Preparing for an employment interview-from both the candidate side and interviewer side-often provokes feelings of anxiety, for a number of understandable reasons: the candidate wants to make a good impression and put his or her "best foot forward;" the interviewer wants to portray the firm positively, making a strong case for why it is a good place to work and, at the same time, gleaning as much as possible about the candidate's potential. It is fair to say that any strategy or structure that can ensure that both parties make the most of the interview would be welcome, particularly as the interview becomes part of a candidate's employment file to be viewed by others and seen in the context of other information (e.g., application, resume, assessment scores, etc.). In an effort to understand and explain what is at stake in the employment interview, I find it helpful to view the transaction as one aspect of a company's use of competencies-either implicit or explicit-in assessing suitability and relative strength of an individual vis a vis a pool of candidates. So, with a view to helping prospective candidates make the most of the employment interview, I would like to offer a few common sense suggestions. I then will take each in turn and attempt a more indepth explanation, based on research or my experience in Fortune 500 companies, of how candidates can best prepare for the interview and make the most of the opportunity it provides. I hope that what I have to say can also prove useful to human resource professionals who find themselves on the other side of the table, prepared or not, to make an assessment of an individual's potential value to its pool of intellectual capital. Defining a Slippery Term A note on "competencies:" you may have heard or undoubtedly will hear the term often during your job search, for instance: * You may be asked by online recruiting sites to assess your own competencies or list those that constitute your relative strengths; * You may be asked to participate in an online assessment via a company web site in which you are told that the results will be summarized in a "profile" whereby you will be compared to a particular job's demands-and to others applying for the same job; * In company promotions or job fairs, you may find references to how competencies are used for not only recruiting and selection, but also for training and development, performance measurement and compensation. This first thing to note about the use of the word, "competencies" is that, like a number of other terms bandied about in the business world, it could be that people (within the same firm or across firms) mean different things while using the same term. So you need to be as clear as you can as to what the term means in different contexts-either in research, understanding written directions or during an interview-in order to respond in the most effective way. In the process of getting clarity on definitions, you also may gain some useful insight into a firm's grasp of a competency "framework" and increase your own understanding of how to best define yourself for an employer. A rough and ready way to distinguish among the uses of the term competency is to distinguish it from "skills" or "abilities." Unfortunately, as noted by psychologists and human resource professionals, you may hear the term "competence" (which applies to skills or abilities) and "competency" used interchangeably. David Bartram, for instance, lead psychologist with SHL [www.shlgroup.com] in the United Kingdom, notes that while "competence" relates to the application of knowledge and skills in job performance, "competencies" are associated with "behaviors underpinning successful performance"-what it is that people do in order to meet their objectives; how they go about achieving the required outcomes and; what enables their competent performance. The key point to keep in mind is that competencies are tied to behaviors, rather than skills and abilities. …


The availability of large amounts of data and advances in modern machine-learning algorithms are pushing the limits of computing systems and redefining the way software is written. This new software paradigm, termed "Software 2.0", is a departure from deterministic computing - centered around exact specifications and expert-created algorithms to accomplish a task - to probabilistic computing, centered around methods that learn to accomplish the same task using several examples. Software 2.0 contains a graph of operations that is rich in data locality and has abundant data, task, and hierarchical pipeline parallelism. Consequently, Software 2.0 can be accelerated by building custom dataflow pipelines. However, conventional GPU systems provide limited flexibility to build such dataflow pipelines. As a result, they suffer from poor device utilization and require a high-bandwidth off-chip memory system, which results in lower memory capacity. Memory capacity limitations impose serious challenges for increasingly larger models and data sets common in the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP), high-resolution computer vision, and large recommender systems. SambaNova Systems Cardinal SN10 is a Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU) that enables accelerating Software 2.0 with the flexibility to build custom dataflow pipelines as well as large memory capacity to run big models efficiently [1].


The Compania Anonima de Administration y Fomento Electrico (CADAFE), is one of the most important utilities of the Venezuelan electric sector given that it is responsible for the supply of electricity in the major part of the national territory. With the aim to improve the service to its millions of end users, CADAFE designed an ambitious plan to renovate its National and Regional Dispatch Centers and the data acquisition system using normalized protocols including the recently standardized IEC 61850 at the level of remote data concentrating units interfacing modern intelligent electronic devices (IEDs). The adopted hierarchical architecture is presented highlighting the changes made with the purpose of obtaining the optimal use of the computer resources, the best use of the more than 6000 Km of optical fiber communications and the integration with the distribution control systems and with the commercial and corporate IT platforms. The SCADA platform is described together with the mechanisms adopted for the centralized data base maintenance and the functionality that supports both the analysis and the power system operation. The paper concludes detailing the expected benefits of the project as part of the general program of the integrated CADAFE management reinforcement


This study aims to produce an application program sociometry connected to a computer which included a media component to analyze sociometry data and instruments at high school students, which can be directly used for a tutor by filling out an application and able to know the students' social relationships. The research used development model, with procedural which had been modified by the researcher. The subjects of this study is divided into subject experts, namely the subject of the instrument experts, IT and tutor as well as the subject of the trial, namely 6 students, 3 students in grades 2 and 3 others in grade 3, and overall supervising teachers at SMAN 9 Makassar. Withdrawal of study subjects using stratified random sampling technique. Data was collected through interviews, feasibility studies, questionnaire and documentation. Results of development research completed with two stages of the test, the experts test, as well as two stages of the revision, including revision based on expert testing and revisions based on testing small groups. Based on the feasibility study by expert test the general program, sociometry program as a disclosure of students' social relations media gets 4.26% grading scale that is in the category feasible and based on a small group of test programs, sociometry at acceptance tests as much as 90% (very high) products declared acceptable and usable test as much as 90% (very high) products otherwise it can be used / implemented.


Four stacks of emulsion and heavy mnterial were flown at about 220 g/cm/ sup 2/, and 3 stacks of similar composition were flown on balloons at altitudes ranging from 8 to 28 g/cm/sup 2/. Integral energy spectra of both nuclear events and gamma rays at each altitude are shown. The expected muon energy spectrum calculated from the rate of production of gamma rays is compared with measurements of the muon spectrum; no discrepancy appears. (A.G.W.)


Computer system comprising: a tower housing (40), which at least partially defines an outer surface of at least a portion of a computer system; wherein the tower housing (40) defines at least one locking shoulder (56, 58); a removable top (42) of the tower housing (40) having a mounting connector (48, 50) for removably connecting the removable top (42) with the tower housing (40) by cooperation with the locking shoulder (56, 58); the removable top (42) of the tower housing (40) is rotatable.


The advent of the network economy makes the firm boundary more complex than ever,it is difficult for the traditional,single firm theory to draw justified explanations to changes in present firm boundaries.Therefore,the paper built a 2-D analysis framework of firm boundary after reviewing the two main theories of firm boundary.On basis of this framework,we can draw the following conclusions: in the environment of E-commerce,to the capital-intensive firm,both size boundaries and capability boundaries are expanded;to the knowledge-intensive firm,size boundaries shrink,capability boundaries are expanded;and to the network organization which is between markets and hierarchies,size boundaries tend to fuzzy,capability boundaries are expanded.


When considering the cost associated with producing potable water and the environmental concerns associated with water scarcity, the reuse of processing water has received increasing interest. While water reuse during poultry processing can be environmentally friendly, it also brings potential food safety and cross-contamination concerns, through the reuse of water which may harbor human-host pathogens. Therefore, in order to effectively utilize reuse water systems, to mitigate environmental and cost concerns with water use, antimicrobials must be investigated to reduce bacterial and pathogen load. Currently, peracetic acid (PAA) is commonly used in processing water up to 2,000 ppm but can be corrosive with documented public health concerns. As such, sodium bisulfate (SBS) may be utilized as it has the potential to be an important anti-microbial in poultry processing facilities as seen in its application in the produce industry. In this study, SBS, PAA, and industrial grade PAA (IG-PAA) were evaluated against microbial populations in water reuse systems inoculated with Salmonella Typhimurium. Fresh, untreated processing plant reuse water was collected at the end of a poultry processing shift. The water was utilized within one hour of collection, minimum inhibitory concentrations were established, change in pH was investigated, and plate counts after Salmonella addition were performed. When 3x107 CFU of Salmonella was added to each microcosm, a 4 to 5 log reduction with 200 ppm PAA was observed compared to a total killing observed by 5 minutes of treatment with 1%, 2%, or 3% SBS (P < 0.05). The results of this study indicate that SBS may be an equally effective alternative to PAA for decreasing foodborne pathogen contamination in poultry reuse water.


Major advances in using coherent and incoherent speckle patterns for displacement and strain measurements are reviewed. Topics include the laws of spatial movement of laser speckle, the halo functions of coherent and incoherent speckle patterns, the factors that result in speckle decorrelation which, in turn, affects the fringe visibility and sets the upper limit of displacement measurement, the new techniques of holospeckle interferometry, real-time and electron microscope speckle photographies and finally the automatic processing of Young's fringes, and digital correlation techniques.


The peat soil is very potential to be developed, but in other side, the peat soil has some problems that so complex, namely the ugly physical characteristic, chemical and biological, in that case, to use as a farmland, some of its characteristic that influence on the plants need to be repaired.  The purpose of this research to look at the influence of  some  soil repairer materials types  to the infectivity of Bradyrhizobium. The research was conducted in the greenhouse of the USU Agriculture Faculty since March to November 2008. This research uses the non-factorial completely randomized design which consists of 13 treatments and two repeats. The treatments tested include, control (A0), dolomite lime (A1), sea mud (A2), lime + sea mud (A3), Bradyrhizobium (A4), mos (A5),   Isolates mycorrhizal of  peat soil (A6), isolates mycorrhizal of the mineral soil (A7),   Bradyrhizobium+mos (A8), mos + Isolates mycorrhizal of  peat soil (A9), mos+ isolates mycorrhizal of the mineral soil (A10), Bradyrhizobium+mos+ Isolates mycorrhizal of  peat soil (A11), Bradyrhizobium+mos+ Isolates mycorrhizal of mineral soil (A12). The variable observed that is amount of root nodules / pot. The variable is analyzed non-factorial with the Excel program, the further testing of DMRTI. The research result for giving various types of soil repairer materials very significant effect on the amount of root nodules / pot.    Key Words: Peat soil, soybean, Bradyrhizobium, infectivity


This paper introduces some frequently-used methods with which the authors evaluate the oil tank farms' safety condition:fuzzy comprehensive evaluation,fault tree analysis,DOW's fire explosion index. The authors mainly introduce the application of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation in oil tank farm. Firstly, the authors decide the main factors that may influence oil tank farm's safety,then the improved analytical hierarchical process is applied to evaluation of these factors' proportion to the safety. Finally, fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model is introduced to carry out a comprehensive evaluation of the oil tank farm' s safety conditions. The evaluation is more available, objective and accurate due to the application of the improved analytical hierarchy process, which avoids the identity examination and adjustment of the judgment matrix in analytical hierarchy process.


Abstract The problem of determining part delivery dates in a low-volume assembly line manufacturing large and costly products is studied. At each workstation a part is assembled to the subassembly. These parts are supplied by external vendors with unreliable delivery schedules. The arrival date of a part is assumed to follow a normal distribution whose mean is to be specified. A dynamic programming approach in combination with a heuristic procedure is used to prescribe the vendor delivery dates for a batch of products. Simulation results show the procedure to be significantly superior to a deterministic approach to the problem. Comparisons are also made with a safety buffer method.


Tissue samples used for genetic analyses are increasingly necessary for proper management of rare or endangered species, yet growing evidence suggests that traditional methods used to sample or mark amphibians have detrimental fitness effects. We used a semi-natural mesocosm experiment to determine the effect of larval tail-clipping on growth and survival of the endangered California tiger salamander. Even with relatively extreme levels of tail loss, we found no effect on survival, mass, or snout-vent length. We recommend larval tail-clipping as a low-impact method for collecting tissue samples from pond-breeding amphibians. 2013 The Wildlife Society. elastomer. Field studies performed on living animals sometimes require invasive procedures, generally either to physically mark individuals (e.g., toe-clipping, ear-notching) or to obtain blood or tissue samples for genetic analyses. Criticism for the use of these marking techniques, particularly for amphibians and reptiles, has grown markedly since McCarthy and Parris (2004) showed that recapture rates of frogs decrease by 4- 11% for each toe removed. A similar detrimental effect has


Deaf people use Sign Language and Fingerspelling as a fundamental communication method. Fingerspelling or manual spelling is a method of spelling words using hand movements, and most often used to spell out names of people, places, organizations, books and other words for which no sign exists. In this experiment, the images for 31 static fingerspelling characters of Myanmar consonant are used as the input images. Three feature vectors extraction methods (SIFT, SURF, and BRIEF) were done separately on our collected Myanmar Sign Language (MSL) fingerspelling images. MSL fingerspelling data are classified with seven different approaches; Multilayer Perceptron, Gaussian Naïve Bays, Decision Tree, Logistic Regression, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine and K-Nearest Neighbor. In this paper, we provide the performance results of different features on different classifiers and the highest classification rate is up to 97% with SURF feature and Random Forest classifier. Moreover, 10-fold cross validation was made in our experiment and we provide the classification results for each classifier. of 51.48


An analysis of the competitive effect of any proposed merger or acquisition starts from the delineation of the relevant product and geographic market. In the banking industry, rapid institutional change has rendered obsolete tento twenty-year-old Supreme Court precedents on both the geographic and product lines in bank mergers. 1 In particular, changes in banking regulation and changes in communications and data-processing technology


OFDM (Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing) is the key technology to 4G in the field of mobile communication. The theory of FH_OFDM and AFH_OFDM (Adaptive frequency hopping-Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) systems is introduced firstly in this article, and the Simulink toolbox is used to set up the simulation model for AFH_OFDM system. In this paper, we compare the BER performance of FH_OFDM and OFDM systems in multi-path Rayleigh fading channel, and also compare the BER performance of AFH_OFDM system and FH_OFDM system in the condition of the broadband uniform noise and the bandlimited uniform noise. The simulation result shows that FH_OFDM system has a better BER performance than OFDM system in the condition of different interferences, and the BER performance of AFH_OFDM is better than FH_OFDM in the condition of the uniform noise.


The Indian merger control regime under the Competition Act, 2002 (Competition Act) has been in force for nearly five years. The provisions of the Competition Act are to be read together with the…


Conventional microwave resonance, pulse‐echo, and spin‐phonon spectrometer experiments on vacuum evaporated microcrystalline and amorphous films of YFex(x?2) demonstrate the existence of significant dynamic magnetoelastic coupling. For microcrystalline specimens, multiple transverse phonon signal peaks are observed at the rf frequency as a function of static field applied parallel to the film normal. The applied magnetic fields (0–20 kOe) for which the phonon signals are observed coincide with resonance absorption signals. In addition, the resonance data contain well‐resolved structure with as many as 8 peaks. To date, no high field multiple peak structure has been observed in amorphous films. Pulse‐echo and spin‐phonon spectrometer experiments have also shown that phonons are excited with parallel rf and dc fields in the film plane. A maximum longitudinal signal is observed with this field configuration; the signal intensity varies approximately as cos4φ, where φ is the angle between the rf and dc fields...


The cervical plate of drawers according to the present invention comprises a recoil device (2) preventing vertical movement of the bone anchoring screw (3) which consists of first vertical locking means (71) capable of deforming elastically in a first direction for the introduction of an anchoring screw (3) in the bore (4) and corresponding second vertical locking means (8) capable of deforming elastically in a second direction different from the first for carrying instead of another anchoring screw (3) in another bore (4), said first and second locking means being elastically deformed when a combined external load is applied on the anchoring screw (3) in a direction vertical and rotating clockwise.


Arable cropping systems practised in Canterbury are described and assessed on the basis of their use of alternative/sustainable technologies to maintain arable crop and grass/legume pasture yields. The alternative/sustainable quality of current arable cropping systems is not rated highly. A superior arable cropping system involving an eight-year-long rotation with alternate four-year-long phases of grass/legume pasture and successive arable crops of peas, wheat, white clover and barley is described in detail. It is recommended that further developmental research into alternative/sustainable technologies be initiated.


First-principles calculations are commonly used to search for possible transition states in reaction kinetics studies, which are such a challenge to observe experimentally. However, computationally studying the reaction is also challenging because of, inter alia, the Basis Set Incompleteness Error (BSIE). Accordingly, we utilized density functional theory-based calculations and the complete basis set method, to confirm the conformational effect in the neutral hydrolysis of three ethyl acetate analogs: ethyl formate, ethyl acetate, and ethyl fluoroacetate. The results showed that both methods yielded activation energy span, which implies that the conformational effect in the ethyl acetate neutral hydrolysis is not due to the BSIE. The results also demonstrated the importance of polarization and diffuse function in a basis set. The former was to improve the ground state geometry, and the latter was to increase the activation energy.


The object of this study was to investigate the effect of cycloheximide pretreatment of in vitro matured porcine oocytes before electrical activation on the subsequent development of parthenogenetic embryos.The result showed that the optimal electrical activation parameters were 120 V/mm,40 μs,1DC.Treating the cumulus-free mature oocytes with NCSU-23 medium containing 10 mg/mL cycloheximide for 10 min could get the highest rate of blastulas,which was significantly higher than the treatment for 0,30 or 60 min.It was concluded that the cycloheximide pretreatment for a short time before electrical activation could improve the parthenogenetic development of in vitro matured porcine oocytes.


Giant cell arteritis is the most common chronic systemic vasculitis in older adults. Permanent visual loss is the most concerning complication can occur in up to 20% of patients (1). Diagnosis is based on a combination of clinical findings, laboratory evidence of inflammatory markers, and temporal artery biopsy (TAB) confirming histologic evidence of inflammation. There are no definitive markers of the disease when TAB is negative.The objective of this study was to illustrate the clinical features of subjects suspected with GCA evaluated at the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) and identify those features that would differentiate between TAB positive GCA, TAB negative GCA and non-GCA patients.This retrospective study searched the Dallas VAMC database for subjects between January of 2010 until December 2019 with ICD-9 and ICD-10 entry code for GCA. Based on the 1990 ACR clinical classification criteria for GCA, suspected patients were classified as TAB positive GCA, TAB negative GCA and non-GCA. Subjects with incomplete data needed for classification were excluded. Group comparisons were performed with Fisher's exact test for categorical variables and the Mann-Whitney test for continuous variables.One-hundred and sixty-nine subjects had ICD-9/10 entry code for GCA. Ophthalmology was the specialty who did the initial evaluation in 46% of the suspected cases. Seventy-one patients were excluded due to incomplete data. Of the remaining 98 patients, 42 (42.9%) were diagnosed with GCA out of which 10 patients had a positive TAB. Seventy-six percent of patients diagnosed with GCA had negative temporal artery biopsies. In 56 (57.1%) patients GCA was ruled out (Figure 1). New-onset headache was the predominant symptom suggestive of GCA affecting 88.9% TAB positive and 100% of TAB negative cases compared to 56.6% of non-GCA patients (p< 0.001), followed by scalp tenderness in 33.3%, 58.1% and 10.9%, respectively (p< 0.001), jaw claudication in 57.1%, 34.5% and 14.9% (p=0.021), and elevated sedimentation rate in 33%, 65.6% and 33% (p=0.013) (Table 1). Polymyalgia rheumatica was present in 28.6% and 21.7% of patients diagnosed with GCA compared to zero percent in non-GCA cases (p=0.017). More than 30% of patients with GCA had normal acute phase reactants in this cohort.Table 1.Comparison of demographics and clinical features of patients with suspected GCAGCA TAB Positive (n=10)GCA - TAB Negative (n=32)non-GCA (n=56)n%n%n%pAge (mean/sd)71.3 (7.8)67.3 (8.1)67.3 (8.9)0.367Male99030/3293.851/5691.10.885Clinical findingsNew onset headache8/988.932/3210030/5356.6<0.001Visual symptoms9/109022/3268.842/5477.80.351Jaw claudication4/757.110/2934.57/4714.90.021PMR2/728.65/2321.70/3000.017Scalp tenderness2/633.318/3158.15/4610.9<0.001Fever0/505/2321.72/355.70.117ESR > 501/333.321/3265.618/5433.30.013CRP > 101/333.35/3016.76/5411.10.473Anemia (hemoglobin < 12 g/ dl)2/728.615/3246.921/5240.40.642Thrombocytosis (platelets >400)2/728.63/329.44/517.80.228There is clinical heterogeneity within the patients diagnosed with GCA regardless of TAB. A high index of clinical suspicion needs to be the cornerstone of diagnosis. There is need for new classification criteria to include patients with negative TAB.[1]Soriano A, et al. Nat Rev Rheumatol. 2017 Aug;13(8):476-484.Adela Castro: None declared, Jiby Mathew: None declared, Ola Azzouqah: None declared, Jesus Diaz: None declared, Andreas Reimold Consultant of: Lilly, Grant/research support from: AbbviePfizerGilead, Kyawt Shwin: None declared


The naturally occurring mortality of eggs and larvae of second-generation southwestern corn borer, Diatraea grandiosella (Dyar), in Kansas irrigated field corn, Zea mays L., was investigated. During 1983, corn plants in the study plots averaged 35.4 southwestern corn borer eggs per plant. Egg mortality was 33.2%; egg through third larval stage mortality was 86.2%; and 96.8% mortality occurred from egg through large larval stages. During 1984, plants in the study plots averaged 6.1 eggs per plant. Egg stage mortality was 32.6%; egg through third larval stage mortality was 87.2%; and 87.2% mortality occurred from egg through large larval stages. Trichogramma pretiosum (Riley) was the most significant factor contributing to egg mortality, accounting for 21.9% of total mortality in 1983 and 28.2% of total mortality in 1984.


Abstract In Chinese and in South East Asian languages we commonly encounter the phenomenon that a vowel or a set of vowels have undergone an influence which has caused each vowel to split into variants, which after the loss of the conditioning factor acquire status as phonemes.


Many hearing aid users have "better speech understanding in noise" as their number one requirement for a hearing instrument. To feel fully integrated in society, they want to be able to carry on a social or professional conversation, even in acoustic environments with competing noise or reverberation. Even a hearing aid fitted with an optimum frequency response cannot fully compensate for the fact that hearing impaired individuals do need a more favourable signal-to-noise ratio than normal hearing individuals, to obtain an understanding of conversation in noisy surroundings (Plomp 1986). Directional microphone systems were introduced in hearing aids more than 20 years ago, and have been further developed and implemented in hearing aid series' by a few companies in the industry. By utilizing a technical construction of the microphone (more than one sound inlet) a subsequent signal processing can differentiate sounds coming from different directions. In hearing aids this process is used to suppress sounds coming from the rear. When studying the performance of directional microphone systems compared to omnidirectional systems through the years, both laboratory research and field-testing have shown several advantages of using directional microphones. In spite of this, the clinical use and dispensing of hearing aids with directional microphones has been very limited in most countries. With the SENSO series, Widex introduced hearing aids containing fully digital signal processors. These processors make continuous analysis of the sound environment, providing automatic changes of the frequency response in 3 bands (independently), providing the user with satisfactory listening comfort and speech intelligibility in both quiet and noisy situations. The research question addressed in this Widexpress 9 is: What can be achieved with the acoustic features of SENSO in combination with a directional microphone ?


A study of 1514 lactations that occurred between 1977 and 1982 in 790 Friesian, Ayrshire and Holstein crossbred cows was undertaken. One thousand and eighty-four of these lactations were used to consider the association between the occurrence of clinical mastitis and changes in milk yield, and to illustrate a technique that enables the previous lactation history of a cow to be used for estimating changes associated with the disease. The lactation curves were described using the model y(n) = an b e −cn from which values for peak yield, persistency, rate of decline at week 25, and recorded and extrapolated 305-day yield were calculated. A significant correlation between successive lactations of the same animal was observed for each of these variables. Pairs of successive lactations free from clinical mastitis were then compared by regression analysis with lactations in which the preceding lactation was free from the disease whilst the second lactation of the pair was infected. Significant reductions in peak yield, recorded and extrapolated 305-day yield were found when mastitis occurred before the week of peak yield. A reduction in recorded 305-day yield was also observed when the disease occurred between peak and 10 weeks after peak. Mastitis later in the lactation had no significant effect. The mean reduction in recorded 305-day yield of 540 kg when mastitis occurred before peak for a cow with a mean yield of 4830 kg, was higher than previous estimates. No evidence of recovery was observed in subsequent lactations that were free of clinical infection, indicating that once a cow has contracted mastitis it may not achieve its full milk-yield potential in the next lactation.


Today we have entered the millennial era, which is happening so fast. Digital technology accompanies all human activities, in the current millennial, people are more preoccupied with technology such as using social media. Islamic leadership that adheres to Islamic principles will certainly make Islamic education able to overcome challenges and changes that occur so quickly. The type of research used was library research. The results of the study in the form of Islamic education leadership concept mean that not only includes influencing and facilitating what have been done but, including the ability used to ensure readiness to face challenges. The process must always be within Islamic values, namely the values that bring up to shari'ah norms that was compatible with Islamic education. The problems of Islamic education leadership in millennial era was humans in the millennial era more concerned with the reason, leaving the spiritual, and decreasing millenial generation character. The solutions of Islamic education leadership problems in millenial era are the leaders have to have a character-based paradigm, able to develop Islamic education that responds to the development and demands of the times.


Auroras observed at middle and low geographic latitudes are related to external inputs and varying geomagnetic fields. This work aims to exclude corotating interaction region (CIR) storms and identify strong coronal mass ejection (CME) storms according to historical auroral records when the geomagnetic field varies substantially. An existing catalog of the aurora records in Chinese history reported by Zeng & Jin from 193 B.C. to 1911 A.D. is used. Archaeomagnetic field models are adopted to estimate the variation of the dipole field. According to the empirical relation between the equatorward boundary of the auroral oval, Dst index, and geomagnetic field intensity, the auroras caused by CIRs can be excluded, and those caused by strong CMEs are identified. After 1500 A.D., China's magnetic latitude decreased substantially due to the pole shift. This shift provides a better opportunity to investigate the existence of great-level storms. These great-storm CMEs occurred in both solar maximum and minimum. The space weather modeling framework is used to calculate the cusp area and the downward ion flux through the cusp for varied geomagnetic field and solar wind. For the present solar wind condition and tilt angle <15°, stronger geomagnetic field tends to generate a larger cusp area and higher ion flux through the cusp. For the weaker solar wind in the Maunder minimum, the ion flux is lower, but the cusp area is similar to that at present.


Tnias work, like its predecessor which the author put forth last year, demands to be viewed with interest and respect. It is interesting, in affording an example of the practical application of the principle of considering nothing that is human as foreign to the attention of man, which has from time to time been recognised by members of our profession who have found inclination and opportunity to depart somewhat from the path of purely medical literature. It demands our respect especially, when we reflect who the author is, and under what circumstances he has produced it. Having in his younger days gained


The flocculation mechanism and kinetics of opposite folded plate flocculator (OFPF) was studied on model test. OFPF can be seen as S-CSTR. Model test showed that, at the plate length=100 mm,inclined angle=45° and using poly iron sulphate as coagulant, the flocculator parameter K A =1.3×10 -4 .


Background: The quality and duration of sensory and motor block and decrease postoperative pain is important in the caesarean section and patient's content satisfaction. Opioids, clonidine, neostigmine and magnesium sulfate were added to local anesthetics in spinal anesthesia in trials to improve anesthetics performance. Aim of the study: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of adding 75 mg of magnesium sulfate on the duration of sensory block and duration of motor block. Patients and methods: In a double-blind randomized clinical trial, ASA I or II, 64 (32 control and 32 experimental groups) pregnant women (at term) who were candidate for cesarean section with spinal anesthesia, were recruited in this study. They were collected from "Medical City Teaching Hospital" (October 2018 – January 2018). Each experimental woman received 12.5 mg (2.5 ml) of hyperbaric bupivacaine (0.5%) and 0.5 ml (75 mg) magnesium sulfate (15%), while controls received same does of hyperbaric bupivacaine and 0.5 ml of distilled water. Response to treatment was assessed as onset of anesthesia, time of end of surgery, duration of sensory block and time of complete recovery. Results: Results revealed that the duration of analgesia (sensory blockade) and the duration of motor blockade manifested a statistically significant increase in experimental as compared to their controls (control = 116.41 ± 12.47, experimental = 159.75 ± 10.56, control = 180.76 ± 11.83, experimental = 240 ± 9.46 minutes respectively). Conclusion: The addition of 75 mg of magnesium sulfate to hyperbaric bupivacaine in spinal anesthesia for cesarean section had significantly increased the duration of postoperative analgesia and prolonged the sensory and motor blockade without significant apparent maternal or fetal side effects.


In this paper,four helpfully microelements to human body,including Ca,Cu,Fe and Zn in soybean paste are determined by FAAS.Besides,the nutrition ingredients such as moisture content,body fat,total sugar,protein and NaCl are also analyzed.The proposed analytical procedure is also quick,convenient and exact.


The present paper deals with the theoretical investigation of thermodynamical and structural properties like internal energy , entropy , Helmholtz free energy , isothermal compressibility , specific Heat , structure factor and long wave length limit of structure factor of 3d liquid transition metals. To describe electron-ion interaction we have used our newly constructed parameter free model potential. To perform this task, we have used different reference systems like Percus Yevick Hard Sphere (PYHS), One Component Plasma (OCP), and Charged Hard Sphere (CHS) reference systems. We have also seen the influence of different local field correction functions like Hartree (HR), Taylor (TR), and Sarkar et al. (SR) on thermodynamical properties of 3d liquid transition metals. Finally we conclude that the proper choice of the model potential along with reference system plays a vital role in the study of thermodynamical and structural properties of 3d liquid transition metals.


The advancement and refinement in prostate cancer detection and treatment mo-dalities have contributed to a younger patient population undergoing radical prostatec-tomy (RP) (1). Although it is effective in treating prostate cancer, radical prostatectomy has also been shown to compromise erectile function (EF), and therefore the patient's quality of life and general well being (2). Alemozaffar et al. (3) attempted to predict erectile function after prostate cancer patients undergoing RP, external radiotherapy and brachytherapy. Pretreatment sexual health related quality of life score, age, serum prostate-specific antigen level, race/ethnicity, body mass index and intended treatment details were associated with functional erections 2 years after treatment. They found that 48% of patients (n=1027) with functional erections prior to treatment reported erectile dysfunction 2 years after treatment. In the prostatectomy cohort, 60% of patients with prior functional erections reported erectile dysfunction, along with 42% and 37% of the external radiotherapy and brachytherapy cohorts, respectively. The Prostate Cancer Outcomes study revealed 60% of men experienced self-reported erectile dysfunction 18 months after radical prostatectomy, and only 28% of men reported erections firm enough for intercourse at a 5-year follow-up (4). Many urologists believe more patients would be willing to undergo surgical treatment if it were not for the possibility of developing postoperative ED (2). The discovery of the neurovascular bundle sparing technique by Dr. Patrick Walsh enabled urologists to provide hope of regaining erectile function after radical prostatectomy (5). However, despite meticulous dissection to preserve the neurovascular bundle, there is evi-dence that neuropraxia, ischemic and hypoxic nerve insults, fibrotic remodeling, and apopto-sis of cavernous smooth muscle contribute to post-surgery erectile dysfunction (6).


This paper is a reaction to Shephard's (1999) criticism of the July 1998 special issue of the Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly on research assumptions. Shephard's paper is essentially a defense of the use of the scientific method in adapted physical activity and a critique of his own understanding of the postmodern alternative. He argues that the scientific method is the method adapted physical activity researchers must privilege to know the truth. In this paper, it is argued that Shephard's description of the scientific method is too general to be useful. In addition, he often confounds traditional modernist issues with postmodernist issues. His depiction of the postmodern alternative is too sketchy to be an adequate critique of the postmodern alternative. This paper highlights key issues unaddressed by Shephard and, as well, outlines some major postmodernist themes so that some of Shephard's distortions can be corrected.


QoE-based application mapping for resource management Leila Shayanpour Master of Applied Science Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 2010 Mapping between many different applications and many different underlying technologies is very complicated. Moreover, since users need service continuity and want to get the service in a satisfactory level, firstly, their perception of the service should be measured and secondly, the changes in the underlying technologies should be transparent to users. As a result, there should be a "virtualization layer" between application layer and underlying access technologies whose job is to abstract user perception of the application in terms of network parameters and transfer these requirements to underlying layers. In this thesis, we propose a generic mathematical expression to abstract user perception of application in a unified way for different applications. Since today applications are composite applications, having a generalized expression that has the same form for various applications can ease resource management calculations. We use application service map which is based on quality of experience for resource management.


This brief investigates the N-coalition games of mixed-order players, where first and second-order integrator-type players interact in the coalitions. Every player is associated with a nonsmooth cost function, and the objective of each coalition is to minimize its cost function which is the sum of local cost functions of the players. That is, the mixed-order players within the coalition collaboratively minimize their coalition's cost function. To seek the Nash equilibrium of the N-coalition game, a distributed proximal-gradient based algorithm is proposed, where the proximal operator is used to deal with the nonsmoothness of the cost functions. The convergence of the proposed algorithm is analyzed by Lyapunov stability theorem. An example of mobile sensor networks is given to verify the effectiveness of the algorithm.


A method of obtaining the lateral structure function of electrons in a cascade shower is developed. The basic idea is to replace the 9Jl-function by a simple function which satisfies some basic properties of 9Jl-function. Validity of the present method is confirmed by a comparison with the NK-function. Various lateral structure function such as that of energy density of electrons could be obtained by the present method, if Wl-function is calculated for two or three specific argL1ments.


With increasing installations of grid-connected power electronic converters in the distribution network, there is a new trend of using distributed control in a cyber layer to coordinate the operations of these power converters for improving power system stability. However, cyber-attacks remain a threat to such distributed control. This paper addresses the cyber-attack detection and a countermeasure of distributed electric springs (ESs) that have emerged as a fast demand-response technology. A fully distributed model-based architecture for cyber-attack detection in the communication network is developed. Based on a dynamic model of ES with consensus control, a local state estimator is proposed and practically implemented to monitor the system. The estimator is fully distributed because only local and neighboring information is necessary. A countermeasure for the distributed ESs to ride through the cyber-attack and maintain regulatory services in a microgrid is demonstrated successfully. Experimental results are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed cyber-attack detection method and its ride-through capability.


File Type Size Description Afunc.m MATLAB M-file 1 KB Sample MATLAB function for the evaluation of matrixvector products to be used in irlbablk.m; see Table 2.2. examples.m MATLAB M-file 9 KB Executes all examples in the paper. hypatia Text file 1.4 MB term-by-document matrix of size 11,390 × 1,265 for Example 4 of [2, Section 5]. irlba.m MATLAB M-file 23 KB Implementation of the singlevector-method described in [1]. irlbablk.m MATLAB M-file 23 KB Implementation of the blockmethod described in [2]. irlbablkdemo.m MATLAB M-file 23 KB MATLAB demo that illustrates several choices of parameter values; see Table 2.1.


Former consultant in physical medicine and rheumatology Medway Group of Hospitals (b 1922; q London 1945; DPhysMed, MC), d 4 September 2002.2002.

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Bob spent four years in the Royal Army Medical Corps before becoming a registrar in chest medicine. Almost immediately he was recalled to the Gloucestershire regiment in Korea. In April 1951 at the Imjin river battle he remained with the wounded and was a prisoner of war of the Chinese for three years. He was a registrar in physical medicine at St Thomas's and a senior registrar at the Royal Free before becoming a consultant at the Medway Hospitals. He leaves a wife, Heather, and two sons.


Although it is common practice to envisage the launching of a therapeutic as a linear paradigm comprising a drug discovery phase gradually bridging into a development phase, it should be noted that such a process is rarely so straightforward. There are many potential intersecting paths to a successful new therapy, often involving a mixture of successive or concurrent intellectual, scientific, practical, commercial, regulatory, and other considerations among academia, industry, and government. However, for the purposes of the focus of this book, the road to therapeutic success is being presented generally as a linear continuum starting with drug discovery, continuing to drug development, then submission to regulatory agencies and approval, and ending with what is hopefully a high-quality medication that exhibits optimal safety and efficacy in the target population. Given the achievements in the past several decades in our understanding of the underlying mechanisms of disease, huge technological advances, and the goal of optimizing monetary, staff, and time resources, it would be expected that in the ideal world, in recent years we should have been witnessing an increase in the availability of new and improved medicinal products. However, anyone involved in health care delivery is well aware that this is not the case. The past five years have witnessed a dramatic decline in the number of new drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) compared to a decade ago. Compared


The Fenhe‐Weihe Rift (FWR) system is one of the most active rift zones in east China, and plays an important role in the reactivation of the North China Craton. In this work, a high‐resolution 3‐D lithospheric S wave velocity model of the FWR is built by joint inversion of receiver functions and ambient noise. Strong correlation between topography and tectonic features is observed at shallow depths. At great depths, strong heterogeneities are observed along the FWR: (1) high‐velocity anomalies emerge beneath the Weihe and Taiyuan basins in the lower crust; (2) two high‐velocity anomalies are imaged in the uppermost mantle beneath the south to central FWR; and (3) two strong large‐scale, low‐velocity zones are observed beneath the north Trans‐North China Oregon: one is at ~60 km and the other one is much larger with a deeper source. Based on the petrologic properties, geochemical analyses, and seismic images obtained in this work, we propose that the rifting mechanisms between the south and north FWR are different. In the south, the rifting could be mainly caused by the passive effects from the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau, while in the north the rifting is due to the combined effects of the asthenosphere upwelling and the counterclockwise rotation of the Ordos block. The uppermost mantle high‐velocity anomalies underneath the south to central part of the FWR could be the remnants of strong ancient cratonic root, and act as mechanical barriers to block the rifting processes between the south and north FWR.


The purpose of this study is to examine operational delay with on time performance at PT Garuda Indonesia located in Terminal 3. The problem of this study is there are delay due to flight operations and airport facilities. The study collected the data from the company and by doing the field research. Simple and multiple regression analysis, correlation coefficients, determinant coefficients and hypothesis testing were used to analyse the data. The results show that there is a negative and strong relationship due to Flight Operation with On Time Performance. The coefficient of determination is 92%, the results of hypothesis test (t-test) have a significant positive effect. The connection of delay due to Airport Facilities with On Time Performance is Y = 92,549 + (-0,123X) from the regression equation looks down (negative). The correlation coefficient r = 0.602 has a positive and strong relation. The coefficient of determination is 36.2%, the results of hypothesis testing (ttest) have a significant relationship. The connection of delay due to Flight Operation and Airport Facilities to On Time Performance is Y = 98,274 + (-1,772 X₁) + (-0,011 Xâ''). The correlation coefficient r = 0.960 means a positive and very strong relationship. The coefficient of determination is equal to 92.2%. Hypothesis test results (f test) have proven a positive and strong relationship. Â


Incorporating both supply and demand functions of working hours, we constructed a model of working hours. The model demonstrates that (1) working hours and wage earnings are determined jointly at an equilibrium point on a contract curve where the demand and supply of workers are equal, and (2) the contract curve passes through the intersection of the supply and demand curves of working hours. These results imply that (1) it is impossible to estimate the supply curve of working hours because equilibrium points are not usually located on a supply curve of working hours, and (2) a contract curve of working hours should be estimated to measure the wage elasticity of working hours. For the estimation of contract curves, geometric mean regression (GMR) was selected for three reasons. First, both variables in the contract curve equations are measured with errors. Second, the GMR estimator is the maximum likelihood estimator. Third, the coefficient of determination (R2) of both variables is equal in the GMR. Applying GMR, the contract curves of working hours and their wage elasticity were estimated. The estimated wage elasticity of working hours was between -0.13 and -0.23.


Abstract— In oat meSocotyl tissue (Avena sativa, var. Nuprime), red light (660 nm) modifies the level of adenylic nucleotides. Two types of action have been shown. The first takes place during illumination; there is an increase in the level of ATP and, at the same time, a decrease of ADP. This effect disappears within 5 min after the end of illumination. The second takes place 1–2 hr after illumination when mesocotyl segments are put in growth medium. The ATP level drops in the red‐illuminated fragments compared to those kept in the dark. There is no difference in the ADP level under these two conditions.


Trace element and Sr isotope data were obtained by laser ablation- and solution mode-(MC)-ICP-MS analysis for tooth enamel from remains excavated at the New Kingdom period Egyptian colonial and Nubian cemetery site of Tombos (Sudan). Elemental abundances determined by both methods of ICP-MS analysis yielded comparable values; however, 87Sr/86Sr values obtained by laser ablation were higher compared to their solution mode counterparts. This discrepancy is related to the production of a molecular interference—Ca + P + O (overlaps 87Sr); hence the higher 87Sr/86Sr values recorded during ablation analyses. Laser ablation studies of enamel may provide relatively precise 87Sr/86Sr values rather quickly but cannot be used for accurately deciphering historical population migrations.


The author examines the current practice of wearing cover gowns over surgical attire, the cost and the reasons for continued use. (non- author abstract)


If a bifurcation of equilibrium paths occurs as the loading is varied on a conservative system, the preferred path is usually obtained by use of a stability criterion. However, even if the definition of stability is modified so as no longer to depend on the existence of a potential energy function, a stability criterion may not be useful if the system is nonconservative. The choice of a different type of criterion is discussed for the particular case of plastic buckling of plates and columns, and detailed calculations are given for the simplified column model introduced by Shanley. To find the deflection of a real column with arbitrary cross section in the neighborhood of the tangent modulus load, numerical methods must be used. Two such methods are outlined: One consists of a sequence of approximations to the simultaneous solution of two nonlinear integral equations, and the other consists of a sequence of graphical integrations based on the stressstrain curve of the material. Under certain conditions, a portion of the solution may be found in analytic form. The problem of plastic buckling of plates under compressive edge thrust has been most rigorously treated by Handelman and Prager. If their calculations are modified by the assumption of initial loading (in analogy with the tangent modulus theory for columns), then their results may be brought into fair agreement with recent experimental work by Pride and Heimerl. The assumption of initial loading may be verified a posteriori. STABILITY OF NONCONSERVATIVE SYSTEMS FROM THE ENGINEERING POINT OF VIEW, a s tructure is stable if the disturbances to which it is subject are not sufficient to produce excessive displacements. However, to permit mathematical t rea tment of stabili ty, it is customary to idealize in two ways: The structure itself is mechanically idealized (e.g., friction in pin joints, fmiteness of some dimensions, etc., are often neglected); and only such disturbances are considered as are certain to be applied to any structure because of the vagaries of nature—i.e., infinitesimal forces. If the idealized system is conservative, then the statem e n t t h a t infinitesimal forces will produce no finite deformation is equivalent to the s ta tement t ha t the potent ial energy of the position in question is a relative minimum. This lat ter s ta tement is essentially the classical definition of stabili ty; if the idealized system Received October 25,1949. * This paper is a condensed version of a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University; the work was carried out at the suggestion of, and under the guidance of, Prof. W. Prager, Chairman of the Division. f Fellow in Applied Mathematics. Now, Research Associate, ^Gordon McKay Aeronautics Laboratory, Harvard University. is nonconservative, the definition of stability must be given with respect to infinitesimal disturbances instead of a potential energy function. The following definition is valid for both conservative and nonconservative systems: "A mechanically-idealized system will be said to be unstable if there exists a small distance e such tha t for any 5 > 0 it is possible to find a force distribution of intensity less than 8 which will produce an eventual displacement of the system in which a t least one material point is distant e from its original position. A stable system is one t ha t is not unstable ." Consider now an arbi trary mechanical system, either conservative or nonconservative when idealized. If the loading is varied, there can be no ambiguity in the equilibrium pa th followed by the real system, bu t such ambiguities may occur in the analysis of the idealized system. In the conservative case, the preferred pa th may usually be found by considering the stabilities of the alternative paths, although, because the exact differences between the real and idealized systems are not known, it is not possible to prove rigorously t ha t the real system will follow this preferred path . Of course, the less the idealization, the greater the likelihood t h a t this will be the case. However, stability need not be the only criterion; it might even happen t ha t several of the possible paths are stable, and in this eventuali ty an additional criterion must be sought. For a nonconservative system, the same remarks will apply, provided, of course, t ha t the modified definition of stability is used. In the problem of interest here—viz., the buckling of columns and plates—there is no difficulty if the buckling load occurs within the elastic range of stress, for a straightforward calculation shows t ha t only the buckled state is stable. If the stress is beyond the elastic limit, not only is the stability criterion difficult to apply b u t it seems likely tha t both the buckled and the undeformed states are stable; a different criterion is therefore required. I t is well known tha t it is often useful to examine the deformed state of a plate or column; if an initial deflection is introduced into the analysis, it will be found tha t the equilibrium pa th is always unique and approaches the buckling pa th as a limit when the initial deflection approaches zero. In other words, the convergence is nonuniform; the straight-line equilibrium position is obtained only as a result of zero initial deflection and is not approached by any sequence of


MapReduce is a widely used programming framework for the implementation of cloud computing application in data centers. This work presents a novel configurable hardware accelerator that is used to speed up the processing of multi-core and cloud computing applications based on the MapReduce programming framework. The proposed MapReduce configurable accelerator is augmented to multi-core processors and it performs a fast indexing and accumulation of the key/value pairs based on an efficient memory architecture using Cuckoo hashing. The MapReduce accelerator consists of the memory buffers that store the key/value pairs, and the processing units that are used to accumulate the key's value sent from the processors. In essence, this accelerator is used to alleviate the processors from executing the Reduce tasks, and thus executing only the Map tasks and emitting the intermediate key/value pairs to the hardware acceleration unit that performs the Reduce operation. The number and the size of the keys that can be stored on the accelerator are configurable and can be configured based on the application requirements. The MapReduce accelerator has been implemented and mapped to a multi-core FPGA with embedded ARM processors (Xilinx Zynq FPGA) and has been integrated with the MapReduce programming framework under Linux. The performance evaluation shows that the proposed accelerator can achieve up to 1.8x system speedup of the MapReduce applications and hence reduce significantly the execution time of multi-core and cloud computing applications. (Action: "Supporting Postdoctoral Researchers", "Education and Lifelong Learning" Program (GSRT) and co-financed by the ESF and the Greek State.)


Background
Myocardial Infarction (MI) is one of the major diseases which cause death in the world nowadays. In Hong Kong, 27.7 persons per 100,000 population died from AMI during the years 2007 to 2009. The rate for recurrent MI is also very high and the mortality rate is even higher for recurrent MI cases than first MI attack. Meanwhile, modern lifestyles and convenience brought about by advancements in technology have led to unhealthy lifestyles which is a risk factor for recurrent MI. Prevention of recurrent MI has become highly important and a worldwide public health issue.

Patient education is the process by which health professionals provide information to patients or the public aiming to enhance their awareness and, therefore, alter their unhealthy behavior in order to improve their health status. Even nowadays, patient education is a common approach to disease prevention and health promotion in developed countries.

Currently, many developed countries use patient education for disease prevention and health promotion.

Many studies have investigated the effect of patient education on recurrent MI prevention resulting from proper behavioral change, and some decreases have resulted in recurrent MI after giving patient education. However, there is a gap in the current literature regarding the specialized meta-analysis in the evaluation of effectiveness of patient education conducted within three months or earlier. In other words, the efficiency of patient education to prevent recurrent MI has seldom been assessed. Although there have been a few systemic reviews about patient education in the past, the focus of these studies was not on recurrent MI, but obesity and diabetes. In addition, they discuss the issues in a qualitative manner, and omit calculations of the relative risk or summarized odds ratio. Therefore, this meta-analysis aims to generate statistics on the evaluation of the positive impact resulting from early patient education on recurrent MI prevention.

Aim
The current study aimed to assess the effect of early post-MI education in preventing the recurrence of myocardial infarction.

Objective
The current systematic review aimed to evaluate the relation between the occurrence of recurrent MI, which is evidenced by hospitalization, in addition to consultation with medical professionals, and the provision of early patient education.

Method
Studies were identified through searching e-databases including MEDLINE (Ovid), PUBMED, Cochrane library and EMBASE. Two reviewers searched the databases independently. Keywords included "recurrent heart attack", "recurrent myocardial infarction", "post MI education", "prevention of myocardial infarction", "cardiac rehabilitation on MI" when searching the databases.

Only studies fulfilling the inclusion criteria were chosen in this meta-analysis. Randomized control trials were selected and included in meta-analysis after the screening and filtering process.

Other study methods such as case control study and cohort study were not included in this meta-analysis. All studies selection included in this meta-analysis had to follow strictly the PRISMA 2009 guideline. Quality assessments were also performed by using CONSORT 2010 checklists.

Results
Eight randomized controlled trials were selected for this meta-analysis. The meta-analysis evaluated the effect of receiving early patient education on prevention of future recurrence of MI by comparing with control subjects. Patients who received early patient education showed a reduction of risk of recurrent myocardial infarction by 3% to 100%; the summarized relative risk of the interventional group was 0.80compared with the control group. This means there resulted a 20% reduction in recurrent MI.

Conclusion
Early patient education was shown to have a positive effect on the prevention of recurrent MI in this meta-analysis. Compared with the usual care in today's hospital and medical system, we should provide more early patient education to patients with myocardial infarction for recurrent MI prevention. In light of this meta-analysis, I recommend the government to invest more funds and manpower in patient education at both hospital and clinical levels.


The author describes a few patients with different urinary tract infections, stressing the importance of carefully and correctly examining their urine. Interesting statistics from his general practice is also given.


With rapid development of railway transportation and increasing demand of oil and gas in China, the heavy haul train load becomes an important factor that threaten the safe operation of pipe. The mechanical behavior of buried pipe subjected to heavy haul train load was investigated in this study. A finite element model was established to investigate the effect of train load. Finally, the multiple train loads were also discussed. Results show that the high stress area occurs under the train track. In the pipe segment below the track, the top of pipe is under compression and the bottom of pipe is under tension. The cross section of pipe is still circular. The maximum vertical and horizontal displacement are at the top and side of pipe. The maximum von Mises stress, axial strain, and displacement of pipe increase with the increase of train load. Under the multiple train loads, there are two high stress and high strain areas at the top and bottom of pipe. With the increase of multiple train loads, the maximum von Mises stress, axial strain, displacement and ovality increase.


Single layers of ZnxCd1−xSe with various compositions (x = 0.39, 0.52, 0.59, 0.69 and 0.8) were prepared by thermal vacuum evaporation. Consecutive deposition of films from ZnSe and CdSe with equivalent thickness of 0.12, 0.25 or 0.37 nm was applied and the composition was varied by alloying ZnSe and CdSe films with different equivalent thicknesses. Single layers from ZnSe were prepared for comparison. X-ray diffraction, Raman scattering and spectral photocurrent measurements were carried out to get information on the film crystallinity and spectral photosensitivity. It was observed that both binary and ternary films are of cubic structure and nanocrystalline. No pure CdSe or ZnSe phases were found in the ZnxCd1−xSe films but the Raman data indicated that Cd-enriched nanosized regions can exist. The Raman scattering and spectral photocurrent results showed that the optical band gap of the ternary films gradually increased with increasing x and achieved a value of around 2.4 eV for the films with x = 0.8.


Most of the world has switched to the online world today. Online networking and sharing of data have
become a common aspect. With the increasing population in the online world and various sectors switching
online, data breaches and security vulnerabilities have become quite common. Healthcare sector has been
using old methods in securing patients data which has caused a big loss to the healthcare industry. To
subside this issue, we have implemented a solution for this problem using blockchain in the healthcare
sector. Blockchain technology is a technology built to provide a decentralized system. Patients can easily
store their data and provide access only to those they want to provide access. Patients and doctors can easily
access and share data without any security vulnerability. This project uses smart contracts and MERN stack
technology in building web-based healthcare application.
This paper reviews the current EHR method and provide a better solution using the blockchain-based web
application. This application further helps us in implementing a secured medical health-care record
application.


This study explores the design and delivery of two gamified, virtual laboratories, created to replace or compliment the compulsory third-semester university chemistry laboratories. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, laboratory experiments needed to be adapted to suit both on- and off-campus students. Here, we include detailed guidelines on how to produce and embed interactive videos into a 360° virtual tour, while also reflecting on the student feedback. This resource was used by both student groups, acting as a complete replacement for off campus students and as a complementary resource to those on-campus. All surveyed students agreed that the virtual laboratory was an effective learning aid, with both on- and off-campus students appreciating the slow-pace and theory focus. This delivery method shows promise as a beneficial tool for academics and students when adapting subject delivery in the age of open universities and distance learning. © 2022 American Chemical Society and Division of Chemical Education, Inc.


The efforts to save the environment have actually been carried out, both through awareness to the community and stakeholders. One of the actors who play an important role in saving the environment is the community through the business world. This gave birth to a model, namely ecopreneurship. This paper aims to find a model of the role of non-government actors in realizing ecopreneurship based on environmental security. The method used to analyze this is a descriptive method with a qualitative approach. The results of this study found that ecopreneurship is an effort made in order to preserve the sustainable on environmental security by the role of non-government actors. The role of non-government actors is implemented through the role of Karang Taruna Batu Bejamban, waste banks, and sustainable environmental management in the context of realizing ecopreneurship.


This article presents a lattice based approach for pricing contingent claims when the underlying asset evolves according to the double Heston (dH) stochastic volatility model introduced by Christoffersen et al. (2009). We discretize the continuous evolution of both squared volatilities by a "binomial pyramid", and consider the asset value as an auxiliary state variable for which a subset of possible realizations is attached to each node of the pyramid. The elements of the subset cover the range of asset prices at each time slice, and claim price is computed solving backward through the "binomial pyramid". Numerical experiments confirm the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed model.


Objective:To explore the value of MR GET2*WI in the diagnosing of the subtle fractures of knee joint. Methods:Twenty eight cases with subtle knees joint fracture were examined by various sequences of low field intensity MR to show fractures,including GET_2*WI、FST_2WI、SET_1WI.Results:The accurate rates of GET_2* WI,FST_2WI,SET_1 WI about the subtle fractures of knee joint were 96.6%,84.8%,81.4% respectively.The upper part of tibia and lower part of femurs were most commonly affected.Ligaments of the knee joint were injured in 16 cases,and meniscus of 25 cases was injured.Other injuries with swelling were found in 16 cases.Conclusion:Low field intensity MR GET_2 *WI can show the subtle fractures of the knee clearly.The value of low field intensity MR GET_2*I is an ideal sequence to show the subtle fractures of the knee joint.


Abstract Context: A substantial clinical need exists for an alternate to vitamin-K-antagonists for treating deep-vein thrombosis in many patients. Long-term low-molecular-weight heparin, body-weight adjusted, avoids anticoagulant monitoring and may be associated with less harm due to thrombocytopenia. Objective: Considerable evidence suggests that reporting of harms-related data* from randomized clinical trials needs improvement. In accordance with CONSORT* we present a harm analysis regarding thrombocytopenia. Design: Randomized clinical trial using objective outcome measures. Setting: 30 centres across Canada. Participants: Acute symptomatic proximal-vein thrombosis patients. Intervention: Therapeutic tinzaparin subcutaneously once-daily, or intravenous unfractionated heparin/oral vitamin-K-antagonist therapy for 3 months. Main Outcome Measures: Benefit was assessed by assessing the frequency of symptomatic objectively documented recurrent venous thromboembolism and harm by objectively documented hemorrhagic complications and the outcome of thrombocytopenia. Results: Benefit and bleeding harm are reported elsewhere. Long-term low-molecular-weight heparin treatment was at least as effective but associated with less harm due to bleeding than usual care. Thrombocytopenia occurred in 21 of 369 (5.7%) patients receiving tinzaparin versus 9 of 368 (2.4%) patients receiving usual care (absolute difference 3.3). Six of 9 patients with thrombocytopenia receiving usual care died (66.7 percent, 95 percent confidence interval 29.9 to 92.5) versus 4 of 21 with thrombocytopenia receiving low-molecular-weight heparin (19 percent, 95 percent confidence interval 5.4 to 41.9 percent) (absolute difference 47.6 percent, 95 percent confidence interval 82.7 to 12.5 percent, p=0.03). Recurrent venous thromboembolism occurred infrequently in patients with thrombocytopenia. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that harm associated with thrombocytopenia in patients receiving intravenous unfractionated heparin versus low-molecular-weight heparin favors low-molecular-weight heparin use. Further evaluation in rigorous trials is required.


The effect of halothane on A-V conduction was evaluated in dogs during atrial pacing using the technique of His-bundle electrocardiography. In addition, the effects of lidocaine and diphenylhydantoin (DPH) on A-V conduction were examined during halothane anesthesia. Effects of these drugs on three subintervals of A-V conduction were compared. These included the P-H (stimulus artifact to His-bundle deflection—atrioventricular conduction), H-Q (His-bundle deflection to onset of QRS complex—His-Purkinje conduction), and H-S intervals (His-bundle deflection to end of QRS complex—total intraventricular conduction). Linear regression best described the relationship between duration of interval (P-H, H-V, and H-S) and heart rate during incremental increases in the atrial paced rate. Data from these experiments were fitted to a multiple linear regression model that predicted the effects of increasing concentrations of halothane, lidocaine, and DPH on slope and intercept coefficients. Increasing concentrations of halothane (30 and 45 mg/100 ml arterial) prolonged all three subintervals of A-V conduction to more than control (15 mg/100 ml arterial). Both lidocaine and DPH further depressed conduction at all levels of halothane anesthesia. The P-H interval was particularly sensitive to drug effects. This may represent potentiation of the normal slowing of conduction through the AV node in response to incremental increases in heart rate (fatigue response). We conclude that both lidocaine and DPH fail to reverse the depressant effect of halothane on A-V conduction. This may explain their ineffectiveness in treating certain types of arrhythmias during halothane anesthesia.


Multiple-symbol differential detection (MSDD) is a powerful technique for power-efficient low-complexity autocorrelation receivers in ultra-wideband impulse-radio (UWBIR) systems. Since MSDD can be represented as a tree search problem, it is efficiently implemented by the Sphere Decoder (SD) algorithm. In this paper, we introduce a novel stopping criterion for the SD, which is based on a lower bound on the packing radius of lattices and enables early termination of the search process. As a result, the application of this stopping criterion reduces the number of search steps and thus lowers the complexity of MSDD for UWB-IR. Numerical results show that the proposed stopping criterion achieves optimal MSDD performance at reduced SD complexity.


With the development of market economy China's entry into WTO, the competition of passenger market is becoming more and more serious. On the basis of the circumstance of Chengdu railway station, the comprehensive and painstaking survey of passenger market is carried out, and corresponding measures aimed at the existent problem are also put forward.


Nowadays, consumers are exposed to a growing volume of television advertisements, most of them incorporating music. The challenge for companies is to compete for viewers' attention within a few sec ...


This paper lucubrates quantitatively the spatial distribution patterns of 4 dominant shrub species including Ceratoides ewersmanniana,Haloxylon ammodendron,Reaumuria soongorica and Calligonum leucocladum in the study area,the southern marginal zone of the Mosuowan Desert based on the field investigation and applying geostatistical theory and methods.The results reveal that the distribution of these shrubs is closely related to the environment.The spatial distribution patterns of these shrubs are that C.ewersmanniana is mainly distributed in the inter-dune lowlands and on the dune slopes,belonging to cluster and uniform distribution with range of 31.44 m,and the distribution is isotropic;H.ammodendron is mainly distributed on sand dune slopes and tops with high spatial heterogeneity,belonging to cluster distribution with strong autocorrelation and range of 89.03 m;R.soongorica is mainly distributed in the inter-dune lowlands,belonging to mid-cluster distribution;and the distribution frequency of C.leucocladum is low and anisotropic,and the distribution is random.After concluding,it is considered that the distributional patterns of these shrubs are jointly affected by both desert and oasis ecosystems,especially the adaptability of C.ewersmanniana and H.ammodendron in the study area is high,and these two species can be alternately planted as the windbreaks for fixing sand.


Zika and Dengue virus are two viruses from of the family Flaviviridae, mosquito-borne Flavivirus, known as zoonosis
disease because the viruses can transmitted to human by mosquito vector mainly Aedes aegypti. The outbreaks of Zika virus
(ZIKV) was first confirmed case in the Brazil in May 2015. It is currently one of the most important emerging viruses in the
world and has outbreaks and epidemics with severe clinical manifestations. Like Zika, Dengue virus has rapidly spread in all
areas of WHO in recent years and the source of outbreaks in areas of recent ZIKV introduction. This study aimed to determine
the evolutionary relationship among Zika and Dengue virus. The 220 complete genome (11kb) were downloaded from GenBank
database. Phylogenetic tree examined by constructed by Neighbor-Joining (NJ) method in the KIMURA-2 parameter model
and valued by bootstrap with 1000 replicates. The result showed that Zika virus has relationship between two strains of
DENV-4 where they were clustered together in phylogenetic tree.


In this paper, a new self-checking code-disjoint Booth-2 multiplier with an improved error detection and with a reduced area overhead is proposed. Compared to the 64 times 64 multiplier without error detection the area for the proposed multiplier increases for the different implementations only by 23%-30%. Especially for soft errors the error detection capability is significantly improved. All even or odd (soft) errors in the output registers are detected


The embodiment provides a red light-emitting fluorescent substance represented by the following formula (1):
€ƒ€ƒ€ƒ€ƒ€ƒ€ƒ€ƒ€ƒ (M 1-x EC x ) a M 1 b AlO c N d €ƒ€ƒ€ƒ€ƒ€ƒ(1) In the formula (1), M is an element selected from the group consisting of IA group elements, IIA group elements, IIIA group elements, IIIB group elements, rare earth elements and IVA group elements; EC is an element selected from the group consisting of Eu, Ce, Mn, Tb, Yb, Dy, Sm, Tm, Pr, Nd, Pm, Ho, Er, Cr, Sn, Cu, Zn, As, Ag, Cd, Sb, Au, Hg, TI, Pb, Bi and Fe; M 1 is different from M and is selected from the group consisting of tetravalent elements; and x, a, b, c and d are numbers satisfying the conditions of 0<x<0.2, 0.55<a<0.80, 2.10<b<3.90, 0<c‰¤0.25 and 4<d<5, respectively. This substance emits luminescence having a peak in the wavelength range of 620 to 670 nm when excited by light of 250 to 500 nm.


This study was conducted at Head Panjnad, Pakistan to collect information about the available fish diversity. The evident fish orders found were siluriformes, anabantiformes, cypriniformes, cichliformes, osteoglossiformes, and synbranchiformes. The highest number of Hypophthalmicthys molitrix and the lowest number of Wallago attu were determined from this diversity. Simpson diversity index (D) and Shannon-Weiner index (H) were measured as 0.94938868 and 3.00940719, respectively. After the keen observation of various diversities at Head Panjnad, these fish species were selected for their COI gene and phylogenetic analysis. COI is the Cytochrome C Oxidase subunit 1 of mitrochondria (a gene sequence used in molecular investigations as a DNA barcode). The K2P (Kimura two-parameter) distances measured within species, genus, family, and order were 0.57%, 0.63%, 0.68%, and 0.77%, respectively. The K2P neighbor-joining tree was built on a commonly clustered species sequence in agreement with its taxonomic classification. The purpose was to create QR codes based on DNA sequences for accurate fish species identification. The current work concludes that COI sequencing might be used for fish species identification.


Many interaction-oriented robots have been proposed as participants in human society. These agents, however, are not committed to achieving tasks. To become our partners, these agents should not only interact with humans but also achieve tasks with humans. In this paper, we propose a conversational agent who achieves tasks while interacting with humans based on scenarios. To realize this type of agent, we develop an enhanced BDI architecture by effectively integrating the research results of interaction-oriented and task-oriented agents. We show the effectiveness of the proposed agent by applying it to a conversational agent, called Photo-agent, who takes photographs while interacting with users.


Objective To study the relationship between social support and loneliness of vocational college students(VCS),and to provide mental health education for VCS with pertinent education countermeasure.Methods To research the relationship of social support and loneliness with social support rating scale(SSRS)and emotional and social loneliness scale(ESLS).Results ①The higher male VCS than the female has relatively high loneliness,single-parent families higher than the nuclear family,traditional family has relatively high loneliness experience;②The higher male VCS than the female have relatively more objective supported,and higher female VCS than the male have relatively good to support the use of degrees.Traditional family students experience of subjective support than single-parent families wants relatively more higher vocational students;③Social support status and the loneliness of higher vocational students were significantly associated with,and social support to loneliness has very good prediction effect.Conclusions Vocational college male students and VCS of single-parent families have higher loneliness,thus need be strengthened mental health education besides,still nurture them good social support networks.


We present a unified microscopic approach to four-wave mixing (FWM) in semiconductors on an ultrashort time scale. The theory is valid for resonant excitation in the vicinity of the excitonic resonance and at low densities. The most important many-particle effects, i.e., static and dynamical exciton-exciton interaction as well as biexcitonic effects are incorporated. The internal fields resulting from these interaction processes give rise to pronounced many-particle effects in FWM signals. Our results explain the dependence of FWM signals on the polarization geometry, especially if biexcitons contribute. Time-resolved (TR) FWM experiments show that the diffraction of the interaction induced fields dominate the FWM signals completely. This dominance of the interaction induced field at low temperatures is true regardless of density, detuning, or polarization geometry. While spectrally resolved FWM (-FWM) shows biexcitonic or bound excitonic contributions under various experimental conditions, TR-FWM is always completely delayed, peaking roughly at the dephasing time after both beams passed through. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.


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The vertical electronic excitation energies of ClOONO and BrOONO, molecules relevant to atmospheric chemistry, were studied using the ab initio multi-reference configuration interaction (MRD-CI) method with the cc-pVDZ and cc-pVTZ basis sets enlarged by s(N) and p(Cl/Br) long-range functions. The dominant transitions in the electronic spectra of ClOONO and BrOONO were calculated to be at 5.98 eV and 5.19 eV, respectively, with strong intensity, and at 5.18 eV and 4.42 eV, respectively, with moderate intensity. Both transitions show multi-reference character, corresponding to linear combinations of the -type and n(O), charge-transfer-type transitions. Thus, the transitions in the chlorine analogue lie about 0.8 eV higher in energy than in the bromine compound, i.e. the transitions are red-shifted by 32 nm and 42 nm, respectively, from ClOONO upon replacement of chlorine by bromine. The transition can be considered as an type and is less intense.


Determining how viruses originated and diverged and how infectious diseases are transmitted are serious challenges. Surprisingly, some inter-species genetic distances among Coronaviridae were shorter than intra-species distances, possibly representing the intermediate states of different species or subspecies in the evolutionary history of Coronaviridae. The indels of whole genome sequences between different hosts were separately associated with new functions or turning points, clearly indicating their important roles in the host transmission and shifts of Coronaviridae. Furthermore, we believe that non-nucleosomal DNA may play dominant roles in the divergence of different lineages of SARS-CoV-2 in different regions of the world because of the lack of nucleosome protection. We suggest that strong selective variation among different lineages of SARS-CoV-2 is required to produce strong codon usage bias. Interestingly, we found that an increasing number of other types of substitutions, such as those resulting from the hitchhiking effect, have accumulated, especially in the pre-breakout phase. To predict potential epidemic outbreaks, we tested our strategy, Epi-Clock, which applies the ZHU algorithm on different SARS-CoV-2 datasets to search for real significant mutational accumulation patterns correlated with the outbreak events. We could accurately predict the potential pre-phase of outbreaks with a median interval of 5 days before the outbreaks. Using our pipeline, users may review updated information on the website https://bioinfo.liferiver.com.cn with easy registration. Therefore, we propose Epi-Clock, a sensitive platform similar to a clock that can signal the need to assist individuals at focal locations by using diagnostics, isolation control, vaccines or therapy at any time.


Like millions of Americans before me, I was called to jury duty. Like a smaller number, I was actually placed on a jury.


Crowd counting is an important task in computer vision, which has many applications in video surveillance. Although the regression-based framework has achieved great improvements for crowd counting, how to improve the discriminative power of image representation is still an open problem. Conventional holistic features used in crowd counting often fail to capture semantic attributes and spatial cues of the image. In this paper, we propose integrating semantic information into learning locality-aware feature (LAF) sets for accurate crowd counting. First, with the help of a convolutional neural network, the original pixel space is mapped onto a dense attribute feature map, where each dimension of the pixelwise feature indicates the probabilistic strength of a certain semantic class. Then, LAF built on the idea of spatial pyramids on neighboring patches is proposed to explore more spatial context and local information. Finally, the traditional vector of locally aggregated descriptor (VLAD) encoding method is extended to a more generalized form weighted-VLAD (W-VLAD) in which diverse coefficient weights are taken into consideration. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of our presented method.


Research in Neutrino Physics We describe here the recent activities of our two groups over the first year of this award (effectively November 2010 through January 2012) and our proposed activities and associated budgets for the coming grant year. Both of our groups are collaborating on the Double Chooz reactor neutrino experiment and are playing major roles in calibration and analysis. A major milestone was reached recently: the collaboration obtained the first result on the search for 13 based on 100 days of data from the far detector. Our data indicates that 13 is not zero; specifically the best fit of the neutrino oscillation hypothesis to our data gives sin2 (2 13) = 0.086 ± 0.041 (stat) ± 0.030 (syst) The null oscillation hypothesis is excluded at the 94.6% C.L. This result1 has been submitted to Physical Review Letters. As we continue to take data with the far detector in the coming year, in parallel with completing the construction of the near lab and installing the near detector, we expect the precision of our measurement to improve as we gather significantly more statistics, gain better control of backgrounds through use of partial power data and improved event selection, and better understand the detector energy scale and detection efficiency from calibration data. With both detectors taking data starting more » in the second half of 2013, we expect to further drive down the uncertainty on our measurement of sin2 (2 13) to less than 0.02. Stancu's group is also collaborating on the MiniBooNE experiment. Data taking is scheduled to continue through April, by which time 1.18 × 1021 POT is projected. The UA group is playing a leading role in the measurement of antineutrino cross sections, which should be the subject of a publication later this year as well as of Ranjan Dharmapalan's Ph.D. thesis, which he is expected to defend by the end of this year. It is time to begin working on projects which will eventually succeed Double Chooz and MiniBooNE as the main foci of our efforts. The Stancu group plans to become re–involved in LBNE and possibly also to join NO A, and the Busenitz group has begun to explore joining a direct dark matter search. « less


Serum low‐density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL‐C) increases during treatment of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) with interferon‐free direct‐acting antivirals (DAAs). We sought to compare the changes of serum lipid profiles caused by three regimens.


Using the example of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso the author analyzes the extent to which the urban environment and in particular the lack of an urban infrastructure and services in many contemporary African cities affects household characteristics. The focus is on levels of household poverty. Data are from an INSD survey carried out in 1994-1995 involving some 8700 households 1620 in Ouagadougou. (ANNOTATION)


Based on the research for the principle of speech recognition and chips of TMS320DM642 DPS,using acoustic models of forward-backward HMM and Viterbi algorithm model to train model and recognition,then a speech recognition system of continuous and small vocabulary is established.Examples show that this voice recognition system has a high recognition rate and it is robust in a certain extent,the laboratory and outside recognition rate reache as high as 96.8% and 91.2%,this speech recognition system has a good practical or transplantation.


. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. 232 pp. ISBN 978-9087900137, $49.00 (pbk.)Problem-based learning and related pedagogical frameworks are instructional strate-gies that have a large research base; their implementation ranges from single courses and degree programs to entire universities adopting a PBL-based curriculum. Although widely praised and empirically proven to engage students, provide authentic learning in the context of workplace problems, and off er a learning environment that aff ords deep and situated learning, PBL has not been widely implemented. The questions then arise: Why is this so? and How can we support the change process to integrate PBL within ex-isting infrastructures and curricula?


With the development of the market,each industry has a higher demand for logistics services.The external amalgamation of logistics industry can satisfy the different logistics services needs of various industries still more.According to the current development trend of the logistics industry,we define the logistics industrial amalgamation and the connotation of the external amalgamation of logistics industry.We analyze the basis of logistics industry's external amalgamation from the division and cooperation angle,and further research,intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation of logistics industry's external amalgamation.Based on it,we find the path of the external amalgamation of the logistics industry.


The punching and post-punching shear behaviours of reinforced concrete (RC) flat plate structures are often studied by using a representative slab–column connection isolated from the parent structu...


Selecting an outcomes assessment instrument requires knowledge of their relative merits, especially head-to-head comparisons. The authors compare health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) instruments among older adults for theirpsychometric properties and subject burden, specifically the Sickness Impact Profile (SIP) and Medical Outcomes Study Short- Form 36 (SF-36). Subjects were 282 of 373 eligible older adults (75.6% response) ranging in age from 65 to 96. SIP scores demonstrated a strong skew toward low (good health) scores with a mean of 11.1% (SD 11.5) on the Total SIP index score. Similar components of the SIP and SF-36 were moderately to strongly correlated. The SIP suffered from a ceiling (good health) scaling effect, and the SF-36 scales also demonstrated some scaling extremes. These results demonstrate the relative scaling limits, especially the ceiling effect, of the SIP compared to the SF- 36, and in general, the SF-36 is preferredfor use among community-living older adults.


Leonardite is an organic structure which increases physical, chemical and biological activities of the soil and contains a high proportion of humic and fulvic acid, enabling the plant to absorbe the plant nutrients which are insoluble in the soil when applied to the soil. Leonardites which are in the group of organic soil conditioners in our country are in different qualities according to the formation their conditions. For this aim, some physical and chemical analyses which belong to 28 leonardites with domestic and foreign origins used in our country have been done according to the analysis methods based on the Regulation of Official Gazette with the number 28956 and with the date March, 29, 2014. As a result of the analysis, it has been found that leonardites have different physical and chemical properties (pH, EC, organic matter (%), total humic+fulvic acid (%) , C/N,


In this paper we present the first syntaxonomic classification for the thermophilous open wood and scrub vegetation in Tajikistan with some remarks on its environmental gradients. Altogether 143 relevés were sampled between 2014–2021 using the seven-degree cover-abundance scale of Braun-Blanquet. They were classified by the modified TWINSPAN method with the use of the four step interval scale with cutoff levels of 0%, 2%, 5% and 10% and total inertia as a measure of cluster heterogeneity. Diagnostic species were identified using the phi coefficient as a fidelity measure. Detrended Correspondence Analysis was used to determine the relation between samples, vegetation units and the major gradients in species composition. Plant communities have been divided into three main groups: (1) dry scrub on screes, (2) mesophilous scrubs in nemoral zone, and (3) open woods. A new class of Pistacietea khinjuki-verae has been proposed for open woods. Further classification of vegetation data resulted in the distinction of four plant communities within two provisional alliances: Roseion kokanicae and Ranunculo tenuilobi-Cotoneasterion hissaricae (communities of Rosa kokanica and R. ecae, associations of Aveno ludovicianae-Rhuidetum coriariae and Calophacetum grandiflorae). Additionally, we established the Pistacion verae alliance for the pistachio groves of Middle Asia with two subassociations: Pistacietum verae typicum and Pistacietum verae cercidetosum griffithii. The main factors determining the species composition of the studied communities are: elevation, temperature, precipitation, slope and aspect. Our research showed that the Pistacia groves are a distinct vegetation typical of the Irano-Turanian area and that further surveys are needed to present a final classification of scrub vegetation of Tajikistan.


The rise of feminist theology studies are closely linked with the feminist movement,the theology of the black people,and the liberation theology in Latin America of this period.The contents of feminist theology studies include criticism of Christian tradition and reconstruction of Christian belief,which shows some active significance.But feminist theology tends to go to extremes and lacks of supporting theoretical achievements.


Predicting the phase diagram of interacting quantum many-body systems is a central problem in condensed matter physics and related fields. A variety of quantum many-body systems, ranging from unconventional superconductors to spin liquids, exhibit complex competing phases whose theoretical description has been the focus of intense efforts. Here, we show that neural network quantum states can be combined with a Lee-Yang theory of quantum phase transitions to predict the critical points of strongly-correlated spin lattices. Specifically, we implement our approach for quantum phase transitions in the transverse-field Ising model on different lattice geometries in one, two, and three dimensions. We show that the Lee-Yang theory combined with neural network quantum states yields predictions of the critical field, which are consistent with large-scale quantum many-body methods. As such, our results provide a starting point for determining the phase diagram of more complex quantum many-body systems, including frustrated Heisenberg and Hubbard models.