end of the smoke discharge pipe extending the outside. The first electric conductor is connected with a control circuit of the gas water heater to form a loop. The first electric conductor can break when the smoke discharge pipe breaks or is moved and misplaced. The electric conductor is arranged in the axial direction of the smoke discharge pipe, so that the electric conductor and the control circuit in the e gas water heater form the loop. When the smoke discharge pipe is displaced, misplaced or disconnected, the electric conductor can break to cause disconnection of the loop, accordingly the water heater stops operating, and the safety protection effect is played.


【Objective】The objective of this study is to establish a simple and efficient mode of rice mutants selection,and lay the first stone for cloning rice genes involved in regulating xa13/ Xa13 gene expression or their mediated disease resistant /susceptible and pollen development signal pathway.【Method】Using EMS treatment,a rice mutation population was constructed with IRBB13(PXa13:GFP) which carrying green fluorescent protein(GFP) derived with dominant Xa13 gene promoter.Then the mutants were screened out with the following three periods: At seedling stage,selecting mutants in which GFP gene expression decline either in root or bud or non-expression;At adult stage,selecting mutants restored susceptible to PXO99;At booting stage,selecting mutants reduced fertility.【Result】In total 3 000 M2 lines,14 and 9 mutants were identified for both root and bud fluorescent declined and fluorescent normal only in root at seedling stage.At adult stage,relying on phenotype of PXO99 inoculation,a total of 25 lines were characterized to restore the susceptibility to PXO99.At booting stage,7 mutants were identified,of which fertility declined and the green fluorescence of the anthers also disappeared and one mutant was found to restore susceptibility.【Conclusion】A simple and efficient mode of rice mutants selection system was established.Combining the abnormal expression pattern of GFP mutants,restored susceptible phenotype mutants and reduced fertility mutants,it was preliminarily indicated that the two signal transduction pathways mediated by xa13/ Xa13 genes are not only completely independent but also partially crossing between resistance/susceptibility and pollen development.Furthermore,after analysis and cloned the genes from these mutants,they will help us better understanding the functional mechanism of xa13/ Xa13 genes.


The catalytic ignition and flameless steady combustion of lean to stoichiometric gaseous fuel-air mixtures, with equivalence ratios φ = 0.62, 0.71, 0.81, 0.90 and 1.00, resulted from liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) produced in Romania, containing 12 vol % propane, 87 vol % butane, and 1 vol % C5 fraction, were studied on heated platinum wire in isothermal regimes. The critical ignition temperatures at pressures between 20 and 101 kPa and maximum heat release rates, proportional to the rate of the catalytic combustion, within the same pressure range, and temperatures between 570 and 890 K were measured and discussed. The ignition temperature increases with LPG concentration and decreases with total gas pressure. The maximum heat release rate increases with both catalyst temperature and total gas pressure but is apparently independent of LPG content. At 20 kPa pressure the induction delays were measured at several catalyst temperatures. The technique of isothermal combustion allows the evaluation of the overall kinetic parameters on the basis of literature models.


Physiological and Echocardio- graphic Findings in Ironman Athletes - Are there Signs of Cardiac Fatigue? Background: In the popular discipline triathlon some cases of sudden death occurred. Sport related myocardial injury is under discussion. We examined triath- letes who participated in middle- and long-dis- tance competitions (Ironman 70.3 and Ironman) to assess the long-term effects of triathlon on cardiac function and cardio-pulmonary per- formance. Methods and Results: 87 healthy tri- athletes (54 male, 33 female) were examined prospectively using spiroergometry and echocar- diography. Inclusion criteria was participation in at least one middle-distance or long-distance tri-


Objective To explore the clinical characteristics of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and its relevant factors.Methods Using two diagnostic criteria set by World Health Organization and Carpenter/Coustan respectively, clinical data of 945 pregnant women who underwent glucose challenge test (GCT) in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing during the past year were retrospectively analyzed.Results Of 945 pregnant women, 338 (35.8%) had 1 h serum glucose level equal to or greater than 7.8 mmol/L(140 mg/dl).Of these 338 women with positive GCT, 228 underwent 75 g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and 102 (44.7%) of 228 were diagnosed as GDM. Women with GDM diagnosed according to either criteria had older age, higher body mass index(BMI) before pregnancy, more weight gain during the first 15 weeks of gestation, higher fasting blood glucose in early pregnancy and higher proportion of those with history of diabetes in their first-degree relatives than those with negative GCT. OGTT for pregnant women at about 30 weeks of gestation showed that insulin sensitivity decreased significantly in those with GDM compared with that in those with normal glucose tolerance, and the peak of insulin secretion delayed significantly in women with GDM.Logistic regression analysis showed that older age, higher BMI before pregnancy, more weight gain in early pregnancy and higher fasting blood glucose in early pregnancy were all independently associated with increased incidence of GDM.Conclusions Older age, higher BMI before pregnancy,more weight gain in early pregnancy,higher fasting blood glucose in early pregnancy,higher proportion of those with history of diabetes in their first-degree relatives and more severe insulin resistance were found in pregnant women with GDM than in those without GDM. It is suggested that those pregnant women with risk factors of GDM should be screened by fasting blood glucose in early pregnancy in order to be diagnosed and treated earlier.


This paper presents and compares two fuzzy controllers for attitude stabilization of a spacecraft with partially filled fuel tank: a fuzzy controller based on the parallel distributed compensation (PDC) technique and a fuzzy controller based on the linear quadratic regulator. Both controllers are built from the Takagi–Sugeno model of the spacecraft. Using the Lyapunov stability theorem, the fuzzy PDC controller design problem was cast as a minimization problem for the upper bound of control input in the form of linear matrix inequalities. In the end, we compare the efficacy and robustness of each controller via numerical simulations.


: Tis study investigative the relationship between service quality, store atmosphere, and brand image towards customer loyalty by considering customer satisfaction as a mediator. Data was collected on 180 Jakarta residents who regularly visit local coffee shops in Jakarta. The results reveal that service quality, store atmosphere, and brand image significantly affect customer satisfaction. Store atmosphere and customer satisfaction have a significant effect on customer loyalty. On the other hand, service quality and brand image do not affect customer loyalty. Having service quality as expected, a unique store atmosphere and a good brand image will trigger customers to at least try to choose and come to the coffee shop. So, in the end, this study is expected to develop customer satisfaction and create loyal customers in local coffee shops in Jakarta.


Binary classifier based on sliding window is a widely used approach towards pedestrian detection.It can detect one or several pedestrians with different pose in one image.The main ways to implement pedestrian detection are summarized,and the main approaches in the sliding window framework are analyzed and compared.Further research focuses are forecasted.


Although regulations resulting from legislative mandates often have no direct fiscal impact, they pose real costs to consumers as well as businesses.


Lowering diastolic blood pressure (DBP) to <90 mm Hg in hypertensive individuals of all ages decreases the risk of cardiovascular events including myocardial infarction (MI), heart failure, and sudden death (strength of recommendation [SOR]: A, based on systematic review of randomized controlled trials). However, there is no consensus regarding how far to lower DBP. A "J-shaped" increase in cardiovascular risks with DBP <85 mm Hg may apply under certain conditions.


Vertical Mesoscale Water Vapor Flux In an Irrigated Valley by Esmaiel ~falek, Doctor of Philosophy Utah State University, 1977 Major Professor: Dr. Gene L. Wooldridge Department: Soil Science and Biometeorology To obtain the profiles of dry bulb and wet bulb temperature, specific humidity, q, and air density, p, to a height of 200 meters viii above the ground, a precise lightweight thermocouple psychrometer was designed. To lift the thermocouple psychrometer and the attached wires in obtaining the pq profiles, a rigid polyethylene balloon augmented with 5.5-feet outdoor or 100-g meteorological balloons were used . Using the height dependent eddy exchange coefficient and a onedimensional time-dependent profile model, the nighttime variations of pq as a function of height were predicted and compared with observed values. It was found that the general shape of the eddy exchange coefficient, K(z)' was approximately the same as found in recent literature. (101 pages)


In this work we present a technique for estimating the pose of an articulated object with only a simple shape model and no appearance model. We use a generative technique to propose, for a pair of stereo cameras, hypothesised correspondences for object pixels in two images. The feature space for each camera is a set of two-dimensional points, where each point consists of an intensity value and a flux value for a given pixel. The flux measures the volume of gradient flow at a pixel. For any pose we compute the mutual information between the feature set from one view and the feature set from another. The mutual information measures the degree to which hypothesised correspondences are supported by the data. Computing the mutual information of points containing both the image flux and intensity is more accurate than using intensity or flux alone. We demonstrate the results of a short tracking sequence using particle swarm optimisation to estimate the pose in every frame.


The eastern Lesotho Highlands host an array of periglacial and glacial geomorphic features. Their analysis has provided past climate interpretations predominantly for cold periods, yet no multi‐proxy temporally continuous palaeoenvironmental records exist. This study presents a palaeoenvironmental reconstruction based on sedimentary characteristics, fossil pollen and diatoms from an alpine wetland located in the Sekhokong Mountain Range. The record commences in the late Pleistocene with a wet period from ∼16 450 to 14 440 cal a BP, interrupted by dry conditions from ∼16 350 to 15 870 cal a BP. From ∼14 150 to 8560 cal a BP, drier conditions are inferred, slowly transitioning to warmer, wetter conditions. Warmer, dry conditions are inferred for ∼8560–7430 cal a BP, followed by cold, wet conditions from ∼7280 to 6560 cal a BP. A dry, warmer period occurs from ∼6560 to 3640 cal a BP indicated by pollen, diatom and sedimentary records, followed by cool, wet conditions from ∼3400 to 1200 cal a BP. The period from ∼1110 cal a BP to the present is characterized by progressive drying. Pronounced cold events are detected from the diatom record. Moisture records appear relatively specific to the topographic setting of Sekhokong near the Great Escarpment edge, probably driven by orographically constrained synoptic controls.


The North American Explorationists would like to welcome everyone to what we hope will be another season of exciting geology. We lead off with an update of the fine regional work being done by the Bureau of Economic Geology. For the last twenty years, the Bureau has published a wealth of information on the main trends in Texas, helping companies find and produce more reserves. Join us to see their latest thinking on the Frio and some of the controls that can help predict reservoirs. Steve Earle, Chairman


An exploratory survey conducted in Madathody Nagakavu is present in Chalavara Gramapanchayath, Ottapalam taluk of Palakkad district, Kerala lead to the collection of 50 species coming under 49 genera and 25 families. Among them, 6 endemic, rare, and red listed plants are represented here and also including 38 medicinal plants.


Lorentz transformation of force is derived in a more natural way using two boost transformations and corresponding Thomas-Wigner rotation. Some conseq


Commissioner of Social Security. Formerly a member of the staff of the Children's Bureau, Mrs. Enochs has been widely known among social workers for her leadership in the various Children's Bureau projects in Latin America. Today she directs the work of foreign social workers who come to the United States under the international co-operation programs. She is also president of the American International Institute for the Protection of Childhood. To the United Charities of Chicago, for its celebration this year of its one-hundredth anniversary. From the old Relief and Aid Society, founded during a period of severe unemployment, the agency has developed into a modern family agency. The 1957 celebration will include the community celebration, held this May, and a professional meeting to be held in the fall. To Frank J. Cohen, director of Youth House, and to the California Department of Social Welfare, for their receipt of Marshall Field awards. Mr. Cohen's work with delinquent children is well known throughout the country, as is the outstanding achievement of the California Department in development of an adoption program.


Under the head of scrofulous or lymphatic keratitis, or kerato-conjunctivitis, many writers include several forms of disease besides typical phlyctenules and the infiltrates into which they may change. These are the various forms of superficial vascular, marginal keratitis, known as phlyctenular pannus and fascicular keratitis, as well as some plastic or papular vascular tumefactions at the corneo-scleral margin. It is characteristic of these different types that they occur only in children, or if in adults, only in those who have had more or less continuous attacks of corneal disease since childhood. It is less commonly known that in the earlier attacks of this form of disease the phlyctenular type prevails, and that the various vascular and plastic lesions are only seen at later periods. The term scrofulous was applied by the earlier observers, because these diseases are mostly seen in typically scrofulous children. This fact has been less emphasized in


The objective of this paper is to study the arbitrage free pricing of variance and volatility swaps for Barndorff-Nielsen and Shephard type Levy process driven financial markets. One of the major challenges in arbitrage free pricing of swap is to obtain an accurate pricing expression which can be used with good computational accuracy. In this paper, we obtain various approximate expressions for the pricing of volatility and variance swaps. We show that with the approximate formulas obtained from the Barndorff-Nielsen and Shephard model the error estimation in fitting the delivery price is much less than the existing models with comparable parameters. Pricing formulas proposed in this paper are simple to compute in real time and hence can be efficiently used in practical applications. Numerical results are provided in support of the accuracy of approximate formulas presented in this paper.


Perhaps the interest in spina bifida has waned with the incidence falling so dramatically after the introduction of antenatal detection and termination of pregnancy. However, this paper offers an opportunity to contrast the methods of investigation of the central nervous system between the 1960s and the present day. The case material comprised 172 infants with neural tube defects. They were all under 9 months of age (23 over 8 weeks old) and were studied to determine the incidence of hydrocephalus. 'The main method of investigation was ventriculography, which was often associated with dye penetration studies and sometimes with pneumoencephalography'. 'Ventriculography was performed through the right side of the anterior fontanelle'. The conclusions were that: (1) There was an 80% incidence of hydrocephalus with meningomyelocele and encephalocele. (2) This was highest with lumbar lesions and when paraplegia was present. (3) Repair did not influence the development of hydrocephalus. (4) These diagnostic studies should be done as soon as possible so as to assess prognosis and as a guide to treatment.


Two supplements are available: one for the morning, to be taken with your morning coffee, and another to be taken in the evening.


On page 93 of his Grammar Taylor divides prepositions, or more strictly speaking, postpositions, into five classes, and speaks of ne prepositions as those which govern the preceding noun or pronoun in the locatival genitive, masculine or neuter. In paragraph 97 a list of 141 prepositions is given. Of the 27, which take the ne construction, 15 may be explained as above, but in some instances, e.g. Kārane, jore, dvāre, and yoge, the case may well be the instrumental, if the meaning of the postposition be taken into account. They are the following:—arthe " with a view to ", Kāje " for ", in order to, Kārane, jore " on account of", thekāne, badale " in place of", dvāre " by way of ", padakhe " near ", mukdbale " in comparison with", mokhare " in front of", yoge " by means of", lekhe " at the rate of", sāte " in exchange for", sthale, sthāne " in place of ". These are all locatives, and in some cases possibly instrumentals of nouns still in use and signifying the idea conveyed by the corresponding postposition. But tulya and sam "equal to" are adjectives, while lagto "pertaining to" and pharto "surrounding" are declinable participles or participial adjectives. The ne, which precedes them, is not the locative of the genitive, but the dative (objective) case ending.


Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with CBFB-MYH11 fusion gene is almost always associated with either inv(16)(p13.1q22) or t(16;16)(p13.1;q22). Only a few variants leading to formation of this chimeric gene have been reported. In this report, we describe a novel type of CBFB-MYH11 fusion variant generated by an insertion of CBFB into the MYH11 gene, which is identifiable by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH).


Abstract This essay tracks the movement in Édouard Glissant's work from thinking relationality as creolisation to Relation as such, to a globalised sense of cultural contact and transformation he calls tout-monde. This movement is informed by the critical meaning of the Caribbean as a historical and memorial experience, figured as the archipelago, and governed by chaotic mixture. Chaotic mixture, which is Glissant's preoccupation from his earliest work forward, is generated by the Caribbean as a crossroads of the world; the slave trade, then colonialism, brought irreconcilable yet fecund cultural dynamics to the archipelago and produced creolised forms of culture. What is the significance of these forms of culture? What theoretical lessons are borne by these forms? In the late work, Glissant extends his conception of creolisation, which is initially an internal characteristic of the Caribbean, into the thought of tout-monde. Tout-monde names an aggressive, future-oriented imperative to put global cultures in contact and to draw on the productive chaos that comes from that contact. A poetics of the whole world.


A three-dimensional network of H-bonding nickel (II)-hexamethylenetetramine complex has been synthesized and characterised and its structure determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction studies which show that [Ni(H2O)6](HMTA)2Cl32 . 4H2O crystallizes in the triclinic crystal system with space group PĪ, a = 9.2955(4), b = 9.3187(2), c = 9.3996 Ǻ, α = 119.4160(10), β = 94.4940(10), ɣ = 100.8680(10)o, V =682.47(4) A 3 and z = 1. The nickel atoms are each bonded to six aquo ligands giving an octahedral geometry. The ligand hexamethylenetetramine (HMTA) and chloride ions are bonded to water molecules through hydrogen bonding. Thermal studies show a decomposition pattern corresponding to the loss of the coordinated and uncoordinated water molecules, chloride ions and HMTA ligand in the form of a mixture of gases.


information was gathered and summarised in this paper. The cases encountered by the authors were described with illustrations for better understanding for the clinicians and the trainees. Conclusion: Our paper describes this condition in detail and provides the ways to diagnose and treat this condition effectively. The risk factors and treatment options are discussed in detail with photographic illustrations which provides simple but comprehensive material for the teaching of students and clinicians who will encounter this rare but devastating condition in their clinical practice to improve the outcome of the patients.


Objective To establish a method for Salidroside in Hongjintian Granules. Methods The HPLC was conducted on an Agilent Eclipse XDB Cl8 column(4.6 mm×250 mm, 5 μm) with Acetonitrile: water (V:V=5.0:95.0) as a mobile phase, detection wavelength at 278 nm. Results Salidroside had a good linear relationship within the range of 0.68-3.4 μg(r=0.9997). The average recovery was 98.81%, and the RSD was 1.45%(n=5). Conclusion The method is reliable, accurate and specific. It can be used for the quality control of Hongjintian Granules.


A chemically stable cationic MOF encapsulating an in situ formed water-hydroxide supramolecular anionic chain is realized for high hydroxide (OH(-)) ion conductivity in the solid-state (Type A). High OH(-) ion conductivity and low activation energy of the MOF demonstrate the advantage of the in situ incorporation of OH(-) ions to achieve efficient OH(-) ion conduction in the solid-state.


This study was built to figure out the changes in Cortisol, Free fatty acids and muscle damage indicators, by conducting eight-week interval Taekwondo programs to obese women in their middle age. The exercise programs was consisted of 40 minutes interval Taekwondo workout each time, using the movement of the 80-85% of HRmax intensity. Overall, we got the following conclusions as a result of the conduct. First, Cortisol decreased before and after the 8 week interval, but it did not show a significant change. Second, the FFA showed a significant change by decreasing before and after the 8 week interval. Third, the muscular damage indicators showed a small decrease before and after the Taekwondo workout, but didn't show a significant change. Ultimately, the interval Taekwondo program didn't have a significant effect on improving stress tolerance, stress resistance and protecting muscle injuries, but can be effectively used to increase the lipid oxidation ability.


1 Platelet‐rich plasma (PRP) of guinea‐pigs with or without reserpine was preincubated either with [14C]‐5‐hydroxytryptamine ([14C]‐5‐HT) plus [3H]‐dopamine or with [14C]‐5‐HT plus [3H]‐noradrenaline ([3H]‐NA). After isolation on two successive dextran gradients the double‐labelled platelets were incubated in Tris‐buffer in the presence or absence of various drugs. The decrease in radioactivity in the platelets was measured in order to determine the amount of the amine that had been liberated. 2 Spontaneous liberation of the labelled amines was more marked in reserpine‐treated platelets than in normal ones and somewhat more pronounced for the 3H‐catecholamines than for [14C]‐5‐HT. 3 The reserpine‐like benzoquinolizine, Ro 4–1284, caused liberation of all three labelled amines in normal but not in reserpine‐treated platelets. More [3H]‐dopamine was liberated than [14C]‐5‐HT and less [3H]‐NA. 4 The arylalkylamines, tyramine and p‐chloromethamphetamine (PCMA), liberated all three labelled amines from normal platelets, and [14C]‐5‐HT and [3H]‐dopamine, but not [3H]‐NA from reserpine‐treated ones. In normal platelets dopamine was reduced to a greater extent than [14C]‐5‐HT and [3H]‐NA to a smaller extent, whereas in reserpine‐treated platelets [14C]‐5‐HT was more markedly diminished than [3H]‐dopamine. 5 The 5‐HT uptake inhibitor, imipramine, had little influence on the spontaneous and drug‐induced liberation of [14C]‐5‐HT and [3H]‐dopamine. 6 It is concluded that 3H‐catecholamines like [14C]‐5‐HT are mostly localized in the granular pool of platelets; the three drugs tested liberate [3H]‐dopamine [3H]‐NA and [14C]‐5‐HT from the granular pool. Ro 4–1284 does not liberate 3H‐catecholamines and [14C]‐5‐HT from extragranular sites whereas tyramine and PCMA also act on the extragranular pool of [3H]‐dopamine and [14C]‐5‐HT but not [3H]‐NA. 7 The liberation of catecholamines from platelets differs from that of 5‐HT in several respects and platelets are only partly comparable to neurones as far as drug‐induced liberation of biogenic amines is concerned.


Over the past fifteen years, some of my most enriching playtime has focused on the activity of birding. Since 1998, I have pursued birds in places as varied as my own backyard, the water treatment plants of California cities, the jungles of Costa Rica, and the lowlands of Holland. I do it for many reasons: to enjoy the beauty of birds in their natural habitats, for the thrill of the hunt, for the fun of keeping lists of what I have seen at specific places and times, and for the mental discipline of sorting out visual and auditory clues to make an identification. But how did I get so interested in such an odd form of play? For almost the first forty years of my life I scarcely gave birds any attention. And then, almost without warning, I became willing to spend significant amounts of time and money to pursue them for nothing more than the sheer joy of it. Why would I have done such a thing? Perhaps the best answer is that the birds asked me to come out and play. Over the course of about two-and-a-half years before I finally discovered that I was a birder, I had a series of remarkable encounters with a few very specific birds and with people who had already learned what it meant to play with them. These encounters triggered something in me that I finally could not ignore. The birds convinced me that I should indeed come out and play, and I owe them a debt of gratitude for their insistence. Their stories deserve to be told.


The dentin bonding durability of a total-etch adhesive system (Prime & Bond NT) was investigated by tensile bond test using conventional and dumbbell-shaped specimens. Two bonding techniques were compared. After etching and rinsing, dentin surface was either blotted by cotton ball (wet-bonding) or air-dried (dry-bonding) before bonding agent was applied. The bond strength of wet-bonding specimens was significantly higher than that of dry-bonding for both conventional and dumbbell-shaped specimens after one day. The bond strength of wet-bonded conventional specimens did not decrease after two years of water immersion, but cohesive failure in demineralized dentin was observed after two years. Wet-bonded dumbbell-shaped specimens showed cohesive failure within demineralized dentin after only one day. The bond strength of dry-bonded conventional specimens decreased significantly after one year, and cohesive failure in demineralized dentin was confirmed after three months. As for dry-bonded dumbbell-shaped specimens, they showed cohesive failure in demineralized dentin after one month. The results of the present study showed that the bonding durability of dry-bonded Prime & Bond NT restorations was lower than that of wet-bonded restorations. Further, by using tensile bond test, cohesive failure in demineralized dentin was detected earlier in dumbbell-shaped specimens than in conventional specimens.


In order to estiblish a new method of detecting coenurosis in sheep, The dot-immunogold Filtrate Assay (DIGFA) by labeled with colloidal gold were established for the detection of coenurus cerebralis antibody. The method had a good agreement with ELISA, The antigen-antibody reaction took place on the membrane during the filtration process, the experiment result could be read with naked eyes within a few minutes. It was proved this method is quite simple, reacts quickly, sensitivity, so it can be used in field.


The utility model discloses a device and a method for reducing current ripple of a light-emitting diode array, which is provided with a single-stage power factor correction driver having output voltage ripple. The output voltage ripple can be reduced by a linear current regulator, which is serially connected between the single-stage power factor correction driver and the light-emitting diode array. The linear current regulator can be used to regulate the equivalent impedance of the linear current regulator actively according to the output voltage ripple of the single-stage power factor correction driver.


This study was conducted at Jinnah Hospital, Lahore during the period of one year from January 2003 to December 2003. The purpose of the study was: to determine the prevalence of the problem in gynaecological patients, to identify the reasons for seeking abortion, and lastly to assess the range of complications. Out of 6036 gynaecological patients, 102 (1.69%) were presented with a septic induced abortion. Among these, 68 patients (66.6%) had more than 3 children, 10 women (9.8%) were unmarried, 12 patients (11.76%) had contraceptive failure, whereas 22 women (21.57%) were totally unaware of the contraceptive measures. Fifteen patients (14.7%) were cured by medical treatment, 63 (61.7%) required evacuation and curettage for retained product of conception, whereas 24 patients (23.5%) required laparotomy and one necessitated hysterectomy for irrepairable damage for the uterus. The common reason was found to be the lack of adequate contraceptive awareness.


, , Brown adipose tissue (BAT) plays an important role in the regulation of body weight and glucose homeostasis. Although increasing evidence supports white adipose tissue heterogeneity, little is known about heterogeneity within murine BAT. Recently, UCP1 high and low expressing brown adipocytes were identi fi ed, but a developmental origin of these subtypes has not been studied. To obtain more insights into brown preadipocyte heterogeneity, we use single-cell RNAsequencingoftheBATstromalvascularfractionofC57/BL6mice and characterizebrown preadipocyte and adipocyte clonal cell lines. Statistical analysis of gene expression pro fi les from brown preadipocyte and adipocyte clones identify markers distinguishing brown adipocyte subtypes. We con fi rm the presence of distinct brown adipocyte populations in vivo using the markers EIF5, TCF25, and BIN1. We also demonstrate that loss of Bin1 enhances UCP1 expression and mitochondrial respiration, suggesting that BIN1 marks dormant brown adipocytes. The existence of multiple brown adipocyte subtypes suggests distinct functional properties of BAT dependingon its cellular composition, with potentially distinct functions in thermogenesis and the regulation of whole body energy homeostasis.


The experiment was carried out to evaluate factors related to the grazing efficiency of five Pennisetum sp. genotypes (CE 08 A.D., Venezuela, HV-241, Elephant B and Hexaploide) during the dry period in the Forest Zone of Pernambuco. Genotypes were managed under rotational stocking (44 days of resting and four days of grazing period). It was used a split-plot arrangement in a complete randomized block design (genotypes represented the plots; grazing cycles, the subplots). Six replications were used to determine pre-grazing total leaf blade mass and green and senescent leaf blade mass. Four replications were used for leaf blade accumulation and grazing efficiency and, for these variables, it was used a complete randomized blocks design. The CE 08 A.D. and Elephant B presented greater pre-graze total leaf blade mass, green leaf blade, green leaf blade accumulation, and grazing efficiency, with averages of 1,374 kg DM/ha, 737 kg DM/ha, 654 kg DM/ha/44 days and 80% of the green leaf blade accumulation, respectively. The highest grazing efficiency (100% of the green leaf blade accumulation) occurred at the HV-241 pastures. This high grazing efficiency was associated to the low green leaf blade accumulation (155 kg of MS/ha/44 days). The lowest grazing efficiency was observed for the Hexaploide (59% of the green leaf blade accumulation), possibly due to high losses under grazing (30% of the pre-grazing total leaf blade mass). The green leaf blade mass decreased mostly until the second grazing day, while the losses of total leaf blade were higher in the second and third grazing days. The genotypes CE 08 A.D. and Elephant B presented potential to be used under rotational stocking, in the Pernambuco Forest Zone.


In this paper, we have proved the existence and uniqueness of almost non-negative periodic solution to a class of generalized Sine-Gordon equation. The main method used is the maximum principle of telegraph equation established by Mawhin, Ortega and Robles-Pérez. The main technique used is Banach fixed point theorem in functional analysis. The conclusion is that when the coefficients and nonlinear terms of the equation meet certain conditions, the generalized equation has a unique almost non-negative periodic solution. Generalized the results of Mawhin, Ortega and Robles-Pérez.


This paper presents vibration control of a building model under earthquake loads. A magnetorheological (MR) damper is placed in the building between the first floor and ground for seismic response reduction. A new control algorithm to command the MR damper is proposed. The approach is inspired by a quasi-bang-bang controller; however, the proposed technique gives weights to control commands in a fashion that is similar to a fuzzy logic controller. Several control algorithms including decentralized bang-bang controller, Lyapunov controller, modulated homogeneous friction controller, maximum energy dissipation controller, and clipped-optimal controller are used for comparison. The new controller achieved the best reduction in maximum interstory drifts and maximum absolute accelerations over all the control algorithms presented. This reveals that the proposed controller with the MR damper is promising and may provide the best protection to the building and its contents.


In the urinary bladder, the normal urothelium is divided into three subpopulations of cells: superficial umbrella cells, intermediate cells, and a basal layer, each with distinct expression patterns of uroplakins (UP) and keratin 5 (K5). Many current transgenic mouse models (Tg) for urinary bladder cancer rely on uroplakin or keratin promoters to drive inducible Cre-lox recombination in basal or luminal bladder urothelial cells. Further, many models utilize the chemical carcinogen, N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine (BBN), to drive or accelerate tumorigenesis. A major limitation in Tg model systems where genes are knocked out is the requirement for highly penetrant and reproducible Cre activity and subsequent gene deletion in order to see a phenotype. This problem is compounded in long-term experiments such as BBN carcinogenesis that can run for up to six months after Cre induction. We have previously shown that Trim29 (tripartite motif containing 29) is sufficient to drive invasive bladder cancer formation in Tg models and in human bladder tumors. We have now developed a Tg system utilizing K5-Cre-ERT2 to target Trim29 for deletion in K5-expressing basal urothelial cells. In this model, tamoxifen exposure results in Cre expression and Trim29 deletion in K5 basal cells. Whether this would translate into complete loss of Trim29 in the urothelium over time and what effect BBN might have on tamoxifen induction of K5-Cre and loss of Trim29 were unclear. We found that exposure of K5-Cre-ERT2, Trim29 flox/flox mice to tamoxifen for six weeks resulted in loss of Trim29 expression only in the K5+ basal urothelium and that these K5+ Trim29 -/- basal cells did not give rise to intermediate cells or umbrella cells during the six months of follow-up. In contrast, mice treated with 0.05% BBN in drinking water for six months after induction of Cre produced full thickness of Trim29 knockout (KO) in 50% of mice (8/16 mice). Our results indicate that in a nonstressed state, K5 basal cells give rise to other basal cells but do not repopulate intermediate or umbrella cell layers. Furthermore, exposure to BBN resulted in the proliferation of basal cells and the replacement of intermediate cells by basal precursors in the urothelium. These results suggest that K5-Cre promoters may have different effects on transgene recombination in the bladder in the presence or absence of BBN, which induces more universal expression of Cre and its subsequent recombination events. These findings should be considered when interpreting and developing BBN-induced bladder cancer Tg models. Citation Format: Alan Kelleher, Yin Wang, Luke Broses, Sylvia Zelenka-Wang, Phillip L. Palmbos. Carcinogen exposure alters keratin 5 expression and K5-Cre recombination in transgenic mouse urothelium [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR Special Conference on the Evolving Landscape of Cancer Modeling; 2020 Mar 2-5; San Diego, CA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2020;80(11 Suppl):Abstract nr B12.


In mid-1999, in response to the U.S. Department of Transportation's request for participation in the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Intermodal Freight Field Operational Test (FOT) Program, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) entered into a partnership with public and private organizations to test and evaluate the following two freight traffic data ITS projects as part of its overall "Intermodal Data Linkages ITS Operational Test": (1) Freight ITS Congestion Management System. This test included an examination of a queue detection system and variable message sign on I-5 approaching the Port of Tacoma, as well as an Internet-based camera system installed at three port terminal roadway approaches at the Port of Seattle to monitor gateway and access road queues. (2) Freight ITS Data Collection. This test looked at vehicle transponders and wireless Global Positioning System (GPS) devices as tools for detailed data collection of regional freight traffic flows. These two tests were conducted in tandem with 17 public and private sector participants. Science Applications International Corporation served as the "Independent Evaluator" for this test. Additionally, the Washington State Transportation Center (TRAC) served as the primary research team for the examination of the use of GPS devices and transponders to support freight traffic data collection. The results of these assessments, along with corresponding conclusions and recommendations, are detailed in this report. Two key conclusions are summarized as follows: (1) The three Port of Seattle cameras experienced approximately 2,000 hits on each camera in July of 2002. These three cameras have become an integrated component of the overall traffic management system in the greater Seattle region. (2) Despite significant data analysis challenges, the use of real-time GPS and transponder data collected from trucks and state systems does show promise as a means for metropolitan planning organizations to collect regional freight transportation data; however, further research and system tests will be needed to develop appropriate methods and tools.


The application of Advanced Optical Condition Monitoring to optical leak detection and plume spectrometry is discussed. The development of these selected sensors for propulsion system monitoring is addressed.


Peak bone mass, which can be defined as the amount of bone tissue present at the end of the skeletal maturation, and also it is an important determinant of osteoporotic fracture risk. The peak bone mass of a given part of the skeleton is directly dependent upon both its genetics and environmental factors. Therefore, the aim of the proposed research is a comprehensive systematic assessment of the pattern of peak bone mass in different countries across the globe. The present article explains the protocol for conducting such a research.


The orthogonal multiple-access relay channel with two sources is considered. The goal of this paper is to show the applicability and effectiveness of a previously introduced quantize-and-forward scheme to a more realistic channel and system model, including orthogonal frequency division multiple access and multipath fading channels. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the gain of quantize-and-forward relayed communication as opposed to the point-to-point links without the relay.


Based on the analysis on personality termination report in Peking Union Medical College Hospital in the current 3 years,the characteristics of termination in public hospital were summarized.The main causes and its influence factors of different occupation in public hospital were discussed.It could give some reference for hospital human resources management.


On one of my very first days at midwifery school, I attended a lecture which warned us about something the lecturer called "medical student syndrome", where health care students have a tendency, upon learning about the symptom patterns of different illnesses, to decide that they may be suffering from each or any of these illnesses ~ especially the really serious ones. Apparently, in the minds of some students, headaches can become brain tumours, any lump could be potentially malignant and exam nerves metamorphose into a severe anxiety disorder. I became quite fascinated with this idea for a few weeks; curious about why people would tend to think the worst, and, if I am really honest, somewhat disappointed when none of my friends succumbed to the idea that they might have a dreadful disease!