1. The rates of eating silages and hay throughout a meal were recorded in eight cows consecutively using a special manger and an automatic recording apparatus. At each meal the rate of eating was highest in the first five or ten minutes and then fell gradually. These characteristics were observed both on silages and on hay and for all the experimental cows. The mean rates of eating hay, but not of silages, agreed with previous reports. 2. The highest rate of eating was slightly faster at the evening meal than at the morning meal, when cows received equal amounts of feeds twice each day. The rate of eating declined at much the same rate throughout each meal when the cows received from 2 to 5 meals daily. 3. When the cows were fed twice daily, the rate of eating throughout a meal was not affected by changing the interval between meals from 12 hr to 6 hr. 4. When cows were given large amounts of feed at any one time, three stages of rate of eating, fast, decreasing and slow, were recognized. 5. The quality of feed, individuality of cow and pregnancy evidently affected the rate of eating throughout a meal.


We study anisotropic universal quadratic forms over semi-global fields; i.e., over one-variable function fields over complete discretely valued fields. In particular, given a semi-global field $F$, we compute both the $m$-invariant of $F$ and the set of dimensions of anisotropic universal quadratic forms over $F$. We also define the strong $m$-invariant of a field $k$ and show that it behaves analogously to the strong $u$-invariant of $k$, defined by Harbater, Hartmann, and Krashen. Our main tool in this study is the local-global principle for isotropy of quadratic forms over a semi-global field with respect to particular sets of overfields.


Methods to check the status ofthe human body by AMI or neurometer measurements based on the idea ofa Ryodoraku diagriosis have been proposed, and they contribute greatly to examinations or treatments of the body. These methods measure the electrical conductivity of acupuncture points on the hands and feet, but no attention has been given to the circadian and seasonal variation ofthe measured values. In this study, we measured the electrical potential ofthe middle ofthe left palm (around the Laogong acupuncture point), and from the magnitude ofthe seasonal variation of the values, we considered the variation factors. As a result, we identified a characteristic seasonal variation of electrical potential that could not be explained by the variation of temperature and pressure onlM and we considered that another factor than temperature and pressure may be present, .


Summary Improper integrals in the depolarization dyadic for the ellipsoidal-shaped inclusion embedded in an environment medium are considered and a method for obtaining their values in the lossless limit is suggested. The last is used to investigate the depolarization dyadics for a gyrotropic environment. Some key properties of mixtures with gyrotropic background are outlined.


A water-base paint used to prevent car from being damaged by stone strike is prepared from base material of soapless emulsion and water-dispersed asphalt (40-70%), inorganic filler (48-25%), elastic filler (10-2%) and aid (2-3%), and features no poison and harm, no burn and explosion no environmental pollution, high strength, proper elasticity, resisting acid, alkali and water, and true damping action.


The invention specifically relates to a synthetic method for a precursor of an anthraquinone reactive disperse dye used in supercritical CO2, which belongs to the technical field of dyes. According to the method, 1-chloroanthraquinone and 2,5-diaminotoluene sulfate are used as raw materials, K2CO3 is used as an acid-binding agent, and CuI is used as a reaction catalyst, a heating reflux reaction is carried out at 80 to 140 DEG C for 6 to 14 h under the protection of nitrogen; and after completion of the reaction, post-treatment is carried out so as to obtain solid powder of the dye precursor. The method has the advantages of a low usage amount of the catalyst, mild reaction conditions, high yield and low cost, and the obtained precursor has good applicability; and the method is applicable to synthesis of the anthraquinone reactive disperse dye used in supercritical CO2 and to synthesis of reactive disperse dyes used in conventional water-bath dyeing.


Objective: Curcumin (diferuloylmethane) is a phytochemical with potent anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties, and has therapeutic potential for the treatment of a range of inflammatory diseases, including osteoarthritis (OA). The aim of this study was to determine whether non-toxic concentrations of curcumin can reduce interleukin-1beta (


In this paper, we research on the modern Internet of things system structure optimization methodology based on the information theory and the communication signal transmission model. We analyze the current IOT system from the following aspects. (1) Reliable delivery, that is, through some of the Internet and telecommunication network integration, it will send some information about the object accurately in real time; For the Internet of things, it is an integrated which is by a variety of network and the access and application technology of an integrated, at the same time it is also a can make the objects and people, nature and people as well as a platform for communication between objects and the objects. (2) The comprehensive perception which is to use some of the perception, capture and real-time measurement technology to information acquisition and access to an object with the sensing device can achieve data readout and data sent and no contact some automated to realize long-distance induction. (3) Intelligent processing, is one of the core content of the Internet of things, is to use some intelligent computing some analysis was carried out on large amount of information and data disposal, the Internet of things is able to intelligently control object by the computer network technology, micro processing technology, wireless communication technology and sensor technology product of development of fusion, therefore the Internet of things can be representative even instead of rational analysis. Through combining the information theory and the efficient signal transmission models, we optimize the current IOT architecture and the final experiment result indicates the feasibility of the proposed methodology.


Subjects: A 20-year-old woman, known to have cerebral palsy and a spastic hemiparesis, suffered from frequent (up to 20 times a day) and painful posterior dislocation of the affected shoulder. Interventions: For the last two years we have treated her with injections with botulinum toxin A (100 U Botox®) in the M. subscapularis. Results: Pain and dislocation rate have improved substantially.


We introduce a relative version of Balmer's tensor triangular geometry by considering the action of a tensor triangulated category on another triangulated category. Several of Balmer's results are extended to this relative setting giving rise to, among other things, a theory of supports for objects of a category upon which a tensor triangulated category acts. In the case that a rigidly-compactly generated tensor triangulated category acts on a compactly generated category we describe a version of the local-toglobal principle of Benson, Iyengar, and Krause, and a relative version of the telescope conjecture. We prove the local-to-global principle holds quite generally which is new even in the case that a tensor triangulated category acts on itself as in Balmer's theory. We are also able to give sufficient conditions for the relative telescope conjecture to hold. As an application we study the stable injective category of a noetherian separated scheme X, as introduced by Krause, in terms of an action of the derived category D(X). We give a complete classification of the localizing subcategories of this category in the case that X is the spectrum of a hypersurface ring and prove that the telescope conjecture holds. Our methods allow us to extend these results, suitably modified, to certain complete intersection schemes of arbitrary codimension.


The invention relates to a three-phase smart electricity meter alternating voltage impulse voltage test tool, which is characterized in that a plurality of positioning clamp plates are uniformly distributed on a base seat; a working station is formed between every two ,two adjacent positioning clamp plates; a pressing plate is sleeved on a plurality of guideposts of the base seat; a pressing plate pressing mechanism is arranged; a plurality of groups of probes are fixedly arranged on the lower part of the pressing plate; one group of probes corresponds to terminals of an ammeter to be tested; and each group of probes is formed by ten main probes and fifteen auxiliary probes. The ten main probes in each group of probes are respectively connected with high-end jacks on the base seat through wires and switches; the fifteen auxiliary probes in each group of probes are respectively connected with low-end jacks on the base seat through wires and switches; and the high-end jacks and the low-end jacks are respectively connected with an output end and a ground terminal of a withstand voltage tester. According to the tool, artificial connection in test is avoided, a plurality of meters are used for testing simultaneously, and the tool has the characteristics of high test working efficiency and high test accuracy.


We study the bifurcations and sliding mode control of chaotic vibrations in an autonomous system. More precisely, a Hopf bifurcation controller is designed so as to control the unstable subcritical Hopf bifurcation to the stable supercritical Hopf bifurcation. Research result shows that the control method can work very well in Hopf bifurcation control. Besides, we controlled the system to any fixed point and any periodic orbit to eliminate the chaotic vibration by means of sliding mode method. And the numerical simulations were presented to confirm the effectiveness of the controller.


One of the results of the policies pursued by the Japanese colonial administration in Korea after 1910 was the migration of large numbers of Koreans to Japan. Hostility and prejudice toward these immigrants were fostered not only by the willingness of Korean workers to accept working and living conditions far below those which their Japanese counterparts would tolerate, but also by the association of Koreans with radical ideologies. This hostility was given its fullest expression immediately after the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923 when large numbers of Koreans were put to death by members of the army, police, and local 'vigilance associations'. An attempt is made here not only to describe the events which followed the earthquake, but also to show how these were an inevitable consequence of Japanese colonial rule.


Abstract Students frequently make errors when learning, but generating errors can enhance subsequent learning from corrective feedback (i.e. the testing effect). There have also been cases in which errors generated by someone can be shared with others. Notably, it has been found that listening to errors provided by someone could hinder the other's subsequent learning from corrective feedback. In this study, we investigated whether the learning of someone who knows the correct answers beforehand is impaired by perceiving another's error (i.e. retroactive interference). Thus, two experiments were conducted: a simulated question-and-answer situation (Experiment 1) and a mutual question-and-answer situation in which 2 students quizzed one another (Experiment 2). The results showed that the cued-recall performance of the tester who had received incorrect answers a week prior was not different from that in the case of learning with only reading (control condition), showing no negative effects. Furthermore, the memory performance of participants who took a test was better than the control condition, demonstrating the testing effect. We, thereby, discuss the efficacy of the reciprocal testing procedure as a learning method.


Altkirchliche Apologeten. Edited by Gerhard Ruhbach. (Texte zur Kirchenund Theologiegeschichte, i). Pp. 62. Giitersloh: Gerd Mohn, 1966. DM. 8.80. The first volume of this new critical edition of texts, under the general editorship of Gerhard Ruhbach, with the collaboration of Gustav Adolf Benrath, Heinz Scheible and Kurt-Victor Siege, will be most valuable for students and for seminars. The texts printed here are the Quadratus Fragment, from Eduard Schwartz's edition of Eusebius (H.E., rv. iii. 2); the Apology of Aristides from Geffcken's Teubner edition of 1907, parts derived from the Syriac being translated into German; and the fragments of Melito of Sardis and the Supplicatio of Athenagoras from E. J. Goodspeed (Die dltesten Apologeten, Gottingen 1914). There is a short introduction and a bibliography which lists not only editions, translations and secondary works, but also relevant articles in learned journals. It is strange that Tatian and Theophilus are omitted—to say nothing of Justin Martyr.


The assembly studies of high-nuclear clusters have received much interest in recent years due to their targeted synthesis for some special usages. A Schiff base ligand of 2-[N-(2-hydroxynaphthylidene)amino]-2-(hydroxymethyl)propane-1,3-diol (H4L) was...


This study aims to identify the challenges experienced by prison psychological officer around Klang Valley. This study involved six informants who are one female and five males. This research used a qualitative method involving in-depth interviews by using semi-structured questions to obtain data for this study. Through the thematic analysis from the transcriptions by informants, it shows that there are six main obstacles faced by the officers such as the absence of supervisor as a mentor to guide them, lack of counselling facilities, confidentiality issues, client-counsellor relationships, workloads and also client background diversity. There were some limitations to this study. This study recommends that the service of counselling and psychology in prison should be empowered to ensure the prisoners will be reintegrated in society successfully.


The invention provides a flow management device and a method for saving a cache resource. The flow management method comprises the following steps of: setting a read command cache; sending read commands to the cache; reading the read commands according to a first-in first-out sequence, reading data according to the read commands to a queue to which a storing outbound line side module sends the data; judging whether the read command stored by the cache reaches a preset threshold value; and stopping sending the read command if the preset threshold value is reached, and continuously reading the read command in the cache according to the first-in first-out sequence. The flow management device and the method reduce cache usage in a flow management system.


One important factor that causes the shortage of practical teaching materials currently is that we are not clear about the composing factors and requests of the teaching materials..The article,analyzing the composing elements of teaching materials,thinks the elements of teaching materials for engineering course training include equipments and device,operating steps,technical ability and assessing contents,etc by taking for example the common practical teaching form in high vocational education-engineering course training and applying arts practical training.The main factors of the case type of practical teaching materials include:case knowledge,the operation process,operation environment,practice and assessing mode,etc.Meanwhile some specific requirements of how to organize these main factors are put forward here.


We reproduce Hilbert's axiomatic formalisation of Number Theory, and argue that his enunciation of the Law of the Excluded Middle is inconsistent with a Turing-verifiable model of the axioms under the standard interpretation.


Background: An increased risk of secondary myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia (sMDS/AML) with a cumulative incidence of 4 to 18% has been described in adult patients with malignant lymphoma who undergo high-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). Although a high-dose VP-16 regimen has been reported to have greater stem cell mobilization potential than a high-dose cyclophosphamide regimen, this regimen was identified as a potential risk factor for sMDS/AML in several studies. Thus, this multi-center retrospective analysis of ASCT recipients with malignant lymphoma was performed to assess the safety of high-dose VP-16 as a stem cell mobilization regimen.

Patients and methods: This study analyzed 153 adult patients who underwent ASCT against malignant lymphoma at four institutions in Gunma, Japan between 1997 and 2012. Patients with progressive disease were excluded. There was no restriction on the type of pathological diagnosis and conditioning regimens. The high-dose VP-16 regimen consisted of 350 mg/m2 of VP-16 (days 1 to 4) and 16 mg/body of dexamethasone (days 1 to 4). Overall survival (OS) was defined as the interval from the date of transplant to the date of death. Fisher's exact test was used to compare binary variables. Cumulative incidences (CIs) of sMDS/AML were compared using the stratified Gray test, considering death without the event as a competing risk. The Fine-Gray proportional hazard model was used for multivariate analysis of risk factors for sMDS/AML. The potential risk factors evaluated in this analysis were age at transplant, sex, pathological diagnosis, prior malignancy, conditioning regimens (LEED or not), number of chemotherapy regimens before ASCT, prior radiation therapy, disease status, and cyclophosphamide equivalent dose (CED). Values of p < 0.05 were considered significant.

Results: Of the 153 patients assessed in this study, 93 were male and 60 were female, and the median age was 56 years (range: 18 to 68 years). Underlying diseases were diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (including IVLBCL) in 87 patients, follicular lymphoma in 8, other B-cell lymphoma in 24, Hodgkin lymphoma in 16, and T-NK-cell lymphoma in 18, and 81 patients were conditioned with LEED regimens. Disease status at the time of transplant was first complete remission (CR) in 77, advanced CR in 34, and partial remission in 42. The high-dose VP-16 regimen was used to mobilize stem cells in 85 patients. Of the 68 patients not using the high-dose VP-16 regimen, stem cells were mobilized with (R-)CHOP in 17, CHASE(-R) in 28, and others in 23. There were no significant differences in patient characteristics, disease features, and transplant procedures between patients with and without the high-dose VP-16 regimen. With a median observation time of 55.2 months, eight patients developed sMDS/AML, and the 5-year cumulative incidence of sMDS/AML was 3.5%. Type of sMDS/AML was MDS in six, chronic myelomonocytic leukemia in one, and AML in one, and median duration from ASCT was 52.9 months (range: 31.2 to 104.4 months). On univariate analysis, only age over 50 years was identified as a significant risk factor for sMDS/AML (5-year CIs in age under and over 50 years: 0.0% vs. 5.3%, respectively; p = 0.043), but not stem cell mobilization with the high-dose VP-16 regimen (5-year CIs with and without high-dose VP-16 regimen: 1.5% vs. 6.6%, respectively; p = 0.528). On multivariate analysis, age, using high-dose VP-16, and CED were evaluated. Age over 50 years (hazard ratio [HR] = 44140; p < 0.001) was identified as an independent risk factor for sMDS/AML, but not the high-dose VP-16 regimen (HR = 0.58; p = 0.432). The 5-year OS rates were not significantly different between patients with and without the high-dose VP-16 regimen (56% vs. 54%, respectively; p = 0.845).

Conclusion: These results suggest that stem cell mobilization with a high-dose VP-16 regimen was not associated with an increased risk of sMDS/AML and did not affect the long-term survival rate in adult patients who underwent ASCT against malignant lymphoma. Therefore, considering this regimen's greater potential to mobilize stem cells, a high-dose VP-16 regimen is considered a preferable stem cell mobilization regimen in these patients.

Disclosures Matsumoto: Janssen Pharmaceutical: Honoraria; Celgene: Honoraria.


The invention relates to a novel composite intelligent energy-saving film which comprises a first substrate device, a second substrate device and an ion transmission layer, wherein the first substrate device and the second substrate device are connected through the ion transmission layer; the first substrate device comprises a first substrate, a first conductive layer arranged on the first substrate, and a first core-shell structure arranged on the first conductive layer; the first core-shell structure comprises a first heat color layer and an electric color layer wrapping the first heat color layer; the second substrate device comprises a second substrate, a second conductive layer arranged on the second substrate and a second core-shell structure arranged on the second conductive layer; the second core-shell structure comprises a second heat color layer and an ion storage layer wrapping the second heat color layer. While the porous structure characteristics and the conductive characteristics of heat color material are adopted to improve the color variation efficiency and the stability of an electric color material, and the light regulating properties of the heat color material and the electric color material are brought into play sufficiently, so that infrared rays can be adjusted to the maximum extent while indoor illumination can be met by virtue of sunshine, and the purpose of intelligent thermal insulation can be met.


The basic feature of the fair use doctrine in the Chinese Copyright Act, which traditionally follows continental European law, is "Open Rights, Closed Exemptions." Although the legislative model of the fair use doctrine under the Chinese Copyright Act follows continental European law, it is realized that according to any systematic, comprehensive account of Chinese fair use case law, the doctrine in China also has a profound theoretical foundation on the U.S legislative model. Thus, in some cases, an unauthorized use of copyrighted works not listed in the Act has not been interpreted as an infringement if the heart of the fair use doctrine remains essentially untouched. A feature of the fair use doctrine under Chinese copyright case law is "open exemptions," but not "closed exemptions." This article explores the possibility of reforming fair use through the recognition of Chinese judicial opinions.


More than twenty years ago the pioneering paper by Lars Peter Hansen (1982) on the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimation has explicitly formalized idea of many predecessors1. At those days the robust statistics had already nearly twenty years long history, nevertheless the problem of identifying regression model from extensively contaminated data (i. e. containing possibly almost50% of contamination) still waited for solution. Nowadays, the problem is solved not only on the theoretical level (see e. g. Siegel (1982), Rousseeuw (1983), (1984), Hampel et al. (1986) or Rousseeuw, Leroy (1987)) but also the algorithms, reliably and quickly evaluating the estimates, are implemented (not always in a very user-friendly form but nevertheless implemented, Vı́̌sek (1996), (2000 b), Boček, Lachout (1993), Maš́ıček (2004 a)). Nonetheless, the robust statistics haven't yet profited from GMM approach2, although the hundreds (if not thousands) of econometric papers on GMM estimation having been written, and, vice versa, econometricis regrettably ignored the fact that one "properly" damaged observation may (completely) destroy the identification of (regression) model3. That is why the present proposal is intended as a decent attempt for "improving" the situation. Nearly inevitable consequence will be that the next text will appear trivial from the both points of view, the statistical as well as econometric one. Of course, the part explaining ideas of the GMM estimation is for econometricians simple, and the part discussing reasonability of safeguarding ourselves against data contamination is trivial for people from robust statistics. The explanation of present state will be divided into several parts to reach clarity and lucidity. We shall start, in the second part, with the story of GMM estimation attempting to explain that this approach offers (at least but in fact much more than only) a unified point of view on estimation of the regression model under various situations. The third part recalls the Cragg's result and shows that it can be interpreted as GMM estimation. The fourth part explains why the Least Weighted Squares may be given the preference before the other (possibly highly) robust methods, recalling the points of a new paradigm of point estimation. In the next part we propose to merge both approaches in order to achieve a method being able to cope with contamination of data as well as with the presence of atypical observations and simultaneously preserving generality of point of view of GMM estimation and all its advantages. Finally, the plan of the research together with schedule on individual years is given.


This study on the prevalence of TB among HIV sero-positive was carried at the HIV CLINIC of Kampala International University Teaching Hospital (KIUTH), Ishaka Bushenyi district. A retrospective cross-sectional study design was used to conduct this research. The study targeted all patients attending KIUTH HIV/TB clinic. A standard structured and semistructured questionnaires were designed and pre-tested for validity and reliability at Kampala International University Teaching Hospital HIV/Tuberculosis clinic before being used for data collection. Data collection started by recruitment of qualified research assistants, appropriate training and orientation of the interviewers before the survey for example when reading the questions. Quantitative methods of data analysis was used in which data was presented in form of bar charts, graphs and tables. The prevalence of TB among HIV sero-positive patients attending HIV clinic at KIUTH stands at 8.06 per 100 participants. The study found that generally, people are aware about the modes of transmission of TB but there is still need for more awareness. Many patients are still not certain whether TB is curable in HIV patients. As seen from the above study, most of the people are not yet aware whether HIV goes hand in hand with tuberculosis. The prevalence of TB in HIV sero-positive attending HIV clinic at KIUTH is high. Generally, TB is affecting patients of all ages and most patients are still not aware if TB in HIV is curable. Most patients have a perception that all TB patients have HIV. Health workers in HIV clinic of KIU-TH should teach patients the modes of transmission and prevention of TB. KIUTH also need to provide easy access to TB screening services to patients. There is need for financial support by the government to the unemployed patients and low-income earners in order to curb TB infections. Keywords: Tuberculosis, HIV, Sero-positive, Bushenyi District


The manufacturing sectors of developing countries have traditionally been relatively protected. They have also been subject to heavy regulation, much of which has favored large firms. Accordingly, it is often argued that in these countries: (1) markets tolerate inefficient firms, so cross-firm productivity dispersion is high; (2) small groups of entrenched oligopolists exploit monopoly power in product markets; and (3) many small firms are unable or unwilling to grow, so important scale economies go unexploited. Drawing on plant and firm level studies, I assess each of these conjectures and find none to be systematically supported. However, many open issues remain.


4064 Background: Combinations of irinotecan (CPT11) with continuous folinic acid (FA) and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) have shown promising activity in advanced or metastatic gastric cancer (AGC). We prospectively evaluated toxicity, efficacy and survival of CPT11/FA/5-FU (arm A) versus Etoposide/FA/5-FU (ELF; arm B) in AGC. As ELF was not inferior to FAMTX or Cisplatin/5-FU in a recent EORTC trial, ELF served as control arm.

METHODS
Metastatic or locally advanced adenocarcinoma of the stomach or gastroesophageal junction; performance status (PS) 0-2; no prior chemotherapy. Patients (pts) were eligible and randomized to arm A with CPT11 80 mg/m2, FA 500 mg/m2, 24h-5-FU 2000 mg/m2, d 1,8,15,22,29,36, q7w or to arm B with E 120 mg/m2, FA 300 mg/m2, 5-FU 500 mg/m2, d1-3+22-24, q6w.

RESULTS
From Nov 2000 to Apr 2003, (A/B) 56/58 pts were randomized. Median age (61/63 y), gender, distribution of tumors of gastric origin and esophageal junction, rate of surgical pretreatment (52/53%), PS, localization and numbers of metastatic sites were comparable for both arms. Median treatment duration were 14.1 (0.1-90) and 6.4 (0.3-61) weeks. All pts were eligible and evaluable for toxicity, 48/52 pts for response in A/B, respectively. Grade 3/4 toxicity per pt for A/B (%): neutropenia 7/47, neutropenic fever 7/7, diarrhoea 20/0, nausea 16/7, emesis 7/5, asthenia 2/7, 1 death occurred in A due to pt incompliance after 5 days diarrhoea, 2 deaths due to cerebrovascular events in B. Best overall response (% of pts) for A/B: CR 4/0, PR 40/17, NC 14/12, tumor control rate (CR+PR+NC) 58/29. Median progression-free time for A/B: 129 (CI95% 8-693) and 63 (0-545) days. Overall survival has not yet been reached.

CONCLUSIONS
CPT11/FA/5-FU is highly effective in advanced or metastatic gastric cancer. CPT11/FA/5-FU can safely be given on an outpatient basis with proper management of adverse events. Cardiovascular deaths occurred only with ELF. [Table: see text].


Objective: To investigate active substance of endophytic fungus in Gansu ural licorice. Method: Bacteriostatic active substance of endophytic fungus JTYB-001, JTYB-053 and JTZB-001 fermentation broth in effective strains of licorice were detected by HPLC and analyzed by taking glycyrrhizin and glycyrrhizic acid as the indexes. Result: The peak times of three strains metabolite were respectively(RT=21.071min),(RT=21.041) and(RT=21.067), they were closed to the peak time of mono-ammonium glycyrrhizinate standard substance(RT=21.031 minutes), their quantification and yields were respectively 0.033, 0.005 and 0.013mg/mL by area method. Conclusion: Endophytic fungus JTYB-001, JTYB-053 and JTZB-001 of effective strain in wild and cultivated Gansu ural licorice are found to contain glycyrrhizic acid identical with the host which owns pharmacological activity.


The paper considers the influence of size effects on dislocation structure and second-phase particles. Particular attention is given to the effect of grain sizes on scalar dislocation density, geometrically necessary dislocation density and parameters of particles formed at grain boundaries. It is found that there exist three critical grain sizes with which the mechanisms of deformation and hardening of polycrystals in the vicinity of grains change. Special emphasis is placed on stabilization of the submicrocrystalline grain structure by second-phase particles located at the grain boundaries.


Abstract It has been proposed that bright-field imaging of coherent spherical precipitates under zone axis incidence would give improved resolution in the strain contrast compared with the weak-beam dark-field imaging. We observed the strain contrast from coherent Co-precipitates in Cu-Co alloys, and simulated the images on the basis of many-beam dynamical electron diffraction, taking into account the elastic anisotropy. Zone axis incidence such as [001] or [001] considerably reduces the effective extinction distance of the transmitted beam, and suppresses the intensity oscillation with foil thickness, in comparison with a conventional two-beam condition. The contrast in the bright-field images is straightforwardly related to the precipitate geometry. Individual precipitates are well resolved in the image when the number density of precipitates is fairly high. It has been demonstrated that the imaging under zone axis incidence is quite useful to understanding of microstructures in phase transformation in ...


ABSTRACT Recent research has foregrounded the importance of student engagement with feedback on writing (Quinton & Smallbone, 2010; Zhang & Hyland, 2018; Handley, Price, & Millar, 2011). At the same time, there is a small but growing body of scholarship exploring the role that feedback plays in developing discipline-specific competencies in student writers in an L2 context (Hyland, 2013). This study aims to contribute to this burgeoning field by exploring the complex relationship between student attitude to peer and teacher feedback, academic achievement, and dialogic engagement with such feedback, with particular focus on the development of literary disciplinary knowledge in an L2 context. The findings of this mixed-method exploratory study reveal a positive correlation between student attitude to feedback pertaining to disciplinary knowledge development, and achievement within the field of literary studies. This stands in contrast to other findings in this study which see only a weak correlation between attitudes to both peer and teacher feedback, and writing performance. Furthermore, this study argues that active engagement with feedback is linked to greater levels of discipline-specific writing competencies.


The supercritical antisolvent process (SAS) has been frequently used to obtain microparticles and nanoparticles. The fluid dynamics of the process related to the study of the liquid jet in contact with supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) is characterized by a one-phase mixing at supercritical conditions and a two-phase mixing at subcritical conditions. The transition between the two kinds of mixing can be measured in terms of amplitude of the corresponding pressure range; some organic solvents, like dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) are characterized by a wide pressure range, other solvents, like acetone (AC), by a narrow pressure range. Generally, microparticles are precipitated by atomization, droplets formation and drying in the transition range, whereas nanoparticles are precipitated in correspondence of completely developed supercritical conditions. Mixing a wide-transition solvent, like DMSO, to a narrow-transition solvent, like acetone, the pressure range of the transition from one-phase mixing to two-phase mixing and, accordingly, the morphology of the precipitates will change. In this work, two model compounds were SAS processed from DMSO/AC mixtures: cellulose acetate, which is slightly soluble in DMSO and freely soluble in acetone with the aim of obtaining microparticles and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) that is slightly soluble in acetone and freely soluble in DMSO in order to obtain nanoparticles. In the case of cellulose acetate, well-defined microparticles with a mean diameter of 0.42 μm were obtained, whereas, for PVP, nanoparticles with a mean diameter of 114 nm were precipitated, demonstrating that this SAS strategy is successful.


The present investigation was conducted to evaluate the comparative economics of two methods of Vanaraja chicken rearing under backyard system i.e. improved technologies demonstrated under Front Line Demonstration (FLD) and Farmer's Practice (FP) traditionally adopted by the farmers. All together 120 farmers from 12 randomly selected villages of West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh having experience of poultry rearing for more than two years were selected for FLD. The study (from August, 2015 to July, 2017) reveals that, the technologies demonstrated in FLDs recorded higher body weight gain of male chickens (2300g) over FP (1800g) at 20 weeks of age, which was 27.78% higher than that of Farmers' Practice. Mean annual egg production under FLD was recorded as 110 numbers which was 37.50% higher than that of FP (80). The estimated technology gap in body weight gain was recorded as 200 g/bird, whereas for egg production it was 20 numbers/bird. The extension gap of body weight gains and egg production was recorded as 500 g/bird and 30 numbers/bird, respectively with a technology index of 8% in body weight gain and 15.38% in egg production. The benefit cost (B: C) ratio for Vanaraja chicken rearing under FLD and Farmers' Practice was recorded as 2.62:1 and 1.71:1, respectively which indicated that under improved rearing techniques demonstrated under FLD Vanaraja chicken gives much more profit than that of rearing techniques under FP. Non availability of improved germplasm of poultry (93.33%) was given the top ranking while weak market linkage to dispose the produce (35.00%) was given as bottom ranking in the constraints matrix ranking in poultry production. Under client satisfaction index over the performance of FLD analysis reveals 63.33% of high satisfaction index over the performance of FLDs while 27.50% respondent expressed medium level of satisfaction and only 9.17% respondent expressed low level of satisfaction index.


Vemurafenib is a BRAF kinase inhibitor (BRAFi) that is used to treat melanoma patients harbouring the constitutively active BRAF-V600E mutation. However, after a few months of treatment patients often develop resistance to vemurafenib leading to disease progression. Sequence analysis of drug-resistant tumour cells and functional genomic screens have identified several genes that regulate vemurafenib resistance. Reactivation of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway is a recurrent feature of cells that develop resistance to vemurafenib. We performed a genome-scale CRISPR-based knockout screen to identify modulators of vemurafenib resistance in melanoma cells with a highly improved CRISPR sgRNA library called Brunello. We identified 33 genes that regulate resistance to vemurafenib out of which 14 genes have not been reported before. Gene Ontology enrichment analysis showed that the hit genes regulate histone modification, transcription and cell cycle. We discuss how inactivation of hit genes might confer resistance to vemurafenib and provide a framework for follow-up investigations.


This work enlighten on the modification of the electrical and optoelectronic properties at metal/silicon interface, where the silicon surface is nanostructured by single step mask-less CF4 plasma in reactive ion etching mode. The electrical transport across metal/nanotextured silicon/silicon structure has been correlated with morphological variations of surface topological features and chemistry. The results evidence that such nanostructures enhance the photovoltaic behavior and affect electrical and optoelectronic transport to a different extent, depending not only on surface texturing but also on surface chemistry.


One of the unsolved mysteries of gamma-ray astronomy concerns the nature of unidentified gamma-ray sources. Recently, using the Second Fermi LAT source catalog (2FGL) and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) archive, we discovered that the WISE counterparts of gamma-ray blazars, a class of active galactic nuclei, delineate a region (the WISE Gamma-ray Strip) in three-dimensional infrared color space well separated from the locus of other astronomical objects. Based on this result, we built an association procedure to recognize if there are WISE blazar candidates within the positional uncertainty region of the unidentified gamma-ray sources. Here we report on our analysis of 2FGL J1823.8+4312, a gamma-ray active galactic nucleus of uncertain type associated with the X-ray source 1RXS J182418.7+430954 according to the 2FGL, to verify whether it is a blazar. Applying our association method we found two sources with IR colors typical of gamma-ray blazars, located within the 99.9% confidence region of 2FGL J1823.8+4312: WISE J182352.33+431452.5 and WISE J182409.25+431404.7. We then searched in the Chandra, NVSS, and SDSS archival observations for their counterparts. We discovered that WISE J182352.33+431452.5, our preferred gamma-ray blazar candidate according to our WISE association procedure, is detected in the optical and in the X-rays but not in the radio, making it extremely unusual if it is a blazar. Given its enigmatic spectral energy distribution, we considered the possibility that it is a "radio-faint blazar" or the prototype of a new class of extragalactic sources; our conclusion is independent of whether WISE J182352.33+431452.5 is the actual counterpart of 2FGL J1823.8+4312.


This paper introduces the present situation of the development of modern distance learning,makes the statistic analysis on the data of students in a certain radio and television university in Xinjiang,and advances some measures for the performance intervention.


Real operational scenario in renewable energy microgrids typically differs from the forecast computed by the economic dispatch, making difficult to achieve the contracted schedule agreed with the grid Market/System operator. Each energy storage system (ESS) has its own capabilities referred to the relationship between energy and power density. In addition, degradation issues or anomalous working conditions should be considered. Advanced control algorithms come up as a technological solution to these problems, taking advantage of each storage system and avoiding the degradation and/or limitations to provide optimal operation of a hybrid ESS. The high number of constraints and variables to be optimized increases the complexity of the control problem, being the rationale to deploy advanced control algorithms. In this paper, optimal load sharing of a real scenario in a renewable energy microgrid with hydrogen/batteries/ultracapacitor hybrid ESS is developed through an advanced control system based on model-predictive control techniques. The presence of logical states such as the start-up/shut-down of the fuel cell and electrolyzer or charge/discharge states in the batteries and ultracapacitor introduces logical variables. In order to model both continuous/discrete dynamics, the plant is modeled in the mixed logic dynamic framework.


Summary form only given. Plasma-based ion implantation (PBII) is a promising method for modifying the surface properties of materials in order to improve wear resistance and hardness in engineering fields. Our PBII facility for obtaining metal ions consists of a metal plasma source in the same vacuum chamber with a substrate and has an advantage that the thin film preparation and the ion implantation are simultaneously carried out. A water-cooled titanium cathode was mounted with a trigger electrode. The vacuum chamber was grounded to make an anode. A trigger discharge was ignited by disconnecting the trigger electrode from the cathode to generate a DC metal-arc of 70A between cathode and grounded chamber. For suppressing the trigger-discharge current after the main are ignition, a resistance of 1 ohm is provided in the trigger discharge circuit. In PBII using a titanium vacuum arc of DC 70A with a pulse voltage of -40 kV/20 /spl mu/s, titanium nitride (TiN) films were coated on a silicon substrate (p-type, [111]).


PurposeResearchers have paid little attention to elucidating how customer-perceived innovative apparel attributes are linked to brand reputation and consumer buying behaviors. This study intends to bridge that gap by providing empirical evidence on the effects of product novelty, product difference and product inimitability on brand reputation and behavioral intentions in the context of garment purchasing. We also investigate the moderating effects of self-congruity and value consciousness on the attribute‒brand reputation linkages, as well as their immediate influence on the domain variables.Design/methodology/approachThe proposed model was estimated using data from a web-based survey of 299 female apparel customers. Structural equation modeling was employed to test the relationships between variables.FindingsThe results indicate that product novelty, product inimitability, self-congruity and value consciousness significantly influence brand reputation. The results also demonstrate that self-congruity, value consciousness and brand reputation have direct effects on behavioral intention, while self-congruity and value consciousness appear to moderate the relationship between innovative product attributes and brand reputation.Originality/valueThis study is the first to present a conceptual model that systematically encompasses product innovation, brand perceptions and behavioral links in the field of women's clothing. The findings have important implications for both academics and practitioners in the field of fashion marketing.


This paper describes the development of the initial curriculum framework, focusing on the method and theory underpinning the content and structure within the context of
the project.


CLEAR ALIGNER THERAPY VS. TRADITIONAL BRACKETS ON SMILE ARC Sarah Elizabeth LaRue, D.D.S. Background and Objectives: More so than ever, the public is becoming exceedingly aware of esthetics, and will evaluate their treatment outcome based upon the improvement to their smile and overall enhancement of their facial appearance. Smile arc is considered to be a key component of facial esthetics. Literature has demonstrated that orthodontic treatment mechanics utilizing traditional brackets and wires can cause flattening of the smile arc and that smiles with flatter arcs are judged to be less attractive. The aim of this study was to determine whether clear aligner therapy can help to preserve or improve the smile arc when compared to traditional bracket orthodontics. Experimental Design and Methods: A sample of 98 subjects that had completed comprehensive orthodontic treatment (50 treated using clear aligners, 48 treated using traditional orthodontic brackets) and had existing pre and post-treatment posed smiling photographs, were selected. 15 orthodontic experts (8 residents and 7 WVU faculty orthodontists) were asked to view a presentation of all the pre and post-treatment smiling photos and to evaluate whether orthodontic treatment had: a) improved the smile arc, b) maintained or had no clinically significant effect on the smile arc, or c) flattened the smile arc. Data was assessed to determine whether there was a difference in orthodontic treatment outcome, specifically smile arc, using the aforementioned treatment modalities. The data was analyzed using chi squared analysis, a generalized linear mixed model analysis, as well as probability testing. Results: The results of analyses for 12 out of 15 raters demonstrated that there was a statistically significant association between treatment modality and smile arc evaluation. When all raters were considered collectively, they evaluated 17.3% of clear aligner treated subjects to have flattened smile arcs compared to 49.7% of bracket treated subjects. (p<0.0001), 37.3% of clear aligner subjects were evaluated to have improved smile arc compared to 24.5% of bracket subjects (p<0.0001), and 45.3% of clear aligner subjects were evaluated to have not affected smile arcs compared to 25.9% of bracket subjects (p<0.0001). There was a significant effect of orthodontic treatment on smile arc evaluation (p<0.0001). Patients with bracket treatment were found to be 5.259 times more likely to have flattened smile arc evaluation than those with clear aligner treatment. The probability of an orthodontic expert evaluating the smile arc as: flattened was 12% (clear aligners) and 42% (bracket treatment), maintained was 51% (clear aligners) and 48% (bracket treatment), and improved was 36% (clear aligners) and 10% (bracket treatment). Conclusions: There is a significant effect of orthodontic treatment modality on smile arc outcome evaluation by orthodontic experts. Orthodontic expert raters evaluated a significantly lower percentage of clear aligner treated subjects to have flattened smile arcs compared to bracket treated subjects and a significantly higher percentage of clear aligner subjects to have improved smile arcs compared to bracket treated subjects. Patients treated with clear aligners have a higher probability of being evaluated to have improved or maintained smile arcs compared to those treated with brackets.


Nowadays, multimedia, especially video, is used widely in many domains. But camera lens are easily stained because they are always outside, such as in traffic and monitoring. Admittedly, the video from these cameras is out of action because it cannot provide clear frames. In this paper, we provide a detecting method from video with background restructure. This method is presented to detect stains in video. Firstly, the first video frame is used as a pseudo-background because original cameras are clear with no stains. Then, background is constructed by the pseudo-background and the continuous frames which are from the video. Moreover, with training in the frames, we restructure background by dropped moving objects in it. Finally, after background restructured, we detect stains in camera lenses by the restructured background, and provide positions of stained area. Experimental results show its robustness and practicability


Aim To study the detection performance of the non-coherent integrated algorithm and coherent integrated algorithm.Methods The cell median constant false alarm rate(CM-CFAR) detector and the adaptive normalized matched filter(ANMF) detector are compared in this paper.Results The computational complexity of two detectors is compared.The difference of detection performance of two detectors is given in the real sea clutter following K distribution.It is analyzed that the difference is related to the integration and the correlation along range.Conclusion In the weak clutter environment,when the integrated number is 10,compared with the CM-CFAR detector,ANMF detector has a 23dB gain.In the strong clutter environment,two detectors have comparable detection performance.


Brucellosis is a zoonotic infection caused by Brucella species. With a declining incidence of brucellosis in the United States, physicians are becoming less familiar with this infection including its previously described neurological manifestations. In the past, most cases of infection with Brucella suis were associated with occupational exposures, but recreational and sporting exposures have recently been implicated in the acquisition of this infection. We report the case of a patient who developed meningitis due to B. suis after hunting and butchering feral swine. His infection was complicated by development of a basilar artery mycotic aneurysm with subsequent subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral infarctions, and hydrocephalus.


Copyright: © 2015 Caruso F, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. *Corresponding author: Francesco Caruso, HBP Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Via Francesco Sforza, 35 – 20122 Milano, Italy, Tel: 0039. 333.8887415; Fax: 0039.02.55035686; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


Objective: To correspond clinical findings of patients with lower backache to those demonstrated at Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Lumbosacral spine.
Study Design: Cross-sectional study.
Place and Duration of Study: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital, Islamabad Pakistan, from Oct 2019 to Jan 2020.
Methodology: All consecutive adult patients with lower backaches of more than one month duration were enrolled in the study. Detailed clinical history and examination were obtained. Pain scoring was done by visual analogue score, and a straight leg raise test was performed. Patients then underwent magnetic resonance imaging in the hospital, and findings were reported.
Results: Mean age of the patients was 30.2±13.53 with male preponderance. The mean duration of symptoms was 2.3±2.34 years. According to the visual analogue score, most patients had a moderate pain scale. Seventy-six percent of patients had no sensory deficit; upon clinical examination, twenty-one had a loss of power. Upon Lasegue Test, the majority (43,48.9%), had pain between 30-70 of hip flexion.
Conclusion: History and detailed clinical examination play an emphasising role in the treatment regimen of patients with lower backache, with special concern on the correlation of findings with Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the lumbosacral spine, thus alleviating morbidity of patients.


This paper examines the design process content in civil engineering undergraduate courses, and outlines recent developments associated with design projects and the thinking behind them at the School of Engineering, University of Canterbury.


Abstract This paper proposes an adaptive calibration technique for temperature measurement using Resistance Temperature Detector (RTD) sensor based on Support Vector Machine (SVM). In practise, RTD has nonlinear response characteristics, and its output varies with variation in RTD. Support vector machine approach is used to design an adaptive calibration technique which (i) produces the output to have a linear mapping relationship to achieve RTD nonlinearity compensation, and (ii) to produce output adaptive to variations in temperature coefficients of RTD and reference resistance. The simulation results show that the proposed technique has fulfilled its set objectives. Since root mean square of percentage error is found to be 0.0015.


Education became the central focus of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) following a disastrous and unsuccessful attempt to settle in Nyasaland (now Malawi). The aim of this article is to trace the UMCA educational policy from Zanzibar, where the mission became established in 1864, to Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). From their earliest experiences in Africa UMCA missionaries were confronted with the reality and horror of slavery. In Nyasaland missionaries fought slave raiders and in Zanzibar the first UMCA schools catered entirely for ex‐slaves. This article analyses the education developed for former slaves and shows how, as the mission expanded, missionaries continued to attempt to build communities and provide what they considered to be the best spiritual and educational opportunities for indigenous populations while facing considerable external constraints, including the expectations of a colonial power.


112 patients with varicose small sephenous vein were operated upon. The operation was preceded by a careful clinical investigation, including phlebography. The observed changes were correlated with operative findings. It is shown that varicosity may be conditioned by an obstruction of blood outflow in the popliteal vein or small saphenous vein ostium. A relationship between some structural variants of the small saphenous vein and hemodynamic disturbances was noted.


Objective: To analyze the conditions of accessibility to health services experienced by people with disabilities, predominantly in basic health units in the state of Pernambuco. Methods: This is an exploratory research with a qualitative approach. The study population consisted of people with some type of sensory (visual / auditory) or physical disability, residents of covered areas, users or not of health services. The interviews were conducted under the consent of the interviewee and later transcribed for analysis. Twelve users with disabilities were interviewed: the first participant was chosen by a professional from one of the health units, and the others were defined using the snowball sampling technique. Results: Data analysis was performed through discourse analysis, whose central ideas originated two broad categories: Accessibility to health services and the Disability Care Network. Conclusion: The limitations of accessibility to health services were reported by respondents, encompassing both physical and attitudinal barriers. It was identified the relevance of listening to people with disabilities for the discussion and elaboration of actions for the practice of integral health care of such part of the population.


Electrocardiogram (ECG) with preparticipation evaluation (PPE) for athletes remains controversial in the United States and diagnostic accuracy of clinician ECG interpretation is unclear. This study aimed to assess reliability and validity of clinician ECG interpretation using expert‐validated ECGs according to the 2010 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) interpretation criteria.


The integration of system identification and robust control is considered. The identification algorithm is an extended Kalman filter, and the robust control algorithm is based on Petersen-Holl ot's bounds (modified for random correlated parameters). The identification and control problems are coupled because the inputs for the identification experiment are selected to optimize the robust control performance. The optimization problem, interpreted as a form of Riccati equation control, is solved by exploiting the analytical properties of the Riccati equation in a nontraditional manner. The result appears an equivalent quadratic-linear boundary-value-problem, which allows a convergent numerical solution. An effective numerical algorithm is also offered for solving the extended Kalman filter equations in high-dimensional modal test problems. The algorithm is based on block decomposition of the modal state-space model. The developed approach is applied to the Middeck Active Control Experiment (MACE) testbed. MACE is an MIT STS flight experiment scheduled for launch in 1994.


The article analyses the dialogue happening between two historical periods inside the fairy-tale context of Beauty and the Beast: a story with its origins in the late days of the 'gallant' age and on the cusp of the Age of Enlightenment. A product of the conflict between the two, the fairy-tale provides ample inspiration for contemporary re-tellers of classical stories. The original work by Madame de Villeneuve centres on the idea of assimilation of a territory, its colonization and its integration into the political and economic context of the inhabited world. The same idea is taken up and reinforced by the American author M. Lackey, who considered the French original and its origination period through the concept of a national idea, in particular, the notion of the 'hearth'. The article demonstrates how this idea, reaching its peak during the American Enlightenment, helped Lackey to transform the original's colonization motifs and endow the classical plot with new prospects. In her 'domestication' of the fairy-tale world, Lackey delivers it a paradoxical blow at the end of the story, and turns de Villeneuve's triumph of civilization into a more relevant ideal of freedom and unlimited opportunities, where the female protagonist enjoys emancipation and is invested with her rights.


Since little is known concerning the hibernation of wireworms which pass the winter in the larval stage under the surface of the soil any observations, however meager, are of value in working out the complete life history of these important, injurious insects. Preliminary studies carried on in Kansas consisted of a series of diggings mostly in uncultivated areas where wireworms, theoretically, are the most abundant. No great numbers were found during the two seasons in which the most intensive work was done. During these two seasons the average depth of those found was 7.7 inches in 1922-1923 and 10.1 inches in 1925-1926.

A feature of especial interest brought out by this study is that wireworms were frequently found above a depth of six inches even in mid-winter where they encountered much colder conditions than those deeper in the soil, some of which went down as far as 36 inches. From this it is evident that the frequent recommendation for control of fall plowing to expose the wireworms to the rigors of winter may have less value than is usually attached to such a farm practice.


The viscera of 262 wild ring-necked pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) were examined for helminth parasites. All of the birds were taken in Brown County, South Dakota, during various months of 1961. The collection consisted of 92 adults, 165 juveniles (young-of-the-year), and 5 birds of undetermined age. Parasitic worms were found in 97 (37.02 percent) of the pheasants, with 86 harboring only a single species of helminth. The cecal worm (Heterakis gallinarum) was the most prevalent helminth, occurring in 92 (35.11 percent) of the birds; this incidence was distributed throughout the year and was significantly higher in adult birds. The tapeworm (Choanotaenia infundibulum) was found in 15 birds (5.73 percent), but did not occur in any of the 106 birds taken during the winter. The intestinal nematode (Ascaridia galli) was found in one bird. Despite the fact that the ring-necked pheasant has long been established as the principal game bird of eastern South Dakota, little information has been available regarding the parasites of the bird in this area. Moreover, few parasite surveys have been reported from other areas of the United States where the ring-necked pheasant has become established in the wild state. The purpose of the present study was to ascertain the incidence of helminth parasites in the pheasants from a single representative county and to investigate any correlation between parasitism and age of bird, seasonal distribution of parasites, and any gross pathology which might be associated with parasitism. Brown County forms part of the northern boundary of eastern South Dakota. Its physiographic position is in the flat James River basin in the glaciated Central Lowlands province of the Mississippi River drainage basin. Food and shelter are plentiful, and characteristically a large pheasant population is supported. We considered this to be a representative locality in which to conduct the study. Acknowledgment is due the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks for assistance in collecting pheasants. The present report has been taken from a thesis submitted by the senior author in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the M.S. degree.


Hone Kouka has written a trilogy of plays: Waiora (1996), Homefires (1998) and The Prophet (2004).' This trilogy takes a curious form. Waiora and The Prophet have much in common: they share characters, and both evoke or show the home-place, Waiora, whose emotional and symbolic power lies at the heart of the trilogy. But Homefires, the second play presuming a sequencing should follow the composition of the plays contains neither common characters nor specific reference to Waiora, though there is a powerful and pervasive presence of the home-place: 'You are home' are the last words of the play. Homefires has also been titled 'Alii Kaa and the typescript 1 was given by Hone Kouka, dated 2002, has 'Homefires' on the title page, but a general heading "Alii Kaa, A Eulogy' before 'Scene I'.2 'Ahi" means 'fire' in Maori and "kaa is a verb meaning 'take fire, be lighted, burn'. It is from this verb that a noun, 'kaainga is derived which literally means 'place where fire has burnt' but is, in Maori, the word for a 'living place' and, with the definite article, becomes the word 'home, te kaainga' with all its connotations. The fire that burns at the heart of the trilogy is this complex word Ve kaainga.'3 'Waiora', the name of the home place, means, literally, 'health' or 'soundness.'4 Waiora was the play which gave Hone Kouka a significant presence in New Zealand theatre as a Maori playwright. His first play, Mauri Tu, was performed in 1991 and he is part of the second generation of Maori playwrights who began, in the 1990s, to build upon the pioneering playwriting of Harry Dansey, Rore Hapipi, Hone Tuwhare, Rawiri Paratene, Riwia Brown and others, and the theatrically innovative and politically committed work of companies such as Maranga Mai and Te Ohu Whakaari. In Waiora, we are shown a family far from home, weakened by that distance, yearning for that place, the 'iiukaipoo' as the subtitle of the play calls it, which Williams' Dictionary of the Maori Language glosses as a 'poetical' word meaning 'Mother' but which Kouka translates as 'the homeland'. In Home/ires, a man returns after a long time away to a home-place, which his brother has never left. In The Prophet, Waiora is the setting, 'a small coastal village on the East Coast of New Zealand ... Pop. 316'.6 The Prophet brings the trilogy home, so to speak; what it brings home to us, as audience or readers, is what this essay explores. The Prophet presents Waiora unglamorously - 'two boarded-up shops, one a dairy, the other a mechanic's workshop'7 - and it puts Waiora under some scrutiny in that not all characters are in agreement about its magical, positive qualities. Laura anchors some of the themes of the trilogy when she says: 'You gotta have somewhere, well you don't have to. But we['re] lucky, we do. This is ours. Waiora. Where it all started'.8 But Ty is more sceptical: 'Even the dairy's got the message and moved on'.9 However, in Waiora there is never a moment of doubt about the power and magic of the place. Kongo speaks of 'the beach of Waiora, our true home'10 and her longing for it and her sense of loss of it lead her to attempt suicide. And when Louise says to Boyboy, '[T]his magical place, Waiora. You make it sound like heaven', Boyboy concurs: 'Close to it. We have a mountain that's our heart and the further away from it you get, the weaker you get. Mum said that's why we've been getting sick.'11 Tau, in Homefires, rails against te kaainga - 'Why do you want to stay in this place? ... There's nothing here, nothing'12 - but is finally reconciled to coming home, not only to come to terms with his past, but also to live his future. Kouka's trilogy presents a visible world which is predominantly Maori. Of the twenty on-stage characters in the trilogy, only two are Pakeha. Yet this Maori world is a colonised Maori world, which is why Maori are not living in their kaainga, as they once did. Paradise is in the past. For Pakeha, the colonisers, paradise is in the future, to be wrung out of the new land when it is finally improved sufficiently that it is turned into paradise. …


Materials production, as a separate TESOL discipline, is relatively new. The relevant body of literature is limited both in scope and depth; most works deal with the larger view; forging out a path rather than dwelling on the detail. Within mainstream TESOL, there is a discernible and sizable literature on particular facets of how to deal with, or create, pedagogic materials. However, each writer discusses only a narrow range of aspects concerning materials production. The result is that there are many partial models of but no central theory of the process of materials production as relevant to the fi nal stage of choosing actual words, activity types, deciding on methodological practices and so on. Drawing upon the writings of many authorities, who have provided partial models of aspects of the production process, this paper places them within a framework for understanding the more complex, overall picture.


Background: Mesenchymal Stem Cells obtained from bone marrow are an alternative source of cells for tissue engineering. More studies are done with Mobilized Peripheral Blood Cells (MPBMSC) due to their plasticity on being able to be differentiated in mesenchymal tissues. Objective:The objective of this study was to standarize the mobilization, isolation, and characterization process of mesenchymal stem cells obtained from peripheral blood in an animal model. Methods: Four Suffolk sheep with ages of 2 years were mobilized using granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). Administration dose was 10mg per kilogram of body weight, applied in subcutaneous area every 24 hours, in three consecutive days. The mobilized cells were characterized by an antibody panel for surface markers (CD105, CD90, CD73, CD34, and CD45) and cultured in monolayer during 3 weeks. Results: All population of leucocytes cells have similar behavior during day 1 to day 4. We observed an improvement of populations at day 2 with maximum elevation at day 3 and decline at day 4 in the mobilized peripheral blood. Plastic adhesion and fibroblastic like morphology was observed in mobilized cells. Conclusions: Is feasible to increase the mesenchymal stem cells number in peripheral blood with the three day administration of G-CSF. Isolated cells expressed the characteristic markers of mesenchymal stem cells by flow citometry.


Due to lacking of explicitly analytical model, optimization design of complex slope is often consulted to enumerative algorithm which generally results huge computation efforts. To overcome this problem, a new optimization method based on improved response surface (IRS) is proposed. The IRS, constructed by uniform design (UD) and non-parametric regression (NR), provides a regressed and explicitly analytical model through a few trial computations without prior assumed sliding surface. The optimization process is explained and a slope is optimized to verify the feasibility of the proposed method. The results show that the provided method can optimize a slope with multiple sliding surfaces and provide an optimum result under the safety constraints of the slope. Meanwhile, the introduction of UD and NR to construct the IRS can provide a better regression effect with fewer computational costs.


Herbal pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals are now popularly used worldwide.These herbal remedies, although natural, can cause some serious damaging effects on the vital organs of the body due to inadequacy in standardization and safety regulations. Ethanol extract of Acalypha torta was obtained after defatting dried pulverized leaves of the plant with chloroform : methanol ( 2 : 1). A 24 h – acute-toxicity study of the extract in mice was carried out to ascertain the risk of acute toxicty by selected doses (200 to 8,000 mg/kg body weight) administered intraperitoneally. The median lethal dose (LD 50 ) as well as other signs of toxicity were determined. Toxicity to the vital organs in rats was also assessed following intraperitoneal administration of doses less than 50% of the LD 50 for 28 days . Results of acute toxicity studies gave LD 50 of 562.30 mg/kg body weight. All the tested doses of ethanol extract of A. torta administered reduced appetite in all the experimental rats used whereas high doses, above 2000 mg/kg body weight triggered increase in respiratory rate,and convulsion before the animals died. Observed pathological changes in vital organs after the 28 days of treatment in rats were necrosis, follicular disorganization, inflammatory reactions ,fibrosis and bronchial dilatation. These changes were seen in the liver, spleen, brain, heart, kidney and lung sections, but at low frequencies (i.e number of lesions per slide). These findings may suggest that prolonged use of the extract at doses higher than recommended therapeutic dose could precipitate organ damage. Keywords: Acalypha torta , medicinal plants, toxicology, inflammation, necrosis.


Purpose of the Study: The objective of the study is to examine the literature trends that link the study of social capital with well-being.

Theoretical framework: The establishment of relationships within social capital, are characterized by mutual benefit, as well as trust and reciprocity between the actors within a certain community, for which the study of the subject of social capital related to well-being has gained relevance as a topic emerging in recent years.

Design/methodology/approach: The methodology used is through bibliometric tools on data extracted from the Web of Sciences platform, a total of 1248 indexed publications were reached, which provide a general and schematic overview of trends in research on the subject.

Findings: The results of annual scientific production, shows a growing trend in the development of publications related to the search terms raised in the research.  Therefore, social capital represents an important element for the well-being of society, both individually and collectively, linked to elements such as trust, which is why they are strongly related to happiness, satisfaction with life and, consequently, with the well-being of the communities where social capital is present.

Research, Practical & Social implications: The study considers the relevance of the topic in the last five years, it can be clearly observed that more research on the subject is needed, so this can be a good start to this knowledge gap to increase interest and publications related to the subject.

Originality/value: The value of the study is the contribution it makes to the literature on the role of social capital in well-being. Therefore, the research can be of benefit to the scientific community with an interest in the study of the subject, since it will allow them to more efficiently identify the trends and areas of study on the subject.


Effect of silica on dynamic properties of styrene-butadiene/butadiene rubber (SSBR/BR) solution blends was characterized by a Rubber Processing Analyzer (RPA2000). It was found that the type and loading of silica strongly influenced the dynamic mechanical properties in both uncured and cured SSBR/BR. There was a synergistic effect between vulcanization and reinforcement in which the crosslinking of the rubber chains in the vulcanizates amplified the reinforcement by silica by restricting the breaking of the silica network formed between silica particles through the rubber bridges and helping the reformation of a broken silica network. The higher the Brunauer, Emmett, and Teller (BET) specific surface area the greater the synergistic effect during recovery.


Automatic extraction of important regions from a cheque image helps in automatic analysis of the cheque. It can be used for automated clearing of cheques, detection of frauds in the cheques, and so on. A novel approach of extracting important regions from a cheque image is proposed, in this paper, based on identification of lines. Experimental results demonstrate the success of the proposed approach.


We demonstrate that locally connected networks of machines that have primitive learning capabilities can be used to perform a deterministic, event-based simulation of quantum computation. We present simulation results for basic quantum operations such as the Hadamard and the controlled-NOT gate, and for seven-qubit quantum networks that implement Shor's numbering factoring algorithm.


The short-range structure of Fe/Ag granular materials has been studied by means of extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS). The local structure around Fe atoms is a distorted bcc structure for the as-deposited state of Fe/Ag granular films produced by the ionized cluster beam (ICB) deposition technique. Fe atoms are rather randomly distributed in the Fe/Ag alloy films produced by cosputtering. With increasing annealing temperature and time, the local structure around Fe atoms becomes a strain-free bcc structure in the ICB-deposited films, while Fe clusters are formed in the sputter-deposited films. The formation of small Fe clusters and rough interfaces between the Fe cluster and the Ag matrix is responsible for giant magnetoresistance (GMR) in Fe/Ag granular materials.


A new mechanism of irradiation creep is proposed, which is based on the radiation and stress induced difference in emission (RSIDE) of vacancies from dislocations of different orientations with respect to the external stress. This phenomenon is due to the difference in vacancy formation energies, which is proportional to the external stress. The proposed model exhibits similarities with thermal creep models and it is distinct from stress-induced preferential absorption (SIPA) models based on the difference in the long-range interaction of point defects with dislocations. The RSIDE creep rate is essentially temperature independent and is proportional to the dislocation density, stress and irradiation flux. It is inversely proportional to the square of the vacancy formation energy, which is lower than the Frenkel pair formation energy. Experimental verification of the proposed model is discussed on the basis of the measurements of vacancy concentration and creep rate under sub-threshold electron irradiation.


Close up of cyclone damage to house in the northern suburbs. John Sluce outside his low set brick house, Lee Point Road.


dontal haemorrhage (p. 199): "Cases have been observed in which the patient had hypertension only without albuminuria or other signs of kidney involvement "; and (p. 200): " There is reason to believe that some at least of the varieties of placental infarcts are comparable in their mode of production to accidental haemorrhage "; and again (p. 202): " The primigravida and the multipara are equally liable to accidental haemorrhage. The former is more liable to pre-eclamptic toxaemia with hypertension, the latter to chronic nephritis with hypertension. The only factor common to both is the hypertension."


Sulphur-bound soils and a lightweight aggregate sulphur concrete have been studied for potential use as structural frost insulating base materials in roadway construction. Sulphur-bound materials show rapid strength gain and sulphur has a low thermal conductivity (0.27 W/(m ∙ K)). Laboratory studies have shown, however, that, unless specially treated, sulphur-bound soil that contains significant swelling clay disintegrates in water. The laboratory studies were more favourable for the lightweight aggregate sulphur concrete and this material was used as a base course in two test sections of roadway. The test sections and a control section instrumented with thermocouples to measure temperatures to depths of 1.52 m were monitored for 6 winter months. A Dynaflect deflection apparatus was used for structural assessment. It was found that both frost penetration and the length of the subgrade freezing period were reduced and that the structural integrity of the pavement system was improved when lightweight aggreg...


In field experiments with soybeans (Glycine max) conducted over four seasons at Hermitage Research Station, Queensland, levels of applied nitrogen (as urea) up to 134 kg ha -1 were examined. Nodulated soybeans failed to respond to applied nitrogen in three out of the four seasons. A response was obtained in one season when abnormal climatic conditions of low rainfall and high temperatures resulted in a comparatively lower level of nodulation. The probability of such a response is discussed in relation to climatic data of the area over the past 108 years. Nodulation and nitrogen fertilizer increased seed size and nitrogen content of the seed in soils free of Rhizobium japonicum but nitrogen fertilizer had little effect on these characteristics in soils carrying R. japonicum. Oil content of the seed was negatively correlated with the nitrogen content in rhizobia-free soils. Nitrogen fertilizer had a depressive effect on nodulation. This effect was severe when inoculated soybeans were grown in soil free of R. japonicum particularly under conditions of declining soil moisture and high temperatures. In soils with R. japonicum the depressive effect was comparatively light.


The method and the scheme for obtaining a femtosecond pulse train without frequency comb offset with a selectable carrier envelope phase.


The invention relates to a device for separating rough styrene contained in pyrolysis gasoline, comprising a rectifying tower, partition walls (7, 8), a liquid distributor, a condenser, a tower-top product buffer tank, liquid collectors (15, 16) and a reboiler, wherein the two partition walls (7, 8) divides the rectifying tower into six parts, i.e. a public rectifying area, a feeding area, a C6-C7 discharging area, a steam stripping area, a rough styrene discharging area and a public stripping area; a partition wall segment is from the top end of the partition wall (7) to the bottom end of the partition wall (8); the top of the public rectifying area is provided with a temperature measuring instrument, and light component C5 fractions are extracted in the public rectifying area; the left side of the partition wall (7) is provided with the feeding area, materials enter from the feeding area, the right side of the partition wall (7) is provided with the C6-C7 discharging area, and the C6-C7 fractions are extracted in the C6-C7 discharging area; the left side of the partition wall (8) is provided with the steam stripping area, and the right side of the partition wall (8) is provided with the rough styrene discharging area; heavy component C9 fractions are extracted in the bottom of the public stripping area, and the bottom of the public stripping area is also provided with the temperature measuring instrument. The invention saves two towers and corresponding accessory equipment due to the rectifying tower with the partition walls (7, 8) and saves the energy by more than 30 percent.


Damage caused by nature factor and humanbeing made many earth-rock dams ill or dangerous in various degree such as crack,leakage,landslide and detrimental of protection slope.It is very important to the safety of earth-rock dams that the hidden danger and diseased dams can be accurately detected and steps can be taken to maintain and reinforce the illed dams in time.Based on the analysis of the data collected from earth-rock dams monitoring.The index and standords of evduating the aging degree of earch-rock dams were established.This method provides the scientific basis for prerenting maintaining,renforcing and transforming of the illed dams.


The present investigations were made attempting to develop a rapid, reliable, and reproducible in vitro regeneration protocol for Artemisia absinthium L., a medicinal plant of Kashmir Himalayas. Out of several auxin-cytokinin combinations tested, Murashige and Skoog's (MS) medium supplemented with 0.5 mgL−1 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 0.5 mgL−1 kinetin (Kn) was found to be the best for the callus induction. On the other hand, 4.5 mgL−1 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP) and 0.5 mgL−1 1-α-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) in the medium resulted in maximum shoot induction from the callus. Similarly, BAP and NAA at a concentration of 1.5 mgL−1 and 0.5 mgL−1, respectively, proved to be the best for the multiple shoot induction from nodal explants. Numerous shoots were obtained from nodal explants after third subculture. In vitro rooting was maximum on medium containing indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) at 0.5 mgL−1. The genetic stability of the in vitro raised plants of Artemisia absinthium was assessed using the intersimple sequence repeat (ISSR) and sequence-specific amplification polymorphism (SSAP) molecular markers. Both markers were able to detect the somaclonal variations in the callus regenerated plants, while no variation was detected in the plants regenerated from the nodal explants. SSAP has been found to be more useful in detection of variability as compared to ISSR molecular marker. The results of present study concluded that the direct regeneration protocol will be useful for the production of true to type plants of this medicinally important plant. This will go a long way in reducing the pressure on the natural populations for the secondary metabolite production, especially for extraction of essential oils.


In 1879, Luigi Bianchi gave for the first time in his thesis a method for deriving from one surface of constant negative Gaussian curvature an infinite number of other surfaces with the same curvature. His work created great interest, and was followed by papers by Darboux, Lie and Bäcklund. In [Bck], Bäcklund gave a more general construction which led to the Bäcklund transform. In spite of the fact that the paper [Bck] dealt exclusively with surfaces of constant negative curvature, the notion of Bäcklund transform has come to have enormous importance in soliton theory (see for example [Lamb2, Remo]). Our treatment is based on the concept of a Tchebyshef net. Patches of two interrelated types are introduced in Section 21.1, and are characterized by properties of the first fundamental form and its coefficients E,F,G. We firstly define a Tchebyshef patch for which E and G are equal and constant, and secondly one for which E + G is constant and F = 0. At this stage, the theory proceeds without reference to the second fundamental form or knowledge of the way that M is contained in R, so the principal curvatures k1, k2 are not yet defined. The results can therefore be applied to the more abstract types of surfaces to be studied in Chapter 26. In Section 21.2, we turn attention to surfaces of constant negative curvature


The recently developed echocardiographic matrix array transesophageal (mTEE) transducer provides real-time 3D images of high spatial and temporal resolution that may be suitable for detailed simultaneous study of functional anatomy of the mitral and aortic valves. We developed software that detects and tracks throughout the cardiac cycle mitral and aortic annuli (MA and AoA) and tested it in 15 patients with normal valves. Following manual initialization of each annulus in 15 planes rotated around the valvepsilas axis, the position of each annulus was tracked using a two-step 3D feature tracking algorithm based on maximum likelihood and Lucas-Kanade optical flow techniques and parameters of valve geometry were automatically measured throughout the cardiac cycle. Frame-by-frame detection and tracking of MA and AoA was possible in all patients. This approach allowed for the first time non-invasive quantitative measurements of the 3D dynamic geometry of normal MA and AoA and their coupling from mTEE data.


This article sets forth a theory of the effects that computer-assisted communication and decision-aiding technologies have on organizational design, intelligence, and decision making. Several components of the theory are controversial and in need of critical empirical investigation. The article focuses on those technology-prompted changes in organizational design that affect the quality and timeliness of intelligence and decision making, as contrasted with those that affect the production of goods and services.


For the given deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) models, in this work, we carefully evaluate systolic DNN accelerators associated with different array configurations. In order to find the optimal array structure in terms of the processing efficiency, the open-source evaluation framework is adopted for investigating the relationships between the network architecture and the hardware-level options. We also present the selection criteria of array structure that leads to the efficient accelerator designs.


Modern fatherhood in Western society is a paradox of complex and competing images emphasising the importance of paternal involvement. In this article the author reports on a small qualitative study which explores the ways in which definitions of fatherhood and paternal identities are located within men's personal experiences of fatherhood, as well as within a variety of social contexts and processes.


An effect of the carrier recombination process in silicon materials on the microwave reflection coefficient is analyzed in the frequency domain. The process is described using a Shockley-Hall-Read (SHR) single level recombination model. Carrier recombination kinetics is characterized with four parameters, surface recombination velocity, activation energy, minority carrier capture cross section and concentration of the recombination centers. These parameters are evaluated for p-type FZ and CZ silicon wafers contaminated with Cu, Ni, and Fe based on the Nyquist plots. In the evaluation procedure a nonlinear simplex method is used for fitting the experimental data to the model.


In this paper, we investigate the decay properties of the thermoelastic Timoshenko system with past history in the whole space where the thermal effects are given by Cattaneo and Fourier laws. We obtain that both systems, Timoshenko-Fourier and Timoshenko-Cattaneo, have the same rate of decay $(1 + t)^{-1/8}$ and satisfy the regularity-loss type property. Moreover, for the Cattaneo case, we show that the decay rate depends of a new condition on the wave speed of propagation $\chi_{0,\tau}$. This new condition has been recently introduced to study the asymptotic behavior in bounded domains, see for instance [5] and [27]. We found that this number also plays an important role in unbounded situation, affecting the decay rate of the solution.


b Come a presidential election year, and one journalistic certainty will be an explosion of stories about the relation between broadcasting and politics. Today's "bully pulpit'' takes the form of a television tube aglow with incumbent or hopeful presidential images. But in 1924, when broadcasting and presidential elections first met, its shape, for many Americans, was that of a speaker horn or a telegrapher's headset.' Here was a phenomenon which could no more escape the attention of that era's press than it does today's. How that press of the early 1920s viewed the impending marriage of broadcasting and politics was among the findings of some recent research on how the periodical press, in the years 1919-1924, reported radio's beginnings.' Although most of the earliest writing about radio and politics was found in the election year of 1924, there were some earlier references to what this relation might be. Among the first albeit oblique allusions to political broadcasting was a concern about the consequences radio advertising might have on program content: J. Hannaford Elton, writing in the June 1922 Illustrated World, foresaw the possibility of a presidential address interrupted by a voice asking:


Background: Recent findings of a tight coupling between visual and auditory association cortices during multisensory perception in monkeys and humans raise the question whether consistent paired presentation of simple visual and auditory stimuli prompts conditioned responses in unimodal auditory regions or multimodal association cortex once visual stimuli are presented in isolation in a post-conditioning run. To address this issue fifteen healthy participants partook in a "silent" sparse temporal event-related fMRI study. In the first (visual control) habituation phase they were presented with briefly red flashing visual stimuli. In the second (auditory control) habituation phase they heard brief telephone ringing. In the third (conditioning) phase we coincidently presented the visual stimulus (CS) paired with the auditory stimulus (UCS). In the fourth phase participants either viewed flashes paired with the auditory stimulus (maintenance, CS-) or viewed the visual stimulus in isolation (extinction, CS+) according to a 5:10 partial reinforcement schedule. The participants had no other task than attending to the stimuli and indicating the end of each trial by pressing a button. Results: During unpaired visual presentations (preceding and following the paired presentation) we observed significant brain responses beyond primary visual cortex in the bilateral posterior auditory association cortex (planum temporale, planum parietale) and in the right superior temporal sulcus whereas the primary auditory regions were not involved. By contrast, the activity in auditory core regions was markedly larger when participants were presented with auditory stimuli. Conclusion: These results demonstrate involvement of multisensory and auditory association areas in perception of unimodal visual stimulation which may reflect the instantaneous forming of multisensory associations and cannot be attributed to sensation of an auditory event. More importantly, we are able to show that brain responses in multisensory cortices do not necessarily emerge from associative learning but even occur spontaneously to simple visual stimulation. Published: 6 February 2007 BMC Neuroscience 2007, 8:14 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-8-14 Received: 29 August 2006 Accepted: 6 February 2007 This article is available from: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2202/8/14 © 2007 Meyer et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


A new family of blue-light emitting supramolecular basket-shaped liquid crystalline compounds based on p-tert-butyl-calix[4]arene core to form self-assembly and columnar hexagonal phase.


The devices, systems and methods to ensure end-to-end quality of service is provided. Device to ensure end-to-end quality of service in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, in the device in order to ensure end-to-end quality of service in a cooperative system for Internet Protocol-based, the service provider providing the Internet Protocol-based service call session control unit (call session control Function) and SIP (session initiation protocol) and send and receive messages, the server to define the service information of the Internet-based protocol; Control unit for receiving the service information from the server, determining a service policy by using the received service information; And a gateway for controlling the service end-to-end quality of service according to the decided service policy. GRX (GPRs Roaming eXchaging), IPX (IP Interworking eXchage), (IMS Interworking Networks) IMIN


In recent years, iris biometric systems have increased in popularity and have been proven that are capable of handling large-scale databases. The main advantage of these systems is accuracy and reliability. A proper iris patterns classification is expected to reduce the matching time in huge databases. This paper presents an iris indexing technique based on Local Intensity Order Pattern. The performance of the present approach is evaluated on UPOL database and is compared with other recent systems designed for iris indexing. The results illustrate the potential of the proposed method for large scale iris identification.


No Limits invited representatives from student unions to write about closer links between nursing students and the larger student unions.


A study of stalled flow performance of multistage compressors is presented. A new compressor characteristic is developed, describing the axisymmetric pumping performance over the entire compressor flow range, including reversed flow. This axisymmetric characteristic is required in any current rotating stall model. It is possible for the axisymmetric performance to rise above the measured stall point pressure rise, thus indicating greater unstalled pressure rise potential. In this context, the axisymmetric characteristic in forward flow is viewed as paralleling diffuser performance. A simple two-dimensional reversed flow model is presented, and is shown to be in reasonable agreement with available high backflow compressor data. The model predicts that the blade stagger angle greatly influences the reversed flow characteristic. Calculations are carried out using the rotating stall model of Moore and the axisymmetric characteristic developed herein, and a technique is suggested for estimating the axisymmetric curve over the entire flow range.Copyright © 1984 by ASME


Thousand cankers disease (TCD) is caused by the fungal pathogen, Geosmithia morbida,a, and vectored by the walnut twig beetle, Pityophthorus juglandis. In infected walnut and butternut (Juglans spp.) hosts, tree decline and death results in ecological disruption and economic losses. A rapid molecular detection protocol for TCD using microsatellite markers can confirm the presence of insect vector or fungal pathogen DNA, but it requires specialized expensive equipment, and technical expertise. Using four different experimental approaches, capillary and conventional gel electrophoresis, and traditional PCR and qPCR, we describe simplified and inexpensive processes for diagnostic confirmation of TCD. The improved and rapid detection protocols reported here reduce time and equipment costs associated with detection of molecular pest and pathogen DNA by: 1) using conventional gel electrophoresis or TaqMan molecular probes to elucidate the detection limits for G. morbida and P. juglandis DNA; and 2) identifying resources that allows visualization of positive test results for infected host plant tissue samples. Both conventional gel electrophoresis and TaqMan molecular probe protocols detected presence of DNA from TCD-associated fungal and insect samples. These procedural improvements can be readily adopted by diagnostic end-users and adapted for use with other complex disease systems to enable rapid pest and pathogen detection.


The problem of wavelet density estimation is studied when the sample observations are contaminated with random noise. In this paper a linear wavelet estimator based on Meyer-type wavelets is shown to be L strongly consistent for f(x) with bounded support when Fourier transform of random noise has polynomial descent or exponential descent.


Objective To investigate the effects of cataract with seclusion or occlusion of pupil.Methods Using scleral tunnel incision according to different condition,three kinds of methods (separeting by irrigation and suction,expansion and draging,making small radil cuts at inferior pupillary margin) were selected to manage pupillary zone,and then circular capsulorhexis or capsulotomy,hydrodisection,phacoemulsification removing residual cortex out and implantation of pasterior chamber intraocular lens.15 cases (18 eyes) were followeol up for 4~12 monehs and review visual acuity.Results Visual accuity was 0.5 or better in 33.3%,0.3~0.4 in 44.5%,0.1~0 2 in 22 2%.Conclusions After pupillary zone management with three kinds of methods,cataract extraction and pasterior IOL implantation are safe,light injury and with satisfactory effect.