The recent discoveries of millisecond radio-pulsars with small period derivatives and quasi-periodic oscillations in bright Galactic X-ray sources have given rise to theories which predict that low-mass X-ray binaries should have low-amplitude X-ray pulsations with short, possibly millisecond, periods. Most previous searches for these pulsations suffer from one or more of the folowing deficiencies: very short periods are not searched; the searches are not sufficiently sensitive; Doppler smearing of the pulsar due to its binary motion is ignored. A 2.5 hr uninterrupted observation of GX 9+1 with 0.25 ms time resolution was obtained. The complete search covered pulse periods between 0.5 ms and 17 min, binary periods greater than 3.6 hr, and companion star masses less than 0.9 solar mass. A 3-sigma upper limit to the pulse fraction of GX 9+1 of 0.011 is obtained for periods greater than 1 ms, and 0.016 for periods between 0.5-1 ms. 35 refs.


We read the article on sight-threatening diabetic eye disease with interest,1 and would like to report an unusual case of undiagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus presenting as visual loss. A 41-year-old male kennel owner presented with a 2-day history of decreased vision and bilateral floaters. Visual acuity was 6/18-2 in the left eye …


In this paper we present means of personalization for user-centered Web services provisioning. We focus on the different phases of interaction with services and show how a cooperative discovery algorithm can essentially improve the service provisioning. An ontology-based algorithm is presented that makes use of user preferences, differing conceptions, as well as standard usage patterns. With a running example we study how to increase Web services' usability and the overall quality of service.


Recently, El-Labany et al. reported on "Quasi-periodic and chaotic structure of Alfvén waves in a plasma containing double spectral distributed electrons" [Phys. Plasmas 29, 122103 (2022)]. The paper contains some fallacies, which are designated in this Comment.


A compact Vivaldi antenna for wireless mobile terminals is proposed. Proposed antenna is wide-band operating from 25-40 GHz with fractional bandwidth of 46%. Proposed antenna bears small physical footprint with dimensions of 6.2 × 9 mm2 thence can be easily accommodated along the edge of typical smartphone. End-fire gain of 5-6 dBi of the low profile Vivaldi antenna is achieved in the whole operating band. Stable radiation patterns with high pattern integrity are obtained. The 1-dB gain bandwidth of the proposed antenna is 46% with gain varying between 5-6 dBi over the whole operating band. Proposed antenna is accommodated along the edge of the typical smartphone with dimensions of 65 × 140 × 7 mm3. Proposed Vivaldi antenna uses dielectric load of smartphone case modeled as Teflon substrate thereby enhancing the peak gain to 14.5 dBi. Integration of proposed low profile Vivaldi antenna in a typical mobile terminal is demonstrated.


The plutonium facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory is installing a building environmental monitoring and control system utilizing redundancy as much as possible. The installation will monitor and control heating, ventilation, power, radiation monitors, fire sensors, and the criticality system. This paper describes the hardware environment chosen for this application, along with some of the problems encountered in developing redundant operation. A unique part of the system is the field data concentrator, which has no permanent storage media and relies on an Ethernet link for all operations, including the loading of its system at bootup.


The design of large-scale video tracking software system is studied. With the continuous development of computer video processing technology, large-scale video tracking technology has become very important. This paper presents a design method for large-scale video tracking software system based on Radon detection algorithm. During the video tracking process, numerous video images need to be collected, and then preprocessed with filtering algorithm, through Radon detection method to predict and compensate moving objects trajectory obtained in video to make up for the tracking lag caused by mutated direction. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm for large-scale video tracking software design can improve the tracking accuracy effectively, and achieve satisfactory results.


Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) represents the gold standard for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. We developed a deep learning approach for the automatic detection and segmentation of left and right ventricles and myocardium (Myo) on short-axis cine CMR images, including all clinically relevant slices. A dataset of 210 studies (3 pathology groups) was considered: Images were acquired and manually segmented (gold standard, GS) at Centro Cardiologico Monzino (Milan, Italy). Automatic segmentation was performed with a U-Net inspired architecture were two loss function were used: weighted cross entropy (WCE) and its combination with the Dice loss function (WCE+Dice). Two experiments were conducted: A) all the slices were included; ii) slices where the Myo did not completely surrounded the LV were removed. To evaluate the clinical relevance of our approach, the predicted segmentation was reviewed and corrected by an expert physician. The two loss function performed similarly, with slightly better results for WCE, resulting in a strong correlation with the manually-adjusted segmentation.


Transformation of B-lineage precursors by the Abelson murine leukemia virus appears to arrest development at the pre-B stage. Abelson-transformed pre-B cell lines generally retain transcriptionally inactive, unrearranged immunoglobulin K alleles. We demonstrate that nontransformed pre-B cells expanded from the mouse bone marrow efficiently transcribe unrearranged K alleles. In addition, they contain activated complexes of the NF-KB/RCI transcription factor family, in contrast with their Abelson-transformed counterparts. Using conditionally transformed pre-B cell lines, we show that the v-abl viral transforming protein, a tyrosine kinase, blocks germ-line K gene transcription and negatively regulates NF-KB/RCI activity. An active \-abI kinase specifically inhibits the NF-KB/Rel-dependent K intron enhancer, which is implicated in promoting both transcription and rearrangement of the K locus, \-abl inhibits the activated state of NF-KB/RCI complexes in a pre-B cell via a post-translational mechanism that results in increased stability of the inhibitory subunit IKBU. This analysis suggests a molecular pathway by which \-abl inhibits K locus transcription and rearrangement.


This study aims to examine the influence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) implementation, corporate image, and customer satisfaction, on customer loyalty. Variables independent were used inthis study namely Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), corporate image, and customer satisfaction., as well as one dependent variable of customer loyalty. Customers of PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia Jayapura are used as the population in this study. The convenience sampling with a sample of 30 respondents is the technique of sampling method in thisstudy. This study uses a double linear regression analysis to analyses data. The analysis tool used is SPSS version 23. The results of this research demonstrate the implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has positively and significantly affects customer loyalty. Corporate Image has a positive and significant impact on customer loyalty. And customer satisfaction has a positive but does nosignificant impact on customer loyalty.


In many market research studies, it is cost effective to ask the respondents to select and rank a small fixed number of the most preferred items from a list. There are several analyses available but they are not equally efficient.A simulation study is carried out to compare six intuitive approaches and a market research study is used throughout this article to illustrate the idea.


This study explores the reasons why colour words and emotion words are frequently associated in the different languages of the world. One of them is connotative overlap between the colour term and the emotion term. A new experimental methodology, the Implicit Association Test (IAT), is used to investigate the implicit connotative structure of the Peninsular Spanish colour terms rojo (red), azul (blue), verde (green) and amarillo (yellow) in terms of Osgood's universal semantic dimensions: Evaluation (good–bad), Activity (excited–relaxed) and Potency (strong–weak). The results show a connotative profile compatible with the previous literature, except for the valence (good–bad) of some of the colour terms, which is reversed. We suggest reasons for both these similarities and differences with previous studies and propose further research to test these implicit connotations and their effect on the association of colour with emotion words.


The pro-inflammatory interleukin-6 implicated in viral clearance and viral hepatic diseases. Selenium (Se) is an antioxidant trace element; serum selenium level is highly linked with liver disease severity. Aims of the paper were to investigate the anti-cardiolipin antibodies (IgG and IgM), systemic levels of interleukin-6 and selenium as well as to examine the relationships between these parameters in patients with chronic hepatitis B and C virus infections. From 50 with HCV and 38 with HBV and 30 healthy control age-matched individual's blood samples were collected. The sera levels of ACLA-IgG, ACLAIgM, and IL-6 were determined by using enzyme-linked immune-sorbent assays. Flameless Atomic Absorption used for selenium measuring. Sera levels of ACLA-isotypes, IL-6 were significantly greater in patients groups, whereas the significantly low level of Se was observed in patients comparing to control. Regarding the comparison among patient groups, HCV patients exhibited respectable elevation in serum levels of IL6 and Se, whereas no significant differences in ACLA iso-types level as compared to the HBV patients group. Additionally, the correlation between serum ACLA-isotypes and IL-6 showed positive correlations, serum selenium was inversely related to IL-6 and ACLA– isotypes among hepatitis patients. The outcomes may show a role of IL-6 elevation and a selenium deficiency can be considered as a risk factor for viral hepatitis, related pathogenesis and progression of the disease. So testing sera selenium and IL-6 must be careful.


This report focuses on delay-independent stability and delay-independent input-output properties (passivity, $H_\infty$ performance, circle criterion, Popov criterion) of delay systems. The main results show that, as it is the case for the usual, rational, systems, the properties under study here may be characterized by solvability of some linear matrix inequalities. The latter are constructed by use of some quadratic Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals, generalizing a well-known class. The method also applies to the analysis of systems with uncertain complex parameter, for which the results are related to the search for analytic parameter-dependent Lyapunov functions. Illustrative examples are provided.


Diverse and abundant sea anemones are common in shallow marine areas. Detailed biodiversity analysis in Peru are comparatively scarce. To contribute to the biodiversity inventory and distribution information of this taxa, we analyzed exhaustively the available bibliography in Peruvian waters. A total of 23 anemone species were identified, distributed in 68 localities, and grouped into 1 Order (Actiniaria), 6 Families (Actiniidae, Actinostolidae, Aiptasiidae, Isanthidae, Phelliidae and Sagartiidae) and 20 Genera. The most reported species are Anthothoe chilensis (37 references), Phymactis clematis (28), Phymanthea pluvia (27), Oulactis concinnata (18), and Antholoba achates (15). Lima is the region with the highest number of publications, followed by La Libertad, Piura, Lambayeque, and Ancash. Anthothoe chilensis occurs in almost all the Peruvian coastal regions. On the contrary, O. concinnata has been primarily observed in Lima, while A. achates occurred only in the southern regions (Ica, Arequipa, and Moquegua). Rocky substrates (~55% records) seem to be the most suitable habitat for sea anemones in Peru, corresponding to exposed (e.g. vertical walls) and sheltered zones (e.g. rocky crevices, caves, under rock areas). Although most of the species in Peru exhibit a relatively wide spatial distribution, our results suggest that there are several regions with little or no research efforts. Despite a growing study effort over the past 30 years (>50% of biodiversity reported), the current biodiversity status for this group is still unclear. A significant effort is needed to better analyze occurrence patterns and unveil new species regarding a changing environmental scenario with human influence.


A method of designing two-dimensional (2-D) FIR filters, using nonuniform frequency samples, is presented. The method is based on an extension of the DFT method of design, which uses uniform frequency samples. The proposed method, is based on an extension of Newton's interpolation method to 2-D. The proposed procedure has the attractive properties of permanence and recursive computation of the design parameters. A design procedure is given for 2-D FIR linear phase filters and an example is given.


Relevance. High values of berry quality traits increase the breeding and production worth of strawberry varieties and hybrids. Important characteristics of the quality of berry are the average fruit weight, the firmness of the pulp of berry, the height and the largest diameter of berry. It is possible to achieve a high level of values of these traits by combining the maximum similarity of their variation in one genotype. The aim of this work was the description of the associated variability of berry quality traits in a number of strawberry varieties and hybrid selections and the identification of the most promising from them according to the studied characteristics.Methods. The studies were carried out in 2019–2021, 12 varieties and 8 hybrid selections were studied for a number of economically significant traits of berry quality: average fruit weight, g; berry pulp firmness, g; height and largest diameter of the berry, mm; content of dry soluble solids in berries, Brix, %. Results. It has been established that the genotype makes the greatest contribution to the diversity of the studied samples. A relatively small factorial influence of the growing year on the overall variation of varieties and selections for the studied traits (from 0.06 to 1.6% of the phenotypic variance) indicates a high adaptability potential of the studied forms for growing in this natural and climatic zone, due to the specific properties of the genotypes of varieties and strawberry hybrids. By calculating pairwise Pearson's correlations in combination with the cluster analysis by the Ward's method as one of the procedures of multivariate mathematical statistics, an evaluation of the compatibility of variability by the studied traits was given, the varieties promising for breeding and cultivation under regional conditions in terms of berry quality have been identified — Florence, Vivaldi, Nelli, Syria, Belrubi, Honeoye and Kemia, as well as valuable for breeding hybrids — 10-1-15 Belrubi × Nelli, 35-14-15 Belrubi × Onda and 35-11-15 Belrubi × Florence.


2, were manually placed on one of the multi-echo images. The first ROI was colocalized to the 1.5T MRS voxel. The second ROI was colocalized to the 3T MRS voxel. A third separate ROI was placed in the right hepatic lobe away from either MRS voxel location. The selected ROIs were automatically propagated to the rest of the multi-echo images. The average ROI value at each TE was recorded. MRI-determined PDFF was calculated from T2*-corrected fat and water signals using a 5-peak fat spectral model (0.9, 1.3, 2.1, 4.2, 5.3 ppm) with normalized weights (0.05, 0.04, 0.12, 0.70, 0.09) derived from human MR spectra with known and suspected fatty liver. MRS-determined PDFF was calculated from T2-corrected peak areas of water and fat. Linear regression analysis between 3T and 1.5T PDFF estimates was computed using all three ROIs. A mixed-effects version of a paired Student t-test was used to assess systematic shifts between 3T and 1.5T PDFF. The accuracy of MRI-determined PDFF was evaluated, using MRS-determined PDFF as the reference standard, separately at each field strength by linear regression correlation and paired Student t-tests; the MRI data from the ROI colocalized to the MRS voxel at each filed strength was used in the analysis of accuracy. Results: Based on MRS, the population sample had mean PDFF of 15.0% (range 0.1-38.8%). At least 4 subjects had PDFF in each of the following ranges: 0-5%, 610%, 11-15%, 16-20% and >21%. The linear regression analysis (Figure. 1) compares the PDFF at 1.5 and 3.0T, where the diagonal line represents equality in PDFF calculated from 1.5T and 3T MR imaging. The differences between the 1.5T and 3T PDFF estimates were minimal (regression slope 0.991, regression intercept 0.861%) but statistically significant. (P<0.001 for both parameters). Using MRS data as a reference standard, MRI-determined PDFF had high accuracy. The regression slope between MRI- and MRS-determined PDFF was 0.99 at both 1.5T and 3T (Figures 2 and 3), with the MRI-determined PDFF estimates consistently higher than MRS-determined PDFF estimates by 1.07% (p <0.0001) at 1.5T (Figure.2) and lower by 1.24% (p = 0.007) at 3T (Figure.3). Conclusion: MRI-determined PDFF quantification is reproducible across field strengths and MR scanner platforms and shows high accuracy using MRS-determined PDFF as the reference standard.


National mid long-term plan and program for science and technology development points out that enterprise plays the main role in technology innovation system,and university,especially research university,is the important base and source of knowledge creation and plays the important role in knowledge economy.It analyzes the radical causes in developing status of university's technology transfer,and puts forward the new patterns that promote university's technology transfer to contribute more for social economy.


Non-linear eddy-viscosity modelling is viewed as a possible compromise between the simplicity afforded by conventional linear models and the much more complex, but fundamentally sound second-moment closure. Such models have now been investigated in fair detail for incompressible flow, but relatively little work has been done so far to assess their capabilities in compressible flows, in general, and for resolving shock/boundary-layer interaction, in particular. The present paper reviews some recent efforts to identify the predictive capabilities of a number of quadratic and cubic eddy-viscosity models for 2D and 3D shock/boundary-layer interaction. Following a discussion of central modelling issues, computational results are presented for four geometries, two 2D and two 3D. One of the latter is a highly complex flow over a skewed bump in a channel, exiting the duct following a second subsonic-to-supersonic acceleration. The other case is a transonic flow over a rectangular jet-afterbody configuration. The choice of cases is guided by the available experimental data which are scant, especially for 3D transonic flows. The study demonstrates that non-linear eddy-viscosity models offer some promising predictive advantages over standard linear variants in resolving shock-affected flows. Specifically, such models predict earlier and more extensive separation. On the negative side, the predictive quality depends greatly on the details of the model, and the post-shock flow recovery rate is underestimated, the latter in common with the behaviour observed in the application of second-moment closure.


The patient was a 60-year-old white woman, gravida x, para x, whose menopause had occurred at the age of 54. She had one episode of vaginal spotting for five days in September 1959; no treatment was instituted. For ten months before admission, the patient's abdomen became progressively distended and felt very firm and Fig. 1.-Close-up photograph of small portions of the u" ad s e o b tumour. The smooth external surface (left), a part of the tu,and sbe experienced. occasional bouts of crampy wall of one of the locules from the interior of the tumour painin the lower abdomen. (lower right) and the cut surface with solid, porous and pain cystic portions (upper right) are shown. Physical examination showed an asthenic woman with abdominal distress. Her blood pressure was In all of the sections, the bulk of the tissue was 160/85 mm. Hg, pulse rate 82/min. and temperature composed of typical smooth muscle cells with 98.6' F. Her chest was clear. Liver, spleen and kidneys elongated blunt nuclei (Figs. 2 to 4). In the more solid were not palpable. A large mass was felt in the lower abdomen which was tympanitic, mobile, smooth and very firm. Preoperatively, the diagnosis of pseudomucinous cystadenoma of the ovary was made. 4


Background. Recently, numerous studies have shown that TNFAIP3 gene polymorphisms have been associated with susceptibility to certain autoimmune inflammatory diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis. However, the results of studies devoted to the study of associations between TNFAIP3 gene polymorphisms and the risk of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are ambiguous and few.The aim of the study was to study the possible association of hs10499194 polymorphism of the TNFAIP3 gene with a predisposition to AS and its clinical phenotypes.Material and methods. The rs10499194 S/T polymorphism of the TNFA1P3 gene was studied in two hundred patients with AS (130 men and 70 women). All patients were diagnosed with AS, according to the modified New York criteria, 1984 and high activity of the disease. Demographic and clinical-serological characteristics were studied in all patients. The average age of patients was 39.4±12.6 years; the average duration of the disease was 15.0±10.6 years. Out of 200 patients, 175 (87.5%) were seropositive for HLA-B27 antigen. Extra axial arthritis was detected in 125 (62.5%) patients, 148 (74.0%) had enthesitis, 137 (68.5%) had coxitis. The polymorphism rs10499194 of the TNFAIP3 gene was studied using an allelespecific polymerase chain reaction in real time (PCR-RV) using the Synthol kit.Results. The analysis of the frequencies of genotypes and alleles did not show significant differences with the control group. Stratification by sex, age, and clinical manifestations showed an association of the CT genotype with an increased risk of AS among men (OR=2.24; p=0.010), the TT genotype and the T allele with a high risk of predisposition to the development of extra axillary peripheral arthritis (OR=3.94; p=0.019 and OR=1.64; p=0.027 respectively). The BASDAI index was statistically significantly higher in carriers of the TT genotype compared to the CT genotype (p=0.002).Conclusion. The present study confirmed the association of the genetic polymorphism rs10499194 of the TNFAIP3 gene with AS. Stratification by gender and clinical manifestations showed an association of the CT genotype with an increased risk of AS among men, the TT genotype and the T allele with a high risk of predisposition to the development of extra axillary peripheral arthritis and a high BASDAI index in carriers of the TT genotype.


We report the magnetization measurements for the organic-chain $[\mathrm{Py}\ensuremath{-}{\mathrm{C}}_{n}{\mathrm{H}}_{2n+1}{]}_{2}{\mathrm{HgI}}_{4}$ $(n=2, 4, 6, 8, 10,$ and 12) intercalated ${\mathrm{Bi}}_{2}{\mathrm{Sr}}_{2}{\mathrm{CaCu}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{8}$ for which the intercalation accompanies no charge transfer between the host and the guest materials. We observed a complete disappearance of superconductivity in ${\mathrm{Bi}}_{2}{\mathrm{Sr}}_{2}{\mathrm{CaCu}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{8}$ due to drastically increased distance for the next-nearest-neighbor ${\mathrm{CuO}}_{2}$ plane, even though the distance for the nearest-neighbor plane is unchanged. This result leads us to the conclusion that the three-dimensional linkage of ${\mathrm{CuO}}_{2}$ planes via the interlayer coupling is essential to high-temperature superconductivity. In other words, the isolated ${\mathrm{CuO}}_{2}$ bilayer does not give a finite ${T}_{c}.$


We present experimental results on single crystal ${\mathrm{CeRu}}_{2}$ showing that the extent of the history dependence of peak effect depends on the path followed in the space of field (H) and temperature $(T).$ The $(H,T)$ regime over which the history effect is observed is larger if the vortex lattice is prepared by lowering T from above ${T}_{C}$ in constant H, i.e., by field cooling. We compare this history effect with the very recently reported history dependence of peak effect in detwinned single crystals of YBaCuO and $2\mathrm{H}\ensuremath{-}{\mathrm{NbSe}}_{2},$ highlighting the similarities and differences. We discuss the possibility of a first-order vortex solid-solid transition in ${\mathrm{CeRu}}_{2}$ within the realm of recent theoretical developments in the field of vortex matter.


Group Activities with Older Adults is a practical resource - a book designed for ease of everyday use. The main part is devoted to describing activities, one per page, in a structured 'cookery book' format. Theoretical considerations are considered in a separate section. This works well in providing the background without confusing the central issues.


IntroductionHepatocyte Growth Factor (HGF) and Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) both have tyrosine kinase receptors (c-Met and EGFR) which upon binding, activates and regulates many important cellular processes such as cell survival, growth, proliferation, differentiation, invasion, repair and so forth via the RAS/MAPK/ERK1/2, PI3K/AKT and JAK STAT3 pathways. These processes are crucial for the development of a placenta and other functions in order for a normal pregnancy to occur. Hence, this study determined the concentrations of HGF and EGF to find the correlation between HIV and preeclampsia (PE). Material and methodsA total sample size of n=80 was used, n=40 preeclamptic and n=40 normotensive women these were further stratified into HIV-positive and HIV-negative women. Analysis of the growth factors were done by using the Bio-Plex multiplex immunoassay method. ResultsIrrespective of HIV status, based on pregnancy type, EGF in PE women displayed an upregulation compared to normotensive women. However, for HGF no significance was found between pregnancy type. Based on HIV status, regardless of pregnancy type, both HGF and EGF levels were significantly increased in HIV-positive women compared to HIV-negative women. Across all groups for HGF, significant difference was found between normotensive HIVnegative (lower) vs normotensive HIV-positive women (higher). Nevertheless, for EGF across all groups, a statistically significant decrease was found in normotensive HIV-negative women compared to normotensive HIV-positive, preeclamptic HIV-positive and preeclamptic HIV-negative women. ConclusionThe study demonstrates that there is a strong association between HIV and PE, and that HGF and EGF are promising biomarkers to use as a diagnostic tool for PE.


It is a challenging task to attain significant automatic registration between the two satellite images due to variation in illumination and resolution of the images, dissimilar perspectives and the local deformations within the image. These concerns are rectified by an automatic registration scheme depends on a hybrid invariant feature combination of both Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF) and Binary Robust Invariant Scalable Keypoints (BRISK). In the registration procedure, this feature combination speeds up the feature extraction and matching. Here, it makes the matching point pairs distributed consistently in satellite images and also further enhance the accuracy of input image rectification. Experimental results proves that the proposed scheme is very superior in Image Registration (IR) than the existing methods.


The self-healing materials attract a lot of attention as self-healing ability considerably improves reliability of service and extends the life time of materials. However, the present self-healing materials lack the mechanical strength and thus cannot be used in practical applications. The industrial elastomer (VHB 4910) is a strong polymer, which has been used as dielectric actuator. Surprisingly, we observed that VHB 4910 has autonomic self-healing ability. As this is an acrylic polymer, we analyzed the hydrogen bonding between carbonyl and hydroxyl groups and demonstrated that this bonding and the molecular chain entanglement contributes to its self-healing ability. The tensile test, X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman, and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy were employed to analyze the self-healing processes. This study provides an insight into the mechanism of self-healing behavior and ability of VHB 4910 to recover its strength. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2015, 132, 42135.


Based on the grid data of precipitation,temperature in arid region of centre-east Asian(ARCEA) and North Hemispheric sea level pressure(SLP) during 1901—2002,the relationships among the precipitation,temperature and SLP in winter and summer are analyzed,respectively.And the composited analysis of SLP anomaly field is investigated for the representative anomalous years of precipitation and temperature.The results show that when SLP is kept higher over the NW Pacific and the Arabian Sea in winter,the precipitation is more and air temperature is high in ARCEA in winter. In spring when the Aleutian low and its southern part′ west Pacific subtropical high are intensive,the summer precipitation in ARCEA is more.As SLP in ARCEA itself is kept lower in spring,the temperature of ARCEA has higher in summer.The notable impact of spring SLP anomaly on the climate change in ARCEA has guiding significance in climatic prediction.In addition,the negative(positive) SLP anomaly is in extratropical zonal(low latitude) when the ARCEA has abnormal more precipitation and higher temperature in winter.The positive SLP anomaly is in ARCEA when it has abnormal more precipitation.The positive SLP anomaly mainly located in North of India peninsula,the west part of ARCEA is negative and east of it is weaker positive SLP anomaly.The results also show that it is easy to occur these climatic types that more precipitation/higher temperature(less precipitation/lower temperature) in winter and more precipitation/lower temperature(less precipitation/higher temperature) in ARCEA in summer.


ABSTRACT This paper investigates load-carrying capacity of two conventional and three helical piles in frozen soft clay and evaluates the changes in pile capacity corresponding to ground thawing. In-situ pile load tests were conducted in frozen and unfrozen Leda clay and used to establish stress-strain correlations to describe the load transfer of the test piles. The stress-strain correlations in frozen ground were favourably comparable within the small strain region. As the load was increased, however, the helical pile reached an adfreeze capacity of 1650 kPa followed by accelerated displacement. The smooth-shafted piles, in contrast, continued to withstand the applied loads because of their larger contact areas. The ultimate pile capacities were significantly decreased following ground thawing recording around 90% lower capacities. The load-carrying behavior of helical piles was dominated by their end bearing; therefore, it was important to drive the helical pile to a sufficient depth to ensure that the helix is located within the permanent frozen profile.


was 2.1, 2.1, 2.3, 3 ml./min. When these tests were repeated after three weeks' treatment the average water excretion was 3, 3.5, 4.5, and 6 ml./min respectively. There was an increase in 17-ketosteroid excretion in all cases. Before treatment the output ranged from 2.8 to 4.7 ml. a day; after treatment it was from 5.5 to 11 mg. a day. No significant changes were observed in the levels of serum sodium, potassium, or chlorides, and these levels were usually within normal limits both before and during treatment. Insulin sensitivity tests revealed a hypoglycaemic unresponsiveness in all .cases, and this was unaltered by treatment. No change was produced in the blood picture; in no patient was the anaemia of severe degree. The effect of administration of cortisone over a prolonged period might be worth observing, particularly as it is known that the anaemia of myxoedema responds very slowly to the administration of thyroid extract.


A microstrip three‐pole band‐pass filter, with a midband frequency of 9.5 GHz and a fractional bandwidth of 2%, has been fabricated using double‐sided YBa2Cu3Ox (YBCO) films on MgO substrates. The nonlinear behavior of this filter was studied by intermodulation distortion measurements. The insertion loss at the midband frequency was less than 0.1 dB and the return loss was better than 15 dB throughout the passband at 55 K. This filter showed relatively high power handling capabilities, with third‐order intercept larger than +60 dBm at 55 K. The third‐order intermodulation distortion products of this filter were found to vary with frequency in the passband, being larger near each of the band edges than at the midband. These increases in the nonlinearity near the band edges are attributed to the increase in the average stored energy in the filter, which is confirmed by the increase in the group delay near the band edge.


This research aims to determine the effect of the level of skepticism to unhealthy food ads and the level of health consciousness on the persuasiveness of the ad, attitude towards the ad, and purchase intention. It is being investigated whether the legal regulations made work. The data were collected by a questionnaire made among university students selected by convenience sampling and analyzed by structural equation modeling. To sum up, the persuasiveness level of the two-sided ad is significant to the attitude towards the ad and purchase intention. the persuasiveness variable mediates the effect of skepticism towards two-sided ads on the attitude towards the ad. Consumers' health consciousness has an impact on the perception of the persuasiveness of the ad and the attitude towards the ad. The persuasiveness variable mediates the effect of health consciousness on attitude in two-sided advertising messages. Finally, discussions and suggestions were made about the academic and practical reflections of the hypotheses.


Sudden hearing loss is a well-known complication of certain chemotherapeutic agents. However, vinblastine has seldom been implicated causing ototoxicity. We report a case of sudden bilateral hearing loss in a 36-year-old male patient of Mixed cellularity Hodgkin′s lymphoma following standard adriamycin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine chemotherapy.


ABSTRACT To improve hearing system in hearing impaired children, the auditory training program has an advantage to improve the listening system. Due to various levels of hearing problem, this research designs an educated media that is appropriate with knowledge, experience and age of hearing impaired children. We select 50 sound effects from surrounding environment. These sounds are tested by eight normal subjects in order to check sound quality. The results of normal listening perception have the mean of correct percentage in corresponding to fifty sound effects up to 81.6 % . Then, sound effects are analyzed by Power Spectral Density (PSD) to separate sounds into three groups. These sound groups are applied to design matched visualized images and produce the auditory training program. Moreover, we present word and sentence that are suitable in each sound. It helps hearing impaired children to discriminate sounds and clearly understand meaning of words and sentences. 1. INTRODUCTION


Effect of alimentary calcium on cellular immunity of rats with allergic dermatitis was studied. Calcium-deficient rations were found to be conducive to decrease of the metabolic activity of rat lymphocytes, whereas normal or increased intake of calcium provided a sufficiently high level of specific response.


ABSTRACT Despite advances in anticoagulation, the persistent risk of stroke, bleeding, patient compliance, and other major adverse cardiovascular events leaves a tremendous and persistent unmet clinical need for alternative stroke prevention options in the setting of atrial fibrillation. Here, we summarize the Watchman clinical trials, which provide a foundation of evidence supporting Watchman left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) as an alternative to oral anticoagulation for the prevention of AF-mediated stroke. We discuss the management of LAAC patients, including device-related thrombus, procedural guidance, and adjunctive pharma. Finally, we review ongoing clinical investigations of paramount importance, including the CATALYST and CHAMPION-AF Trials, which are randomizing patients between LAAC and Direct Oral Anticoagulants (DOACs), along with the key clinical trials of new devices and LAAC in unique populations such as those with a history of pulmonary vein isolation or TAVR. Abbreviations: AF: Atrial fibrillation; LAA: Left Atrial Appendage; CMS: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; NCD: National Coverage Determination; DOACs: Direct oral anticoagulants; OAC: Oral anticoagulant; NCDR: National Cardiovascular Data Registry; DRT: Device Related Thrombus; CTA: computer tomographic angiography


As in many parasitized mammals, deer mice infested with cuterebrid botfly larvae had decreased hemoglobin, hematocrit, and plasma albumin, and increased plasma globulin. These blood changes reflect a protein deficit in deer mice caused by larval uptake of body fluids including albumin. Deer mice increase their food intake in response to botfly infestation, and the botfly larvae use this increased food to grow rapidly without significantly increasing deer-mouse mortality.


The purpose of this paper is to distinguish between superficial epitheliomas precipitated by, or resulting from, ingestion of, or exposure to, arsenic and superficial epitheliomatosis and Bowen's disease. The incidence and relative malignancy of these epitheliomas will be considered either in association with arsenical keratosis or independent of it. The literature has been reviewed, including about a thousand articles read in the last ten years on the subject of epithelioma and precancerous dermatosis, but reference is made only to recent or more pertinent articles. MATERIAL FOR STUDY AND PROCEDURE This study is based on a review of all the cases of arsenical keratosis and superficial epithelioma of the trunk and extremities seen in the section on dermatology of the Mayo Clinic from 1918 to 1934 and includes eighty-five cases of arsenical keratosis, in sixteen cases of which the arsenical type of epithelioma was present; two cases of


The project GAVE (Grosschonau as virtual energy storage) focuses on feasibility of technology for automated demand response (or demand side management, load management). This technology can be seen as one of the key instruments in future smart power grids. While control of generation units is still relatively straight forward as a reduction in power generation simply reduces the revenues, the situation on the demand side is much more complex. Therefore, GAVE aims to analyse the effectiveness and the user acceptance of automated demand response in an Austrian setting. The object under study is a municipality in Lower Austria. A part of the public energy customers in the municipality is equipped with sensors and actuators that allow conducting real load management. These consumers take part in a municipality-wide experiment. The operation of the specially equipped demand processes is measured and the data is fed into an evaluation process. Within the evaluation, the results of demand response measurements conducted at only a few sites due to cost restrictions is scaled up on the total municipality load in order to gain insights on the effectiveness of the demand response measures. It is aimed to determine the achievable load shift potential under the constraint that user comfort must not be affected.


The invention relates to a battery cell (10) with a seal (14) through which a first arrester (18) with a material (30) having a first electrical conductivity and a second arresters (20) with a material (32) having a second electrical conductivity, wherein the second electrical conductivity is higher than the first conductivity. A ratio of cross-sections (60, 62) of the arrester (18, 20) corresponds to a reciprocal ratio of the conductivities of the materials (30, 32) of the arrester (18, 20).


In this paper we propose a Korean numeral classifier system (KCL-SYS), a sub-module for generating the relation(s) between a Korean numeral classifier and its co-occurring noun(s), using semantic features and the LUB (Least Upper Bound) based on semantic hierarchies extracted from KorLex1Noun 1.5, to be applied to preprocessing in MT (MachineTranslation) systems. The ratio of recall in matching classifier-noun(s) was 79.51%, and the precision was 99.52%.


The aim of this paper is to shed more light on some recent ideas about Lyapunov exponents and clarify the formal structures behind these ideas. In particular, we show that the vector of (averaged) Lyapunov exponents of a smooth measure-preserving dynamical system can be regarded as the solution of a vector-valued optimization problem on a space of Riemannian metrics. This result was first formulated and proved by Jairo Bochi in the language of linear cocycles and their conjugacies. We go a step further and prove that the optimization problem is geodesically convex with respect to the $L^2$-metric. Moreover, we derive some consequences of this fact.


We study multi-dimension quantum walks and its dimension reduction model. By using an waveguide-based optical quantum device, we demonstrate the quantum-walk in searching algorithms such as 2-D glued tree and 3-D hypercube graph. We discuss that the use of waveguide-based device is a good candidate to implement the quantum walks.


Children play a vital role as a source of information on politics but have been neglected as political actors in research contexts. In this study, children are used as a window to an Ethiopian soci ...


Ephesus and the early Christian movement has been the centre of interest of a steady stream of studies since 1995. Tellbe himself identifies eight principal studies that serve as dialogue partners: Walter Thiessen (1995), Mattias Gunther (1995), Helmut Koester (1995), Rick Strelan (1996), Michael Fieger (1998), Rainer Schwindt (2002); Paul Trebilco (2004), and Stephen Witetschek (2008). Fieger's study is seen as the least instructive, since it concentrates on material in Acts alone, and is consequently bracketed-out of the subsequent discussion. By contrast, Trebilco is identified as giving the most comprehensive study of Christ-believers in Ephesus from the time of Paul to that of Ignatius. Tellbe notes Trebilco's representation of the diverse character of the Christian groups in Ephesus and he is seen as describing shared features as indications of commonality rather than unity. A point of disagreement that is identified concerns Trebilco's reconstruction of the Johannine community which is deemed too elaborate, and in particular Tellbe rejects the suggestion 'that First John does not suggest a geographical distance between the author and his readers' (p. 37). The final part of the opening chapter lays out the approach to be adopted. Four sets of texts are identified: 1&2 Timothy, the Johannine letters, Revelation and Ignatius' Letter to the Ephesians, and these are seen as the evidential base for the Jesus movement in Ephesus from the mid-first century to the early decades of the second. Chapter two maps out the conceptual framework for identifying the social identity of Christian communities in Ephesus. The opening aspect is to investigate Jewish diaspora identity in the city (pp. 58-75). Next the account in Acts is considered, since it presents a Jewish origin for the Christian movement. In relation to the Pauline mission, Tellbe takes issue with both the theory that the majority of Christ believers were Gentiles and also with the 'rather forced reading' of Strelan that there were only very few Gentiles (p. 83). The focus turns to the evidence provided in the texts under consideration. A sizable Jewish community imprint. 2007. £80.00 pp. 466. ISBN: 978-0-56704563-8).


Abstract Common seepweed [Suaeda glauca (Bunge) Bunge] is a common salt-tolerant weed species distributed across the agricultural regions of northern China. It produces dimorphic seeds with different phenotypic characteristics and seed sizes. However, there is no information regarding the germination biology of these dimorphic seeds. Studies were conducted to evaluate the effects of ecological factors such as temperature, light, pH, osmotic stress, salt concentration, and planting depth on seed germination and seedling emergence. The results showed that brown seeds were nondormant, whereas black seeds had an intermediate physiological dormancy. The germination percentage of brown seeds was more than 80% at all temperature regimes and light conditions, but the optimum germination occurred at the cold thermoperiod of 20/10 C. In contrast, less than 6% of black seeds germinated at all temperature regimes and light conditions. Eight weeks of cold stratification did not break the dormancy of black seeds, whereas low concentrations of gibberellic acid (0.1 and 1.0 mM) significantly increased seed germination. Removal of the testa of black seeds also promoted germination and produced normal seedlings. Brown seeds showed moderate tolerance to salt stress, with 16% germination percentage at a salt concentration of 600 mM NaCl. The germination of brown seeds was 38% at an osmotic potential stress of –0.8 MPa; above that, no germination was obtained. Brown seeds germinated well in a wide pH range (4 to 10), with a germination percentage higher than 95%. Seedling emergence percentage was higher than 90% at burial depths of 0 to 2 cm, while germination percentage severely decreased for brown seeds with burial depths >2 cm, indicating that shallow tillage could be an effective measure to minimize seed germination. Information gathered from this study will help to develop an effective protocols for controlling S. glauca.


Coumarin derivatives have been known to be useful labeling reagents owing to their strong fluoroscence in solution, suitable molecular size, easy synthesis and good storage. Of these coumarins, 4-bromomethyl-7acetoxy-1, 4-bromomethyl-6,7-dimethoxy-(BrDMC)2, and 4-bromomethyl-6,7-methylenedioxy-coumarins (BrMDC)3 were listed as highly sensitive reagents for carboxylic acids, which were mostly comparable in sensitivities or quantum yields to other reagents, e.g., 1bromoacetylpyrene4, 3-bromomethyl-6,7-dimethoxy-lmethyl-2(1 H)-quinoxaline5, 9-anthryldiazomethane6, p(9-anthroyloxy)phenacyl bromide', 9,10-diaminophenanthrene8, 9-aminophenanthrene9, and monodansyl cadaverine,lo Thus, 3-bromoacetyl-6,7-methylenedioxycoumarin (BrAMDC, Fig. 1) was sythesized in a search for the most excellent reagent regarding both reactivity and sensitivity among coumarins for carboxylic acids analysis. Free fatty acids in human blood plasma were readily labeled with BrAMDC under quite mild conditions.


For current MIMO physical layer security, most of the existing works study how to increase the secrecy capacity. However, the unconditional secure transmission fully achieving the secrecy capacity is difficult to realize, because the theoretical capacity can be achieved only by a wiretap code with infinite blocklength [1]. In most cases, the long codelength secure code is needed to approach the secrecy capacity [14]. Even though the short blocklengh code is prospective for timely and lower burden communication networks, not much exploration has been done to fulfil the unconditional security by a short length wiretap code. In this work, we investigate a lightweight strategy to achieve unconditional secrecy for the practical MIMO Beamforming artifacial noise (MIMO-BAN) physical layer security system under short blocklength wiretap code. Firstly, we analyse the modulated impact on MIMO-BAN secrecy capacity. Then we investigate the achievable secrecy performance for MIMO-BAN physical layer secure system under practical short blocklengh secure code. Based on this, we propose a light wight secrecy strategy, which could guarantee required quality of the main channel while keeping eavesdropper's BER approaching to 0.5. The simulation results verify our analytical performance predictions and demonstrate its feasibility.


Environmental Monitoring and Research Initiative: A Priority Activity for the Committee on Environmental and Natural Resources D. Pryor, et al. Environmental Data in Decision-Making in EPA Regional Offices S.L. Laskowski, F.W. Kutz. Development and Validation of Ecological Indicators: An ORD Approach W.S. Fisher. A Zooplankton-N:P-Ratio Indicator for Lakes R.S. Stemberger, E.K. Miller. Implications of Seasonal and Regional Abundance Patterns of Daphnia on Surface Water Monitoring and Assessment F.B. Taub, C.D. Wiseman. The Role of Biological Indicators in a State Water Quality Management Process C.O. Yoder, E.T. Rankin. Maryland Biological Stream Survey: Development of a Fish Index of Biotic Integrity N. Roth, et al. Diatom Indicators of Stream and Wetland Stressors in a Risk Management Framework R.J. Stevenson. The Occurrence and Impact of Sedimentation in Central Pennsylvania Wetlands D.H. Wardrop, R.P. Brooks. Towards a Regional Index of Biological Integrity: The Example of Forested Riparian Ecosystems R.P. Brooks, et al. A Bird Community Index of Biotic Integrity for the Mid-Atlantic Highlands T.J. O'Connell, et al. Acid Runoff Caused Fish Loss as an Early Warning of Forest Decline W.E. Sharpe, M.C. Demchik. Forest Integrity at Anthropogenic Edges: Air Pollution Disrupts Bioindicators M.G. Glenn, et al. Common Patterns of Ecosystem Breakdown under Stress D.J. Rapport, et al. Vegetation, Soil, and Animal Indicators of Rangeland Health W.G. Whitford, et al. Monitoring Changes in Stressed Ecosystems Using Spatial Patterns of Ant Communities M.S. Nash, et al. Parasites of Fish as Indicators of Environmental Stress J.H. Landsberg, et al. Relating Benthic Infaunal Community Structure to Environmental Variables in Estuaries Using Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling and Similarity Analysis G. McRae, et al. Seed Clam Growth: An Alternative Sediment Bioassay Developed During EMAP in the Carolinian Province A.H. Ringwood, C.J. Keppler. Benthic Biological Processes and EH as a Basis for a Benthic Index W.R. Davis, et al. State of the Estuaries in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States J.F. Paul, et al. A Framework for a Delaware Inland Bays Environmental Classification K.S. Price. Maryland Biological Stream Survey: A State Agency Program to Assess the Impact of Anthropogenic Stresses on Stream Habitat Quality and Biota R. Klauda, et al. Assessment of the Condition of Agricultural Lands in Five Mid-Atlantic States A.S. Hellkamp, et al. An Interactive, Spatial Inventory of Environmental Data in the Mid-Atlantic Region L.E. Jackson, M.P. Gant. Sediment Quality of Estuaries in the Southeastern U.S. J.L. Hyland, et al. Evaluation of R- EMAP Techniques for the Measurement of Ecological Integrity of Streams in Washington State's Coast Range Ecoregion J. White, G. Merritt. Site Access and Sample Frame Issues for R-EMAP Central Valley, California, Stream Assessment R.K. Hall, et al.


Poleward Moving Auroral Forms (PMAFs) are one of the most common dayside auroral phenomena and are important for the study of dayside auroras and their dynamical processes. Accurate recognition and localization of PMAFs from a large number of all‐sky imager observations is the first critical step in PMAFs study, but is very difficult and tedious. This paper proposes an integrated model, namely RL‐PMAFs, for automatically recognizing whether an all‐sky auroral video contains PMAFs and, for the first time temporally locating PMAFs. RL‐PMAFs consists of a recognition network and a localization network. Taking the all‐sky auroral videos as input, the recognition network characterizes the morphology and motion of the aurora to determine whether the input videos contain PMAFs. Then, the feature sequences of the videos containing PMAFs are fed to the localization network to obtain the starting and ending times of PMAFs. RL‐PMAFs is evaluated using auroral observations at Arctic Yellow River Station from 2005 to 2007. RL‐PMAFs not only yields higher recognition accuracy of 91.67% than previous methods, but also achieves a precision of 81.90% and a recall of 79.62% for locating PMAFs in auroral videos. The experimental results show that it is a valuable attempt of artificial intelligence for space physics.


In this paper,two language features of business correspondence English are mainly discussed from two aspects:accurate wording and consistent use of business terms; worded politely and in a mild tone. In view of the objectiveness of these features, a translator should make adjustment according to the difference between Chinese and English business correspondence to the expressions of the target language in order to transmit business message more exactly and effectively.


MITRAL REGURGITATION (MR) remains one of the most prevalent valvular pathologies worldwide. Moderateto-severe MR (Z3þon echocardiographic imaging) chronically alters the loading conditions of the left ventricle (LV) by increasing preload and reducing afterload (low left trial impedance). The alterations in loading conditions may induce LV remodeling and LV systolic failure over time. Accordingly, patients with symptomatic moderate-to-severe MR, LV dilatation, and/or LV systolic failure are currently recommended to undergo mitral valve surgery due to the poor outcomes associated with refractory medical therapy. However, a vast majority of these patients have comorbidities that may preclude conventional mitral valve surgery (mitral valve repair or replacement). The limited efficacy of medical therapy in patients considered at high risk for mitral valve surgery influenced the development of a nonsurgical, minimally invasive approach to mitral valve repair, the percutaneous MitraClip system (Abbott Vascular, Menlo Park, CA). Although the MitraClip has demonstrated excellent efficacy and safety in MR therapy, patients with baseline severe LV systolic dysfunction may be at risk of developing acute left heart failure after device deployment due to afterload mismatch.


At 10 ℃,twelve strains of nitrite denitrifying bacteria with sodium nitrite as the sole nitrogen source were isolated from the long-term flooded paddy soil. The strain named Y-12 was selected to be the most efficient in removing nitrite and total nitrogen with low production of biomass nitrogen. The strain can remove nitrite nitrogen and total nitrogen up to 99. 87% and 57. 74% at 20 ℃,99. 48% and 51. 53% at 15 ℃,and produce biomass nitrogen of 3. 25 mg·L- 1at 20 ℃ and 3. 00 mg·L- 1at 15 ℃ respectively. This strain was further identified to be Pseudomonas utida,owing to 99% homology with Pseudomonas putida by its 16 S rRNA gene sequence analysis and 0. 469 similarity index with Pseudomonas-putida-biotype A by its specific phospholipid fatty acid analysis.


Objective To study the effects of the integrated traditional chinese and western medicine therapy in the treatment of pelvic inflammatory disease(PID).Methods Ninety ontpatrents with PID were divided into the treatment group(n=46) and the control group(n=44).the patients in the treatment group were treated by broad spectram antibiotics,enema with traditional chinese medicine and microwave therapy,the patients in the control group were treated using broad spectrum antibiotics alone.Results The clinical effective rate in the treatment group was significantly higher than that in the control group(P0.01);the symptom remission time in the treatment group was significantly shorter than that in the control gronp(P0.05).Conclusion The effects of the infegrated traditional chinese and western medicine therapy in the treatment of PID is better.


Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a chronic disease characterized by recurrent pharyngeal collapses during sleep. In most severe cases, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) consists in keeping the airways open by administering mild air pressure. This treatment faces adherence issues.


Thermal insulation to prevent heat dissipation of hydraulic facilities in dyeing and finishing plants are discussed.Measures for preventing heat dissipation of the steam pipes and overflow dyeing machines are introduced.The importance of heat balance determination for the dyeing and finishing facilities is pointed out,which can provide objective basis for the thermal insulation.


2,5-Bis(1-tetraheyropyrrlylmethelene)pyrrole(1) and 2,5-Bis(1-piperidylmethelene)pyrrole(2) were synthesized from the reaction of tetrahydropyrrole or piperidine with formaldehyde and pyrrole in high yields,93% for(1) and 89% for(2),respectively,under ambient condition.Compounds(1) and(2) were characterized by 1H-NMR and X-ray single crystal diffraction technologies.


The invention relates to a method for removing silicon and silicon-containing compound impurity phases in a Si-containing cage compound. The method belongs to the field of material preparation and comprises the following steps of weighing high-purity simple substance elements as raw materials according to a molecular formula of the pre-composed Si-containing cage compound; smelting a sample according to a conventional method; grinding and ball-milling alloy obtained through smelting; soaking ball-milled powder by using aqueous alkali for 12 hours; filtering the solution, and processing the powder obtained through filtering by using diluted hydrochloric acid; filtering again, repeatedly washing the powder obtained through filtering by using deionized water; drying the obtained powder to obtain a target sample. According to the method, the characteristics of the Si-containing cage compound of acid resistance and alkaline resistance are utilized, and the manner of soaking in the aqueous alkali is adopted to effectively remove the impurity phases in the Si-containing cage compound. The method of soaking in acid liquor is combined, so that the pure-phase Si-containing cage compound can be obtained. The method is a universal method for removing the impurity phases contained in the Si-containing cage compound.


Objective To provide a useful and suitable health education method for pregnant immigrant women to select breastfeeding.Methods Total 156 pregnant immigrant women who accepted whole course health education was selected as education group,and 152 pregnant immigrant women who did not accept education were as control group.The knowledge of breastfeeding,self-confidence for breastfeeding and selected feeding method were compared between the two groups.The effectiveness was finally evaluated.Results The knowledge of breastfeeding,self-confidence for breastfeeding and breastfeeding percentage were significantly higher in the education group(90.54 ± 3.48,10.54 ± 17.42 and 71.8%) than those(86.54 ± 4.48,101.52 ± 15.68,64.7%) in the control group(P 0.01).In the education group,the indexes mentioned above were significantly higher in the subgroup where husbands participated.Conclusion Health education about the breastfeeding in local community health station,participation of husband,the follow-up after the birth can increase the breastfeeding rate in pregnant immigrant women.


Web sites are major sources of information today and Internet is dominating platform for deployment of various applications built for worldwide audience. Modern Content Management Systems (CMS) play major role in that situation since they enable technical users to build various standard and custom web applications but they also enable non-technical users to build various web sites and applications using standard and extended set of tools provided by CMS developers. This paper will analyze latest major CMS vulnerabilities, effectiveness of various security communities' responses with propositions for improvements.


This paper presents a method for the correct estimation of the red (linearly autocorrelated of order 1) noise from chaotic time series. The idea is to increase the time delay in order to have a reliable reconstruction. The results indicate that only on extremely correlated noise cases this increase helps, because otherwise the correlation integrals are not affected. The proposed method is successfully applied on time series of the Henon map and is extended to weekly closes of the Nasdaq Cmp. index. The main advantage of the method presented here is that it can be used on time series with any kind of linearly correlated noise.


FIELD: chemistry. SUBSTANCE: composite material can be used to produce sheet decorating and heat-insulating materials in residential, agricultural and industrial construction, as well as for producing moulded packaging elements and containers susceptible to biodegradation, i.e., having biodegradable properties. The polymer composite material consists of, wt %: fibre filler - waste cardboard and/or paper 11.0-12.0, cationic-anionic polyacrylamide resin Ultrarez DS-150 56.0-57.0, polyvinyl alcohol in form of a 15 wt % aqueous solution 27.0-28.0, sodium tetraborate 6.0-3.0. Described is a method of producing a composite material which involves separating fibres of the fibre filler on a rotary disperser with rotor speed of 2500-3000 rpm, wherein the polyvinyl alcohol is added at the mixing step in form of a 15 wt % aqueous solution together with the cationic-anionic polyacrylamide resin Ultrarez DS-150 and sodium tetraborate, pressing and drying. EFFECT: improved physical and mechanical properties of the polymer composite material while simplifying the production technique. 2 cl, 3 ex


In this work, a numerical stochastic model is presented and utilized to study the dry/sort/re-dry (DSRD) strategy for 116-mm square ,timbers ,by using ,combined conventional,and ,radio frequency ,v ...


Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) for historical handwritten documents is more challenging due to the large variety of writing style and degradation of historical manuscripts due to ageing. In this paper, we propose a segmentation-free word spotting method for historical handwritten binarized documents. The query word and the document image are converted into gray-scale images using distance transform followed by Gaussian smoothing. SIFT detector is used to locate the keypoints in both the query word and the document image. Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) feature vector is used to describe each keypoint. We use an efficient search technique which calculates distance between query-word and the word (or part of a word) present in document image to spot the zone of interest in the document. The proposed method is tested on three historical handwritten Bengali data-sets and one historical English handwritten data-set. The performance is measured using standard evaluation metric which shows the efficiency of the proposed method.


Agile methods for software engineering has been described as the best for small projects and highly experienced development team. Thus, suggesting that some agile practices requires certain level of expertise and may not be effectively applied by students. Researchers, trainers and institutions are still looking for an appropriate agile method that can be efficiently applied by students and how agility can be achieved in such environment. The objective of this research is to find an appropriate agile method as well as applicable agile concepts, principles and practices that can be suitable for both graduate and undergraduate students' project. Two software development methods were combined in this study: extreme programming from the agile family and throwaway prototyping from the rapid development methods to come out with an applicable hybrid agile method that can be used by students. The research presented is based on a real time application of certain agile principles and practices in a final software engineering project at Linton University College, Malaysia. As suggested in this research, the hybrid method could guide students in applying agile practices and implementing small and medium scale projects.


The article provides an analytical review of references that contain oeconyms related to the people named Rus' in the 10th century in Arabic, Byzantine, Old Russian and Old Scandinavian written traditions. Critical assessment of the identification of oeconyms from these texts in different languages and from different times requires us to reject the historiographical inertia of perceiving urban history of the 10th century through the prism of the narrative of "The Primary Chronicle" from the beginning of the 12th century. If we don't resort to the artificial etymological fitting of oikonyms from different traditions, then out of 25 Old Russian annalistic names of cities 2 or 3 names are reflected in two treaties from 911 and the 930s — first half of 940s, 1 name is reflected in an Arabic text from the 920–950s, 4 or 5 — in a Greek text from the 950s, 4 — in earlier Scandinavian texts, and 5 — in later texts. At least 10 oikonyms from the Arabic, Greek and Scandinavian writing traditions are not known to the earliest Russian Chronicles. A comparison of lists of oikonyms from different traditions allows us to suggest that they reflected three phases of the process of urbanization of Eastern Europe: the first — the appearance of Scandinavian emporia in the 9th — first half of the 10th century; the second — crystallization of the core of the Rurikid polity around Kyiv in the first half of the 10th century; the third — the final expansion of the Rurikids at the end of the 10th — middle of the 11th century. It was during the last stage when a "map" of Rus' cities was formed that is reflected in "The Primary Chronicle" from the beginning of the 12th century, therefore it would be unjustified methodologically to project this late "map" onto earlier periods.


The Maxwell field can be viewed as a $U(1)$-gauge theory, therefore, generalizing it to form-invariance in dynamical spacetime backgrounds should take this symmetry into account. This is of essential importance when generalizations of general relativity to theories with non-vanishing torsion are considered. Despite the many statements in literature that a $U(1)$-gauge field cannot couple to torsion, this issue was recently revived. In this letter we contribute to the discussion by demonstrating via a canonical transformation within the framework of the DeDonder-Weyl Hamiltonian formalism that a $U(1)$-gauge field does not couple to torsion.


IN a previous paper' I gave evidence to show that the heat produced by an excited muscle may be liberated considerably after the mechanical processes of contraction are complete. As this fact seemed to be a critical experiment in the development of the theory of muscular contraction, I felt it was necessary to confirm it more fully and, supposing this were possible, to ascertain more about the nature and degree of this delayed heat production. The difficulties of the research are by no means inconsiderable, and the Blix thermo-galvanometer which I originally used is not particularly well-designed for overcoming them. This apparatus, even in the modified form which I used in the later experiments, is relatively insensitive, its nmagnet system is large and has a very slow undamped oscillation, the form of the thermopile is fixed and suited only to one particular type of muscle2, and there is no, means of calibrating it in terms of absolute units of temperature. It seemed essential, therefore, to construct an entirely new apparatus, on completely different lines, both for these and for other experiments. In this connection I can hardly overestimate the debt of gratitude I owe both to Prof Burker, and to Prof. Paschen, of the University of Tubingen: to Prof. Burker for his kindness in allowing me to see and use his admirably designed apparatus, for the thermo-electric investigation of the heat production of muscles: to Prof Paschen for giving me much information about galvanometers, and for allowing me to have a special galvanometer of his own, with which I have carried out, and without which I could scarcely have completed, the following investigation.


Design sensitivities of plates and shells under transient dynamic loads with constraints on displacements and stresses are likely to be highly erroneous if proper care is not taken in selecting appropriate finite element mesh and time step size to be used in the analysis. An accurate value of design derivative is assured if an optimal mesh coupled with a reasonably fine time step size is used. The optimal mesh can be obtained iteratively and a number of examples are solved to demonstrate the importance of controlling discretization errors in space and time.


Abstract: I studied the reproduction and the population turnover of a succineid land snail living by a small lake in central Maryland. The identity of the snail, deduced from its external characteristics and the genitalia, comes closest to Oxyloma retusum (Lea, 1834). The species has a semelparous life cycle. The snails that survive the winter grow and reproduce from late March until the end of June when they reach their maximum size and die off. Their offspring (the spring generation) grow throughout the spring and the summer and reproduce briefly near the end of August. In the fall, the survivors from the spring generation and their offspring hibernate from November until the end of March. Snails mate by shell-mounting. In 89% of pairs, mating was anatomically reciprocal. During courtship, one snail climbs on the shell of a prospective mate and circles the shell to initiate mating. In mating pairs with a shell length difference of more than 1 mm, the smaller snail was always on top. This suggests that one function of shell-circling during courtship may be to help the top snail judge its potential partner's size.


Exposing macrophages to IFN-g or IL-4 polarizes them toward M1-like inflammatory or M2-like tissue repair phenotypes, respectively. It is uncertain whether the macrophage phenotypes are equally effective at phagocytosing melanoma and non-melanoma bait cells. We hypothesize that phenotypic polarization of macrophages will improve their phagocytic ability and that phagocytic vulnerability will depend on bait cell type. This study compares phenotypic polarization of macrophages on phagocytosis of LM-Mel-45 (LM45) melanoma cells and non-melanoma (Jurkat) cells at 2 h or 16 h. Macrophage differentiation to an M0 phenotype was induced by exposing THP-1 monocytes to 50 ng/ml PMA for two days, followed by 4 days rest in RPMI 1640, 10% FBS. M1-like and M2-like phenotypes were induced by 24 h exposure to 20 ng/ml IFN-γ and 20 ng/mL IL-4, respectively. Phenotypic state was measured by surface expression of CCR7, CD209, and CD172. Bait cells (LM45 or Jurkat) were treated with 0.5 mM staurosporine for 24 h to induce apoptosis and stained with CellTrace® Violet. Macrophages were stained with CellTracker® Orange CMRA. Bait cells were added to adherent macrophages to measure phagocytosis (2 or 16 h). To qualitatively monitor the phagocytic process, time-lapse imaging every 15 min for 16 h was done on a Zeiss Axiovert 200M microscope with a 10x objective. To quantify phagocytosis, adhered and loose cells were harvested and prepared for flow cytometry. Cells were analyzed for violet, orange, or both orange and violet staining. Positive phagocytosis was expressed as the percentage of orange macrophages with violet staining above the violet cutoff. M0 macrophages are positive for CD172. Exposure to IFN-γ increases levels of CD209 and CCR7, and CD172 remains present. Exposure to IL-4 increases levels of CD209 with little change in CCR7 and CD172 remains present. Time-lapse imaging shows phagocytosis of LM45 cells via a "nipping" behavior rather than engulfment. When Jurkat cells serve as bait, multiple bait cells will attach to a single macrophage. Blebbing in bait cells is seen by 8 h. Phagocytic rate toward LM45 cells over 2 h averaged 6.7 ± 1.8% for M0 macrophages and 5.6 ± 2.3% for IFN-γ treated macrophages. Phagocytic rate toward LM45 cells over 16 h averaged 13.9 ± 1.3% for M0 macrophages and 14.9 ± 1.8% for IFN-γ treated macrophages. The differences were not significant. Phagocytic rate toward Jurkat cells averaged 22.4 ± 3.5% for M0 macrophages and 26.9 ± 4.0% for IFN-γ treated macrophages. This difference was not significant. Phagocytosis was significantly greater for Jurkat cells than LM45 cells (P<0.001). In summary, IFN-γ treatment does not increase macrophage phagocytic ability, refuting our hypothesis. However, macrophages phagocytose Jurkat cells more effectively than LM45 melanoma, suggesting that chemotherapy designed to increase phagocytic vulnerability may have potential in melanoma treatment. KCOM Graduate Program Grant #851-068 This is the full abstract presented at the American Physiology Summit 2023 meeting and is only available in HTML format. There are no additional versions or additional content available for this abstract. Physiology was not involved in the peer review process.


Charles Perkins and I performed our first significant act of public service, and came to public prominence, at the same time and in collaboration with each other - he as President and I as Secretary of Student Action for Aborigines and, as two of four members of the Tour Executive on the 1965 Freedom Ride. This forged a bond that endured throughout Charlie's life and which I still feel. For that reason I am grateful to the Koori Centre of the University of Sydney and, particularly, to the immediate Perkins family - Eileen, Hetti, Rachel and Adam - for inviting me to present this Oration.


Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is a common metabolic disorder that contributes a significant burden on the healthcare system. It is one of the major comorbidities associated with COVID-19 and affects its severity. Aim: To study the correlation between COVID-19 disease severity and its outcome in diabetes mellitus patients and to correlate HbA1C with COVID-19 disease severity, NEWS, Ct RT-PCR value and clinical outcome in COVID-19 diabetic patients. Settings and Design: This was a prospective cross-sectional observational study conducted in the Department of Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College. Method and Material: The study included a total of 60 subjects 30 in the diabetic group and 30 in the non-diabetic group. NEWS was calculated on the day of admission. HbA1C was correlated with disease severity, NEWS, Ct RT-PCR value and clinical outcome of patients. The data gathered were processed by SPSS version 25. The correlation between HbA1C, disease severity, NEWS, and Ct RT-PCR value was determined using Pearson correlation coefficient. Results: Diabetic patients have more severe COVID-19 disease. NEWS at admission was higher in these patients. Higher HbA1C is associated with severe disease. HbA1C positively correlates with NEWS but negatively correlates with Ct RT-PCR value. Incidences of organ injury and inflammatory markers were higher in diabetic patients. Diabetes was associated with more complications and worse outcomes. Conclusions: Diabetic patients are more susceptible to the development of severe and worse outcomes in COVID.


The present invention relates to horticultural facility controlling system and, more specifically, to horticultural facility monitoring and controlling system and controlling method which can monitor environment and mechanical devices in a horticultural facility and control the same with a smart device and a computer connected with internet. The system in the present invention accurately controls temperature, humidity, CO2, and light condition of a horticultural facility according to an optimum control value based on database data to have an optimum growing environment for growing steps of crops to reduce energy and make remote monitoring of facility environment and multistage control of such as devices, window, and curtain possible from outside to improve the quality of crops produced in the horticultural facility, and comprises a camera unit, a sensor unit, a control means, a local control unit, and a center server.


Some techniques using the geometrical correlations in the same frame are proposed for the off-line filtering of H.P.D. data. The filtering is made less dependent on the premeasurements. The computer-time can be reduced, or the guidance of the premeasurements. REVUE DE PHYSIQUE APPLIQUɧ TOVI~ 4, JUIN 1969,


Abstract : This technical note summarizes the current status of our knowledge regarding restoration of surfgrasses (Phyllospadix spp.) in the northeastern Pacific, and identifies research needs to improve the success of future restoration efforts. Seagrass populations are declining in many areas around the world, due to anthropogenic stress and habitat alteration (Short and Wyllie-Echeverria 1996, Orth et al. 2006). Due to the universal recognition of seagrasses as valuable coastal habitats, efforts to mitigate these losses and restore seagrass communities have been underway for several decades (Fonseca et al. 1998). However, seagrasses in the genus Phyllospadix, also known as "surfgrasses," differ from others in that they inhabit exposed, rocky shore intertidal and subtidal environments (Figure 1) (den Hartog 1970, Phillips and Menez 1988). As a result, restoration techniques developed for other seagrass species may not be appropriate for Phyllospadix spp. (Reed et al. 1998). Restoration of Phyllospadix spp. has rarely been attempted, and a comprehensive review of seagrass restoration in the United States (Fonseca et al. 1998) was able to offer only limited guidance on restoration and transplantation of these species. Recently, a few studies have begun to investigate methods to restore Phyllospadix species.


Nineteen Landsat Themic Mapper quarter scenes, coregistered at 28.5 m spatial resolution with three arc second digital topographic data, were used to create a movie, simulating a flight over the Guerrero and Mixteco terrains of southwestern Mexico. The flight path was chosen to elucidate important structural, stratigraphic, and geomorphic features. The video, available in VHS format, is a 360 second animation consisting of 10 800 total frames. The simulated velocity during three 120 second flight segments of the video is approximately 37 000 km per hour, traversing approximately 1 000 km on the ground.


With the development of our national economy and technology unceasing development and progress,to meet the present condition of coal industry system the actual development needs,the relevant departments have the industrial machinery automation as a new technology innovation means application to production and operation of the process. But this was in such a coal industry machinery automatic control technology research foundation,further proposed one kind based on the ScadACS technology performance monitoring system,and in the actual process based on Dynamic Simulation of coal industry operation fault monitoring and processing requirements,also proposed the operation management and fault treatment method and countermeasures


The objective of this paper is to make clear the mechanics of sand transport in Shirarahama "a pocket beach" in order to study beach processes of stable, natural sandy beaches. Seasonal changes of the beach are caused by incoming waves and by blown sands, but a little beach erosion has gradually occurred due to a lack of beach sediment by recent urbanization of the hinterland. Characteristics of the change in the beach sediment are made clear, together with the present situation of the main sources of beach sediment. A method for the prediction of beach change by blown sands is proposed on the basis of both the law of sediment transport and the equation of continuity for beach changes. Changes in the distribution of longshore wave energy flux along the shoreline instead of the total rate of sand drift are considered for long-term and short-term beach changes. It is concluded from this that this beach is stable for most of the year, but the beach sediment may be transported in the offshore direction at the both ends of the pocket beach for a very short period by high waves associated with typhoons and monsoons.


A pilot mining robot far deep-sea manganese nodules, which aims at the use for Pre-Pilot Mining Test and Pilot Mining Test, was designed and was being manufactured. The scale of the pilot mining robot is 1/5 for commercial one. In this paper, hydraulic system of the pilot mining robot, which has just been constructed, is introduced and explained. Hydraulic system is composed of reservoir, high pressure filters, valve packs, linear and rotational actuators, return and drain filters, and so on. Since the hydraulic system is determined as a dosed loop hydraulic circuits, reservoir pressure within the circuits is compensated to ambient The pressure of reservoir always keeps about 0.25~0.5 bar the higher than ambient pressure. Since the pilot mining robot works about ambient temperature, 2 ℃, and is moving system, the small size reservoir was adopted for reducing total weight and space. The capacity cf a compensator was calculated by considering the bulk modulus of the hydraulic oil. HPLIs were tested successfully in factory at full flaw, highest pressure, half loading. The bad-compensated proportional valves for the speed control of some actuators were adopted in order to make the actuators rotating constantly for varied loading. The pilot mining robot including the hydraulic system will be tested at 1000m water depth of East Sea in the end of 2012. The performance of the system mill be verified and the data for designing commercial mining system will be collected.


The invention relates to tricyclic amino alcohols of the general formula I, Processes for their preparation and their use as anti-inflammatories.


The research presented here explored the role of endogenous opioid mechanisms in alcohol reinforcement. Alcohol was introduced to naïve mice under food deprivation or ad libitum food availability three times. Deprived and non-deprived mice were administered naloxone or vehicle after each exposure to ethanol or water. The animals were subsequently given a two bottle test of alcohol preference. The animals exposed to alcohol under deprivation and given vehicle showed a preference for alcohol over all other groups. Animals given naloxone after exposure to alcohol while deprived showed lower alcohol preference and did not differ from controls. These data show that the enhanced reinforcing and incentive effects of alcohol when initially presented under high food need is blocked by the opioid antagonist naloxone and suggests that these motivating effects of alcohol are mediated in part by endogenous opioid systems. Naloxone in suppression of alcohol preference and intake may be an effective tool in the treatment of alcohol addiction.


Research exploring the gendered dimensions of adult learning has blossomed in the past two decades. Despite this trend, intersectional approaches in adult learning, research, and teaching remain limited primarily to the three categories of gender, race, and class. Intersectionality theory is more diverse than this and includes discussions of social structures, geographies, and histories that serve to build richer, more nuanced descriptions of how privilege and oppression are experienced. Because the purpose of intersectionality is to understand how social identities are constructed and to challenge the structures of power that oppress particular social groups, this approach is important for feminist and social justice educators. The Canadian authors of this manuscript posit that adult learning should move beyond intersectionality that focuses only on the trinity of gender + race + class in order to consider the nuances of inequality and the true complexities of representation and collective identities. By exploring literature in feminism, adult education, and intersectionality, they illustrate a gap at the core of adult education for social justice. Finally, they use two examples to illustrate how intersectionality works in practice.


In this research paper a survey is made of existing applications of machine learning in the financial sector. Also new and prospective applications of this technology are described in brief. The paper includes a discussion of how Big Data technologies can be applied in the finance sector and traces some leading application paths.


Flores Island is one of four big islands in NTT province with an area ±13,540 km divided into 8 districts. The area is included in areas with unequal distribution of rainfall. Therefore, the amount of water availability during the dry season is relatively low then require to attempts of rainwater harvesting. One of the alternatives is by building a retention pond. The important parameter in the calculation of water availability is the value of runoff coefficient. The purpose of this research is to invent the runoff coefficient value of 30 retention ponds in 8 districts of Flores Island. In this study use rainfall data, climatology and technical of retention basin for the analysis of run off coefficient. The analysis method uses the Penman modification for evapotranspiration calculation and method F.J. Mock for discharge calculation. The result in graphical model uses monthly rainfall data and land slope data. Based on the analytical calculation method, the value of run off coefficient for each district in Flores was ranging 0.00 - 0.72. The minimum value of runoff coefficient happened in November was ranging from 0.00 - 0.39, and the maximum value of runoff coefficient happened in January was ranging from 0.48 - 0.72.


Submitted for the MAR14 Meeting of The American Physical Society Soft spots correlate with rearrangements in sheared glasses SAMUEL SCHOENHOLZ, ANDREA LIU, ROBERT RIGGLEMAN, University of Pennsylvania, JOERG ROTTLER, University of British Columbia — Solids flow under shear via localized rearrangements. In crystals it is known that these rearrangements occur at topological defects, particularly dislocations. In disordered solids, Manning and Liu showed that discrete "soft spots" analogous to defects in crystalline solids and constructed from the low-frequency vibrational modes of the material exist in athermal suspensions of soft finite repulsive disks under quasistatic shear. These soft spots were shown to predict where rearrangements would occur, to be long lived with respect to the time between individual rearrangements, and to be distinct from the rest of the sample in terms of commonly-used structural quantities such as free volume and bond orientational order (although such quantities alone could not a priori identify the soft spot population.) In this work we show that soft spots remain a valid description of plastic flow in sheared LennardJones glasses over a range of strain rates at temperatures extending up to the glass transition and beyond. We further discuss soft spot lifetimes and conclude that the α-relaxation time sets the lifetime of the soft spot population. Samuel Schoenholz University of Pennsylvania Date submitted: 15 Nov 2013 Electronic form version 1.4


Zeolite Y was systematically synthesized from Ahoko Nigerian kaolin in a conventional hydrothermal system using novel metakaolinization technique. The effect of aging on the formation of zeolite phase was investigated during the course of the synthesis. A rapidly processed metakaolin at a temperature of 600°C and exposure time of 50 minutes, which is capable of reducing the energy and cost of producing it was used to study the synthesis of zeolite Y. It was found that aging conditions play a prominent role in the preparation of zeolite Y from Ahoko metakaolin. Aging played a significant role by increasing the crystallinity of the final product even though zeolite Y was obtain without aging. The outcome of zeolite Y synthesized from Ahoko kaolin in 9 hours at 100°C was different from most reports on the synthesis of zeolite Y from kaolin where longing time (72 hours) of crystallization are reported.


ABSTRACT The investment style of play in different spaces and various forms through the motor performance of the player during training and matches in play regions itself which is a new addition to the development of private motor skills and skill performance and stand on one aspect of training task that may contribute to the supply of trained personnel in the field of volleyball training. So the aim of study is to investigate the effect of playing trainings in different areas on developing some of motor and skill aspects for youth players of volleyball Diyala clubs. 10 youths players of volleyball Diyala clubs participated in present study, researchers used experimental research design method because it is suitable to the nature of the study and we used one group manner with two tests pre and post-t ests. Number of measurements was achieved before and after training program such as run test in different directions, nelson test, numbering circle test, serving accuracy test, serving reception test, passing accuracy test, and attack serving accuracy measurement. Data of study was analyzed by using SPSS program and we used mean, standard deviation, and T test. In conclusion, the use of play exercises in various areas had a positive impact in the development of motor skills, especially coordination and agility as well as kinetic response speed as the different areas had a significant role in the multiplicity of new stimulus that show the circumstance of play and thus reflected positively on technical skills (reception, scrolling, crushing and attack) and psychologically create an atmosphere of excitement and fun in dealing between players. Keywards : playing trainings, areas, motor and skill aspects, youth players, volleyball.


It is often assumed that we know very little about how literary texts circulated in the Roman world because we know very little about the Roman book trade. In fact, we know a great deal about book circulation, even though we know little about the book trade. Romans circulated texts in a series of widening concentric circles determined primarily by friendship, which might, of course, be influenced by literary interests, and.by the forces of social status that regulated friendship. Bookstores and 'public' libraries, which made a text available to individuals personally unknown to the author and his friends, were comparatively late developments. To trace the circulation of a Roman literary work, we shall use a schematic model to follow a literary text from its initial conception through the widening circles through which it moved.


An important role of corrugation of rolled materials in the formation of strained and recrystallized structure and texture is discussed. A geometric model for the formation of rolled structure and texture in a heterogeneous medium is developed on the basis of a corrugation concept.


The utility model relates to a high-frequency pulse electric dehydration device for treatment of aged crude oil. The high-frequency pulse electric dehydration device for treatment of the aged crude oil comprises a high-frequency pulse generator and a high-frequency pulse electric dehydration tank, wherein the high-frequency pulse electric dehydration tank is provided with an incoming liquid inlet and a purified oil outlet, high-frequency pulse electrode plates are respectively arranged at the middle-upper part of the high-frequency pulse electric dehydration tank, the high-frequency pulse electrode plates are arranged in pairs, and the input end and the output end of the high-frequency pulse generator are respectively connected with the high-frequency pulse electrode plates. Compared with the traditional conventional direct current (or alternating current-direct current) supply dehydration, the high-frequency pulse electric dehydration device has the advantages that a high-frequency pulse signal is superimposed to the conventional power supply output waveform in the high-frequency pulse power supply process, a high-voltage electric field is formed under the condition of not generating electrodispersion, a high-strength oil-water emulsifying membrane is damaged under the impact of the instantaneous high-power electric pulse, the vibration amplitude and the collision probability of water particles are increased, and therefore the purposes of preventing the collapse of the electric field in an electric hydrator and efficiently hydrating various types of aged oil are achieved.


Magneto-optical recording materials with high remanent Kerr rotation at short wavelengths were successfully obtained in a trilayer form by sandwiching NdCo amorphous films with an in-plane magnetization between TbFeCo amorphous films with strong perpendicular anisotropy and high coercivity. The effect of the NdCo thickness on the magnetic and magneto-optical properties of the trilayer medium was investigated systematically. The distribution of the magnetization direction in a trilayer NdCo amorphous alloy film was calculated to manifest the reorientation of the magnetization inside the NdCo layer through magnetic exchange coupling.


the huge discrepancies between regions, it is questionable that the conclusion reached from one village can be applied to the whole nation. Second, the conclusion that "villagers played a key role in shaping the state's agrarian policies" is also debatable. The peasants did not voluntarily take part in the collectivization of agriculture, especially the transfer from "advanced cooperatives" to "people's commune" which was imposed by the government. The peasants' "defiance" between 1955 to 1957 made the government adjust its policies to some degree, but did not stop the successive waves of collectivization, such as the Great Leap Forward, the Socialist Education movement and the "Learn from Dazhai" campaign. In the context of a planned economy, agricultural production was under the control of government; crop choices were not based on the needs of peasants, the production team or even the commune, but on the government's plan. Under the policy of "state's unitary procurement and sales," peasants had no way to sell their products on the market. The government bought low-price agricultural products monopolistically and generated extra profits by raising the prices of industrial products, thus ensuring the demand for funds in developing heavy industry as a top priority. From the micro-perspective, the author points out that peasants could act righteously and rightfully to oppose the local government and the wrongdoings of grassroots cadres, but it is overstating the case to claim that the peasants had a key policyshaping role. Third, the author defines the two halves of new China's history from 1948 to 2008 as socialism and reform, which is also debatable. On the one hand, according to the Chinese government, China became a socialist country in 1956, not in the year of the founding of People's Republic China in 1949. On the other hand, using two standards of socialism and reform to define one period of history is confusing. Overall, Village China under Socialism and Reform is the most systematic and rigorous study of rural China to date, contributing significantly to the micro-history of rural China, collectivization of agriculture, economy and politics under collectives and post-Socialist China.


The Borealis radar system is a hardware and software upgrade to the conventional Super Dual Auroral Radar Network radar system, which has been used since the early 1990s. The conventional system has hardware and software that is aging, and many components are no longer supported. Limitations of the conventional system limit radar and data techniques for scientific discovery. Using software defined radios, Borealis has improved the flexibility, capabilities, and security of the radar system. Borealis has improved system monitoring and diagnostics and enables more complex experiments. Borealis provides improvements in spatial and temporal resolution. The system can perform full field‐of‐view imaging, pulse phase encoding and simultaneous multi‐frequency operations. With Borealis, data quality and system reliability has been improved. New radar and signal processing techniques are in development to further improve the capabilities of the system and of the data quality.


AbstractThe aim of this paper is to investigate the complex nature of the transient energy dissipation by using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model with a high spatial and temporal resolutio...


Chitrakoot is atown and a nagar panchayat in satna District in the state madhya pradesh, India. It is a town of religious, cultural, historical and archaeological importance, situated in the Bundelkhand region. The chitrakoot is geographically located at coordinated 25.00 0 N latitude & 80.83 0 E longitude. It borders the chitrakoot district in Utter Pradesh, whose headquarters chitrakoot Dham (karwi) is located nearby 1.