Objective: To determine the Nursing care aimed at the patient with Acute Leukemia (LA) who attends three hematology units of three 4th level institutions, based on the level of uncertainty that is generated at the diagnosis and onset of treatment. Design: Quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study conducted with 21 adult patients in the city of Bogota. It is specifically the instrument (MUIS-ADULT) Uncertainty scale before Mishel disease. The data was processed in R Software for multiple correspondence analysis. For the bivariate analysis, the Chi Square and Kruskal Wallis test was applied. Results: The level of uncertainty was high in 52.4% and average in 42.9% of the sample. By dimensions, it is evident that the most limited was Cognitive Capacity 60.4%. The analysis of multiple correspondences without evidence relationship between the variables of the instrument and the type of disease, age or sex. There is no evidence difference in the answers identified the type of medical diagnostic. A bivariate analysis was performed associating schooling and the level of uncertainty with a significance of 0.10. Conclusions: Patients diagnosed with LA have a regular and high degree of uncertainty. In response, the proposal of Patient Care is proposed based on the factors that increase uncertainty. There is no evidence describing the phenomenon of Uncertainty in the adult patient with LA, which poses an opportunity in research to contribute to nursing knowledge and lead to the improvement of care practices.


Nowdays, cerebral palsy is a leader in the structure of chronic diseases of childhood. The earliest start of the rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy, continuity and phasing their implementation, systematic and comprehensive, individual approach provide children with cerebral palsy to attain optimal physical, intellectual, psychological and/or social functional levels and to support it, thereby giving them tools designed to change their lives and expand their independence According to the latest scientific data in Russia today more than 40 % of newborns have various health disorders. Disease of the newborn, threatening the formation of cerebral palsy in almost half of cases partially or completely curable, but it requires time to diagnose them and begin proper rehabilitation treatment. It was in early childhood may successfully correct the existing neurological and orthopedic disorders, minimizing the effects of damage to the central nervous system. Introduction to the complex rehabilitation of patients with cerebral palsy high-tech methods of rehabilitation treatment will provide for pathogenetic treatment and significantly increase the speed of recovery of disturbed functions that will significantly reduce the degree of disability of such patients. Existing conditions of medical care and rehabilitation can not fully ensure a continuous process of complex rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy. It is necessary to further improve the quality of treatment and rehabilitation, and their accessibility to children with cerebral palsy.


This paper investigated the capacity of Hyperion images coupled with Partial least squares analysis (PLS) for mapping agricultural soil properties. Soil samples were collected from Cicero Creek Watershed of central Indiana, and analyzed for soil moisture content (MC), soil organic matter (SOM), total carbon (C), total phosphorus (P), total nitrogen (N) and clay content. Two scenes of Hyperion images covering the watershed were acquired, calibrated and georeferenced, and image spectra were extracted from them. Two phases of PLS modeling was conducted: all samples were used and outliers were identified and removed in phase 1, and in phase 2, the outlier removed dataset were split into two subsets for calibration and validation. The PLS results for both phases indicate that PLS modeling of Hyperion spectra is effective to predict MC, SOM, total C, and total N, but resulted in low correlations for total P and clay content. The low correlation for total P is attributed to low correlation between SOM and total P. The worst correlation for clay content is due to the low signal-to-noise ratio of Hyperion images in the short wave infrared region. Future work is needed for improving the estimates of total P and clay content.


The front page photographs of the New York Times last week were a striking study in contrasts. In the 12 August 2009 photograph, a man at a Lebanon, Pennsylvania, healthcare town-hall meeting was angrily shouting at his senator, Arlen Spector. According to the accompanying article, many of the attendees had been alerted of the meeting by e-mail from the Constitutional Organization of Liberty and the Berks County Tea Party. The primary concerns of those who spoke were abortion, euthanasia, coverage of immigrants, and privacy rather than health-care reform [1]. A link on the Berks County Tea Party Web site discusses Liberty Counsel's analysis of the proposed health-care bill, HR 3,200. Some of the verbatim analysis points that do not match their cited HR 3,200 sections.


In Europe, the number of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) cases has been increasing in the last decade, and the number of endemic areas has also been increasing. Bulgaria, located in southeastern Europe, is not in the TBE endemic area. However, sporadic TBE cases have been occasionally detected. The disease has a natural-focal nature, pronounced seasonality, with a vector- Ixodes ticks that transmit the infection from animals to humans. TBE is severe infection with specific lesions of the central nervous system (CNS), with residual phenomena and high lethality. The first cases of TBE in Pernik district were registered in 2015. The aim of the study is to consider clinical cases of TBE in Pernik district during period 2017-2020, to look for an epidemiological link between them and to monitor severity of the infection. We briefly present the most characteristic clinical and laboratory features of four laboratory confirmed cases of tick-borne encephalitis in the last 4 years. The mean age of all of the patients was 56. All four cases were observed in May, June, and July. They proceeded relatively smoothly with a favorable outcome, without paresis or paralysis of the limbs, without seizures or loss of consciousness. In the first case of computed tomography, no pathological changes in the brain were observed, while in the other three cases multiinfarction encephalopathy, evidence of initial cerebral edema and two porencephalic foci were found. Two of the patients had meningoradicular irritation with positive symptoms of Kerning, Brudzinski and Babinski, while in the other two patients these symptoms were absent. In all four cases there was a classic change in the hemogram: moderate leukocytosis with granulocytosis, and in the study of cerebrospinal fluid - a slight increase in total protein, moderate pleiocytosis and normal values of sugar and chloride. Only one of the patients was reported to be bitten by a tick, and the other three were most likely infected through food (raw goat's milk). Confirmed cases of TBE in Pernik district, although isolated, show that the virus is circulating in this region. This is facilitated by a number of factors: climate change, activity of the epizootic process in the tick population, different species of vertebrates in natural foci; presence of a large number of goats infected with viruses. Although cases of TBE have been reported only sporadically due to a lack of sufficient testing, TBE virus is circulating in Pernik district. Comprehensive measures are needed: through good awareness of clinicians, search for infection in patients with viral meningitis, increased screening of raw milk by the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency, future studies on ticks and farm animals for presence of TBE in this region. This study is a prerequisite for future research in this direction.


DOCUMENT RESUME 24 VT 015 730 Sorensen, Aage B. The Occupational Mobility Process; An Analysis of Occupational Careers. Johns Hopkins Uliiv., Baltimore, Md. Center for the Study of Social Organization of Schools. Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, D.C. R-125 PR-6-1610 Mar 72 OEC-2-7-061610-0207 149p. MF-$0.65 HC-$6.58 *Academic Achievement; *Career Change; Careers; Educational Background; Employment )pportunities; Family Background; Human Resources; *Occupational Choice; *Occupational Mobility; Social Mobility; *Vocational Development To further understanding of the process thr)ugh which occupational careers are formed, this study analyzed life histories to determine job-shifts undertaken by a cohort Jf men 30-39 years of age. It was proposed that individuals will decide to leave a job when they perceive that a gain in achievement is possi.ble. The analysis of the outcome of job shifts revealed that gain in prestige and income are determined by the achievement of the job left and a person's resources (education, family background, and ability), with the most important resource blein4 the individual's education. It was also demonstrated that such structural constraints as level of employmInt and distribution of job opportunities may be measured by the amomit of variance explained in the prestige or income of the job entered. Finally, it was shown that the level of achievement increases with age and that the covariance between resources and achievement also increases. (Author/SB) 4 FILMED FROM BEST AVAILABLE COPY THE OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY PROCESS: AN ANALYSIS OF OCCUPATIONAL CAREERS Grant No. OEG-2-7-061610-0207 Project No. 61610-02-05 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. EDUCATION & WELFARE OFFICE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRODUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGINATING IT POINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY Aage B. SOrensen


Contents: Introduction -- Foreword -- The Rabbitt family in Ireland : Mary (1859-1896) ; Timothy (1863-1940) ; Martin (1865-1932) ; Bridget (1868-1949) -- The first generation in New Zealand : John (1855-1941) ; Patrick (1858-1924) ; William (1873-1938) -- The second generation in New Zealand -- Appendices -- The third and fourth generation lists -- Family charts -- Acknowledgments -- Family members, past and present. The parents of the three Rabbitt brothers who came to New Zealand were William and Bridget Rabbitt (nee Golding 1836-1914)


In 2002 a joint seminar 'Developing and celebrating good practice in primary Design and Technology' (Nuffield Foundation, Design and Technology Association and the Centre for Research in Primary Technology (CRIPT)) formed the impetus for this research. One of the recommendations from the seminar was that a small working party of key players should develop a research framework and plan co-operative research activity utilising school and university links across participating universities.


The goal of theological education is to prepare students for their careers. It does not stop there, however; a further goal of theological education is to enable students to live lives of purpose—thus not only to transfer knowledge to students, but also to channel knowledge into meaningful Christian service. Making connections between faith, living and learning is thus a primary purpose of theological education. These necessary connections are made between faculty, staff and students by establishing and maintaining mentoring relationships. Hence, this article considers the prospects of mentoring in theological seminaries with the aim of challenging seminaries to revisit the use of mentoring in the preparation of students.


Introduction: Stroke is the most common nervous disorder in the world. For successful implementation of physical rehabilitation programs for these patients it is crucial that any important relevant factors on this process to be explored. This study using a systematic review of relevant literature was done to comprehensively investigate these factors. Method: Our study was a systematic review. We conducted a search on international scientific digital data bases including: Science Direct, pub Med, ProQuest, Google Scholar, Elsevier and Ovid databases spanning 1991-2014 using CVA, Stroke, Rehabilitation, physical Rehabilitation key words and national databases including: Iron doc, Iran Medex, SID spanning 1380-1393 using Persian equivalent keywords. We found 648 relevant articles from which only 7 original articles and 8 review articles were qualified for inclusion in our systematic review. Results: Based on the resulting data the most important contributing factors in physical rehabilitation of stroke patients determined as follows: Age of stroke survivor, Early scheduling of rehabilitation programs, mental status, Self-care capabilities and extension and severity of hemiplegia. Conclusion: It is very important that the members of rehabilitation team have a clear understanding about relevant effective factors contributing to successful implementation of rehabilitation programs in stroke patients. This good understanding can safeguard smooth transition of these clients toward recovery.


The invention discloses a role access control-based information system data storage layer and a building method. User name, password and login times of information system registered users are stored through a user data table; a plurality of roles with access authorities of different levels are stored through a role data table; and a matching relationship between the users and the roles is stored through a user and role relationship data table. The data tables of the data storage layer are called by an information system to realize modification of system user information and matching between the users and the roles and further fulfill the purpose of endowing and controlling the access authorities of the users.


This past February, the editor of the alumni magazine for the college where I work interviewed me. The theme of the forthcoming issue of the magazine was "wellness," whereas the previous issue's theme was "the arts." The dean of the School of Arts and Humanities encouraged the editor to contact me, one of a few humanities faculty on campus who study health. Since these topics are usually the purview of practitioners in the college's Center for Health and Wellness and faculty in the School of Sciences and Social Sciences, I wondered whether my dean encountered pushback when advocating for a humanities perspective. At the very least, I imagined that someone at the college probably responded that "the arts" just had its issue. I sensed that my suspicions were correct when the editor still had a puzzled look on her face 10 minutes into the interview. Rather than continue to labor through explanations of my research and interdisciplinary fields such as the "Medical Humanities," I mentioned the intensely emotional experiences that my students have when talking to family members dying from cancer, shared feelings that rise to the surface in my undergraduate class on "Health Communication and Rhetoric of Cancer." I also explained how communication scholars study health and medicine in comparison to practitioners. "It's the symbolic side of medicine, rather than the clinical side," I said, though I cringed as I gave that simplistic and antagonistic description. When the wellness issue of the college's alumni magazine published this May, the editor e-mailed me a thank you and wrote, "The story about your Health Communication class adds a layer of depth to the topic." The editor did not expand upon her comment, but after reading through the magazine I noticed that the topics of the


The operation of radon detection diffusion chambers of truncated conical shape was studied using Monte Carlo calculations. The efficiency was studied for alpha particles generated randomly in the volume of the chamber, and progeny generated randomly on the interior surface, which reach track detectors placed in different positions within the chamber. Incidence angular distributions, incidence energy spectra and path length distributions are calculated. Cases studied include different positions of the detector within the chamber, varying atmospheric pressure, and introducing a cutoff incidence angle and energy.


This thesis explores the lived experience of race as told through narratives of the city. It draws on photo diaries, observations and qualitative interviews with 32 people aged between 20 and 30 years old in three areas of Manchester. It examines how discourses, which construct UK cities as tolerant and multicultural spaces, are reproduced by the respondents and yet are contradicted by their everyday experiences. It argues that narratives that actively silence race, for example through notions of tolerance and colour-blindness, obscure the ways that people are differentially positioned and makes it difficult to name difference and name racism. The thesis explores a series of dilemmas that form part of the struggle to reconcile multiple and often contradictory levels of experience and situates these within the broader political context. The thesis engages with discussions around what have been broadly defined as ideas of ?post-race?. It argues that the city becomes a useful avenue through which to direct this discussion, because it acts as a location in which race is imagined in conflicting ways; simultaneously as a site of segregation and conflict and cosmopolitanism and ?mixing?.The thesis explores how people talk race through their representations of different spaces of the city. It argues that people?s stories about their relationship to place help make perceptible the different ways that they deal with difference. Race is silenced in narratives of place, emerging primarily through coded references to class and criminality, except when it is articulated with exotic and ?sympathetic? representations of the ?ethnic? or ?migrant? neighbourhood, or with a white underclass. It also examines how, within these narratives, people talk about knowing others that they emphasise are racially or ethnically different. Notions of tolerance and colour-blindness are invoked throughout these narratives and used to suggest that they are emblematic of a new generation. The thesis argues that the respondents' narratives resonate with national discourses of multiculture that imagine liberal spaces of cosmopolitanism and, simultaneously, silence inequalities and exclusion. The central problem is that these discourses and processes of silencing do not take account of the meanings of race and how people are differentially positioned. Consequently, they disable questions about the significance and the effects of race. This has implications for how racism can(not) then be named. People subjected to racism are, instead, under pressure to assimilate and conform to the behavioural norm. The thesis argues that respondents? narratives of the everyday can, therefore, be interpreted as a form of orientalism (Puwar 2004). They are indicative of the kind of multiculturalism that ?tolerates? and ?bestows rights? on the racialised Other, but does nothing to demythologise the Other, or engage with the needs of minorities (Amin, 2010). The fa�ade of ?racial etiquette? when it is constructed as such, thus implies a ?refusal to understand? (Foucault 1978), because to do so would necessitate confronting the currency of racism and the fact of white privilege.


differences arm span were significant (p values < 0.05), no significant differences were found according to their study level, the difference in height and arm span between males and females weresignificant, there were a strong positive correlation between arm span and height. The correlation coefficient for males was 0.555, for females was 0.602, and overall correlation for total sample was 0.762. In conclusion these correlations were statistically significant.Therefore, the arm span measure seems to be a reliable indirect anthropometric measurement for estimating body height in adults.


BACKGROUND
It is well established that patients with glioma may experience adverse general (eg, headache) or focal symptoms (eg, personality changes) and neurocognitive deficits (eg, planning), but they may also experience severe emotional distress. We investigated the prevalence of depressive symptoms in patients with newly diagnosed glioma and in matched cancer-free persons.

METHODS
For this study, we recruited patients with glioma diagnosed within 12 months at all 4 neurosurgical clinics in Denmark. The cancer-free comparison group was identified through the Danish Central Person Register and matched on sex and age. Participants' depressive symptoms were evaluated using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D; score range, 0-60), with a cutoff score ≥16 indicating moderate-to-severe depressive symptoms.

RESULTS
In this study, 363 of 554 patients with glioma and 481 of 1,304 cancer-free persons participated. Mean age of all patients was 55 years and 60% of the population was male. Mean scores for depressive symptoms were statistically significantly higher among patients with glioma, with a mean CES-D score of 10.9 (95% CI, 10.1-11.8) compared with 5.3 (95% CI, 4.7-5.8) among cancer-free persons (P<.0001). Overall, 92 patients with glioma (25%) and 30 cancer-free persons (6%) had moderate-to-severe depressive symptoms. After adjustment for marital status, education level, and comorbidity, the prevalence of depressive symptoms was 5 times higher among patients with glioma compared with cancer-free persons.

CONCLUSIONS
A substantially higher prevalence of moderate-to-severe depressive symptoms was identified in patients with glioma compared with cancer-free persons. This indicates the importance of programs to systematically identify and manage depressive symptoms in patients with glioma.


Negative of an undated painting depicting soldiers near unidentified buildings. Source: Hitler. Place: Munich. Govt. Catalog # G.O.1.4249.47. Data: N-S-D-A-P are the letters above the big inscription in the painting. Oil painting on canvas 29 x 22. By Emmy L. Leola.


ABSTRACT With the rapid increase of international hotels in China, the importance of talent localization has widely been recognized, although empirical research is still limited. This paper explores the current situation of talent localization of international luxury hotels in China and its influencing factors from a cultural perspective through in-depth interviews with executives and senior managers of hotel associations, luxury hotels, and hotel owners. The findings indicate that the localization process of senior managers is still slow. One of the important barriers to the localization process is cultural differences, which are analyzed at the social, organizational, and individual levels. Contradictory pressures between standardization and localization and mistrust issues influenced by culture differences are further discussed. Practical implications are indicated.


In order to solve the requirements of multi-robot control system for human-computer interaction interface, we designed a multi-robot interaction interface based on Internet of Things (IoT). Firstly, based on open-source platform, we used Qt creator to design the display interface, and used PyQt5 to write programs of each module of the graphical user interface (GUI). After that, we have completed the design and function realization of the interaction interface system. This system is capable of many functions, such as motion control function, video monitoring function and speed regulation function, and the test results show that these functions work stably.


There is provided a technique (110) for operating a wind farm (12) at the increased power ratings. The technique (110) comprises registering (112) a plurality of operating parameters (96) of the wind turbine generator (14), evaluating (114) the plurality of operating parameters (96) with respect to the respective design ratings of the operating parameters (100), and dynamically increasing a power rating (116) of the wind turbine generator (14) based on the assessment.


Thifluzamide is a SDHI (succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor) fungicide, which interferes with succinate ubiquinone reductase in the mitochondrial electron transport chain of fungi. Presently, jinggangmycin is the major fungicide extensively used for the control of rice sheath blight caused by Rhizoctonia solani and resistance to jinggangmycin was first reported to occur in China. A total of 128 isolates of R. solani from Anhui Province of China were characterised for the baseline sensitivity to thifluzamide. The isolates were very sensitive to thifluzamide and the baseline sensitivity curve was unimodal with an average EC50 value of 0.058 ± 0.012 µg mL−1. However, EC50 values of boscalid (another SDHI fungicide) for inhibition of mycelial growth of 22 arbitrarily selected R. solani isolates ranged from 1.89 to 2.68 µg mL−1. Thifluzamide applied at 110 µg mL−1 exhibited excellent protective and curative activity against rice sheath blight and provided 81.1–91.0% protective or curative control efficacy. In field trials in 2010 and 2011, control efficacies of thifluzamide at 82 g.a.i ha−1 15 and 30 days after second application were 84.2% and 86.7%, respectively, suggesting excellent activity against sheath blight. There was a statistically significant difference in the efficacy between thifluzamide and boscalid or jinggangmycin. These results suggested that thifluzamide should be a good alternative fungicide to jinggangmycin for the control of rice sheath blight.


Basically,Xianglin and Cao Qiqiao are both slaves in the iron-room-like feudal China.They,who have strong enslaved awareness,both suffered unfortunate experiences.The difference is that Xianglin is willing to be a slave but fail to maintain and Cao,who is prefer to be a ghost to a slave,is enslaved.


To meet the needs of image stabilization system of domestic solar observatory imaging instrument,a position sensitive detector( PSD)-based electronics system design for high-precision sun sensor is proposed.Concrete measures are put forward to improve the sensitivity and reduce system noise. At presemt,level of the system noise is lower than 4 n A,and has high resolving power of 0. 3″ in center area of working scope,can cooperate with tip-tilt mirror to make up this system image stabilization system,which serve for Kua Fu and SPORT project and other solar imaging instruments which has high resolution imaging demand.


In their report that nearly 50% of healthy young Canadian adults have subnormal serum vitamin C concentrations, Cahill et al. (1) cite our observation that 60% of the acute-care patients in a tertiary care Montreal hospital had subnormal plasma vitamin C concentrations (2). More pertinently, we also observed that only 13% of people concurrently attending the hospital's outpatient test center had a subnormal plasma vitamin C concentration (2). The method used by Cahill et al. (1) for handling, storing, and analyzing serum vitamin C is questionable. To prevent vitamin C degradation, whole blood samples must be kept cold at all times, and as soon as the plasma is obtained it must immediately be stabilized by ice-cold deproteinization or flash frozen with ethanol-dry ice with prompt storage at −70°C to −80°C (3, 4). If not stored at −70°C to −80°C, vitamin C will disappear even from deproteinized plasma samples. The serum samples in the reported study were neither deproteinized nor flash frozen prior to storage, and they were stored at only −20°C. The high performance liquid chromatography detection method is not identified or described, precluding an assessment of its reliability.


The analytic solution of vibrational relaxation in a low-pressure gas is applied to the thermal dissociation of O3 in helium and of SO2 in argon. Use is made of experimental relaxation times to obtain average energy lost per collision. Calculated weak-collision rate constants are in very good agreement with experiment in the case of SO2, but only in fair agreement in the case of ozone. Several curious aspects of the ozone system, both experimental and theoretical, are discussed.


Background Elective TKR is an effective treatment option for end-stage knee osteoarthritis (OA) that is rapidly growing. Although women have as much or greater prevalence of knee OA than men, men undergo TKR more often than women. Patient preference is emerging as an important consideration in TKR gender disparities. However, few studies have examined the determinants of patients' preference in a racially diverse sample of men and women. Objectives We sought to identify whether determinants of patients' preference for TKR differ by gender. Methods Our sample consisted of 509 women (59% white) and 290 men (73% white) with chronic, frequent knee pain and radiographic evidence of knee OA. We used logistic regression models, stratified by gender, to identify clinical and socio-cultural determinants of patients' preference for TKR. Clinical and socio-cultural factors were entered simultaneously into the stratified models. Stepwise selection methods were used to select socio-cultural items to be included in the final models, using a criterion of p<0.20. All models were adjusted for age, income level, disease severity (using the WOMAC), and study site. Results White women had lower preference for TKR compared to white men (adjusted OR=0.56, 95%CI 0.34 to 0.94), whereas African-American (AA) women had higher preference for TKR compared to AA men (adjusted OR=1.24, 95%CI 0.70 to 2.18). Among women, items related to knowledge (p<0.001) and expectations (p=0.007) regarding surgical outcomes, and religiosity (p=0.045) were selected for inclusion in the multivariate model. Among men, items related to knowledge (p=0.46) and expectations regarding surgical outcomes (p=0.027) were selected for inclusion in the multivariate model (see Table 1). Table 1 Men Women OR (95% CI)* OR (95% CI)* Knowledge Regarding TKR  Heard of Surgery to Replace Knee 2.54 (1.17, 5.49) 0.48 (0.25, 0.92)  Family or Friends with TKR 1.64 (0.89, 2.99)  Understands TKR 1.54 (0.95, 2.50)  Prolonged Length of Stay After TKR 0.95 (0.61, 1.48  Prolonged recovery after TKR 0.80 (0.63, 1.02)  Residual Pain After TKR 0.72 (0.39, 1.35)  Residual Difficulty Walking After TKR 0.66 (0.37, 1.16) 0.55 (0.38, 0.79) Expectations Regarding TKR**  Q2 vs. Q1 2.00 (0.85, 4.70) 1.54 (0.80, 2.96)  Q3 vs. Q1 2.25 (0.89, 5.69) 3.02 (1.53, 5.94)  Q4 vs. Q1 5.16 (1.67, 15.93) 2.27 (1.16, 4.44) Religiosity**  Q2 vs. Q1 2.14 (0.92, 5.00)  Q3 vs. Q1 1.27 (0.57, 2.82)  Q4 vs. Q1 0.93 (0.45, 1.93) *Adjusted for race, age, income level, WOMAC and site; **Q1 = low; Q4 = high. Conclusions Expectations regarding surgical outcomes are important for both men and women with regard to their preferences for TKR, but the genders differ with regard to which other socio-cultural determinants impact these preferences. Interventions to reduce or eliminate gender disparities in the utilization of TKR should consider and target these factors. Disclosure of Interest None Declared


The purpose of this research is to develop the usage intention model of online e-learning systems. Based on the Technology Acceptance Model and D&M model, the proposed framework is validated with 285 respondents from online e-learning users in Taiwan, which shows that information quality, service quality, perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness are play an critical role to determine user satisfaction of e-learning system. More importantly, the perception of user satisfaction is key aspect affecting intention to use of e-learning system. According to the statistical results, an acceptable goodness-of-fit indicates that proposed model and samples is proper to exam the hypotheses. This study emphasizes that the managers and designers of e-learning system provider should pay more attention to understanding the perceptions of users' satisfaction and improving the service and information quality of the system. Therefore, successful e-learning systems not only provide robust service quality of information systems, but also delivery reliable information quality of online e-learning platform.


Advertisements transmit the economic information in commodities or services as well as aesthetical information. Therefore it can be said that advertising has aesthetical value. The aesthetical value of advertisements evolves from the inter motion between the object and the subject (the audience and the advertisement). The aesthetical value of advertisements is characteristic of the unity of authenticity, perfectness and beauty.


Environmental finance has a reputation for delivering market-leading content based on honest and unbiased reporting, cutting-edge research and profound attention to detail. All of the above have placed it at the top of the rapidly growing green bond market. The paper argues that the green label earned with the usage of technologies that prevent environmental pollution or contribute to the stabilization of the environmental situation makes it much easier to obtain external financing on global market. The analysis of the global green bond market dynamics has revealed that almost 70% of the total amount of green bonds were issued in between 2017 and 2019. Based on the data systematization of various open sources the new trends in the global green bond market were identified. The primary trends among them include the growth in the number of smaller deals, the use of mixed funding, the extension of the labelled bonds in the market and the new climate bonds Taxonomy. The conducted analysis of green bonds issues in Russia has shown that the first issue took place in May 2019, although several major Russian companies have been making statements about their intentions to issue green bonds since 2015. The paper states the reasons for the «green» potential reduction as well as for Russia's low involvement in the global green market. Those reasons mainly are products of immature legislative framework – poor development of regulation and legislation – and lack of its own green bond standards along with the required transparency, accuracy and integrity of disclosed information on issues to stakeholders. The creation of a sustainable development sector on Moscow stock exchange in 2019 provides to increase the issue of green bonds. Having analyzed the stated above the paper proves that the establishing of a unified green investment center linked to the Bank of Russia, as well as increasing transparency and openness of business, not only ensures the increase of green bonds issue in Russia but also contributes to overall environmental stability.


A number of topics in the qualitative spectral analysis of the Schrodinger operator $-\Delta + V$ are surveyed. In particular, some old and new results concerning the positivity and semiboundedness of this operator as well as the structure of different parts of its spectrum are considered. The attention is focused on conditions both necessary and sufficient, as well as on their sharp corollaries.


The invention discloses a pressing and earth covering device. The pressing and earth covering device comprises a central shaft, a central shaft sleeve, a shaft bracket of pressing wheels, a shaft bracket of an earth covering device, the pressing wheels, the earth covering device and a rear frame, wherein the central shaft is arranged in the central shaft sleeve in a sheathing manner, the bottom end of the central shaft is vertically connected with the middle of the shaft bracket of the pressing wheels in the vertical direction, and the pressing wheels are arranged at the two ends of the shaft bracket of the pressing wheels; the shaft bracket of the pressing wheels is vertically connected with the shaft bracket of the earth-covering device in the horizontal direction, and the earth covering device is arranged at the top end of the shaft bracket of the earth-covering device; and the central shaft is set in a lead screw structure. The pressing and earth covering device provided by the invention can realize the close contact between each seed and wet soil, so that the germination and the growth of the seeds are facilitated; by organically combining earth covering with pressing, the planting efficiency of the seeds can be greatly improved; and by efficiently combining with various farm equipment through the rear frame, the structure is simple, and the universality is high.


Polymer Suspensions is an area of research that finds applications in many fields such as the pharmaceutical industry, the food processing industry and the cosmetics industry. This dissertation aims at the study of polymer suspensions that find application in facial skin care products. The purpose of this work is the parametric study of the properties of such suspensions in order to obtain the appropriate values for the production of stable products with practically immobile suspended particles. In particular, we focused on the parametric investigation of the properties of clay particles and of the containing fluid to determine specific combinations of properties which will yield a polymeric suspension that is stable under environmental changes, with particles practically immobilized therein (precipitation <5 mm / year).
The parameters investigated were the particle diameter, the kinematic viscosity of the fluid, and the fluid density. In both coupled and uncoupled flow, a reduction in the particle terminal settling velocities was observed with increased fluid density, increased viscosity of the fluid, and a reduction in particle diameter. These results are consistent with the theoretical background of the problem under consideration. It is important to note that the movement of the particles in the analyses was mainly translational, with the rotational motion being negligible. It is necessary for the accuracy of the results that the time step should be of the order of 10-5 s or smaller. Based on the above results, the proposed polymeric suspension consists of an aquatic solution with 0.5% xanthan gum and clay particles of diameter d ≤ 150 μm. Other properties include a kinematic fluid viscosity of ≈ 100 m2 / s and a fluid density of 1350 - 1380 kg / m3.


This study aims to identify the availability of infrastructure in Tokaya Parit Village, South Pontianak Regency, Pontianak City, West Kalimantan. The method used in this study is a survey with data collection techniques through direct interviews with local communities and direct observation in the field. The results showed that the availability of infrastructure in Tokaya Parit Village is still inadequate, especially in terms of roads, clean water, and sanitation. Most of the roads in Tokaya Parit Village are still unpaved dirt roads and are badly damaged during the rainy season. The source of clean water available in this village is also still very limited, so people often have to take water from rivers or wells that do not meet health standards. In addition, sanitation in this village is also still inadequate, with most people still using squat-style toilets or mobile latrines. In conclusion, this study shows that the availability of infrastructure in Tokaya Parit Village still needs to be improved in order to meet the needs of the local community. There needs to be attention and support from related parties, both government and private, to increase the availability of infrastructure in this village, so that people can live properly and meet their basic needs


Commute travel time is not always reliable, and individuals often budget additional time to ensure that they arrive at their destination punctually. This additional time allotted for the commute needlessly reduces the amount of time that individuals could have spent performing other activities. This study investigates the amount of additional time commuters allocate to account for travel time unreliability and presents the results with a series of log-linear regression models. Data for this study originated from the 2013 McGill Commuter Survey, a universitywide survey in which students, staff, and faculty described their typical experience commuting to McGill University, located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Results reveal that drivers allocate the most extra time for their commute, whereas users of other modes (transit, bicycle, and pedestrian) budget about 29% to 66% less than drivers. The findings of this study also indicate that bus commuters add 14% more buffer time per bus taken, and train users budget 11% less time for every commuter train taken. These findings reveal an existing perception that the street network is unreliable (for either buses or cars). Hence, the city should consider implementing strategies such as exclusive bus lanes and variable cost congestion pricing schemes to reduce uncertainty in travel time and improve the reliability of the street network. Such strategies are expected to decrease the level of uncertainty related to commuting to work or school and accordingly reduce the amount of time lost because of additional time budgeted for uncertainty.


In this dissertation I would like to show how Heidegger beginning in 1927 gradually distances himself from transcendental thought in order to work out the conception of a fundamental ethos. In this development in Heidegger's thought I emphasize the role of his Schelling interpretation, specifically his lecture course on the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom from 1936 (but also from 1927/1928 and 1941). This reading of Schelling can be understood in relation to his 1931 interpretation of Metaphysics Θ 1-3 of Aristotle. The first part of my investigation describes and sketches out the different stages within the abandonment of the transcendental until the end of the 1930s : from the transcendental ability-to-be to the « transcendental neediness » (the end of the conditions of possibility), and from Being as possible to Being as im-possible (the discovery of the capability (δύναμις) that underlies Being ; the end of any enabling). In the second stage of the investigation I develop a more systematic part as a dialogue – as opposed to a comparison – between the middle and late thought of Heidegger and Schelling. Through this dialogue I show a convergence of both philosophers in their conceptions of ethos : ethos is a habitation in the world, which is based on the « correspondence » between the released love of humans and the primordial element of love (which is on the one hand Being and on the other hand the « Lord of Being »). This ethos is an ethos of the Im-possible, because, if it occurs, it cannot be anticipated or planned out and it is not inscribed in any horizon of expectation. It thereby discloses the letting-be of beings as their own.


The adolescent's concern with his physical self can be a source of excruciating self-consciousness for him. This can present some problems for the nurse as well during a physical examination.


In accordance with the teaching and studying of the course The Technology of Mechanical Manufacture and the Design of Clamping Apparatus, the paper aims at discussing how to shorten the teaching periods, how to increase the designing periods,and reform the teaching methods for the course offered, as a result of establishing a guarantee system for teaching quality of the course.


This article presents a model to be used for structured play therapy. Structured play therapy is a form of play therapy that is directive and uses planned, structured activities in almost every session. This model was developed to provide a framework for appropriate timing and sequence of structured activities. This article describes structured play therapy and how it differs from nondirective play, presents a structured play therapy model, presents specific guidelines for choosing appropriate structured activities and exercises, and presents a case study demonstrating application of the model.


Why minority governments work : multilevel territorial politics in Spain : by Bonnie N. Field, New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2016, 261 pp.


QoS is the key factor of NGN. As the Core framework of NGN brought forward by 3GPP,IMS should offer credible QoS security. This paper pats forward a solution for QoS in IMS, and makes in-depth research on the IMS network layer. Network layer QoS is supported by DiffServ technique. Also discussed are the Packet Scheduling Arithmetic for implementing DiffServ model.


A neyr EEPROM cell structure is proposed, which achieves a high capacitive coupling ratio of more than 0.8 in a small cell size of 11.25 p*2. The cell fabricated has sufficient cell threshold. wind.ows which extend to more than 5 volts and program cell current of more than 30 lfA at program volt.age of 14 voIts. The cell end.urance is more than L05 erase/write cycles. Using this cellstructure, a 4 mega bit full feat,ure EEPROM of a high performance and high reliability can be acquired. c-9-5


This paper agrees and insists that property shonld be a theory with strong explanatory power to demonstrate the necessity of community residents participation in ethnic villages' tourism,and the theory of property rights is necessary for the community involvement,the paper introduces the theory of human capital property rights,and accounts that intangible cultural resources such as national customs in ethnic villages internalize in the residents who are the "activation" vectors,rooting in the residents' thoughts and demeanor,and the property belongs to local residents naturally and is the human capital typically,and community residents participation in ethnic villages' tourism is the inherent requirement of human capital property rights' particularity.


Sedimentation is the main trigger in reducing the capacity of the irrigation channel. The weir is equipped with a sand trap, to withstand the volume of sediments originating from the upstream area, some of which enter the irrigation intake. The sand trap is designed with sufficient width and sloping energy slope, allowing sediment to settle. The Pengasih Weir, located in Kulonprogo Regency, is one of the weirs that is equipped with a sand trap building. The Pengasih Weir and the sand trap were built-in 1972. With the development of current conditions, it is necessary to evaluate the performance of the sand trap of The Pengasih Weir. In this study, the evaluation of sand trap performance is reviewed during the operational (settling) period. The result showed that the Meyer-Peter Muller formula can be used as an approach in the calculation of the amount of sediment transport and also to estimate the settled volume. It is recommended to flush the sand trap in between 184.922 days. The average value of trap efficiency was 0.89%. It can be concluded that the Pegasih Weir sand trap design still has good performance in settling the sediment inflow.


Abstract : This document describes operational and design aspects of the GRAphical Plotting System (GRAPS). It can be used both as an introductory guide to the system and as a reference for the experienced user. GRAPS is a computer program that displays and plots graphs of various types produced on a computer. In addition, GRAPS allows a user to configure and save certain operational parameters of the system. GRAPS can also be used to edit the text or label the data of graphs. This manual covers all aspects of GRAPS (GRAphical Plotting System). It will aid those interested only in the program's operation as well as those concerned with the program's design. The objective of this project was to implement, on a microcomputer, polar, Smith, linear-linear, linear-log, and log-log charts by using the BASIC language with multiple windows for display of Numerical Electromagnetics Code (NEC) results. In addition, a PC-family screen display, matrix printer, and Hewlett-Packard (HP) pen plotter display of the above graph types were to provided.


To investi gate the effect and the mechanism of Salvia Mil tiorrhiza Injection(SMI) on cardiomyocy tes apoptosis,neonatal Wistar rat cardiomyocytes were cultured under hypoxicThe apoptotic myocytes an d myocardio-enzyme method wed used to detect the change of myocytes metabolismΤhe results showed that the numbe rs of apoptotic cell and myocardio -enzyme in the hypoxic in the glucose deprivation group were greater th an those in the control group respe ctively;the number of apoptotic ce lls and the level of myocardio-enz yme of the two Salvia Miltorrhiza Bunge groups were less than those in the hypoxic group respectively,bu t similar to those in the control groupThe se results indicate that apoptosis is an important mechanism of myoc yte cell death under the condition of hypoxia and glucose deprivatio n and that SMI can suppressed the apoptosis greatly


We investigated the ferroelastic domain switching due to stress in Pb3(PO4)2 single crystals grown by the Czochralski method. The temperature dependence of the stress–strain hysteresis was also studied. From this result, it was determined that the Pb3(PO4)2 single crystal undergoes a phase transition near Tc=180 °C. In other words, the phase transition due to an external mechanical stress applied to Pb3(PO4)2 crystals causes a transformation from the ferroelastic to the paraelastic phase. From these results, it was confirmed that Pb3(PO4)2 crystals have ferroelastic characteristics below Tc.


Efficient communication in Bluetooth networks requires a good design of intra and inter-piconet scheduling solutions. Mathematical performance analysis of such solutions is very important. But, due to the complexity of the Bluetooth MAC, they have been analyzed mostly via simulations. We present analytic results regarding performance evaluation of a Bluetooth piconet, based on the M/G/l queue with batch arrivals and vacation times. We introduce a solution to support various traffics with QoS guaranties. We focus on two application constraints: the priority of a message and its end-to- end delivery deadline. We deal with two new local scheduling disciplines that we propose so far. The first is a combination of the class based priority queuing (PQ) and FIFO. The second is a combination of PQ and EDF. PQ is used between classes while FIFO and EDF are used within a class. We focus our interest to providing quality of service (QoS) guarantees to various classes of soft real-time applications by using a probabilistic approach. The waiting time distribution is then computed to obtain the probability that the response time doesn 't exceed a given deadline.


We present a new analysis of the dynamics of the planetary system around the pulsar B1257+12. A semianalytical theory of perturbation between terrestrial-mass planets B and C is developed and applied to improve the multiorbit timing formula for this object. We use numerical simulations of the pulse arrival times for PSR B1257+12 to demonstrate that our new timing model can serve as a tool to determine the masses of the two planets.


An experimental study is carried out to investigate the near-wake characteristics of an airfoil oscillating in pitch. An NACA 4412 airfoil is sinusoidally pitched about the quarter chord point between an angle of attack of -6 and +6 deg. A hot-wire anemometer is used to measure the phase-averaged velocity and turbulence intensity in the near-wake region of an oscillating NACA 4412 airfoil. The freestream velocities of the present work are 3.4, 12.4, 26.2 m/s, the corresponding Reynolds numbers are 5.3×10, 1.9×10, 4.1×10, and the reduced frequency is 0.1. Streamwise velocity and turbulence intensity profiles are presented to show the Reynolds number effects in the near-wake region behind an airfoil oscillating in pitch. All the cases in these measurements show that the velocity defects are very large at the lowest Reynolds number of Re = 5.3×10, and are small at the other Reynolds numbers of Re = 1.9 × 10 5 and 4.1×10 in the near-wake region. __________________________________________ † Assistant Professor, ‡ Associate Professor Dept. of Aeronautical Science and Flight Operation * Associate Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering Copyright  2002 The American Institute of Aeronautics, Inc. All rights reserved. A significant difference in turbulence intensity between 5.3×10 and 1.9×10 is observed. This study shows that a critical value for the Reynolds number in the nearwake of an oscillating airfoil of the present work exists in the range between 5.3×10 and 1.9×10.


The article gives statistics of demographical and family and household specifics of women that commit crimes against health of the population. The questions of the family and the juvenile in the context of drug addiction and drug crime are also elaborated on in the article.


The Illumina Hiseq platform was used to sequence the entire mitochondrial coding‐regions of 20 body lice, Pediculus humanus Linnaeus, and head lice, P. capitis De Geer (Phthiraptera: Pediculidae), from eight towns and cities in five countries: Ethiopia, France, China, Australia and the U.S.A. These data (∼310 kb) were used to see how much more informative entire mitochondrial coding‐region sequences were than partial mitochondrial coding‐region sequences, and thus to guide the design of future studies of the phylogeny, origin, evolution and taxonomy of body lice and head lice. Phylogenies were compared from entire coding‐region sequences (∼15.4 kb), entire cox1 (∼1.5 kb), partial cox1 (∼700 bp) and partial cytb (∼600 bp) sequences. On the one hand, phylogenies from entire mitochondrial coding‐region sequences (∼15.4 kb) were much more informative than phylogenies from entire cox1 sequences (∼1.5 kb) and partial gene sequences (∼600 to ∼700 bp). For example, 19 branches had > 95% bootstrap support in our maximum likelihood tree from the entire mitochondrial coding‐regions (∼15.4 kb) whereas the tree from 700 bp cox1 had only two branches with bootstrap support > 95%. Yet, by contrast, partial cytb (∼600 bp) and partial cox1 (∼486 bp) sequences were sufficient to genotype lice to Clade A, B or C. The sequences of the mitochondrial genomes of the P. humanus, P. capitis and P. schaeffi Fahrenholz studied are in NCBI GenBank under the accession numbers KC660761‐800, KC685631‐6330, KC241882‐97, EU219988‐95, HM241895‐8 and JX080388‐407.


Paolo Salucci a SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, Trieste, Italy Abstract. The gravitational field of Spiral galaxies is well traced by their rotation curves. Only recently it has become of extreme interest that the latter form a family ruled by two parameters of the luminous component: the disk length-scale RD and the magnitude MI . This evidence is so strong and consequential that it must be taken as the starting point for the investigation on the issue of the dark matter in galaxies. The emerging fact is that structural quantities deeply rooted in the luminous components, like the disk lenghtscales are found to tightly correlate with structural quantities deeply rooted in the dark component, like the DM halo core radii. These unexpected evidences may strongly call for a shift of paradigm with respect to the current Cold collisionless Dark Matter one.


In the presence of spin–orbit coupling and inversion symmetry of the lateral confinement potential a single electron does not exhibit matrix Berry phases in quasi-two-dimensional semiconductor quantum dots. In such a system we investigate whether many-body correlation effects can lead to finite matrix Berry phases. We find that the transformation properties of many-electron wavefunctions under two-dimensional inversion operation do not allow finite matrix Berry phases. This effect is exact and is independent of the form of electron–electron interactions. On the other hand, quasi-two-dimensional semiconductor quantum dots with lateral confinement potential without inversion symmetry can have finite matrix Berry phases. We find that many-body quantum fluctuations can change matrix Berry phases significantly in such systems.


Human African Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickn and morbidity throughout the world with Trypansoma b rhodesiense as the major causative agents. The Terminal tested against T. brucei rhodesiense parasites and the μg/mL were obtained for the ethyl acetate and ethanolic column fractions of the ethyl acetate fraction gave E. μg/mL for the very active fractions indicating prospect trypanocidal agent from the plant.


Regional alveolar hypoxia produces regional pulmonary vasoconstriction. Experiments were conducted to assess the influence of epinephrine and aminophylline infusion on the hypoxic vasoconstrictor response. Thirteen dogs were intubated with a double lumen endotracheal tube that allowed independent ventilation of each lung. One lung was then ventilated with 100 per cent oxygen, which maintained normal systemic arterial oxygenation while the other lung was ventilated with 100 per cent nitrogen to provide the alveolar hypoxic challenge. Distribution of blood flow to each lung was determined by the intravenous xenon-133 technique. In the control studies, there was a 37 per cent decrease in perfusion to the lung made hypoxic by nitrogen ventilation; the mean PaO2 was 71 mm Hg. Aminophylline infusion of 6 to 8 mg per kg decreased the response to 19 per cent with a concomitant decrease in PaO2 of 4 mm Hg to 67. After epinephrine infusion, mean dose of 0.005 mg per min, the shift in perfusion in response to alveol...


Background The first‐line therapy is effective for the treatment of primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP); however, maintaining the long‐term responses remains challenging. Low‐dose decitabine (DAC) has been adopted to treat refractory ITP, while its role in macrophage polarization has not been fully understood. We aimed to investigate the mechanistic role of DAC in M2 macrophage polarization and evaluated its therapeutic effect in ITP. Methods The M2 monocytes were identified by flow cytometry from peripheral blood mononuclear cells in healthy controls (HCs) and ITP patients. The expression of PPARγ, Arg‐1, DNMT3b and NLRP3, together with IL‐10 plasma levels was measured to examine its function. Bisulfite‐sequencing PCR was used to evaluate the methylation status of PPARγ promoter, and the binding affinity of KLF4 was measured by Cut&Tag. A sh‐PPARγ THP‐1 cell line was created to verify if low‐dose DAC‐modulated M2 macrophage polarization was PPARγ‐dependent. The passive ITP models were used to investigate the therapeutic effects of low‐dose DAC and its role in modulating polarization and immunomodulatory function of macrophages. NLRP3 inflammasome and reactive oxygen species were also tested to understand the downstream of PPARγ. Results The M2 monocytes with impaired immunoregulation were observed in ITP. After high‐dose dexamethasone (HD‐DXM) treatment, M2 monocytes increased significantly with the elevated expression of PPARγ, Arg‐1 and IL‐10 in CR patients. Low‐dose DAC promoted M2 macrophage polarization in a PPARγ‐dependent way via demethylating the promoter of PPARγ, especially the KLF4 binding sites. Low‐dose DAC alleviated ITP mice by restoring the M1/M2 balance and fine‐tuning immunomodulatory function of macrophages. The downstream of the PPARγ modulation of M2 macrophage polarization might physiologically antagonize NLRP3 inflammasome. Conclusions Low‐dose DAC promoted M2 macrophage polarization due to the demethylation within the promoter of PPARγ, thus enhanced the KLF4 binding affinity in ITP.


The purpose of the article is to study the theoretical and applied aspects and identify the problems of the "transformation" of hired labor, as one of the conditions for reforming the labor legislation of Ukraine, in the context of their economic and legal dimension. The labor relations that arise and function between an employee and an employer in Ukraine are regulated by the norms of labor law both of the Soviet period and from the time of the declaration of independence of Ukraine.The article emphasizes that starting from the 1990s and until now, the national labor legislation has problems that require: 1) legislative coverage and consolidation of the social purpose of labor law in the sphere of regulation of labor relations between an employee and an employer and their practical implementation; 2) correct clarification of the content of the behavior of the subjects of labor relations based on prohibitions, orders and permits that regulate certain aspects of labor activity; 3) reforming labor legislation in order to direct and bring it into line with the Constitution of Ukraine and generally defined principles and norms of international labor law; 4) the unity of the legal policy of the state in the field of labor of certain categories of employees; 5) creation of an effective legal mechanism to regulate the sphere of contractual relations, both individual and collective, taking into account the new social relations between employees and employers on the basis of social dialogue; 6) creation of an appropriate legal framework that would ensure the economic interest of employers in creating safe working conditions for employees; 7) legislative regulation of gender equality of the rights of men and women in the field of work in order to ensure equal opportunities related to remuneration for work results and social protection of employees; 8) new in the content approaches of legal regulation of legal responsibility for violations of labor legislation precisely because the norms of labor law are transformed from general formalized provisions into specific legal rights and obligations of subjects of labor relations.The article emphasizes that each person independently makes decisions about his own work and is personally responsible for his well-being. At the same time, labor legislation should be a high-quality and effective regulator of labor relations, which is the basis for meeting the material and social needs of the employee.


This paper analyzes how corruption affects the composition of public expenditures. First, a two-stage rent-seeking model with endogenous rent-setting is derived that captures both "political corruption" and "bureaucratic corruption". The model illustrates how asymmetries between industries in the degree of competition and in the difficulty of concealing bribery may influence the allocation of public spending. The theoretical implications are tested with a panel dataset for 26 OECD countries over the 1996 - 2008 period. The results suggest that the shares of spending on health and environmental protection increase, while the shares of spending on social protection and recreation, culture and religion decline with higher levels of corruption. The significance of these distortions is robust to a variety of specifications such as fixed effects, random effects, seemingly unrelated regressions, the inclusion of additional controls, and the use of alternative corruption indicators.


It is widely believed that hydraulic fracturing will occur in a fill dam when the stress in the dam is reduced to levels that are lower than the water pressure, a condition which allows for crack propagation in the dam body. The risk of hydraulic fracturing may increase when arching action occurs in the dam body. The aim of this study is to explain the cause of a dam failure using the finite element method. A case study, KE 2/20 REC dam, investigates a dam in Vietnam that failed a little under one year after it was put into operation at positions adjacent to the culvert. A build-up model is taken to simulate the stress-strain state in the dam body. Research reveals that the normal stress around the culvert was reduced to levels much lower than the water pressure. This reduction was due to the arching action associated with the effects of the culvert shape and the foundation. The findings suggest that the cause of the dam failure was related to the hydraulic fracturing phenomenon. Based on this conclusion, two countermeasures are proposed. These countermeasures are combinations created by changing the culvert shape and either shifting the position of the excavation slope 5.0 meters away from the former position or replacing the fill soil between the culvert and the excavation slope with a concrete block. The countermeasures are then verified by numerical models. The results show the effectiveness of the countermeasures for reducing the risk of hydraulic fracturing.


BACKGROUND
Patients undergoing heart valve surgery are routinely evaluated for the presence of coronary artery disease (CAD). Currently, concomitant valve intervention and surgical revascularization is recommended when there is obstructive CAD. Our objective was to evaluate the prevalence of CAD, its treatment strategies and their prognostic implications in a contemporary population of patients with valvular heart disease (VHD) referred for valve surgery (HVS).

METHODS
In a multicentre registry, consecutive patients with formal indication for HVS referred for a pre-operative routine invasive coronary angiogram (ICA) were analysed. Baseline characteristics, CAD prevalence and revascularization patterns, as well as their impact on short and mid-term all-cause mortality, were assessed.

RESULTS
Overall, 1133 patients were included; most had aortic stenosis (69%) and obstructive CAD was present in 307 (27.1%). HVS was ultimately performed in 82.3%. In patients with CAD, 53.4% were revascularized. After a mean follow-up time of 29.06 ± 18.46 months, all-cause mortality rate was 12.9%. In multivariate analysis, not having HVS (HR 6.845, 95% CI 4.281-10.947, p<0.001), obstructive CAD (HR 2.762, 95% CI 1.764-4.326, p<0.01), COPD (HR 2.043, 95% CI 1.014-4.197, p=0.022), and age (HR 1.030, 95% CI 1.009-1.063, p=0.047), were independent predictors of all-cause mortality. In patients with obstructive CAD who underwent HVS, revascularization was not significantly associated with survival (HR 2.127, 95% CI .0-4.494, p = 0.048; log rank p=0.042).

CONCLUSIONS
In a contemporary cohort of patients with VHD and surgical indication, overall obstructive CAD prevalence was 27%. CAD presence and severity were associated with higher mortality. However, revascularization was not associated with a survival benefit, except in patients with left anterior descending artery disease.


An improved microwave popcorn bags, which comprises a primary explosive particles produced popcorn in a microwave oven. The package comprises a plurality of microwave-transparent panels that bind each other to form a lumen for storage and popped kernels. Preferably, where a panel comprises a susceptor for heating the corn kernels, corn kernels each substantially uniformly distributed along the entire surface area of the susceptor. For receiving an unexploded kernels with additional jacket is microwave transparent material may be produced. Envelope sufficient strength during transportation and storage to contain and protect corn kernels, but when subjected to the internal pressure of the envelope popped corn kernels produced during the break will be blown. One panel bag with a releasable adhesive are preferably incorporated in the package, so as to allow removal of the panel after the burst process and thus reach popcorn. Preferably, the envelope and the removable panel is the same material and is preferably isolated from the rest can be any oil component with the bag in the storage period before the burst.


This paper presents a small-signal FE simulation technique for IMs to compute the high-frequency parameters with particular attention to the effect of saturation on the differential parameters under different loads and the effect of the artificial saliency introduced in the rotor cage. The simulation strategy is based on Field-Oriented Analysis and small-signal model of an IM. The simulation strategy is applied to a real example. Two IMs are selected: the first IM exhibits a regular rotor, i.e. no artificial saliency is introduced, while the second IM has a salient rotor, i.e. a width and hight variation of the rotor slot-open is introduced. Differential parameters, saliency and magnetic flux maps are compared. The saturation effect allows to find a saliency also in the IM with regular rotor. The effect of the artificial anisotropy is well visible in the IM with salient rotor.


The existing arguments regarding `reliance interest` are diverse and incoherent, which aggravate the confusion on understanding not only reliance interest itself but also the law of damages. So, I pursued to examine the current debates with a appropriate perspective and approach the usefulness of the concept of `reliance interest` with a critical view in this article. Firstly, I tried to introduce that the reliance interest matters in relation to 1) Civil Code section 535, 2) rescission based on mistake, 3) breaking off negotiation, 4) seller`s liability for warranty, 5) termination of contract, and point out the reliance interest is not used in same meaning in each area. Subsequently, I attempted to indicate that the reliance interest can be admitted only when it is based on wrongful reliance according to the basics of the law of damages and critically analyze when it can be acknowledge among the above-mentioned areas. Also, I argued that the reliance interest matters regardless of validity of contracts and is subject to the ordinary theories of the law of damages as `expectation interest` is, and can not coexist with the expectation interest. Further, I insisted that the recognition of the concept of the reliance interest might not be necessary, and an indiscreet and groundless borrowing this concept is inappropriate and should be sublated.


The invention discloses a method for preventing dialysis of the end face of a liquid packaging paper material. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps of: spraying plastic powder on the end face of paper at the inner side of an end overlapping seam of the packaging paper material to form a powder coating; heating the powder coating; obtaining a plastic coating after roasting at a high temperature, leveling and solidifying; and coating the end face of the entire paper by the plastic coating. The method disclosed by the invention has the advantages of simple process, convenience for operation and very good economic and social benefits.


Most problems in electrodynamics do not have an analytical solution so much effort has been put in the development of numerical schemes, such as the finite-difference method, volume element methods, boundary element methods, and related methods based on boundary integral equations. In this paper we introduce a local integral boundary domain method with a stable calculation based on Radial Basis Functions (RBF) approximations, in the context of wave chaos in acoustics and dielectric microresonator problems. RBFs have been gaining popularity recently for solving partial differential equations numerically, becoming an extremely effective tool for interpolation on scattered node sets in several dimensions with high-order accuracy and flexibility for nontrivial geometries. One key issue with infinitely smooth RBFs is the choice of a suitable value for the shape parameter which controls the flatness of the function. It is observed that best accuracy is often achieved when the shape parameter tends to zero. However, the system of discrete equations obtained from the interpolation matrices becomes ill-conditioned, which imposes severe limits to the attainable accuracy. A few numerical algorithms have been presented that are able to stably compute an interpolant, even in the increasingly flat basis function limit. We present the recently developed Stabilized Local Boundary Domain Integral Method in the context of boundary integral methods that improves the solution of the Helmholtz equation with RBFs. Numerical results for small shape parameters that stabilize the error are shown. Accuracy and comparison with other methods are also discussed for various case studies. Applications in wave chaos, acoustics and dielectric microresonators are discussed to showcase the virtues of the method, which is computationally efficient and well suited to the kind of geometries with arbitrary shape domains.


Large-scale microfluidic microsystems with complex three-dimensional (3D) configurations are highly in demand by both fundamental research and industrial application, holding the potentials for fostering a wide range of innovative applications such as lab-on-a-chip and organ-on-a-chip as well as continuous-flow manufacturing of fine chemicals. However, freeform fabrication of such systems remains challenging for most of the current fabrication techniques in terms of fabrication resolution, flexibility, and achievable footprint size. Here, we report ultrashort pulse laser microfabrication of freeform microfluidic circuits with high aspect ratios and tunable diameters embedded in 3D printed glass objects. We achieve uniform microfluidic channel diameter by carefully distributing a string of extra access ports along the microfluidic channels for avoiding the over-etching in the thin microfluidic channels. After the chemical etching is completed, the extra access ports are sealed using carbon dioxide laser induced localized glass melting. We demonstrate a model hand of fused silica with a size of ~3 cm * 2.7 cm * 1.1 cm in which the whole blood vessel system is encapsulated.


Review(s) of: Myth in Early Northwest Europe, by Glosecki, Stephen O (ed), (Tempe Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in collaboration with Brepols Publishers, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 320, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 21, 2007) hardback, xlii + 338 pages, 8 b/w illustrations, RRP 33.00/55.00 , ISBN 9782503526652. Review(s) of: Reflections on Old Norse Myths, by Hermann, Pernille, Jens Peter Sch dt and Rasmus Tranum Kristensen (eds), (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, Studies in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 1, 2007), hardback, xii + 176 pages, 3 b/w illustrations, RRP 50.00 , ISBN 9782503526140.


The virtual explosion in the amount of biomedical information, the switch away from a lecture-based style of teaching, and the perception that more of the student's time should be directed to patient-oriented activities have created an intense competition for time in the undergraduate medical curriculum. Our objectives are to impart an enthusiasm for learning together with an improved capacity to understand concepts and the ability to solve problems in clinical medicine. We rely heavily on the deductive capacities of the student. We shall emphasize horizontal (basic) and vertical (clinical) integration of disciplines that relate energy metabolism with fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances. The setting in which we begin to define a problem is in ''Paleolithic times'' because this is when metabolic control systems evolved and were most likely to be retained. Students are asked to deduce the best possible solutions for that problem, to ask for data to test their hypotheses, and to consider the ramifications of that solution in integrative terms. Subject matter is presented by informed leaders in either a small or large group format initially to set the stage. An interactive computer program was written as a supplement to demonstrate how we would utilize the information and concepts to design an element for teaching. The implications are that controls that were designed for primitive needs may lead to disorders in modern times because the current stimuli and needs are different. The power of the student's growing ability to solve problems should be reinforced by demonstrating the degree to which the properties deduced by the student to solve a particular problem are actually consistent with data from the literature.


A protective film that is stuck to a circuit formation surface of a semiconductor wafer, that has a polyimide substrate, and that has a heat-curable adhesive layer that is provided on one surface of the polyimide substrate and that is obtained from a composition that includes an acrylic polymer (a), a thermal radical generator (b) that has a one-minute half-life temperature of 140-200 °C, and a crosslinking agent (c).


Earlier studies speculated possible link between ABO blood type and risk of malignancies.
 Given recent increase in Colorectal cancer (CRC) cases in Nigeria amidst poor facilities for early diagnosis, unraveling measures for prevention and prognosis become critical options. This study aims at assessing the predictive association of ABO blood types with preoperative Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels and some markers of gut immunostasis among southern Nigerian population with CRC.

 The retrospective study evaluated 200 patients, scheduled for resection surgery for CRC between July, 2018 and September 2019 in Federal medical center Yenegoa, Nigeria. The relationship between the ABO blood types and CEA, interleukins, IL(6 and 8,) and Short chain fatty acids, SCFA (butyrate and propionate) were evaluated preoperatively using immunoturbidimetric assay, ELISA, and GC-MS respectively. The mean age of the patients was 51 years. The distribution of the ABO blood types in the patients were 60 (30.1%) for A, 50 (25%) for B, 79 (39.5%) for O, and 11 (5.5%) for AB. Patients with CEA levels <5 ng/mL, 6-30 ng/mL, and >30 ng/mL were classified as CEA Group 1, group 2 and group 3 respectively. Patient's blood types, demographic characteristics and tumor locations, were recorded. SPSS, 22 was employed for data analysis.

 We determined a significant correlation between CEA levels and IL 6 in different blood types of CRC patients. No significant correlation was observed between CEA and gender. Blood type A showed significant increase in mean levels of CEA and IL 6 when compared to blood type B and O. No significant difference was observed in the mean SCFA levels among different blood types.

 ABO blood type demonstrated significant prognostic value with CEA in colorectal cancer, with blood type A being most unfavorable.


Abstract This paper compares the total factor productivity (TFP) growth performance of the Chinese mainland and the Four Asian Tigers during their high-growth period and examines the effect of growth strategies pursued by these economies on TFP growth using a state-space model. Our research results show that TFP growth is quite limited in these economies, which is mainly attributed to their growth strategy. No significant productivity gains arise from the rapid growth of investments, trade openness, and an undervalued currency in these economies. The TFP growth is even found negatively related to trade openness for South Korea, the exchange rate undervaluation for Chinese Taiwan and Singapore, and the falling relative price of capital for the Chinese mainland, Singapore and South Korea. Government interventions encourage long-term TFP growth for the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, but hinder it in other economies. Higher inflation reduces TFP growth in Chinese Taiwan and Singapore.


In order to accurately monitor and analyze new energy resources in real time, the analysis and design of a distributed new energy resource monitoring device based on the Internet of Things cloud platform is carried out, and a Hadoop distributed new energy system based on the Internet of Things cloud computing is designed. It analyzes the computing architecture of parallel collection and distributed storage of new energy resource monitoring data, analyzes the infrastructure system of the distributed system, and builds the big data processing architecture and computing service architecture for the electricity information collection system based on the Hadoop cluster. Tasks are processed in parallel to improve the computing efficiency of electricity consumption big data; at the same time, in order to solve the problem of insufficient storage space caused by the sharp increase in the amount of data in the electricity consumption information collection system and the difficulty of data interaction at all levels, a distributed database is developed. The modular design of the parallel data collection system of HBase and the data warehouse tool Hive, and the distributed data calculation design based on the MapReduce method have improved the efficiency of data collection and the unified storage of heterogeneous data. The research provides reference for realizing an efficient and safe new energy resource monitoring data processing system.


It is important that a matrix is positive definited in many domain.In this paper,we introduce some rules and inequality relation about an n-square real symmetric positive definite matrix.Based on that we obtain that an n-square real positive definite matrix is symmetric.In particular,a to use method that an n-square real symmetric matrix is not positive definite is introduced.This method is very simple and convinient to use.


A modified policy analysis matrix is developed to study the costs and benefits of crop production in Thailand. Government intervention in production diversification is assessed with alternative indicators of comparative advantages. It suggests that intervention may be socially undesirable but there are exceptional cases, especially when economic externality exists.


People's quality of life is constantly improving and the level of science and technology is advancing by leaps and bounds. Facing the increasingly complex tasks, these tasks inevitably have various dangers. Let the robot complete these tasks, so that the robot has gradually become an irreplaceable part in people's life. For example, in the prevention and tracking of security incidents in public places, the monitoring range of ground cameras to targets is seriously limited and can not record the complete trajectory of criminals. This paper mainly proposes a novel tracking strategy, which uses UAV to locate and track a single target, which can locate and track all kinds of targets more efficiently and accurately.


This article addresses the problem of estimating scene visibility in time series of satellite images. We are especially focused on satellites with few spectral bands and high revisit frequency. Our approach exploits the redundancy of information acquired during these revisits. It is based on an unsupervised algorithm that tracks local ground textures across time and detects ruptures caused by opaque clouds, haze, cirrus and shadows. Experiments have been carried out on 18 PlanetScope time series covering various locations. These time series come with hand-made labeled ground truth. We compare our results with those of the PlanetScope algorithm and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method : success rates of 94% and 84% are reached for the visible and occulted regions classification.


Effect of gradational inflow or step-feeding is tested through experiments in a horizontal subsurface flow pilot-scale constructed wetland. The unit is a 3 m long and 0.75 m wide metal tank containing cobbles, where the vegetation (common reed) is planted. Experiments lasted from February 2007 to February 2008. Water samples were collected at the inflow, two intermediate points and the outflow of the system, and were analyzed in the laboratory for BOD, COD, nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations. A comparison was made for removals under various step-feeding schemes, including feeding only at the inflow. Results show that step-feeding application had a positive effect on wetland performance, since removal rates of most constituents were increased.


Background: Oxidant-antioxidant imbalance forms a prime component in pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Studies of oxidative stress markers in South Asians were sparse. Methods: One hundred and eighty COPD patients and eighty healthy nonsmokers were enrolled in the study. Serum malondialdehyde (MDA) and iron levels were estimated for oxidative stress. Three antioxidant markers evaluated-catalase, superoxide dismutase (SOD), and serum copper. Patients on antioxidant therapy and with sepsis and chronic illness were excluded from the study. Results: The mean age of COPD patients was 59.29 ± 10.3 years. Serum levels of MDA and iron were significantly higher in COPD patients compared to controls (5.21 ± 1.9 vs. 0.71 ± 0.29 nmol MDA/ml, P = 0.0001 and 69.85 ± 85.49 vs. 79.32 ± 24.39 μg/dl, P = 0.0001, respectively). Mean level of all antioxidant enzymes catalase, SOD, and copper were significantly diminished in cases when compared to control population (P = 0.001). Levels of MDA and iron were found to be significantly elevated in higher Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) classes (III, IV) when compared to lower GOLD Classes (I, II). The levels of serum antioxidants were significantly depleted in higher GOLD grades too. COPD patients who were male and smoked had significantly higher levels of oxidants and depleted antioxidant levels compared to female and nonsmoking compatriots. Serum MDA levels negatively correlated with forced expiratory volume 1 s and forced vital capacity (r = −0.19 and r = −0.21, P ≤ 0.01). The presence of a cough significantly correlated with higher levels of MDA and iron (P = 0.001). The levels of MDA negatively correlated with SOD and catalase levels. Conclusion: Oxidative markers (MDA and iron) are higher whereas antioxidants (catalase, copper, and SOD) are significantly reduced in patients of COPD. Serum MDA levels correlate with lung functions and disease severity.


Objective:To study the mammographic and clinical findings of phyllodes tumors.Methods:Clinical and imaging findings were retrospectively reviewed in 5 cases with 6 phyllodes tumors (5 benign,1 malignant) identified at preoperative mammography.Results:All patients were females,ranged in age from 20 to 51 years (mean,35 years),each of them respectively had a length of the history ranged from 1 week to 4 years.Painless breast lump was the commonest presentation.On clinical examination,all lumps were firm and mobile.The tumor was enlarging rapidly on 3 patients.On mammograms:the upper outer quadrant was the most commonly involved site (66.7%).All tumors were high density,nonspiculated soft tissue masses,their shape including lobulated (n=3),round (n=1) and oval (n=2).The tumor diameter varied between 2.5 and 7.5cm (mean,4.5cm).Four of 6 tumors were sharply defined;three in them,a clear halo was seen around the mass.Endotumoral calcifications and secondary signs of malignancy were absent.Conclusion:Although many of the phyllodes tumors are indistinguishable from fibroadenoma on the basis of clinical and radiological features,in large breast tumors with rapid growth,the tentative diagnosis phyllodes tumors should be considered more often.


This book is one of the signs of the times?an AngloAmerican combine of surgical literature?and the editors and contributors are to be congratulated on the thoroughness and completeness of their work. This volume deals with general surgery, and the majority of the writers are well-known American surgeons. The orthography is transatlantic, as exemplified by such words as neighboring, oxid, chlorid, findings, theaters, tumors, and the composition is superior to that generally met with in American writings. The illustrations number over 450, and are of unequal merit, but include many excellent photographic reproductions. Special attention may be directed to a short but good chapter on the Surgical Pathology of the Blood; but


Abstract This study aims to show how Margaret Cavendish's unprecedentedly self-affirming stance as a woman author is enabled by factors associated with her position as a displaced royalist during the 1650s. Her publication is initially catalysed by contact with royalist literary production in Interregnum London. Meanwhile, the setbacks suffered by her exiled husband provide one of a number of contexts in which her attention-seeking approach to publication might be construed as a form of legitimate self-display. The literature of feminine conduct also posits a connection between women's display and the maintenance of aristocratic authority rendered so vital for the wider body of royalists by their current political predicament. Even Cavendish's forthright statements of a desire for fame need not be seen to transgress feminine modesty if we regard her as drawing on the topical representational tradition of thefemme forte. Nevertheless, the changes in post-Restoration royalist culture necessitate alterations...


The design, installation, and performance of a ±100 kV gas switch for linear-transformer-driver (LTD) are presented. LTD demands require gas switches that can be operated at a 200 kV DC voltage, and require trigger jitter and inductance as small as possible. A field distortion switch has been designed based on the L3 switch, the design criteria of switch electric field and trigger system are explained in detail. A two dimensional plasma model is developed to analyze the contribution of trigger system to the closing of gas switch. An experimental platform was built to test the self breakdown and triggered breakdown characteristics of the switch. When the switch is charged to ±100 kV and is triggered by a -120 kV pulse with a 30 ns rise time, the delay time is 78 ns and the jitter is 1.6 ns. A comparative test was done to research the function of UV preionization gap, the test results shown that the UV preionization gap can reduce the switch delay time and jitter, it can effectively improve the trigger performance of the switch. Meanwhile, using the short-circuit discharge, the inductance and impedance were measured, the switch inductance is about 30 nH, and the impedance is varied from 50mΩ to 30mΩ.


Knowledge representation isveryimportant in intelligent systems -e.g. forknowledge discovery, datamining, and machinelearning. The human brain, a significant intelligent system, workswitha hugenumberofspiking neurons. Basedonspiking neuronmodels anewgeneration of spiking neuralnetworks(SNNs)hasbeendeveloped for artificial intelligence systems. SNNsarecomputationally more powerful thanconventional artificial neural networks. Inthis paper, thespiking neuronmodelisapplied torepresent logic rulesandfuzzyrules. Basedon theSTDP (Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity) principle, anewSNNmodelisproposed forpattern recognition. Anefficient learning rulederived from theSTDPisapplied forself-organizing theinput training set efficiently. An example, Animal-Growth-Record, isusedto explain theprinciple oftheSNNmodel. Benchmark datasets areapplied tocomparetheproposed approach withother approaches. Asthere areveryefficient learning rules intheSNN model,themodelcanbeapplied notonlyforfusion of multi-sensory data, butalso fordatamining inlarge databases withlarge numbers ofattributes. I. INTRODUCTION


We obtain a lower bound on the multiplicative order of Gauss periods which generate normal bases over finite fields. This bound improves the previous bound of von zur Gathen and Shparlinski.


Written by two well-qualified psychologists, this book offers a comprehensive approach to the process of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) from assessment and case formulation to completion and relapse prevention. As the title suggests, the book is evidence-based, building a bridge between the theoretical concepts and clinical application.


Obesity is increasingly common before and after liver transplantation (LT), yet optimal management remains unclear. Our aim was to analyze the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary protocol for obese patients requiring LT, including a noninvasive pretransplant weight loss program, and a combined LT plus sleeve gastrectomy (SG) for obese patients who failed to lose weight prior to LT. Since 2006, all patients referred LT with a BMI > 35 were enrolled. There were 37 patients who achieved weight loss and underwent LT alone, and 7 who underwent LT combined with SG. In those who received LT alone, weight gain to BMI > 35 was seen in 21/34, post‐LT diabetes (DM) in 12/34, steatosis in 7/34, with 3 deaths plus 3 grafts losses. In patients undergoing the combined procedure, there were no deaths or graft losses. One patient developed a leak from the gastric staple line, and one had excess weight loss. No patients developed post‐LT DM or steatosis, and all had substantial weight loss (mean BMI = 29). Noninvasive pretransplant weight loss was achieved by a majority, though weight gain post‐LT was common. Combined LT plus SG resulted in effective weight loss and was associated with fewer post‐LT metabolic complications. Long‐term follow‐up is needed.


The article deals with the problem of training specialists in higher education. The author shows that student as an educational process is implemented through activism, autonomy, creativity. Describes the features of the subject position of students in learning activities. The substantive and procedural approaches to resolving the problem of subjectivity in the educational process of the Technical University.


In India, several (>50) vegetables are widely used as food due to their high nutrition values. However, vegetables in industrial area are getting contaminated with heavy metals by disturbing biological and biochemical processes in the human body. In present study, the risk of human health by heavy metals (Fe, As, Cr, Mn, Cu, Zn, Pb, Cd and Hg) through the intake of common vegetables i.e. Solanum lycopersicum, Solanum melongena, Amaranthus tricolor L., Chenopodium album L., Spinacia oleracea and Coriandrum sativum obtained from the largest coal burning basin, Korba, India is described . The concentration of Fe, As, Cr, Mn, Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb and Hg in the soils (n = 6) was ranged from 18,328 - 37,980, 85 - 105, 34 - 72, 314 - 760, 146 - 165, 126 - 164, 1.11 - 1.39, 116 - 148 and 0.11 - 0.21 mg/kg with mean value (p = 0.05) of 28,011 ± 6582, 96 ± 6, 57 ± 11, 597 ± 148, 153 ± 5, 145 ± 11, 1.26 ± 0.10, 133 ± 11 and 0.16 ± 0.03 mg/kg, respectively. The contamination, sources and bioaccumulation, pollution and health risk indices of the heavy metals i.e. As, Fe, Cr, Mn, Cu, Zn, Pb, Cd and Hg in the plants are described.


This work aims explore the shape of façade planes linked to the solar incidence, in order to optimize the use of photovoltaic systems. The identification and parameterization of forms according to geometric principles of photovoltaic capture suggest the application of a design methodology for optimizing the photovoltaic surface façade in order to optimize direct solar radiation, incorporating the volume of the building. The optimization model of photovoltaic façade consists of four steps. Initially decide on the photovoltaic technology and geographic location (1). Subsequently, three-dimensional elementary modeling is performed (2) through the graphic-algorithm editor, Grasshopper, – integrated with the modeling tool, Rhinoceros 3D, – thus establishing, restrictions and variables in shape. In the third stage, threedimensional geometric transformations are correlated (twist, taper and shear) and solar incidence (3) through the computer interfaces of Ecotect Analysis and Grasshopper software. With this, the dimensional parameters assigned to the variables – geometric transformations – are linked to parameters of solar radiation, in order to generate shapes. After the selection of potential photovoltaic shapes, zones with the greatest incident solar radiation are identified and the control points of NURBS surface are manipulated (4). Using the geometric transformations taper, shear and twist, it was possible to generate a set of optimal solutions, correlating geometric and energetic data, integrating shape generating methods and performatic evaluation of solar exposure. The work identified that possibilities of articulation between photovoltaic planes and energetic efficiency have positive results, correlating shape variability and electricity generation. Keyword: parametric design, shape optimization, photovoltaic systems, façade.


Introduction: the problem, 239. — I. Data and methods used, 240.— The findings: for groups of industries, 244; for specific industries, 244; for different periods, 245. — Evidence from comparisons of a less formal sort, 246. — II. Calculations based upon indices of man-hour output not precise, 247. — III. Errors due to failure to distinguish between directly and indirectly productive labor, 249. — IV. Summary of conclusions, 252.


Recent Neutrino and Dark Matter search experiments revolutionized detection of rear events and rear events with low energies in particular. Experiments achieved sensitivities on the level of several events per hundreds kg of detector's material per day with energy thresholds below of I keV. This opens a new unique possibility for experimental detection of neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering that was considered to be impossible so far. The present project consists in using of low threshold HPGe detectors developed by JINR (Dubna) [1] for creation of a setup designated for first observation of neutrino coherent scattering of Ge. General conception of this project can be described as following: 1) Based on four point contact HPGe detectors with total mass of ~1400 g developed by JINR (Dubna) the spectrometer with energy threshold at ~300 eV is built. The constructed spectrometer (the cryostat, detector holders, etc) fulfills the requirements for low background experiments. 2) The background of the spectrometer is being studied in details at LSM underground laboratory using infrastructure of the EDELWEISS experiment [2]. The signal of light WIMPs recently reported by some experiments could be a source of background for observation of coherent neutrino scattering. Thus on this stage of the experiment an important goal is to set a limit or a value of such WIMPs' signal. 3) As a powerful neutrino source the experiment will use antineutrinos from one of the power-generating unit of Kalininskaya nuclear power plant. Therefore, after finishing the background studies the setup will be moved from LSM to the Kalininskaya power plant site where it will be deployed into improved low background shield of the GEMMA experiment [3]. Observation of coherent neutrino scattering will be checked using the differential method that compares the spectra measured at the reactor operation and shut down periods. For the setup set at a 10 m distance from the center of reactor core and with an energy threshold at ~300 eV several tenths of events of neutrino coherent scattering expected to be detected per day in the constructed setup with 4 HPGe low energy threshold detectors (450 g each). This work is partly supported by RFBR.


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