P. Crivelli (PC) presents the first monograph to systematically reconstruct Aristotle's views on truth scattered over several writings. He approaches Aristotle from the perspective of analytic philosophy. This approach involves asking Aristotlèquestions he never dreamt of, perhaps even questions he lacked the conceptual apparatus to understand or to answer' (p. 40). However, the result is an accomplished piece of scholarly work which displays a high degree of historical sensitivity while establishing a fruitful dialogue between Aristotle and modern analytic problems. PC proceeds by a thorough examination of the relevant passages, carefully weighing up competing interpretations. Having resolved to be explicit where Aristotle is not, PC keeps the reader well briefed about which decisions his reconstruction rests on. A lucid and relaxed way of presentation makes this book an enjoyable read. The author starts by giving a detailed overview of his results (pp. 1-39). This is most useful and provides a clear understanding of the main ideas developed in the book. The book itself has three parts. The first one is about`Bearers of truth or falsehood'. These are truth-evaluable thoughts, sentences and, remarkably, certain objects (pragmata) which are neither linguistic nor mental. Among these objects are states of affairs, which are composed of two further objects, one of which being a universal while the other is either a universal or an individual. A state of affairs is true at those times at which the objects of which it is composed are combined in a certain way. It is false at those times at which the objects are divided in a certain way. There is, for example, a state of affairs of your being seated or of the diagonal's being commensurable. There are nònegative' states of affairs such as your not being seated. There are some more objects capable of being true and false. For instance, material substances are true when they exist, i.e. when their form is combined with their matter. They are false when they do not exist, i.e. when their form is divided from their matter. Simple non-composed objects, i.e. essences or incorporeal substances such as God, are true and false in virtue of their simply existing or non-existing respectively. It is the truth and falseness of objects that makes truth-evaluable thoughts and sentences true or false. Predicative thoughts or sentences are those concerning states of affairs; existential thoughts or sentences are those concerning material substances or simple objects. …


This thesis deals with transportation of dangerous chemicals. There are mentioned legislative requirements for this transportation, possible scripts of accidents with leak of chemicals. The part of this thesis is modeling itself of various scripts of accidents for two chemicals in two softwares. The part is also application of results into real accident.


On the basis of extensive literature search,it provides a summary of Helwingia Willd on resource,composition,pharmacology and clinical application,to offer scientific reference for further research and development.


The economics of industrial combined heat and power (CHP) schemes are complex and require careful evaluation. A method of assessing CHP schemes by computer, which has been found to give good results, is described which enables the most cost effective CHP plant configuration to be determined as an aid to decision-making and investment.


MCP‐1 plays an important role in CVD pathogenesis. MCP‐1 expression is associated with single nucleotide polymorphisms at position −2518 of the MCP‐1 promoter. This study was undertaken to examine the frequency of MCP‐1 polymorphism, and the relation between CVD risk factors and MCP‐1 genotype in Korean elderly. The 207 subjects (≥ 60 years old) were measured dietary, anthropometric and biochemical factors. The proportion of A/A, A/G, and G/G genotype was 14%, 44.4%, and 41.6%, respectively. The interleukin 6(IL‐6), pro‐inflammatory cytokine, levels were significantly higher in A/A genotype than A/G or G/G genotype (p<0.05). The plasma level of MCP‐1 was also higher in A/A genotype by 15%. The frequencies of LDL‐C ≥ 130mg/dl and HDL‐C < 40mg/dl were higher in A/A or GA than G/G genotype. No differences were found in anthropometric values and dietary intakes among the genotypes. In A/A genotype subjects, iron, zinc, vitamin B1, B2, B6 and E intakes were negatively correlated with SBP, DBP (p<0.05). As the intakes of vitamin B6 and E were increased, LDL‐C, and atherogenic index(AI) were decreased. In conclusion, LDL‐C, IL‐6, MCP‐1 were higher and HDL‐C was lower in A/A than A/G or G/G genotype. It suggested that A/A genotype subjects had higher risk of CVD than other genotype in Korean elderly. But increased intakes of vitamin B1, B2, B6 and E intakes may improve the lipid profile and blood pressure.


In the experience was fallowed obtain productions of four soy bean variety (Diamant, Perla, Agat and Onix) in irrigated and non irrigated conditions. The researches took place in experimental field at Târnăveni (Târgu-Mures); the region being part of the sub humid zone of Transylvania.
The all four soy beans varieties recorded, in the experimental year 2005 higher harvest values in irrigative conditions. Can be remark that the productions realize of the variety Diamant (3,83 t/ha), Agat (3,72 t/ha) and Onix (3,81 t/ha) was significant passed the medium production (2,65 t/ha) realized in non-irrigated conditions of the variety soy bean take in study.
In 2006, compare with the media experience (the media production in non-irrigated conditions), varieties: Diamant (3,77 t/ha) and Onix (3,74 t/ha) ware realize significant differences in positive way, passing the media production realize in not irrigated conditions (2,45 t/ha) with 1,32 t/ha and 1,29 t/ha.


The invention relates to a preparation method for traditional Chinese medicine lotion for treating hemorrhagic type ecthyma and belongs to the technical field of preparation methods for the traditional Chinese medicines. Antibiotics and sulfonamides are commonly used for treating hemorrhagic type ecthyma at present. Kanamycin has toxicity on the nerve and kidney. The invention adopts the technical scheme as follows: 36 kinds of medicines comprising cogongrass rhizome, Rong salt, pseudo-ginseng, circium japonicum, camellia, common cephalanoplos herb, osbeckia chinensis, folium artemisiae argyi, cactus, hairyvein agrimony, common bletilla pseudobulb, furnace soil, crinis carbonisatus, Japanese dock root, marmor serpentinatum, radix boehmeriae, madder, common sage herb, hollyhock flower, yerbadetajo herb, dahurian patrinia herb, changium smyrnioides, hemsleya macrosperma, anemarrhena asphodeloides, arrowshaped tinospora root, trollflower, honeysuckle, bidens biternata, houttuynia cordata, Lespedeza cuneata G. Don, hypericum perforatum, sedum sarmentosum, sagina subulata, pink reineckea herb, cacumen biotae and liquorice are soaked into water and decocted on a slow fire, and the decocted liquid medicine is the traditional Chinese medicine lotion for treating hemorrhagic type ecthyma. The preparation method has the advantages that: the prepared traditional Chinese medicine lotion is simple to prepare and has small toxic or side effect, short treatment course and high recovery rate.


Appropriate model assumption and robust model estimation are critical for accurate hard disk drive (HDD) field return prediction. Parametric distribution models that are conventionally used in HDD reliability analyses do not describe well HDD field survival. A biological growth model, Bertalanfy-Richards growth model, is introduced in this paper to model HDD field survival within warranty period. A nonparametric multiple missing value imputation approach is used to improve model estimation when not enough observations of field returns are available at early stage of product life. Tests of the model and the missing value imputation approach using actual HDD field survival data suggest they perform well in describing and predicting HDD warranty field returns.


This paper explores an opportunity for technology transfer monitoring and control, based on the use of miniaturized, smart and innovative sensors able to follow the product and guarantee the quality during all stages of the agro-food sector. The information concerning to the state of the product is transferred in real time in a wireless way, according to the RFID technology. The aim is to improve the quality and the logistics of the chain and offer therefore, environmentally friendly and cost-effective solutions to optimize production flows, by networking the existing Italian hubs. This opportunity also offers the chance to develop business ideas through which encourage settlement in the territory of new public and/or private subjects, able to offer goods and services with high technological content. Moreover, the paper aims to enhance the results of public research, through the diffusion and transfer of technologies to the productive system and the creation of high-tech enterprise.


*† ‡ § ¶ This paper shows how a "green" monopropellant could be used in the Myriade propulsion subsystem to increase lifetimes and decrease costs of micro satellite operations. The ADN (Ammonium dinitramide) based propellant LMP-103S and the 1N HPGP (High Performance Green Propulsion) thruster are introduced and examined for their compatibility with Myriade. Furthermore the feasibility and constraints of adapting the new technology are discussed. The paper will list possible complications and give solutions to those.


Tafsir al-Khazin emerged in the early of the affirmative era. This paper attempts to reveal; 1), The socio-historical background of this interpretation appears. 2) trying to describe-analyze a set of understandings of essential definitions such as al-Qur'an, interpretation, ta'wil, the use of hadith, fiqh, and Israiliyat, 3). Explaining the "critical synthesis" of this interpretation in the development of the world of interpretation. The methodology of this research is historical-analytical, trying to unravel the background, testing with several important definitions (examples) in the study of interpretation, and mediating critical positions in this interpretation. The result is that this interpretation appears to be inspired by al-Bagahwi's interpretation as a form of respect from the student-teacher. Therefore the scale of originality of interpretation is quite balanced. In the hadith problem, al-Khazin used the hadith, but for some reason, it was found that he cut a lot of hadith sanad and not infrequently presented the sanad of his teacher al-Baghawi and also as-Sa'labi. The simple understanding of the Qur'an, interpretation, and ta'wil also tends to be the same as other scholars. The tendency of Shafi'i fiqh is implicitly found even though al-Khazin does not clearly explain his tendency. Al-Khazin quotes many israiliyat stories without filtering them critically, and even those stories can be said to be far from the Shari'ah rules. However, all of this is intended to present a simple work of interpretation. So it can be said that the tafsir seems repetitive and partial


Abstract The abatement of perfluorinated compound (PFC) gases is investigated using atmospheric pressure microwave-surface-wave plasmas. These PFCs are diluted in nitrogen gas with concentration ranging from 5000 to 10 000 ppmv. The abatement mechanisms of SF6 and CF4 are examined, and conversion schemes are presented in the case where oxygen is added to the gas mixture. The PFC fragments are oxidized, forming acid-like by-products that are finally trapped irreversibly using a humidified soda lime scrubber. Gas-phase analysis was performed using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. The abatement efficiency is found to increase with increasing absorbed microwave power and gas residence time. The energy efficiency of the abatement process is shown to increase, with PFC concentrations in the gas mixture up to 10 000 ppmv. A complete conversion of SF6 is achieved for energy densities ranging from 700 to 1200 J/cm3 for concentrations ranging from 5000 to 10 000 ppmv. Lowering the microwave excitation frequency and using swirling flow are shown to reduce the energy cost per abated molecule.


Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has become one of the most frequently used procedures to administer nutrition and also as an alternative to the surgical approach or nasogastric tubes. The technique is simple, safe and cheap; it can be performed by any moderately experienced endoscopist and so, since the original description in 1980, has become a popular method around the world. The main PEG indication is the nutrition of patients that cannot swallow, although there are other utilities. Contraindications and complications are very unusual in clinical practice. There are three technical modalities for the placement of the gastrostomy tube, with no one being better than the other. This chapter tries to explain in a very practical way the main aspects of the procedure and it especially focuses on technical points, incorporating some useful tricks that can help solve some eventually embarrassing situations.


Seed and seedling production in Pandanus tectorius were studied in high- and low-light environments to investigate the idea that multiple seeds dispersed together over long distances are advantageous in dioecious plants


Leslie J. Letulle, MSW, is Clinical Social Worker, Children's Division, Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas. A version of this article was presented at a meeting of the American Association of Psychiatric Services for Children, San Francisco, California, November 1976. Children's residential treatment faeach other in a direct manner so that cilities focus therapeutic intervention the efficacy of each individual process on disturbed children no longer able determined whether the desired to function in their homes. Profeschanges in behavior occurred. In ad sional opinion has changed over the dition to this separation in the treat years on the question of how much ment, a rigid, pervasive barrier arose the families of such children should between the physical area of the resi be involved in the treatment once the dence and the families. The parents child has left home. There has been rarely ventured into the units; they a progression in policy from exclusion seldom had meals with the child; and to inclusion of parents and families in they knew only slightly the residential the treatment program. Initially, this staff other than the social worker, greater involvement was largely intuiThus, an emphasis on individual dy tive and based on an intrapsychic unnamics in the understanding of behav derstanding of behavior. More reior had implications both for the struc cently, family therapy theory, with its ture of the milieu and for the design understanding of behavior in interof the treatment for the families, personal terms, has provided the As the intrapsychic view of behavior trend with a conceptual foundation, broadened to include interpersonal, This article discusses the impact faminteractional components—particularly ily theory has had on the organization in the form of systems theory and of one residential facility and presents family therapy theory—there were clinical examples to illustrate the adcorresponding shifts in the residential vantages a family therapy approach setting's response to families. These provides in the treatment of disturbed shifts, which began in the 1970s, were children and their families. reflected in the literature on residential In the 1940s, parents were seen as treatment. Kemp wrote about opening harmful influences and were valued the milieu to the family and about a only for their ability to continue suppolicy that required families to spend porting treatment, both financially a minimum number of hours each and by keeping the child in placement, week at the residence for meals and This approach was gradually replaced for participation in family craft proj in the 1950s-1960s by one in which ects.4 Tangari described opening a the parents were seen as potential asward in a short-term hospital to the sets in work with their children. The families of patients and involving the form of treatment that evolved was families in the diagnostic and treat shaped by the theoretical tools of the ment processes through individual and day and consisted of two discrete multiple-family group sessions.5 Koret processes in residential work—the emphasized the need for all family child's milieu therapy and a concomimembers to understand that they were tant casework process for the parents, receiving treatment.® These writings Much of value was learned from this indicate that although the residence approach. Cohen emphasized the imstill functioned at times as a barrier portance of understanding the parents' between family members, this was motivations in seeking treatment for much less the norm than formerly, their child.1 Mandelbaum discussed


A simple tissue culture protocol was used to examine phloem differentiation. Sieve tube elements differentiated from Coleus blumei Benth. pith parenchyma when pith blocks were explanted on to an agar medium containing sucrose and indole acetic acid. Growth regulator concentration had surprisingly little influence on the production of phloem cells. Increasing the availability of sucrose, however, resulted in an enhancement of phloem differentiation. Evidently phloem and xylem differentiation began at the same time in this system, and the concentration of sucrose determined the relative production of phloem cells.


Foreign trade plays an essential role in Mongolia's economy and the country has been pursuing a relatively liberal foreign trade policy during the course of its transition toward a market economy. However, aiming at supporting domestic industries and encouraging manufacturing and higher value-added production in the country, Mongolia's recent trade policy favors raising its customs duty rates up to the WTO bound levels. An analysis of the effects of Mongolia's import tariff reforms on the country's economy using the standard CGE Model and GTAP Data Base (Version 8.1) revealed that although the country's domestic production would expand as a result of the import tariff reforms, they would result in losses of the country's total welfare, as the allocative efficiency losses are greater than the terms-of-trade gains. Therefore, it is required to spend the additional import tax revenues properly in order to compensate for such losses. In addition, the increased import tariffs had a similar effect to a real exchange rate appreciation and resulted in decreased exports. However, in the case of Mongolia raising import tariffs to its WTO bound rates, the country's industrial output would expand along with the increased exports of Mongolia's major manufacturing industries, such as leather, meat, dairy cashmere and wool products.


Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is adolescent in the sense provided by Julia Kristeva–it offers critical insight into the breakdown of categories that support representational and ethical certainties. The ethical stance of its author, Daniel Handler, is complicated–urgent, resonant, distressing–caught in the devious irony endemic to metafictional play and to the sensibility of Generation X. Such irony casts light too on literary criticism's changing treatment of the critical subspecialty of children's literature as well as on its renewed but uneasy interest in ethics as revision of past humanism. A Series offers an ethics of practice, one that recognizes its dependence on the impulses it critiques. Just as the books' postmodern orphans improvise in the face of menace that doesn't stop, Handler's irony pictures a world where ethics can never be more than a provisional entente negotiating impossible ideals.


Through the use of Internet, we can now exchange large amount of information in quick seconds, and provide learners abundant amount of information at the same time. However, the amount of information is so large and limitless that learners cannot learn and process everyone of them. This study focuses on the Customizing learning system for personalized needs, which aims to reduce the amount of "unnecessary" information, to collect educational information of learners' needs, and also to provide useful information individually to each learners. Customizing system is designed to recognize learners' needs individually, and to analyze and collect any information based on the learning assessment. Through this system, being given only the necessary information, learners can increase their efficiency in studying and reach their study goal at the same time.


This manuscript describes the development of a circuit for amplifying surface EMG with a high input impedance, designed to control bionic limb prostheses. A peculiarity of using bionic prostheses to control upper and lower limbs is the presence of a high impedance of contact with the skin, while the equality of resistances in both signal lines is not guaranteed, which is due to dryness of the skin. Patients need to be comfortable with bionic prostheses on a daily basis and eliminate the need for special treatment of the stump. The authors present a developed circuit with additional buffering of input signals, the right leg driver circuit, a band-stop filter, and a band pass filter stagger. A software does the control of amplification at the circuit by using a digital potentiometer in the feedback of the output amplifier. The signal is digitized directly on the amplifier board to reduce the effect of noise on analog lines. The authors achieved a noise value of 20 μV (peak-to-peak) at direct skin contact.


Objective To assess effectiness of the atorvastatin calcium in the treatment of acute cerebral infarction and its influence on the serum levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor(BDNF).Methods The 50 patients with acute cerebral infarction were randomly divided into treatment group(n=25)and control group(n=25).The control group received routine medication,while the treatment group additionally received atorvastatin calcium.Their serum levels of BDNF were measured by double-antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA)before and after six weeks of the treatment.Their clinical effectiveness was assessed according to National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale(NIHSS)and the Activity of Daily Living Scale(ADL).Results After the treatment,the serum levels of BDNF in the two groups were higher than those before the treatment,and serum level of BDNF in the treatment group was significantly higher than that in the control group.NIHSS scores of the both groups decreased significantly after the treatment.Atorvastatin caused a signifiant reduction in NIHSS scores and ADL scores in treatment group compaired to the control group.ADL scores in the both groups were significantly improved.Conclusion Atorvastatin calcium could increase the serum levels of BDNF in patients with acute cerebral infarction,which may promote the recovery of neurological deficit.


The cluster literature assumes that technology gatekeepers (TGs) shape a district's learning process and its evolution. However, analysis of the resilience of TGs, and their role across different stages of the cluster life cycle (CLC), is absent. Instead, most of the evidence that has been produced is set at a particular stage of the CLC. This article seeks to use a qualitative case study to understand the dynamics of TGs, and their knowledge creation and diffusion capabilities in the CLC renewal period. This is a stage less studied in the literature. Further, the article explores TG resilience across different stages of the CLC. Our results show that not all TGs are resilient and necessary for cluster renewal. In addition, they are not sufficient for fostering disruptions: their manifest reluctance to destroy the status quo and their network centrality makes necessary the entrance of new firms with new knowledge. TGs are necessary because they facilitate a cluster's transition across stages thanks to their powerful control of the most vital aspect of clusters: networks.


The Information Management Services (IMS) organization of AT&T selected the wideband-packet-technology-based integrated access and cross-connect system (IACS) as a vehicle for integrating AT&T's many separate and disparate networks into one network providing voice, data, and image services. The IACS is a packet multiplexer offered by AT&T Network Systems that integrates voice, data, and image information through packetizing and statistical multiplexing. IMS conducted a trial of the IACS between October 1988 and January 1989 in a selected segment of AT&T's Corporate Network. The trial gave the users an opportunity to evaluate the network performance, as well as the operation, administration, and maintenance tools, while gaining experience in managing and administering an integrated voice/data network. Evaluation of the trial results showed that: (i) the IACS-based packet network maintains both voice and data services quality; and (ii) an integrated voice/data network can be managed more efficiently than separate networks.<<ETX>>


Alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) is one of the most important viral diseases of alfalfa plant among the forage crop, causing significant annual economic losses. The agent is also of potential importance to other cultivars such as tomatoes, potatoes, and peppers in most cases. The identification and phylogenetic relationships of AMV were carried out by reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), following by bacterial cloning. The cDNA of alfalfa samples (12) were subjected to RT-PCR tests using primer pairs, specific for the capsid protein gene (CP) of AMV, resulting in a DNA fragment of approximately 700 bp as expected. The amplicons were directly cloned and then resulting sequences were deposited in GenBank (Acc. No: MW962977, MW962976). The BLASTn analysis of both sequences demonstrated that AMV isolates from alfalfa were highly similar to other AMV isolates from various crops in the world, with nucleotide identity ranging from 97 to 99.37%. The results of phylogenetic dendrogram based on CP gene sequences clearly suggested that our isolates are closely related to four AMV isolates from alfalfa in Turkey. To our knowledge, this study is the first report of molecular phylogeny and AMV presence in alfalfa exhibiting yellowing, mottling, and leaves abnormalities in Bingöl province, Turkey.


The localization of plasmacytoma in the sternum is exceptional. A patient suspected of having a sternal manubrium tumor, without a clear diagnosis despite a fine needle aspiration biopsy and an incision biopsy is presented. A wide margin resection of the lesion and reconstruction with a polypropylene mesh were undertaken. The results were satisfactory. A review of the literature is made.


Abstract The changes in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current system associated with the Polar, sub-Antarctic and Subtropical Fronts in the Atlantic are examined in a ten-member ensemble using the Community Earth System Model. Results for the ensemble average mean show that the Polar Front at 25°W shifts to the south by 0.8° during 1970–2000 compared to its mean latitude over the period 1050–1950. This shift is significant because it is more than twice the standard deviation of the mean latitude time series during 1050–1950. The shift is caused by a slight southward displacement of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which in turn is caused by a southward shift in the latitude of the maximum zonal wind stress. The sub-Antarctic Front also shows a small southward shift after 1970, with a maximum latitudinal displacement of 0.2°. However, this shift is not significant compared to the standard deviation of the time series during 1050–1950. The Subtropical Front does not change its latitude during 1970–2000 compared to 1050–2000 because there is very little change in the wind-stress curl in the subtropics. Differences in temperature and salinity throughout the water column at 25°W reveal that during 1970–2000 there is freshening of Antarctic Intermediate Water, whereas the Circumpolar Deep Water becomes saltier.


6-Phenyl-3,5-dioxo-2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-1,2,4-triazine 1, 3-oxo-5,6-diphenyl-2,3-dihydro-1,2,4-triazine 3, 3,5,6-triphenyl-1,2,4-triazine 4, and 3-chloro-5,6-diphenyl-1,2,4-triazine 8, react with phenylmagnesium bromide. The reactions involved are represented by scheme A. Compound 3 reacts with o- and/or p-methoxyphenylmagnesium bromide to give compounds believed to have structures like 10 and 11 respectively. Compound 1 reacts with methylmagnesium bromide and with benzylmagnesium chloride to give products believed to have structures like 12a, b.


As established cell lines, human pluripotent stem cells such as embryonic stem (ES) or induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells can divide indefinitely while retaining their potential to differentiate into many cell types in culture. The induction of mesoderm formation and hematopoietic differentiation was achieved either via embryoid body (EB) formation by culturing ES cell aggregation in suspension or by co-cultures with mouse stromal cell lines. Traditionally serum factors are also added for mesoderm induction and hematopoietic differentiation. Although hematopoietic progenitors are obtained from multiple lines of human ES cells, the low efficiency and high variability have hindered the progress of using human ES cells as a model for studying human hematopoiesis. Normally By day 12–14, we observed the outgrowth of blast cells (in hundreds to thousands) surrounding each EB (Panel A). By FACS analysis (Panel B), we observed nearly 50% of the total cells express CD45 at day 12, and many co-express CD34. The lymphocytelike cells can be easily separately from EBs by passing through a 40-micron strainer, and nearly all the isolated cells express CD45 (and 50–75% of them co-express CD34). We obtained 6 million CD45+ cells from 0.9 million human ES cells 14 days after EB formation. We also observed that the conditional HES1-ER transgene expression further increased the frequency of CD34+CD45+ cells as we observed under a different culture condition (Yu. Cell Stem Cells, 2008). The isolated CD45+ cells formed efficiently hematopoietic colonies in the methylcellulose medium with a frequency of ~58+/− 4 colonies per 3,000 cells, with or without the HES1-ER transgene. We are currently testing in vivo activities of isolated CD45+ cell populations (+/− HES1-ER) in the NOD/SCID/γC−/− mice. We are also testing if this improved and defined method would also be applicable to hematopoietic differentiation of human iPS cells we recently derived (Mali, Stem Cells, 2008). The significantly improved method using defined media in the absence of serum factors or feeder cells warrants further investigation whether it is better and more reproducible to elucidate mechanisms that regulate early human hematopoiesis, and to generate a large quantity of CD34+CD45+ human hematopoietic progenitor cells for various applications.


lhis monograph is a case study of a social project in the area of sport (Miratus School), in contemporary Brazil. Analyzes the history of the concept of Sport and contextualizes their changes in Brazil, through the construction of a new legislative framework and new institutional arrangements, which has encouraged management initiatives in the field of sports. Observe that the landmark of these changes is in the process of democratization in Brazil,
particularly with the enactment of the Federal Constitution of 1988, which definitively put the sport on the agenda of the Brazilian state responsibilities. Since 2003, the institution of the Ministry of Sport, this has reached great results and enabling the growth of some types in Brazil that previously had no space.
lhe Badminton Association Miratus has long benefited from this new direction for the sport in Brazil and not only in technical results, but also with great social impact.


Introduction: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved ibrutinib in February 2014 based on results from a pivotal phase 2 clinical trial that enrolled 85 patients with relapsed/refractory CLL. A subsequent phase 3 trial confirmed the superior progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) of ibrutinib compared to ofatumumab in 391 CLL patients. However, there is no information on the efficacy and safety of ibrutinib in CLL patients treated outside the context of clinical trials. Additionally, it is unclear if the reasons for discontinuation of ibrutinib differ in routine clinical practice from those described in patients treated on clinical trials. We conducted a retrospective study to evaluate these aspects in a large cohort of CLL patients treated with ibrutinib off-protocol.

Methods: After IRB approval, CLL patients seen at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, and treated with commercial ibrutinib from November 2013 through July 2015 were evaluated. The baseline characteristics, time to therapy discontinuation, reasons for discontinuation and survival following discontinuation were abstracted.

Results: One hundred thirty-five patients with CLL were treated during the study interval; 124 received ibrutinib for relapsed/refractory CLL and 11 received ibrutinib for treatment-naive CLL with TP53 disruption (either del17p on FISH or TP53 mutation).

Patients with relapsed/refractory CLL (n=124)

Patients were high-risk, with a median of 3 prior therapies (range, 1-15), 81% had unmutated IGHV , and 38% had either del11q or del17p on FISH testing. After a median follow-up of 6.4 months, 101 remain on ibrutinib therapy. The estimated proportion of patients continuing ibrutinib at 6 months was 84% (95% CI: 77-92%) and at 12 months was 70% (95% CI: 59-83%).

Of the 23 who discontinued ibrutinib therapy, 8 discontinued for progressive disease (2 progressive CLL; 6 Richter's transformation). The remaining 15 discontinued therapy for reasons other than progression, including: infection (n=3), bleeding (n=3), diarrhea (n=1), atrial fibrillation (n=1), rash (n=1), immune thrombocytopenia (n=1), renal dysfunction (n=1), severe edema (n=1), MDS (n=1) and physician preference (n=2). Table 1 shows the reasons for discontinuation of ibrutinib in patients treated on clinical trials (Maddocks, JAMA Oncology, 2015) compared to the current cohort of patients.

The estimated cumulative incidence of discontinuation of ibrutinib therapy due to CLL progression/Richter's transformation at 6 and 12 months was 9% (95% CI: 4-17%) and 12% (95% CI: 5-23%), respectively. The estimated cumulative incidence of ibrutinib discontinuation due to reasons other than progression at 6 and 12 months was 10% (95% CI: 5-17%) and 22% (12-34%), respectively (Figure).

The median survival after discontinuation of ibrutinib for patients who had CLL progression was 3.5 months, not reached in patients who developed Richter's transformation and not reached in those patients who discontinued ibrutinib due to reasons other than progression.

Patients with treatment-naive CLL (n=11)

All patients had evidence of TP53 disruption (9 had del17p, 3 had TP53 mutation, and 1 had both). After a median follow-up of 2.8 months, no patient has had progression of CLL, and 2 patients have discontinued ibrutinib therapy for reasons other than CLL progression (atrial fibrillation, n=2). The estimated proportion of patients continuing ibrutinib at 6-months was 71% (95% CI: 45-100%). All 11 are still alive, and no patient has undergone allogeneic stem cell transplantation.

Conclusion: This is the first study that describes the outcomes of a large cohort of CLL patients treated with ibrutinib outside the context of clinical trials. Patients treated in routine practice appear more likely to discontinue ibrutinib for reasons other than progression of disease, compared to those participating in clinical trials. Our results confirm the poor survival of CLL patients who progress on ibrutinib.

| Characteristic | Current Study (%) | Maddocks (JAMA Oncology 2015) (%) |
| --------------------------- | ----------------- | ----------------------------------------- | ------ |
| No. of patients | 124 | 308 |
| Median follow-up (months) | 6.4 | 20 |
| Reasons for Discontinuation |
| Progression of disease | CLL | 2 (2) | 13 (4) |
| Richter's transformation | 6 (5) | 15 (5) |
| Non-progression of disease | Infection | 3 (2) | 28 (9) |
| Other | 12 (10) | 17 (5) |

Table 1.
Comparative analysis of reasons for discontinuation of ibrutinib in patients with relapsed/refractory CLL:

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Disclosures Ding: Merek: Research Funding. Kay: Celgene: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Gilead: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Hospira: Research Funding; Genentech: Research Funding; Pharmacyclics: Research Funding; Tolero Pharm: Research Funding. Shanafelt: Cephalon: Research Funding; Celgene: Research Funding; Glaxo-Smith_Kline: Research Funding; Polyphenon E Int'l: Research Funding; Hospira: Research Funding; Janssen: Research Funding; Pharmactckucs: Research Funding; Genentech: Research Funding.

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The non-linear evolution of the subharmonic "mode C" instability behind rings of various aspect ratios is modelled by numerically evaluating coefficients of the Landau equation. The aspect ratio measures the ratio of the ring centreline diameter to the cross-section diameter. It is found that at small aspect ratios the mode C instability evolves through a supercritical (non-hysteretic) bifurcation, whereas at higher aspect ratios this behaviour changes to subcritical (hysteretic). This behaviour is rare: the well-known mode A and B instabilities, found in the wakes of various cylinders and rings, have been found to be consistently subcritical and supercritical, respectively. Thus the ring presents a convenient geometry to study the relationship between a wake and the non-linear characteristics of available instability modes.


1983 installation of the Cyper 205 (200 MFlop/s, 32 MByte main memory) at the University Karlsruhe. All vector systems at the University are operated by university staff and jointly used by University and Forschungszentrum 1987: VP 50 (138 MFlop/s, 64 MByte main memory) at Forschungszentrum 1988 VP400-EX (1.7 GFlop/s, 512 MByte main memory) at University 1990: IBM 3090-600/VF at Forschungszentrum (6x133 MFlop/s, 256 MByte shared memory, 512 MByte extended memory, never used for HPC!) 1990: S400/10 (2 GFlop/s, 512 MByte main memory) from Fujitsu/Siemens at University, upgrade 1991 on S600/20 (5 GFlops/s, 2 GByte main memory, 2 GByte extended memory) 1991: VP400-EX was moved from University to the Forschungszentrum 1994: Cray J916 (16x200 MFlop/s, 4 GByte shared memory) at Forschungszentrum 1996: VPP300 (16x2.2 GFlops,16 GByte distributed memory). As from now, all vector systems are operated by Forschungszentrum and used from both institutions. The "Virtual Computer Center Karlsruhe (VRZ)" was born. 2000: VP5000 (8x9.6 GFlop/s, 80 GByte distributed memory) 2004: NEC SX-5 (8x4 GFlop/s , 32 GByte shared memory, project system) 2006: NEC SX-8R (8x25 GFlop/s, 256 GByte shared memory), additional node in autumn 2007 2008: NEC SX-9 (16x102 GFlop/s, 1 TByte shared memory, location is University or Forschungszentrum, system will be operated by Forschungszentrum) •


A borehole pulse radar system has been developed as a part of the international Stripa project with the objective to identify and characterize fracture zones at considerable distances from the borehole. The radar uses very short pulses of electromagnetic energy, which are transmitted and received by dipole antennas inserted into the boreholes. The system uses center frequencies of 20-60 mHz corresponding to wavelengths of a few meters in rock. Reflection measurements have been used to identify fracture zones and determine their position and orientation. The zones often cause strong and well defined reflections originating from the resistivity change at the edges of the zones. The exact orientation of the zones can be determined by combining data from several boreholes. During measurements at Stripa reflections from fracture zones have been observed more than 100 m from the borehole. The borehole radar system has also been used in crosshole configurations to collect data suitable for tomographic analysis. A tomographic inversion, using either traveltime or amplitude data, will give information on the extent of fracture zones in the plane spanned by the boreholes as well as a quantitative estimate of the electrical properties of the zones. Reflections have also been registered in crosshole surveys and have been analysed together with single hole reflection data to describe the inhomogeneities in a large rock volume. Radar measurements have been performed at a number of sites and found to be a very efficient instrument for locating and characterizing fracture zones. For the covering abstract of the symposium see IRRD 810647. (Author/TRRL)


Tikuna Indians from Yahuarcaca (Leticia, Amazonas) face the social, economic and cultural transformations that are characteristic of globalization, although under their own logic of appropriation and differentiation. Despite the discourses and practices of sustainable development and multicultural recognition, the forms of articulation of the indigenous communities to the state and the market are subject to permanent negotiation through the many projects implemented in these communities. These projects may bring the desired development for these communities, but also they bring about associated problems, such as economic inequalities, institutional dependency, and generally, the loss of autonomy and identity. On the other hand, the discourse of ethnicity becomes a political tool to come to terms with or to negotiate their autonomy and dependency. These negotiations, rather than being discussed in a political way, as understood in Western cultures, are managed as specific practices "to keep our own". The struggle for autonomy thus swings between the managing of their own practices and the appropriation of foreign ones. The challenge is thus twofold: not only is it necessary that indigenous peoples adapt creatively to the current national and international situation, but also that members of national and international organizations adapt to the needs and characteristics of the indigenous cultural logic.


[Objective] The study was to explore the effect of castration and immunocastration on mRNA expression of ghrelin and functional ghrelin receptor 1a(GHSR-1a)in the reproductive axis of male pigs.[Method] 21 male pigs were randomly assigned to immunocastration group,group without castration and surgical castration group.Immunocastration group was firstly administered the immunocastration vaccine at 9-week-old,and boosted at 17-week-old.The castration group was surgically castrated within 7 days after birth;Group without castration received no treatment.All boars were slaughtered at week 25.To β-actin as an internal control genes,the hypothalamus,pituitary and testes were taken for analysing the relative gene expression of ghrelin and functional ghrelin receptor(GHSR-1a)mRNA by the real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR.[Result] The relative expression of ghrelin mRNA and GHSR-1a mRNA in hypothalamus had no difference among surgical castration boars,immunocastration boars and boars without castration(P0.05),the pituitary ghrelin mRNA in boars without castration was significantly lower than in surgically castrated pigs(P0.05);mRNA expression of GHSR-1a in the testes of immunocastrated pigs was markedly higher than in boars without castration(P0.05).[Conclusion] The results suggested that ghrelin mRNA and GHSR-1a mRNA existed in the reproductive axis of boars,surgical castration resulted in the increase of mRNA relative expression of ghrelin in pituitary,immunocastration resulted in the increase of mRNA relative expression of GHSR-1a in testis,which indicated that ghrelin may regulate the function of reproductive axis.


The efficacy and safety of posterior subthalamic area (PSA) and ventral intermediate nucleus (VIM) deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the treatment of essential tremor (ET) have not been compared in large‐scale studies. We conducted a secondary analysis to identify the superior target of ET‐DBS treatment.


The utility model belongs to the technical field of streetlamps and relates to a connecting device for a power supply of an LED streetlamp module. One side of a strip-shaped PCB panel is provided with a sectional steel inserting part; fireproof insulating paper is arranged between the sectional steel inserting part and the PCB panel; two ends of the PCB panel are provided with an electric wire fastener which can be fixed on the sectional steel inserting part by bolts; the electric wire fastener can clamp the electric wires and the data wires; the corresponding positions on the sectional steel inserting part and the fireproof insulating paper are provided with more than one installation hole for the electric wire connector; and the pins of the electric wire connector are fixed on the lead wire and data wire connecting points of the PCB panel. The connecting device has the advantages that the LED streetlamp assembled by the connecting device is convenient to assemble, disassemble and maintain and is quick to connect the circuit, the production cost is low and the standardized operation is convenient to carry out.


american indian quarterly/fall 2002/vol. 26, no. 4 623 Leslie Marmon Silko's second novel, Almanac of the Dead, attempts to overcome the limitations of the American Indian Movement by presenting readers with the model of "tribal internationalists," individuals who work with international alliances to reclaim their Indigenous land.1 In Almanac Silko suggests that cross-cultural spiritual coalitions made up of "tribal internationalists" would provide a more powerful means of combating the social, political, and economic injustice faced by American Indians (and many oppressed peoples around the world) than secular politics based on ethnicity and race alone. In a 1976 interview with Per Seyersted, given toward the end of the American Indian Movement's heyday, Silko critiques the secular organization for being "too similar to other American political groups." 2 Silko implies that although some positive changes resulted from the American Indian Movement, it failed to bring about the total amelioration of injustice because it mimicked the oversimplifications and divisions of secular identity politics. She states, "I feel it is more effective to write a story . . . than to rant and rave. I think it is more effective in reaching people." 3 For Silko novels and stories offer a more effective way to enact social change because they are capable of "reaching people" on a profound emotional level and connect them "through time—back to a time before this person was born." 4 Almanac attempts to succeed where the American Indian Movement failed by overcoming the divisiveness and limitations of secular politics with the expansiveness of coalition politics that connects individuals "through time" and space to each other, living and long dead. Silko sees this connection as one of the "spirit," connecting living readers to the spirits of dead ancestors and the spirits of the earth and natural world.5 Silko believes that these cross-national spiritual connections have the power to resist injustice in the Americas more effectively than secular political and nationalist movements. It is not surprising that this aspect of Silko's fiction has drawn powerful critiques from scholars. In Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays, Envisioning a "Network of Tribal Coalitions"


On the basis of the three ways summarised to achieve the maximum power, the paper queries the relevant questions in the book "Detailed Answers to the Practices and Questions in Linear and Nonlinear Circuits" written by U.S. Professors Cai Shaotang and GeShouren, points out their errors in principle as viewed from theory and mathematics and puts forward the author′s views on the subject.


In this paper we present how fake news spread in the current online social networks. We discuss how existing social network technologies such as influence maximization, information diffusion, and epidemiological models contributes to fake news creation and spreading. Solutions to reducing the creation and spreading of fake news are also reviewed. We make recommendations regarding future areas of research in this field.


Complexes of cupric ion with N,N′-bis(2-pyridylethyl)-oxamide, prepared from 2-(aminoethyl)pyridine and diethyloxalate, and pyridine derivatives have been synthesized and characterized by elementary analysis, i.r. spectra, u.v. spectra, magnetic susceptibility, and electric conductivity measurements. Existance of magnetic interaction between cupric ion could be recognized. Magnetic interaction may be affected by the pyridine derivatives.


This work investigated the effect of mechanical behavior of LM4 alloys with addition of soda glass as a inter metallic particulate reinforcement material. The experiment was conducted by adding varying grain size and weight percentage fractions of soda glass powder micro particles of 212g, 304, sieve size and 2%, 5% respectively to molten LM4 alloy via stir casting route. On solidification, the samples were machined and mechanical properties test such as hardness and ultimate shear strength were carried out. The results indicated that the developed method was quite successful to obtain uniform distribution of inter metallic particles as a reinforcement material in the matrix of the composite. The hardness and ultimate shear strength were found to increase as the percentage of glass powder reinforcement particles increased except for ductility that decreased with increase in the percentage of reinforcement particles. Meanwhile the hardness of the composite goes on increasing with the decrease in grain size. As finer the grain size harder will be the composite. Therefore microns, of glass powder particles were found to be good reinforcement material for LM4 alloy.


In wireless media streaming from multiple access points, handoff control ensures optimal connectivity as the wireless environment fluctuates, while rebuffering control seeks to maximize user experience by avoiding playout jitters and prolonged freeze times. A joint policy aims to capture the interactions between these controls, but requires a fluctuating wireless environment to be estimated frequently, a process which can interrupt packet retrieval in many mobile applications. In this paper we develop a model for maximizing user QoE by optimally scanning wireless channels while making handoff and rebuffering decisions. We design a control scheme that utilizes partial knowledge of the wireless environment to decide when to explore alternative connections, when to handover to them, and when to exploit an access point while employing channel-aware rebuffering control. We develop a model for the general case of multiple access points, then computationally evaluate the system in specific relevant cases. We find that the resulting optimal control takes the form of threshold-based policies, and that it compares favorably to the omniscient policy with full knowledge of all channel states. We also find that the optimal decision regions can be greatly simplified with only a small decrease in optimality.


This paper analyses the contrast between the Traditional Historical Novel and the New Historical Novel in the Colombian context of the second half of the XX century with reference to the representation of the national past and specifically referring to the estimation of the other as far as time and space in the past is concerned. I will argue that Colombian writers of the New Historical Novel mark the presence of the other, who is culturally different from the republican elite, the main subject, and thus these works become the cultural background of the Political Constitution of 1991 that recognizes the multicultural situation of the Colombian nation.


ARECENT study of 333 children living in an old, congested, low-income area of Baltimore, Md., showed that 44.4 percent of these children had abnormal blood lead values of 0.05 mg. percent and higher (1). The children were selected at random from those brought to the pediatric clinics of the University of Maryland Hospital for health supervision or for complaints other than those usually associated with lead poisoning. Since the history of pica (eating of nonfood material) was found in 69.6 percent of the children, the source of lead apparently was paint chewed from surfaces of wood or plaster or particles of paint swallowed after it had flaked from the surfaces. Samples of paint were collected from typical homes and the lead content determined. The lead content in each sample was in excess of the recommended 1 percent of the total weight of the contained solids (2). The majority of the children apparently swallowed paint from indoor surfaces. However, others may have eaten paint which had peeled from exterior walls. The interior of the home of one child with lead poisoning did not have toxic amounts of lead on its painted surfaces, but it was learned that the child sat on the stoop outside and ate particles .of paint fallen from the exterior walls. These contained toxic amounts of lead.


LEPROSY NEURITIS: DIAGNOSTIC DIFFICULTIES A 62-year-old white woman first consulted in this department in May 1983. She had noticed numbness of both hands 6 years earlier. Calf cramps and paresthesia in the hands and feet followed. She was seen by an orthopedic surgeon who attributed symptoms to "arthritis" and treated her with intermittent intraarticular and intramuscular injections of corticosteroids with partial relief of her symptoms. Three years later she became aware of diminished pain and temperature sensation in her hands and feet. Electrodiagnosis revealed a diffuse sensory peripheral neuropathy. She continued experiencing episodes of pain and swelling of her hands and feet which were treated with corticosteroids. On examination she had mild trophic changes in her hands with scars from old burns, but no other skin lesions were found. Muscle strength was normal, deep tendon reflexes were universally depressed, and ankle reflexes were absent. There was pain and temperature sensory loss in all four limbs, with a glove and stocking distribution. Joint position sense and vibration sense were normal. Nerve conduction findings are shown in Table 1 and confirm the presence of a sensory


The invention discloses a monitoring method and a monitoring system of nuclear power plant fuel element cladding failures. With prior arts, online continuous monitoring is not possible, or defects such as fuel element cladding failure shapes cannot be diagnosed accurately. With the method and the system, the technical problems are solved. The monitoring method comprises the following steps: S1, online monitoring is carried out, such that reactor core operation status data and radioactivity concentration data of a characteristic nuclide in a primary coolant are obtained; S2, N times of loop iteration calculations are carried out based on the reactor core operation status data, the radioactivity concentration data and cladding failure empirical data, such that an Nth set of actual diagnosis data of cladding failure is obtained; S3, when the convergence coefficient of the Nth set of actual diagnosis data and an (N-1)th set of actual diagnosis data obtained by the (N-1)th loop iteration calculation is smaller than or equal to a preset value, the (N-1)th set of actual diagnosis data is determined as a final monitoring diagnosis result. Therefore, online continuous monitoring and diagnosis of fuel element cladding failure existence, failure traits and fuel consumption area location are realized.


The results of modified drift-diffusion model have been compared with results obtained by Monte Carlo simulation. The modification of drift-diffusion model includes velocity overshoot value at the end of quasi-neutral base, and reduction of diffusion coefficient, introducing two fitting parameters. The obtained results show fairly good agreement with MC simulation results.


The well-known generalization of real to complex arithmetic (two reals) extends further to more obscure quaternion arithmetic (four reals), which has applications in signal processing, aerospace, graphics and virtual reality. Quaternion multiplication implements 3D rotation, but is expensive (usually 16 floating-point multiplications and 12 additions). This paper proposes an alternative quaternion representation using logarithms to reduce multiplication cost. The real Logarithmic Number System (LNS) allows fast and inexpensive multiplication and division in embedded and FPGA-based systems. Recent advances in the Complex LNS (CLNS) [5] have made fast log-polar complex representation affordable. Although the quaternion logarithm function is also well-defined, it is not useful to simplify multiplication (in the same way real and complex logarithms are) because quaternion multiplication is not commutative but quaternion addition is. To overcome this, we propose a novel Quaternion Complex (QCLNS) representation using a pair of CLNS numbers. This representation implements quaternion multiplication using only the theoretical minimum [11], [15] of 8 LNS multipliers (i.e., fixed-point adders) and two CLNS adders. Because CLNS numbers are more compact than ordinary rectangular complex representation, single-precision QCLNS occupies 10.9 percent less memory than conventional quaternion representation. Extrapolating conventional LNS and floating-point synthesis data from Fu et al. [12], QCLNS saves on average 10 percent of FPGA resources for precisions between 13 and 45 bits.


GULYAEV ANDREY ANATOLYEVICH Gulyaev Andrey Anatolyevich Phd in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Lecturer at "K.G. Razumovsky Moscow State University of technologies and management" Moscow, Russia. Research interests are information warfare, behavioral warfare, mass consciousness manipulation, political and sociological research. Author of more than 20 scientific publications. Contact details: e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com, +79588154877


Party Capability Theory hypothesizes that parties with greater resources, usually "repeat players," fare better in the judicial system and are better able to influence legal changes than "one shotters." The theory also points out that "parties who have lawyers do better." The theory has become most influential since its publication and has been tested by several studies. However, its importance has not been addressed in the accounting


OBJECTIVE To study the effect of MSE (mixture of Serenoa repens and Echinacea purpurea)on experimental prostatitis in rats.METHODS The prostatitis models induced by Dispel piles injection and by croton oil in rats were treated with MSE 30,60,120 mg·kg-1·d-1, ig for 21 and 14 d, respectively.RESULTS The weight of prostate and the proliferation degree of prostatitis were obviously decreased , compared with model group ( P 0.05). CONCLUSION MSE could obviously inhibit experimental prostatitis in rats.


1https://doi.org/10.2340/00015555-2948 Extramammary Paget's disease (EMPD) is a rare cuta neous adenocarcinoma that primarily affects the genital area in elderly patients. In general, the prognosis of EMPD in patients with carcinoma in situ is good. How ever, when EMPD becomes invasive, it has the potential to cause distant metastases after regional lymph node metastasis (1, 2). EMPD has non-specific visual features and is frequently misdiagnosed as other common skin diseases (e.g. eczema, psoriasis, and tinea). In such ca ses, inappropriate treatment may result in progression to advanced stages of the disease (3). Therefore, a cancer biomarker that properly reflects disease progression is required for early diagnosis of the disease. Serum carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is a widely used biomarker for various adenocarcinomas, especially for colorectal cancer (4–6). Serum CEA has been reported to be useful in the management of EMPD (7–9). How ever, the significance of serum CEA levels in patients with EMPD remains to be established. The present study retrospectively analysed 72 cases of EMPD at a Japanese institute for analysing the use of serum CEA levels in disease management.


Solar energy can be effectively used for drying, especially when the cost of fuel used for conventional dryers is high. The drying of refuse-derived fuel (RDF) is a complicated process involving mass and heat transfer and depends on external variables such as humidity, temperature, and air velocity as well as internal variables, e.g., material surface, physical structure, chemical composition, size, and shape. Herein, a solar tunnel dryer integrated with a flat-plate solar collector was designed and fabricated at the Faculty of Engineering, Suez Canal University, Egypt. The experiments were performed during July 2019. The weather characteristics as well as the variation in moisture content with time were recorded continually. The results indicated that the maximum efficiencies of the solar collector were 46.6%, 53.4%, and 40.0% on 2, 4, and 6 July, 2019, respectively. Moreover, on these days, the moisture content of RDF decreased from 35.6% to 9.6%, from 28.3% to 8.5%, and from 43.5% to 14.0%. The dryer efficiency varied over 14.1–29.5% depending on the drying air stream temperature. The maximum dryer efficiencies recorded were 23.8%, 29.5%, and 25.8% on 2, 4, and 6 July, 2019, respectively.


Excess molar enthalpies, HE, of binary mixtures of 1-octanol with ethylbenzene, ethyl benzoate, acetophenone, anisole, or methanol have been measured at 298.15 K under atmospheric pressure using an isothermal microcalorimeter. The experimental HE values are positive for all the binary mixtures over the entire range of compositions. The experimental data have been correlated with the modified Redlich−Kister polynomial equation. The results were qualitatively interpreted in terms of thermodynamic molecular interactions between the mixing components.


An object of the present invention increases the accuracy to the clock (clock) level of the frequency error of a central processing unit that an accuracy sensor and manipulate them by reliance on the performance of the higher sensor, rather than rely on the accuracy of the vertical adjustment to the user's visual visual an almost perfect adjustment as may be available within a short period of time. The present invention for achieving the above object is a sensor for detecting the print head locations for vertical adjustment within the printer system, and error detecting means for calculating the mechanical error of the detection portion is operated generated during printing, the mechanical errors adjustment will be characterized in that it comprises a printing means for printing. According to the invention the vertical position setting that of a conventional visual inspection of the accuracy and quality of the factor of the set can be improved in accordance with the determined by the accuracy of the stability and the clock signal of the sensor, the operation was a man by visual inspection printer system this therefore corrected by self-checking can increase productivity calibration is fast and mass production setting process out, allowing the printer to the user when the vertical printing conditions change during a long period of time saong click the settings command button, or you can always run to when the system starts the default it is made up by the automatic position adjustment convenient use.


ID:p0055 1970, an article by Th omas Cable, then twenty-eight years old, appeared in Th e Journal of English and Germanic Philology . 1 An elegant meditation on the interdependence of grammatical and metrical structures in Old English verse, this inaugural work not only marked a turning point in historical metrics; it also launched the career of a scholar whose infl uence would shape medieval prosodical studies for the next half-century. In that article, Cable attends equally to technical problems of daunting complexity in the description and modeling of Germanic meters and to the logical constraints that bind, inform, and empower scholarly inquiry. Th is balance of clarity on highly specialized topics and care for the integrity of discourse as a practical culture of exchange values would become a signature of Cable's intellectual style. In that fi rst publication, Cable gracefully combines probing analyses of Old English adverbial and subordinate clauses with observations on prosody in the manner of an entrelacement , and the eff ect, not least for its ease and buoyancy, continues to impress. As Cable cautions early in the article, when dual categories in a system interact, "it is necessary to examine both . . . at once"


The hyperbolic partial differential equations play a dominant role in many branches of science and engineering. Wave equation is a typical example of hyperbolic, which model problems such as vibrating string fixed at the both ends, longitudinal vibrations in a bar, propagation of sound waves, electromagnetic waves and so on. These equations have attracted much attention and solving the equations have been one of the interesting works for mathematicians. They also occur in the field of computational fluid dynamic (CFD). It is well known that Euler's equations of gas dynamic are hyperbolic partial differential equations. Consider the second order quasiliner partial differential equation.


A case of food poisoning possesses the characteristics of paroxysm and complexity. The number of victims, poisonous foodstuff or meal and responsible persons are the three components of basic facts. The objects of investigation and evidence collection include: victims, suspected poisonous foodstuff, the health status of the persons who didnt eat the food, the courses of production management and eating. Evidence plays an important role on the conclusion of investigation that food poisoning is defined or negated, but its existence is transient, so investigation and evidence collection should be done as soon as possible.


Abstract Interventional radiology (IR) training programs have undergone many changes in the recent past. These changes largely revolve around making programs more "clinical" in nature by requiring each program to have a formal consult service, outpatient clinics, and admitting privileges. Instituting these changes has been challenging, but the programs are up and running. As a testament to the success of these changes, IR has now become one of the very most competitive residencies to enter. This article provides insights into the process of change within the IR training paradigm, and describes the personal experience of one of the architects of the new training programs.


Over the years of practical use of absorption, various methods for calculating absorbers have been developed. Among others, the calculation of mass transfer processes was created based on the use of a so-called mass transfer coefficient β, showing how much mass of the target substance passes from the gas phase to the liquid one through a surface area unit per time unit. To determine β, empirical equations are used depending on their validity for a particular type of absorber and operating conditions given. However, these calculations are relatively complex and fail to be applicable to whatever absorber design used. The calculations of phase transitions using phase equilibrium constants do not depend on the design features of the equipment where mass transfer occurs. However, to date, the phase equilibrium theory has been applied to calculate the separation of a multicomponent mixture under no air condition; therefore, it could not be used to predict phase transitions when a gas-air mixture contacts a liquid absorber. Based on the theory of phase transitions, the authors developed a simplified method for predicting the degree of oil vapor recovery at absorption. The technique was successfully tested through calculating the efficiency of the jet absorption unit used to recover oil vapor. Also, the installation performance at absorbent replacement was simulated. The replacement of easily volatile oil used as a working fluid with oil of a lower saturated vapor pressure was shown to significantly increase the degree of hydrocarbon vapor recovery. The possibility of applying the technical solution is limited with the following conditions: low-volatile liquids used as absorbent cannot be highly viscous and have a high pour point; their quality should not deteriorate when absorbing oil vapor; the cost of replacing the working fluid should be reasonable.


The aim of our study was to assess the effect of polymorphic markers of the AGT T704C (M235T) rs699 and NOS3 G894T (Glu298Asp) rs1799983 SNPs on the risk of the development of treatment-resistant hypertension (TRH). Methods and Results: The study included 178 patients (mean age of 56.67±11.12 years) with AH Grades 1-3 (ESC/ESH, 2018), who were on outpatient treatment at the Republican Specialized Scientific and Practical Medical Center for Cardiology. Genomic DNA samples were isolated from the peripheral blood leukocytes by using the DiatomТМ DNA Prep 200 Kit (Isogen Laboratory LLC, Moscow, Russia) according to manufacturer`s protocol. A multiplex RT-PCR assay was used to detect the AGT T704C (M235T) rs699 SNP and NOS3 G894T (Glu298Asp) rs1799983 SNP. We studied the distribution of the AGT T704C (M235T) rs699 polymorphism in 61 Uzbek patients with TRH (cases) and 117 Uzbek patients with non-TRH (controls) (Group 1) and the distribution of the NOS3 G894T (Glu298Asp) rs1799983 polymorphism in 61 Uzbek patients with TRH (cases) and 115 Uzbek patients with non-TRH (controls) (Group 2). Our results indicate a significantly greater accumulation of the C allele and CC genotype of the AGT T704C (M235T) rs699 SNP among TRH patients than among patients with non-TRH. We found a significant association between the AGT T704C (M235T) rs699 SNP and the risk of TRH under the multiplicative genetic model (C vs. T : OR=1.85, 95% CI: 1.17-2.92, P=0.006), additive model (CC vs.TT vs. TC; OR=3.00, 95% CI: 1.56-5.75, P=0.009), and recessive model (CC vs. TC+TT; OR=3.00, 95% CI: 1.56-5.75, P=0.0008). For the NOS3 G894T (Glu298Asp) rs1799983 SNP, the multiplicative model showed a significant risk of TRH with the carriage of the T allele (OR=1.99, 95% CI: 1.20-3.28, P=0.007), and the additive model showed a significant risk of TRH with the carriage of the heterozygous GT genotype (OR=2.25, 95% CI: 1.17-4.33, P=0.01). At the same time, the carriage of the G allele (OR=0.5, 95% CI: 0.30-0.83, P=0.007) and GG genotype (OR=0.40, 95% CI: 0.21-0.76, P=0.01) may be protective against the development of TRH. Conclusion: Further genetic studies of TRH may help achieve better individual outcomes by optimizing drug therapy based on genetic variation.


Using cleaned, autoclaved wide mouthed universal bottles and instructed by demonstration on how to provide urine for the study, 20mls of clean early morning mid-stream catch urine samples were collected from 200 pupils in Keffi Town. With the assistance of their Teachers, pupils' basic epidemiological information was obtained through constructed questionnaires. The specimens were labelled, parked appropriately and taken to the laboratory for analysis. Using a reagent strip and the manufacturer's colour chart, the amount of blood in the urine was estimated. The sedimentation method was used and the sediment transferred onto clean grease free glass slide, and examined microscopically. Of the 200 samples (98 males and 102 females), 61(30.5%) were infected with Schistosoma haematobium, in which males had a prevalence of 15.0% compared to 15.5% among females. The statistical analysis revealed that there was no significant difference (P<0.05) in Schistosoma haematobium infection among males and females. The prevalence of Schistosoma haematobium infection among school children in relation to age showed that ages 11-13 years had the highest rate (40.98%). The statistical analysis also revealed a significant difference (P>0.05) in Schistosoma haematobium infection among the 4 schools in the study area. There was also a strong association between the prevalence of Schistosoma haematobium and haematuria among the pupils.


Dynamic monitoring the behavior of a program is widely used to discriminate between benign program and malware. It is usually based on the dynamic characteristics of a program, such as API call sequence or API call frequency to judge. The key innovation of this paper is to consider the full Native API sequence and use the support vector machine to detect the shellcode. We also use the Markov chain to extract and digitize Native API sequence features. Our experimental results show that the method proposed in this paper has high accuracy and low detection rate.


The utility model relates to a Class-B LXI multifunctional data collector which comprises a Class-B LXI interface module, a multifunctional data collector function module for achieving analogue collection, analogue quantity output and digital quantity input and output, and an LED (light-emitting diode) indicating module, wherein the multifunctional data collector function module comprises an FPGA (field programmable gate array) unit, a PCI interface, a memory and an input and output unit. According to the Class-B LXI multifunctional data collector, the technical problem that requirements on higher sampling precision and speed cannot be met due to single function, low scanning frequency and small onboard cache of the conventional data collector is solved. The Class-B LXI multifunctional data collector provided by the utility model has various functions such as analogue quantity collection, analogue quantity output, digital quantity input and output, the functions of a timing counter and a programmable function interface and the like.


This article has test researched on the BFRP constraint compression of the concrete short columns secondary stress axial compression , got C20, C25 reinforced concrete specimens of stress-strain curve test, studies show that strengthened specimens of strength and deformation of the increased significantly, and the degree of improve related with the size of initial stress. Through testing the processing and analysis of data, concludes that the calculation formula of peak stress and strain of the strengthening specimens under the secondary stress and can reflect the influence of different condition of initial stress .


A series of arguments about Nature and how to think, conceptualize, and/or politicize it have been advanced in recent years in an effort to deal with the pernicious socio-ecological condition the world is in. Dissecting the challenges posed by the mobilization of Nature is absolutely vital in a world in which socio-ecological dynamics pose real and disturbing challenges. The main points of argument I wish to unfold in this paper are as follows: 1) Nature and its more recent derivatives, like 'environment' or 'sustainability', are 'empty' signifiers; 2) There is no such thing as a singular Nature around which an environmental policy or an environmentally sensitive planning can be constructed and performed; 3) The obsession with a singular Nature that requires 'sustaining'is sustained by a particular 'quilting' of Nature that forecloses asking political questions about immediately and really possible alternative socio-natural arrangements; 4) The consensual mobilisation of such empty signifiers contributes to and re-enforces the forging of a post-political condition. I conclude with a call for a politicization of the environment, one that is predicated upon the recognition of the indeterminacy of nature, the constitutive split of the people, and the unconditional democratic demand of political equality.


Most of siamese network and correlation filter (CF) based trackers usually employ the context regression scheme to achieve appealing performance in both accuracy and efficiency. However, they are prone to drifting in challenging situations exhibiting occlusion, out-of-view and large-scale variations due to the lack of failure correction ability in these regressors. Particle filter based trackers can help to recover from tracking failures since several particles of high confidence about the target can be remained for the probability estimation of next frames, but need the large numbers of particles for each frame. In this paper, we propose a generic dynamic particle filter framework, which can reasonably control the number of particles in different scenarios, to improve the robustness of siamese and CF trackers by jointing the target classifier to relieve drifting. Our fundamental insight is that general scenarios are processed efficiently by the context regressor with few particles, while special scenarios are handled effectively by the target classifier with many particles. We propose a novel measure to determine whether to adopt the regressor and few particles to estimate target states with high measure scores, or increase the number of particles to prevent drifting with the proposed multi-template matching strategy in the classifier. In extensive experiments on eight large-scale benchmarks including OTB, UAV, TC128, VOT2017, VOT2019, LaSOT, TrackingNet and Got-10k, the proposed framework enables many basic siamese and CF trackers to operate at least over 24 frames per second and achieve superior tracking performance than themself, as well as the comparable accuracy with the state-of-the-art trackers. Furthermore, our framework is flexible and still has great potential for improvement and generalization.


This paper proposes a method for inferring a person's Zheng (evidence) status of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) using the semi-subjective training patterns which are acquired from the multi-sensors including CCD camera, and semi-subjectively labelled by TCM doctors (TCMDs). After confirming the overlapping of samples belonging to the Zheng class and its negative class based on the extracted eigen attributes, an matric called qoSSD for measuring the quality of semi-subjective training data (QoSSD) used in the binary classification is defined, which are varied with the different Zhengs and TCMDs. On the basis of qoSSD, the sufficiency and effectiveness of the training data for inferring the Zhengs is estimated. The experiment verifies the positive correlation between qoSSD and the quality of the inference. Further, it confirms that the influence of modality change of sensors on the quality of the inference can be analyzed by QoSSD.


The Insect Rearing Management (IRM) system was used to rear the black lyre leafroller, Cnephasia jactatana (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). The results obtained include life cycle development at various temperatures, application of "day-degrees" in manipulating the life cycle, and use of low temperature for storage of life stages. IRM is a valuable system for regulating production of different life stages as it produces insects of specified quality as required. IRM can be adapted for rearing facilities which handle multiple-species rearing.RésuméLe système de gestion d'élevage d'insectes a ete utilise pour l'élevage de l'enrouleuse de la lyre, noire Cnephasia jactatana (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Les résultats obtenus concernet le cycle de developpement a differentes temperatures, l'utilisation de degres-jours pour modifier le cycle de developpement, et l'emploi de basses temperatures pour le stockage d'insectes. Le systeme de gestion d'elevage d'insectes est un systeme de gestion approprie pour reguler la production de differents stades larvaires et pour obtenir des insectes d'une qualite specifique. Il peut etre egalement adopte pour l'elevage des especes multiples.


Prominent historians in the West, including some distinguished China specialists, often label traditional Chinese historiography as "Confucian historiography," which they consider a history written by officials for officials and a virtual moral tool to serve political purposes. In this judgment, as many Western historians claim, the Chinese knew nothing of objective historiography and historical consciousness. But, this judgment, it seems, is based on an ethnocentric prejudice without looking into the traditional Chinese historiography as a whole in any depth. This paper argues that most traditional Chinese historiographers, with a few exceptions, such as Ouyang Xiu and Zhu Xi, never wrote their history in the mold of Confucian morality, known as the "Annals style"(春秋筆法). Even the Annals style, while encouraging morality, still made an honest attempt to respect the principle of truthful record. Nor does it seem fair to denounce the officially commissioned historical writings, known as "standard history" (正史), as the means for passing moral judgments and, even worse, serving state propaganda. In fact, organized historical writing under the auspices of official historiography bureau began from Tang China (618-907), and the "standard histories" prior to Tang, including the works of Sima Qian, Ban Gu, and Chen Shou, were written by private hands with access to state records. The so-called "standard histories," twenty-four of them that do not necessarily follow dynastic order, actually represent better works in traditional Chinese historiography. The official historians, though employed by government, were not all dutifully bound to follow the state line. Quite a few of them showed remarkable courage in maintaining their intellectual integrity, and most of them upheld the principle of truth seeking. Moreover, the state for the sake of maintaining factual truthfulness and preventing political interference set the famous rule that even the emperor himself should not be allowed to read the contemporary events recorded by official historians. Even though not every emperor could be restrained, the tradition nonetheless had been cherished. Under these circumstances, private individuals who had little access, if any, to historical sources could produce only less accurate "coarse history" (野史). It is an undeniable fact that in traditional Chinese historiography official histories were normally better written than private histories. Still another Western misconception is that the traditional Chinese historians knew nothing more than collecting and compiling raw historical sources. As a matter of fact, the distinguished historiographer Liu Zhiji of the Tang had set the high standard for traditional Chinese historians: skills, erudition, and insight. Various interpretations and criticisms of historical events and personalities can be found in numerous monographic works; other than standard histories, which are mainly chronological and narrative with little authorial opinions. With all its shortcomings, traditional Chinese historiography gives due respect to historical truth and objectivity. Like their Western counterparts, however, they could not always meet the standards that they had set for themselves.


Objective To understand the reason of drug-return in pharmacy department of our hospital and take the effective preventive measures,in order to promote the hospital rational drug use,improve the pharmacy management level.Methods 580 copies of drug-return prescription were collected in pharmacy department of our hospital in August 2011.Basis on the pharmacy management regulations of medical institutions,the drug-return departments,drug-return reasons and drug-return species were analyzed statistically in this paper and put forward suggestions.Results Pediatric medicine of 124 copies was the most drug-return prescription department,accounted for 21.4%;neurology medicine department of 107 copies was followed,accounted for 18.4%;the largest amount of drug-return department was radiotherapy department,with 26 769.564 yuan,accounted for 28.9%;the key factor of the drug-return reasons was the physicians reason.Conclusion The hospital management should be strengthened,formulate strict system of drug-return,introduce rewards and punishment system,strengthen the communication among physicians,pharmacists and patients,strictly regulate the drug-return formalities,in order to avoid malpractice caused by drug-return,meanwhile,also should strengthen the consciousness of rational drug use,improve rational drug use level,perfect medical ethics education,thus effectively control drug-return.


The responses to the threats of the COVID-19 pandemic have been based on public health measures that prevent the spread of infection. After months of intense international research, the first vaccines against COVID-19 have already begun to be approved and administered. The first vaccine against COVID-19 was administered in Portugal, on December 27th, 2020, as it happened in all European counterparts. In addition to vaccines, the efficacy and safety of several medicines in the treatment of COVID-19 are still being studied, some of them already approved with other therapeutic indications. The need to generate information that guarantees the safety of the medicines under study, underlines the fundamental role of the pharmacovigilance system in every process. Finally, over time, both the use of tests and the use of medical devices associated with COVID-19 have also evolved very quickly. In testing, in addition to conventional PCR (polymerase chain reaction), rapid antibody and antigen tests have emerged. On the other hand, medical devices and personal protective equipment whose availability, in the first phase, was a serious problem, are now widely available, with emphasis on the greater national offer and technical improvements.


A substrate-coupling equivalent circuit can be derived for an arbitrary guard ring test structure by way of F-matrix computation. The derived netlist represents a unified impedance network among multiple sites on a chip surface and allows circuit simulation for evaluation of isolation effects provided by guard rings. Geometry dependency of guard ring effects attributes to layout patterns of a test structure, including such as area of a guard ring as well as location distance from the circuit to be isolated by the guard ring. In addition, structural dependency arises from vertical impurity concentrations such as p+ , n+, and deep n-well, which are generally available in a deep-submicron CMOS technology. The proposed simulation based prototyping technique of guard ring structures can include all these dependences and thus can be strongly helpful to establish isolation strategy against substrate coupling in a given technology, in an early stage of SoC developments


Strong demands for the protection of copyrights for high fidelity audio recordings as well as broadcasting signals via a network brought about a development of so‐called watermarking techniques. One of them is based on a phase modulation referred to in here as a phase rotation (PR). This method assumes a poor sensitivity of the auditory system to the phase changes in a signal and embeds a watermark in the recording by means of a filter with linear phase characteristics. However, the sensitivity of the auditory system to the phase rotation has not been studied in detail, especially for complex signals. In this paper we present a preliminary result of threshold measurements of the phase rotation applied to different types of signals. It appears that the thresholds for detecting the phase rotation, when expressed by means of a time group delay, depend on the type of the signal and the frequency region that the phase rotation is applied for. The detection of the phase rotation is approximately independent on ...


1general toxicologic hazards for SAR dogs responding to urban disasters were discussed. The purpose of the present article is to raise awareness of some of the specific common substances that may be found at urban disaster sites and their potential for short- and long-term health effects. Hydrocarbons The term hydrocarbon refers to any compound consisting of carbon and hydrogen. The most common classes of hydrocarbons include petroleum distillates (eg, diesel fuel and exhaust, gasoline, naphtha [lighter fluid, varnish, and dry-cleaning products], Stoddard solvents [dry-cleaning solvents, general cleaners and degreasers, paint thinners, photocopier toners, printing inks, and adhesives], mineral spirits, mineral seal oil [furniture polish], kerosene, jet fuel, fuel oil, lubricating oils, petroleum jelly, paraffin wax, and asphalt), aliphatic hydrocarbons (1,3-butadiene, butane, ethane, hexane, methane, and propane), aromatic hydrocarbons (benzene, toluene, and xylene), terpenes (turpentine and pine oil), chlorinated hydrocarbons (carbon tetrachloride, chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides, chloroform, methyl chloride, methylene chloride, tetrachloroethylene, trichloroethane, vinyl chloride, and trichloroethylene), and others (automatic transmission fluid, coal pitch, cutting fluids, dielectric fluids, liquefied hydrocarbon gas, naphthalene, machining fluids, pressurized paints, thermoplastic road paint, and waste oils). 2


Power-maximizing control of wave energy converters (WECs) can be implemented within a receding-horizon (RH) framework, whereby the reference force or velocity trajectory is updated in real-time by a feed-forward control (FFC) algorithm. For the computation of optimal WEC trajectories and control forces, Fourier pseudo-spectral (PS) control, using periodic basis functions, is simple and computationally attractive, for both linear and non-linear WEC dynamics. However, the finite-length wave excitation signal, as seen by the FFC, is in general non-periodic. In this paper, it is shown that, despite the non-periodicity of the input wave signal, a simple Fourier PS method can be successfully used as an FFC algorithm, by applying suitable windowing functions to the input signal when necessary. Furthermore, a simple wave forecasting algorithm is introduced, solely based on past values of the wave excitation, and the impact of wave forecast errors on the controller performance is investigated. Overall, with or without forecast errors, the proposed approach allows for power absorption above 99% of the optimum, for a forecasting horizon of less than 30 s for a linear WEC model, and less than 15 s for a non-linear WEC model including a quadratic viscous drag term.


A concise, four-step, asymmetric synthesis of a β-lactam-based cholesterol absorption inhibitor, Sch 57939, was developed. The discovery of a one-step enantio- and diastereoselective synthesis of a trans-β-lactam provided easy access to the desired three chiral centers. A novel zinc phenoxide-promoted ether synthesis was reported for the completion of the side chain.


Hypersensitivity to rubber is usually reported as contact dermatitis due to substances used in its processing; however, recent reports in patients attribute IgE mediated reactions specifically to latex and not to chemical additives. These patients were first seen with contact urticaria, but tissue contact with both medical and non-medical latex rubber may also precipitate anaphylactic reactions mediated by IgE.1"3 We describe a case of immediate hypersensitivity to natural latex in a nurse working in a dialysis unit.


An efficient strategy to design and synthesize a low dielectric material at a high frequency of 5 GHz derived from renewable resveratrol.


This paper describes the implementation of long wave radiation (LWR) exchange as part of a co-simulation process of an urban scale simulation program, CitySim, and a building scale program, EnergyPlus. This coupling process was achieved through the use of functional mockup units (FMU) to exchange various weather, load, and environmental information between the two simulation engines. LWR is an important factor to exchange between the programs as CitySim has more advanced capabilities for radiation exchange calculations from a set of urban buildings and EnergyPlus has a more advanced building heating and cooling load calculation engine. The LWR exchange between surfaces is computed in CitySim by a linearization of the longwave energy balance at each surface around an average between the surface and its environmental temperatures. The environmental temperature for each surface is determined using the simplied radiation algorithm neglecting inter-reections and is aggregated into a single, global environmental radiant temperature (Tenv). The LWR exchange process is implemented in EnergyPlus by CitySim sharing the variables Tenv and henv that are then used to calculate radiation gain or loss through the envelope as well as inuence on the conductances of the surfaces. This approach overrides the conventional EnergyPlus ground, sky and air radiation calculations. Solo and coupled simulations are performed on a set of four scenarios and result in up to a 36% discrepancy in heating and 11% in cooling load calculations amongst solo and coupled simulations.


Research indicates that dispositional mindfulness is associated with positive psychological functioning. Although this disposition has been linked with beneficial outcomes in the broader mental health literature, less is known about dispositional mindfulness in cancer survivors and how it may be linked with indices of psychological and physical health relevant to cancer survivorship.


The first time the acreage of this crop was included in the Annual Fruit and Vegetable Report of the Florida Marketing Bureau was in 1947-48 when 6,000 acres was reported. The report in 1957-58 gives an acreage of 39,400 acres. In addition to this substantial increase in acreage, yields per #cre were also increased from 4,000 to 7,100 pounds per acre. The in troduction of the phosphatic insecticides in the late 1940's supplemented the improved insect control program making it possible to control a variety of pests not effectively eliminated by the chlorinated hydrocarbon materials. Since the introduction of DDT and parathion, many additional materials have been tested to evalu ate their effectiveness in controlling vegetable insects. Results of tests during the past three years show effective control of several vege table insects with Sevin. This material repre sents still another group of chemicals, the carbamates, and results to date suggest the jDossibility that these may become as important in the vegetable insect control program as are the other two groups. Sevin (1-napthyl Nmethyl-carbamate) has shown broad insecticidal properties on the basis of results obtained in recent tests.


There is not a part of natural history more curious, or perhaps to a navigator more useful, than an enquiry into the formation of islands. The origin of islands, in general, is not the point to be discussed; but of low, flat, islands in the wide ocean; such as are most of those hitherto discovered in the vast South-sea.


1. Examination of the Blood and Bone Marrow. 2. Comparative Hematology of Common Domestic Animals. 3. Comparative Hematologic Features of Some Avian and Mammalian Species. 4. Hematopoiesis. 5. Coagulation and Its Disorders. 6. The Platelets. 7. Erythrocyte Physiology and Changes in Disease. 8. Evaluation of Anemias and Polycythemias. 9. Blood Loss or Hemorrhagic Anemias. 10. Hemolytic Anemias Associated with Some Infectious Agents. 11. Hemolytic Anemias of Noninfectious Origin. 12. Depression or Hypoproliferative Anemias. 13. The Neutrophils. 14. The Eosinophils. 15. The Basophils and Mast Cells. 16. The Monocytes and Macrophages. 17. The Lymphocytes and Plasma Cells. 18. Interpretation of Leukocyte Parameters. 19. The Leukemias: General Aspects. 20. The Leukemias in Common Domestic Animals. 21. The Plasma Proteins, Dysproteinemias, and Immune Deficiency Disorders. 22. Immunohematology. Index.


The large plaque shown on PI. X I X is of schist with traces of glaze now turned brown, and measures 105 mm. in length, 73 in breadth and 20 in thickness. It has a broad groove round the edge between the faces, and is bored through on its long axis as if it were modelled from a smaller plaque made to wear. It was bought at Luxor at the end of the war, but there is no indication of its place of origin. The carving and treatment of the bull on the one face and the gazelle on tho °ther, show grace and sympathy with animal life. The subject in a, a lion pulling down an animal, is to be found similarly treated among the hunting scenes of the Eleventh and Twelfth Dynasties at Beni Hasan where, however, the victim is a bubale in one case and an ibex in the other two, while on the plaque it is a bull with long horns, suggesting the domesti cated animal although its slender build would fit the wild cattle of the Egyptian monuments. But the great crested bird harrying the gazelle is strange indeed. The mo tive is reminiscent of the symbol of the Assyrian god Enurta, the eagle (often lion-headed) with outstretched wings, which grips a lion or a deer in each of its talons. Upon seals there are instances of the Assyrian eagle showing a treatment of the wings as on the plaque, and in one case, where he is grasping lion-headed snakes instead of the usual deer or lions (Fig. l ) s , he closely resembles that on the plaque in wings, tail and crest. The type of the crested eagle, if mainly fanciful on this gigantic scale, may be connected with such tropical eagles as the Spizaetus and the African Lophoaetua which may have had a range different from their present one in ancient times. It may also


Aim at the characteristics of university teaching and freshman in medical college, transposition teaching method was applied adequately in classroom teaching of medical inorganic chemistry.Students could participate fully in teaching by transposition in mentality, teaching form and teaching means. Moreover, teaching and learning could be promoted mutually and teaching effect was improved.

Key words:
Transposition teaching method;  Inorganic chemistry;  Application


Tracial state spaces of higher stable rank simple C∗-algebras Fernando de Lacerda Mortari Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Mathematics University of Toronto 2009 Ten years ago, J. Villadsen constructed the first examples of simple C∗-algebras with stable rank other than one or infinity. Villadsen's examples all had a unique tracial state. It is natural to ask whether examples can be found of simple C∗-algebras with higher stable rank and more than one tracial state; by building on Villadsen's construction, we describe such examples that admit arbitrary tracial state spaces.